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Speaker 5: And welcome to the Drive Time podcast, part of the
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Speaker 5: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
Speaker 5: another day of work is in the books where we
Speaker 5: capping day three from the Baptist Health Training Complex. We
Speaker 5: had a different angle today, so I'm excited to talk
Speaker 5: a little bit more about trench play than we have
Speaker 5: the first two shows, plus full practice notes and sound
Speaker 5: from head coach Mike McDaniel, Bradley Chubb, Zach Seeler, Duke Riley,
Speaker 5: and a whole heck of a lot more from the
Speaker 5: Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This
Speaker 5: is the Drive Time podcast. Hey gaff, So the defense
Speaker 5: is going to get most of the run today. What
Speaker 5: a performance they put on Friday inside the indoor complex
Speaker 5: here at Baptist Health Training Complex. We saw it in
Speaker 5: practice at times last year where the offense really just
Speaker 5: kind of did whatever they wanted for large stretches of time.
Speaker 3: And I'm not sure I've ever.
Speaker 5: Seen it like this before, but man, the defense just
Speaker 5: did whatever they wanted to do on Friday. Rush the quarterback,
Speaker 5: stacked the run, defend the passes that did get thrown.
Speaker 3: It was on display really at all three levels.
Speaker 5: And I want to start here with the news of
Speaker 5: the day and what I think think is the coolest
Speaker 5: thing about this team and covering it for the last
Speaker 5: season plus you guys hear me talk about this all
Speaker 5: the time. The right kind of people, the right kind
Speaker 5: of players, a certain type of human who is not
Speaker 5: just you know, cordial, but they treat everybody with the
Speaker 5: same level of respect and that type of character, and
Speaker 5: I think it really spawns a thirst to play for
Speaker 5: one another when it comes to the game of football.
Speaker 5: And even before the Jalen Ramsey injury, we had heard
Speaker 5: McDaniel mention Ramsey's complete buy in to the program. And
Speaker 5: if you recall my podcast way back in March when
Speaker 5: we traded for Jalen Ramsey with Jordan rod Rieg, who
Speaker 5: covers the Rams and has done features and one on
Speaker 5: ones with him and knows him personally very well. She
Speaker 5: talked about the complexity of his intellectual thought and how
Speaker 5: he needs and thirsts for a challenge and wants to
Speaker 5: be challenged and wants to be involved in install and
Speaker 5: game planning because he recognizes the importance of that to
Speaker 5: his team, but also because you know a chess piece
Speaker 5: like a Jalen Ramsey who just kind of gives you
Speaker 5: something that probably there's probably five guys that do what
Speaker 5: he does across the entire National Football League, how important
Speaker 5: it is for that guy to be invested mentally, and
Speaker 5: how that was the case here and how bad he
Speaker 5: wants to win for this Dolphins team, and he's been
Speaker 5: tweeting about how thrilled he is to be here, how
Speaker 5: excited he's to be a part of this team. I
Speaker 5: thought it was cool to hear coach say this. Let's
Speaker 5: go ahead and open it up with the Jalen Ramsey
Speaker 5: news here from head coach Mike McDaniel, who took to
Speaker 5: the podium and gave us an opening I guess statement
Speaker 5: and announcement here about Ramsey, and as we would later
Speaker 5: hear from Ian Rappaport, it does turn out the meniscus
Speaker 5: tear required a full repair.
Speaker 3: And as for the timeline, who knows.
Speaker 5: I mean, we've seen several different reports that have told
Speaker 5: you various things, so I don't even want to go
Speaker 5: into those because the accuracy, even within ten, fifteen, twenty
Speaker 5: minutes of each other, was not accurate. So we'll wait
Speaker 5: and see on that until we get official word here
Speaker 5: from the team. Let's go to coach McDaniel here for
Speaker 5: that opening statement about Ramsey and the reaction of the
Speaker 5: team around the injury to their star cornerback.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna steal the floor from uh whoever's gonna try
Speaker 4: to beat me to the punch.
Speaker 2: Obviously.
Speaker 4: You know yesterday we had an injury with Jalben Ramsey
Speaker 4: at the end of the practice. It was a non
Speaker 4: contact injury that uh that was his meniscus, and uh.
Speaker 2: He is going to be having surgery at one o'clock today. Now, Uh,
Speaker 2: you know, the.
Speaker 4: The length of this, uh rehabilitation is kind of dictated
Speaker 4: on a couple things that could occur in the surgery.
Speaker 4: So it's the exact time on Berry is a is
Speaker 4: a little two be determined.
Speaker 2: What I can tell you is, I.
Speaker 4: Don't think uh, you know, the the beginning of the
Speaker 4: regular season is.
Speaker 2: Really a part of the scenaire.
Speaker 4: It's uh, it's gonna be into the season and how
Speaker 4: deep that is depends on kind of what happens today.
Speaker 4: Uh and real realistically with the the way the team
Speaker 4: had practiced. Uh you know, I I you don't know
Speaker 4: these kind of things. But you know what was the
Speaker 4: most amazing thing about the whole thing.
Speaker 2: Was the way Jalen responded.
