Speaker 1: To us bars touch style by Waddle stuck into the
Speaker 1: end zone of Miami Boy, tight all tight window. They
Speaker 1: had to get that touchdown on that play again. It
Speaker 1: what is up? Dolphans And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast,
Speaker 1: part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team,
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. How's it going? Everybody? I am your
Speaker 1: host Travis Wingfield And on today's show, it is day fourteen,
Speaker 1: two weeks into camp now and we have another report
Speaker 1: for you guys. We heard from head coach Mike McDaniel,
Speaker 1: We heard from QB one to a tongue by low
Speaker 1: overheam mostart. Jerome Baker was up there today, Rob Hunt.
Speaker 1: Plenty of media to get to as well as another
Speaker 1: day of practice notes, my favorite thing to do every
Speaker 1: day out here from the Baptist Health Studios inside the
Speaker 1: Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcast. Jumping
Speaker 1: right in it today. Coach was asked before practice about
Speaker 1: the penguin Jalen Waddle, who was out on the practice
Speaker 1: field but not participating today or yesterday, and we've detailed
Speaker 1: what his former coaches and teammates have said about the
Speaker 1: way he competes right well, coach McDaniel got himself a
Speaker 1: glimpse of that this week when finding out about the
Speaker 1: ailment that's keeping Wattle on the sidelines these last couple
Speaker 1: of days. Let's go to coach that was. That was fun,
Speaker 1: it was It was a cool process with Jalen. You
Speaker 1: learn more about your players all time. There's UM, something
Speaker 1: that you know that I don't really need to get into,
Speaker 1: but that he could have practiced with UM with our
Speaker 1: elite medical staff, UM, having history with stuff, we were
Speaker 1: trying to be preventative. UM. He wanted to practice. We
Speaker 1: we distill out it UM to try to try to
Speaker 1: be in front of something. UM. But he I expect
Speaker 1: him to practice here again in training camp. UM. We'll
Speaker 1: take it day by day. But we're just trying to
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes you have to protect people from themselves. UM.
Speaker 1: And that's a that's a great problem to have, especially
Speaker 1: with an elite talent like that. An elite talent like that,
Speaker 1: you say that pairs very well with a guy that
Speaker 1: is pushing to get on the practice field. It wants
Speaker 1: to play. And you heard from coach there, sometimes you
Speaker 1: have to protect guys from themselves. It just speaks to
Speaker 1: Jalen's competitive nature on top of the fact that coach
Speaker 1: Waddle Waddle talks about his talent as being elite. I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed coaches dry sarcasm. When a follow up question
Speaker 1: was asked about quick twitch guys and soft tissue stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean, we know that firsthand down here. Don't gotta
Speaker 1: be a quick twitch to have soft tissue injuries. And
Speaker 1: how the receiver's coach, the position coach there was so
Speaker 1: fast twitch and explosive that he can relate and the
Speaker 1: room didn't really get it. I don't think because West
Speaker 1: Welker's game was not quickness and explosion. It was in
Speaker 1: the slot, but it wasn't like he was Waddle in
Speaker 1: Tyreek in that regard, but he was so damgn good
Speaker 1: at everything else that it looked that way. And a
Speaker 1: quick aside, did you guys see them miked up with West?
Speaker 1: We posted to social I am such a big fan
Speaker 1: of what he brings to that wide receiver's room. Everybody
Speaker 1: I talked to, from someone like Joe Rose to the
Speaker 1: great O j McDuffie, they all talked about the impact
Speaker 1: on that room having Wesson there. What's next? Uh? The
Speaker 1: voice I wanted to hear more than anybody else on
Speaker 1: yesterday's practice, and in particular quarterback one two A tongue byloa.
Speaker 1: Here's Mike McDaniel on how his quarterback performed on Day
Speaker 1: thirteen and the overall thought behind it. UM No there
Speaker 1: there Yesterday was a classic example of the conflict, at
Speaker 1: least for me emotionally as a head coach, because you know,
Speaker 1: and I was very clear with this with the team.
Speaker 1: I was very pumped with how um the offense and
Speaker 1: in particular to a mountain practice, and I let it
Speaker 1: known early and often to the defense that you know, there,
Speaker 1: I didn't think that they were performing at the standard.
Speaker 1: I think it was probably the most successful red zone
Speaker 1: period that we've had. UM, certainly being here um offensively
Speaker 1: versus the defense. But um, after kind of you know,
Speaker 1: bringing that to the defense's attention, UM, we got into
Speaker 1: some situational periods and man did they answer the bell um.
