Speaker 1: Down fail, touchdown, Miami que What is up? Dolph fans?
Speaker 1: And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins podcast network covering your team, your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 1: And on today's show, we have day two of mini
Speaker 1: camp practice notes for you guys. We're gonna hear from
Speaker 1: head coach Brian Flores, cornerback Nick need Hum, and wide
Speaker 1: receivers Alan Hearns and Albert Wilson on this edition of
Speaker 1: Drive Time. Plus I'm gonna give you my should have
Speaker 1: been storyline from day one and a whole lot more
Speaker 1: on this edition of the Drive Time Podcast Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: And just like that, that is a rap and I
Speaker 1: gotta say the itch has been scrap matched. But now
Speaker 1: we've got training camp like five or six weeks out
Speaker 1: where we're gonna do this every single day. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna go away from football here for a couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna come right back with you guys and
Speaker 1: have daily reports on training camp. Now for man camp,
Speaker 1: the weather has not been cooperating at all and the
Speaker 1: team did go into the practice bubble after stretching individuals
Speaker 1: and seven on seven, which is where we pick it
Speaker 1: up to start this podcast. But first, real quick, I
Speaker 1: have one note on the Indies individual drills that serves
Speaker 1: as a callback for later observation, so we have to
Speaker 1: get it in here. We talked about the broken place
Speaker 1: when the quarterback is pressured but the past rushers give
Speaker 1: it the old fly by because we do not hit
Speaker 1: the guys in the red shirts, and how those throws
Speaker 1: down the field with a defensive back in trail technique
Speaker 1: right in the hip pocket of the receiver and that's
Speaker 1: already a very low percentage throw, not to mention with
Speaker 1: him on soon in progress. So in the Indies, the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks and running backs were working on the wheel route
Speaker 1: and a coach which chase underneath the running back to
Speaker 1: force that same type of throw over the top and
Speaker 1: into the bucket. And something that really drew me to
Speaker 1: tos game as a collegian was the trajectory at which
Speaker 1: he threw the ball on those types of throws. Really
Speaker 1: ultimate control on those throws. I talked about quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: the past here where we tried to find whether it
Speaker 1: was like Lamar Miller or Reggie Bush or some of
Speaker 1: these faster running backs that could get up the sideline
Speaker 1: on those wheel routes and the ball would kind of
Speaker 1: go flat to him, and that makes it very hard
Speaker 1: for the running back to make a play on those throws.
Speaker 1: But that's not what Ta does on those particular throws.
Speaker 1: And you see it on deep shots as well. You
Speaker 1: get it up high and the nose of the football
Speaker 1: angles down, and it makes them more catchable football, and
Speaker 1: it gives the receiver more time to adjust their speed
Speaker 1: the way they're approaching the football, how to attack the
Speaker 1: defensive back to make sure he keeps him away from
Speaker 1: the football, and just gives them a better overall chance
Speaker 1: to make a play. It's like in baseball, a center
Speaker 1: fielder would rather see a sky high rainmaker hop up
Speaker 1: then a line drive right at them. So he was
Speaker 1: throwing these balls with such touch and precision in the
Speaker 1: period that I saw, and I was thinking to myself,
Speaker 1: this guy is about to have a day. And he
Speaker 1: did again in the period that I saw. So before
Speaker 1: seven on seven, a landing Roberts and Preston Williams once
Speaker 1: again dressed but not playing in practice, and Mike get
Speaker 1: sick he was in the red shirt once again going
Speaker 1: through the drills with the team, and they opened up
Speaker 1: the period and both qbs hit a couple of check
Speaker 1: downs to the backs and then it was right back
Speaker 1: to yesterday or Tuesday's motto, pushing the football down the field.
Speaker 1: And this entire period was dry, at least until read
Speaker 1: Senet got in there. And I felt for the guy
Speaker 1: because the Skies opened up just like they did on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: and the offense was super crisp when the weather was
Speaker 1: good before they went into the bubble. So here we go,
Speaker 1: very first play of the period, past breakup by Terrell
Speaker 1: Bonds who was stuck to Tavante Parker like glue. Really
Speaker 1: really good coverage and this entire secondary, I mean, we
Speaker 1: talked about the guys that you all know and have
Speaker 1: heard of players that are on futures contracts or or
Speaker 1: came back from the practice squad last season that you
Speaker 1: maybe you haven't heard their name as much. A lot
Speaker 1: of these guys are making plays, you know, in practice
Speaker 1: as well. To Rale Bonds, Javarus Davis got one today,
Speaker 1: but that was just about it. As far as the
Speaker 1: incompletions in this period, and especially for QB one I
Speaker 1: didn't note an incompletion after that first throw for two
Speaker 1: a tongue of by Lowe. He hit Will Fuller on
Speaker 1: a slant on the next throw. And the thing you
Speaker 1: have to remember about these seven on seven periods, which
Speaker 1: you know in a lot of ways are passing camps
Speaker 1: for these teams, because only when you're only wearing helmets,
Speaker 1: it's just really hard to evaluate offensive line first, defensive line,
Speaker 1: and especially the running game. Without any hitting, you're just
Speaker 1: not going to get a good feel for that. And
Speaker 1: coach Flora has even mentioned that last training camp as well.
Speaker 1: But in these seven on seven periods, the middle of
Speaker 1: the field is really kind of crowded, the only really
Speaker 1: crowded space on the field because on the outside you've
Speaker 1: got your matchup opportunities and a safety might roll over there.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, those linebackers are finding their drops.
Speaker 1: In the middle of the field, You've got possible crossing
Speaker 1: routes with in backs coming with them and safety's driving.
Speaker 1: It's just more condensed space in the middle compared to
Speaker 1: the outside. So when you throw those passes, you have
Speaker 1: to be precise because the chances of a tip ball
Speaker 1: with someone kind of hanging out and watching from the outside,
Speaker 1: they can run to the football and get those picks
Speaker 1: when they pop up in the air. And that's what
Speaker 1: I saw time and time again on Wednesday on these
Speaker 1: in breaking routes, just real good timing and precision and
Speaker 1: throwing to a spot and letting the receiver come in
Speaker 1: and cut the ball off at the intersection. So Jacoby
Speaker 1: Brissette jumps in and throws one of these, and again
Speaker 1: being in the end zone provides a really cool perspective
Speaker 1: as you can really see the anticipation the quarterbacks throw
Speaker 1: with and this was timed out so well. The ball
Speaker 1: got up on him a little bit on this particular throw,
Speaker 1: but one of my top performers of the week went
Speaker 1: up there and plucked it and rose Robert Foster, the
Speaker 1: new receiver out of uh he played with the Buffalo
Speaker 1: Bills before and he's out of Alabama previously when he
Speaker 1: was in college. But he's got lightning speed and he's
Speaker 1: catching everything, especially away from his frame, which is really
Speaker 1: tough in these conditions and the wet football and no gloves.