Speaker 4: He he spoke to the team yesterday and it it
Speaker 4: really moved a lot of people. He first let everybody
Speaker 4: know how much you appreciated, uh this team, how this
Speaker 4: this team has accepted him, and how you know he
Speaker 4: he has been in the league for a little bit,
Speaker 4: and how he he knows that what we're doing here
Speaker 4: and his opinion is special for for his position group
Speaker 4: not to waiver and exuded all the confidence they had
Speaker 4: in that position group.
Speaker 2: And one of the things that he that he.
Speaker 4: Said that was real cool for everybody was he he
Speaker 4: thought it. He told all of his teammates not to worry,
Speaker 4: not to feel sorry for him. He's going to whatever
Speaker 4: timeline the doctors give him. He's he's going after that
Speaker 4: timeline and trying to flex that he'll beat it, and
Speaker 4: that the he realistically couldn't couldn't be more committed and
Speaker 4: excited to join the team again this year. Whenever that is,
Speaker 4: it isn't really up to him, and he he knows that.
Speaker 2: But you know, it was that that adversity is not
Speaker 2: really an issue.
Speaker 4: It's it's an opportunity for a lot of guys to
Speaker 4: really come together.
Speaker 2: And step up.
Speaker 4: So it was a team moment that was really put
Speaker 4: together by Jalen And that's kind of where it stands
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 5: So again, as reports say, the timeline looks like December
Speaker 5: and sometime, but like coach said.
Speaker 3: We'll see how that all plays out. And that's how
Speaker 3: this business goes.
Speaker 5: I know, it's easy to really get in your feelings
Speaker 5: about how unfair it might be or how annoying it
Speaker 5: is to lose a guy like that on day number two,
Speaker 5: But those things happen in the sport, and teams find
Speaker 5: a way to win games in the absence of some
Speaker 5: of the best players.
Speaker 3: Every year.
Speaker 5: I feel like we go through this where it's like, oh,
Speaker 5: player X is out for the day, how are they
Speaker 5: going to win this game? And like I've had that
Speaker 5: thought myself for years, but like it happens all the time,
Speaker 5: Like the Bills won games last year without Micah Hyde
Speaker 5: and Jordan Poyer in their defense, Like you can. You
Speaker 5: can survive losses as long as it's not you know,
Speaker 5: the quarterback position, for being completely honest, like that's the
Speaker 5: one spot where the real real impact comes. Obviously, losing
Speaker 5: your top players is never good, but you find ways
Speaker 5: to maximize your other top players and get you know,
Speaker 5: supporting performances out of the depth, and you ride and
Speaker 5: you win football games.
Speaker 3: Every single year. This happens.
Speaker 5: Every team that wins championships did it without someone important
Speaker 5: to their lineup.
Speaker 3: You have to keep that in mind.
Speaker 5: Let's go ahead and hear from a couple more guys
Speaker 5: on the defense on the impact of Jalen Ramsey and
Speaker 5: that message he gave the team after the fact that
Speaker 5: you heard from coach there. Let's go ahead and go
Speaker 5: first to Bradley.
Speaker 1: It just lets you know, I mean, when you got
Speaker 1: a guy like that, a leader like that, to come
Speaker 1: up and bring everybody in and let us know before
Speaker 1: it gets out and stuff like that, it means more
Speaker 1: than what you would think, because I've been places where
Speaker 1: the media tells you stuff about your team before you
Speaker 1: can hear you know what I'm saying yourself. So it
Speaker 1: was cool that he did that and everybody just rally
Speaker 1: around it and we just got to understand that, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a big piece gone, but that's not the whole
Speaker 1: piece that We got a lot of other great players
Speaker 1: on this team and they just got to step up
Speaker 1: and fill that role.
Speaker 5: I want to play the our SoundBite here from Bradley Chubb,
Speaker 5: who was first asked about what it's like for the
Speaker 5: defense to have a day like this the day after
Speaker 5: the injury to Jalen Ramsey. Here's the Dolphins outside linebacker.
Speaker 1: And one one hand says, it means a lot, you know,
Speaker 1: because it's how we responded to it, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Whenever you lose keys piece like that, guys
Speaker 1: might get down. But then in the other hand, a
Speaker 1: lot of people stepped up. A lot of people did
Speaker 1: exactly what they were brought here to do, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, step up and make plays for this defense.
Speaker 1: And yeah, it sucks that he went down, man, And
Speaker 1: but like I said, it's just got to be the
Speaker 1: next man up. He said that yesterday. He just got
Speaker 1: to be the next man up. Everybody got to compete
Speaker 1: and make sure that when he comes back that we
Speaker 1: full steam ahead, you know what I mean. So it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a journey for this defense to readily around
Speaker 1: each other and gather up and make sure we're doing
Speaker 1: everything we need to do.
Speaker 5: Let's hear next from defensive tackle Zach Steeler on the
Speaker 5: loss of Jyalen Ramsey and how the team moves forward
Speaker 5: after the injury to Ramsey.