Speaker 1: And in those periods we turned the ball over way
Speaker 1: too much, which was a great learning less than for
Speaker 1: to uh. We hadn't been in a couple of situations yet, um,
Speaker 1: and so we got to talk about it and learn
Speaker 1: from it. So overall, um, you know, I had half
Speaker 1: the practice that I was pumped at the offense, half
Speaker 1: the practice that was pumped at the defense simultaneously being
Speaker 1: mad at the other side of the ball. So um,
Speaker 1: all of which uh you know is is either a
Speaker 1: blip the radar or something that is some of the
Speaker 1: best stuff that can happen to you. So, especially in
Speaker 1: the practice field, you try to have players put themselves
Speaker 1: in scenarios as close to a game as possible and
Speaker 1: let it rip and and play what they see and
Speaker 1: then you reevaluate it um and or you coach them
Speaker 1: up on it. And then the next day you want
Speaker 1: to see um improvement and the next time we're in
Speaker 1: those situations in practice, I want to see improvement and
Speaker 1: games and expecting improvement with the offense and hopefully the
Speaker 1: defense is able to um reproduce that same production against
Speaker 1: an opponent. But it was a Yeah, it's almost like
Speaker 1: it makes you as a head coach, you just feel
Speaker 1: completely bipolar at times. You're like I'm happy and I'm sad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there you go, the full scope of it, right,
Speaker 1: not just one part of practice. The part of practice
Speaker 1: is going to get the most engagement, I suppose. And
Speaker 1: one thing that I run into a lot, you know,
Speaker 1: with this podcast and the reviews and the comments. And
Speaker 1: I understand that every job you have in this industry,
Speaker 1: in this space is going to be met with some criticism,
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm more than welcoming to that fact, but
Speaker 1: I just I don't understand why we can't like have
Speaker 1: the full scope of it the way Coach described right there.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'll be the first one to admit that,
Speaker 1: you know, certain throws weren't good, certain decisions weren't good.
Speaker 1: We had two picks a day and one of my
Speaker 1: thought was a really bad one, and that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you're gonna have, you know, guys that get paid
Speaker 1: on the other side of the football to make plays
Speaker 1: as well. And so for coach to go over the
Speaker 1: the idea of it's not good to turn the football
Speaker 1: over in those situational periods, but that's what they were.
Speaker 1: And again we covered that in depth in the podcast yesterday,
Speaker 1: but you don't get the full scope of that. And
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not gonna come out here and just
Speaker 1: tell you two was great. No matter what happens. I
Speaker 1: try to provide context and and process behind my thinking
Speaker 1: and I would hope I've earned the benefit of the
Speaker 1: doubt with that stuff, with you know, diligently working to
Speaker 1: increase my knowledge of this game, with coaching clinics, with books,
Speaker 1: with watching hours and hours and hours and hours and
Speaker 1: hours and hours and hours of tape. I hope that's
Speaker 1: the case. But you know, that's that's how it is.
Speaker 1: And just I thought coach would do a better job
Speaker 1: of describing that than I ever could, and certainly he
Speaker 1: did that. Let's go ahead and go we'll get more
Speaker 1: from Tua on this episode, but coming up, but next
Speaker 1: I want to go ahead and go to how what
Speaker 1: situation would cause you to be happy simultaneously with both
Speaker 1: sides of the ball. That's how practice works, right. You
Speaker 1: can't win on offense and defense, although there are instances
Speaker 1: where you can. Coach was asked about that, and once
Speaker 1: again calla c a w A. Coach's answer was great,
Speaker 1: thanks for that, shorthand Noah win effort, intent, um, assignment
Speaker 1: and technique are good. Which does happen? Um that generally
Speaker 1: it's it's somebody wins it down. Um. I really like
Speaker 1: the periods that within the period are back and forth.
Speaker 1: That's when I'm simultaneously happy because you know you're you're
Speaker 1: going every play doesn't work on both sides of the ball. Ever,
Speaker 1: So when you know going through that process of saying, wow,
Speaker 1: that was a seven yard run play we just gave
Speaker 1: up as a defense, it's second and three. Okay, now
Speaker 1: it's a two yard loss. Now it's third and five.
