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Speaker 2: What is up? Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time podcast,
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Speaker 2: your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host,
Speaker 2: Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, that is a rap
Speaker 2: on four joint practices this August. We're all done Houston,
Speaker 2: recapping a second day of work in the hot, hot heat.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you about another big day from the defense,
Speaker 2: some big shots from the offense, and here from head
Speaker 2: coach Mike McDaniel as well as Jalen Phillips, Rob Hunt,
Speaker 2: Tyreek Hill, from Houston. This is the Draft Time podcast.
Speaker 2: Maye gaff Let's kick off day two here by going
Speaker 2: back in time, here's Mike McDaniel's assessment of day one
Speaker 2: of joint practices.
Speaker 5: It was cool because.
Speaker 4: I thought, you know, it was our second joint practice
Speaker 4: this season.
Speaker 5: It's just a lot of fossil feels being burned.
Speaker 4: It was day one or day one of the second
Speaker 4: like opportunity. We've had to go against another team in
Speaker 4: our second year, so guys kind of new expectations the
Speaker 4: you know with the Houston Tech since it was there first,
Speaker 4: so we got in it. You know, I can relate
Speaker 4: to that in previous years. Last year with Tampa, they
Speaker 4: brought the energy. I thought our guys were prepared for it.
Speaker 4: I thought there was some things that we got out
Speaker 4: of practice that were a result of fully investing in it.
Speaker 4: So it was an awesome day for that because you
Speaker 4: can actually get to nitty gritty coaching on certain things
Speaker 4: to get better at.
Speaker 5: But the guys are starting to click.
Speaker 4: Timing offensively, you know, are the way we play together
Speaker 4: as a as a group on defense, particularly in the
Speaker 4: back end with with the way that we uh cover
Speaker 4: routes and then the way that our our past rush
Speaker 4: is going. There's a lot of really good things that
Speaker 4: sets us up for a pretty good day day two,
Speaker 4: you know, because the biggest thing is I'm looking at
Speaker 4: every individual and if they made any sort.
Speaker 5: Of play, what do they do with that play today?
Speaker 5: Are they comfortable?
Speaker 4: Are they giving up stuff that they took away that
Speaker 4: the day before. Are they going through reads in a
Speaker 4: different manner than they did the day before because of
Speaker 4: a success or failure, or as they've put off the gas,
Speaker 4: or do they they really become you know, the step
Speaker 4: you need to take is you need to take your
Speaker 4: successes and become addicted to them.
Speaker 5: And that's where we're at.
Speaker 2: And that part about the offense clicking. It's really cool
Speaker 2: to hear various players on the offense as well as
Speaker 2: coach talk about this the production that really since the
Speaker 2: Sunday practice with the defense got the better of the
Speaker 2: offense has been slowly brew and really improving as we
Speaker 2: go along. And now we've been hearing this shared terminology
Speaker 2: across players and coaches. Tron talked about it to us,
Speaker 2: talked about it McDaniel a few times now as well.
Speaker 2: And we'll hear from Robert hunt on it in just
Speaker 2: a moment, and regarding to Ron Armstead, the big news
Speaker 2: of the day, Yes, he did leave practice early and
Speaker 2: he gave us those updates via Twitter Twitter, and it
Speaker 2: looked like positive signs from him coming off of that
Speaker 2: day ending injury that was on the first rep of
Speaker 2: the day. And we'll know more of the severity is
Speaker 2: the injury of the injury as we come along here. Probably,
Speaker 2: I would assume on Saturday when McDaniel addressed with the
Speaker 2: media for the first time, you know, since the injury occurred,
Speaker 2: and it was such a bummer because it was literally
Speaker 2: the first play and I'm watching Connor Williams, the Dolphins center,
Speaker 2: execute what was a perfect snatch and trap technique to
Speaker 2: put his mouth on the ground, but unfortunately going to
Speaker 2: the ground rolled up on the back of Tea Stead.
Speaker 2: It's one of those things where, like, honestly, I'm surprised
Speaker 2: we don't see it more across the league because there's
Speaker 2: just so much activity going on quickly in that short
Speaker 2: space in the pocket back there that can lead to
Speaker 2: these fluke things where guys do get rolled up on.
Speaker 2: You'll see sometimes guys kind of get a player roll
Speaker 2: up on the back of their legs and they find
Speaker 2: a way to get their legs out of danger and
Speaker 2: not have them, you know, get caught on the turf
Speaker 2: to where these types of things can happen. But t Stead,
Speaker 2: we'll see what happens in terms of the severity. But
Speaker 2: he did give us some positive updates via social media.