Speaker 6: You know, it's really sad. I'm praying for Jalen, hopefully
Speaker 6: best for him, hopefully get through it quickly. But I
Speaker 6: think coach McDonnell had a good point where it's, you know,
Speaker 6: take this as a motivational piece and work for that
Speaker 6: and hopefully when he gets back, were in a good position.
Speaker 5: And look, I'm not typically someone who subscribes to the
Speaker 5: notion of momentum or someone performing better because it's a
Speaker 5: big moment, Like I always get a kick out of
Speaker 5: the idea or the concept of clutch hitting, because a
Speaker 5: ninety eight mile an hour fastball is always a ninety
Speaker 5: eight mile an hour fastball, whether the bases are empty
Speaker 5: in the month of April or they're packed full of
Speaker 5: base runners in October. I do think there's something about
Speaker 5: remaining calm and being able to control your breathing and
Speaker 5: your heart rate to execute in high pressure moments. I'm
Speaker 5: not naive to that fact, But I don't think the
Speaker 5: idea of extra motivation because of bulletin board material or
Speaker 5: because of a contract year.
Speaker 3: I don't think anything like that.
Speaker 5: Makes you have better football technique or play better football.
Speaker 5: With that paragraph of a disclaimer, man, the defense sure
Speaker 5: as hell looked inspired today, utterly dominant, particularly inside the trenches.
Speaker 5: And it began with Christian Wilkins, who I don't know
Speaker 5: what else you can say about this guy. He's one
Speaker 5: of the best players in the NFL. He's one of
Speaker 5: the best players at his position. He was better today
Speaker 5: than I've ever seen him. He was better today than
Speaker 5: I've probably ever seen anybody play like it was like
Speaker 5: Tyreek Hill last year, Like wow, that guy noticed his
Speaker 5: impact right away. That was Christian Wilkins on Friday. I
Speaker 5: was wrong about the Orange Jersey yesterday, though I stand
Speaker 5: by how damn good both Long and Cater were. But
Speaker 5: I think I would be pretty surprised if we don't
Speaker 5: see ninety four in the Orange Jersey and all you
Speaker 5: guys come out here on Sunday for practice to hear
Speaker 5: Hamilton and whatever the hell Christian puts on the Yox cord,
Speaker 5: he earned it with the way he played today. If
Speaker 5: it's not him, my pick is his buddy Zach Seeler.
Speaker 3: Have mercy.
Speaker 5: Those two guys were not blockable on Friday. Now, I
Speaker 5: didn't have my laptop up because of the indoor facility
Speaker 5: and kind of have to stand behind the goalpost there,
Speaker 5: which really cool view though, so I appreciate the fact
Speaker 5: that we got a different look at practice, but not
Speaker 5: as precise as I usually have my notes. But the
Speaker 5: Zach total was definitely in double digits, and Christian might
Speaker 5: have had three or four of those.
Speaker 3: Zach might have had a couple of those of his own.
Speaker 5: Well, well, these guys, we are just so lucky to
Speaker 5: have them, the workload they take on, the versatility they
Speaker 5: demonstrate on defense, the way they work off of one another.
Speaker 5: And speaking of the conditioning, and how you know, Christian
Speaker 5: plays these sixty five snaps every game. That's just outrageous.
Speaker 5: There was a rep and I kind of want to
Speaker 5: start tracking this more where Christian was involved in the play.
Speaker 5: Up front, they extend the play after probably would be
Speaker 5: sack and they throw the ball and Christian just takes
Speaker 5: off after the play and then continues to go. And
Speaker 5: the play began at our own twenty and he ran
Speaker 5: to the opposite twenty, So what is a sixty yard sprint?
Speaker 5: And that was the last play of his series. So
Speaker 5: the ultimate conditioning to just say, all right, plays over.
Speaker 5: I just ran four reps against you know, Connor Williams
Speaker 5: and Rob Hunt and these guys that are so damned
Speaker 5: strong and you know, inflict their energy onto me, which
Speaker 5: takes my energy out to be able to do that.
Speaker 5: It just speaks to the way this guy works. I
Speaker 5: think he looks slimmer, but he's three fifteen still like
Speaker 5: so he still got all the weight.
Speaker 3: Just looks better. I would be I'd be surprised.
Speaker 5: If Christian Wilkins it's not even better this year than
Speaker 5: he was last year. Let's hear from Duke Riley who
Speaker 5: talked about Christian wilkins energy and what it provides this
Speaker 5: pot man.
Speaker 2: I love Kristin, that's honestly.
Speaker 7: I mean, he knows. He's probably one of my favorite
Speaker 7: players on the team. You know, I love everybody, but
Speaker 7: I just love Christin. Every day I see him missus last,
Speaker 7: it's a smile. He's probably one of the you know,
Speaker 7: happiest guys on the team. I guess you can say
Speaker 7: you can tell a guy he really loves the game.
Speaker 7: I honestly have the utmost respect for him. I think that,
Speaker 7: you know, we definitely feed off of his energy, you know,
Speaker 7: and it just all relates to.
Speaker 2: The type of work he puts in.