Speaker 1: And then you have a perfectly executed UM defensive structure
Speaker 1: versus a offensive structure, and maybe the offensive UM maybe
Speaker 1: two A throws a perfect throw and and it's a
Speaker 1: very contested but UM good completion, or it's a it's
Speaker 1: a perfect throw and UM a dB makes a great play.
Speaker 1: That's Those are my favorite periods within the team because
Speaker 1: you're not you don't want to see UM complete domination
Speaker 1: by either side. So it is it's an interesting UM.
Speaker 1: What you know when when you've practiced together for about
Speaker 1: a month and then you have all o t s
Speaker 1: and stuff, UM, you're you're looking for parody UM because
Speaker 1: our team needs both sides of the ball to be
Speaker 1: UM as good as they can be. The bottom line is,
Speaker 1: no one's going to give a crap about who wons
Speaker 1: certain days of practice. If you come out on game
Speaker 1: days on Sundays and you beat up in an opposition
Speaker 1: on both sides of the football, because then it just
Speaker 1: tells you, well, this was two good units and offense
Speaker 1: and defense going at each other, and hopefully that's the idea, right,
Speaker 1: hopefully that's what we get. We had a question here
Speaker 1: for coach and I loved it from soft a Dean
Speaker 1: asking about from the time you got here six months
Speaker 1: ago to now, what is something you like about how
Speaker 1: this team has grown since you got here, And Coach
Speaker 1: gave us this whole dissertation about the impact of your
Speaker 1: message and your voice and your volume. Like, I'll relate
Speaker 1: to this personally. You I'm the fun dad with my daughter,
Speaker 1: right Like, I come home and we play and we wrestle,
Speaker 1: and she climbs in my back and I carry her
Speaker 1: around like a big old grizzly bear, riding around the
Speaker 1: all fours in the living room. And then you know,
Speaker 1: mom comes in disciplines and gets make sure she's eating
Speaker 1: her dinner and all that stuff. And I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: the fun one. So when it's time for me to
Speaker 1: turn that dial and be serious, maybe with a two
Speaker 1: year old, it's tough because she'll be like, yeah, all right, Dad, good,
Speaker 1: good joke. But I think at a certain point that
Speaker 1: will start to have a bigger impact because once Dad
Speaker 1: becomes serious, it's time to listen up because we know
Speaker 1: that he means business. Here's Coach talking about using your inflection,
Speaker 1: your voice and the return that he's gotten when he's
Speaker 1: had to do that to create urgency. I'm gonna stop
Speaker 1: talking because he explains it fully, but I just can't
Speaker 1: love this enough. Coach's answer was great, Kawa. One of
Speaker 1: my favorite parts is that like a you know, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm a pretty positive guy and I like to bring energy. Um,
Speaker 1: but there's been opportunities that have had along the way
Speaker 1: to kind of like point out and nipping, but that
Speaker 1: that is not good enough whatever that is on either
Speaker 1: side of the ball or special teams or anywhere that
Speaker 1: I've really applied that pressure like a of a time,
Speaker 1: people have responded, and I think that is that is
Speaker 1: the life you live. That is the life of everyone
Speaker 1: that is football. Um, the nuts and bolts of it
Speaker 1: is is really handling all the noise, um, being able
Speaker 1: to accept constructive stuff and then getting better from it.
Speaker 1: So um, that's my favorite part. I'm I'm I'm pretty
Speaker 1: happy with where we're at forum approaching the second preseason game,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty happy and and that will I be happy
Speaker 1: during the season. Well, you know that's contingent upon what
Speaker 1: happens now. You could have the greatest um off season
Speaker 1: and beginning of training camp in the history of football,
Speaker 1: and if you shut it down for a couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: all that's meaningless. So UM, there, I feel very confident.
Speaker 1: They're earning my confidence, um by the way they respond.
Speaker 1: So I'm happy, uh really about where we're at and
Speaker 1: where we're going, feeling confident that will take the right
Speaker 1: steps um to be ready to play um New England
Speaker 1: Week one. Being constructive with your yelling opposed to you know,
Speaker 1: a reaction which is frustration and then taking that out
Speaker 1: as a reflection of your own feelings about something opposed
Speaker 1: to the actual thought process of constructively coaching a player
Speaker 1: to get better. Because if you're just yelling, because that's
Speaker 1: how you blow off steam, not very useful, right, But
Speaker 1: when you use it to your advantage to say, hey,
Speaker 1: we gotta get this goal, we got to get this
Speaker 1: ship correct, that's when it really really kind of rights accord.