Speaker 2: More on him in just a minute. I want to
Speaker 2: go back to that first practice though, and the two
Speaker 2: interceptions off to which you know, every time to a
Speaker 2: throws a pick, it's like breaking the Manhattan Project level
Speaker 2: of reporting. We have to go over it, you know,
Speaker 2: step by step. And I do appreciate getting the practice
Speaker 2: education from coach here on this as we got from
Speaker 2: TUA after Wednesday's practice. And I feel like this is
Speaker 2: the detriment of my own job, or to the detriment
Speaker 2: of my own job and personal favorite time of year.
Speaker 2: But I just I'm starting to take training camp kind
Speaker 2: of for what it is.
Speaker 4: Like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the big plays, the sharp execution. That's all fun
Speaker 2: and we love to see that, and we get the
Speaker 2: fans want to see that too, But the purpose of
Speaker 2: campus to get better, right, It's to work on things.
Speaker 2: In a game, your goal is to move the ball
Speaker 2: and score points. The more things you can work on
Speaker 2: and prove and hopefully perfect in training camp, that's going
Speaker 2: to give you more tools in the proverbial tool bag
Speaker 2: that you can call upon to do what to move
Speaker 2: the ball and score points when the only thing that
Speaker 2: does matter is the result on Sundays come September. It's
Speaker 2: a lot like golf. They say you never want to
Speaker 2: work on things on the course. If you have a
Speaker 2: swing flaw or you feel something breaking down in your swing,
Speaker 2: you're not going to fix it mid round. You have
Speaker 2: to take it to the driving range. Training camp and
Speaker 2: practices is the range, and Sundays are the eighteen holes
Speaker 2: you go out and play with your buddies. And what
Speaker 2: if on that day the thing you're working on is
Speaker 2: something that matches to the strength of what the defense
Speaker 2: is working on. You're probably not going to have a
Speaker 2: lot of success executing that against that particular look. But
Speaker 2: if you're hooking your approach shots to the left of
Speaker 2: the green because you're coming over the top of the ball,
Speaker 2: the best way to fix that is a tuck of
Speaker 2: towel in your right armpit and keep that elbow tucked
Speaker 2: in throughout the whole swing. It's uncomfortable as hell, but
Speaker 2: it's training muscle memory to get you on the right track.
Speaker 2: And I think that's a pretty perfect analogy. Does it
Speaker 2: work for you guys like it does me?
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 2: So we heard coach on the idea of practice and
Speaker 2: the way too is crafting his game hopefully to make
Speaker 2: himself into the best version of himself come September tenth
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles.
Speaker 4: No, I think you have to take every every play
Speaker 4: independent of itself. I think I'm very careful to go
Speaker 4: into the ends and outs of each play that happens,
Speaker 4: because if I and you know, sometimes interceptions are good
Speaker 4: in practice, sometimes they're only good if you don't do
Speaker 4: that again. But each individual one is part of the
Speaker 4: reason those are occurring is because he's pressing himself to
Speaker 4: be the very best version of himself.
Speaker 6: He is.
Speaker 5: Making. He probably made ten.
Speaker 4: Plays yesterday that were absolutely fantastic doing the same thing.
Speaker 4: So it's not as easy as and I think it's
Speaker 4: important to emphasize that you have to take each one individually.
Speaker 4: And I would be upset if if he was unprepared,
Speaker 4: if he didn't really think about it, or if it's
Speaker 4: something that he just went rogue and went outside of
Speaker 4: a progression. Okay, if there's if he's trying new things
Speaker 4: within the time of the play, there's going to be
Speaker 4: some residuals when you're trying to be the best version
Speaker 4: of yourself. He's trying to take his game to another level.
Speaker 4: So I'm I was pumped for the learning process.
Speaker 2: We also got a breakdown of those plays and the
Speaker 2: encouragement that Tyreek Hill himself gives to to be very
Speaker 2: aggressive in that way and practice. Let's hear from the Cheetah.
Speaker 7: Hey, look, I'm telling too, I'm glad you made that through.