Speaker 7: I mean, it's constantly getting extra I mean days that
Speaker 7: he's no one's in the building, He's in the building,
Speaker 7: days that no one's here. First, you know, I try
Speaker 7: to get here early, you know, that's my thing to
Speaker 7: get here early so I can get extra in and
Speaker 7: I always see him. You know, It's just like it's
Speaker 7: no secret, you know when you see a guy like
Speaker 7: that he's able to celebrate, he's able to be confident
Speaker 7: in what he does because of the work he puts
Speaker 7: in behind closed doors that no one sees.
Speaker 5: We heard that same sentiment from Chris Career, I think
Speaker 5: it was during draft weekend, talking about they've come out
Speaker 5: to the facility, you know, early morning or late night,
Speaker 5: and they'd see a red light or a red dot
Speaker 5: out on the practice field, like what is that internal
Speaker 5: lights on? There's Christian Wilkins working out, so really good stuff. Man.
Speaker 5: Let's go back to the podium here with Zach Steeler,
Speaker 5: who I asked about the relationship that he and Christian
Speaker 5: Wilkins share off the field, And there were so many
Speaker 5: stunts in this practice that those guys create a chance
Speaker 5: for one another and got pressure on the quarterback or
Speaker 5: got into the backfield. So I wanted to ask him,
Speaker 5: how does your guys' relationship off the field, you know,
Speaker 5: translate to success on the field.
Speaker 3: Here's Zach Sealer, Man, it's it's been huge.
Speaker 6: It's been really blessing to be able with Clark, Raykwon,
Speaker 6: Christian Emmanuel just meshing. It's on and off the field.
Speaker 6: Like you said, it's kind of like learning each other
Speaker 6: as a person, as a player, how to play next
Speaker 6: to him. Hey, what's Christian like? What's Raykwon White like?
Speaker 6: And that's something that it's been really nice with the
Speaker 6: guy like Chubb learning how he plays and how to
Speaker 6: adapt to that. Phillips, all those guys. So it's been good.
Speaker 6: It's been an amazing system our amazing years to learn
Speaker 6: each other's and habits and how to play best off
Speaker 6: each other.
Speaker 5: Gosh, I sure do love watching those two just do
Speaker 5: what they do. It doesn't matter who's the pick man
Speaker 5: in those games, who's the one running the loops. They
Speaker 5: are just so technically sound that I think what allows
Speaker 5: them to both do what I mentioned yesterday, and that's
Speaker 5: even if you're wrong, or even if you just you know,
Speaker 5: offer lose the rep initially, they know how to get
Speaker 5: their hands back where they have to go to reposition
Speaker 5: to kind of reset the rep, how to get their
Speaker 5: feet back in the right position, to get themselves where.
Speaker 5: You know, if my feet are here, I can get
Speaker 5: my body to this position faster and just turn the
Speaker 5: rep around and win it. Despite the fact that maybe
Speaker 5: they didn't win it right away, and we saw it
Speaker 5: a few times, like Sealer working backside, closing down the
Speaker 5: front side, clogging things up. He was tagging off run
Speaker 5: plays the regularity. I said to Kyle Krabs, who was
Speaker 5: here at practice to day, like there's so many plays
Speaker 5: where he could have just destroyed the back but obviously
Speaker 5: tagging off. We're not gonna do that in practice. I
Speaker 5: mentioned on the Defensive Tackle Preview episode, those guys can
Speaker 5: bine for the most run stops of any defensive tackle
Speaker 5: tandem since two thousand and six, and we saw that
Speaker 5: ability and those skills really play out on Friday. You
Speaker 5: know who else continues to have a really good start
Speaker 5: to camp. Raykwon Davison.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 5: He's doing what we've praised him for in terms of
Speaker 5: eating up blocks in space in the past, but the
Speaker 5: production that hasn't really you know, popped off, has been
Speaker 5: there during these practices.
Speaker 3: He's getting off blocks and making.
Speaker 5: Plays at a rate that we just haven't seen him
Speaker 5: due to this point of his career. I think it
Speaker 5: would be fitting to watch him continue to blossom into
Speaker 5: year four now, which is kind of common right, Like
Speaker 5: Christian Wilkins has gotten better every year, Raykwon can do
Speaker 5: that too. I think I had Jalen Twyman and Brandon
Speaker 5: Peeley with run stuffs again today, and then there was
Speaker 5: the guys off the edge getting their working and Bradley Chubb,
Speaker 5: who was in the orange jersey I thought was even.