Speaker 1: Coach was also asked about how often you have to yell,
Speaker 1: and does he like to use that process of yelling.
Speaker 1: Let's just go to coach right here. I mean, try
Speaker 1: not to major in it. It's kind of philosophically, UM,
Speaker 1: like I don't enjoy yelling, but you have to do
Speaker 1: what you have to do to let them no exactly
Speaker 1: the urgency of the moment. But I've always philosophically thought that, like,
Speaker 1: if you pick and choose those moments, then that state
Speaker 1: that you don't really like to be in. UM it
Speaker 1: is purposeful, you know. UM. I just know from my
Speaker 1: personal experience. UM, at some point in time, if you're
Speaker 1: just yelled at consistently all the time, then the yelling
Speaker 1: sounds like normal talking. And that's not the idea of it. UM.
Speaker 1: I think it's important to UH to build relationships and
Speaker 1: try to develop players as players and people and UH,
Speaker 1: but they also need to know the urgency. It's my
Speaker 1: job to let them know the urgency. So if it's UM,
Speaker 1: I I won't hesitate, nor have I hesitated. You could
Speaker 1: ask some of the players I will I will UM
Speaker 1: have a temper from time to time. UM, but I
Speaker 1: think they understand because I value earning that UM. Earning trust,
Speaker 1: and I don't. I don't think that I'm owed or
Speaker 1: entitled to anything. I think on a daily basis, I
Speaker 1: have to um really earn their investment. I think that
Speaker 1: they see where that's coming from, not as misguided emotion,
Speaker 1: but more as um tangible direct uh uh. I don't know,
Speaker 1: convicted um emotion that is all geared towards them being
Speaker 1: their best. I just love that that the emotion is
Speaker 1: geared towards them being their best. That's what I'm talking about, right, Like,
Speaker 1: you're not just doing it to make yourself feel better,
Speaker 1: and God knows, I sure know about that. Again, I
Speaker 1: talked about it earlier about not sleeping or it's in
Speaker 1: the script coming up about not sleeping, because my daughter
Speaker 1: is just not sleeping right now, and my frustrations with
Speaker 1: that certainly hit a certain point, but it's not instructive
Speaker 1: to her to yell at her because she doesn't know
Speaker 1: any better. It's helping me vent my frustrations. So being
Speaker 1: more relaxed with the situation and being constructive in the
Speaker 1: way I do it is has been more beneficial. So
Speaker 1: those are my parenting you know, relations to what coaches
Speaker 1: talking about. But I just I'm trying to. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to identify as close as I possibly can, because I
Speaker 1: just love that messaging and the intent of it all
Speaker 1: is so well intentioned. I couldn't love it more. Coach
Speaker 1: was also asked about what he's most excited about for
Speaker 1: his hard rock stadium debut, and again the joke the
Speaker 1: Awkwase seats, he said, And as someone who was constantly
Speaker 1: searching for a joke in every interaction I have, that
Speaker 1: one got a belly laugh out of me. He did
Speaker 1: go on to say something that I found well, once
Speaker 1: again just awesome. He referenced to the fan base when
Speaker 1: he first got here, right and now that he's been
Speaker 1: here for six months today he talked about more about that,
Speaker 1: I should say, and mentioned how the a f C
Speaker 1: East was one of two divisions he's never coached him
Speaker 1: before in his seventeen years. Can you guess the other
Speaker 1: time's up over blow? It's the NFC North. But his
Speaker 1: checklist a f C north of Cleveland, a f C
Speaker 1: South with Houston, a f C West with Denver, NFC
Speaker 1: East with Washington, wordingon, NFC South with Atlanta, and obviously
Speaker 1: the NFC West with San Fran. All of that is
Speaker 1: to say that. He said he's most excited about the
Speaker 1: connection between a fan base that really supports and is
Speaker 1: invested into the team, and a team that really wants
Speaker 1: to do right by the fan base. He also referenced
Speaker 1: seeing the fans at practice and the feedback he's gotten.
