Speaker 1: Field touchdown, Miami spokes want a run? What is up,
Speaker 1: Dolphans And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield
Speaker 1: and as always I am here to bring you your
Speaker 1: daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show,
Speaker 1: the pads came back on and the defense showed its stuff.
Speaker 1: Will break down all the action from a run heavy
Speaker 1: padded practice with the depth of the defensive line showing out,
Speaker 1: the linebackers flying all over the field, some offensive line
Speaker 1: and running back talk, and much more, including your Twitter questions,
Speaker 1: audio from Albert Wilson, but Narderick McKinney, and Jerome Baker,
Speaker 1: Top performers, matchup of the day, All of that and
Speaker 1: much much more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the
Speaker 1: Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: We kick it off at the latest roster news from
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins as we keep you up to date
Speaker 1: on this ninety man roster. DeVante Parker was out there
Speaker 1: today but did not work. The same was true of
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips and one day after exiting the field with trainers,
Speaker 1: savan Akhmed was back on the practice field, albeit in
Speaker 1: a red non contact jersey, but that obviously is a
Speaker 1: terrific sign. Andrew Van Gigl exited practice on Tuesday with trainers.
Speaker 1: Will monitor that and get you updates as we have them.
Speaker 1: And the Dolphins also announced on Monday the release of
Speaker 1: d J. Fluker off the injured reserve with an injury settlement.
Speaker 1: The team also added another tight end in Gabe Homes
Speaker 1: and in fact, on the first period, he was working
Speaker 1: with the senet let offense read senet and opened up
Speaker 1: a huge lane on a Jared Oakes run. Kyle Crabs,
Speaker 1: who's here at practice the next two days, and I
Speaker 1: were talking about him before the play and we at
Speaker 1: each other and just say, hey, welcome to Miami, Gabe.
Speaker 1: Kind of a cool moment. So we get out there
Speaker 1: and you know the drill. Christian Wilkins comes out first,
Speaker 1: Shakie Griffin out there shortly after, and the guys go
Speaker 1: to work on the pads and the bags, just popping
Speaker 1: those things. There was a different sound today with the
Speaker 1: pads on, and you can tell it was going to
Speaker 1: be a physical practice from that moment. From the outset,
Speaker 1: and one thing I really liked about that opening period
Speaker 1: was the drill where the defensive line would push the
Speaker 1: sled up to its max height, lock out their arms,
Speaker 1: and then other players at the position group would take
Speaker 1: some pads they used to go up and block against
Speaker 1: the pass, rush against and push on the player's side
Speaker 1: to kind of simulate staying on balance through contact on
Speaker 1: double teams. And watching Christian Wilkins do this, you know,
Speaker 1: looked not of this world. First, he's fully extended with
Speaker 1: his bass planted and the arms all the way locked out,
Speaker 1: and then the hits on him are just not moving him.
Speaker 1: And there's a great snapshot of the underrated value in
Speaker 1: my opinion, of what he does that doesn't show up
Speaker 1: on the stat sheet. The job to stay engage on
Speaker 1: those blocks so they can't climb to the second level.
Speaker 1: I mean, when you double team, you definitely don't want
Speaker 1: to keep two bodies on one guy because that takes
Speaker 1: away your numbers advantage the offense might have, and that's
Speaker 1: the entire point of the running game, to get a
Speaker 1: favorable box count and attack the mismatch. But Christian doesn't
Speaker 1: give an inch in this area and creates chances for
Speaker 1: the backers behind him, and we saw that throughout the
Speaker 1: course of today's practice. We also saw the defense just
Speaker 1: swarm to the football. They played fast, physical, and the
Speaker 1: depth of the group was apparent on this day. We've
Speaker 1: covered this in the podcast all spring and summer, really,
Speaker 1: but I mean, you're six, seven, even eight deep up front,
Speaker 1: you've got a wave of edge rushers, you've got good
Speaker 1: interior linebackers that can be three down guys. And then
Speaker 1: of course on the back end, I don't know, some
Speaker 1: combination of like twelve proven vets with young guys that
Speaker 1: have tons of upside and potential and high draft status.
Speaker 1: So the DBS didn't factor into this particular portion quite
Speaker 1: as much. You get the idea, And I pulled up
Speaker 1: my tweet from last month ahead of the Interior, Defensive
Speaker 1: and Positional Preview up on Miami Dolphins dot com as
Speaker 1: well as here on the Drivetime podcast, where I noted
Speaker 1: that from week ten on last year from Pro Football Focus, Wilkins, Seedler,
Speaker 1: and Davis all finished with top twenty grades at the
Speaker 1: I d L position, and they were the NFL's top
Speaker 1: trio in terms of total pressures and run stops in
Speaker 1: that department because well, not many teams have three guys
Speaker 1: that continuously tick the stat sheet in those two departments.
Speaker 1: And then what you add Adam Butler, And I'm not
Speaker 1: interested in ranking these four guys because I think you
Speaker 1: could make a case for each of them as being
Speaker 1: you know, the quote unquote best one out there, and
Speaker 1: that includes Butler, which just says so much about the
Speaker 1: depth and how all four of those guys could really
Speaker 1: be really one through four on the old depth chart there.