Speaker 7: You feel me because you know, to me like this
Speaker 7: is what probably is for it, Like you use these
Speaker 7: moments right here, you know, to you know, create scenarios
Speaker 7: of you know, try to you know, throw a guy
Speaker 7: ball in certain situations, you know, and that there, I
Speaker 7: believe his first pick was, you know, Tour was trying
Speaker 7: to look off the left side linebacker and he messed
Speaker 7: around and looked the other linebacker into the window, you know,
Speaker 7: trying to get me the ball. So you know, it's
Speaker 7: just learning things, you know, so that way, whenever the
Speaker 7: season comes, he knows he can't do that. You feel
Speaker 7: me like he knows exactly where he has to put
Speaker 7: his eyes. And the two minute one, it was just like, hey,
Speaker 7: score seven nine. You know we don't have to be
Speaker 7: aggressive down here. You feel me like we've already got
Speaker 7: two big chump plays, first one of Durham, the second
Speaker 7: one to myself and we are inside of the twenty
Speaker 7: yard line, and you know Tour already knows that. But
Speaker 7: for him to stay aggressive and stay in that aggressive mindset,
Speaker 7: you know, I love it.
Speaker 2: I did follow up on that question with Tyreeg and
Speaker 2: asked him, did you feel like you scored on that
Speaker 2: play prior to the Jalen Peatrie pick six? And he
Speaker 2: said that it would be bang bang, but he would
Speaker 2: take himself to win that matchup. And Jimmy Ward's a
Speaker 2: great player. So I do agree with that, and that
Speaker 2: is fair, cheeta, very very fair. Indeed, so with two
Speaker 2: of today some really good shots. He dialed up Braxon
Speaker 2: Burrios to the post on a deep shot, there was
Speaker 2: an absolute dime. And to be able to calibrate those
Speaker 2: deep balls accurately to your different types of speed you
Speaker 2: have in the receiving corps or in the offense in general,
Speaker 2: is very very impressive. I go back to the Ryan
Speaker 2: Tannehill days and I remember he could dial up Brian Hartline,
Speaker 2: you know, four six forty crazy legs Brian Hartline. But
Speaker 2: finding four too, Mike Wallace has always a struggle for him.
Speaker 2: Tua seems to have the calibration for all of his
Speaker 2: guys to drop those deep balls in into the bucket
Speaker 2: when he needs them, and just a fun little inside baseball.
Speaker 2: I actually asked Braxton down in the lunch room, like
Speaker 2: vertical playmaker, man with up ball is deep balls. You
Speaker 2: can gonna become a deep threat this point in your career.
Speaker 2: He says, yeah, I hope so, and then Tua comes in,
Speaker 2: DAPs him up and says, you're looking fast out there.
Speaker 2: Really enjoyed that interaction between those two guys. I think
Speaker 2: that Braxton has shown what he's capable of this training
Speaker 2: camp and really kind of checks the bucks he talked
Speaker 2: about when he signed his free agent. With the ability
Speaker 2: to beat one on one coverage in side, sit down
Speaker 2: in soft zones, and run away from man coverage. I
Speaker 2: think he's gonna have a big year here for the Dolphins,
Speaker 2: you know, kind of catching the favorable part of the coverage.
Speaker 2: That is taken away by Tyreek and Jalen, and one
Speaker 2: point of two is game that I really liked today
Speaker 2: was the elusiveness both as a runner and managing the pocket.
Speaker 2: It reminded me a lot of Bamatua in the sense
Speaker 2: of hitch up slide either way, and his footwork puts
Speaker 2: him in threatening positions to where he can get out
Speaker 2: and be explosive with that next step. I thought we
Speaker 2: saw a lot of that today and just navigation of
Speaker 2: the pocket like the four year vet that he is.
Speaker 2: He had a big run in the two minute period
Speaker 2: and I don't think I've seen him run that fast
Speaker 2: in a Dolphins uniform. Somebody the highlights of Tua's day.
Speaker 2: He had a beautiful back shoulder ball to Azokama and
Speaker 2: one on ones working on Derek Stingley. Stingley did bounce
Speaker 2: back on the very next rap and ran what was
Speaker 2: teach tape trail technique to undercut a throw from Mike
Speaker 2: White for a pick, which is so rare in one
Speaker 2: on ones. He is a very good looking player. Two
Speaker 2: also found Tyreek a whole bunch, including a really impressive
Speaker 2: far hash throw to the perimeter on a comeback route.
