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Speaker 2: Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, we've got to practice
Speaker 2: to recap OTA's weekend.
Speaker 4: Or two for us in the media.
Speaker 2: We'll go ahead and talk about all the news and
Speaker 2: notes from an on field workout. We'll also hear from
Speaker 2: head coach Mike McDaniel and kind of intertwine the stories
Speaker 2: of the day, as well as a handful of veteran
Speaker 2: players from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health
Speaker 2: Training Complex. This is the Draft Time podcast, Mayeff. Let's
Speaker 2: get into the practice notes right off the top here,
Speaker 2: and we'll get the soundbites weaved in that match up
Speaker 2: throughout the episode. We'll start at the quarterback position. Look,
Speaker 2: I didn't think last week was peak quarterback play, but
Speaker 2: I thought today was about as close to that as
Speaker 2: you can get, especially when talking about quarterback one and
Speaker 2: two a tongue of Iloa, but really between between Skyler
Speaker 2: and Mike White, I think all looked pretty sharp, and
Speaker 2: there was a late pick from James Blackman, the undrafted
Speaker 2: rookie from Arkansas State. Let's go ahead and start here
Speaker 2: with Tua's day, who I thought was just spinning the
Speaker 2: football beautifully showed you all the trades that produced some high,
Speaker 2: high level offense last year for this team. There was
Speaker 2: a two play sequence, so really, I guess a three
Speaker 2: play sequence that I thought demonstrated what it is to
Speaker 2: play at a high level at that position in this
Speaker 2: league and handle everything that's thrown at you from what
Speaker 2: is the toughest position in all of sports, in my opinion. First,
Speaker 2: the one that gets the fans all excited. He found
Speaker 2: chosen Robbie, chosen Anderson. I'm not it's chosen Anderson on
Speaker 2: the Robbie chosen on the depth chart, but we'll see.
Speaker 4: But what a shot it was down the field.
Speaker 2: And one thing I really noticed today was Tua's processing
Speaker 2: and pocket management and how those two facets of the
Speaker 2: game of the position are really intertwined, not just for him,
Speaker 2: but for most successful quarterbacks. Right We've heard coach bevill
Speaker 2: talk about it. We've heard Tua talk about this as well.
Speaker 2: How the footwork takes you to the throw, and how
Speaker 2: the timing of the play is really married to the
Speaker 2: operation of your feet and your eyes working together. And
Speaker 2: I noticed this in both full team and seven on
Speaker 2: seven drills. How quickly he rifles through his options, and
Speaker 2: if it's a quick option first, like he wants to go,
Speaker 2: you know, catch rock throw first, and it's not there.
Speaker 2: He gets back into his alignment at the snap where
Speaker 2: you catch the football and you get into your drop.
Speaker 2: He deepens the drop to buy more time. But not
Speaker 2: only does this create more space between him and the
Speaker 2: oncoming pass rush, which obviously affords you more time, but
Speaker 2: it allows him to hitch up and drive his throws.
Speaker 2: And that's what we got on the deep shot to
Speaker 2: chosen and to me, this entire you know, two sessions
Speaker 2: of practices here in may have told me the understanding
Speaker 2: of your skill set and of your game and utilizing
Speaker 2: different areas of your game to maybe boost the ones
Speaker 2: that you don't do as well. I think we're seeing
Speaker 2: a lot of that from Tua. Give yourself that drive
Speaker 2: up in the pocket to push the ball down the field.
Speaker 2: Give yourself, you know, quick read options to get too
Speaker 2: quickly and get the ball out of your hands and
Speaker 2: live to fight another day. Because you are driving the
Speaker 2: ball down the field and you're having a lot of
Speaker 2: success throwing the ball vertically, more than anybody else in
Speaker 2: the National Football League last year. But you start sprinkling
Speaker 2: some of those checkdowns and maybe not trying to you know,
Speaker 2: live for the home run ball all the time. Gosh,
Speaker 2: you're gonna be tough to defend. So on this deep ball,
Speaker 2: you get chosen running a deep over like think about
Speaker 2: a post route. Rather than angling towards the post, you're
Speaker 2: going more towards the pylom, like continuing that flat plane
Speaker 2: almost to that front corner of the end zone. So
Speaker 2: Tua hitches up and brings the rain with this high
Speaker 2: arcing Russell Wilson style, you know, vintage Russell Wilson style
Speaker 2: deep ball that falls right between you know, and alligator
Speaker 2: arms is a bad term for a receiver, but that's
Speaker 2: how Anderson's hands.
Speaker 4: Were because that's where the ball was.
Speaker 2: So he kind of puts the elbows together and the
Speaker 2: ball just comes in right over the top of his
Speaker 2: helmet into the elbows, secures it for a big catch.