Speaker 1: He knows there's going to be a ton of energy
Speaker 1: across the street over there at hard Rock Stadium, and
Speaker 1: he's right. Then he was asked about if we might
Speaker 1: have an announcement, and he played with us there again,
Speaker 1: saying there's a player's birthday tomorrow. I believe his wife
Speaker 1: went to the grocery store, which is exciting because he's
Speaker 1: a big time snap guy. As I continue to aggressively
Speaker 1: nod my head in agreement, looking down at a cup
Speaker 1: of coffee and two chips Awoi rappers. But his answer
Speaker 1: was the same as it's been. He's not going to
Speaker 1: short change the process by making decisions before every practice
Speaker 1: has happened. And we still had today's practice, and tomorrow's
Speaker 1: another fun presser there from coach, another chance for us
Speaker 1: on the other side of the podium to get smarter,
Speaker 1: just as today's practice was another chance to get better.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that next in the Drivetime Podcast, your
Speaker 1: host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation, segment
Speaker 1: two on a Wednesday edition of the Drivetime Podcast. Check
Speaker 1: out our Twitter spaces show tonight at eight o'clock, Me,
Speaker 1: Seth and Juice kind of break down some Dolphins practice
Speaker 1: and hear from you guys as well. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and get into the practice notes today. And I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if it's the fact that we hit you know,
Speaker 1: day fourteen a k a. The two week mark worth
Speaker 1: of practice days and that's obviously longer than next We've
Speaker 1: had days off in between a game on Saturday, you
Speaker 1: get the picture, Or if it's the fact that these
Speaker 1: clear days with extreme temperatures are draining, or if it's
Speaker 1: the fact that aforementioned Caroline is still not recovered from
Speaker 1: her interrupted sleep schedule during this summer. Probably a combination
Speaker 1: of all that, mostly though, I would say sleeping four
Speaker 1: or five hours a night. But today for me had
Speaker 1: a real dog days feel man, I'm dragging today. I'll
Speaker 1: be honest with you, guys, transparent, it's what we do here, right,
Speaker 1: but taking on the message of measuring your love for
Speaker 1: your teammates, that's you, guys, in this instance, by how
Speaker 1: you perform on days where you don't got it. That's
Speaker 1: the message today. So I'm bringing my best stuff on
Speaker 1: maybe a B day, not an A day plus perspective. Right, Travis,
Speaker 1: your job is to watch football. Buck up son. And
Speaker 1: now we've reached the talking to myself slash pep talk
Speaker 1: to myself portion of the show. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: stop that nonsense and get into the practice notes. I
Speaker 1: had the pleasure of watching practice today with a great
Speaker 1: Joe Rose. We both noted separately a good deal of
Speaker 1: jew and energy from the players today. And on one instance,
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks went from the goal line where they're doing
Speaker 1: one drill out to midfield where they met the running
Speaker 1: backs for another drill and to hit it on a
Speaker 1: full sprint. All the quarterbacks ran down there. Running backs
Speaker 1: ran down there too, but two a sprinted down there,
Speaker 1: and they had those mats on the ground. They are
Speaker 1: a simulation of where each gap is. Like, you'll have
Speaker 1: a color for your center, your guard, your tackles. Than
Speaker 1: the yellow parts are the gaps kind of for your
Speaker 1: aiming point and your launch point, and you're you know
Speaker 1: where the running back wants to press for this quarterback
Speaker 1: running back exchange drill handoffs uh to a ran past
Speaker 1: that Matt like a finish line and did that sprinters
Speaker 1: finish where you kind of throw your arms out and
Speaker 1: reach your head forward over the line. I just thought
Speaker 1: that was a microcosm of the team bringing their energy today,
Speaker 1: as we heard from coach after he got on them
Speaker 1: a little bit on Tuesday, Durham Smith in the Orange Jersey,
Speaker 1: and I'm giving this playlist the best one of camp.
Speaker 1: We had outcast, some jab rules, some big punts, and
Speaker 1: Mac Miller some food fighters. There was some more rock
Speaker 1: and roll on the list that I just can't remember
Speaker 1: right now, but big, big, big fan of that playlist.