Speaker 3: Better than he was yesterday. But what the hell do
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 5: He was getting around the edge with regularity. Whether it
Speaker 5: was you know, Kendall Lamb out there or Keyons, it
Speaker 5: just didn't really matter. He was finding a way to
Speaker 5: get after the quarterback. And you can definitely feel the
Speaker 5: absence of Armstead out there, not being a left tackle,
Speaker 5: But man, the way that he's been setting edges in
Speaker 5: the running game really continues to pop to me, especially
Speaker 5: when he's to the side that designates him as the
Speaker 5: forced defender, that last line of defense off that part
Speaker 5: of the formation. I've been extremely impressed with how he
Speaker 5: can fulfill those two roles at one given time. Sometimes
Speaker 5: you have guys that I'm just rushing the quarterback or
Speaker 5: I'm not even gonna worry about pass rush. I just
Speaker 5: have to play this edge, play this gap, and defend
Speaker 5: the run. I think when you have a guy like that,
Speaker 5: it takes a lot of pressure off the rest of
Speaker 5: the defense and then it frees up coach Fangio to say,
Speaker 5: I've got more room to keep this safety as not
Speaker 5: a rat in the hole. I'm going to pull them
Speaker 5: back into coverage and impact the back end more. Let's
Speaker 5: go to Bradley Chubb here in his media when he
Speaker 5: was asked about his experience in this defense and being
Speaker 5: a conduit between coach and player on the field because
Speaker 5: of his past past work with coach Fanjios.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for sure, man.
Speaker 1: It's kind of cool because I'm kind of like another
Speaker 1: coach out there. Guys coming up asking me questions, and
Speaker 1: I mean it feels a little weird sometimes when they
Speaker 1: ask me stuff, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: I've been here three years and different just going on
Speaker 1: my fourth var and in the defense, so it is dope, man,
Speaker 1: just to be another set of eyes and ears for
Speaker 1: those guys and kind of holding myself to a bigger
Speaker 1: standard because I'm in it, I know it.
Speaker 2: I want to know more of it.
Speaker 1: I want to know where everybody's at so I could
Speaker 1: know when to take my shots when they play true
Speaker 1: to the defense and stuff like that. And that's where
Speaker 1: my mind is right now.
Speaker 5: I thought Jerome Baker, Duke Riley and Andrew Van Ginkl
Speaker 5: all had their best days. And gink we heard about
Speaker 5: it back in the spring about playing a little bit
Speaker 5: more off ball backer.
Speaker 3: And he's doing a good job of that.
Speaker 5: Man the way he scrapes over the top and finds
Speaker 5: the back in the correct gap at the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 5: it looks like a natural fit for him. He was
Speaker 5: also getting that work off the edge rush in the quarterback,
Speaker 5: a little bit of everything from Van ginkle. Just the
Speaker 5: depth and the quality of this front seven is kind
Speaker 5: of ridiculous.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: Warren Sharp caught some flak for putting Miami's a top
Speaker 5: front seven, but when you consider him with the Fangio
Speaker 5: system and Fangio here to make it all come together,
Speaker 5: I don't disagree with that. And that's why I think
Speaker 5: that you can survive losses, you know, at various points,
Speaker 5: because you have this depth, because you have three levels
Speaker 5: of the defense that have star players and guys that
Speaker 5: can execute this system at a high, high level. Look,
Speaker 5: when we get Jalen back, it's gonna be awesome. It's
Speaker 5: going to be like, you know, getting a C. C. Sabathiat,
Speaker 5: the trade deadliner for the Manorers last year, Luis Castillo.
Speaker 5: But in the meantime, I think it's still one of
Speaker 5: the best teams in the And it's a hurt. It's
Speaker 5: a hit, obviously, it hurts, but they'll be fine.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 5: I told Kyle Crabs this, who's again down here taking
Speaker 5: in practice. I told him that Mitchell Agude has been
Speaker 5: very impressive and if nothing else, might have put pressure
Speaker 5: on the coaches to just keep more guys in that
Speaker 5: edge group because of his play. And Kyle said, like, oh,
Speaker 5: you mean, it's a good problem when you have your
Speaker 5: number six edge of somebody like Malik Reid. And that's
Speaker 5: not to say that he is the sixth edge, but
Speaker 5: it gives you an idea of where the depth is.
Speaker 5: With Chubb and Ogbah and Phillips and Red and Gink
Speaker 5: and what Wilkins and seither can do out there, it's
Speaker 5: just a lot. Man Baker and Riley I thought worked
Speaker 5: really well condensing space and getting their angles on rushes
Speaker 5: of the quarterback.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 5: They were coming after Tua and Skyler and Mike White
Speaker 5: all day long.
Speaker 3: They were getting those free.
Speaker 5: Runs and closing quickly to not just end plays but
Speaker 5: really force the quarterback off the spot.
Speaker 3: Because those those blitzes.
Speaker 5: As long as you can disrupt that initial timing, it's
Speaker 5: it can change the play of an offense quite a
Speaker 5: lot and force double clutch and a reset in the pocket.
Speaker 3: Then all of a sudden, you're on broken route.
Speaker 5: So they just disrupted things all day long, start to
Speaker 5: finish because the front so dominant.
Speaker 3: Very good day for those guys.
Speaker 5: Let's go ahead and take our first break right here
Speaker 5: deep into the podcast and come back on the other
Speaker 5: side and break down the secondary and tell you about
Speaker 5: the offensive side as well. That's next Draft Time podcast,
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Speaker 5: Back to the practice notes.
Speaker 3: And I thought.