Speaker 2: It reminded me of the Houston game last year when
Speaker 2: he let the ball go before Tyreek even began to
Speaker 2: throttle down on the route and come back to the football,
Speaker 2: and by the time he got to the top of
Speaker 2: the route, the ball was right there. Also had a
Speaker 2: red zone touchdown throw to Durham Smyth and Braxon Barrios
Speaker 2: and a really nice crossing route to Robbie chosen at
Speaker 2: one point during the team period. So will we see
Speaker 2: two a tongue Bai looa in a preseason game this year?
Speaker 2: Sounds likely. Here's coach McDaniel.
Speaker 4: I would expect to see him in the preseason. However,
Speaker 4: you know me, I'm a wild card, but I do.
Speaker 4: I do think game reps are valuable depending on where
Speaker 4: we're at in your in your journey for preseason setting
Speaker 4: up the regular season.
Speaker 5: So I would expect him to play how much and win.
Speaker 4: We'll be determined after today for the preseason. Get this
Speaker 4: next preseason game, and we'll probably be around the same
Speaker 4: time before Jacksonville as well.
Speaker 2: So I've mentioned Tyreek a few times now. He sort
Speaker 2: of hit another gear these last couple of weeks. I
Speaker 2: feel like he's been uncomfortable and really since Waddle has
Speaker 2: been now Reek just stepped his game up another level,
Speaker 2: and I feel like that's something we should not take
Speaker 2: for granted with Tyreek Hill that you know, let's let's
Speaker 2: play this sound here first, before that sound by talking
Speaker 2: about that that I wanted to run, but here he
Speaker 2: is real quick on how it feels or how he
Speaker 2: feels and where the offense is according to him spoiler
Speaker 2: more of the same with the progression and clicking at
Speaker 2: this juncture of training camp.
Speaker 7: I don't know I should ask you that how have
Speaker 7: I been licking? I mean, I feel like I feel like,
Speaker 7: you know, I've been doing a great job. But you know,
Speaker 7: for me to be able to succeed, obviously, you know,
Speaker 7: it depends on other guys, you know, whether it's the
Speaker 7: offensive line, whether it's you know, tour, you know, getting
Speaker 7: me to rock. You know, so everything's right now is
Speaker 7: a process. So right now we're just building up to that,
Speaker 7: you know, And I feel like the last two practices
Speaker 7: that you've had, you know, have been good. You know,
Speaker 7: obviously you're gonna have ups and downs in football, but
Speaker 7: it's part of the game, you feel, me, you know,
Speaker 7: you go to the Fimily room you learn from it,
Speaker 7: and you get better from it, and you don't let
Speaker 7: the same thing happen again, you know, the next day.
Speaker 7: So it's one thing I learned throughout my career.
Speaker 2: And then I wanted to play this going back to
Speaker 2: the previous point, because I think a player like Tyreek
Speaker 2: rises all ships, or however the hell that's saying goes
Speaker 2: a rising tide lifts all ships. I think, I don't know,
Speaker 2: Tyreek is going to talk about the one on one
Speaker 2: period and the Texans, and I thought they really got
Speaker 2: the better of the Dolphins receivers in that period, which
Speaker 2: is pretty rare. Usually the receivers beat the dbs, and
Speaker 2: the d line beats the old line and one on ones,
Speaker 2: but the Dolphins not allow that to carry over the
Speaker 2: team portion of practice. And I'm inclined to think it
Speaker 2: had a lot to do.
Speaker 7: With this, you know what, Man, I wasn't even supposed
Speaker 7: to practice today, Man, but man, I just had to
Speaker 7: find a way, you know, to get the guys going.
Speaker 7: You feel me like one on ones were kind of
Speaker 7: slow for us. We begin to pick it up, but no,
Speaker 7: I just love competition so much, man, and I feel
Speaker 7: like I just can't get away from it. Like the
Speaker 7: trainer he kid told me. He was like, we're gonna
Speaker 7: ramp you down a little bit. You can just chill today,
Speaker 7: you can relax. I'm like, man, like, I only get
Speaker 7: one chance to like play this game that I love though,
Speaker 7: because I know it's gonna go by fast. I can
Speaker 7: remember yesterday when I first got drafted, came into the league,
Speaker 7: and here I am in year eight, man, doing what
Speaker 7: I love.
Speaker 3: You feel me.
Speaker 7: So there's not many jobs where you get to work
Speaker 7: outside and have fun and run fast and run by
Speaker 7: people and score and you get a crowd reaction.
Speaker 3: So I'm just enjoying every moment of it. Man.
