Speaker 1: Practice are al fits Patrick touchdown. What a win for
Speaker 1: this Miami Dolphin team. Wow? What is up? Dolphins? And
Speaker 1: welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins
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Speaker 1: How's it going everybody? It is Tuesday. I am Travis
Speaker 1: Wingfield and I am here to bring you your daily
Speaker 1: dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, day
Speaker 1: seven here from Davy of padded practices and the Dolphins
Speaker 1: are on the near field today, so it's an even
Speaker 1: better day here in South Florida. We're gonna hear from
Speaker 1: coach Flores, Josh Rosen, Jaccheine Grant, and Eric Flowers on
Speaker 1: this podcast. Plus we're gonna have all the news and
Speaker 1: notes from practice. All of that and more on this
Speaker 1: Tuesday training camp August edition of the Drivetime Podcast Dolphins
Speaker 1: Off the Top. Here we have some roster news. On
Speaker 1: Monday evening, the Dolphins announced that round draft pick out
Speaker 1: of Boise State, Curtis Weaver would be waves slash injured.
Speaker 1: And I saw it all over social media and myself too,
Speaker 1: was a little bit curious to find out what exactly
Speaker 1: that means. The Wave slash. Injured designation is only available
Speaker 1: to be used on players who are not vested veterans,
Speaker 1: and that just means they have less than four years
Speaker 1: of a crude time in the National Football League, and
Speaker 1: injured players with fewer than the four years of service
Speaker 1: time cannot be placed on injured reserve until they pass
Speaker 1: through waivers, So teams will cut this sort of player
Speaker 1: with a waived injured designation, allowing other teams to place
Speaker 1: a claim if they so choose, and if the player
Speaker 1: goes unclaimed, his original team, the Miami Dolphins can place
Speaker 1: him on injured reserve or agreed to an injury settlement,
Speaker 1: then fully release him from the roster that comes from
Speaker 1: Pro Football rumors NFL glossary there. So I hope that
Speaker 1: makes sense for you guys all on the Curtis Weaver front.
Speaker 1: As we press on towards Coach Flora's Tuesday morning media
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Speaker 1: from coach Flora's and his prepractice Tuesday, August media availability
Speaker 1: had a pretty good feeling the first question might be
Speaker 1: about Kyle van Noy. It was, but it was also
Speaker 1: prepackaged into a question about both van Noy and Curtis Weaver.
Speaker 1: Here's Brian Flora's on the decision on Curtis Weaver and
Speaker 1: also an update on Kyle van Noy's injury. Again, a lot,
Speaker 1: a lot goes into you know, these decisions, the injury itself,
Speaker 1: by performing salary cap debt, the position and next year's
Speaker 1: draft is. I mean, there's a lot that goes into it.
Speaker 1: Those conversations that I had by myself, Chris Brandon, the
Speaker 1: coaching staff, he's uh waves, I mean he could get claimed.
Speaker 1: It's a small percentage of players who do get claimed
Speaker 1: in this situation. UM, So we'll see if we get
Speaker 1: him back, we'll know receive me. As far as Kyle
Speaker 1: got banged up a little bit yesterday, you know, he's
Speaker 1: getting treatment, he's feeling a little bit better, and we're
Speaker 1: just gonna take this thing day to day hopeful that
Speaker 1: he'll be out there. So I know he'll try to
Speaker 1: get out there as soon as he can. And we
Speaker 1: will hear from Josh Rosen later on today's podcast. So
Speaker 1: first we're gonna get a question here for coach Flora's
Speaker 1: about Josh Rosen and the progress he's made here in
Speaker 1: training camp number two with Miami. But you know, all
Speaker 1: in all, I think he's competing. I think he's you know,
Speaker 1: of all the quarterbacks, he's you know, he's probably got
Speaker 1: the biggest arm um. He's made some incredible throws. Um.
Speaker 1: I would say we need to always be more consistent
Speaker 1: out of every position, UM, specifically the quarterback. And you
Speaker 1: know there's a lot of competition at work. It's to
Speaker 1: to to Josh um. But he's a talented player, he's
Speaker 1: been he's been competing, but consistency really at that position
Speaker 1: you need it from a situation situationally from a leadership standpoint.
Speaker 1: But I do think He's making a lot of progress
Speaker 1: and hopefully we'll continue continue with that progress. So we've
Speaker 1: talked a lot about Eric Flowers on this podcast and
Speaker 1: the band slash Harnessed apparatus he brings out with him
Speaker 1: every day onto the field to lead in instruction post
Speaker 1: practice with all the young guys getting some extra work
Speaker 1: after practice. Here is a question for coach Floors about
Speaker 1: the leadership that Eric Flowers has shown so far and
Speaker 1: how valuable it can be on a young team and
Speaker 1: a young offensive line like the one the Dolphins have here.
Speaker 1: It's very valuable. I mean, Ix had a lot of
Speaker 1: experiences in this league as a high draft pick, has
Speaker 1: played for you know, a few a few different teams.
Speaker 1: He's had a lot of ups downs, you know, over
Speaker 1: the course of his career. He's learned a lot. He's
Speaker 1: really kind of taking um, those young, young young players
Speaker 1: under his wing to a degree. To me, it's, you know,
Speaker 1: what better of a guide as to do that someone
Speaker 1: who has had as many experiences as he had been
Speaker 1: in different places, been under some different systems, but and
Speaker 1: and had some success also, um success and failures. You know,
Speaker 1: when when he talks to a young guy, young offensive
Speaker 1: and For some reason, my audio cut out on that
Speaker 1: sound drop, but he talked about the impact it has
Speaker 1: and how it resonates with those young players, and he
Speaker 1: talks about some of the other offensive linemen in that room,
Speaker 1: Jesse Davis, Ted Carriss, Danny Isidora, about the collective effort
Speaker 1: of leadership and teaching the young guys the ropes early on.