Speaker 2: And the coverage wasn't bad. In fact, I would argue
Speaker 2: it was good coverage, but Chosen splits the two dbs.
Speaker 2: I didn't get numbers in the DBS, one right in
Speaker 2: the hip pocket, but there's no defense for a perfect pass,
Speaker 2: and the good positioning did allow them to get Chosen
Speaker 2: right down to the ground after that spot, which, hey boys,
Speaker 2: let's keep our guy up. But roughly forty five yards
Speaker 2: or so. And the very next play is the duality
Speaker 2: of Tua's skill set to me, because here we go
Speaker 2: for a forty five yard chunk game, which we saw
Speaker 2: all year last year. Then they bring a rusher. It's like,
Speaker 2: this is how we counteract that deep drop, right, We're
Speaker 2: gonna bring pressure and blitz the heck out of this quarterback,
Speaker 2: which happened a lot in this practice. We saw install
Speaker 2: blitzing and then blitzing throughout the team period as well.
Speaker 2: And they brought a rusher who came clean because like,
Speaker 2: if I don't want that deep drop, I want to
Speaker 2: get the ball out of his hands quickly, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: heat him up. And so Tua, this is where he
Speaker 2: can really pick you apart man. And we saw, you know,
Speaker 2: a we saw such a drastic dip in sack rate
Speaker 2: when he's in the game compared to any other quarterback
Speaker 2: on the roster the last three years. Right, you go
Speaker 2: from you know, eight percent sack rate without him last
Speaker 2: year to three point eight percent when he's in the game.
Speaker 2: It's a huge difference. So for Tua, identify this free runner,
Speaker 2: identify this blitzer, finds you're hot, drop the arm, sleet,
Speaker 2: whip that thing out there in one second one, I
Speaker 2: mean one point five seconds. This was lightning quick. I
Speaker 2: saw him do this several times a day. So then
Speaker 2: it like gets you to that conflict for a defensive
Speaker 2: coach of like, well, do I blitz him or do
Speaker 2: I not because either way he's cooking it up. If
Speaker 2: you can do that, you're not going to get stopped
Speaker 2: in this league. But on the very next play after
Speaker 2: you just dropped a forty five passed down the field,
Speaker 2: that's the type of stuff that just keeps you in
Speaker 2: advantageous situations, gives you more opportunities at big plays, and
Speaker 2: ultimately scores you more points, which is duh. Obviously the goal.
Speaker 2: Later on in seven on seven he did something else
Speaker 2: that I think really makes him an upper echelon quarterback.
Speaker 2: That little pump to displace a hook or underneath defender,
Speaker 2: and then quickly like from pump to release, I don't
Speaker 2: know if anybody's faster, he rifles this laser that you
Speaker 2: could have hung laundry on, this absolute frozen rope twenty
Speaker 2: yards down the middle to brax and burials on the
Speaker 2: hash for a big play. He was quick, he was decisive,
Speaker 2: the ball was where it needed to be on all
Speaker 2: but I think I think I had two throws that
Speaker 2: were off target, and I saw one miss in seven
Speaker 2: on seven that was just an out and out miss,
Speaker 2: but another ball and team that was high. And this
Speaker 2: is what's so funny about too, is a miss is
Speaker 2: a ball that gets caught. He threw it up over
Speaker 2: the top of Wattle's helmet, which is not where he
Speaker 2: wanted to put it, but Jalen climbs the ladder and
Speaker 2: pulls it down. More on Jalen Wattle here in just
Speaker 2: a moment. But as for the other quarterbacks, I'm in
Speaker 2: on this Mike White experience.
Speaker 4: Man, he can play. He's a good player.
Speaker 2: I wonder how much of his knowledge of a similar
Speaker 2: offense is helping him here because he is playing super fast.
Speaker 2: There's a noticeable difference between one and fourteen and the
Speaker 2: other quarterbacks. The balls out early, He's giving guys chances
Speaker 2: to make plays after the catch.
Speaker 4: And he just looks in control.
Speaker 2: He had a throw to Cedric Wilson that was to
Speaker 2: a spot with a potential for a defender who was
Speaker 2: covering a man you know in that area when the
Speaker 2: ball came out of his hand, And that's the confidence
Speaker 2: you have to have to play well in this offense
Speaker 2: because that defender, you know, I guess, for all intents
Speaker 2: and purposes, could have peeled off their coverage. That's part
Speaker 2: of Mike White's read there is if he's in man coverage,
Speaker 2: I know he's not going to peel back sometimes you know,
Speaker 2: playmakers do that.
Speaker 4: But Mike White with this level.