Speaker 7: And then I got my kids out here with me,
Speaker 7: so that's even better for me.
Speaker 3: So I'm enjoying it.
Speaker 2: So that is the two Tyreek portion of the podcast.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and come back on the other side
Speaker 2: and get to more notes and hear from more guys.
Speaker 2: Next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield brought to
Speaker 2: you by AutoNation segment number two from practice number two
Speaker 2: in Houston in a cool moment down in the red
Speaker 2: zone period to kick off practice. It was a seven
Speaker 2: on seven red zone period where Julian Hill, the rookie
Speaker 2: from Campbell a touchdown at the end line. The back
Speaker 2: five ball that the high ball that two through the
Speaker 2: ghasiki in the Baltimore game last year, akin to that,
Speaker 2: but not quite as impressive as that one was obviously
Speaker 2: third and fifteen to the goal post with two of
Speaker 2: a gasiki, but either way, Julian Hill goes up and
Speaker 2: pulls down this nice rip from Mike White, who had
Speaker 2: just found Elijah Higgins at the goal line on the
Speaker 2: previous play for a touchdown. But Hill plucks this thing
Speaker 2: comes down, it bumps into McDaniel who's hanging out in
Speaker 2: his post at the actual post where he watches a
Speaker 2: lot of the practice from that post position, not just
Speaker 2: the goalpost, but the posts where they run routes tour
Speaker 2: or to the single high safety plays. That's why I'm
Speaker 2: trying to get at. But he's hanging out back there,
Speaker 2: and the Julian Hill comes by, knocks his sunglasses off
Speaker 2: and is very apologetic about it and immediately goes and
Speaker 2: gets the sunglasses off the ground and gives it back
Speaker 2: to his head coach, and coach is just gassing him up.
Speaker 2: Nice f and play. He says, I love stuff like that.
Speaker 2: I thought Devon a Chan was really good today, like
Speaker 2: really really good run game, catching passes. He had two
Speaker 2: big runs outside, also had a very good run working
Speaker 2: his way through traffic in the interior and plucking his
Speaker 2: way ahead for some first down yards and touchdown yardage.
Speaker 2: I thought Raheem Mosder was really good and has had
Speaker 2: an exceptional training camp so far. He's been hitting some
Speaker 2: good between the tackles runs and catching just a million passes.
Speaker 2: The guy so involved in the passing game so far.
Speaker 2: He had one drop on the play that I thought
Speaker 2: was set up to get out of the gate in
Speaker 2: the in a quick passing game. But he had a
Speaker 2: tough run in red zone where he slammed his way
Speaker 2: across the goal line with some good lanes to open
Speaker 2: up and spring him for six. I think the running
Speaker 2: game is just coming along nicely at this juncture. It
Speaker 2: continues to get better. I thought Connor Williams was freaking
Speaker 2: awesome today. I alluded to the snatch trap wrap he
Speaker 2: had earlier. He was whipping butt in all phases of
Speaker 2: the game. Every day we get a big gash or
Speaker 2: a touchdown run untouched into the red zone because of
Speaker 2: that combo of Rob Hunt and Connor Williams. I asked
Speaker 2: Rob Hunt today how he would measure the Running Game
Speaker 2: and the growth from day one a camp until now
Speaker 2: run game.
Speaker 6: I don't know, Man, you see it and it hit,
Speaker 6: and then sometimes you're saying it don't hit. I don't know.
Speaker 6: It's hard to tell. But like I said, watching film,
Speaker 6: it looks it looks pretty good. You know, it looks
Speaker 6: good when you watch film and you actually see what's
Speaker 6: actually going on, when you actually get like me, when
Speaker 6: I'm playing, I'm focused on me and what I can
Speaker 6: do and like what I like affecting that run. But
Speaker 6: as as I watched it as a whole in film,
Speaker 6: it looks it looks good. I think a lot of
Speaker 6: guys are playing hard. I think we're running off the football.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 6: I think it's a lot of good stuff happening, you know,
Speaker 6: And you can see that even with you know, guys
Speaker 6: that aren't typically like day one starters right now at
Speaker 6: this point, but like last week in preseason game, you
Speaker 6: still can see that. You know, you see guys running
Speaker 6: off the ball, and it's just a testament to us,
Speaker 6: you know. I was talking to a couple of those
Speaker 6: guys yesterday and he was like, damn, like y'all still
Speaker 6: far off.
