Speaker 1: To US buyers touch style by waddle stuck into the
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Speaker 1: is up? Dolphans And welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, part
Speaker 1: of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. How's it going, everybody, It's a Monday. I
Speaker 1: am your host, Travis Winkfield, And on today's show, we
Speaker 1: are catching up on what we missed from the final
Speaker 1: week of O t a S. Heading right into that
Speaker 1: summer break. We're gonna hear from Big Rob Hunt, Brendan Scarlett,
Speaker 1: Ray Kwon Davis, and Emmanuel og Ball, plus my ten
Speaker 1: takeaways from the off season program. You won't want to
Speaker 1: miss that from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcast Miami Thophs.
Speaker 1: So we have some roster news to get to before
Speaker 1: we get into the actual podcast itself. As day, Shawn
Speaker 1: Hall and Javarus Davis were released from the Dolphins and
Speaker 1: incomes Porter Gustin, a linebacker out of the University of
Speaker 1: Southern California who played in the pros with the Cleveland
Speaker 1: Browns largely on special teams, and my memory of Porter
Speaker 1: Gustin was as a very good college prospect, a really
Speaker 1: good outside rushier who had an explosive first step and
Speaker 1: get off. And in fact, he had a big play
Speaker 1: in a game against the Cougs a few years back,
Speaker 1: the ten and two season, the Gardner Minshee season, where
Speaker 1: he had a big hit on Minshew. Maybe he could
Speaker 1: have been flagged, but it wasn't and it ended up
Speaker 1: basically winning the game for USC. And if the Cougars
Speaker 1: win that game, they would have gone to the packed
Speaker 1: World Championship game and then probably got blown out in
Speaker 1: that one. But he is in day, Shawn holl Javarros
Speaker 1: Davis are out off the roster, and the off season
Speaker 1: program is officially a rap. I am personally headed back
Speaker 1: to the Pacific Northwest for the summer break, gonna catch
Speaker 1: some Mariners games, spent some time on the Oregon coast,
Speaker 1: and revel in the final six episodes of Better Call
Speaker 1: Saul Man. I cannot wait to see what happens there.
Speaker 1: I've been rewatching the entire series, and I'm not all
Speaker 1: that interested in comparing it versus Breaking Bad in terms
Speaker 1: of which one is better, but I am confident in
Speaker 1: saying this that together, it's the best fictional universe we've
Speaker 1: ever been treated to on TV as an audience. So
Speaker 1: I want to hear your theories and predictions for the
Speaker 1: better Call Soul fans out there on the final six episodes,
Speaker 1: what do you think is gonna happen? Get at me
Speaker 1: at Wingfield, NFL on Twitter and tell me what you
Speaker 1: think happens to Kim to how Jeane responds at the Cinnabon.
Speaker 1: Where does Lalo's arc take him? I want to hear
Speaker 1: it all. I have my own thoughts, will save that
Speaker 1: for another day. All of this is an interlude into
Speaker 1: my first topic today, the ten takeaways from the off
Speaker 1: season program as we head to the summer break, with
Speaker 1: you know June and July being the two months on
Speaker 1: the NFL calendar where not a lot happens. On one hand,
Speaker 1: the slower part of the schedule is always well comed
Speaker 1: after ten and a half months of really staying busy,
Speaker 1: but also the end of it means the best time
Speaker 1: of the year in the start of the football season.
Speaker 1: And today though, I want to talk about ten things
Speaker 1: that I thought stood out at Dolphins practice slash moves
Speaker 1: in the off season, and what to look forward to
Speaker 1: for training camp. So, without further ado, and in no
Speaker 1: particular order, let's go ahead and start with takeaway number one,
Speaker 1: and it's the last line of defense, and I'm talking
Speaker 1: about the safety position here. At Tuesday's practice last week,
Speaker 1: I had the chance to sit next to Joe Rose
Speaker 1: and John con Jemmy and just talked, you know, all
Speaker 1: things Dolphins from three different perspectives there, and I was
Speaker 1: talking about how impressed I had been all camped long
Speaker 1: with the work of both Javon Holland and Brandon Jones.