Speaker 2: Of confidence, you know, it goes back to what I
Speaker 2: talk about with two all the time, of reading leverage
Speaker 2: and throwing with anticipation to a spot based upon the
Speaker 2: knowledge he has from alignment, positioning, the flow of the
Speaker 2: play that the defenders, you know, movement in that particular play.
Speaker 4: All of that stuff.
Speaker 2: So for Mike White, he throws this ball to a
Speaker 2: location and by the time the receiver of the football intersect,
Speaker 2: it was perfect. Like you can't do that if you're late,
Speaker 2: which you know happens happened last year when we didn't
Speaker 2: have two in the game way too often. So to
Speaker 2: see Mike White come and do that, that was nice
Speaker 2: to see somebody else in the roster really execute those
Speaker 2: anticipation throws that can maximize this offense and what it
Speaker 2: does and what it's designed to do. He has a
Speaker 2: couple of those in both practices I've seen. I feel
Speaker 2: really good about one and fourteen. Skyler Thompson dropped a
Speaker 2: dime up top to Brilin Sanders, who tracked that ball
Speaker 2: very nicely.
Speaker 4: His best throw of the day by far.
Speaker 2: That hes intency in the pocket still there a little bit,
Speaker 2: and he had another wide open deep shot to Burrios
Speaker 2: that went a few yards long. There was another throw
Speaker 2: later on I thought was very good from Skyler where
Speaker 2: Savon Achmed ran a little route across the defense's face
Speaker 2: and the ball really met him right out of the break.
Speaker 2: For a good chunk game against pretty good coverage. And
Speaker 2: speaking of Savon Ahma, that dude just makes plays. I'm
Speaker 2: a fan of his game. You know, we saw it
Speaker 2: last year in the Buffalo game. Really good backup, slash,
Speaker 2: special teams. Guy that can when you lose backs, come
Speaker 2: into the game in a pinch and give your production
Speaker 2: at the running back position. I still think that he's
Speaker 2: got a future as a player in this league. I
Speaker 2: mentioned Tua going to Waddle a few times. Wattle has
Speaker 2: been impressive to me since day number one rookie year.
Speaker 2: The one miss I mentioned Tua. You know, I think
Speaker 2: it's it's funny. I mentioned it last week that his
Speaker 2: misses still wind up completions half the damn time. But
Speaker 2: Tua's high on this quick throw to Wattle between a
Speaker 2: pair of defenders on that you know, put the ball
Speaker 2: on the back of the belly or the belly of
Speaker 2: the back, pull it out, pop it over the middle.
Speaker 2: But Jalen on this high throw, full extension, arms reached
Speaker 2: to the sky, plucks it, pulls it into his body,
Speaker 2: goes to the ground, makes the catch, secures it, and
Speaker 2: that thing was a fastball man. Tua is thrown with
Speaker 2: some zip on all types of throws. Right now, Wattle
Speaker 2: caught another pass on a route moving away from Tua
Speaker 2: and it was like a speed out, like you know,
Speaker 2: quick to the sideline where Cater was in really good
Speaker 2: shape and tried to drive under it for the pick,
Speaker 2: kind of like we saw in the Browns game last
Speaker 2: year with Denzel Ward and Twoo. Just puts this ball
Speaker 2: high and away, right on target in a position that
Speaker 2: allows Jalen to change directions fluidly and become a runner
Speaker 2: after the catch.
Speaker 4: A big play on a relatively short throw.
Speaker 2: I think I had like twenty yards before he even
Speaker 2: got tagged off up the sideline after turning up and
Speaker 2: making a big play. When you can pair the accuracy
Speaker 2: of this quarterback and the suddenness of a star playmaker
Speaker 2: like that, you can get chunk gains out of easy
Speaker 2: quick throws like that. Speaking of cater Coo, who I'm
Speaker 2: not going to blame him for that. You know, Waddle's
Speaker 2: impossible to cover from most guys, but remember how awesome
Speaker 2: he was against the screen and run game last year.
Speaker 2: He made another couple of really good plays on contained
Speaker 2: outside against a receiver run out in that direction. In
Speaker 2: this practice just continues to get done in that area
Speaker 2: of the field. Let's go back now to coach McDaniel
Speaker 2: who was asked speaking of the receivers about the depth
Speaker 2: in that room beyond Tyreek and Jalen, and specifically he
Speaker 2: was ask more about replacing Gasiki's production or Gsiki's role,
Speaker 2: And here's what head coach Mike McDaniel had to say
Speaker 2: about the options beyond a pair of guys that went
Speaker 2: for over three thousand yards combined last year in Tyreek
Speaker 2: and Jalen.
Speaker 5: You're hitting on something that there's some opportunities within the offense,
Speaker 5: UH to to put your imprint on your career.
Speaker 3: And for this team, I wouldn't say it's just.