Speaker 1: We got some one on one today. I thought Rob
Speaker 1: Hunt looked super solid in the past rush slash offensive
Speaker 1: line drills. Was impressed by some of Ben Still's work
Speaker 1: on the other side, and I thought Elijah Campbell really
Speaker 1: showed his stuff and coverage drills. He was not giving
Speaker 1: an inch matching up on guys like Mike Sicky Dirham
Speaker 1: smyth things of that nature. Let's go position by position
Speaker 1: for the team periods. Here at quarterback, I thought it
Speaker 1: was an up and down day for QB one. But
Speaker 1: now you've heard about two interceptions. One was really good
Speaker 1: play from Javon Holland the key to jump the quarterback
Speaker 1: read the eyes, jump a throw over the middle and
Speaker 1: took it back the other way for a touchdown. I'd
Speaker 1: love to see the film on that, because no one's
Speaker 1: going to be able to give you a breakdown of
Speaker 1: what actually happened without the film. But we did hear
Speaker 1: from two on it. We'll get to that in the
Speaker 1: third segment. The other was a contested ball opportunity to
Speaker 1: Dirham Smith down in the red zone where Javon Holland
Speaker 1: climbs the ladder and makes that play. It's just kind
Speaker 1: of what you expect from number eight. But otherwise thought
Speaker 1: two was sharp. The day opened with another chunk, gained
Speaker 1: a tyreek hill that seems to be how every single
Speaker 1: practice starts down here. He had tyreek for two more,
Speaker 1: two more big plays, i should say, in that chunk,
Speaker 1: middle part of the field type of completions. And the
Speaker 1: beautiful part is that when they come are these plays
Speaker 1: that they get, they come on routes of all shapes
Speaker 1: and sizes, like vertical stems back to the quarterback in
Speaker 1: breaking routes glances now like whatever it is, they find
Speaker 1: a way to have success too. I had three touchdowns
Speaker 1: by my account, but frankly, gold jacket, green jacket, I
Speaker 1: don't care about practice stats. Nothing means less to me.
Speaker 1: I thought today was one of Teddy's best days. His timing,
Speaker 1: anticipation and location was on point. He had a far
Speaker 1: far hash throw to Tyreek fifteen yards down the field,
Speaker 1: like a deep out where he got it out there
Speaker 1: right on Tyreek's ten, the number on his jersey. Jesus
Speaker 1: Travis get through it right out of the break and
Speaker 1: Tyreek runs through it taps the toes money throw. He
Speaker 1: also had a really nice layered throw across his body
Speaker 1: on the move to Mike Gasicki over one defender under another.
Speaker 1: I thought Skylar thoms and was a bit scatter shot today,
Speaker 1: but he also had some nice rips as well. The
Speaker 1: running backs got things going, and I continue to marvel
Speaker 1: at the work that Chase Edmonds continues to put in
Speaker 1: man his ability to get skinny but keep the wheels
Speaker 1: rolling on these tiny little creases. I seriously cannot wait
Speaker 1: to see him get touches in games like he was
Speaker 1: a guy that came onto the scene with the Cardinals,
Speaker 1: like under the Radar, had a big preseason as a
Speaker 1: rookie and just continued to flash big playability all four
Speaker 1: years there. And now I think we're seeing someone super
Speaker 1: comfortable with the skill set how to maximize his abilities,
Speaker 1: his abilities and blocks within the scheme on a given play.
Speaker 1: And I think he's gonna do what Douce Staley was
Speaker 1: trying to get out of DeAndre Swift and hard knocks
Speaker 1: last night, like go get every yard, go get every inch.
Speaker 1: That's the way he runs the football. He had a
Speaker 1: big run, Uh Michelle had a big run to the outside,
Speaker 1: uh Savan akhmeded Miles Gascon. Both were sprung to the
Speaker 1: second level at various stages. Good day for the running game.
Speaker 1: So Quandre White had a route on Channing Tindle and
Speaker 1: I don't think there's a linebacker on this roster who
Speaker 1: changes directions better than changing tendal but s Quandria White
Speaker 1: got some separation that really stood out to me in
Speaker 1: that route period. Good day from the backs. Mike gets sick,
Speaker 1: He had another good day. Caught a bunch of balls.