Speaker 1: And one thing I really like is how they start
Speaker 1: the team period. They do this little handshake before going
Speaker 1: to their position on the field for the first snap
Speaker 1: wherever that might be. And I'm not sure why, but
Speaker 1: maybe it's a subconscious sign of confidence that I sensed
Speaker 1: from the two of those guys, and that's what I'll
Speaker 1: go with simply because it plays out on the field
Speaker 1: that way. Later, Eric Row made a play and the
Speaker 1: three of us, John, Joe and myself began talking about him,
Speaker 1: and Joe was talking about how much he likes Eric
Speaker 1: rose game and thinks he's undervalued by the casual fan
Speaker 1: and I've been the president myself of the Eric Role
Speaker 1: fan club really since he's made that switch to safety
Speaker 1: back in twenty nineteen and just had lockdown numbers against
Speaker 1: every damn tight end he faced in coverage that year,
Speaker 1: and I think his run defense has only improved as well.
Speaker 1: And that's all to say that I look at the
Speaker 1: position group. I like that top part of it. I
Speaker 1: like the depth part of it with Clayton Federlum and
Speaker 1: Sheldrick RedWine is kind of contributors on the special teams unit,
Speaker 1: and other guys in that room have done the same thing.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure which I would vote for for strongest
Speaker 1: position group on paper on this football team, but I
Speaker 1: think the safeties have their hat in that ring and
Speaker 1: would get some votes for that. But back to the
Speaker 1: topic at hand, mostly the two young guys Javan and
Speaker 1: Brandon and the way they worked together, and we heard
Speaker 1: them talk about their relationship with their mediavailabilities, how they've
Speaker 1: really clicked from the jump last season despite not knowing
Speaker 1: each other, kind of becoming a close knit friendship in
Speaker 1: the back end of the Dolphins defensive backfield, and we
Speaker 1: even heard Eric Road talk about that and his press
Speaker 1: availability a few weeks back about how they just seem
Speaker 1: a step faster from even where they were a year ago.
Speaker 1: And that's why I started here, because you for sure
Speaker 1: recall on the podcast unless you're new to the podcast,
Speaker 1: and if you are, welcome in. We talked Dolphins football
Speaker 1: in here a lot, and uh, my biggest thing with
Speaker 1: both of these guys was just the way they move
Speaker 1: around and fly to the football and can cover ground,
Speaker 1: not just with their athletic traits, but they're processing and
Speaker 1: such an important part of the game, and we know
Speaker 1: what they do in that regard. We heard Jones his
Speaker 1: predraft work. We talked about that on the podcast as well.
Speaker 1: When he was unable to participate at the Combine and
Speaker 1: Indy because of a shoulder injury, he goes out and
Speaker 1: gets the playbook of every defensive team and watches four
Speaker 1: games of all of them and brushes up on the
Speaker 1: mental side. We heard about Javon Holland's mental aptitude, the
Speaker 1: ability to lead in the pre draft process and then
Speaker 1: when he gets here, and of course he touched on
Speaker 1: growing as a leader in his press availability on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: which we covered on the Friday podcast. I believe is
Speaker 1: when it came out. Remember that clip from him in
Speaker 1: Oregon coming off of his route, willing to the backside crosser,
Speaker 1: jumping the route and making that play. We've talked about
Speaker 1: it on this pot a lot. That's like an everyday
Speaker 1: thing at practice where he makes place. They both time
Speaker 1: up their approaches to the line of scrimmage. They both
Speaker 1: can play single higher split safety. They just this defense
Speaker 1: does such a great job of disguising their looks and
Speaker 1: not letting the quarterback know what the coverage, what the front,
Speaker 1: what the rush, who's coming, who's dropping, what that's gonna be.
Speaker 1: And Jones and Holland on the back end. That makes
Speaker 1: that approach a whole heck of a lot easier because
Speaker 1: the safeties are often where the quarterbacks I start And
Speaker 1: with these two guys doing so many different things, how
Speaker 1: can you get a beat on that? And you can
Speaker 1: go back to the tape last year when you see
Speaker 1: Javon making place thirty yards off the ball in the
Speaker 1: ten yard box behind the line of scrimmage. That kind
Speaker 1: of versatility is rare in its own right, but the
Speaker 1: ability to do it all and play fast with all
Speaker 1: of it is just something else. And I talked about this,
Speaker 1: you know, the pract the three play sequence I saw
Speaker 1: at practice where Javon's in the post plane covering thirty
Speaker 1: yards forty yards down the field defending a pass to
Speaker 1: the field side of the formation from the boundary, so
Speaker 1: the wider side of the field. Then it comes down
Speaker 1: and rushes the quarterback and gets off the edge and
Speaker 1: makes an impact play and it causes an errand throw
Speaker 1: from the quarterback and then matches up man to man
Speaker 1: on Mike Gasicki and wins that route and gets a
Speaker 1: pass breakup on it. It's just it's rare to watch
Speaker 1: him work and just produce every single day. But back
Speaker 1: to the idea of the defense and a quote here
Speaker 1: from Josh Boyer from last November when he was asked
Speaker 1: about how those two guys and talking about the creativity
Speaker 1: and versatility helps him to get creative on the drawing board.