Speaker 5: Tight ends, but really all skill receivers, there's a lot
Speaker 5: of competition.
Speaker 2: So the.
Speaker 5: Really, as as the head coach of the team, I'm
Speaker 5: most excited to see who wins it because there it
Speaker 5: is as organic as one could make it. There's several
Speaker 5: capable candidates to catch catch some balls really and and
Speaker 5: be an impactful part of this team. I would say
Speaker 5: at all the offensive skill positions and that the proof
Speaker 5: is in the pudding. You go out there to practice
Speaker 5: and there's a lot, there's a there's a good amount
Speaker 5: of talent. So for me to say that I know
Speaker 5: who that's gonna be would be being way ahead of uh.
Speaker 5: There's some sort of saying that I'm looking for Boom
Speaker 5: Barry still got it. So I think that's there's a
Speaker 5: lot of young players, some veterans that recognize the opportunity
Speaker 5: and really going after it.
Speaker 2: I think that's a great point right there. I think
Speaker 2: it's a great part spot spot point, pot spot. To
Speaker 2: take our first break in the podcast, right there, we're
Speaker 2: gonna come back and hear from Cedric Wilson, who I
Speaker 2: thought had a really nice day speaking of that competition
Speaker 2: for the depth of the receiver's room. We'll hear from him.
Speaker 2: We'll hear from Liam Eikenberg talk about the defense as well.
Speaker 2: Plenty to come your way here on the Draft Time podcast.
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Speaker 2: So we heard coach talking about the receiver slash tight end,
Speaker 2: just skill player depth in general of the roster. On
Speaker 2: the other side, and to that point, Cedric Wilson had
Speaker 2: himself a really nice day on Wednesday. He's catching the
Speaker 2: ball super smooth off of his frame, one handed plucks,
Speaker 2: He's getting to his spots quickly, he's competing through contact
Speaker 2: and reroutes. He just looks smooth to me and a
Speaker 2: half step quicker than he did this time a year ago.
Speaker 2: And we talked with Cedric after practice, and I wanted
Speaker 2: to play a couple of soundbites for you here. First
Speaker 2: him me asking him about the familiarity of the system
Speaker 2: and your number two because to me, comparing practices right
Speaker 2: now versus where they were a year ago, again, just
Speaker 2: looks quicker and smoother, which comes with you know, natural
Speaker 2: instincts and not having to play, not having to think
Speaker 2: while you play. So Fedrick talked about that here a
Speaker 2: little bit. He also talked about what he likes on
Speaker 2: the offense. Let's go ahead and go to the Miami
Speaker 2: Dolphins wide receiver and.
Speaker 1: I'm definitely more comfortable. I mean, I feel like that's
Speaker 1: with anything more now as you gain and the more
Speaker 1: reps you get at it, it's just natural. I mean,
Speaker 1: anybody can get the ball at any time, and the
Speaker 1: way coach schemes it up, you really don't know who's
Speaker 1: getting it. But we have what five ballplayers on the
Speaker 1: field at any time.
Speaker 2: I also wanted to ask Tedrick with the theme of
Speaker 2: basketball we had today in press conferences, about if coach
Speaker 2: ever uses basketball footage to help coach the guys up
Speaker 2: nowadays like he did in the past.
Speaker 1: I mean, I definitely would say basketball definitely resembles us
Speaker 1: a lot. I mean, obviously without the ball, but you
Speaker 1: got to be able to move somebody else out of
Speaker 1: your way, either to get to a basket or get
Speaker 1: to your route.
Speaker 2: Speaking of Wilson's Jeff Wilson had a big gain in
Speaker 2: the ground game running behind, but I think was a
Speaker 2: lead block from Isaiah Win. I thought Win looked really
Speaker 2: good in space, creating some copa sead timing with the
Speaker 2: running backs in terms of his blocking angles and the
Speaker 2: timing of their cuts. Just looks fluid off the top here,
Speaker 2: and also pretty solid in pass protection. I thought Raheem
Speaker 2: Moster had a couple of nice runs as well, working
Speaker 2: behind Big Isaiah Win and you know, back to the
Speaker 2: offensive line, tucking some running back in O line there.
Speaker 2: I thought Liam Eikenberg had some nice reps in this
Speaker 2: on this day, particularly in the running game. He and
Speaker 2: Wilson kind of teamed up a couple of times for
Speaker 2: some nice blocks. So it's tough to sort out on
Speaker 2: you know, any given snap without any replays among all
Speaker 2: the bodies. But I did see both of them connect
Speaker 2: a few times on blocks that helped the running back
Speaker 2: get past that first wave of defenders.
Speaker 4: And that's mostly what I'm looking for.