Speaker 1: They're all kind of, you know, they work all work
Speaker 1: well together, Danny Sadora. They're they're they're all kind of
Speaker 1: work together helping those young guys get acclimated to the
Speaker 1: to the National Football League. Obviously, there's no preseason games,
Speaker 1: so they don't get to go out there and you know,
Speaker 1: bang bang with another team. But I know there's a
Speaker 1: lot of conversations about what it's like to play games.
Speaker 1: Lead those conversations that happen, and guys like Eric and
Speaker 1: to Danny, they're they're they're leading those conversations. And now
Speaker 1: we get a two pronged question talking about Dolphins cornerback
Speaker 1: Nick need Him, which floors will start with, and then
Speaker 1: a transition into discussing playing time for rookies, kind of
Speaker 1: throwing them into the fire quote unquote there and how
Speaker 1: Flores feels about that, how he's gonna play the best
Speaker 1: guys that give this team a chance to win. Here's
Speaker 1: Flora's on Nick need him and his young players playing early.
Speaker 1: You know, I think Nick has made a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of improvement over the over the course of
Speaker 1: a year. You know how Nick came into training camp
Speaker 1: when he's learned a lot. I think he's been short
Speaker 1: a lot. I think he's taking a lot more professional
Speaker 1: approach from his rookie year. And um, he's made, he's made,
Speaker 1: He's made some strides. So just I tell these guys,
Speaker 1: when you get your opportunity and you have to take
Speaker 1: advantage of it. It's like basketball, you get to you know,
Speaker 1: you get your opportunity. That's like getting to the free
Speaker 1: throw line. You know to make it, you know, or
Speaker 1: you don't. So that's kind of, um some of the
Speaker 1: things we talked about. So when Nick goes in because
Speaker 1: somebody else goes down and Um plays well, you know,
Speaker 1: that's what we're talking about as far as taking advantage
Speaker 1: of your opportunities. And that's not just football, it's life
Speaker 1: in general. Um, so next done a good job. Um
Speaker 1: as far as rookies in general, and you know, throw
Speaker 1: them into throwing them in the fire versus not throwing
Speaker 1: him in the fire. You know, like we play the
Speaker 1: guys we feel give us the best chance to win.
Speaker 1: You know, that was the case with you. You know
Speaker 1: you mentioned Deeter um last year, UM, when he played
Speaker 1: a lot of football a year ago, and we felt
Speaker 1: like he gave us the best chance to win. There's
Speaker 1: a little bit of forecasting and predicting you we need
Speaker 1: to do as coaches, as as a as an organization,
Speaker 1: as person as a personnel department. You know, where a
Speaker 1: guy may not be better than somebody else in week one,
Speaker 1: but prediction, the forecast is that he may be better
Speaker 1: in week twelve. And those are the decisions we have
Speaker 1: to make. UM. So every team is making those decisions
Speaker 1: in some form of fashion. And I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: that's necessarily the case. We might feel like it is
Speaker 1: better right now then, you know, not not Deeter. I'm
Speaker 1: not talking specifically about you know, one specific player. I'm
Speaker 1: just you know, in general, we may feel like that player,
Speaker 1: player X is better than you know, the veteran, but
Speaker 1: we may also feel like player X is going to
Speaker 1: be better, UM, And that's that's a lot of what
Speaker 1: goes into the decisions here, so you guys will never
Speaker 1: really know what I'm thinking at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: I just had to keep that laughing there because you
Speaker 1: kind of saw some maniacal facial expression there from Coach
Speaker 1: Flores about how he has knowledge of his football team
Speaker 1: that of course he's not going to divulge to the
Speaker 1: media on that topic. Coach was then asked a question
Speaker 1: about Josh Rosen's placement on the team, and I didn't
Speaker 1: keep the rose and part in initially because I think
Speaker 1: that Coach, as he is wont to do, will shift
Speaker 1: this towards the focus of the entire team, because of
Speaker 1: course it requires a fifty three man fifty five this
Speaker 1: year roster to win games. And Coach talks about the
Speaker 1: evaluation process this stage of training camp, about halfway through
Speaker 1: day seven here on Tuesday, four team practices and total
Speaker 1: before the season kicks off. Here's Coach on the evaluation
Speaker 1: process and where the Dolphins are right now in that process.
Speaker 1: You know, we're not anointing anyone starter. You know, this
Speaker 1: is still a competition in so I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: fit in and his role is gonna be what he
Speaker 1: makes it just like we said, every every player at
Speaker 1: every position. So unless you've seen our you know our
Speaker 1: debt cart, you know what I'm thinking, and you know
Speaker 1: to me it's still we're still We're still going here.
Speaker 1: We've got you know, practice today where guys will be
Speaker 1: competing and trying to get better, and we're gonna work
Speaker 1: for a second third down in red area to a minute,
Speaker 1: you know, works in two point players today and we'll
Speaker 1: just compete and see where this thinks, how it shakes out.
Speaker 1: So and we finish up with a question I was
Speaker 1: curious to ask coach myself on this particular press conference
Speaker 1: about linebacker Ray Kawon McMillan. Here's coach breaking down the
Speaker 1: Dolphins fourth year now linebacker out of Ohio State. Ray
Speaker 1: Kwan's obviously started a lot of games in this league.
Speaker 1: Good tackler, good communicator, smart player, plays in the kicking game.