Speaker 5: We'd see cateror Cooho in the Orange Jersey on Friday,
Speaker 5: but I was wrong. I'll be wrong many times in
Speaker 5: the future as well. I think there's an outside chance
Speaker 5: you could see him in it on Sunday because he
Speaker 5: was so damn good again today. But of course, Christian Wilkins,
Speaker 5: I think, is going to make that impossible. Let's go
Speaker 5: ahead and hear from Mike McDaniel on the second year cornerback,
Speaker 5: who I like. I don't know, man, I think he
Speaker 5: might be one of the better guys at that position
Speaker 5: in the NFL, the way he's playing right now and
Speaker 5: the way he played last year.
Speaker 3: Very excited about Cater coo, who so was Mike McDaniels.
Speaker 4: I see determination and hunger to build on what he's
Speaker 4: he's really done. You know, that's kind of Cater's a
Speaker 4: prime example of, you know, seeking opportunity, and every player
Speaker 4: is very aware of that. Last year we were sitting
Speaker 4: here talking about Byron Jones, and my answer to you
Speaker 4: guys was not, oh yeah, Cater kohu. You know, and
Speaker 4: keep in mind every single rep, every single day, which
Speaker 4: is what our whole team's focus is. Those things, the
Speaker 4: results of those the development, the consistency, and the growth
Speaker 4: that determines who who's playing and who's excelling, just.
Speaker 2: Like Cater showed.
Speaker 4: You know, that's why you breed competition. You get as
Speaker 4: many quality players as you can, and then you let
Speaker 4: the chips fall as they decide, not as we look
Speaker 4: at a piece of paper and say, okay, it's that guy.
Speaker 5: So the very first rep of one on ones, which
Speaker 5: you got a chance to watch today, I think it's
Speaker 5: probably a bit of an audible from going inside smaller
Speaker 5: space to work with only one field, to post the
Speaker 5: two we saw one on ones and the receivers and
Speaker 5: corners are coming right at us. The offensive line, defensive
Speaker 5: line drules on the other side, running backs and linebackers
Speaker 5: and safeties were in the middle. So receivers and corners
Speaker 5: was what I saw today. And the very first rep
Speaker 5: of one on one they had to restart the rep
Speaker 5: because Cater went up against Tedrick Wilson Junior and had
Speaker 5: such a good jam the play got shut down.
Speaker 3: You don't see that very often.
Speaker 5: I recall seeing Xavier and Howard do that to Calvin
Speaker 5: Ridley back in twenty twenty one down here at joint
Speaker 5: practices and was like, oh, yeah, x is really freaking good.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 5: And what's crazy was that rep lasted about ninety seconds
Speaker 5: before it was no longer Cater's best rep of the
Speaker 5: day because this time he drew one of the best
Speaker 5: players in the NFL. And Jaylen Waddle, a top five receiver,
Speaker 5: goes into the Darius Slay and Rasul Douglass podcast by
Speaker 5: talking about who is the most slept on receiver and
Speaker 5: they talk about Waddle and how like they compared his
Speaker 5: speed to Tyreeks and how it's different speed, how Jalen
Speaker 5: can get out of the shoot like that, and we
Speaker 5: saw that on this rep where he unleashed one of
Speaker 5: his many devastating releases he has with a hesitation step
Speaker 5: slowdown Travis where he gets on top, but Cater pretty
Speaker 5: quickly with just an awesome looking route and he stacks him,
Speaker 5: which is what you want to do, and Tua uncorks
Speaker 5: an absolute dime. Wattle reaches out, makes the catch, but
Speaker 5: then Cater comes in last minute and I tweeted about
Speaker 5: it a clip from ESPN's Matt Bowen where Cater punt
Speaker 5: or where and that clips to Faon Gilmour, who's the
Speaker 5: best at this, got in the hip pocket and punches
Speaker 5: the ball out between the two hands of the receiver.
Speaker 5: Cater did exactly that. That is high, high level stuff,
Speaker 5: and again I put it on Twitter for you guys
Speaker 5: for reference.
Speaker 3: He's exceptional.
Speaker 5: I just he's really freaking good man, and every day
Speaker 5: he's doing.
Speaker 3: Things that make me reiterate that point.
Speaker 5: You can kind of hear the laughter of my voice
Speaker 5: because I don't often get this fire off by a guy,
Speaker 5: but Cater co who's my dude.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 5: Javon Holland had a really good day too, you know,
Speaker 5: I think there's some potential there for him to kind
Speaker 5: of take on a little bit of what Jalen Ramsey
Speaker 5: might have been doing, because I think, like I said,
Speaker 5: there's five guys maybe in the league. You know, Derwin
Speaker 5: James comes to mind that can do the things that
Speaker 5: Jalen Ramsey can do.
Speaker 3: And I think that Javon Holland might be one of
Speaker 3: those guys.
Speaker 5: And I think that you go back to his organ
Speaker 5: tape when you played that nickel star role, I think
Speaker 5: there's some opportunity there. And sure if I'm thinking about that,
Speaker 5: and then I see him play some coverage snaps one
Speaker 5: on ones and in team drills, you know, against slots
Speaker 5: and tight ends and things of that nature, and he's
Speaker 5: really really good that his size and length really pops
Speaker 5: when he can kind of engulf some of those shorter
Speaker 5: guys inside like a Brax and Barrios for instance, he
Speaker 5: just gets on top and finds a way to reach
Speaker 5: around and poke the ball out without interfering with the play.