Speaker 2: And then also just kind of watch the guys after
Speaker 2: the fact, who's shaking hands, who's high fiving, and who's
Speaker 2: going back to coaches and getting instruction. Typically that helps
Speaker 2: you find out who was the culprit on a given play.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and go to Liam Meichenberg, now, who
Speaker 2: I asked about that same question second year in an offense.
Speaker 2: How's that helping you get things more familiar and get
Speaker 2: more comfortable here in this offense?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think, you know, going into the second OTAs
Speaker 6: I was able to fully understand like introgros to me
Speaker 6: is like the foot speed. I mean I was always
Speaker 6: taught to, you know, kind of not step big, but
Speaker 6: you know, game more ground and you know, introgros this
Speaker 6: offense suppo's just getting your feet down fast and you know,
Speaker 6: get a moving. So that's kind of something I focused on,
Speaker 6: and you know, just got my body healthy and that's
Speaker 6: helped a lot.
Speaker 2: We also heard McDaniel refer to Liam's improved play early
Speaker 2: in the year prior to the injury in Detroit that
Speaker 2: cost him a whole bunch of the season and then
Speaker 2: coming back in later and kind of having to start
Speaker 2: back over from scratch. But I asked him about the
Speaker 2: mental aspect of and what you took from that time
Speaker 2: in terms of not being able to physically, you know,
Speaker 2: put your body on the line for the guys. What
Speaker 2: did you do in that time down and how could
Speaker 2: that benefit your game to have that time away and
Speaker 2: just focus on the mental side of things.
Speaker 6: I think when you get hurt and I haven't been
Speaker 6: heard a long time, I think it makes you realize, like, man,
Speaker 6: I miss it so much, you know, and I was
Speaker 6: out here every single day shout out to Troy, you know,
Speaker 6: getting me healthy and stuff. But uh, yeah, you know,
Speaker 6: the biggest thing is like all you can do is
Speaker 6: kind of look at the mental aspects. So I mean
Speaker 6: I was watching film trying to help the guys out.
Speaker 6: You know, Rob Jones stepped in for me and did
Speaker 6: a great job, and you know I was there to
Speaker 6: help him, you know, help him with what he was doing,
Speaker 6: and you know it was just kind of different perspective
Speaker 6: on things. But I was it's sorry. Yeah, there's no
Speaker 6: other way to put it. It's it's tough.
Speaker 2: And then here he is talking about the second year
Speaker 2: in the offense and how things kind of clicked for
Speaker 2: him at that stage of the season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was tough.
Speaker 6: I think things started to click a little bit better
Speaker 6: for me, kind of understanding how I need to play
Speaker 6: a guard. And then the injury is like, I mean
Speaker 6: you could kind of sit there and you know, feel
Speaker 6: bad for yourself, or you can kind of be like
Speaker 6: all right, like one day at a time and just
Speaker 6: get back to where you were at. So it's kind
Speaker 6: of how I appreciate with my injuries, like you know,
Speaker 6: I'll be healthy eventually, Like I'll get there. And I
Speaker 6: mean it took a couple of months, but I got there,
Speaker 6: I mean almost there. But it was good. I mean
Speaker 6: you know, a lot of good people helped me through it,
Speaker 6: and you know, it's just good having a good support system.
Speaker 2: So Liam heading into year three hoping to have his
Speaker 2: best year of his career so far, also hoping to
Speaker 2: make an immediate impact. Here's some rookies in this class
Speaker 2: we did hear from head coach Mike McDaniel to updates
Speaker 2: on Cam Smith and Devon a chain.
Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and play that audio.
Speaker 5: I think both of them have done exactly what it's
Speaker 5: been asked of them to to this juncture, which is,
Speaker 5: you know, I think it's along the process.
Speaker 3: There's so much going on for rookies.
Speaker 5: You forget that you're joining a team that has established players,
Speaker 5: uh and and you need to make way on that
Speaker 5: team through the locker room and then the coaching staff,
Speaker 5: that just the building in general. That's what I've seen
Speaker 5: them focus on, and I can tell they're starting to
Speaker 5: become one of the guys there's you're swimming at this
Speaker 5: stage and that's to be expected.
Speaker 3: But I also see from those.
Speaker 5: Two in particular, guys that have a deep down self
Speaker 5: confidence that the the minor hiccups in the short term
Speaker 5: aren't really affecting them. Which is something you look for
Speaker 5: in young players because there's a lot I mean, you have,
Speaker 5: you know, it's it's almost like you're a baseball player.
Speaker 3: You bet like thirty percent.
Speaker 5: Or three hundred for the you know, the real fan,
Speaker 5: you bet like three hundred. That means seven out of
Speaker 5: ten times failure. That's kind of like being a rookie.