Speaker 1: And again, the conditions were good at this period, but
Speaker 1: they got brutal later in the day. So we resume
Speaker 1: here and Tua comes back into the lineup to throw
Speaker 1: the football and Jachim Grant gets behind the defender on
Speaker 1: a go ball, a deep route, a nine route, there's
Speaker 1: so many different names for every route where he stacks
Speaker 1: the defensive back, which again gets him. You know, you
Speaker 1: get the defensive back on your back so you can
Speaker 1: then adjust and make his path of the football tougher.
Speaker 1: And he gets to this dB stacked and there's nothing
Speaker 1: but green grass in front of him, and to uses
Speaker 1: that arching deep ball we talked about and Jachim runs
Speaker 1: right underneath it without breaking stride. A gorgeous, gorgeous throw
Speaker 1: I think the best throw of the week for my money,
Speaker 1: and a hell of a route from Jachim, who, like
Speaker 1: I said, every camp now for you know, this is
Speaker 1: the third year doing this. He can create separation in
Speaker 1: a hurry, and he can do it on those deep
Speaker 1: balls as well, which he did right here. And thanks
Speaker 1: to our great social media team and video team for
Speaker 1: getting a shot of that particular ball and a few
Speaker 1: other balls and burst into a toungo byla in this
Speaker 1: practice and putting it up on the Twitter page at
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. And as I want to do, I slowed
Speaker 1: the video down, took a close look at it, and
Speaker 1: from my perspective what I think I saw. Again, I
Speaker 1: can't be sure exactly. I'm not into his helmet, seeing
Speaker 1: what he's seeing and thinking what he's thinking. But on
Speaker 1: that particular play, he starts right to Jachim Grant with
Speaker 1: his position of his body kind of facing that direction,
Speaker 1: and then I it looks like to me like he
Speaker 1: flips the hips to the middle of the field hips
Speaker 1: and the feet follow, which can then help influence a
Speaker 1: defensive back to think that might be where the ball
Speaker 1: is going. But if you look at his eyes and
Speaker 1: I kind of took a screenshot of it and slowed
Speaker 1: this thing down, his eyes stay to the right to Jachim,
Speaker 1: so trying to influence the defense while keeping his eyes
Speaker 1: in the direction of the throw. And then he gets
Speaker 1: back reposition towards Jachim and launches that thing and it
Speaker 1: falls right into his lap and you can find it
Speaker 1: again on Twitter at Miami Dolphins dot com. Really cool
Speaker 1: shot there to to Jachim for a touchdown. In practice,
Speaker 1: the very next play goes straight back to the anticipation
Speaker 1: I talked about earlier. I'm watching the concepts kind of
Speaker 1: unfold down field and trying to get a feel for
Speaker 1: maybe what the quarterback is looking at so I can
Speaker 1: help understand my own evaluation. And then the quarterback is
Speaker 1: kind of in the corner of your eye and I
Speaker 1: see this big open space as to it catches my
Speaker 1: eye as he reaches back to fire to the space
Speaker 1: where he's throwing to a spot and seemingly out of nowhere,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't out of nowhere. I'm trying to paint
Speaker 1: this picture the best I can. Alan Hearns comes across
Speaker 1: the formation and he and the football intersect at the
Speaker 1: same spot, and he might have had some room to
Speaker 1: run after the fact. And so when I say it
Speaker 1: would be touchdown or a would be sacked, just remember
Speaker 1: that these practices are only in helmets, and so we're
Speaker 1: not hitting guys. So once the catch is made, it's
Speaker 1: tag off, get out, and get onto the next place.
Speaker 1: So it's tough to assume run after the catch, which
Speaker 1: is gonna be a theme in this particular practice. So
Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissette jumps back in and this time Javarus Davis
Speaker 1: is matched up on Devonte Parker and does a good
Speaker 1: job of just blanketing DVP and he gets himself a
Speaker 1: pit on a throw that is a little bit to
Speaker 1: the left. Yeah, the left of Devanta Parker was the
Speaker 1: right from my vantage point, but a little bit off
Speaker 1: to the left, and you can't possibly know if it
Speaker 1: was a miscommunication and mislocated throw. There's just no way
Speaker 1: to know if you're not out there on the field
Speaker 1: part of the game. But the ball is just a
Speaker 1: little bit off the frame of Davanta Parker and it
Speaker 1: gets tipped and Javarros Davis takes advantage of that secures
Speaker 1: the interception, and we're off to the races once again
Speaker 1: with this league leading takeaway defense a year ago making
Speaker 1: more plays on the football. Then we go to the callback.
Speaker 1: Savon Akhmed is our callback part here, who, by the way,
Speaker 1: is looking as fast as ever. He is so quick
Speaker 1: he can flat out scoop. But he gets isolated on
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips on a wheel route. And the reason I
Speaker 1: wanted to mention that was because Phillips pretty much held
Speaker 1: his own on that route. And this is one of
Speaker 1: the players that you live for as a reporter or
Speaker 1: whatever we call ourselves, where everybody involves scores a win.
Speaker 1: It's pretty rare, but just good all around football where
Speaker 1: the offense does well, the defense does well. Remember last
Speaker 1: year by Aaron Jones and DeVante Parker had all these
Speaker 1: battles where it was tight coverage, but Parker made the
Speaker 1: contested catch where I said, that's good coverage, it's good
Speaker 1: receiver play, it's a good throw from the quarterback. I'll
Speaker 1: take that all day, every day. And so again Phillips,
Speaker 1: remember had that four or five time. It's two hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty pounds. I just I put in my notes here,
Speaker 1: just ridiculous. Well, he's striding pretty well with Savon Akhmed,
Speaker 1: but the speedy back does create just enough of a
Speaker 1: bucket and to a finds it. But Akhmed's foot comes
Speaker 1: down just barely out of bounds. I think that was
Speaker 1: my favorite play of the period, beside maybe the Jachem
Speaker 1: Grant deep ball. But you get a good look at
Speaker 1: a good a good throw, a good catch, some good coverage,
Speaker 1: just cannot quite get the feet down inbounds on that
Speaker 1: particular play. We then get another change of quarterback, kind
Speaker 1: of flipping back and forth after a couple of snaps
Speaker 1: each and Nick Needham drives on another pass here from
Speaker 1: Brissette for a p bu and he's really racking up
Speaker 1: some ball production these couple of days. And a quick
Speaker 1: note there I talked about Byron Jones getting no targets
Speaker 1: that I he saw in practice on Tuesday. Well, he
Speaker 1: was out there but only played a few reps. That's
Speaker 1: probably why I had that note. Lots of these young
Speaker 1: corners are getting chances, and man, they are competing. More
Speaker 1: on that. In just a moment, two comes back in
Speaker 1: for our last action here and I referenced this on Twitter.