Speaker 1: Hunter Long had a catch on a tight window throw
Speaker 1: from two late in the day, and then Tyreek is
Speaker 1: Tyreek man. You know what to expect and he delivers
Speaker 1: every single day. The way he comes off the stem
Speaker 1: and makes that first break, but then within that first
Speaker 1: step off the break can change directions again for a
Speaker 1: second break. I just don't know how you cover that,
Speaker 1: and apparently the rest of the league does either, because
Speaker 1: you know, nobody has more yards from scrimmage than Tyreek
Speaker 1: since seventeen, his first full year as a starter. Cedric
Speaker 1: Wilson such a stud man. His size, strong hands, concentration, concentration,
Speaker 1: ability to get vertical. I like it all. I like
Speaker 1: that he had to place today that I thought showed
Speaker 1: his feel for the position. On one, he goes to
Speaker 1: the ground as Teddy as trying to throw the ball
Speaker 1: to him. In the as he's going to the ground,
Speaker 1: he reaches up and makes us catch with a defender
Speaker 1: all over him. By the way. Then there's an inbreaking
Speaker 1: route where he doesn't just flatten down the line. He
Speaker 1: angles it back to the quarterback. And if you want
Speaker 1: to earn trust from your quarterback, do that time and
Speaker 1: time again. He does. Sherfield had some plays. Boden caught
Speaker 1: an absolute strike from two on a quick hitter where
Speaker 1: his man got caught in the traffic, got caught in
Speaker 1: the wash, in the trash, and I think Lynn scores
Speaker 1: from about fifty yards out on that. Braylon Sanders had
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of catches today and continues to show
Speaker 1: that smooth body control that allows him to battle for
Speaker 1: balls and adjust in flight. I thought Rob Hunt was
Speaker 1: really good today, rolls his hips, moves guys in the
Speaker 1: running game, active feet and hands. In the past Pro game,
Speaker 1: I had a good look at some Jackson og Bam matchups,
Speaker 1: and boy, that was a fun fight to watch. I
Speaker 1: noticed that Jackson had a couple of good stalemates where
Speaker 1: he just held us his ground against Aga, but also
Speaker 1: a couple of instances where Emmanual's length and strength on
Speaker 1: that push poll technique grab him, push them, pull him
Speaker 1: back into you, and it just allows him to control
Speaker 1: the rip like nobody in the league at that position.
Speaker 1: I think incorporates that move better. For my money, Emmanuel
Speaker 1: was decon tructing blocks like that all day today and
Speaker 1: did it for a long time in this league. It's
Speaker 1: great work for anybody on the other side of the
Speaker 1: offensive line that gets to see that in practice. I
Speaker 1: thought Connor Williams is very good and the one on
Speaker 1: ones I thought Kellen Diash had a really good practice
Speaker 1: both in the run game and passing game back to
Speaker 1: the D line. Christian Wilkins quickness man in the way
Speaker 1: the ogba's length is such a valuable tool for this
Speaker 1: offensive line to go up against. Like always, he got
Speaker 1: in a few times, but one of my favorite reps
Speaker 1: of the day was him shooting a gap and then
Speaker 1: Liam Eichenberg recognizes it and comes over and helps finds
Speaker 1: extra work and he gets the last second block on
Speaker 1: Christian right before he gets to chase Edmonds, and that
Speaker 1: block sprunk Chase for a big run. Andrew Van Giegel
Speaker 1: had some good rush work today. Ben still continues to
Speaker 1: flash to me with his strength. And Cameron good had
Speaker 1: by my count, three sacks. He's been one of the
Speaker 1: guys that has had a steady arrow up camp all
Speaker 1: training camp long. You love to see that he's getting
Speaker 1: more and more productive each day. And then finally in
Speaker 1: the second dary, I mean Javon Holland the two picks
Speaker 1: he has to read this week, but the best play
Speaker 1: was a pass breakup on a ball from Tyreek to to.
Speaker 1: Tyreek had six he's open downfield, but here comes eight
Speaker 1: from Randy Orton out of nowhere, flying over like raiding
Speaker 1: in Mortal Kombat, that specialty finishing and moved the high
Speaker 1: you can and he slapped the football away. He was
Speaker 1: absolutely fired up after that and you could hear his
Speaker 1: victorious battle cry that let's go from the top row
Speaker 1: of the grandstands. Elijah Campbell is a guy that continues
Speaker 1: to get on the radar. He was on the radar
Speaker 1: for special teams work last year flashed in. Camp had
Speaker 1: a big preseason debut this year and then I thought
Speaker 1: it was fantastic. Today he's quickly becoming a top guy
Speaker 1: for me to watch these next couple of exhibitions. Game
Speaker 1: number twe exhibition games number twenty two, Elijah Hamilton's had
Speaker 1: a great pick where he took the ball out of
Speaker 1: the receiver's hand and ran it back the other way
Speaker 1: to got a little bit of look at Mackenzie Alexander.
