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Speaker 1: How's it going everybody? It is Saturday. I am your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, and I am here to bring you your
Speaker 1: daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show,
Speaker 1: another day, another Dolphins practice. We're going to run it
Speaker 1: back for the fifth time this week with another day
Speaker 1: of pads popping football. Plus we'll hear from Brian Flora's
Speaker 1: and the three rookie draft picks along the offensive line
Speaker 1: as we get audio from Austin Jackson, Robert Hunt, and
Speaker 1: Solomon Kinley. All of that and more on this Saturday
Speaker 1: Training Camp August edition of the Drive Time Podcast Dolphins.
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Speaker 1: the training camp editions of the Drivetime Podcast, We're gonna
Speaker 1: start off first with hearing from Coach Flores, who had
Speaker 1: some really in depth answers on Saturday morning's media availability.
Speaker 1: A lot of questions about the offensive lineman upfront because
Speaker 1: we are later going to talk to Austin Jackson, Robert Hunt,
Speaker 1: and Solomon Kinley. The first question for Flora's was about
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson, but of course that always gives coach a
Speaker 1: chance to expand upon his rookies and his entire roster
Speaker 1: in general. Austin you along with you know, the other rookies.
Speaker 1: He's he's obviously learning, he's improving on a daily basis.
Speaker 1: This is a a talented kid, tough, he's smart, um
Speaker 1: and he is you know, like all the young players,
Speaker 1: all the rookies, all the all the rookie players. He's
Speaker 1: he's improving every day. He's getting better. He works at it.
Speaker 1: He's doing extra in the meeting, doing extra on the
Speaker 1: field and practice. It's important to him. Um, he's making mistakes,
Speaker 1: like everyone on the team is. I mean, none of
Speaker 1: us are perfect, you know, to myself included. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know he's learning from him and I think he's
Speaker 1: getting better. He's getting better on a daily basis. And
Speaker 1: that's the case with Austin and Robert Hunt and Kim
Speaker 1: Lee and you know, all of our all of our
Speaker 1: rookie alignment. Up next, some great news, Yeah, if it's
Speaker 1: will be out there today, short and sweet regarding Ryan Fitzpatrick.
Speaker 1: They're up next. Coach was asked about linebacker Jerome Baker,
Speaker 1: who left Friday's practice with trainers and coach talking about
Speaker 1: him trying to get ready to get back to practice today.
Speaker 1: If not, he's day to day. You know, Jerome's taking this.
Speaker 1: You know it's day to day. Um, he's getting treatment,
Speaker 1: he's doing and everything. Uh. Uh he can to get
Speaker 1: back to to get better. Guys getting nicked up in
Speaker 1: training camp. We're out there in pads. It's hot. You know,
Speaker 1: he's kind of going through some some treatment, you know,
Speaker 1: this morning, last night. Um, you know this is gonna
Speaker 1: come down right to the wire whether or not we
Speaker 1: can get him out there today, So we'll see. Overall
Speaker 1: health of the football team has been good so far.
Speaker 1: Knock on would of course they're up next. Coach was
Speaker 1: asked about his own experiences going from year one as
Speaker 1: a rookie head coach into year two, the things that
Speaker 1: he has learned and how he's applied those so far.
Speaker 1: Here in your number two. He was also asked about
Speaker 1: the T n T Wall and why the Dolphins are
Speaker 1: not using it this year in a shortened off season,
Speaker 1: trying to get more reps. Here's Coach's answer about maximizing
Speaker 1: the reps on the practice field every single day. From
Speaker 1: a scheduling standpoint, there's only so much time we can
Speaker 1: be out there, especially in the early part. So it
Speaker 1: was ninety minutes the first day in ONT five. So
Speaker 1: I just wanted to know there's not as much time
Speaker 1: as there is. So as far as like running to
Speaker 1: the wall or or anything like that, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I just I'd rather just get get onto the next
Speaker 1: play and not lose a rep four for another guy.
Speaker 1: Which you know in other years that that's not the case.
Speaker 1: You have enough time to do that and get to
Speaker 1: get all the reps in so UM as a staff,
Speaker 1: we're kind of running off the field because we hit
Speaker 1: our ninety minutes or we hit our hour forty five,
Speaker 1: or we hit our two hours. We're at the point
Speaker 1: training camp now where we do have enough time, so
Speaker 1: we we we we could incorporate that, but UM, don't worry.
Speaker 1: I hammer these guys when they're when when we have
Speaker 1: penalties pretty good in the meetings. UM, you can ask
Speaker 1: them about it, UM. And it's not something we take
Speaker 1: lightly at all. UM. I just felt like, you know,
Speaker 1: we're better off, like like in the game, let's just
Speaker 1: move on and on to the next play and we'll
Speaker 1: hammer time them later in the day. Stop hammer time.
Speaker 1: They're gonna get on those guys for having penalties later
Speaker 1: in the day. I love to hear a coach talk
Speaker 1: about that. Love to hear him say he maximizes the
Speaker 1: time on the football field. Very forward thinking coach we
Speaker 1: have here in Miami, and just a good example of
Speaker 1: how he's not a coach who was stuck in his way.