Speaker 1: But you remember the game. I know you die hards
Speaker 1: out there know what I'm talking about against the Rams
Speaker 1: with a game winning passed at Avante Parker in the
Speaker 1: front corner of the end zone in Los Angeles after
Speaker 1: I think we were shut out for the first fifty
Speaker 1: six minutes and then the Dolphins scored two touchdowns in
Speaker 1: the final four minutes to get a fourteen to ten
Speaker 1: win or a fourteen to nine win. I can't recall exactly,
Speaker 1: but this play was so similar to that where Parker
Speaker 1: it's not the end zone, but we'll use the sticks
Speaker 1: as a measuring point. He runs to the sticks and
Speaker 1: the angles back and the football is in flight before
Speaker 1: he works back down the stem of the route and
Speaker 1: it hits him right between the one and the one
Speaker 1: as he goes to the ground, elbows together, secures that catch,
Speaker 1: pens it against his chest, feet inbounds, nearly identical to
Speaker 1: that pylon catch, and a nice looking precision timing slash
Speaker 1: rhythm throw there from two up to Parker, who of
Speaker 1: course caught the first touchdown pass of to his career
Speaker 1: last year against the Rams. Tala finishes the period with
Speaker 1: a ripped Albert Wilson I slant route. Just a really
Speaker 1: strong period and you gotta love the resolve to shake
Speaker 1: off the result of Tuesday's practice. That's always been one
Speaker 1: of the hallmarks for me of training camp, at least.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not versed enough in O t A
Speaker 1: Sty really have an opinion yet, but in training camp,
Speaker 1: I always like seeing how guys respond after big days
Speaker 1: or after tough days like the one we saw with
Speaker 1: the offense on Tuesday. But I really I think it's
Speaker 1: a big deal how guys respond that he showed some
Speaker 1: great metal in that regard. All right, then the skies
Speaker 1: opened up once again, and just as coach talked about,
Speaker 1: with the opportunity to make adjustments in June, opposed to
Speaker 1: avoiding the elements and then trying to deal with it.
Speaker 1: In September on a Sunday afternoon at hard Rock Stadium,
Speaker 1: I learned from my own mistakes. On Tuesday, I went
Speaker 1: to the media platform with just my laptop and my
Speaker 1: roster in hand. And what a mistake that was. Because
Speaker 1: I told you the story on the podcast yesterday. But
Speaker 1: this time I brought the backpack, I had an umbrella.
Speaker 1: I was ready for that damn rain. So no silk shoes,
Speaker 1: no wet socks, no midday costume change for me. We
Speaker 1: made the adjustments, made the corrections, and we got better
Speaker 1: as a podcaster. So I'm gonna go ahead and use
Speaker 1: the reports from Softed Dean of the South Florida Sun
Speaker 1: Sentinel and Josh Tolentino from The Athletic, the two pool
Speaker 1: reporters on the day. And thanks for those guys for
Speaker 1: getting in there and and getting themselves in the position
Speaker 1: where they can be on the scene to cover practice.
Speaker 1: But I only want to use it for the facts,
Speaker 1: because I will never attempt to evaluate plays that I
Speaker 1: have not seen myself. In an esoteric sport with twenty
Speaker 1: two moving parts on a given play, different coverages, fronts,
Speaker 1: route concepts, play calls, and twenty two chances for an
Speaker 1: error to occur. I think context is very very important
Speaker 1: to every play and the way it is with nine
Speaker 1: d guys on the field and plays happenings in such
Speaker 1: rapid succession, it's already a lot to take into practice
Speaker 1: and give accurate, viable notes. I mean it, it's a
Speaker 1: very busy two hours for me, Like, don't talk to
Speaker 1: me during those two hours. It's very very very intense
Speaker 1: as far as trying to get the notes down. So
Speaker 1: if I'm not there to see it happen, how can
Speaker 1: I possibly provide the correct context to me? That is
Speaker 1: more valuable than just looking at some stats or results
Speaker 1: of a practice where there is no scoreboard. We're not
Speaker 1: trying to play to a scoreboard here, We're trying to
Speaker 1: play to improve. So here is what happened results only
Speaker 1: once the team went into the bubble per these two
Speaker 1: reporters who do an excellent job. The stats say six
Speaker 1: touchdown passes on the day from Tah with a lot
Speaker 1: of work coming in red zone and goal line periods.
Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissette also tossed a few touchdown passes of his own.
Speaker 1: I did not get an exact number on that, but
Speaker 1: I know at one point it was reported that he
Speaker 1: threw three in a row in goal line work those
Speaker 1: passes with jakeem Grant Hunter Long and Robert Foster. Soft
Speaker 1: Dean and Josh Tolentino both reported the Tongue of Bloa
Speaker 1: found Jalen Waddled in the middle of the field, who
Speaker 1: then caught the ball and raced up the sideline to
Speaker 1: pay dirt for a would be sixty yard touchdown because
Speaker 1: the ball started on the DOLF minus forty yard line
Speaker 1: and they went all the way to the end zone
Speaker 1: for sixty yards and then they went back to Devanta
Speaker 1: Parker for a touchdown from about thirty yards out. So
Speaker 1: a couple of deep shots there from Twah into the
Speaker 1: end zone for touchdowns. There was another note here from
Speaker 1: Tolontino about Jaitlyn ask you a player we noted on
Speaker 1: the podcast on Tuesday who had a pass breakup on
Speaker 1: a pass from Tongue Bloa to Albert Wilson. Young kids
Speaker 1: still making some plays out there, and then Jacoby Brissette
Speaker 1: found Macollins for a touchdown and read Senet through one
Speaker 1: to Kirk Merritt. Those two have a connection mounting here
Speaker 1: so far. In O t a s back to the
Speaker 1: pool report, Tolontino reports that Noah Egnogamy had a nice
Speaker 1: pass breakup on a throw to Davanta Parker and the
Speaker 1: end zone. More on Igbo here in just one second.