Speaker 3: The ball, Like I thought y'all be running the ball today,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 6: So it's it's talked about in the scene, so I
Speaker 6: think it's I think it's I think it's going well.
Speaker 2: I just think it's clicking for a few guys that
Speaker 2: you know, we've been kind of threading this theme in
Speaker 2: the show. I think Austin Jackson's getting better every day.
Speaker 2: I think the two that I mentioned looked really good,
Speaker 2: and Connor and Rob Hunt. I think Rob Jones is
Speaker 2: having a hell of a week plus here now really
Speaker 2: since that that game or he had a really good
Speaker 2: grade both and run block and past block. I think
Speaker 2: Isaiah Win has had a lot of damn good football
Speaker 2: he's showing so far and has plenty of good football
Speaker 2: left in him. I saw Keon Smith wipe out an
Speaker 2: edge in the running game today. Thought Kendall Lamb got
Speaker 2: a bunch of good work, especially filling in for Toront
Speaker 2: Armstead when he went down and really kind of held
Speaker 2: the fourth or off that left side. All of that
Speaker 2: is a crescendo to this point by coach today. He
Speaker 2: was asked before practice about the idea of playing to
Speaker 2: in a preseason game, and if he felt it was
Speaker 2: necessary to have Tron out there with the thought that
Speaker 2: you want your best guy to protect your most precious asset.
Speaker 2: And I get the question, I do, but I'm glad
Speaker 2: the coach said this because I really didn't like the
Speaker 2: implication of the question that, like, you know, if Toronto
Speaker 2: isn't play, you can't keep too upright, it's nonsense.
Speaker 4: If if I didn't feel like there was if I
Speaker 4: felt like there wasn't capable of NFL players behind Tron,
Speaker 4: then that may factor that. You know, everything, everything factors
Speaker 4: into it. However, I do think uh, our given situation,
Speaker 4: you know the I mean the I don't even know
Speaker 4: who the third fourth tackle are right now, and that's
Speaker 4: a good thing because the the.
Speaker 5: Score is not settled.
Speaker 4: However, I do know that play will be uh, you know,
Speaker 4: up to the standard that I've been used to over
Speaker 4: my my NFL career of what what you have to have.
Speaker 5: As an NFL caliber player at that position.
Speaker 2: Let's go back to a guy who's been in it,
Speaker 2: Rob Hunt, on the progression, and again this has been
Speaker 2: pretty much unanimous to every guy we've spoken to so far.
Speaker 3: Here's Rob hunt, they've been pretty important.
Speaker 6: Uh. You know, I think as an offense, we we
Speaker 6: we have a high standard and we want we want
Speaker 6: to roll and we've seen what it looked like when
Speaker 6: it's good, and when it's not looking that way, it
Speaker 6: feels like it's not you know, it's not going good.
Speaker 6: But you watch film and no film tell a different stories.
Speaker 6: So I know it's work still need to be done.
Speaker 6: But the good things if we don't play until I
Speaker 6: don't know how many weeks, maybe three, So uh, we
Speaker 6: still got some work to do, but it's we're we're
Speaker 6: not far.
Speaker 1: But we got some work to do.
Speaker 2: Finish up this segment here with Tyreek Hill who touched
Speaker 2: on toron arms as injury. And how important is this
Speaker 2: football team?
Speaker 3: Man? We all know, man off, I just said it.
Speaker 7: You know, I need those other guys, you know, for
Speaker 7: me to be able to make plays. And I feel
Speaker 7: like offensive line and defensive line are the most important
Speaker 7: people on the field.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: Obviously receiver us we get the success, we.
Speaker 7: Get the glory, we get the Instagram followers and all that,
Speaker 7: but to run is a huge part of our team,
Speaker 7: you know, and I feel like he's more important than
Speaker 7: than I am because the left side, like we need
Speaker 7: somebody to really like hold that side now, and just
Speaker 7: to see him go down, I'm sure he'll shake back. Man,
Speaker 7: He'll be straight, because I as soon as it happened,
Speaker 7: I went up to him, said you're straight.