Speaker 5: So so far, so good in that I think you
Speaker 5: have to win over your teammates before, at least with
Speaker 5: the Dolphins, before you're able to play with them. And
Speaker 5: I think they're knee deep in that journey, and I've
Speaker 5: been happy with what the produced.
Speaker 2: Oh the best play by the rookies today was a
Speaker 2: catch and run by a Chan on a pass from
Speaker 2: Skyler Thompson where he got up on the sideline a
Speaker 2: couple of steps on Jerome Baker. And Baker's no slouch
Speaker 2: in the speed department, right. We've seen him run down
Speaker 2: the field with backs. You know, I get frustrated by
Speaker 2: not getting his head back around, but he can go
Speaker 2: strive for sharot running backs down the field, but not
Speaker 2: with this one.
Speaker 4: He got five or six yards beyond him.
Speaker 2: And you know Baker was showing off some speed earlier
Speaker 2: practice by stringing out some runs of the edge from
Speaker 2: Jeff Wilson. But for a big play in the passing
Speaker 2: game here from Achan, which is kind of what he's
Speaker 2: been so far in camp. This play might have been
Speaker 2: a sack, but that's unrelated to the matchup down the
Speaker 2: field because he can't control what happens back there. He
Speaker 2: can just go beat his man, and he did on
Speaker 2: this particular play and caught it and waltzed into the
Speaker 2: end zone for a touchdown. I just keep thinking about
Speaker 2: what that speed from that position can do here, and
Speaker 2: he showcases a handful of times already in just two practices.
Speaker 2: Cam Smith been a very nice pass breakup working down
Speaker 2: the stem on a comeback route from Cedrick Wilson. Really
Speaker 2: good patients reading the route, then driving on that football
Speaker 2: and displaying the length that really stands out every time
Speaker 2: you watch him. He's just so long, you know, can
Speaker 2: scratch his knees standing straight up with with his fingernails,
Speaker 2: so super length, super good transition out of that back
Speaker 2: pedal and makes plays in the football on a down
Speaker 2: end down out basis.
Speaker 4: Some other rookies.
Speaker 2: Julian Hill, the tight end from Campbell, had a nice
Speaker 2: catch and run on a ball in the middle from
Speaker 2: James Blackman. He lays out, gets up to his feet
Speaker 2: and sprints of the end zone. You love seeing Vince
Speaker 2: Papalis style. And then Garrett Nelson had what I thought
Speaker 2: was a sack. His college tap at Nebraska was full
Speaker 2: of effort plays and that's half the battles some of
Speaker 2: the time for these guys, especially a good approach for
Speaker 2: an undrafted rookie free agent. He gave you more of
Speaker 2: that in today's practice. Elijah Higgins caught one and I
Speaker 2: thought he was about to run eighty yards a distance,
Speaker 2: but they did hold him up there. But on that play,
Speaker 2: the way he catches the ball and then it's like
Speaker 2: gas from the time the balls in his hands, he
Speaker 2: just accelerates out of that break. Once he's like here's
Speaker 2: the football. It's very noticeable he stands out. Next thing
Speaker 2: we're gonna hear from head coach Mike McDaniel is how
Speaker 2: the Dolphins only had six OTA practices as opposed to
Speaker 2: ten they are allotted. Let's go ahead and hear from
Speaker 2: coach on that and the decision to lessen the workload
Speaker 2: from the physical on the grass standpoint.
Speaker 4: Here's coach talking about the why.
Speaker 3: Beyond that, a lot of things factor into it.
Speaker 5: I think that you know, by and large, players, coaches,
Speaker 5: people in general do best when why is explained to them.
Speaker 5: In this particular situation, I think that it is crucial
Speaker 5: that we have you know, is convicted, present, deliberate football
Speaker 5: players when they're approaching practice and really recognizing how each
Speaker 5: opportunity is very, very crucial to the development of the team.
Speaker 5: I think, uh, when you're able to acknowledge players hard
Speaker 5: work and they get a they get positively reinforced with
Speaker 5: actual action.
Speaker 3: Uh you can.
Speaker 5: I think it goes a long way. They they are
Speaker 5: afforded the uh, the less practices because they've earned it
Speaker 5: because of the way they've approached the whole offseason. You know,
Speaker 5: my stand for preparation are pretty high, and they've recognized
Speaker 5: that and really heated to the expectation across the board.
Speaker 5: So I think in those types of circumstances, everyone benefits
Speaker 5: with a little bone here or there.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and take our last break right there
Speaker 2: and come back on the other side and hear a
Speaker 2: couple more comments from head coach Mike McDaniel as well
Speaker 2: as tell you about how the defense played on this
Speaker 2: particular day. That's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought.
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Speaker 2: A lot of Heat topics for coach McDaniel and his
Speaker 2: press conference on Wednesday, and why not, It's been fun
Speaker 2: to watch the.