Speaker 1: Saffa Dean said that to have found Will Fuller on
Speaker 1: a twenty yard crossing route when they first got into
Speaker 1: the bubble and then comes back to Devanta Parker for
Speaker 1: a nice ten yard rip as well. He also reports
Speaker 1: a pass breakup by Bernardrick McKinney, whose film I really
Speaker 1: had fun watching and I've really enjoyed watching him play
Speaker 1: in the aquand Orange these last couple of days. More
Speaker 1: on him in just one moment as well. And oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I forgot to add this on the Tuesday podcast, But
Speaker 1: Jason Sanders, this dude hits the cherry picker where the
Speaker 1: camera for taking film for practice is aligned directly down
Speaker 1: the middle of the uprights like it's on the crossbar
Speaker 1: right in the middle there. And Tolentino said that Sanders
Speaker 1: went four for four again today, so that means he
Speaker 1: didn't miss the entire camp because he didn't miss anything
Speaker 1: on Tuesday I had notes on training camp that I
Speaker 1: don't remember seeing him miss last year. He then, of
Speaker 1: course carries that into a franchise records treat for consecutive
Speaker 1: field goals made into the season last year and only
Speaker 1: missed a couple. Winds up being an All Pro first
Speaker 1: team kicker, gets himself an extension and the long today
Speaker 1: was fifty one yards and that's about the long range
Speaker 1: I saw on Tuesday. Definitely fifty plus, but Jason Sanders
Speaker 1: picking up right where he left off. Tolentino also reports
Speaker 1: that to Us spent his downtime talking intensely with his teammates,
Speaker 1: including a chat he had a Davante Parker. And I
Speaker 1: saw that same thing that I mentioned on the Tuesday
Speaker 1: podcast with the individual drills and kind of coaching up
Speaker 1: the running back acts like a Jared Oakes or a
Speaker 1: Jordan Scarlett, some of these first year Dolphins players. I
Speaker 1: thought that was really cool to see as well. And
Speaker 1: then the last tweet I have to go off of here,
Speaker 1: as I told on Tino special, he just wrote when
Speaker 1: Lynn Bowden has the ball in his hands and then
Speaker 1: posted a jiff of Drake saying wow. So there you
Speaker 1: have it. Mini Camp one is a rap, but this
Speaker 1: episode is not a rap. I want to get into
Speaker 1: something that, let's say, mildly irks me because we've talked
Speaker 1: about two and I'm not gonna play dumb here for
Speaker 1: you guys. I know you know where downloads and retweets
Speaker 1: and all that fun stuff comes from. Everyone likes talking
Speaker 1: about the quarterback position, but I really dislike treating this
Speaker 1: sport like it's a one player game, because, as I mentioned,
Speaker 1: twenty two players, fronts, coverages, route concepts, shifts, motions, checks, audibles,
Speaker 1: hot routes. There is so much information that goes into
Speaker 1: a given play on either side of the football that
Speaker 1: focusing on one player is so disingenuous. And again, I
Speaker 1: get why we do at quarterbacks with the stars all
Speaker 1: that fun stuff, but I just want to give some
Speaker 1: love to the rest of the roster here. And one
Speaker 1: thing that kind of surprised me, just from I guess
Speaker 1: general coverage, was that why aren't we talking more about
Speaker 1: the Dolphins defensive performance in that game? A defense or
Speaker 1: in the practice rather, a defense that led the NFL
Speaker 1: and takeaways and third down defense, A defense that finished
Speaker 1: sixth and scoring and entered Week seventeen as the number
Speaker 1: one scoring defense in the National Football League and had
Speaker 1: held that title for a few weeks running there in December.
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering why they're seven picks were not a
Speaker 1: bigger part of the story. So I look at some
Speaker 1: of the guys that really stood out to me. It
Speaker 1: talked about Bernardrick McKinney. I mean, his Houston tape is
Speaker 1: just full of flexibility, a true passing game disruptor as
Speaker 1: far as his blitzer goes, and finding spots and in
Speaker 1: zone drops or man drops, and a true traffic cop
Speaker 1: in the middle of the defense. And when I went
Speaker 1: back and watched his notes and my free agent notes
Speaker 1: on him, was him calling out so many things pre
Speaker 1: snap and anticipating and making plays because he's motioning towards
Speaker 1: the play as the snap is happening based upon what
Speaker 1: he picked up from either the pre snap read or
Speaker 1: his pre game steady, whatever it might have been. He's
Speaker 1: often flowing to the football before the snap even goes off.
Speaker 1: And I think you pair he and Baker with this
Speaker 1: defense here, and I don't mean alignment, just the fact
Speaker 1: that they're both linebackers in the middle of that defense,
Speaker 1: you really strengthen your communication your commitment to playing with
Speaker 1: sound fundamentals and getting the calls and checks in and
Speaker 1: making sure that everybody's on the same page. And you
Speaker 1: look at how his versatility paired with Baker's, it just
Speaker 1: creates an opportunity to open the whole playbook and move
Speaker 1: those guys around and from a distance, I just really
Speaker 1: enjoyed watching those guys and the way the defense in
Speaker 1: general is so vocal and animated, checking on those motions
Speaker 1: and those ships and just making sure everybody's on the
Speaker 1: same page. There's lots of you can see their their
Speaker 1: heads going back and forth in their hands, making signals,
Speaker 1: and just a ton of communication on the practice field
Speaker 1: the way coaches like it. And then Duke Riley didn't
Speaker 1: get a mentioned yesterday, but he flies around the field too.
Speaker 1: He's hard to miss with that hair. But you talk
Speaker 1: about high effort, high energy guy, that's him. You can
Speaker 1: see forty five flashing all over the field. Talked about
Speaker 1: brand Scarlett who had the pick and Tuesday's practice. He
Speaker 1: sure sets a strong edge and gives you another one
Speaker 1: of those really really heavy linebackers that can help eat
Speaker 1: up those blocks in those multiple fronts. I referred to
Speaker 1: Javon Holland, the rookie defensive back on the podcast on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: and I mean I was so high on him as
Speaker 1: a prospect, and I came away this week even more impressed.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you which I've been more impressed by
Speaker 1: the instincts or the trigger, because either way, he is
Speaker 1: so fast to the football. And coach talked about him
Speaker 1: in his media on Wednesday morning about how they went
Speaker 1: off the twenty nineteen tape since Javan was an opt out,
Speaker 1: and how they liked what they saw off that tape.
Speaker 1: And I would highly encourage you the listener to go
Speaker 1: over to YouTube and type in Javon halland full game
Speaker 1: and get some reps yourself and watch some of those
Speaker 1: because it's kind of wears Waldo with Javon. Just find
Speaker 1: number eight now number twenty two as a pro but
Speaker 1: in his college tape you find number eight on Organ's defense,
Speaker 1: You're probably gonna find the football too. And the secondary
Speaker 1: as a whole is just with all this hop line
Speaker 1: talent and the depth and the mix of veteran presence
Speaker 1: with the youth pushing for playing time too. I mean,
Speaker 1: Nick Needon told us that the takeaway game is back
Speaker 1: this year. It's called the Hoods versus the Bourbs. It's
Speaker 1: I think at jail to Alexander creation a game that
Speaker 1: focuses on finding the football, whether it's an interception, scooped
Speaker 1: up fumble, or getting the ball off one hop. I
Speaker 1: think all of those count for a point in the game.