Speaker 1: He's still ascending. I think he's doing well and he's
Speaker 1: playing well in this training camp. And um, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of competition at that at the linebacker position between
Speaker 1: Ray Kwan and Landon Roberts and Calvin Onntson Baker and Como.
Speaker 1: And we'll see with the with the with the with
Speaker 1: the chips fall and um again, everyone's still competing. This
Speaker 1: is practice seven of fourteen in training camp. So we're right,
Speaker 1: you know, we're right at the halfway point and a
Speaker 1: decisions have been made, but we're closing in, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're definitely making our evaluations and uh, some
Speaker 1: people are ahead of others. And when you're not gonna
Speaker 1: get that out of me today, jail, and we're just
Speaker 1: trying to look, we're gonna try to feel the best
Speaker 1: team we can um and try to compete for an
Speaker 1: entire season. So the Rake one is playing, he's playing well,
Speaker 1: and I think he's a he's a very good player
Speaker 1: in this league. And there you have it. We heard
Speaker 1: from coach on this Tuesday and the Dolphins were back
Speaker 1: on the practice field and it was another one of
Speaker 1: these kind of cloudy and breezy days, which are very
Speaker 1: very welcome down here in South Florida. That humidity causes
Speaker 1: your shirt to stick to you, but that breeze and
Speaker 1: that cloud coverage can make a huge difference. We had
Speaker 1: that again for back to back days on Tuesday, and
Speaker 1: we start this day with some music takes because yesterday
Speaker 1: I recognized kid Cutty. Today, I recognize a new Drake song,
Speaker 1: I have no idea what it's called. And my age
Speaker 1: and my lack of pop culture knowledge here in the
Speaker 1: music industry is definitely showing because I didn't recognize any
Speaker 1: of these songs. But then today we got three back
Speaker 1: to back songs that I recognized, Black Sabbath, Nirvana, and
Speaker 1: Guns and Roses. So that might have been a little
Speaker 1: treat for me there watching practice, watching the guys get
Speaker 1: stretched out. And this practice was much more about live periods,
Speaker 1: live sessions, team red zone two point drills skipped the
Speaker 1: one on ones entirely. We had referees out there, officials
Speaker 1: calling flag or throwing flags and calling penalties on the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: And there was two great stories about the referees that
Speaker 1: occurred in this practice. The first one, the receivers were
Speaker 1: working on toe tap drills down around the end line,
Speaker 1: with the quarterbacks throwing the football over a second level
Speaker 1: defender like a linebacker for instance, and they had to
Speaker 1: elevate and get the feet down, and the RAF was
Speaker 1: standing there signaling touchdown or in completion, and mac hollins
Speaker 1: came down for what looked like a successful conversion, but
Speaker 1: I'll go ahead to defer to the referee here because
Speaker 1: he was right down there and he called it incomplete
Speaker 1: and mac holland's kind of fake chewed him out about
Speaker 1: the call. They were having a good time bantering back
Speaker 1: and forth with that. And then later on in the
Speaker 1: two points conversion or two point play period of practice,
Speaker 1: say that five times fast. There was a play where
Speaker 1: the runner was running for the pylon short left and
Speaker 1: tried to get into the end zone and the offense
Speaker 1: thought he was in. Everybody thought he was in, and
Speaker 1: they had the team split up on either sideline during
Speaker 1: this portion of practice, and the referee signaled him down
Speaker 1: at the one yard line, and the offensive sideline booed
Speaker 1: the referee, and Flora's happened to be on this side
Speaker 1: as well, and he shot a thumbs up over to
Speaker 1: the referee there with a smile on his face. So
Speaker 1: some good, lighthearted moods out there at this practice. Some
Speaker 1: other news and notes from practice. Kyle van Noy was
Speaker 1: out there and dressed and participating. Noah Agnogamy was out
Speaker 1: there as well. New signing Trent Harris was on the field.
Speaker 1: Preston Williams had the day off, and no Jachem Grant
Speaker 1: and no Patrick Laird for this particular practice. And one
Speaker 1: note from the last couple of days of practice I
Speaker 1: want to put in there, and more so from yesterday
Speaker 1: on Monday, was to do a little bit more. The
Speaker 1: day that to a tongue of bola the quarterback had
Speaker 1: and I thought he was sharp again on Tuesday, but
Speaker 1: on Monday this note during the two minute period, that
Speaker 1: was what really stood out to me most so far
Speaker 1: in training camp about his performance. I've talked about this
Speaker 1: a million times and you can find it on Twitter
Speaker 1: if you just search my handle to a tongue of
Speaker 1: Voloa and go to my videos up there at Wingfield NFL.
Speaker 1: It's the inherent feel for the game. And that's not
Speaker 1: just pressure. It's timing, it's rhythm, it's where the matchups
Speaker 1: are on the offensive side compared to the defensive side.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of things. Now, in this instance, it
Speaker 1: was in fact that quarterback pressure. He was getting plenty
Speaker 1: of it, but his ability to be able to process
Speaker 1: things as quickly as his body can move and as
Speaker 1: quickly as things developed in front of him allows him
Speaker 1: to anticipate not just the rouchdown field, but where that
Speaker 1: pressure comes from and how to get away from it,
Speaker 1: and how to make plays amidst that pressure, he would
Speaker 1: hit the top of his drop, and before he could
Speaker 1: even settle into that drop, he was bouncing up and
Speaker 1: approaching the line of scrimmage while keeping his eyes down
Speaker 1: field to survey the coverage and attack accordingly. He's working
Speaker 1: on the move towards the line. He gets his hip
Speaker 1: squared to the line and throws absolute darts all over
Speaker 1: the field. It was so impressive. It was the exact
Speaker 1: same thing I saw in college that made me love
Speaker 1: him as a prospect. And I thought it was great
Speaker 1: to see out here in the aquaand orange wearing the
Speaker 1: Dolphin's colors doing the exact same things we saw him
Speaker 1: do at Alabama. As for the practice itself, I had
Speaker 1: two clear standouts on Tuesday, and they were the two
Speaker 1: edges that came over in free agency, one from the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: one from the Buffalo Bills. And Emmanuel Ogball and Shack Lawson.