Speaker 1: It's always good to be evolving and learning, especially in
Speaker 1: this business. Speaking of learning and evolving, up next, Coach
Speaker 1: was asked about the three rookie offensive lineman draft picks
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson, Robert Hunt, and Solomon Kinley and if there's
Speaker 1: an experience factor that goes into the decision about who
Speaker 1: starts on opening day and if it could be those
Speaker 1: three guys in the lineup. Look, I mean, at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, you know, the guys who perform
Speaker 1: the best they're gonna play. Let's say the offensive line
Speaker 1: unit's a little a little different in that you need
Speaker 1: five guys who who perform well together. Um, so there's
Speaker 1: some communication that goes with that, there's some experience that
Speaker 1: goes with that. Um, we'd have to get all three
Speaker 1: of them up to speed pretty quickly to to to
Speaker 1: do that. But look, if they're the five most talented players,
Speaker 1: and that gives us the best chance to ask some
Speaker 1: success and you know we're gonna have to we would
Speaker 1: have to do that. Um, we've got some some veteran players,
Speaker 1: you know, you know theater who's played a lot, Jesse
Speaker 1: Davis has played a lot of Davenporter has played a lot,
Speaker 1: And so the question becomes do you do you play
Speaker 1: the three young guys or do you play a UM,
Speaker 1: you know, a combination of you to two of the
Speaker 1: young guys, one of the one of the young guys
Speaker 1: all three. I mean, there's so many different combinations. And
Speaker 1: you know, we've got some other guys who played UM
Speaker 1: and started some games. So we just have to find
Speaker 1: out what the best five guys are from a communications standpoint,
Speaker 1: from UH and from a talent standpoint, and you know,
Speaker 1: we'll try to put the best team in. But you know,
Speaker 1: we're the three young guys. They're playing well, UM, they're
Speaker 1: learning their improvement, they're improving. Are they ready to jump in,
Speaker 1: you know, in play sixty seventy snaps today? Unlikely, you know,
Speaker 1: given you know, not having not played UM in an
Speaker 1: NFL game and not feeling the speed of the game,
Speaker 1: and you know, I don't think anyone's gonna be ready
Speaker 1: to play sixty minute game right right on the on set.
Speaker 1: So I mean, we could see different combinations on the
Speaker 1: old line as well as other positions. Interesting note they
Speaker 1: are about combinations across different positions. In the first couple
Speaker 1: of weeks of the season. Up next, coach was asked
Speaker 1: about how the quarterbacks looked to a ton of Iloa
Speaker 1: and Josh Rosen and Ryan Fitzpatrick's absence at Friday's practice.
Speaker 1: I thought they both made some good throws. Um, they've
Speaker 1: both made some not so good throws. Every day is
Speaker 1: a little bit different, and you know how practice is
Speaker 1: structured early down, you know, third down, red zone, two minute.
Speaker 1: We just want to see them in those those different scenarios.
Speaker 1: How see how if they could be successful in those areas. Look,
Speaker 1: they're both working hard, they're both improving, and every play
Speaker 1: you know, for both guys and they're both young. Ever
Speaker 1: played for both guys is a good experience for him
Speaker 1: to learning experience. And I think they're improving and getting better. Um.
Speaker 1: Specifically in those situations in the red area, there's less field,
Speaker 1: so they're they're tighter throws and they're smaller windows. You
Speaker 1: gotta make a really good throw and a really good
Speaker 1: cat and you gotta know, we gotta catch the ball
Speaker 1: into tight windows with receivers playing tight man coverage, and
Speaker 1: it's just not as much feeld um. I think you
Speaker 1: know you ever think everyone can can understand that. So um,
Speaker 1: how we evaluate them in that area the field is
Speaker 1: different than when we're in the actual field, you know,
Speaker 1: not not necessarily the red zone, but you know the
Speaker 1: rest of the field. Um, And it's also different now
Speaker 1: we evaluate them in two minutes and the decision making
Speaker 1: which also includes the clock and time outs and things
Speaker 1: of that nature. So the evaluation is not just hey,
Speaker 1: how many you know did he complete or how many
Speaker 1: you know? It's not There's a lot that goes into it.
Speaker 1: So I think they've both improved and getting better. Again.
Speaker 1: More good insight there from coach on the rookie quarterback
Speaker 1: to a tongue of by Loa and third year quarterback
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen as well as Ryan Fitzpatrick about how they
Speaker 1: evaluate these quarterbacks out here on the practice field. A
Speaker 1: lot more goes into it than just practice statistics, which yeah,
Speaker 1: I think we can all agree on that. Up next,
Speaker 1: coach was asked about Miles Gaskins, second year running back,
Speaker 1: seventh round draft pickback in twenty nineteen, who's shone well
Speaker 1: in camp and progressing from the course of the time
Speaker 1: he was picked last year all the way up through
Speaker 1: today at training camp. I think Myles has done a
Speaker 1: very good job, was really, i would say, really improved
Speaker 1: over the course of last season, um, really from O
Speaker 1: T A s to Minicans to training camp, and you
Speaker 1: can see kind of the growth throughout the season. He's
Speaker 1: playing well running it, you know, catching the ball out
Speaker 1: of bad field. Um, his blocking is improved. Look like
Speaker 1: I tell I tell him, like I tell it all
Speaker 1: the other players. Their role is gonna be what they
Speaker 1: make it. So if you go out there and you
Speaker 1: continually make plays and handle your responsibility and you're someone
Speaker 1: we can depend on, where we're gonna find a role
Speaker 1: for you and UM productive along with being dependable, along
Speaker 1: with being you know, doing things you know the right
Speaker 1: way really on off the field, UM, then you know
Speaker 1: you could have a really big role. That's kind of
Speaker 1: what we tell every player and does't matter if you're
Speaker 1: a rookie of veteran, undrafted, drafted. UM, you know that's
Speaker 1: the standard, and we're gonna try to hold the guys
Speaker 1: to that. And I think Miles has done a good
Speaker 1: job of doing everything he can off the field on
Speaker 1: the field, UM to make himself the best player he
Speaker 1: can be. And it's you know, you know, showing up.
Speaker 1: You know a little bit of practice, but again in
Speaker 1: this league, it's got to show up, you know, in practice,
Speaker 1: in games, and it's gotta you gotta have consistency. So
Speaker 1: you know, that's what we're trying to stress to the guys,
Speaker 1: Miles along with really every other player. Your role is
Speaker 1: gonna be what you make it. Love that quote there
Speaker 1: from coach. Here's a question from Joe shad I Plan
Speaker 1: asking Robert Hunt later on today in his media availability
Speaker 1: about the jump and competition from the Sun Belt to
Speaker 1: the NFL, and coach talks about the jump for rookies
Speaker 1: in general going to the NFL and how much different
Speaker 1: it is playing in college compared to the professional ranks
Speaker 1: in the National Football League for Roberts specifically, but really
Speaker 1: it's for all rookies. This isn't it's different from college.