Speaker 1: And he said they've already picked the teams and they're
Speaker 1: already going at it, and things things like this don't
Speaker 1: happen by accident. The Dolphins led the NFL and takeaways
Speaker 1: last year, it's because they've worked on it. They talked
Speaker 1: about it all off season, and you you get out
Speaker 1: what you put in this game. That's the beauty of football.
Speaker 1: Then you go back up to the front and I'm
Speaker 1: trying to rank these three levels of the defense in
Speaker 1: terms of depth that each of them have, and I
Speaker 1: think you can make a case for any of them
Speaker 1: to be number one, but also any of them to
Speaker 1: be number three because I talked about how the receiver
Speaker 1: room was kind of too deep and a lot of
Speaker 1: spots in terms of the skill sets to each of
Speaker 1: these players offer. Like Jalen Waddle, it's a different player
Speaker 1: than Devanta Parker, but you've also got you know, Jachem
Speaker 1: Grant or Albert Wilson kind of fit that bill as
Speaker 1: well as the speedy guy Devanta Parker's got a pression
Speaker 1: Williams and Mac Hollands and kind of fit that big body,
Speaker 1: possession type of receiver as well. And going back to
Speaker 1: Tuesday's media, Noah ig Banalogaeny told us the different skill
Speaker 1: set each player in that receiver room has and how
Speaker 1: it's been beneficial for him in terms of seeing it
Speaker 1: kind of every play type come at him and how
Speaker 1: it helps him kind of refined his game as far
Speaker 1: as how I have to play this guy, how I
Speaker 1: have to play that guy, and so on and so forth.
Speaker 1: But that too deep idea is kind of how I
Speaker 1: view the defense. I mean, I thought it was that
Speaker 1: way last camp as well, and it played out into
Speaker 1: the season, and I think it got even better and
Speaker 1: even deeper this year because a lot of those additions
Speaker 1: that were made, you know, McKinney, Adam Butler, Javon holland
Speaker 1: Justin Coleman. These things directly impact the things I think
Speaker 1: make this defense and the system that coach Flora's and
Speaker 1: coach Boyer run just so difficult to prepare for it's
Speaker 1: so adaptable. But I mean, upfront, I mentioned Adam Butler,
Speaker 1: we know about the strong rookie year of ray Kwon Davis.
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins is steady as they go, always available, durable
Speaker 1: player who plays every damn position, and as selfless as
Speaker 1: all get out. And that's why I think his his
Speaker 1: production doesn't match the quality of play that he gives you.
Speaker 1: And then Zach Seeler, he plays so well last year
Speaker 1: he earns himself an extension mid season. Don't even talk
Speaker 1: about Emmanuel Ogba yet, who had a bunch of sacks
Speaker 1: and pressures off the edge. I mean, I don't want
Speaker 1: to list every name here, but the depth, the ability
Speaker 1: to rotate and stay fresh on top of the talent
Speaker 1: you added, I just really like watching this defense play.
Speaker 1: I think you have different body types, you have different
Speaker 1: skill sets, you have a roster that can adapt to
Speaker 1: the defense, and I think you've added more to your
Speaker 1: arsenal in a way that can better equip you for
Speaker 1: the toughest task in all of football, going up against
Speaker 1: the game's top quarterbacks like a Josh Allen and division
Speaker 1: A Tom Brady, who were going to see this year
Speaker 1: with the Buccaneers or a Patrick Mahomes, who, by the way,
Speaker 1: this defense is the only NFL defense to ever pick
Speaker 1: off Mahomes three times in a game, which again eating
Speaker 1: the NFL and takeaways one year. When you come back
Speaker 1: to camp the next year and the first day you
Speaker 1: notch seven interceptions. To me, that's the story. Defense that
Speaker 1: was predicated on creating takeaways a year ago does the
Speaker 1: exact same thing in their encore performance to kick off season.
Speaker 1: So to finish up here before we get to media,
Speaker 1: I talked about Savan Akman off the top. I really
Speaker 1: liked watching him and gas Can go through drills and
Speaker 1: the conversations that kind of take place between those two
Speaker 1: guys during the downtime. Like we mentioned with TWA, Miles
Speaker 1: told us a couple of weeks back, the Heat and
Speaker 1: Savan are always quizzing each other. They live in the
Speaker 1: same apartment complex, spend some time together their best buddies
Speaker 1: and they communicate and you know, off the practice field
Speaker 1: at home, and that I imagine carries over onto the
Speaker 1: practice field and then in the trenches. Look, it's it's
Speaker 1: helmets only, so it's really tough to get a field
Speaker 1: for this part of the field. But I mentioned Jackson's
Speaker 1: athletic ability on the podcast on Tuesday, I thought Robert
Speaker 1: Hunt looked really good, but I wanted to mention Michael Dieter,
Speaker 1: who I think is moving as well as I've ever
Speaker 1: seen him move as far, the way he gets out
Speaker 1: of his stance and fires out and and just kind
Speaker 1: of communicates things down there. I'm curious to get a
Speaker 1: good look at him at camp. I also wrote down
Speaker 1: there like the way Robert Jones, the undrafted free agent,
Speaker 1: the way he fires out of his stance as well.
Speaker 1: And he's a big, big dude too. Then at tight
Speaker 1: end our final spot here, Kausiki's catching everything, just picking
Speaker 1: up where he left off. No need to stop the
Speaker 1: presses there. And Durham Smith is such a treat to
Speaker 1: watch him practice because he's just everywhere, Like you look
Speaker 1: up and you find eighty one. We know what he
Speaker 1: means or has meant, rather to the special teams units
Speaker 1: the last few years. He added a touchdown maker to
Speaker 1: his resume last year. And then the work he does
Speaker 1: digging out those backside edges and split zone ceiling play
Speaker 1: side runs off, just doing a bunch of the dirty work.