Speaker 1: And we'll start with first, because I legit started to
Speaker 1: lose count. I think it was three batted balls and
Speaker 1: three sacks I might have had him with on his
Speaker 1: overall production. He is just so powerful and puts such
Speaker 1: pressure on the player across from him to get that
Speaker 1: technique right, because if you don't get those hands right,
Speaker 1: he's gonna walk you right back into the quarterback. After
Speaker 1: a series where he and Jesse Davis were doing some
Speaker 1: good battle there, I saw Jesse come over and the
Speaker 1: lineman kind of congregated around Jesse Davis, and I obviously
Speaker 1: can't be for sure what they were talking about, but
Speaker 1: it looked like they were discussed how to handle those
Speaker 1: difficult heavy hands, the long arms of Emmanuel Ogbah, and
Speaker 1: how to combat that as you try to get yourself
Speaker 1: into a balanced set and really work to absorb those blows.
Speaker 1: It seems like one of the mysteries of camp so far,
Speaker 1: because Agba has been doing it every single day. On
Speaker 1: the notebook, I go back here and Ogba had three
Speaker 1: batted passes, two sacks, two more instances where he impacted
Speaker 1: the throw with pressure on the quarterback. A monster day
Speaker 1: for ninety one out there. We've heard that before here,
Speaker 1: haven't we. The guy on the other side, number ninety
Speaker 1: he wasn't far behind Shack lost and had a potential
Speaker 1: sack on the first play of the team period. It's
Speaker 1: sometimes hard to gauge if it is a sack or not.
Speaker 1: Because it's if the guy gets close to the quarterback,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and call it a sack because
Speaker 1: they have to pull up and can't finish the tackle. Obviously.
Speaker 1: He then later blew up a screen pass on that
Speaker 1: same series. He also drew a holding call on an
Speaker 1: outside run down on the red zone period, and he
Speaker 1: finished the day with a sack and another pressure where
Speaker 1: he impacted the quarterback's ability to make the pass. So
Speaker 1: by my count, between those two guys, four sacks, three
Speaker 1: pressures that impacted the quarterback, a holding call, and three
Speaker 1: batted passes and a ruined screenplay. Have a day, big fellows.
Speaker 1: And a quick note on some two point success rates.
Speaker 1: Fits and Rosen, we're both a perfect three for three
Speaker 1: converting two point conversions. That's a one thousand batting average
Speaker 1: from the offense, and that part of practice all throws two.
Speaker 1: So good work down there from the QBS. Actually checked
Speaker 1: that they were five of six because one of those
Speaker 1: plays was the call where the official ruled the player
Speaker 1: out at the one yard line. But like the offense,
Speaker 1: I don't quite agree with that call, but we'll leave
Speaker 1: it to the referee, So five out of six on
Speaker 1: that particular portion of practice, and I want to give
Speaker 1: a portion of the pod here to the specialist because
Speaker 1: I haven't talked enough about these guys. Those guys work
Speaker 1: their butts off and really have to do the most
Speaker 1: straight line running as they cover kicks, work to get
Speaker 1: back on blocks, that sort of thing, and they wrap
Speaker 1: it over and over and over again. And Danny craftsman,
Speaker 1: he is pretty vocal and he's out there barking at
Speaker 1: these guys and they absolutely play their asses off for him.
Speaker 1: The first guy I took note of was Clayton Federalum,
Speaker 1: it's not glamorous work, but he's out are fighting like
Speaker 1: hell to find angles, to do everything he can to
Speaker 1: get himself in position where he's not going to commit
Speaker 1: a foul because it's so easy to throw a block
Speaker 1: in the back and cost your team huge yardage, not
Speaker 1: just the ten yards that cost you, but also the
Speaker 1: lost yardage of the return, so so crucial to get
Speaker 1: those leverages and get that placement right. He's getting square
Speaker 1: up to his man playing off that leverage, and he
Speaker 1: was just getting a lot of praise out there from
Speaker 1: the coaches, and I thought he did a hell of
Speaker 1: a job in this practice. I also noted Calvin Munson,
Speaker 1: Sam egg Von, Miles Gaskon, and Mac Hollins doing plenty
Speaker 1: of good work on that particular part of practice as well.
Speaker 1: And I know I missed some guys there. I think
Speaker 1: Andrew van ginkle was out there as well, Tyshon Render
Speaker 1: and some others, but those are the ones I wrote down.
Speaker 1: Some really good work on special teams. Speaking of Mac Hollands,
Speaker 1: he had himself a day as a receiver as well.
Speaker 1: He caught two passes on the first series at receiver.
Speaker 1: First a contested catch up against Nick need Um, who
Speaker 1: was draped all over him, but he pulls it down
Speaker 1: for a tough catch along the sideline for a first down.
Speaker 1: Then a couple of plays later, he has his arm
Speaker 1: pinned down again by need Him on a third and
Speaker 1: long on a corner route and Hollands elevates and snags
Speaker 1: it one handed, pulls it down without the benefit of
Speaker 1: his left hand. Very nice work there from mc collins.
Speaker 1: Another guy that I list, or from that list rather,
Speaker 1: I thought made some nice plays was Andrew van Ginkl.