Speaker 1: And then at linebacker, Bernardick McKinney comes in, and that
Speaker 1: was maybe the best individual day of any player through
Speaker 1: six days I've seen out here so far, and that
Speaker 1: should come as no surprise. He was an absolute monster
Speaker 1: against the run and a blitzer in Houston during his
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl run there and even in coverage to a
Speaker 1: true three down backer. I want to play some audio
Speaker 1: here from Bernardrick because he was excellent with us after practiced,
Speaker 1: just talking about returning from the injury, getting the pass
Speaker 1: back on how he had to dial in because he says,
Speaker 1: you know what, We'll go to the audio here first,
Speaker 1: but first I want to start with his response to
Speaker 1: my question when I just straight up said to him
Speaker 1: you know you were in the backfield a lot today
Speaker 1: and that doesn't happen by accident, obviously. What is it
Speaker 1: about this defense that allows you to play so fast
Speaker 1: being just one week in the training camp with your
Speaker 1: new team. Here's b mac. It has a lot to
Speaker 1: deal with drawn helping me out of the defense. Uh,
Speaker 1: guys like Rob helping me out. Coach camp helping me out. Um,
Speaker 1: the whole whole line of the room. To be honest,
Speaker 1: we uh we talk a lot in the line of
Speaker 1: the room and uh they hit me out every every
Speaker 1: guy's helping each other out with the defense, and um,
Speaker 1: I'm getting it. I'm starting to get it. Business. It's
Speaker 1: a long way before the season starts, and I'm just
Speaker 1: taking it one day at the time to try to
Speaker 1: get to know the ins and out. And if that
Speaker 1: was him just getting to start to know the defense,
Speaker 1: then I can't wait to see where he is a
Speaker 1: month or two or even four from now. And Jerome
Speaker 1: Baker touched on that too. I asked him about the
Speaker 1: camaraderie we saw during that goal line drill to end
Speaker 1: the practice. And I'm sure you guys have read about tweets,
Speaker 1: the stories, the articles and what's and so forth, And
Speaker 1: I didn't tell you guys. I couldn't wait for two things,
Speaker 1: goal line and one on ones, and we got both
Speaker 1: those todays. So when goal line, the defense continued the
Speaker 1: theme of the day. They got after the offense pretty good.
Speaker 1: They were stacking up runs, defeating blocks, arriving with big collisions. Man,
Speaker 1: it was a lot of fun out there. And I
Speaker 1: want to make this quick note because I think it's
Speaker 1: very important, and I think it's a bit lost on
Speaker 1: the narrative I've seen kind of developed on Twitter. I
Speaker 1: suppose as I scrolled through while eating my cheese ravioli
Speaker 1: and grilled cilantro shrimp here with a delicious meal of
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins cooked up today and every day really,
Speaker 1: but absolute compliments to the chef on that's it's it's
Speaker 1: fantastic food they give us here. But the run to
Speaker 1: pass ratio to kind of dispell the narrative, the run
Speaker 1: to pass ratio and this practice was probably close to
Speaker 1: ten to one, and that might even be generous. A
Speaker 1: couple of the team periods were exclusively run. It's a
Speaker 1: run install. Remember what coach told us about fundamentals and technique.
Speaker 1: You have to get that part down before you can
Speaker 1: start going to play pass or bootleg or whatever kind
Speaker 1: of action you want to do to make the defense
Speaker 1: consider the other areas of conflicts besides just playing downhill
Speaker 1: and flowing to the football on the running plays. In fact,
Speaker 1: the one play action passed in the goal line period
Speaker 1: presented Carson Meyer wide open in the back of the
Speaker 1: end zone, completely left alone for a room service touchdown
Speaker 1: from Jacoby Brissette. So take that for what it's worth.
Speaker 1: So the defense won a lot, but let's just please
Speaker 1: maintain perspective here. It's akin to judging the results of
Speaker 1: those O t A practices back in May and June, Like,
Speaker 1: does anybody remember that because it doesn't matter anymore. Results
Speaker 1: aren't the end all be all this time of year.
Speaker 1: It's putting the guys in position to foster growth and improvement.
Speaker 1: And I think we saw a step one of that
Speaker 1: today as far as the run game is concerned. The
Speaker 1: physicality of the game here in training camp, and good
Speaker 1: for the defense to get to tee off a bit
Speaker 1: after the offense was you know, dropping in these deep passes.
Speaker 1: Is these deep passes throughout the first five days of
Speaker 1: practice and at times with little resistance, and so those
Speaker 1: practice would kind of flip the script. And a reporter
Speaker 1: actually asked Baker after practice if it was a bit
Speaker 1: of redemption for the defense for the big plays the
Speaker 1: offense scored throughout the first five days of practice, and
Speaker 1: Jerome said he doesn't know about redemption, but he did
Speaker 1: say that it felt good to get the physical aspect
Speaker 1: of the game back. I also asked him about the
Speaker 1: energy and what that meant to him in that final
Speaker 1: period as the defense in that goal line period, because
Speaker 1: if you've ever been to a practice when it's full
Speaker 1: team period and just one field of work, like they're
Speaker 1: not working both fields, the offense goes to one sideline
Speaker 1: and the defense to the other. But in this period,
Speaker 1: the defense went to the end line under the goal post,
Speaker 1: and there was all kinds of chirping and hoot and
Speaker 1: holler and just like it should be because football is fun, right,
Speaker 1: And that's what Jerome said. And just give you a
Speaker 1: heads up here when he starts this answer by saying, amazing,
Speaker 1: he got a massive smile across his face. Here's Jerome, amazing.