Speaker 1: And then Hunter Long caught some balls once they went
Speaker 1: inside as well. Didn't see it, but I saw the
Speaker 1: reports there from Tolentino and soft Fit Dean. But he
Speaker 1: he looks the part. He has rocked up a good
Speaker 1: looking young player for the Miami Dolphins. So there you
Speaker 1: have it. Shorter report today. Again, I apologize for that.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and close up this podcast with media,
Speaker 1: starting with coach Flores, who filled a couple of questions
Speaker 1: off the top about Alan Hearns and Albert Wilson, who
Speaker 1: we got in media today as well, and just talks
Speaker 1: about how he thinks they both look like they're in
Speaker 1: good shape, thinks they both stay on top of their
Speaker 1: training and conditioning, and thinks they're moving really well, running
Speaker 1: really well, picking up the offensive concepts. So he's pleased
Speaker 1: with both those guys as well. And then he was
Speaker 1: asked about the fact that Miami does have so many
Speaker 1: guys in that receiver room, and he said one of
Speaker 1: the themes of this offseason they wanted to work on
Speaker 1: was just creating a competitive environment for each position room
Speaker 1: and he thinks that's the case in the receiver room,
Speaker 1: talking about how it will shake out through training camp
Speaker 1: in preseason games. The best five six or seven guys
Speaker 1: will be on the team, he says, and we'll go
Speaker 1: ahead and play some audio for you here on the
Speaker 1: following question for coach Floras, who was asked about the
Speaker 1: benefits of staying out in the downpour on Tuesday's practice
Speaker 1: and getting through that rain soaked period. With this first
Speaker 1: practice of o t S we we we could end
Speaker 1: up playing in that type of weather. It's I mean,
Speaker 1: it's really simple as that. I think, Um, I think,
Speaker 1: you know, I think we need to be prepared, had
Speaker 1: to play in that type of weather. And we live
Speaker 1: in South Florida, rains um pretty much every day and
Speaker 1: we could potentially play in that that type of weather,
Speaker 1: that type of setting. So uh, and I think it's
Speaker 1: good work for us. People may not want to stand
Speaker 1: out in the rain, but you know, I think we
Speaker 1: need to. You know, I think how you uh, your
Speaker 1: body mechanics need to change. You gotta keep you feet
Speaker 1: underneath you. You You gotta be able to keep yourself under
Speaker 1: control so you can cut and make tackles and make
Speaker 1: people miss um. I think often times when you get
Speaker 1: into rain type of situations and that's the first thing
Speaker 1: that happens, um, is you just lose your footing and
Speaker 1: a tackle that would have been made me is a
Speaker 1: guy who's on the ground, or a big play you
Speaker 1: don't you don't, you don't get because the receiver running
Speaker 1: backs on the ground. I think you need to practice
Speaker 1: in those elements. So, um, anytime it rains and we
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to stay out there and you know
Speaker 1: there's no lightning and we can't when I forced to go,
Speaker 1: and I think it's um a good opportunity for for
Speaker 1: guys to practice in those elements so that you know,
Speaker 1: if they do show up in a game, um, we
Speaker 1: can still have success and you know, not turn back
Speaker 1: and say, oh man, which we I wish we'd practice
Speaker 1: in the rain one more time so guys would know
Speaker 1: what it feels like they make a cut or make
Speaker 1: a cut and get vertical, or make a make a
Speaker 1: make a break in on on a pass or or
Speaker 1: you know, get your plan foot down on the field goal.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's there's you know, we're not always going
Speaker 1: to have, you know, perfect weather conditions. I always love
Speaker 1: playing audio for you guys when coach really gets into
Speaker 1: the nitty gritty behind kind of his thinking behind the
Speaker 1: football stuff, because well, why wouldn't you want to hear
Speaker 1: from a PhD car card carry member of football XS
Speaker 1: and os and the the elements and how everything impacts football.
Speaker 1: I want to hear Coach Flora's talk about the added
Speaker 1: benefits of playing in those conditions. And there you hear
Speaker 1: it right there, talking about the body mechanics and how
Speaker 1: they change and keeping your feet underneath. You found that
Speaker 1: really interesting. He also continued talking about how if you're
Speaker 1: not practicing in the rain, how do you get a
Speaker 1: chance to make those adjustments, Because you get to a
Speaker 1: game in September, like you just mentioned there, and you say, oh, shoot,
Speaker 1: I wish we had have practiced in this We had
Speaker 1: a better idea. I mean, you've seen teams in the
Speaker 1: past and whether it's training camp videos or you know,
Speaker 1: great videos we get from the NFL network and practice
Speaker 1: where they dunk footballs and buckets of water to get
Speaker 1: ready for possible rain games. So what better chance to
Speaker 1: simulate those types of situations than right now in June.
Speaker 1: So you can go back to it and say, here's
Speaker 1: how I did it. Here's the cleats I wore, Here's
Speaker 1: how I changed the way I catched the football. Whatever
Speaker 1: it might be. It's always a good chance to get
Speaker 1: an opportunity to work and changing elements because football stops
Speaker 1: for nobody when it comes to the weather. I want
Speaker 1: to play two more audio clips here from coach Flora's
Speaker 1: media availability on Wednesday morning before practice, as he was
Speaker 1: asked about a quote that to a tungle by Loa
Speaker 1: gave the media on Tuesday with regards to being aggressive
Speaker 1: and pushing the ball down the field and testing the water,
Speaker 1: so to speak. Here's Coach Flora's talking about just that,
Speaker 1: adding context to practice and what the Dolphins ultimately are
Speaker 1: trying to accomplish in these I think practice is a
Speaker 1: time where, uh, you know, not just at the quarterback position,
Speaker 1: but at every position. You uh, you test the waters
Speaker 1: and see what works what doesn't work, so that you
Speaker 1: can make it, you know, go back, learn from it
Speaker 1: and make adjustments, and uh and and and and try
Speaker 1: to improve. I think I think that's the same thing
Speaker 1: for us as coaches. I mean there's many times where
Speaker 1: I say I want to see what this blitz looks like,
Speaker 1: or I want to see what you know, this coverage
Speaker 1: looks like, or let's see what this route pass route
Speaker 1: looks right, or what this you know punt fake looks
Speaker 1: like against a certain you know defense, and then come
Speaker 1: back and say before I should do it that way,
Speaker 1: we should do it this way. Um. I think that's
Speaker 1: the case for any position. UM, you know your dB,
Speaker 1: hey man, let me let me let me see if
Speaker 1: I can jump this route and make this play. And
Speaker 1: let's see if I can do it in practice versus
Speaker 1: a game where obviously if you jump in you don't
Speaker 1: make it. It's not what you're looking for. UM. So uh,
Speaker 1: or you know, can I make a if you never
Speaker 1: attempt a six yard field go and practice, how do
Speaker 1: you know you can make it in a game? Uh?