Speaker 1: You know, the speed of the game, the amount of
Speaker 1: time that you know, we put in compared to to
Speaker 1: you know, what they're doing in college. There's no classes,
Speaker 1: you know, and they're not trying to you know, they're
Speaker 1: not you know, working on protections against the blitz, you know,
Speaker 1: or four different blitz looks. I don't know what classes
Speaker 1: they're taking, you know, doing psychology class that like, that's
Speaker 1: not that's not part of this. So the amount of
Speaker 1: time you know, they they're they're asked to spend uh,
Speaker 1: not just football, but but from a treatment standpoint, from
Speaker 1: a weightlifting standpoint, from a nutrition standpoint. You know, in
Speaker 1: this league, you've got to be you've got to try
Speaker 1: to be good in all those areas, uh, to be
Speaker 1: the best version of yourself on the field. And that's
Speaker 1: kind of what we try to coach to these all players,
Speaker 1: specifically the young ones. Um. The competition, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: sun Belt a C c ivy league, it's gonna be better.
Speaker 1: Just that's just what it is. You know. The receivers
Speaker 1: in this league, you know, just talking about you know
Speaker 1: what I've talked to our young bbs. You know what, Brandon,
Speaker 1: you know, receivers are in this league or they're good,
Speaker 1: they're fast, they're big, they've got good hands, they're quick, um,
Speaker 1: and there's no different than on your line, you know,
Speaker 1: and that's an adjustment for Kinley you know who playing
Speaker 1: SEC and Austin who played in the Pact well and
Speaker 1: Robert you know was played in the Sun Belt. Defensive
Speaker 1: linemen in this league are you know, they're asked that
Speaker 1: the big, the fastest, strong, their mean so and they
Speaker 1: bring it every place. So we've got to bring it
Speaker 1: every place. Um, So that's the that's the message to
Speaker 1: Robert Austin, Kenley Hubbard, all the guys were here. That's
Speaker 1: still better in as linement as well. Try to get complacent.
Speaker 1: I think you got it. Hit writing and you hit
Speaker 1: writing them out. So it's kind of where we're at.
Speaker 1: And then we were back on the practice field for
Speaker 1: the fifth training camp practice so far here in two
Speaker 1: thousand and twenty. Just a couple of individual notes here
Speaker 1: from the pre practice portion. We start off as we
Speaker 1: do daily with the pre practice notes. Obviously you heard
Speaker 1: Flores say that Ryan Fitzpatrick would be back on the
Speaker 1: field and he was no Jerome Baker though on Saturday,
Speaker 1: but you did hear coach say that Jerome is day
Speaker 1: to day. I got a photo of Eric Flowers walking
Speaker 1: out from the building onto the practice field with those
Speaker 1: workout bands and the harness that apparatus that he uses
Speaker 1: with the young off fensive lineman. Who will hear from
Speaker 1: here in just one second, that's been a daily thing
Speaker 1: for Eric Flowers. I put it up on Twitter if
Speaker 1: you want to go check that out. At Wingfield, NFL,
Speaker 1: I had Calin Balage as a big fan of the
Speaker 1: music choices out there. He is feeling it every single
Speaker 1: day during stretching dancing more so than anybody right now,
Speaker 1: which is a surprise because both Jachim and Davante and
Speaker 1: Jerome when he's out there, all can challenge him in
Speaker 1: that regard. And something I noted about the offensive lineman
Speaker 1: up front speaking of Eric Flowers and leading that group,
Speaker 1: and you'll hear Solomon talk about this later on in
Speaker 1: this podcast are his movement abilities. And man, he was
Speaker 1: doing some pulling and some stuff getting out in space
Speaker 1: and he can flat out scoot. He gets out there,
Speaker 1: gets squared up to the line of scrimmage and just
Speaker 1: moves really really well for a three thirty five pounder.
Speaker 1: Then I kept an eye on the cornerback drills a
Speaker 1: little bit, moving to the other side of the field
Speaker 1: and watched Byron Jones go through this punch, flip and
Speaker 1: locate the ball drill where you punch the bag, turn around,
Speaker 1: run up field and find the football, make a play
Speaker 1: on it. And he just looks so smooth and all
Speaker 1: of those assets aspects of the game. The pat pat, flip,
Speaker 1: turn around, elevate, find the ball at the highest point.
Speaker 1: He just looks like a stud out there every single day,
Speaker 1: and watching those defensive backs work with how to deal
Speaker 1: with stacks, the communication out there is very apparent. You
Speaker 1: see a stack formation where you have receivers on top
Speaker 1: of each other, it creates confusion on the way you
Speaker 1: press and that type of thing. Those guys were doing
Speaker 1: such a good job of being very animated in their discussions.
Speaker 1: Obviously I can't hear it, but you see the coaches
Speaker 1: and players kind of giving it back and forth to
Speaker 1: each other. It goes back to the comment we had
Speaker 1: on the podcast yesterday about a high level of engagement
Speaker 1: with the players and the coaches guys very very in
Speaker 1: tune to what's going on. Then I come back over
Speaker 1: to the wide receivers and man, DeVante Parker's hands are
Speaker 1: pretty absurd. The coaches throw them the balls in these
Speaker 1: individual drills and they're never really that accurate because they're
Speaker 1: just coaches, but he makes them look so easy, like
Speaker 1: he's playing with a nerf ball, just plucking it with
Speaker 1: one hand. Then we come back to another drill where
Speaker 1: it's working on getting in and out of breaks, and
Speaker 1: then over to the sideline coming around the backside of
Speaker 1: a tackling dummy, you catch the ball and drag your toes.
Speaker 1: He did that again one hand while dragging the toes,
Speaker 1: and it just looks so effortless for Davanta Parker, very
Speaker 1: very skilled wide receiver as we all know. I also
Speaker 1: really enjoy watching the linebackers and the spot drop drill.