Speaker 1: It was fun. It's just one of those periods you know,
Speaker 1: it's live and you can really play ball and you
Speaker 1: can just let it loose and really, you know, show
Speaker 1: what you got. Uh. I just love the energy of
Speaker 1: you know, we was hyped through with the ones, and
Speaker 1: we was hype with the twos and we carried that
Speaker 1: same energy. Uh that we made some mistakes, but at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, you know, we're just getting
Speaker 1: better and that's what it's really about. I had mentioned
Speaker 1: a SoundBite from Jerome talking about b MAC earlier on
Speaker 1: the podcast. Let's go ahead and hear from Jerome before
Speaker 1: we get to Bernardrick and the rest of his interview.
Speaker 1: But first let's hear from Jerome on b MAC. That's amazing.
Speaker 1: He's a big dude. Um, he's willing to learn. He
Speaker 1: goes hard. Uh. You know, he communicates, That's that's the
Speaker 1: one thing he does when he doesn't know something, he acts. Uh.
Speaker 1: He tried to get better. Um, you know right now
Speaker 1: is you know, you can get chemistry, but the real
Speaker 1: chemistry is in the game. We really see, you know,
Speaker 1: when the bullets are flying, who really with you? So uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we're just getting better every day. And you know,
Speaker 1: I definitely love having next to me And like I said,
Speaker 1: I want to go ahead and just play some more
Speaker 1: of McKinney's press, almost in the entire party because it
Speaker 1: was just so good. Let's go ahead and start with
Speaker 1: him talking about getting shoulder pads back on, as if
Speaker 1: you might recall the injury he had last year with
Speaker 1: Houston was in fact his shoulder injury. Here's b Mac. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's a great, great relief day one, having hey shoulder
Speaker 1: pads on a long time. Um, but I had no
Speaker 1: doubt in my shoulder. Uh, it's feeling really great. It
Speaker 1: was a great successful practice for me. Um, and I
Speaker 1: feel good about my shoulder and how I practice and
Speaker 1: just trying to help the team and do whatever it
Speaker 1: takes to make the defense better. And then he talked
Speaker 1: a little bit about live tackling in the period of
Speaker 1: life tackling or a whole practice of it. I should say,
Speaker 1: here's b Mac once again on live tackling. I love
Speaker 1: I love those moments to me person. I love going
Speaker 1: life anyway because that's my that's my strong suit. Uh,
Speaker 1: just coming down here. But it's great. Just guys cheering,
Speaker 1: guys on. Uh. Getting the chemis shore of the team.
Speaker 1: Everybody is the one of core. Everybody having fun, making plays.
Speaker 1: It was a great experience and UM ready to see
Speaker 1: more of it. And alb Mack repays the confliment with
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker asked about playing alongside number fifty's it's it's
Speaker 1: very fun man. He's he's a great leader. Um, he's
Speaker 1: been hitting me out with the defense a lot. Um,
Speaker 1: he's a great guy to be around, a great guy
Speaker 1: on the field, a very athletic guy. Uh to see
Speaker 1: him rent sideline. The sideline is very interested just seeing
Speaker 1: them make plays. It's very fun. And now we hear
Speaker 1: from b Mac talking about the goal of linebackers in
Speaker 1: this defense. I thought this was very insightful. Uh, just
Speaker 1: no one for one is just getting off blocks. I mean, um,
Speaker 1: we know we have to do with linebackers. We can't
Speaker 1: try to sell for one on one blocks. We gotta
Speaker 1: defeat blocks. We gotta be able to get off blocks.
Speaker 1: You gotta be able to make plays. And he always
Speaker 1: emphasized that, and we've been taking it to the heart
Speaker 1: every day, just trying to get off blocks and uh,
Speaker 1: help the D line get free, just like they're trying
Speaker 1: to help us get free. So we're trying to work
Speaker 1: together as as a whole defense and then we finish
Speaker 1: up here with b Mac for a question about the
Speaker 1: mental aspect of the game and getting pads back gone
Speaker 1: for the first time since that injury last Today for
Speaker 1: me was about just um me not being able to
Speaker 1: play football, you know. Uh, since I got hurt meant
Speaker 1: a lot for me. Stepping on the field, being able
Speaker 1: to play again and being able to tackle and be
Speaker 1: physical the guy that i'm that I am and have
Speaker 1: no worries meant a lot for me today, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So it was a great day for me.
Speaker 1: I felt comfortable. It's a lot of stuff I gotta
Speaker 1: work on, uh individually from the scheme and uh, just
Speaker 1: me being inside line bigger here. So I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: work on that and just take it one step at
Speaker 1: the time. And that's the presence that I think is
Speaker 1: somewhat intangible, how to harness your emotions and focus on
Speaker 1: assignments and fundamentals, etcetera, etcetera. I absolutely and loved that quote.