Speaker 1: He talked about getting stronger during his Monday availability and
Speaker 1: he was in there working off the edge both against
Speaker 1: the run and against the past very effectively. I had
Speaker 1: him with a really nice play as the forced defender
Speaker 1: off the edge, setting the hard edge and getting in
Speaker 1: for a run stop. And then the theme of the
Speaker 1: day was in fact batted passes. He got two of them,
Speaker 1: including a two minute or in the two minute period
Speaker 1: at the end of practice on two up where he
Speaker 1: batted it up and picked it off. A big day
Speaker 1: for the gangster out there off the edge. Another player
Speaker 1: up front I had with some good work was rookie
Speaker 1: Jason Strowbridge out of North Carolina. First, he too was
Speaker 1: playing off the edge and did well as the forced defender,
Speaker 1: set the hard edge, work inside and get the stop
Speaker 1: on Jordan Howard, who was a tough, tough tackle back there.
Speaker 1: Then a couple of plays later he comes clean for
Speaker 1: a possible stack on Tah but t A threw it
Speaker 1: away as he recognized the pressure right way and got
Speaker 1: rid of the football. But Strowbridge in the backfield quite
Speaker 1: a lot. I also had to Von Gagha with a
Speaker 1: very nice pass rush wind that forced the quarterback off
Speaker 1: the spot. And how about some linebacker talk. I talked
Speaker 1: about Jerome Baker's run fits yesterday on the podcast, Same
Speaker 1: story today. He gets in there with a really explosive
Speaker 1: first step and good instincts, and I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: play even faster this year with more knowledge of this defense.
Speaker 1: We heard coach talk about ray Kwa McMillan and his pressor.
Speaker 1: He had an awesome coverage rap where he closed down
Speaker 1: on a quick hitting pass to Matt Brita and wrapped
Speaker 1: that thing up for a short game. And another linebacker
Speaker 1: who has a lot of fun to watch in coverage
Speaker 1: is Commu Gruge Hill super fluid and like Bake has
Speaker 1: that first step quickness, has familiarity here with Brian Flores,
Speaker 1: so that's gonna allow him to play fast as well.
Speaker 1: He does a nice job of getting depth in that
Speaker 1: drop surveying and then following the play progression to the
Speaker 1: football and he finds it. He also had the only
Speaker 1: strip in a strip drill, a pursuge offender would chase
Speaker 1: down the ball carrier and try to get the football
Speaker 1: out from the backside, and he was the only one
Speaker 1: that got it out in that drill. So a good
Speaker 1: word from Commu. On Tuesday, I mentioned Nick meet him
Speaker 1: on Mac Hollins earlier. He had a really impressive pass
Speaker 1: breakup on Devonte Parker on a third down at the
Speaker 1: end of one of the sessions. Really good battle there
Speaker 1: between those two guys who had a bunch of big
Speaker 1: plays last season. Staying in the secondary. I thought Dietrich
Speaker 1: Nichols and Brian Borders had good practices. Borders got his
Speaker 1: hands on a football, but the receiver broke it up
Speaker 1: on a fade. Almost an interception there for Borders. I
Speaker 1: thought Brandon Jones was awesome man. We've talked about him
Speaker 1: and the way he kind of studies the game and
Speaker 1: digest defenses. You can see it in the play speed.
Speaker 1: We talked to Van Ginkl yesterday about manipulating offenses into
Speaker 1: making them think you're gonna do one thing, then you
Speaker 1: do another. Jones times up his runs into the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage so nicely, whether it's as a blitzer or
Speaker 1: a run defender, and if the offensive line doesn't have
Speaker 1: time to react, he can come and clean. And that
Speaker 1: happened a couple of times on Tuesday. Bobby McCain, speaking
Speaker 1: of coming and clean, also had himself it would be
Speaker 1: sacked during the team portion of practice. How about some offense.
Speaker 1: Miles Gaskin took off for what would have been an
Speaker 1: eight yard touchdown rip and again on these run plays,
Speaker 1: I'm going off the player's desire to finish the run,
Speaker 1: and he did. He finished it in the end zone,
Speaker 1: but I think he didn't have a chance to do
Speaker 1: it because he slipped an arm tackle at the second
Speaker 1: level and Robert Hunt cleared a really nice lane for
Speaker 1: him on that particular run. Both Shaheen and smythe Adam
Speaker 1: Shaheen and Durham Smith caught touchdowns in the red zone
Speaker 1: period on similar looking routes. They both showed some wiggle
Speaker 1: and caught the football right under the goal post for touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Davante Parker had a highlight real touchdown catch on a
Speaker 1: fade pass during the red zone work. It's just become
Speaker 1: an everyday thing with that guy out there pulling those
Speaker 1: passes in. And Josh Roseen I thought he had a
Speaker 1: good practice as well. It was nice to see him
Speaker 1: get a little bit animated after he threw a successful
Speaker 1: two point conversion to Ricardo Lewis. You're gonna hear from
Speaker 1: him in just one minute, and what a great frame
Speaker 1: of mind, a great mentality mindset he's in right now,
Speaker 1: as you'll hear as we roll this audio from Josh
Speaker 1: Rosen's Tuesday media availability. The first question posted Josh was
Speaker 1: about the Dolphins offseason using the fifth pick on a
Speaker 1: quarterback and where he's at mentally right now. It is
Speaker 1: what it is, and I just gotta come out and
Speaker 1: try as hard, has tried as hard as I can,
Speaker 1: compete as hard as they can every day and hopefully
Speaker 1: get the nod um at some point in the future.