Speaker 1: I find it very aesthetically pleasing to watch them and
Speaker 1: how perfectly coordinated they are as they work in tandem
Speaker 1: there to get to the hook zone, to find that
Speaker 1: spot on their zone coverage on defense there. They work
Speaker 1: really well in that drill. Individually. I haven't talked a
Speaker 1: lot about this guy, but he's been very active on
Speaker 1: the field so far. I noted him with a really
Speaker 1: nice win as a blitzer in one on one drills
Speaker 1: against the Backs. He also came back later in coverage
Speaker 1: and had a nice pass breakup Sam egg Vaughan. Remember,
Speaker 1: he was near the top of the leaderboard last year
Speaker 1: and quarterback pressures among all linebackers in the NFL. Now,
Speaker 1: granted he did rush more than most, but even with
Speaker 1: a much deeper room this year, I think he's got
Speaker 1: a really nice role as a coverage slash specialist type
Speaker 1: of player on that defense. Then I avert my eyes
Speaker 1: back over to the running backs, and you've gotta be
Speaker 1: a damn hawk out there, man, because things are going
Speaker 1: on all over the field. Haven't talked a lot about
Speaker 1: this guy either, but Patrick Laird I really enjoyed watching
Speaker 1: him work in the passing drills. Running back routes can
Speaker 1: be a bit funky because you have a swing route
Speaker 1: or a flat route, and that has you running, has
Speaker 1: you running parallel to the quarterback, which is a really
Speaker 1: weird angle for both the running back and the quarterback
Speaker 1: to make that work. But he transitions out of those very,
Speaker 1: very smoothly. Just looks like a smooth back in the
Speaker 1: passing game, like we saw last year, like we saw
Speaker 1: in college at CAL. I wanted to play koser attention
Speaker 1: to the tight end and safety battles on the field
Speaker 1: on Saturday, and I got some goods on that front.
Speaker 1: First up, Mike a sick. He can flat out move.
Speaker 1: They were running these wheel routes to the backside of
Speaker 1: the formation on air, and all the tight ends were
Speaker 1: doing it, and there was a distinct difference in the
Speaker 1: way eighty eight moved compared to the rest of the group.
Speaker 1: And on top of that, This will come from the
Speaker 1: one on ones, but it's relevant here. Mike get sick.
Speaker 1: He does so much better, I think, than he did
Speaker 1: his rookie season. We saw it developed last year as well,
Speaker 1: but this year in training camp really noticing it with
Speaker 1: strength and contact balance. Through that contact from the defensive back,
Speaker 1: he can get through his route while being challenged without
Speaker 1: really much of an issue, and he stays on his
Speaker 1: feet and stays strong at the point there. I think
Speaker 1: that's really gonna make him tough to cover down on
Speaker 1: the red zone or really anywhere on the field for
Speaker 1: that matter. Then we go into some one on ones,
Speaker 1: and again I kept a close watch on the safeties
Speaker 1: and tight ends, but also on the linebackers and running
Speaker 1: backs as they were doing some passing drill work at safety.
Speaker 1: It's such a treat to watch Eric Roe work against
Speaker 1: tight ends down in the trash, down in the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, fighting the hand fight, and going up against
Speaker 1: the running game that way. Very technically, sound plays it
Speaker 1: super aggressive. He's the one to initiate contact, plays it physical,
Speaker 1: and I thought the same true was true of Brandon
Speaker 1: Jones out there on Saturday. Both those guys working very
Speaker 1: well in a variety of roles on that defense. Just
Speaker 1: a few bullet points that I jotted down here from
Speaker 1: practice notes. Eland and Roberts has been putting guys on
Speaker 1: the ground all week long. He did it again today
Speaker 1: in the individual drills. It was a pass block versus blitzing,
Speaker 1: and he ran somebody over like Jack Parkman did in
Speaker 1: Major League. At linebacker Tyshon Render, I just wrote down
Speaker 1: that he has an impressive looking body. He's very long
Speaker 1: and well built for the position. He looks we're out
Speaker 1: there at number sixty four, but his body definitely looks
Speaker 1: the part of an edge rusher slash linebacker type. At
Speaker 1: run back, Patrick Lair does really well to be aggressive,
Speaker 1: like I talked about with Eric Rowe, to approach the
Speaker 1: block and get his nose up and there before the block,
Speaker 1: before the rusher can get to him. That's how you
Speaker 1: have to win and pass blocking as a running back.
Speaker 1: And speaking of linebackers on running backs, I had ray
Speaker 1: Kwad McMillan with a very nice side step on Chandler
Speaker 1: Cox to get a pressure on the quarterback there in
Speaker 1: that one on one drill. And then eg vaugh also
Speaker 1: put another running back on the ground with his work
Speaker 1: in that drill. Going back to the one on ones
Speaker 1: for the quarterbacks here too, I thought was throwing the
Speaker 1: ball very very well in these drills. Not necessarily a
Speaker 1: great indicator without a pass rush coming at them, but
Speaker 1: you can always see the accuracy and the timing and
Speaker 1: the field he has in those drills. The intentional ball placement.
Speaker 1: I saw one more Clayton Federalum had Adam Shaheen dead
Speaker 1: two rights in coverage, but to a throws an absolute
Speaker 1: seed up high and away and Shaheen went up and
Speaker 1: rebounded it like a power forward. Very nice work there
Speaker 1: from the quarterback to the tight end. And then the
Speaker 1: next play it's a different throw, but again to a
Speaker 1: tight end. He runs a route with a dB over
Speaker 1: the top of him, so to it has to kind
Speaker 1: of set that thing down and drills it low on
Speaker 1: the back hip and that location was just perstige for
Speaker 1: Chris Myrick to make a catch on that place. So
Speaker 1: good work there with ball placement. A few other notes
Speaker 1: here I check out the cornerbacks. I see Nick need
Speaker 1: to make a play on the football once again. That's
Speaker 1: been the case all week for him. Very good start
Speaker 1: to camp for the Dolphins. Second year cornerback out of
Speaker 1: U tep Alright, how about some plays from practice the
Speaker 1: Big Place from the team period of Saturday's practice. At
Speaker 1: one point ray Kuan Davis had his jersey ripped off
Speaker 1: because he came back with a plain awkward jersey on
Speaker 1: without numbers. Is actually he and Austin Jackson as well.