Speaker 5: I'm really curious to see how he's used this year
Speaker 5: because I think he's got really every tool in the
Speaker 5: tool bag, and you can basically choose what you want
Speaker 5: to do with him. You can mass weaknesses, you can
Speaker 5: expose weaknesses on the posing offense, you can highlight strengths.
Speaker 5: It's up to coach Fangio, and I like having that
Speaker 5: guy to make those calls. I thought Elijah Campbell had
Speaker 5: an excellent day, very good in coverage, good reaction to
Speaker 5: pass catchers, breaking off their routes and finding his way
Speaker 5: back into the passing lane. He's a guy who's always
Speaker 5: intrigued me, mostly because of a special team's work, but
Speaker 5: I think there's something there on defense, and I'm curious
Speaker 5: to see what his role looks like heading into the season.
Speaker 5: Let's do some final defensive notes here before we play
Speaker 5: some more audio for y'all. Aubrey Miller had a good
Speaker 5: pass breakup on a shifty route from a back that
Speaker 5: I thought showcased a skill set that.
Speaker 3: I wasn't aware that he had.
Speaker 5: I know he's kind of got the land in Roberts
Speaker 5: B gap to B gap thumper, but that pass game
Speaker 5: skill set was not something that came with fifty two previously.
Speaker 5: Maybe the new fifty two has a little bit more
Speaker 5: of that he flashed early. I thought Mitchell Lagude was
Speaker 5: active once again, and I had Cameron Good with another
Speaker 5: potential sack hit on the quarterback. I thought Malik Reid
Speaker 5: had his best practice getting in the backfield consistently. And
Speaker 5: I also watched Jason Sanders, not a defensive player, but
Speaker 5: I saw him split the uprights about forty five times
Speaker 5: a day. Every kick he kicks in practice is good.
Speaker 5: Let's see it carry over to the season. Let's go
Speaker 5: ahead and finish up the segment here with players talking
Speaker 5: about Vic Fangio and start with linebacker Duke Riley.
Speaker 7: I guess just the way he breaks down every detail
Speaker 7: in his scheme. I've been around a lot of coaches,
Speaker 7: and I can say that he's one of the smartest
Speaker 7: guys on defense that I've been around. I personally learned
Speaker 7: so much from him within a few months. Know that
Speaker 7: that's going to help my game, and just seeing things
Speaker 7: the way he teaches it. And you learn that from
Speaker 7: every single coach. You know, every single coach you're going
Speaker 7: to pick up a few things. It's just Fangio's He's
Speaker 7: been around so long and he's seen so much, and
Speaker 7: he's able to break things down to a different level
Speaker 7: because he's seen it from so many different angles and
Speaker 7: so many different guys and teams and schemes.
Speaker 2: So I think that he's great for us.
Speaker 3: Let's go real quick here to Zach Sealer.
Speaker 6: I think Coach does a really good job of tayloring
Speaker 6: his defense to the players that we have here. I
Speaker 6: think everything we put in so far has been awesome.
Speaker 6: It's a learning process and kind of learning how to
Speaker 6: play with the guys next to us, and learning how
Speaker 6: he's gonna call it when he's gonna call it different plays.
Speaker 5: A couple of things that really stand out to me,
Speaker 5: mostly the detail they all mentioned that we've heard that
Speaker 5: consistently throughout the first three days here about the details
Speaker 5: that coach harps on in situational awareness. I'm just very
Speaker 5: excited about what this defensive talent can do with that
Speaker 5: guy at the helm because it's looked the part so far.
Speaker 3: Man, all right, there you go.
Speaker 5: That is Zach, Seeler and Duke talking about the DC.
Speaker 5: Let's go ahead and take our last break right there
Speaker 5: and come back and talk some offense. I also want
Speaker 5: to play a couple more soundbites from Mike McDaniel. That's
Speaker 5: next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to
Speaker 5: you by autoonation. So the best play of the day
Speaker 5: for the offense was a potential big ball that did
Speaker 5: not happen because of defensive pass interference on Xavier and Howard.
Speaker 5: Very good matchup with x and Waddle going to the
Speaker 5: post on a deep shot and to a loaded up
Speaker 5: and laid it out there, and I'm ninety percent sure
Speaker 5: Waddle would have ran under it for about an eighty
Speaker 5: five yard touchdown or so, but x grabbed on and
Speaker 5: pulled him to the ground and we could see McDaniel
Speaker 5: from his position deep in the defensive backfield signaling flag. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it was a clear DPI And that was actually the
Speaker 5: case in a lot of the one on ones too,
Speaker 5: which you kind of understand because that is such a
Speaker 5: hard drill for dB, so you get lots of grabbing
Speaker 5: and lots of hands on receivers jerseys. I didn't think
Speaker 5: there was a ton to say about the quarterbacks today.