Speaker 3: He said, yeah, I'm s great man, I'm just old.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and take our last break right there
Speaker 2: and come back on the other side and finish up
Speaker 2: with the defensive side of the Dolphins practice here at
Speaker 2: Number two in Houston. That's next Draft Time podcast, your
Speaker 2: host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. So
Speaker 2: Jalen Phillips had to take away on the first play
Speaker 2: of the Texans two minute period, and I thought it
Speaker 2: was pretty funny. You know the scene in water Boy
Speaker 2: when Bobby Bouche picks off the pass and then throws
Speaker 2: it back to the offensive lineman who talked about his mama. Well,
Speaker 2: the ball hit JP in the exact same way, deflect
Speaker 2: it off of c. J. Stroud at the snap and
Speaker 2: then wound up right in JP's breadbasket, just kind of
Speaker 2: stuck to his midsection and he hung on. So if
Speaker 2: fumble recovery, that kind of looked like an interception I guess,
Speaker 2: but Phillips had maybe the best two days of anybody
Speaker 2: out here, including what was technically a game clinching sack
Speaker 2: on their two minute drill on fourth down, where he
Speaker 2: ran the arc with a long arm and never let
Speaker 2: the tackle get into his clutches, and when it was
Speaker 2: time to angle and get to the quarterback, he collapsed
Speaker 2: that arm and chopped the outside hand of the tackle,
Speaker 2: angled right upfield for a tag off on the quarterback.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and hear from coach McDaniel who talked
Speaker 2: about JP and what would be the most nerve wracking
Speaker 2: part about game playing against a guy like that if
Speaker 2: you ever had too.
Speaker 4: No, he's he is. It's a okay, So that's a
Speaker 4: cool player to kind of highlight, just because Jalen is
Speaker 4: a talented guy that has worked and worked and worked,
Speaker 4: and he's starting to see the fruits of his work
Speaker 4: really beat fruition. I think he's he's always been an
Speaker 4: impactful player and he has a special between whistled whistled
Speaker 4: motor that with his athleticism, he's been able to make
Speaker 4: some plays on on NFL game days and really be
Speaker 4: a big part of this team. I think he has
Speaker 4: taken a step this year in being what he wants
Speaker 4: to be. Thus far, it is not a complete journey,
Speaker 4: but at this point, I think he feels a lot
Speaker 4: more control, in control of his own game and able
Speaker 4: to make plays in multitude of ways with still having
Speaker 4: that motor and that relentless approach to give offenses fits
Speaker 4: in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: And how did JP feel about that answer? Let's go
Speaker 2: to number fifteen.
Speaker 1: You know, I just think that my confidence as a
Speaker 1: pass rusher has increased a lot. You know, obviously every dawn,
Speaker 1: but especially as a pass rusher. You know, this week
Speaker 1: I was going against George Fan, and I faced George
Speaker 1: Fan my rookie year when he played for the Jets.
Speaker 1: I had no answers for him at all. That boy
Speaker 1: was doing me in all week or not all week
Speaker 1: with the game, and this week I felt a lot
Speaker 1: more competitive against him. So little things like that. Man,
Speaker 1: it's just, you know, I'm big on the process and
Speaker 1: not being result oriented. And you know, I've been put
Speaker 1: into work for the last three years and for it
Speaker 1: to you know, show show a little bit as it
Speaker 1: means a lot to me. So yeah, I'll just even
Speaker 1: try to get better every day and do my thing.
Speaker 2: He's just been a ton of fun to watch this
Speaker 2: entire camp. I had Zach Steeler with some good play today,
Speaker 2: wrecking shop inside, constant pocket collapsing, gets those paws up
Speaker 2: and found another pass at the line of scrimmage. I
Speaker 2: continue to think Deshan Hand has been really good since
Speaker 2: he got here, and so was Raykwon Davis. Really, the
Speaker 2: entire interior defensive line just kept pushing the pocket, making
Speaker 2: life tough on Stroud and making him uncomfortable. When I
Speaker 2: was watching, I had Ogbob with a QB hit, maybe
Speaker 2: a sack. Malik Reid got in there as well. Chubb
Speaker 2: had some really good reps where he tested that pristine
Speaker 2: footwork of Larry mctunzel. You know, Tunzel readirects better than
Speaker 2: anybody I've ever seen in my life, and Chubb kept
Speaker 2: getting across his face to force him to retreat inside
Speaker 2: and sometimes get that help in the left guard. David
Speaker 2: Long at the second level was blowing up some plays
Speaker 2: in the running game. He strung out a handful of
Speaker 2: runs out wide the Devin Singletary in the same fashion
Speaker 2: we've seen him do in Miami and our practices down there.