Speaker 1: Hear later in the interview portion of the podcast, that
Speaker 1: got the jersey there off of ray Kwon Davis. It
Speaker 1: kind of reminded me a little bit of little giants
Speaker 1: or something. But don't mistake this guy for a little giant.
Speaker 1: My goodness, he is a large giant and he makes
Speaker 1: it work. He is a bowl in a china shop.
Speaker 1: He had a pass breakup on the very first play.
Speaker 1: He had some really impressive battles with Solomon Kinley. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about that again more later on in this podcast.
Speaker 1: They were just getting physical and both guys were taking
Speaker 1: turns really moving each other out of the gap. Power
Speaker 1: on power. I might need to go back and watch
Speaker 1: some of those Band with Georgia games and get a
Speaker 1: good look at those matchups, because these guys are playing
Speaker 1: some good football. Then Davis gets a pass breakup. I
Speaker 1: had him with a huge tackle for loss in goal
Speaker 1: line work where he took the lineman and basically used
Speaker 1: him to tackle the running back for a loss in
Speaker 1: the backfield. And honestly, he did that a couple of
Speaker 1: times in practice, just on Saturday alone. He's really getting
Speaker 1: after it out their dominant player for long stretches of
Speaker 1: play during Saturday's practice. Speaking of TFLs, we had Commu
Speaker 1: grug Hill on the podcast or on the interview yesterday.
Speaker 1: He blew up a play for a huge loss. The
Speaker 1: running back tried his side. He sniffs it out and
Speaker 1: comes down and makes a play four or five yards
Speaker 1: behind the line of scrimmage. Might have been even more.
Speaker 1: And speaking of Solomon Killy, going back to blocking Ray
Speaker 1: Kwon Davis, one thing you really noticed is the execution
Speaker 1: of double teams has been so nice so far. Very
Speaker 1: common block in football, but the combo block. I've seen
Speaker 1: this line really get it done from all guys, whether
Speaker 1: it's Kinley, Carriss, Flowers, Davis, Jackson, Hunt, dieter Is Adora,
Speaker 1: It's been good work from a lot of those guys
Speaker 1: getting those combo blocks taken care of on the offensive line.
Speaker 1: I had plenty of praise yesterday for Austin Jackson, and
Speaker 1: I think he continued that today. I don't recall any
Speaker 1: pressure coming from his side, and he had a run
Speaker 1: block where he completely collapsed the edge for a huge lane.
Speaker 1: Eric Flowers kind of holds the point and then Jackson
Speaker 1: comes down and wipes it out, creates a big gap.
Speaker 1: Those two guys working really well together across the board there.
Speaker 1: I just can't wait to watch this offensive line get
Speaker 1: some real season action, because I think they're playing well.
Speaker 1: I want to see how that translates to the regular season.
Speaker 1: Out Wide, Davanta Parker and Brandon Jones continue to do
Speaker 1: battle as they have all week long. Both guys scored
Speaker 1: some wins as they have all week. They've been going
Speaker 1: back and forth, trading off wins and losses. At the
Speaker 1: end of practice in two minute, Parker went up for
Speaker 1: what looked like one of those classic Davanta Parker high points,
Speaker 1: going to be another thirty thirty five yard game, but
Speaker 1: Jones stays with the play, gets his hands in between
Speaker 1: Davanta's and separates them for a really nice pass break
Speaker 1: up and pushed the offense back the other direction. Good
Speaker 1: on good. When those two guys match up, Parker did
Speaker 1: get Jones though, and I thought this was really cool.
Speaker 1: He talked about working on his comeback routes earlier this
Speaker 1: week when he did media availability here on the podcast.
Speaker 1: A route that's been pretty challenging to sell are going
Speaker 1: to be challenging to sell on a defensive back with
Speaker 1: such great athletic ability like Byron Jones. But Davante ran
Speaker 1: that comeback, caught the football right around fifteen thirteen yards
Speaker 1: and then sprinted up the sideline for another ten yards
Speaker 1: or so. Again good battle, strong on strong there when
Speaker 1: Parker and Jones tee it up. How about quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick.
Speaker 1: He was back out there and looked really sharp on Saturday.
Speaker 1: He was throwing on time and on target. He moved
Speaker 1: the offense down the field very nicely in the two
Speaker 1: minute drill at the end of practice and for what
Speaker 1: would have been a game winning field goal in that scenario,
Speaker 1: I assume off the foot of Jason Sanders, who continues
Speaker 1: to make all of his field goals. He also had
Speaker 1: a number of good tight window throws. The first one
Speaker 1: I really was impressed by was an unblocked rusher on
Speaker 1: third and short, and a lot of times you'll have
Speaker 1: that by design where you draw the defender up out
Speaker 1: of the flat part of the field so you can
Speaker 1: give the running back space to operate with you play
Speaker 1: action it and then Fitzpatrick is a really nice job
Speaker 1: getting the football to that space, kind of like a
Speaker 1: contested shot in basketball, a hand in your face, same
Speaker 1: idea there. He had to work around that hand in
Speaker 1: his face and get the ball alta Brita, who then
Speaker 1: turned up and made a nice chunk of yard after
Speaker 1: the catch to convert on third down. Fits also had
Speaker 1: a sixty yard bomb a touchdown past to Preston Williams.