Speaker 1: I think it's the same thing at every position. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I want to point it inside the five
Speaker 1: yard line. So if I never practice it or never
Speaker 1: you know, try to attempt to do it, then, um,
Speaker 1: what makes me think I can get it done in
Speaker 1: the game. So, and I think it's the same at
Speaker 1: the quarterback position. UM. You know, we're gonna see if
Speaker 1: we can fit some throws in. Um, and then there
Speaker 1: might be a minor adjustment that we need to make
Speaker 1: to make the play. And you know, how do you
Speaker 1: know that if you don't you know, make you attempt,
Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, Look, you never
Speaker 1: wanta turnovers that anywhere. Uh, so we need to limit those.
Speaker 1: We always need to limit those. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: there's a you know what this is, you know, the
Speaker 1: first day of practice is not we're looking for the
Speaker 1: finished products. So uh that's mistakes are gonna happen, We're
Speaker 1: gonna correct them and uh, you know, continue to just improve.
Speaker 1: Wasn't get better, so that was gonna be My question
Speaker 1: for coach was about the benefit of kind of testing
Speaker 1: those waters, as Coach put it there, So I go.
Speaker 1: I went ahead and with my follow up question about
Speaker 1: how do you gauge when it's time to pull back
Speaker 1: and start focus on we got to be more detailed
Speaker 1: or more sharp in those areas and not be so
Speaker 1: aggressive and maybe make it more like a game day week.
Speaker 1: And Coach gave me what I thought was a great
Speaker 1: answer here too, although he corrected me on saying something
Speaker 1: and not so great talking about being detailed. You always
Speaker 1: want to be detailed, and I know that, but I
Speaker 1: said it wrong. So here's coach kind of correcting my
Speaker 1: incorrect statement and then giving me a great answer afterwards. Uh,
Speaker 1: Like we always want to be detailed and we we
Speaker 1: always want to have uh make the right play. UM.
Speaker 1: But there is a little bit of UM. I think
Speaker 1: you've gotta practice. I mean I think that that that
Speaker 1: that goes with I don't think that's the day one
Speaker 1: to practice UM. Wherewards, Hey, everything's got to be you know,
Speaker 1: ball is gotta be perfect, this has gotta be you know,
Speaker 1: I think there's there's some leeway. I would say as
Speaker 1: far as UM. You know, I think we try to
Speaker 1: tell all the players. Hey, you know, you know, practice
Speaker 1: is a place where you um, you know, you work
Speaker 1: your fundamentals and techniques. UM. And if there's something specific
Speaker 1: route technique you want to use to try to get open,
Speaker 1: you know, let's see if it works in practice. If
Speaker 1: there's a specific uh uh you know technique as a
Speaker 1: dB that you want to you want to work a
Speaker 1: quick jam where you want to work press, so you
Speaker 1: want to work off or you want to work uh
Speaker 1: you know, you want to blitz from depth, or you
Speaker 1: wanna get up in the line of scrimmage and you know,
Speaker 1: blitz in that way. I mean there's there's a you know,
Speaker 1: a few different ways you can kind of approach any play.
Speaker 1: And I think you used practice as um a way
Speaker 1: to to to figure out what's the best thing for
Speaker 1: UM for you individually, will as coaches say hey, this
Speaker 1: is what I think, Um, um, you know you should
Speaker 1: try and um, you know the players haven't put on
Speaker 1: that as well, and I think you know this is
Speaker 1: this is that's when you do it. You know, you know,
Speaker 1: when do you know, say hey, uh, I think you
Speaker 1: need to try it first before we as as a
Speaker 1: staff can say hey, look you probably shouldn't do that,
Speaker 1: you should do this or you know. And I think
Speaker 1: you just learned from those those experiences. And that's you know,
Speaker 1: whether it's football, whether it's anything, whether it's I'm sure
Speaker 1: it's journalism, whether it's you know, any sport, I think
Speaker 1: you learn from your experiences. And um, you know that's
Speaker 1: the case with really all that. Players don't know we're
Speaker 1: talking specific to to to to one position, but you
Speaker 1: know we got guys trying different things really at all positions.
Speaker 1: Some really interesting in depth stuff there from coach giving
Speaker 1: us an idea about the way this team wants to
Speaker 1: practice so they can get themselves in position to make
Speaker 1: the corrections necessary and get each guy's ability overall. He
Speaker 1: finished up his press conference with a couple of individual questions,
Speaker 1: one about Noah Eggnogeny and talking about how he's progressed
Speaker 1: in terms of how he sees coverages and kind of
Speaker 1: the mental side of the game. And Noah continues to
Speaker 1: look really good in these practices. Just he's physically really
Speaker 1: impressive with the way he moves and the strength he displays.
Speaker 1: But I think that for a young player to come
Speaker 1: in and get more time in the off season can
Speaker 1: only benefit his career going forward. Here again, just twenty
Speaker 1: one years old, will be twenty two or his birthday
Speaker 1: rather is in the middle of the season, so he
Speaker 1: will turn twenty two during the season. Coach was also
Speaker 1: asked about Nick need Hum and just said that he
Speaker 1: does everything necessary to put himself in position to improve.