Speaker 1: Here's what the Dolphins defensive coordinator had to say. Quote.
Speaker 1: I think both those guys are athletic. They're both physical,
Speaker 1: and they got a good instinct for the game. I
Speaker 1: think they work extremely hard at it. I think the
Speaker 1: more experience they gain, the better they are getting. I
Speaker 1: don't think anything substitutes experience, and I think those guys
Speaker 1: doing a good job for us, and we'll ask him
Speaker 1: to do more, will ask them to continue to get better.
Speaker 1: End quote. Well here we are. You know that was November.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, Travis has to do math again. It was
Speaker 1: seven eight months later. I mean, that's a long they've
Speaker 1: They've grown and learned a lot more in that time.
Speaker 1: Number two, the Tyreek Hill thrill. One more I gotta
Speaker 1: say than that, honestly. Like I shared the Kurt Warner
Speaker 1: breakdown video on Twitter last weekend where he looks at
Speaker 1: the impact of Tyreek speed and how his ability to
Speaker 1: threaten deep in the deep portion of the field can
Speaker 1: both a remove the safety from the equation and be
Speaker 1: We talked about Holland and Jones and their versatility helping
Speaker 1: the quarterback not make quick decisions and quick reads. The
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hills presence can help the quarterback dictate coverage early
Speaker 1: because when that safety has to flip those hips early
Speaker 1: and commit himself to either the deep half, the deep third,
Speaker 1: the deep quarter, that gives you indicators on how that
Speaker 1: coverage is gonna unfold and how a lot of what
Speaker 1: Tyreek did on the Kurt Warner breakdown how a lot
Speaker 1: of what he did was with win, was winning with speed,
Speaker 1: was attacking leverage and running to space, which we know
Speaker 1: that this offense wants to cover everybody Plato graphs, and
Speaker 1: that's what speed can do for you. The corner has
Speaker 1: outside leverage where he's funneling inside. How Tyreek speed can
Speaker 1: force that defensive back's hand and once they get one
Speaker 1: false step or get their eyes in the wrong spot
Speaker 1: for a split second, he can wheel off that route,
Speaker 1: change direction, and hit the accelerator before the defensive back
Speaker 1: has time to react. It helps to cipher coverage, but
Speaker 1: it also helps create big plays. Then in that video,
Speaker 1: Warner also talked about how polished Tyreek is as a
Speaker 1: route runner and just a football player in general, how
Speaker 1: he uses his routes and speed to create those false steps.
Speaker 1: We talked about, like there's a clip on there where
Speaker 1: he needed to find a soft spot against zone down
Speaker 1: in the red zone with a linebacker at the hash
Speaker 1: and a cornerback chilling at the numbers or close to
Speaker 1: the red line, and rather than using and rather than
Speaker 1: rushing to that spot and just getting there and showing
Speaker 1: the quarterback your numbers and making it a smaller window.
Speaker 1: He's patient pushes up for an extra step and that
Speaker 1: forces a linebacker to take one retreat step backwards, a
Speaker 1: fall step, and then his trigger is slower and it
Speaker 1: creates a much bigger window because there's more time for
Speaker 1: the quarterback to fit that And that kind of matches
Speaker 1: up with the stat we shared with on shared with
Speaker 1: you on the Geez Last Monday podcast his three point
Speaker 1: four average yards per separation that has him tops in
Speaker 1: the NFL since he came into the NFL. And I
Speaker 1: think we've seen some of those impacts so far in
Speaker 1: O T as creating space for other guys. Cedric Wilson
Speaker 1: told us as much. Mike Ghasiki has made his Hey
Speaker 1: Jilen Waddle making all kinds of place trent sherfield. I mean,
Speaker 1: the impact is tangible. And then there's the example that
Speaker 1: he sets, like wrapping everything, going full speed, running those
Speaker 1: takeoffs down the field again and again and again, and
Speaker 1: just showing you the conditioning that he offers how you're
Speaker 1: supposed to practice. I mean, what a great example for
Speaker 1: you know, Jalen Waddle to have in that receiver's room
Speaker 1: to watch the way Tyreek Hill does it. And oh yeah,
Speaker 1: how about a handful of long touchdowns we've already seen
Speaker 1: so far in practice, That too, was pretty cool. Takeaway
Speaker 1: number three. Then we'll go ahead and get to our
Speaker 1: first break here firing off the ball slash athletic ability
Speaker 1: up front this young group of offensive linemen. And they
Speaker 1: added Connor Williams, who grades out well in this regard,
Speaker 1: and Tehran Armstead, who ran the fastest forty ever at
Speaker 1: the combine for an offensive tackle offensive lineman in general,
Speaker 1: they're athletics scorecards. Their their measurements in terms of testing
Speaker 1: and the way they play in the field. That's where
Speaker 1: they shine. And I go back to this quote from McDaniel,
Speaker 1: and he's with the Niners all the time, about how
Speaker 1: he was asked about the idea of finding these gems
Speaker 1: or even undersized guys on the offensive line, and he said, well,
Speaker 1: they were third, fourth, fifth, six, seventh round draft picks.