Speaker 1: Again more fine attention to detail. He went quick, sold
Speaker 1: a nice ball fake on a double move, Igbo jumps
Speaker 1: the route, Williams gets open behind him, and Fits fires
Speaker 1: it for an easy walk in touchdown. Then he went
Speaker 1: down the field and greeted Williams for congratulations on the
Speaker 1: big touchdown play. He also had my favorite play of
Speaker 1: the entire day when he got out on a scramble
Speaker 1: on a naked boot down around the goal line. He
Speaker 1: wanted to get the football to Miles Gascon in the
Speaker 1: passing game, but the lane opened up, so he had
Speaker 1: to take it all the way for himself, as he
Speaker 1: did four times last year with four rushing touchdowns on
Speaker 1: the year. Then he chucks the ball off the face
Speaker 1: of the building down here in South Florida at the
Speaker 1: Dolphins training facility and runs up to the window that
Speaker 1: looks into the cafeteria and hits his fist and helmets
Speaker 1: his helmet on the glass in celebration. He just cracks
Speaker 1: me up every time he plays man. Sixteen years in
Speaker 1: the league and he still loves it. In fact, one
Speaker 1: of our video guys who used to work for the
Speaker 1: Bucks when it was there, told me that they did
Speaker 1: a thing where they went through each jif of Ryan
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick on the internet and had him describe what each
Speaker 1: one was or what he was doing. So I asked
Speaker 1: him what Fits said about the whole wide eyed celebration
Speaker 1: after he does running for a touchdown or gets pumped
Speaker 1: up here with the Miami Dolphins last season, and Fits
Speaker 1: just basically said that when he does that celebration, that's
Speaker 1: not actually him doing it. That's him being taken over
Speaker 1: or possessed if you will buy another life force. So
Speaker 1: just always being a funny guy, always being a good team,
Speaker 1: always fun to watch on the football field, as well.
Speaker 1: On the topic of Miles gascon if he brought him
Speaker 1: up here, you heard Flow talk about him and his
Speaker 1: media availability. He had a nice run and I credited
Speaker 1: Danny is Adora with a very nice block to get
Speaker 1: his man out of the gap. I think both Danny
Speaker 1: and Miles had some good moments so far here in
Speaker 1: training camp too. Had some good moments today as well.
Speaker 1: Had a couple of touchdowns down a goal line. There
Speaker 1: was one player where he kind of sprinted out to
Speaker 1: the side and had to make a decision to kind
Speaker 1: of come back against the grain and found a second
Speaker 1: or third option in the passing game there for a
Speaker 1: nice touchdown. Really good job getting through those. He also
Speaker 1: found Chester Rodgers in the team period shooting one right
Speaker 1: down the seam with really good touch timing and ball
Speaker 1: placement for a big yard game or so. In the
Speaker 1: team period, Josh Rosen had a very nice third down
Speaker 1: conversion where he took a stick or he had to
Speaker 1: stick a ball into a tight window and threw a
Speaker 1: little bit low and took his receiver to the ground intentionally,
Speaker 1: which again is a good thing because you throw it
Speaker 1: up high, you're gonna have your receiver get ran right
Speaker 1: into a huge hit and probably get him killed there.
Speaker 1: I wrote a note here that I didn't put into context,
Speaker 1: but let's just go ahead and do it anyways, because
Speaker 1: why not. I just wrote that Ray quad McMillan. His
Speaker 1: tackling form is as good as ever. We've made no
Speaker 1: secrets about how good he is in that area. On
Speaker 1: this podcast, I also took down a note on Isaiah
Speaker 1: Ford put a third down conversion of his own from Fitzpatrick.
Speaker 1: Ford does so well to come back to the football
Speaker 1: when you push up field on the route and you
Speaker 1: work back towards the quarterback to give you a better
Speaker 1: window for the quarterback. He pushed up on Jamal Perry
Speaker 1: for fifteen yards and broke the route back to the
Speaker 1: quarterback with an angle to pick up thirteen yards on
Speaker 1: third and ten for a big first down. Mike is
Speaker 1: sicky on top of some big plays in the team period,
Speaker 1: also had one where he caught a short pass on
Speaker 1: a quick hitter and then had some room to run.
Speaker 1: One of those plays I would love to see played
Speaker 1: out in a real life situation, but of course in practice,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna tackle and hit each other. He's getting
Speaker 1: vertical and catching them short doing everything in this offense
Speaker 1: right now. Mike Kasicky looks really good. Eric Rowe got
Speaker 1: him back later though, in the same drill where he
Speaker 1: did really well to initiate the contact on the press
Speaker 1: on the bump there and really disrupted the route for Mike.
Speaker 1: There was a pocket there for fits to put the
Speaker 1: ball and he did put it in that pocket, but
Speaker 1: Kassick he couldn't get there because of Rose Jam just
Speaker 1: off timing a little bit. Great battle between Eric Row
Speaker 1: and Mike Asicky. I also had a note of Row
Speaker 1: applying that hand fighting drill and practice where he scraped
Speaker 1: over the top of a block and put a hit
Speaker 1: on Howard Jordan Howard at the line of scrimmage. Row
Speaker 1: had a few of those today, and I thought Brandon
Speaker 1: Jones did had warrant to as well in that area.
Speaker 1: Good work from the Dolphin safetyes all around from McCain, Jones,
Speaker 1: Row and the rest of the boys out there another day,
Speaker 1: another big run for that same guy, Jordan Howard, same
Speaker 1: story man patience to let the whole develop, then he
Speaker 1: explodes through that hole with physicality. I had Carris and
Speaker 1: Solomon Kinley at the point opening up that hole. I
Speaker 1: had Kyle van Noy with some more nice plays on
Speaker 1: this particular practice one where he showed again that ability
Speaker 1: to work up field and flatten that edge. Talking about
Speaker 1: that as a pass rusher all the time. He can
Speaker 1: work inside to get the set of the offensive line
Speaker 1: of working inwards. Then he dips that inside shoulder and
Speaker 1: stays on balance as he pursues the quarterback. We see
Speaker 1: him do that every single day here. He also had
Speaker 1: a really nice play where he beat a block from
Speaker 1: the tight end working towards the backfield on a running
Speaker 1: play to get a tackle for loss as well, so
Speaker 1: pass rush and playing the run there for Kyle van
Speaker 1: Noy had Andrew van Giggle in there for a pass
Speaker 1: break up at one point on a really nice pass
Speaker 1: rush move, and I wrote that Bobby McCain is just
Speaker 1: playing fast and loose talking about those safeties. He came
Speaker 1: over the sideline from the middle of the field and
Speaker 1: really close it down to cause an incompletion in the
Speaker 1: team period. Not a lot of notes on him because
Speaker 1: he's just getting the job done, but he does flash
Speaker 1: a time or two every single day and practice, and
Speaker 1: that's exactly what you want from your safety playing back
Speaker 1: there all r let's go ahead and get to some
Speaker 1: more audio here. We're gonna start first with Austin Jackson.