Speaker 1: I thought that was a great quote. We also got
Speaker 1: Nick need him at his press conference after practice and
Speaker 1: he talked a little bit about you know, I asked
Speaker 1: him a question about from a defensive perspective, how do
Speaker 1: you kind of calibrate your aggressiveness and when it take
Speaker 1: your chances and and get yourself in those positions where
Speaker 1: you can calibrate. I can get away with this. I
Speaker 1: can't do that, and so on and so forth. He
Speaker 1: talks about how the coaches give him a lot of
Speaker 1: tools that they can use to go out there and
Speaker 1: practice and feel free to make those judgment calls and
Speaker 1: make those you know, test things out to see what
Speaker 1: works and what doesn't work. I thought that was a
Speaker 1: great answer from Nick, and we'll go ahead and play
Speaker 1: the audio from another clip here from Nick, who was
Speaker 1: asked about how he's been able to turn an undrafted
Speaker 1: situation out of college into his third year in the
Speaker 1: NFL and getting serious playing time last year and having
Speaker 1: success against the likes of guys like Cooper Cup and
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen and some of the premier slot guys in
Speaker 1: the league. Here's Nick talking about the mental side of
Speaker 1: the game and the preparation that has led him to
Speaker 1: this point of his career. I think just having an
Speaker 1: understanding of the game a lot, just growing up with
Speaker 1: my dad. Um, he's a big football guy, so just
Speaker 1: being around it at a young age, and he's a
Speaker 1: quarterback coach, so um he I just get in the
Speaker 1: mind of an offensive player, and he's always breaking down
Speaker 1: film with offensive guys. So I'll just always look at
Speaker 1: that and I think throughout the years I just developed
Speaker 1: more and more become more instinctive off that. And Nick
Speaker 1: was also about why he didn't play offense since his
Speaker 1: dad was a quarterback, and he said, well, the arm
Speaker 1: is one problem I have in that regard, So some
Speaker 1: good jokes there. Let's go ahead and finish up with
Speaker 1: a couple of receivers here, Albert Wilson and Alan Hearns,
Speaker 1: And a lot of the questions for Alan were about
Speaker 1: the opt out, his decision to opt out, if he
Speaker 1: regretted it at all, and he said no, he didn't
Speaker 1: because he had his son was born in October and
Speaker 1: to me, one of my favorite parts of a day
Speaker 1: that you know, I told Seth Levitt from the fish
Speaker 1: Tank podcast, who I had a conversation with before I
Speaker 1: recorded the podcast, I told him, you know this is
Speaker 1: I love this football more than any other football. Training
Speaker 1: camp and getting a chance to evaluate everybody was my
Speaker 1: favorite football And he was like, really, I always like
Speaker 1: the games, Like, of course, that's that's kind of I'm
Speaker 1: a weirdo for that opinion. But on a day where
Speaker 1: I got to watch the Dolphins practice at mini camp
Speaker 1: and do my favorite thing, I think my favorite part
Speaker 1: of the day was hearing Alan Hearns talk about being
Speaker 1: a father and his son that was born in October
Speaker 1: of last year, and someone asked him, what's your favorite
Speaker 1: part about being a father, and he said, you know,
Speaker 1: the kid falling asleep in your arms. And it was
Speaker 1: hard for me, as a new father myself to not
Speaker 1: kind of like get choked up over that because it
Speaker 1: is so important, important and so precious, and it was
Speaker 1: cool to hear Alan talk about that. He also talked
Speaker 1: a little bit about playing in the weather down here
Speaker 1: in South Florida and growing up in this weather. He's
Speaker 1: got to lose the gloves and and trying to attack
Speaker 1: the football because if you let it get to your body,
Speaker 1: it could just squeeze right through and then you get
Speaker 1: yourself a drop. He talked about just trying to kind
Speaker 1: of follow guys that have been here for a long
Speaker 1: time and getting his feet back wet again, following guys
Speaker 1: like Davante Parker and jakeem Grant, just getting in line
Speaker 1: with those guys. But he said it felt great to
Speaker 1: be back out there and competing and talking about being
Speaker 1: with the guys in the receiver group and how he
Speaker 1: missed that camaraderie. Let's go ahead and finish up here
Speaker 1: with Albert Wilson, another player who opted out last year,
Speaker 1: but his back for one season for your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: And I thought Albert had two very interesting answers, and
Speaker 1: that he said that he every single game he wished
Speaker 1: that he maybe had rethought his decision to opt out
Speaker 1: last season, because he said watching the games from home
Speaker 1: where you know he wanted to be out there, And
Speaker 1: that's kind of the competitor in Albert Wilson. There so
Speaker 1: different scenarios for either of those players there with those
Speaker 1: opt out decisions. But also talked about how he feels
Speaker 1: night and day from where he was even in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: one year removed from that hip injury that cost him
Speaker 1: the back half and then kind of lingered into twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: but then he got some more playing time late in
Speaker 1: that season and really produced big time there as well.
Speaker 1: So he talked about that and how he feels a
Speaker 1: lot better you have to imagine he does three years
Speaker 1: after the injury. And he also touched on the competition
Speaker 1: in the receiver room we mentioned earlier with Alan Hearns
Speaker 1: talked about his run after the catchability and also spoke
Speaker 1: about quarterback to a Tongue of Voloa and mentioned the
Speaker 1: young quarterback organizing practices for the receivers and for the
Speaker 1: passing game this offseason away from the facility in the
Speaker 1: players downtime. So there you have at Brian Flores, Nick
Speaker 1: need Um, Albert Wilson, Allen Hearns. Go to our team
Speaker 1: YouTube page and check out all those press conference videos,
Speaker 1: question and answer in their entirety. A late addition into
Speaker 1: the podcast here, as I just found it on Twitter,
Speaker 1: a clip from Dan Orlovsky talking about June Mini camp
Speaker 1: and to a Tongue of Boloa and the quarterback position
Speaker 1: and his own experience with this time of year and
Speaker 1: how to basically do the same things that to himself
Speaker 1: coach Flora has talked about with being aggressive and trying
Speaker 1: things out in practice. Here's Dan Orlovsky on ESPN's NFL
Speaker 1: Live on Wednesday afternoon. I think, first of all, stats
Speaker 1: in the spring are stupid. Um, you guys know that
Speaker 1: Thomas Edison quote where he says I have not failed,
Speaker 1: I've just figured out ten thousand ways to do something wrong.
Speaker 1: And I think that should really be a focus for
Speaker 1: so many quarterbacks, especially young ones in the spring is
Speaker 1: like figuring stuff out what you can and can't get
Speaker 1: away with. And we talked about to being more aggressive
Speaker 1: down the field. You know, one of the phrases that
Speaker 1: attached to young quarterbacks all the time is will protect
Speaker 1: the football. I've never liked them value the football. You
Speaker 1: want to protect your kids, never allow anything bad to
Speaker 1: happen to them. But to go be great at that
Speaker 1: position in the NFL, the ball has gotta be putting
Speaker 1: harm's way at sometimes and that's why to have gotta
Speaker 1: learn to be aggressive with it a little bit. And
Speaker 1: you hear Brian Flora say it like the last thing
Speaker 1: the Dolphins into a want is to get into a
Speaker 1: game in September. Ball beyond the right hash. He's got
Speaker 1: his speech there, Jalen waddle all the way to left
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be some form of a cover two
Speaker 1: and two was going, Man, I wonder if I can
Speaker 1: throw this ball forty yards down the sideline to the
Speaker 1: left and a whole shot. And he's never done it,
Speaker 1: Like this is the time to figure out what you
Speaker 1: can and cannot do. So this is exactly what Tours
Speaker 1: should be doing. I remember four years ago and Patrick
Speaker 1: mahomes to like six interceptions in one practice and everyone
Speaker 1: lost their minds. You gotta figure out what your arm
Speaker 1: is capable of and not capable of. Two was doing
Speaker 1: the right thing again. That's Dan Orlovsky on ESPN's NFL
Speaker 1: Live at four o'clock Eastern on ESPN. Good stuff there
Speaker 1: from Orlovsky. This is our final podcast of the week.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be back with you guys next week for
Speaker 1: two episodes a week all the way up until training camp,
Speaker 1: when we then ratchet things back up and give you
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Speaker 1: We're gonna cover the rest of our NFL preview in
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Speaker 1: well and get you facts and stats and details on
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