Speaker 1: Right now, I'm just focusing on improving every day. If
Speaker 1: it's an awesome guy to learn from, and I'm sort
Speaker 1: of continue that progress I had near the end of
Speaker 1: last year. I think I'm doing a pretty good job
Speaker 1: of it, and we'll suit the future holds. But I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm focusing on my development at this point, and
Speaker 1: i think it's been going pretty well. Up next, Josh
Speaker 1: talks about that development and what he's doing specifically to
Speaker 1: improve his game and where he thinks his game has
Speaker 1: taken growth from year one here in Miami into year two.
Speaker 1: Defenses um not just watching film but being able to
Speaker 1: apply um sort of information from the film room onto
Speaker 1: the field, and what that means for my particular play.
Speaker 1: Um So, I think I've been able to um more
Speaker 1: so than I ever have in my career, being able
Speaker 1: to eliminate guys pre snap and start to zero in
Speaker 1: a little bit quick, grow on who I want to
Speaker 1: throw um, and that's helping me get the ball out
Speaker 1: quick quicker than I ever have, and make fast decisions
Speaker 1: and and not make my offensive line look bad. But
Speaker 1: holding under the ball. And now a question from yours truly, Hey, Josh,
Speaker 1: how's it going? Man? We've asked fits to and Robbie
Speaker 1: about the atmosphere in that quarterback room, and I'm curious
Speaker 1: to hear your perspective on what it's like working in
Speaker 1: that room every day and some of the things that
Speaker 1: you glean from the collective brain trust there, collective brain trust.
Speaker 1: That's a good that's a good one. Um. So. I
Speaker 1: mean there's sort of previous relationships everywhere in the room.
Speaker 1: I've known to us this have played him in high school,
Speaker 1: um and then he almost then he almost came to
Speaker 1: c l A, So I knew him at that point.
Speaker 1: And then Fits and Chan and Robbie all of their history.
Speaker 1: So uh, we all have some sorts of familial familiar connections,
Speaker 1: and um, it's pretty hard to uh not goof around
Speaker 1: with with fits and changing your room. So it's a
Speaker 1: really awesome atmosphere. Um, I've learned a ton. Um. I
Speaker 1: think we all really get attitudes and we're trying to
Speaker 1: make each other better. And you'll notice this theme throughout
Speaker 1: Josh's availability here, the mindset he's in, trying to control
Speaker 1: what he can control. Here he is talking about just
Speaker 1: the frame of mind he's approaching this camp with and
Speaker 1: where he's at mentally right now at this stage of
Speaker 1: his career. I'm just trying to control it I can control.
Speaker 1: I think I've played pretty well. Um. Definitely a couple
Speaker 1: of a couple of mistakes that I'm I'm trying to
Speaker 1: fix here in there, But I'm just trying to put
Speaker 1: the best product of Josh Is on the field that
Speaker 1: I can. Really doesn't really do well to focus on
Speaker 1: much else. Somebody asked Josh why he wants to stay
Speaker 1: here in Miami and hasn't asked to be basically let
Speaker 1: go in a trade or release, and I thought Josh's
Speaker 1: answer was really cool. Here he is talking about the
Speaker 1: experience and knowledge in that quarterback room and how it's
Speaker 1: best for him to just learn from those guys right
Speaker 1: now at this point of his career. I like competing,
Speaker 1: but I think a lot of it's there's just a
Speaker 1: lot to learn, and I think you have to kind
Speaker 1: of treasure the moments that you're with sixteen, uh, sixteen seventeen,
Speaker 1: maybe your vet with fits UM coordinator like cham has
Speaker 1: been around the game for a long time, so UM,
Speaker 1: I don't really know when or where. Hopefully this year
Speaker 1: here UM get a shot to play UM, but I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to focus on preparing for that shot, UM
Speaker 1: as best as I can. UM, that's within my control.
Speaker 1: And uh, I'm pretty I'm actually pretty satisfied with how
Speaker 1: I've come out and played this training camp. UM. Obviously
Speaker 1: some holes here and there that I definitely need to
Speaker 1: improve on, but UM, I think I really think I'm
Speaker 1: sort of trending in the right direction. I'm uh enjoying
Speaker 1: it more than I ever have actually, And so the
Speaker 1: media began to pick up on his positivity, and so
Speaker 1: they asked him, where do you find that positivity from.
Speaker 1: Here's Josh responding to that question. I feel positive because
Speaker 1: I've I've noticed I'm a lot more comfortable behind center
Speaker 1: this year than I was last year, and I'm walking
Speaker 1: up to the line of scrimmage with a plan and
Speaker 1: I've learned a lot. I've put a lot of work
Speaker 1: in this offseason and I've um I kind of after
Speaker 1: I got bench, that got bench the first first time,
Speaker 1: but the final time last time before I went in Redskins,
Speaker 1: I sort of, um did like a big kind of
Speaker 1: mirror reality check and just wanted to completely turned in
Speaker 1: words and see what I could do better. And I
Speaker 1: kind of like flick myself in the head and like,
Speaker 1: you're literally in the room with one of the best,
Speaker 1: um one of the best minds to ever do it,
Speaker 1: and that's Fit. So I basically just sat there and
Speaker 1: tried to swallow up as much as I could from him.