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Speaker 1: dot net slash coronavirus. We start with Austin Jackson talking
Speaker 1: about competition so far in training camp. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: excited to go out and compete every day. You know,
Speaker 1: that's kind of the moral of this team. We look
Speaker 1: forward to those challenges and I definitely do myself and
Speaker 1: when they come, they'll come. I'm excited about it. I'm
Speaker 1: glad I get to work every day for it. Jackson
Speaker 1: just turned twenty one earlier this month. You'll hear him
Speaker 1: talk here about how he turned up for his twenty
Speaker 1: one birthday by getting in the cold tub. The turn
Speaker 1: up was in the heist tub after practice, so I
Speaker 1: guess not much of one. Uh, you know, birthday is
Speaker 1: always felt during camp. So and then next Austin talked
Speaker 1: about the playing in Pad's portion of practice, kind of
Speaker 1: having things ratchet up here a little bit this week,
Speaker 1: and also going up against re Kwon Davis, who again
Speaker 1: he was the one that took the jersey off of
Speaker 1: rerake Kuan Davis and forced keuand to go get a
Speaker 1: plain awkward jersey with no numbers on. You know, it's
Speaker 1: been fun just coming out every day and competing. You know,
Speaker 1: we got great guys on both sides of the line. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know what I'd like to get after it. We
Speaker 1: all like to get after it, and you know, it's
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. And we'll go ahead and finish
Speaker 1: up here with Austin asking him about how he got
Speaker 1: himself in shape and what the off season was like
Speaker 1: for him this offseason and what was a very strange
Speaker 1: off season really was just just to you know, get
Speaker 1: as strong as I can in my in my core
Speaker 1: over time. UM didn't really have any weight goals because
Speaker 1: we don't. I didn't really know what it looked like yet,
Speaker 1: so I've just been putting on with the right way
Speaker 1: and working. Up next, we had rookie out of Georgia,
Speaker 1: Solomon Kinley, Dolphin's fourth round draft pick. He had most
Speaker 1: of us laughing throughout the course of this presser. Really fun,
Speaker 1: a high energy guy. Let's go ahead and here from
Speaker 1: Sullivan Kinley. Uh my, I'm just blessed to be here.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the MOMADLF for picking me up. You know. Um,
Speaker 1: like I said, I'm blessed to be here, and uh
Speaker 1: like you, like you said, every office is a lot
Speaker 1: of Every player got something to prove on every day.
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm just working at that. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to get better and I'm trying to prove myself out
Speaker 1: blown while I'm at right now. Up next, Solivan answers
Speaker 1: a question about the veteran leadership in that offensive line
Speaker 1: room and how some of the guys like Jesse Davis
Speaker 1: and Ted Carris and others in that room have taught
Speaker 1: him how to be a professional, not just on the
Speaker 1: football field, but in every single aspect away from the field.
Speaker 1: Like we heard coach Florence talk about this morning and
Speaker 1: his pre practice pressor here's Kindley on that. They just
Speaker 1: teaches me how to be a pro man. It teaches
Speaker 1: me how to be a pro um eating right um,
Speaker 1: studying the film right down, all the notes. That's that's
Speaker 1: need to be done. When the coaches talking to me
Speaker 1: in a meeting, UM, making sure um thirty forty five
Speaker 1: minutes the meetings early or I got little, if you know,
Speaker 1: petting up early, getting getting my day started and then
Speaker 1: only that teaching me a game of football like stuff
Speaker 1: that I that that you most people won't see that
Speaker 1: I gotta see. You know this man, Eric Staffter pregnants
Speaker 1: every day and just work hard and you don't you
Speaker 1: don't get better on everything. That's bit of the game.
Speaker 1: Here's Alomen talking about the relationship developed between he and
Speaker 1: his fellow rookie offensive lineman Austin Jackson and Robert Hunt.
Speaker 1: It's crazy because I think Austin said the other day,
Speaker 1: because you'll imagine all three of us would have been
Speaker 1: at the Moament Dolphins at the combined because at the
Speaker 1: combine they split us up into groups, and I was
Speaker 1: like number twenty eight, Austin was like number thirty, and
Speaker 1: Raw was like number twenty five, and we was all
Speaker 1: with each other the whole combine, and look, God blessed
Speaker 1: us to be in this position that we is not
Speaker 1: like like I said, those those my guys, Those my boys,
Speaker 1: I'm glad to play with. And how about how a
Speaker 1: big guy three thirty five pounds can move around as well?
Speaker 1: That's Aloman Kinley does. So I'm watching you move around there,
Speaker 1: and you move really well for a guy listened to three.
Speaker 1: It's really impressive watch And I want to go back
Speaker 1: to your first job as a lifeguard. You've also got
Speaker 1: an impressive hoops resume. I guess what I want to
Speaker 1: ask you is do you attribute that agility to the
Speaker 1: other sports? And how do you train nowadays to maintain
Speaker 1: that movement ability? You know, like like you said, being
Speaker 1: a lifeguard, you know, getting that water and doing a
Speaker 1: lot of labs and doing that the type of stuffing
Speaker 1: and all season. It really it helps a lot. But
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't believe that. You know, I
Speaker 1: was a lifeguard. So just using that and just taking
Speaker 1: the lifeguard and playing basketball, because basketball you gotta movie fee,
Speaker 1: you gotta run up and down the court. You know,
Speaker 1: that makes you because there's a lot of conditioning and
Speaker 1: all these attributes of every game. It comes down to
Speaker 1: playing football and all come down to playing the sport
Speaker 1: that you want to play. So I just buy in
Speaker 1: and this U was all that together. And we'll get
Speaker 1: more from Solomon about being a lifeguard growing up, but
Speaker 1: here he's asked about his energy level and how he's
Speaker 1: such a positive guy and how he maintains that positive mindset.