Speaker 1: And this is where we jump into the matchup of
Speaker 1: the day. The matchup of the day a bit of
Speaker 1: a detour from our normal schedule, but I think it
Speaker 1: fits here because the matchup of the day is but
Speaker 1: Drick McKinney and Eric Studisfield the Dolphin's co offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: and run game coordinator. Now, I put coach Ian here
Speaker 1: because I can't say all the backs in the entire
Speaker 1: offensive line, So we'll go with coach who saw his
Speaker 1: backs spring a couple of runs, get to the edge
Speaker 1: a few times. We even saw Ta get out wide
Speaker 1: on a quarterback sweep, and man, he looked fast getting
Speaker 1: out to the edge. You want a foot race to
Speaker 1: the corner with the Dolphins defense. Now, normally Jerome is
Speaker 1: out there winning those foot races. And as you heard
Speaker 1: b Max say, his sideline the sideline capability sure is
Speaker 1: fun to watch and us to be mac us too.
Speaker 1: But McKinney's inside presence was hard to miss. He was
Speaker 1: everywhere out there. I talked about this back in March
Speaker 1: when he was acquired via that trade with the Texans.
Speaker 1: How you would often seem him, see him barking out signals,
Speaker 1: moving guys around, making sure the defense had their alignment
Speaker 1: and assignment. And then he pulled the trigger off of
Speaker 1: a key or some tip that he had pre snap
Speaker 1: and take himself right to the action. And he did
Speaker 1: that all day today. In practice he was awesome and
Speaker 1: that at doing that as well as deconstructing blocks when
Speaker 1: he had to hear him talk about defeating blocks there
Speaker 1: in the defense, and he certainly can do that in spades.
Speaker 1: Let's go down the notebook here real quick. McKinney flies
Speaker 1: in for a hit on the back in the backfield,
Speaker 1: I wrote. Then later McKinney is having none of the
Speaker 1: run game right now? Is he scrapes off the edge.
Speaker 1: And when you hear scraping, that's when the defensive tackle
Speaker 1: or a player in front of you is locked up
Speaker 1: and engage in a block, and you play right off
Speaker 1: that outside shoulder and shorten the the area and condensed
Speaker 1: that gap to force the running back to have no
Speaker 1: room to squeeze through. For daylight, he was doing it
Speaker 1: through the a gap all the way out to the edge,
Speaker 1: just firing on all cylinders. And then McKinney again for
Speaker 1: a TfL, I wrote, defense getting after it. And the
Speaker 1: symbiotic relationship as you heard him talk about there between
Speaker 1: the backers and the defensive lineman really seemed to be
Speaker 1: clicking early here on day one of training. Gap but
Speaker 1: Adam Butler actually told us after practice that he considers
Speaker 1: this day one when the pads do come on, so
Speaker 1: something to note there. Later on in practice, McKinney had
Speaker 1: one of those truck stick stick type of hits where
Speaker 1: and Nick Needham was on the hit too, where he
Speaker 1: blows it up and kind of slowly walks away back
Speaker 1: to the huddle with two arm flex like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: just did that. Let's go ahead and continue the segment,
Speaker 1: and mentioned some of the work from the running backs.
Speaker 1: Malcolm Brown had a couple of nice plays, including one
Speaker 1: rip through the line where he busted through a seam
Speaker 1: on the offensive line and got into the second level
Speaker 1: and into the third level, but there was a flag
Speaker 1: throne for holding, so that one comes back, but he
Speaker 1: looked good on that run. He also pulled in a
Speaker 1: one handed catch on a ball in the flat from
Speaker 1: Burssett where it kind of got away from his frame.
Speaker 1: He reaches out, pulls it back and stabs it and
Speaker 1: it was one of the fifties and coverage either b
Speaker 1: Macer or Baker and couldn't see who it was. But
Speaker 1: that's a good guy to get out there and coverage
Speaker 1: on or to beat in the passing game for Malcolm Brown.
Speaker 1: Then Jordan's Scarlett. He took a hit from Calvin Munson
Speaker 1: in the head up or in the goal line drills
Speaker 1: rather going head on, he absorbs it and fights forward
Speaker 1: to get across the goal line for six hell of
Speaker 1: an effort from Jordan's Scarlett on that play, and then
Speaker 1: Myles Gascon. He's fun to watch man the way he
Speaker 1: constantly changes the angles on pursuits and the good balance
Speaker 1: he has and really looks to have improved his ability
Speaker 1: to absorb contact in the hole and to get to
Speaker 1: that second level, break those tackles and maybe turn you know,
Speaker 1: eight yard runs into thirty plus yard runs potentially if
Speaker 1: he can add that ability to a skill set. Later,
Speaker 1: I noted Gaskin getting outside on a run where he
Speaker 1: pressed the edge and cut off the butt of Austin
Speaker 1: Jackson who cleared a lane. So the vision, the urgency
Speaker 1: of the whole, all that stuff is there from Miles Gaskin.