Speaker 1: And I took that sort of process into the offseason
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm pretty happy with how I feel behind
Speaker 1: center at this point. Um. I mean, I got a
Speaker 1: lot of work to do, but I think I've only
Speaker 1: scratched the surface, um with what I can do. And
Speaker 1: I guess the reason I'm sort of positive outside of
Speaker 1: this situation is because, um, really, all I can control
Speaker 1: is my development. I think that's going in a good direction.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty uh uh pretty, I don't know the word
Speaker 1: you kind of pick here, but doing well. The thing
Speaker 1: I love about Josh is every time he talks, you're
Speaker 1: going to learn something. And here he is talking about
Speaker 1: the challenges not just for him, but for any quarterback
Speaker 1: that has to go through multiple system changes throughout the
Speaker 1: course of their career. Here he is talking about going
Speaker 1: into yet another new offensive system, something he's very familiar
Speaker 1: with from college and the pros. Yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 1: overwhelming every single year. And then there's always a kind
Speaker 1: of a moment in UM. Usually it's like spring bowling
Speaker 1: college or uh like O t a s where you
Speaker 1: feel like you're drinking from fire hose, and there's always
Speaker 1: kind of a moment where it clicks and you're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is I'm starting to feel this is my language. UM.
Speaker 1: And each year it's just kind of a rough road
Speaker 1: to get there, but once you get there, it's it's
Speaker 1: you're pretty comfortable. Um. They're just different styles and UM,
Speaker 1: this offense that Chan runs is very UM player oriented.
Speaker 1: So it's just let's put your guys in position and
Speaker 1: let him make plays. Um. He wants us to play fast,
Speaker 1: make quick, decisions and let our playmakers make plays, and
Speaker 1: we got a lot of them. Um, I mean that
Speaker 1: that's a this is this is a pretty stark contrast
Speaker 1: to what we had last year. It was a very
Speaker 1: very different style. And um, I'm not saying one is
Speaker 1: better than the other, but I'm just enjoying my time
Speaker 1: in this one right now and learning some of the
Speaker 1: nuances that h Chann of Fits work together. It's really
Speaker 1: cool actually to like go back and watch like old
Speaker 1: Chang Jets film with Fits at quarterbacks, so we can
Speaker 1: see those specific plays and we can see uh like
Speaker 1: and ask and talk about the thought process of that
Speaker 1: play call and what Fits was thinking and why he
Speaker 1: threw it somewhere and reliving some of the heartbreaks and
Speaker 1: celebrations from some of the plays. Now, this obviously is
Speaker 1: a football podcast. We won't get too far from the
Speaker 1: point here, but I just think that in general, in life,
Speaker 1: we can learn a lot from what Josh Rose and
Speaker 1: talked about there with my and set in kind of
Speaker 1: self reflection. They're really interesting press conference. I encourage each
Speaker 1: of you to to go check it out on Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins dot com in its entirety. We also had Eric Flowers,
Speaker 1: new Dolphins offensive linemen, here talking to the media after
Speaker 1: the practice on Tuesday. First. Flowers was asked about coming
Speaker 1: back to Miami, the place where he grew up, plays
Speaker 1: high school football, played in college, and now coming back
Speaker 1: home to play with his hometown Miami Dolphins. Yes, it's
Speaker 1: crazy because you know down here I grew up growing up,
Speaker 1: go to the Dolphin camps today, practices at the stadium
Speaker 1: today games, and then growing up the Optimists, Like you know,
Speaker 1: we had a little The state of provided a lot
Speaker 1: of certain people's teams, like they're Optimist clubs. High school
Speaker 1: were at the stadium to get the fundraisers and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. So I grew up around it this whole time,
Speaker 1: from UM football to the Dolphins. So it's pretty crazy
Speaker 1: being able to play all at all three levels for
Speaker 1: where you're from. But like I went traded for nothing really,
Speaker 1: so I'm extremely happy. Talk about Flowers working after practice
Speaker 1: with the young guys every single day on getting their
Speaker 1: technique in their hands. Right, here's Flowers talking about that
Speaker 1: and how he learned to become a leader at this
Speaker 1: stage of his NFL career. Very important. Um, I didn't
Speaker 1: learn an importance to that until of practicing the right things,
Speaker 1: taking the extra time. It took me about for or
Speaker 1: five years. You know what I mean that are coming
Speaker 1: into league is all about what type of the room
Speaker 1: you're coming into, right, you know, every room isn't the same.
Speaker 1: Everybody doesn't coming to rooms with a veteran or a
Speaker 1: coach that really teaches you the right way and how
Speaker 1: to become a you know, an NFL alignment. And past
Speaker 1: year I got to play with Bill Callahan who was
Speaker 1: by far has been the best teacher, you know, not
Speaker 1: just in football, but the best teacher I've been around
Speaker 1: since I've been playing football. So he's taught me so much.
Speaker 1: And being able to play next to a Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: right guard Brandons Surf show many stuff he did with
Speaker 1: the Dallas O'Ryan, just his resume reproofs in to put it, so,
Speaker 1: I kind of like my feet going to my fifth
Speaker 1: fear in the league. I kind of just forgot everything
Speaker 1: I know and just trying to learn his way in
Speaker 1: the right way to real around guys to do it
Speaker 1: the right way, and that's just how they do. Like
Speaker 1: good players go before practice and stay after practice, and
Speaker 1: they put in countless reps to get any type of
Speaker 1: production and appropriately. So. Eric was asked next about the
Speaker 1: rookies in the offensive line room and how they've come
Speaker 1: to him for guidance and how he's felt about teaching
Speaker 1: them and bring them along so far in this new offense,
Speaker 1: in this new training camp, in with the Dolphins. It's
Speaker 1: been cool. Man. All of them are open minded, all
Speaker 1: of them are trying to learn, They're all trying to
Speaker 1: get better, and I'm just me personally. I'm just trying
Speaker 1: to give them everything I know, take what I know,
Speaker 1: and go on with their own experiences. Man. So just
Speaker 1: doing what I can. If anything they have, you know,
Speaker 1: anything I question they can ask me, or anything I see,
Speaker 1: I just trying to tell them, and I asked them
Speaker 1: to tell me what they see online. We just work together.