Speaker 1: We didn't take him in the first round. You know,
Speaker 1: if there was a seven ft tall, four pound guy,
Speaker 1: we take them probably the first round. And I wish
Speaker 1: you could get five of those guys if you could,
Speaker 1: you know, genetically modify your offensive line. That's what you
Speaker 1: go for. But sometimes you've gotta do with what you got.
Speaker 1: And you know, all of these guys the Dolphins have
Speaker 1: drafted highly have those traits. And I mean, really, to
Speaker 1: a man, each of these guys leam Meickenberg, Connor William,
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson. They talked about firing off the football. And
Speaker 1: I saw a tweet by Joe Thomas, the legendary future
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame left tackle of the Cleveland Browns for
Speaker 1: all those years, and he was replying to a tweet
Speaker 1: about Alex max retirement and how important he was to
Speaker 1: the running scheme that Kyle Shanahan ran at every stop
Speaker 1: that he was at. And I think the proof is
Speaker 1: in the pudding there that Mac was the center for
Speaker 1: the Browns the one year that Shanahan was there. Then
Speaker 1: they trade for Mac in Atlanta when he gets there,
Speaker 1: and he finished his career. Mac does by following Shanahan
Speaker 1: off to the Bay Area in San Francisco. But Joe
Speaker 1: Thomas tweeted, you know, quote shocked them with speed and
Speaker 1: quote quote retweeting a duke Manny Weather tweet who posted
Speaker 1: a clip of Joe Thomas from that team Brown's team
Speaker 1: hitting a great wall off block on outside zone. I
Speaker 1: mean that pops off the tape with these guys really
Speaker 1: across the board, and it was a common theme on
Speaker 1: Tuesday Tape Review last year almost every week saying there's
Speaker 1: some running lanes here. These guys are creating some push
Speaker 1: and creating some gaps. We just gotta take advantage of them.
Speaker 1: I think we have a chance to see that get
Speaker 1: even better as each of these guys have the relative
Speaker 1: athletics score cards that are near the top of the class.
Speaker 1: So to requisite with the scheme that benefits players on
Speaker 1: the offensive line that can play that way, Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and take our first break. Will come back and
Speaker 1: get to takeaways four through ten, and we'll also hear
Speaker 1: from Rob Hunt, Emmanuel Ogba, Brandan Scarlett, and who's my
Speaker 1: fourth and final guy on the media availabilities today, Ray
Speaker 1: Kwon Davis. All of that next here on the Drivetime Podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 1: Back here on the Drivetime Podcast, we have given you
Speaker 1: three takeaways from the off season program. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and pick it up back here with number four. And
Speaker 1: for me, it's the veteran impact on this football team
Speaker 1: with the off season acquisitions they have made and you'll
Speaker 1: hear from Emmanuel Ogba here in just one second when
Speaker 1: he talks about the change in this team, going from
Speaker 1: one that's very young to a balanced club in terms
Speaker 1: of young guys in the veteran mix. And that is
Speaker 1: a natural evolution when you have so many picks over
Speaker 1: a couple of years, right like your twenty one year
Speaker 1: old Austin Jackson, your twenty year old Noah Igbonogamy, your
Speaker 1: youngest and third youngest player in the NFL, and they
Speaker 1: got drafted. Well, now they were twenty three and twenty
Speaker 1: two two years later, and across the board with all
Speaker 1: those picks, Brandon Jones, Ray Kwon Davis, Robert Hunt, Javon Holland,
Speaker 1: Jayan Wadle, Jylan Phillips too, a toungo by Loa, you
Speaker 1: get it. But now Hill, Melvin Ingram to Ron Armstead,
Speaker 1: I mentioned how Hill has that impact on the receiver's room.