Speaker 4: Miami Heat roll to the NBA Finals.
Speaker 2: Baby, let's go That game on Monday was one of
Speaker 2: the most fun games I've watched from a basketball perspective.
Speaker 4: Kind of feel like I was.
Speaker 2: Watching a Dolphins game there for a little while, stressed out,
Speaker 2: but ultimately relief and jubilation at the very end.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and hear from coach about all these
Speaker 2: trips to the Heat games. Are you taking anything away
Speaker 2: from those games?
Speaker 4: Coach?
Speaker 2: I wanted to ask him this last week, didn't get
Speaker 2: a chance to ask him today. Are you just going
Speaker 2: to have fun or are you bringing things back with
Speaker 2: you to learn about football from the basketball court and
Speaker 2: the ice rink.
Speaker 5: You know, I think there's information in front of us
Speaker 5: all the time that can be very beneficial to what
Speaker 5: we do on a day to day basis, just in general,
Speaker 5: every every day if you're willing to look and listen,
Speaker 5: so I you know, you don't know what is going
Speaker 5: to come about. But the bottom line is, when you
Speaker 5: go to those games, you're where would you rather be
Speaker 5: if you're in the in professional sports in terms of
Speaker 5: you have high stakes, A lot of you know, sweat
Speaker 5: equity has gone into those moments a lot more than
Speaker 5: you know. I still have a tough time imagining how
Speaker 5: many up and downs and you know, shuttles and all,
Speaker 5: how many practices and shoot arounds that basketball teams go through,
Speaker 5: and how long that season is, and how many practices
Speaker 5: that hockey teams have to have to get on the
Speaker 5: same page.
Speaker 3: That stuff is what really.
Speaker 5: Is impactful for me in those moments, and I think
Speaker 5: without a doubt there's there's great stuff to take away
Speaker 5: that can be applied and in what we're trying to do.
Speaker 2: Finishing up here on the basketball stuff. Eric Spolstro one
Speaker 2: of the best coaches in the entire world, regardless of sport.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and hear from McDaniel what he's taken
Speaker 2: away in his relationship with the Miami Heat head coach.
Speaker 5: Well, first and foremost, I feel, uh can I feel
Speaker 5: so humbled to be able to be able to have
Speaker 5: the relationship, you know, I think what screams to me
Speaker 5: just the way he runs the program and what they
Speaker 5: do is there's a passion for developing players and coaching
Speaker 5: and a standard for what for with they they believe
Speaker 5: that they should, you know, prepare their players.
Speaker 3: I feel a true.
Speaker 5: Love for who they're coaching and what they're coaching. And
Speaker 5: I think systematically, you know, when people describe the Heat culture,
Speaker 5: they're they're talking about a bunch of individuals that are
Speaker 5: trying to be great in the game of basketball, players
Speaker 5: and coaches alike.
Speaker 3: Uh, and you know, it's it's I feel so fortunate.
Speaker 5: I think, I think he has to be one of
Speaker 5: the best professional coaches across all sports and for me
Speaker 5: to have access to pick his brain to you know, uh,
Speaker 5: he even throws me a handshake after wins, like it's
Speaker 5: unbelievable resource for me in the coaching profession that I
Speaker 5: feel very, very fortunate to have. He was a reported
Speaker 5: yesterday that the team is going to be having another
Speaker 5: sort of practice with the Texans, specifically, you know, having
Speaker 5: practice sessions with coaching nob Ryan.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: You know, I wanted to break the news to you
Speaker 5: guys last time I was up here, you know, but
Speaker 5: gave the opportunity to a friend and somebody I feel
Speaker 5: fortunate to have coached with and been around for such
Speaker 5: a long time.
Speaker 3: And Jamiico Ryans and he just turned it down like
Speaker 3: the humble guy is. So yes, we uh pumped about that.
Speaker 5: That's a young, hungry team that will uh that will
Speaker 5: afford us the opportunity of getting better in training camp.
Speaker 5: Those type of opportunities are invaluable. It breaks camp up,
Speaker 5: It gives a little newness to it, it reinvigorates it.
Speaker 3: But it also.
Speaker 5: You know, there's only so much scheme that one side
Speaker 5: of the ball can have, and you get a little
Speaker 5: you get different players that you have to go against
Speaker 5: and subtle schematic nuances, nuances that are different that really
Speaker 5: help the players get prepared for preseason and then regular season.
Speaker 2: All right, good stuff there from head coach Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pick this back up with some
Speaker 2: more practice notes and we'll talk about the defense here
Speaker 2: our last couple of months on the podcast. You know,
Speaker 2: I would have given the win last week to the
Speaker 2: defense on balance and the practice we saw today, I
Speaker 2: would say it goes to the offense, but there was
Speaker 2: still plenty to note from the defensive side. First, just
Speaker 2: Watching the way coach Fangio interacts with the guys on the.