Speaker 1: Today thought he moved well. He spent some time getting
Speaker 1: instruction from coaches, so I'm excited to watch him progress,
Speaker 1: get the system down and start to play fast. And
Speaker 1: that's it, and that's all. Another practice tomorrow, game Saturday,
Speaker 1: Eagles in town next week. But before any of that
Speaker 1: finish up with player media availability, that's next here on
Speaker 1: the Drivetime Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you
Speaker 1: by Auto Nation. Back in on a Wednesday edition of
Speaker 1: the Drift Time Podcast, we heard from a bunch of
Speaker 1: guys today. I want to play sound from Tua, Raheem Moster,
Speaker 1: and Rob Hunt. Let's go ahead and start with QB
Speaker 1: one on how he felt today's practice went. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think everyone got better from yesterday. Yesterday kinda seemed the
Speaker 1: one sided in the first half, if you will, with
Speaker 1: the first two team periods, and then I would say,
Speaker 1: you know, the defense started to pick up there, uh
Speaker 1: their morale and you know they brought it yesterday as well.
Speaker 1: I think today was was a really good back and
Speaker 1: forth with offense making plays and then the defense making
Speaker 1: plays and then continuing to go back back and forth
Speaker 1: with that. Let's hear from Tua on Mike McDaniels i
Speaker 1: guess animated speech to the team yesterday. It was a
Speaker 1: big talking point, a big storyline. Here's two talking about
Speaker 1: coach and showing some of that urgency and aggressiveness to
Speaker 1: try to manufacture or cultivate the urgency out of his players.
Speaker 1: Here's to U. Yeah, I think it's good to see
Speaker 1: that side of him. We never we never get to
Speaker 1: see that side of him. I think it's good to
Speaker 1: see that side of every person that you know, people
Speaker 1: think is too nice or they're too chill or too mellow,
Speaker 1: because really you understand the competitor in them. You understand that, uh,
Speaker 1: they mean business and for for me and for the guys. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, when we hear Mike raised his voice, you know,
Speaker 1: we we got nothing but respect because that's not something
Speaker 1: that that he does. So when he does do it,
Speaker 1: you know, it's that much more meaningful. How about that
Speaker 1: young safety Javon Holland. How much more difficult does he
Speaker 1: make your job? Or should I say how much more
Speaker 1: does he prepare you for what you might see from
Speaker 1: the best safeties in the NFL. Here's to uh hunt
Speaker 1: good looking second year safety Javon Holland really good, Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh. I mean he's made tremendous plays, um, you know,
Speaker 1: for for me trying to read off my keys. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, he's made tremendous places and not just today
Speaker 1: but throughout the entire camp. Um. And you know the
Speaker 1: place that he's made is only getting me better, only
Speaker 1: getting our route distribution better and our timing better offensively,
Speaker 1: So you know prompts to j h when he said
Speaker 1: really good. That's how we reacted to Javon's performance today. Me,
Speaker 1: Marcel Safa, and Joe Rose watched practice today. We were
Speaker 1: just who we are blown away. Let's go to Raheem Moster,
Speaker 1: who was asked the same question about coach McDaniel and
Speaker 1: his reaction after practice. Raheem obviously knows coach from his
Speaker 1: time in San Francisco. Here's the Dolphins running back as
Speaker 1: a team. It wasn't particularly our standard especially you know, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, like you said on in the meeting, he
Speaker 1: told us that you know, when the defense gets scored
Speaker 1: on a lot in the rezon, that affects everybody as
Speaker 1: a team. So UM, and we all took it personal. Um,
Speaker 1: And as you can see today, it was just an
Speaker 1: example of how to overcome those things like we did
Speaker 1: what happened yesterday. And that's why he was a little
Speaker 1: bit more animated today because he saw the type of
Speaker 1: the type of privacy wanted. UM moving forward, and you know,
Speaker 1: we we have a we have a standard for this team,
Speaker 1: and that's to to win first and foremost. But we
Speaker 1: want to come out here each and every day and
Speaker 1: try to, you know, be one per cent. So that
Speaker 1: was the big thing. Oh yeah, yeah, I've seen that
Speaker 1: out of him before. Um, you know, there's something new
Speaker 1: to you guys, but this is familiar to me. So uh,
Speaker 1: just to see him be the way he is and
Speaker 1: exude that energy towards everybody else, especially for the team,
Speaker 1: is it is truly something special. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: finish up with Big Rob Hunt, who was asked about
Speaker 1: coaches reaction post practice today. Here's the Dolphins offensive lineman,
Speaker 1: a combination of has been making plays of offensive defense
Speaker 1: that kind of had him fired up, and I'm excited.
Speaker 1: I guess, uh, you know, maybe yesterday wasn't our greatest,
Speaker 1: but you know, today we came out. We're find a way,
Speaker 1: so it's just getting better each day. All right, let's
Speaker 1: call it a podcast. Right there. You can find all
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