Speaker 1: My last note on him was just the workman like
Speaker 1: attitude that he does and everything that he does. He
Speaker 1: ran through a special teams drill that got a lot
Speaker 1: of praise from Coach Croftsman after his work on that
Speaker 1: rep So Gaskin pass game, run, game, pass, Pro Special
Speaker 1: Teams does a little bit of everything. And Jared Note
Speaker 1: Jokes had a nice run today, a decisive run where
Speaker 1: he got to the whole fast and got through a
Speaker 1: skinny gap, made himself skinny and burst through that thing
Speaker 1: before lowering the boom in the second level. You can
Speaker 1: see the way he runs behind those pads with power.
Speaker 1: Certainly kind of provide some value there for the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna come back to the defensive line
Speaker 1: and offensive line. Let's go ahead and venture out wide
Speaker 1: and get some of the one on one notes from
Speaker 1: the individual periods. In fact, there are remore matchups. I
Speaker 1: want to go ahead and highlight here because I got
Speaker 1: a peek at the one on one drills over there.
Speaker 1: First up, Joachim Grant versus Nick Needum. They had a
Speaker 1: couple of battles out there, and on one Grant got
Speaker 1: to the back corner of the end zone where he
Speaker 1: went up and made a play and man, he he
Speaker 1: creates some space. But also the ups, this guy has
Speaker 1: to go ahead and get up and jump. I bet
Speaker 1: you he can dunk a basketball because he could really
Speaker 1: get off the ground. And then later Nick need Him
Speaker 1: had a a rep where Grant creates some separation, but
Speaker 1: Needham had good recovery to knife back under the route
Speaker 1: and break up the pass down on those goal line drills,
Speaker 1: Eric Roe versus the rookie Hunter Long Vet versus the
Speaker 1: rook Road got him once where Long couldn't come off
Speaker 1: the contact, but later a later rep in the same period,
Speaker 1: Long came back and just pushed his way through the contact.
Speaker 1: Like I watched that thing thinking are they ever going
Speaker 1: to separate? And almost like he invited the contact offensively,
Speaker 1: then got to the separation to make the catch on
Speaker 1: Eric Row and a flag came in on the play
Speaker 1: for the defensive holding two. So love watching that physical
Speaker 1: battle there with those two guys and Row competing with
Speaker 1: tight ends. I mean, this guy was a cornerback a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago who beefed up and got inside
Speaker 1: and really matches the physicality inside. Finally, Albert Wilson and
Speaker 1: Justin Coleman. Coleman had fantastic coverage on Burt on a
Speaker 1: corner route from Tua, but the ball was just perfectly
Speaker 1: layered nicely over his outstretched arm, and with Bert having
Speaker 1: only a small one that to work with, he showed
Speaker 1: nice concentration to haul it in and keep his feet
Speaker 1: and bounds. Coleman got a win later as well by
Speaker 1: breaking up a past by really working with Wilson on
Speaker 1: the back line and kind of playing underneath his man
Speaker 1: and being able to go inside outside two waygo some
Speaker 1: of those slot strengths you see there from Justin Coleman.
Speaker 1: He's been fun to watch, having real good coverage and
Speaker 1: multiple reps on multiple guys. And this isn't part of
Speaker 1: the battles, but Jalen Waddle ran the smoothest route I've
Speaker 1: seen out here all week in this particular period. He
Speaker 1: puts a little move at the top of the route
Speaker 1: and completely turned the defensive back around. He also put
Speaker 1: a move in open space on the pursuit tackle drill
Speaker 1: that had fans going bananas in the stands. Just a
Speaker 1: bunch of shake and wiggle for his game. And this
Speaker 1: was one play after Jachim had a joke that drew
Speaker 1: us and awe us from the fans, and then Malcolm
Speaker 1: Perry a field plays later did the same thing. He
Speaker 1: always shines in that drill. He made two guys miss
Speaker 1: with one move as well. Lots of fun battles today,
Speaker 1: so I mentioned to uh there and there wasn't a
Speaker 1: lot to really critique for the quarterbacks in this practice
Speaker 1: outside of ball handling and Mike points and that sort
Speaker 1: of thing in the running game. But without knowing those
Speaker 1: calls or the task, there's no point to even talk
Speaker 1: about it, so we won't. He did, however, have some
Speaker 1: early throwing work in non team periods. My favorite part
Speaker 1: of the day was to a coming from the far
Speaker 1: field over by the the indoor facility, coming to the
Speaker 1: near field by the grandstands and stopping to dap up
Speaker 1: one the one and only go in Dan Marino, who
Speaker 1: was there at practice today, and he gave to us
Speaker 1: some encouragement and some words before that period. Two of
Speaker 1: them springs in the step and goes into the huddle
Speaker 1: and completes three out of four in the period and
Speaker 1: had a really nice lofting corner route to Robert Foster
Speaker 1: at the back pylon, who continues to have a really
Speaker 1: good camp Robert Foster does. This was the same three
Speaker 1: on three drill where it's it's two receivers or tight
Speaker 1: ends and the combination might be whatever you make of it,
Speaker 1: as well as a running back in that combination, so
Speaker 1: it could be one back, one tight end, one receiver
Speaker 1: or whatever else versus three defensive back slash linebackers and
Speaker 1: of course the QB two, so three on three with
Speaker 1: the all time quarterback we'll call it. But To and
Speaker 1: Hearns found a nice connection in the strial a couple
Speaker 1: of tight window throws and catches. More on Hearns later.