Speaker 4: Field is kind of cool to see. He plays that.
Speaker 2: The where he stands when they're doing install is at
Speaker 2: the quarterback position for the offensive dummy scout team. Basically,
Speaker 2: he calls the cadence and then coaches the rep live
Speaker 2: as they go. I've never seen that before, and I've
Speaker 2: only been with the Miami Dolphins, so you know, take
Speaker 2: that for what it is.
Speaker 4: But I love that he had.
Speaker 2: That consulting role last year, giving that perspective of how
Speaker 2: to attack a defense, or rather, how to attack an
Speaker 2: offense from a defensive perspective. It's not just let's go
Speaker 2: a line as a defense and go from there. It's no,
Speaker 2: this is what they want to do, this is what
Speaker 2: they're afraid of, this is what makes them vulnerable.
Speaker 4: Let's attack that.
Speaker 2: Kind of saw that on the practice field out there
Speaker 2: on Wednesday afternoon, and Jalen Phillips really led that charge.
Speaker 2: My goodness, this guy who buddy, Yeah, Jalen Phillips is
Speaker 2: that dude.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: He was a regular in the backfield both against the
Speaker 2: run in the past. There was a three rep stretch
Speaker 2: where he got two pressures sandwich between a rep where
Speaker 2: Kendall Lamb really did well to redirect against him. But
Speaker 2: on that third play I saw him bluff a move
Speaker 2: in and then spin back outside to get clean to
Speaker 2: the quarterback. I thought it was just awesome to see
Speaker 2: that because Lamb shut off the interior path on the
Speaker 2: second rep, and then he took that knowledge and came
Speaker 2: right back and adjusted to it. Look, we know about
Speaker 2: the effort, we know about the physical skills, and I
Speaker 2: go back to the Brett Coleman pre draft YouTube workup
Speaker 2: that I've referenced so many times around the podcast and
Speaker 2: how he loved how Jalen was able to concoct a
Speaker 2: pass rush plan really as the game went along.
Speaker 4: I thought we saw that in a.
Speaker 2: Two play sequence where he was able to lose a rep,
Speaker 2: find out what happened there and adjust and make an
Speaker 2: adjustment to that on the next rep and go win
Speaker 2: that one.
Speaker 4: Jalen Twyman has caught my eye both days.
Speaker 2: A defensive lineman I'm sure not many of you guys
Speaker 2: aren't familiar with. He is a second year player out
Speaker 2: of the University of Pittsburgh. He had good plays both
Speaker 2: days against the run and pass that I've gone a
Speaker 2: chance to watch, and you look at this defensive line.
Speaker 2: You know, roster on the interior in particular, you've got
Speaker 2: Seeler and Wilkins and Davis as the proven guys, but
Speaker 2: then it's a bunch of rookies and second year guys
Speaker 2: who are on futures contracts. So there's opportunity there, kind
Speaker 2: of like Coach alluded to in the receiver slash tight
Speaker 2: end question we played earlier. I think Twyman's made the
Speaker 2: most of his opportunity in the two practices i've seen.
Speaker 2: Last couple of notes here, I saw Cater Kohu get
Speaker 2: a late pass breakup in addition to the run game
Speaker 2: defense he displays each and every day. Noah Iggbanaghani gets
Speaker 2: a pick late in practice, coming out of his pedal
Speaker 2: driving on a short throw and picking the pass off
Speaker 2: only pick or giveaway, I should say, all day off
Speaker 2: the hand of James Blackman. Justin Bethel came in for
Speaker 2: a quarterback pressure early, probably a sack on too early
Speaker 2: in practice on a little play action role right into
Speaker 2: the weak side pressure. He was active once again, both
Speaker 2: on defense and special teams. And that's what I've got.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, alec Ingold in the Orange Jersey. Pretty solid
Speaker 2: playlist and the line of the day from Austin Clark
Speaker 2: down on the field coaching during the sled drill, drop
Speaker 2: your f and nuts.
Speaker 4: That was cool to hear.
Speaker 2: Love watching Austin Clark get the job done. He's been
Speaker 2: for a long time, been here for the same amount
Speaker 2: time met four years and he's kicking ass over there
Speaker 2: on the defensive line room. So that's gonna be the
Speaker 2: podcast today. We're gonna play some more of the media
Speaker 2: soundbites for you. Well. On the Friday podcast, we heard
Speaker 2: from Cedric Abwayhee, Tyler Croft, and I feel like I'm
Speaker 2: forgetting one more Raykwon Davis. We'll hear from those guys
Speaker 2: on Friday. Let's go ahead and get out of here
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