Speaker 1: To Ron, Armstead's tutelage is the only thing that rivals
Speaker 1: the fact that he's been the best left tackle in
Speaker 1: football over the last decade. And you know, we talked
Speaker 1: about Joe Thomas. He doesn't have as many years, but
Speaker 1: he's in that competition Trent Williams, I think is as
Speaker 1: well very least arms Steads in the discussion for best
Speaker 1: left tackle in the NFL, Melvin Ingram getting out there
Speaker 1: and helping the linebackers with their hands stack and shed,
Speaker 1: Pete get off, and the fundamentals that go with the
Speaker 1: hand placement and punch and strike, and just the presence
Speaker 1: of those guys on the field that can chip in
Speaker 1: with their tricks of the trade. And we'll hear from
Speaker 1: Rob Hunt on that here in just a few And
Speaker 1: to round out the group, the three running backs that
Speaker 1: were added in free agency, you have to imagine have
Speaker 1: a similar impact Thomas more Stead on special teams. And
Speaker 1: then with the retention of a guy like a land
Speaker 1: and Roberts coming back in the middle of that defense
Speaker 1: as a real leader of that group. It's up and
Speaker 1: down the roster, excuse me, with the guys that can
Speaker 1: kind of get everyone in line. In terms of the
Speaker 1: on field coaching from players number five, did good get
Speaker 1: gooder with regards to the defensive line and really in
Speaker 1: particularly the interior defensive line. Remember training camp last year
Speaker 1: my notebook, like I found towards the end of August,
Speaker 1: I ran out of ways to complement the four sum
Speaker 1: of Wilkins, Seeler, Davis and Butler. I tried my best
Speaker 1: to quantify the impact. I felt the d line had
Speaker 1: every damn practice in that particular foursome with the pocket pushing,
Speaker 1: running pick stunts, creating chances, opening lanes, hustling after the football,
Speaker 1: getting their hands up and swatting down passes. It's only
Speaker 1: gotten better in terms of camp to season. Now to
Speaker 1: O t A s like just they just keep getting better.
Speaker 1: I mean, the fifth most sacks as a team last
Speaker 1: year in the NFL, the most rejected passes by a
Speaker 1: defensive line in football. Christian Wilkins looks the part against
Speaker 1: Zach Seeler. I think is one of the most underrated
Speaker 1: players in the entire National Football League. I think it's
Speaker 1: fair to expect to jump from Ray Kwon Davis. Adam
Speaker 1: Butler is one of the most consistent players in terms
Speaker 1: of his numbers, always being counted on the exact same
Speaker 1: over five years from pressures and run stops. Obviously, aug
Speaker 1: ball off the edge and if you want to go
Speaker 1: out to the edge position more and the linebackers who
Speaker 1: are all capable of playing off the edge as well.
Speaker 1: Maybe this is a front seven thing. But I think
Speaker 1: a unit that was really damn good last year just
Speaker 1: got better, both with improvements from the incumbents and the
Speaker 1: new pieces added. Takeaway number six, it's fun to have fun,
Speaker 1: and it starts up top with the headman, who really
Speaker 1: sets the tone for the way the staff, the players,
Speaker 1: and the entire organization operates. We are all enamored with
Speaker 1: coach Mike McDaniel. When he speaks right, he captivates us all,
Speaker 1: whether it's about a skip technique by a pulling guard
Speaker 1: or the intricacies of sushi and trying to keep up
Speaker 1: with Chris Greer's cherry Pepsi consumption. He's just a fun
Speaker 1: interview well. That per sonality rubs off on the team,
Speaker 1: and I love how he mentioned in his Tuesday availability
Speaker 1: how the players are the ones who ultimately established the
Speaker 1: culture my you are what you eat analogy from that
Speaker 1: Friday podcast. But the coach has a hand in that too.