Speaker 1: I note the defense might become might be coming privy
Speaker 1: to the route combinations in this drill, because there were
Speaker 1: a lot of incomplete passes in this period, and general
Speaker 1: Alexander and Charles Burke's were sure as hell loving it.
Speaker 1: Byron Jones had a really nice rep on Robert Foster
Speaker 1: where he ran him to the end line and then
Speaker 1: eventually out of the back of the end zone. And too,
Speaker 1: I had to just eat the past because nobody was open,
Speaker 1: which in this drill is very rare, but today the
Speaker 1: dbs were getting after it. And I just really enjoy
Speaker 1: watching Byron's awareness and situational football, like knowing where the
Speaker 1: perimeter is, knowing where your help is, knowing how to
Speaker 1: play outside shoulder or whatever it might be. He just
Speaker 1: is so technically sound that way. And then Jamal Perry
Speaker 1: made the same play he's made. This is a third
Speaker 1: day in a road now where he's driven on the
Speaker 1: flat route to the running back from the quarterback throwing
Speaker 1: kind of angling sideway to that front pileon he drove,
Speaker 1: got a pass breakup, he picked it off on Saturday,
Speaker 1: he dropped the pick yesterday or Monday rather, and then
Speaker 1: Tuesday today and getting my days mixed up. Today he
Speaker 1: had a similar play where he just forced the incompletion
Speaker 1: by getting his hand there as well. So lastly on defense,
Speaker 1: you know, I mentioned justin Coleman having a really nice
Speaker 1: camp and the way I've I've kind of compartmentalized what
Speaker 1: I've I've liked this game is the way he operates
Speaker 1: in condensed areas, playing with a savvy physicality to know
Speaker 1: how to reroute and challenge routes, and that really can
Speaker 1: help you with those short areas and the two way goes.
Speaker 1: And he does it without without doing it in a
Speaker 1: way where you're gonna get flagged by kind of grabbing
Speaker 1: your pulling or you see the jersey come out apart,
Speaker 1: or the chess play or the back of the collar
Speaker 1: bone there come out. He does a good job of
Speaker 1: getting those hands on guys, But not doing it in
Speaker 1: an intentional penalty way. Javarras Davis gets in the notes
Speaker 1: again for tight coverage on Kai Locksley for an incompletion.
Speaker 1: We'd hear from Javarras Davis later on in this podcast
Speaker 1: as well. And finally Brissette fires one into mc hollins,
Speaker 1: who posted up on a curl route right at the
Speaker 1: goal line. He's really been making his hey mac collins
Speaker 1: has in the red zone was sort of this post
Speaker 1: up fade type of receiver that can do multiple things.
Speaker 1: Basically knows how to use that frame to get separation
Speaker 1: space and make catches that are contested as well. And
Speaker 1: after this drill we go back to the Indies and
Speaker 1: I had talked about g A. Gerald Alexander in the
Speaker 1: secondary of working through rubs and passing off in different
Speaker 1: simulations for situations where you have to communicate effectively, And
Speaker 1: now they're working on picking up motion and it's just
Speaker 1: again a well oiled machine. Guys are not getting lost
Speaker 1: evident by not getting yelled at or no repeated reps.
Speaker 1: It's just get in, do your job, get out, next
Speaker 1: guy up. It's fun to watch. Then we go back
Speaker 1: to the one on ones and I thought the offensive
Speaker 1: line did really good work in the past rush one
Speaker 1: on one drill. Jesse Davis had a great rap against
Speaker 1: Jason Strowbridge, running him around the arc of the quarterback
Speaker 1: to Moan Paris shut down an upfield rush from Vince
Speaker 1: Beagle and then redirected him to even off the quarterback
Speaker 1: going back inside. And Tomone Paris had a couple of
Speaker 1: good practices out there. He was a late addition to
Speaker 1: the roster, but he's getting some work at tackle. Cameron
Speaker 1: tom who I thought had a good day with some
Speaker 1: push in the ground game. He took big Benito Jones
Speaker 1: to the ground on a rep a throw him out
Speaker 1: the club type of rep. One of his best of
Speaker 1: camp so far. Derval Kiras Nedo drew Adam Butler a
Speaker 1: very tall order and dropped the anchor to hold up
Speaker 1: in pass protection against him. Tyshon Render scored a win
Speaker 1: for the defense, finally crossing the face of Larnel Coleman,
Speaker 1: and we know how long Coleman is, so Render good
Speaker 1: work to get free of him. And then Michael Dieter
Speaker 1: I thought had the best rep of the entire drill.
Speaker 1: He actually got pushed like backwards push on ray Kwon Davis,
Speaker 1: which just doesn't happen, especially in a pass protection drill.
Speaker 1: He's done that a couple of times this week, and
Speaker 1: I'm actually pretty excited to get a look at deats
Speaker 1: as we go along here with the pads and practice
Speaker 1: in the new preseason games. Then finally, Austin Jackson had
Speaker 1: a fantastic mirror rep on Brendan Scarlett where he shut
Speaker 1: down his initial rush and then his counter move as well,
Speaker 1: just kind of played a wall in front of Brendan.