Speaker 5: It was tough to get anything going from a rhythm standpoint,
Speaker 5: and how unrelenting the pass rush was. Thought saw a
Speaker 5: lot of inaccurate balls from fourteen to nineteen, so much
Speaker 5: one but Tua just didn't really throw that many passes.
Speaker 5: There were so many plays that were blown dead because
Speaker 5: it was unrelenting. But he also would do a good
Speaker 5: job of getting off a spot and throwing the ball
Speaker 5: to running back, you know, after probably a presumed sack,
Speaker 5: but you do want to see him finish that play
Speaker 5: and get the ball out. But you know, obviously that
Speaker 5: type of pass rush production leads to some issues on
Speaker 5: the offensive line, and we saw that pretty consistently. I
Speaker 5: thought Austin Jackson had a pretty rough day today. I
Speaker 5: thought that Dan Fienie had a pretty rough day today.
Speaker 5: I thought lot of the guys out there really struggled
Speaker 5: with this pass rush. I thought Savon Achmed ran well again,
Speaker 5: but that's been the case all camp long. We saw
Speaker 5: Tyreek and Jalen make a couple of nice plays, as
Speaker 5: Zuokama had a really good one on one period. And
Speaker 5: that's really all I've got for you guys. Just not
Speaker 5: a day to talk about offense. It was about the
Speaker 5: defense today, but I am excited to see how they
Speaker 5: respawn on Sunday. With all you out here, the fans
Speaker 5: in the stands, let's go ahead and finish up here
Speaker 5: with some more media. I want to go back to
Speaker 5: coach who talked about the retrospective taking cam Smith back
Speaker 5: in the second round in April, because I remember a lot
Speaker 5: of the folks out there saying Dolphins don't need cornerbacks.
Speaker 5: Here's coach on taking camp Smith and where they're at
Speaker 5: right now.
Speaker 2: I know enough not to.
Speaker 4: Project where they're going yet, you know, especially this soon,
Speaker 4: but like it is a journey. And again, like we
Speaker 4: weren't talking to you know, Caterko who played out standing
Speaker 4: as a rookie, and I definitely know that he didn't
Speaker 4: come up in this UH press conference a year ago.
Speaker 4: So I have seen steps forward and steps back. I've
Speaker 4: seen a consistent human being that has is earning the
Speaker 4: trust or earning the trust and respect of his teammates
Speaker 4: by how he's approaching things professionally. Now what does that
Speaker 4: mean for like how he's playing.
Speaker 2: I don't even really think about that.
Speaker 4: It's more about intent, and you build and stack those
Speaker 4: days so that you can ultimately have a decision, But
Speaker 4: you don't prematurely decide Okay, he's doing this whatever. I've
Speaker 4: been happy with his daily investment and how he's really
Speaker 4: seeing the pros around him, taking some notes and is
Speaker 4: learning lessons every day. Sometimes those are good lessons.
Speaker 2: Those are bad.
Speaker 5: Let's go ahead and finish up here with head coach
Speaker 5: Mike McDaniel, who earlier in the press conference asked about
Speaker 5: losing sleep or if he was over the injury, and
Speaker 5: then you will hear him reference that here on this
Speaker 5: answer because he was asked about how I suppose last
Speaker 5: year's experience of all the injuries and still qualifying for
Speaker 5: the playoffs, how that experience kind of helped his team
Speaker 5: develop their depth and their mentality of playing with depth.
Speaker 5: Here's coach talking about why he's not losing sleep.
Speaker 2: That's exactly why I'm not losing sleep.
Speaker 5: You know, the.
Speaker 4: You have to take what's in front of you. I
Speaker 4: talked to team a ton about this, like there's so
Speaker 4: much the world's telling us. If you open your eyes
Speaker 4: and listen and that experience, that's how we justify last season.
Speaker 4: Our goal was not to get to the playoffs and lose,
Speaker 4: so that you know that is unfortunate.
Speaker 2: So you have a choice.
Speaker 4: Do you turn that into a failure or do you
Speaker 4: turn that into something that's a part of your future success.
Speaker 4: The only way you can do that is if you
Speaker 4: take what's there and learn from it. Hey, guess what
Speaker 4: injuries do happen every that's our veteran players are take
Speaker 4: in year two, taking a huge step on personally holding
Speaker 4: the young guys accountable because you really learn that you
Speaker 4: need everybody to win. You need everybody to win. And
Speaker 4: this is if we hang our hat at an injury,
Speaker 4: I mean, what is that doing. No no other no
Speaker 4: other team really cares. I'm if I'm holding my breath
Speaker 4: for the Chargers and everybody else to you know, shed
Speaker 4: a tear for us, I will be holding my breath.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 4: So I think it's an invaluable lesson, something that you
Speaker 4: can turn. You know, like everything in life, you can
Speaker 4: turn a perceived negative into a positive if your your
Speaker 4: mind is right and you're trying to tack today and
Speaker 4: not yesterday.
Speaker 5: And there you have it. That is the podcast. We're
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Speaker 5: special events you'll be looking forward to on Sunday here
Speaker 5: at the Bathoshell Training Complex.
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