Speaker 1: Coaches fun. The guys are having fun out there. The
Speaker 1: orange jersey and the music, those little ways to relate
Speaker 1: to the modern player. I'm all about that, all about
Speaker 1: the mindset and how it sparks this camaraderie through competition
Speaker 1: where guys work hard but have a good time with
Speaker 1: the players, the coaches and coach McDaniel himself as well
Speaker 1: Number seven making a case it's so tough to keep
Speaker 1: your eye on ninety players at a practice. I try
Speaker 1: my best and I'm happy with what I'm able to
Speaker 1: report on for you guys around the podcast, but I
Speaker 1: know I'm I'm missing at least a little bit, probably
Speaker 1: a lot more than that. So I just want to
Speaker 1: say that because I've no doubt missed someone making some
Speaker 1: plays on my list here. But I always like to
Speaker 1: see who's making waves among the names that you're not
Speaker 1: used to hearing from on everyday social quick Coffee, sip
Speaker 1: ice Coffee's how we do It. Benito Jones made plays
Speaker 1: in the practices. I saw, so to Trent Sherfield, True Williams,
Speaker 1: Duke Riley. I thought Austin Jackson showed a bunch in
Speaker 1: these workouts. Thought Kelln Diash showed some of what made
Speaker 1: him one of the best offensive linemen in the Pack
Speaker 1: twelve over the last four years. And I thought the
Speaker 1: Quandree White ran the ball really well. Savon akhmed To. Actually,
Speaker 1: again I'm forgetting some names, but those are some of
Speaker 1: the names I'm most excited to see heading into camp.
Speaker 1: In terms of guys you're not used to hearing about
Speaker 1: every single day. Number eight weapons at two's disposal mentioned
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill his impact above, and that's allowed us to
Speaker 1: get a look at all these playmakers as the ball
Speaker 1: is distributed about on any given day at practice throwing
Speaker 1: to the open man. Dan Orlovski ranked Miami skilled groups
Speaker 1: number five in the a f C. Personally, you gotta
Speaker 1: pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers. But I digress,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I'll take it over Buffalo too. By watching
Speaker 1: Chase Edmonds doing his thing, we haven't even seen Raheem
Speaker 1: Moster or Sony Michelle in those team periods. Savan Akhmed
Speaker 1: looks smooth and fast to boot Hill, Waddle Wilson, Mike
Speaker 1: GASICKI I mean a six time pro bowler, a rookie
Speaker 1: reception record holder, a guy who pops off the leaderboard
Speaker 1: in terms of the Advanced wide receiver metrics, and Cedric
Speaker 1: Wilson and a tied end to his fifth and receiving
Speaker 1: over the last two years at his positional among his
Speaker 1: positional contemporary and I should say takeaway number nine, it's
Speaker 1: just to uh, it's just to That's the tweet. And
Speaker 1: he encompasses a bit, a little bit of all of this,
Speaker 1: particularly having fun. Bullet point coach encouraging him to be himself,
Speaker 1: him getting the guys to his house for football work
Speaker 1: and a post workout BBQ. The ball placement shows up
Speaker 1: in practices. The ability to navigate muddy waters in the
Speaker 1: pocket does as well. They've hit so many big plays
Speaker 1: with throws that were just over the outstretched arm of
Speaker 1: the underneath the fender. I'm excited to watch him come
Speaker 1: back for camp and now they've had some time to
Speaker 1: brush up on the installs, let it kind of sink
Speaker 1: in and absorb a little bit more and just watch
Speaker 1: how to has the offense humming back out of the break.
Speaker 1: Like coach said, he's happy with where they're at right now,
Speaker 1: but they've got to keep pushing, obviously, And that's our
Speaker 1: last bullet point here. Number ten four casting of self
Speaker 1: scouting and maximizing talent. Back to coach and being in
Speaker 1: tune with his his roster, his team, his building, his staff,
Speaker 1: the employees around the building. Just hearing coach talk about
Speaker 1: his approach to quite frankly everything, his answer about U
Speaker 1: d f a s and how he views them, how
Speaker 1: he measures the success of the off season program, how
Speaker 1: he doesn't get too high when stuff works because this
Speaker 1: league is designed to humble you after you make a
Speaker 1: big play. How he broke down tight window throws and
Speaker 1: red zone work for us, the process of installing an
Speaker 1: offense in the off season. He has told us so
Speaker 1: much good stuff that we just don't get otherwise. And
Speaker 1: that paired with the intro press conference when he talked
Speaker 1: about training with video and streamlining the learning process to
Speaker 1: adapt for modern attention spans. We have to let him
Speaker 1: coach his first game, But that makes you pretty confident
Speaker 1: about the ability to hopefully self scout, get things corrected,
Speaker 1: maybe not be so rigid to stick with something that's
Speaker 1: not working when that happens, because it inevitably will happen
Speaker 1: at some point, and ultimately put his players in the
Speaker 1: best position to make plays. And that last part there
Speaker 1: I want to touch on was his answer about the
Speaker 1: hoodie and being in tune with the heat with his
Speaker 1: players and how they might react to it. My thought was,
Speaker 1: this guy just thinks of everything like those are good
Speaker 1: hands to be in with the head coach. All right,
Speaker 1: go ahead and take our final break here and we'll
Speaker 1: get to the media availabilities we did not cover on
Speaker 1: the Friday podcast. Four of those to get to Rob Hunt,
Speaker 1: Rae Kwon Davis, Manuel Ogba, and Brandan Scarlett. Next here
Speaker 1: on the Drivetime Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to
Speaker 1: you by Auto Nation, finishing up with the last of
Speaker 1: the media availabilities we're gonna have until training camp in July.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and start with Rob Hunt. I talked
Speaker 1: about to Ron Armstead the impact of the veterans on
Speaker 1: this team and the offensive line room. Here's Rob Hunt
Speaker 1: talking about the impact of Tehran and the tips he's
Speaker 1: given the younger guys so far through O t A. S.