Speaker 1: But we would hear from Brannan Scarlett later on in
Speaker 1: this practice. Then we get into the run exclusive period,
Speaker 1: and man, it was a masterclass effort by the Dolphins
Speaker 1: deep front, as well as mckinneyan Bake, who we already
Speaker 1: touched on. But Zach Seiler was consistently standing guys up
Speaker 1: and what to find. He has been by this Dolphins
Speaker 1: team and he'll be here for a while with the
Speaker 1: extension he got last year. But it was a great
Speaker 1: day for Zack Seiler. I wrote that Adam Butler showed
Speaker 1: his versatility. Now we know about his ability to play
Speaker 1: fast and straight ahead and the explosive first dip we've
Speaker 1: covered on the podcast so many times, but he's a
Speaker 1: hell of a two gap defensive lineman as well. There
Speaker 1: was a rap where he worked you know when they
Speaker 1: flow away from you and you have to kind of
Speaker 1: work down the line and reset the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: He worked a solid two gaps across where he started
Speaker 1: to greet Patrick Laird on a bend back run back
Speaker 1: into his gap. So good work from Adam Butler and
Speaker 1: then John Jenkins habit I thought was his best day
Speaker 1: of training camp. He planted his flag inside and just
Speaker 1: would not get moved off the nose most of the time.
Speaker 1: There was also some instances where he came off his
Speaker 1: block in that first period for a run, stuff this
Speaker 1: one on Jared Oaks. He then later stacked up a
Speaker 1: block that Vince Biegel scraped off the outside to make
Speaker 1: a play as well. So Jenkins a big day and
Speaker 1: it wasn't just all frontline guys. Brandon Jones playing forwards
Speaker 1: like a missile. He comes from depth so well, completely
Speaker 1: wiped out this off tackle run the Dolphins hab and
Speaker 1: speaking of Jenkins stacking things up, Christian Wilkins applied that
Speaker 1: drill and the team period I talked about, or the
Speaker 1: individual period I should say into the team period, they
Speaker 1: just couldn't get movement on him consistently throughout the day. Him,
Speaker 1: Seiler and Jenkins were tough in that regard. What else
Speaker 1: we got here. We had another special teams period and
Speaker 1: again the effort is just so much fun to watch.
Speaker 1: They don't waste reps out there. It was a kickoff
Speaker 1: coverage drill where two blockers had to take on one man,
Speaker 1: and I wrote that Nate Holly plays with his hair
Speaker 1: on fire, and you see that in these drills, but
Speaker 1: also on defense he popped the pads a couple of times.
Speaker 1: Also noted Brandon Jones work. He hits, he chases, he
Speaker 1: flies around. I tell you, I tell you what, man,
Speaker 1: He's just a great football player. He's fun to watch.
Speaker 1: And then Sam eeg Van, who we're here from again
Speaker 1: in this practice later on, had very solid special teams
Speaker 1: work as he is want to do. He squared up
Speaker 1: one block that completely stopped all momentum of the opposition,
Speaker 1: and Coach Crossman quite like that himself. Back to the
Speaker 1: team drills, Adam Butler comes in for the first play
Speaker 1: and just blows through the line for a TfL for
Speaker 1: at least a three or four yard loss, and he
Speaker 1: popped the pop the running back and got up like, yep,
Speaker 1: that's that's what I do. And then Robert Hunt got
Speaker 1: the most consistent push in this period, I think, and
Speaker 1: in the entire day as a whole for the offensive line.
Speaker 1: He sprung Miles gasking for a nice run off his
Speaker 1: gap at one point in this drill, and again it's
Speaker 1: all running play, so it's hard to get footing and
Speaker 1: get grounding when you don't really have the threat of
Speaker 1: the past. Until finally we do get a pass as
Speaker 1: to a swings one out wide to Jalen Waddle, who
Speaker 1: for sure made the first defender out in the flat miss.
Speaker 1: Then he takes off up the sideline for about fifteen
Speaker 1: yards before the next offender finds him and he makes
Speaker 1: another move. Now, I'm not going to forecast a simulation
Speaker 1: for whether it was a touchdown or a tackle, but
Speaker 1: I tend to think Waddle is tough to to get
Speaker 1: down in that space. I mean, he did it all
Speaker 1: the time Alabama, and he's been doing it here so
Speaker 1: far through the first week. I told you we'd hear
Speaker 1: from Brandon Scarlett again later in this podcast, and he's
Speaker 1: been doing it all week, but now with the pads
Speaker 1: on the way, he forces outside runs to either bubble
Speaker 1: or bend back to the teeth of the defense man.
Speaker 1: That's a treat to watch. And speaking of Scarlett, let's
Speaker 1: go back to Bernardick McKinney, who was asked post practice
Speaker 1: about playing with Scarlett in Houston and now here in Miami.
Speaker 1: Brandon Scarlett, he's a very intelligent guy, very very strong,
Speaker 1: very fundamental sound, a great listener, great guy on the field.