Speaker 1: It could be here today, you'll be going tomorrow. I'm
Speaker 1: just like I said, I'm blessed for up to on
Speaker 1: and that's how my family and my mom and my
Speaker 1: dad raised me. So I just, you know, keep a
Speaker 1: positive attitude because you never know what can happen tomorrow.
Speaker 1: And he carries that energy over into the swimming pool,
Speaker 1: where he said he challenged some of his teammates in
Speaker 1: the pool and they learned real quick not to mess
Speaker 1: with Solomon Kindley when it comes to swimming and getting
Speaker 1: in the water. We gotta I gotta the pool with
Speaker 1: a few of them before it kim even started. And
Speaker 1: um when we're doing a zoom call throughout the uh
Speaker 1: throughout the off season, they was all like, so, I mean,
Speaker 1: you can't swim him you can't do you can't do this.
Speaker 1: So we finally got in the pool. I promise you
Speaker 1: I would smoke everybody. I smoke everybody. Wasn't no challenge
Speaker 1: between nothing against anybody. I promise. You can ask anybody
Speaker 1: on the team I smoked. I promise. And he doesn't
Speaker 1: only get it done in the swimming pool, he gets
Speaker 1: it done when it comes to the entire approach to
Speaker 1: play in the game. So far here he's gonna talk
Speaker 1: about the things he's learned from the veterans when it
Speaker 1: comes to football and technique and just a little things
Speaker 1: he's learning to fine tune his game and get better
Speaker 1: at this level in his rookie season. Small technique stuff
Speaker 1: like step in this weight when this block is coming,
Speaker 1: put your hand up on this type of pass, pro
Speaker 1: make sure your eyes right on outside backer. You know,
Speaker 1: those are the things in college where it was it
Speaker 1: wasn't too big. But I am the NFL that your opponent,
Speaker 1: they're studying what you're doing every time. They're staying what
Speaker 1: you're doing every time. So don't look ask me to
Speaker 1: be and also, you do a little thing that can
Speaker 1: make you great. And we'll go ahead and finish up
Speaker 1: with Solomon Kinley on this question from yours truly. Hey, Solomon,
Speaker 1: you've been going up against ray Kwon Davis a little
Speaker 1: bit in practice. You went up against him as as
Speaker 1: well at Alabama and college. What's that battle ben like?
Speaker 1: And how are you guys kind of learning and helping
Speaker 1: each other out as pros. He's a stud, he's stuff.
Speaker 1: Like you said, I've been't gonna get some for three
Speaker 1: years straight and instancy gets recon records on record, is
Speaker 1: a very good player. He helps me out own certain
Speaker 1: stuff on the field, and I have them out sort
Speaker 1: of stuff on the field, and and that's just that's
Speaker 1: just that. So we've heard from Austin Jackson, we've heard
Speaker 1: from Solomon Kinley. Let's finish it up here with an
Speaker 1: interview with Robert Hunt, Dolphins second round draft pick out
Speaker 1: of Louisian la Fayette, and he starts off with the
Speaker 1: question answering how the Veterans almost Dolphins offensive line had
Speaker 1: helped him grow so far in training camp in his
Speaker 1: Brookie season. Um, it's been very helpful, honestly. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: Eat Flowers and Jessie, all those guys, you know, they
Speaker 1: come to us separate and they give a little thing
Speaker 1: to work on. Do they see us that we didn't
Speaker 1: prove on? So, I mean we're all young, we're working,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to get better. So those guys have
Speaker 1: come up to us and the amples were a little thing.
Speaker 1: But if his post practice or if it's a neetant,
Speaker 1: those guys kind of help us and got us in
Speaker 1: the right direction. And Robert can confirm the Solomon Kinley
Speaker 1: can flat out get it done in the swimming pool.
Speaker 1: Although he throws an next cuson here at the end
Speaker 1: for why he did, in fact get smoked by Kinley
Speaker 1: in a swimming race. Yeah, I think we did race.
Speaker 1: I think we raised one time, and yeah, he got
Speaker 1: the best of it that time. I think because he
Speaker 1: kind of the pool is kind of small, so he
Speaker 1: kind of bumped me out the way, you know. So
Speaker 1: that's why he won, and that that's the rule. But
Speaker 1: now he actually is really good in the pools. And
Speaker 1: now we hear from Robert about the challenges and differences
Speaker 1: making the jump from college to the NFL. The whole
Speaker 1: game is faster, you know, but taking the day by day,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to improve on, you know, all my skills
Speaker 1: and everything. The coaches try to handle with techniques and everything.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's it's nothing is every easy, you know,
Speaker 1: So it's trying to um learn this game, learn us
Speaker 1: to do the game, and you know, get better at it.
Speaker 1: And we talk about versatility on this Dolphins football team
Speaker 1: all the time. That applies to everybody on the team.
Speaker 1: Offensive line, defensive positions, whatever it is, you name it.
Speaker 1: Here's Robert Hunt talking about everybody doing cross training on
Speaker 1: that Dolphins offensive line. Not not not much really because
Speaker 1: when all of us we pretty much get cross training,
Speaker 1: so we all getting worked at different spots. So you know,
Speaker 1: it's been the same for everybody. Everybody just getting work here,
Speaker 1: getting work there. So we're just trying to figure this
Speaker 1: thing out with them. You know. The best time I'll
Speaker 1: go out and playing compete and there he goes and
Speaker 1: there we will go as well. That is a rap
Speaker 1: from week one here at Dolphins training camp. Not gonna
Speaker 1: be with you guys tomorrow, but we'll see you again
Speaker 1: on Monday. We'll do it all over again. Training camp
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