Speaker 1: Ron definitely helped a lot of our guys out, especially
Speaker 1: like us young guys. He's he's out the practice on
Speaker 1: I mean, working with some guys. You know, he's in
Speaker 1: the meeting room, tell us what we can do, what
Speaker 1: he's seeing. You know, he's he's been doing this for
Speaker 1: a while, so um he what it what he says.
Speaker 1: You know, we definitely take heed and we listened to
Speaker 1: it because you know he's done it. He's been all pro,
Speaker 1: he's been pro boiled, he's been you know, everything that
Speaker 1: we um you know, want to be in life pretty much,
Speaker 1: so um everything Toron saying, we take it in there.
Speaker 1: We're listening. And a follow up, what's something to Ron's
Speaker 1: told you that's helped you particularly with your game? For me, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know. He just tell me he's telling a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff like you know what I means. That's
Speaker 1: I don't know, there's some some little technique stuff that
Speaker 1: can work on to take to really take my game
Speaker 1: to the next level, you know. And that's just something
Speaker 1: that I'm looking forward to to keep working on this
Speaker 1: summer and also when when camp coming then hopefully in
Speaker 1: the season to roll over, go ahead and finish up
Speaker 1: here with your big eccentric Rob Hunt about two a
Speaker 1: ton of our Lota coming out of his shell. What
Speaker 1: have you noticed from to us so far this off season?
Speaker 1: Big Rob there is I think he's always been like that.
Speaker 1: I think you think this probably maybe you guys the
Speaker 1: first time, like you know what I mean, But no,
Speaker 1: he's a guy with confidence. Man, He's the guy that
Speaker 1: believed and stuff. We believe in him too, So you know,
Speaker 1: I love him man like because as I see it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, I believe it and I
Speaker 1: trust it, so we all do. So I go for two. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm glad he did that. Lets go ahead and stay
Speaker 1: in the trench. Is on the other side of the
Speaker 1: football and big ray Kwan Davis, who was asked, you
Speaker 1: know we are the reporters. Didn't see the practice that
Speaker 1: earned you the orange jersey? Can you tell us about
Speaker 1: what you did in practice to get that? With the
Speaker 1: tackles for loss? Here's Rake one. Oh no, I want
Speaker 1: that special man. This effort, you know, run to the ball,
Speaker 1: you know, just an every guy. You know, that's it.
Speaker 1: I told you this is gonna be brief. The last
Speaker 1: one here with Rake one, He was asked about teaming
Speaker 1: up with Emmanuel Ogba, Jalen Phillips, Christian Wilkins for another
Speaker 1: year together, talking about what the four of them can
Speaker 1: really help accomplish and setting the tone up front. Here's
Speaker 1: Rake one again, far man, just pissing me each other,
Speaker 1: you know, um this copine as a unit, just sticking together,
Speaker 1: everybody on one hand, you know, that's it. We stay
Speaker 1: on the defensive line, going from ray Kuan Davis to
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Ogba Mr. Nine sacks himself each of the last
Speaker 1: two years, one of the best pressure guys in the
Speaker 1: entire NFL, who was asked, Hey, what's the goal of
Speaker 1: these practices? EO, here he is just every day we
Speaker 1: want to get better, you know, give that at the
Speaker 1: little things, you know, will we struggle with you? Just
Speaker 1: gotta work on just little aspects of your game. That's
Speaker 1: what T is for. Just tuned up the skills. And
Speaker 1: I'm glad we have the whole defense together so we
Speaker 1: all know how each other operate, each other work, so
Speaker 1: you know, that's how we developed from there. And speaking
Speaker 1: of developing, Jillen Phillips had plenty of that in his
Speaker 1: rookie season now into year two, one of the best
Speaker 1: damn players out there through the entire O t A process.