Speaker 2: And finally in the secondary. I think I've made it
Speaker 2: quite clear. I'm a big Elijah Campbell fan. I thought
Speaker 2: he had a terrific week down here in Houston and
Speaker 2: specifically shout it out by coach McDaniel one point in
Speaker 2: his press conference today.
Speaker 4: You know a lot of guys have seeing how you know,
Speaker 4: there's been a significant amount of uh new roster additions
Speaker 4: getting a ton of playing time. I do, I do think, uh,
Speaker 4: the the versatility.
Speaker 5: Of of cater has really shown out. There's there's been
Speaker 5: some uh different.
Speaker 4: I don't know, personnel sets where guys have been able
Speaker 4: to be a little more versatile like Elijah. Uh. Overall,
Speaker 4: it's cool because every single day, you know, as you
Speaker 4: as you guys have heard me talk at length, I
Speaker 4: enjoy the process of getting better and we have the
Speaker 4: right guys here and there. There's a lot of new
Speaker 4: guys to the system, and every single day someone will
Speaker 4: come up with me making another play, just like Eli
Speaker 4: Apple did his first day that he was here. So
Speaker 4: that development is ongoing. But overall, the secondary is doing
Speaker 4: a good job getting better every day.
Speaker 2: He's just been so sound, playing fast, getting hands on footballs.
Speaker 2: I think his special teams prowess the last couple of
Speaker 2: years is translating in a way that he approaches the
Speaker 2: game from depth and kind of sees things and surveys
Speaker 2: it and then goes. I think he's a guy that
Speaker 2: you can blitz, play in the post, play half field,
Speaker 2: come down and cover fit the run. Very versatile player,
Speaker 2: and I think that he might be a potential starter.
Speaker 2: And you have that big nickel package with three safeties.
Speaker 2: You know, let's have javaon do what Jalen Ramsey does
Speaker 2: or what's going to do, and then use to Sean
Speaker 2: Elliott and Campbell at the true safety positions and let
Speaker 2: Holland go play make and account for the potential injuries.
Speaker 2: You know, Cam Smith at cornerback, to give yourself more
Speaker 2: depth in the defensive backfield, not necessarily at the cornerback position,
Speaker 2: but just DB's in general. And Elijah Campbell's a guy
Speaker 2: that can open up so many other players to do
Speaker 2: what they do best. We asked Jalen Phillips again about
Speaker 2: the work of the coverage. This can't because I've been
Speaker 2: talking about it, So I wanted to get someone who
Speaker 2: deals with every day and get their take on it.
Speaker 2: And they just keep finding ways to prevent deep shots
Speaker 2: both days. I'm not sure if Houston completed more than
Speaker 2: two balls over ten air yards in the entire team periods.
Speaker 2: Let's go back to Phillips talk about the defensive coverage
Speaker 2: so far here in Miami.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they've been doing an incredible job. I mean, they
Speaker 1: put so much work in, extra work, extra walkthroughs, extra meetings,
Speaker 1: things like that, just because you know, our defense obviously
Speaker 1: involves a lot of communication, and so for them to
Speaker 1: be able to master that is going to be huge
Speaker 1: for our defense and huge for us in the front
Speaker 1: seven as well. I mean, just split seconds difference it
Speaker 1: makes all the world. So for them to be able
Speaker 1: to communicate effectively and you know, play the defense how
Speaker 1: it's supposed to be played, it's going to be you know,
Speaker 1: a huge advantage for us.
Speaker 2: And then finally, I thought Javon Holland was absolutely exceptional today.
Speaker 2: Got the big interception off of Stroud and had a
Speaker 2: pass breakup on that Phillips sack that was extended after
Speaker 2: the fact, and I just continue to think the way
Speaker 2: that he's playing has everything to do with how the
Speaker 2: deep passing game of both the Dolphins and the Falcons
Speaker 2: and now the Texans has been limited in practices, so
Speaker 2: Javon Holland looks the part. He might be another breakout candidate.
Speaker 2: He and JP I think are gonna have a massive,
Speaker 2: massive years this year. All right, that's it. Tomorrow Steve Goldstein,
Speaker 2: the voice of the Miami Dolphins preseason broadcast, joins us
Speaker 2: to break down Dolphins and Texans. We'll have a Sunday
Speaker 2: morning recap pod for you all after the game, and
Speaker 2: then back to Miami Gardens next week to do some
Speaker 2: more training camp work in the meantime. That's gonna be
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