Speaker 1: And we finish up here with the question for Eric
Speaker 1: about offensive line coach Steve Marshall what he's learned so
Speaker 1: far from the new Dolphins old line coach. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Marsh marsh has been great, man. I think he's doing
Speaker 1: a great job with rookie is like learning their assignments,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, and really trying to get
Speaker 1: them together. And it's really just gonna take everybody. Man,
Speaker 1: It's gonna take everybody because how it is and how
Speaker 1: we just jump into camp and guys finally getting each other,
Speaker 1: meeting each other, you know what I mean. It's kind
Speaker 1: of hard for him to go to every single player,
Speaker 1: but he's trying to do every single dude is get
Speaker 1: as much as he can get done. I think he's
Speaker 1: doing a great job. And this guy, like I said,
Speaker 1: we just gotta keep getting better. And we close out
Speaker 1: this Tuesday podcast by hearing from Dolphins receiver Jachim Grant,
Speaker 1: who was first asked, so far, how is training camp going? Um?
Speaker 1: I feel like he's going pretty smooth. Ready, Uh, going
Speaker 1: really good. Um. Like I said, I'm gonna continue to
Speaker 1: go out there and get better and every every day
Speaker 1: and everything that I do, Uh, continue to gain the
Speaker 1: coach of stresses and be consistent every day. And this
Speaker 1: next question, get some audio from a reporter who asked
Speaker 1: the question because Jachim cut him off, asking him about
Speaker 1: who is the fastest player on the Dolphins team. And
Speaker 1: you know, Jachim has one answer for that question, who
Speaker 1: is the fastest guy on this team? And they don't
Speaker 1: even have to say me. Of course, I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: that every single time. I don't care about I told man,
Speaker 1: I don't care about him running the twenty two point three.
Speaker 1: I was like, look, I don't. I ain't gotta run that.
Speaker 1: I don't have to run full speed the b guys
Speaker 1: that the ends all that. I don't have to do
Speaker 1: all that. So but like I said, I'm gonna continue
Speaker 1: to say that, if you want to raceists, it's it's nothing.
Speaker 1: I'll continue to tell him, like, you're not gonna be bro,
Speaker 1: just tell him up Next, Jachim was asked about his
Speaker 1: comfortability playing inside and the slot. Here's his response to
Speaker 1: that question about playing inside and outside and doing what
Speaker 1: the coaches asking of him, regardless of what it might be. Like,
Speaker 1: I played the slot probably throughout my whole career, and
Speaker 1: so I got up to the NFL. So I was
Speaker 1: when I got here as a rookie, I was playing
Speaker 1: in the slide. I got to learn behind Jarvis and
Speaker 1: they moved me to the outside. But I've been playing
Speaker 1: my whole life, so um, I mean, it's it's nothing
Speaker 1: to play it, you know, It's just more communications with
Speaker 1: the quarterback, identifying coverages and and just normal where to
Speaker 1: be at all time. So um, but me, I feel
Speaker 1: comfortable playing that like without a doubt and with left
Speaker 1: handed quarterbacks kind of a dying or dead breed. Before
Speaker 1: two I got here. In the NFL, Jachim was asked
Speaker 1: about how different it is to catch a football from
Speaker 1: a left handed quarterback. Um, I was saying, not really.
Speaker 1: I mean as a receiver, the ball comes away, you
Speaker 1: gotta catch it. That's that's just Uh, it's as simple
Speaker 1: as to get But I mean there's I feel like
Speaker 1: there's nothing different, um the spin rotation besides the spin
Speaker 1: rotation of the ball. But um, no, man, it's it's
Speaker 1: nothing different from it. Like like I said, man, your
Speaker 1: receiver cats the ball when it's coming your way. And
Speaker 1: we'll finish up with my question for Joachim. Hey, Jachim,
Speaker 1: what's up? Man? Uh? We saw you telling Davanta you're
Speaker 1: weighing two hundred pounds these days. Just want to ask
Speaker 1: you for it's any truth to that and how did
Speaker 1: you get all that weight on? Oh? Man? Yeah, definitely
Speaker 1: not two hundred left. Like I always like to tell him,
Speaker 1: like I'm two hundred. I'm close there. I'm close to
Speaker 1: too hundred though, Man, I'm getting there. But man, I
Speaker 1: just tell him that because I I like to mess
Speaker 1: with him because he's liked to weigh in with his
Speaker 1: back back on, shoes on, is uh everything going there?
Speaker 1: He always like yeah, Like I like, you take all
Speaker 1: that stuff on. And then that's why I came out
Speaker 1: and kept saying like I'm two hundred because if I
Speaker 1: went in with my back back and all my clothes on,
Speaker 1: I'll be two hundred two. So but that's where that
Speaker 1: I all started just kind of having a good time
Speaker 1: with it. With Jachim. We had him on the podcast
Speaker 1: twice over the course of the summer, previewing the Receiver
Speaker 1: room and also earlier this summer, just talking about some
Speaker 1: off the field stuff, how he was dealing with the
Speaker 1: quarantine during COVID, A bunch of fun interviews. Chachem is
Speaker 1: a great guy. I talked to you their really good
Speaker 1: interviews today from Eric Flower, shakeem Grant, and Josh Rosen.
Speaker 1: We heard from Coach Flores in the morning. Had some
Speaker 1: practice news and notes there for you guys. We're gonna
Speaker 1: do it all over again tomorrow. Before we do that, though, first,
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