Speaker 1: What does a manual odd boss see different in Jilan Phillips.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he definitely got bigger, I'll say that, um.
Speaker 1: But definitely seeing the speeds faster now this year, stronger
Speaker 1: and I'm excited for him. I came to see him
Speaker 1: go compete. So he was also asked about how excited
Speaker 1: he was to see all the moves of Dolphins offense
Speaker 1: made this offseason, He like us, was pumped up, but
Speaker 1: he was also asked about the difference he sees in
Speaker 1: the offense now with these additions. Here's a manual. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's definitely a different It's it's it's a he was different.
Speaker 1: You know. I'm excited to have those guys are part
Speaker 1: of the team now. So there's a manual, oddball, go
Speaker 1: ahead and stay on the defensive side of the football.
Speaker 1: Here with brents Arlott, who was asked about returned to
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins after hitting potentially hitting free agency. Now
Speaker 1: he's back to Miami Dolphins. Here he is talking about
Speaker 1: how excited he has to be back here in South Florida.
Speaker 1: Super excited. I love being here in Miami, Alright, great energy,
Speaker 1: the fan base, obviously, the city is great, and I
Speaker 1: think we have a really talented team. And we had
Speaker 1: a young team last year that now is, you know,
Speaker 1: an older team, and I think we have a lot
Speaker 1: of competitive guys and guys that really want to win,
Speaker 1: and that's who ultimately I want to surround myself with.
Speaker 1: And so I'm blessed and fortunate to be back here
Speaker 1: in Miami. We've talked about this offensive system a lot,
Speaker 1: and how they want to make you defend everybody of grass.
Speaker 1: How does that help the defense when you go up
Speaker 1: against an offense that can stress the edges of the
Speaker 1: defense like that. Here's Bran Scarlett on just that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: definitely the scheme that we're going against is is really
Speaker 1: helping to sharpen our tools, especially as an edge player.
Speaker 1: You know, your hands gotta be right, you gotta roll
Speaker 1: off the toe, you know, physical and also you know,
Speaker 1: we got talented backs too, so to keep you honest,
Speaker 1: you know, keep your eyes and your gap and play
Speaker 1: honest gap sound football. And so yeah, and then finally,
Speaker 1: do you notice that with the offense trying to make
Speaker 1: you defend everybody to grass? Does the defense notice that
Speaker 1: with the offense and does it make you better? Sure?
Speaker 1: For sure? Yeah. I think in the past game in
Speaker 1: and the run game, you know that really the offense
Speaker 1: is built to, uh, you know, to stretch out the defense.
Speaker 1: And you know, as a defense, you know who prides
Speaker 1: ourselves some being able to cover the whole field. You know,
Speaker 1: it's good, it's good work that we're getting. I saw
Speaker 1: you project a pass you get on the pony dance?
Speaker 1: Was that Happy Gilmore that was that was actually strumming
Speaker 1: the guitar and then just asking for some feedback from
Speaker 1: the crowd, so I would go ahead and throw that
Speaker 1: last little one in there for you guys. As Brand
Speaker 1: Scarlett talked about a celebration he did after batting the
Speaker 1: past down, I thought it was the Happy Gilmore bull dance,
Speaker 1: but it was not. It was the air guitar. So
Speaker 1: appreciate Brand for clearing that up for us. All Right,
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for our O t A coverage
Speaker 1: our last episode here covering the practices. I believe we
Speaker 1: have two more episodes this week and they'll go ahead
Speaker 1: and shift to a two weeks or two podcasts per
Speaker 1: week as we preview the roster and training camp this summer,
Speaker 1: and also do a preview of each division in the NFL,
Speaker 1: because it's summertime. It's time to brush up on the
Speaker 1: rest of the league and get ready for the NFL season.
Speaker 1: We're also going to have the guys from the Fish
Speaker 1: Tank on an episode this week as well. The off
Speaker 1: season program maybe a rap, but we still have plenty
Speaker 1: to come your way in the meantime. That's gonna be
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