Speaker 1: Off the field. Um, he's like I said, he's very
Speaker 1: very physical guy. So I love playing with Scarlett. He
Speaker 1: brings you, he brings me energy. Um, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just a great just a great group overall, just guys,
Speaker 1: congratulating guys, no selfish guys or whatever. So and then
Speaker 1: he was asked a question after that, So that's why
Speaker 1: it ends off there. But we pick it back up
Speaker 1: with more team period. I had Jerome Baker in on
Speaker 1: a hit in the backfield for another stuff. Zach Seeler,
Speaker 1: the workman like mentality he has, like I talked about
Speaker 1: with Adam Butler and Christian Wilkins, going down the line,
Speaker 1: coming off the block and then tagging off on the
Speaker 1: tackle at the end. Just the way he gets his
Speaker 1: job done, it's almost like he expects it, which with
Speaker 1: the way he's played, I can see why. I had
Speaker 1: Solomon Kinley with a nice second level block where he
Speaker 1: came off the line, got to the second level and
Speaker 1: put a punishing block on a linebacker. Got a good
Speaker 1: look at Robert Jones day at the U d F
Speaker 1: A from Middle Tennessee State, had a nice combo block
Speaker 1: on his last rep of that final period, and man,
Speaker 1: he is thick. He's got big thick tree, trunk, legs, ankles, calves,
Speaker 1: all that you want in that position. Sam eeg Van
Speaker 1: got got back into the statue here he shot the
Speaker 1: gap the a gap rather for a huge tackle for
Speaker 1: loss in these rundown periods. I mentioned Eric Rowe earlier
Speaker 1: in coverage. You pair that with his ability to come
Speaker 1: in and stick his face into the fan. He had
Speaker 1: a play where he got down in the muck and
Speaker 1: greeted Miles Gaskin right at the point where he fall
Speaker 1: off a block from a tight end. I didn't see
Speaker 1: the number on the tight end, but he fall off
Speaker 1: a block and got in there for a run stop
Speaker 1: and then finally crave on the block. I had passed
Speaker 1: play one of the few ones of the day, gets
Speaker 1: a ebu on Jacobe Brisette. The ball pops up into
Speaker 1: the air and Jamal Perry will see that one in
Speaker 1: his nightmares because he had a chance to catch it
Speaker 1: he didn't. He goes down for the push ups, but
Speaker 1: he's caught everything else in camp so far. The team
Speaker 1: period continues at the minus one yard line. Zack Steeler
Speaker 1: gets in penetration, makes a stop to the the line. A
Speaker 1: good job by Miles Gasing to get out of his tackle,
Speaker 1: but he was in there again to make another play
Speaker 1: on the running back. He was basically got a one
Speaker 1: yard game which should have been probably a one yard
Speaker 1: loss which would have been a safety. So a good
Speaker 1: job by Seiler and Gaskin on that particular play. We
Speaker 1: get another pass play here where two of fines Durham
Speaker 1: Smith in the flat for a nine yard game and
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker speed you saw it on this play. He
Speaker 1: got over there in a hurry to stop Smith from
Speaker 1: getting the ten yards for the first down. Probably a
Speaker 1: game of eight or nine on that play. But then
Speaker 1: the next play two yard line, this one, Manuel Ogba
Speaker 1: gets around the outside for a safety. Brandon Scarlett and
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker were in on the play too, but Agba
Speaker 1: one big time on that pass rush to Moan Paris.
Speaker 1: I talked about him earlier I wrote down just getting
Speaker 1: some push. He's moving some guys off the line, off
Speaker 1: his side of the offense of line. And then later
Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissette tries to jam one into tight coverage. This
Speaker 1: time the ball deflects to Jamal Perry, who makes a
Speaker 1: diving interception to make up for the earlier one, but
Speaker 1: the refs ruled it incomplete. It would have gone to
Speaker 1: review on Sundays. I'd be curious to gonna look at that.
Speaker 1: I thought he got under it and cradled that thing
Speaker 1: for the I n T. And then Alan Hearns I
Speaker 1: mentioned him uh coming back up in the podcast. He
Speaker 1: went up for a fifty fifty ball for a hell
Speaker 1: of a catch on a ball slightly under thrown about
Speaker 1: thirty yards from Jacoby Brissette, but he went over the
Speaker 1: defensive back to make a great catch. And then read
Speaker 1: Senet fires a slant to Kai Loxley for ten yards,
Speaker 1: again still working from the minor's two yard line, and
Speaker 1: then throws another ball, this one to Kirk Merritt, who
Speaker 1: got behind the corner instantly by a solid three yards
Speaker 1: or so, and Sennette lofted one down the field and
Speaker 1: Merritt had to lay out and made a diving catch
Speaker 1: for a thirty five yard gain. The entire offense came
Speaker 1: over to celebrate with Kirk and the fans love that
Speaker 1: to Kirk Merritt having a nice camp so far. We
Speaker 1: finished up with goal line Christian Wilkins fires in for
Speaker 1: a TfL on Miles Gaskin, and then Javon Holland made
Speaker 1: one of my favorite plays of the day. You might
Speaker 1: recall Rashaw Jones was such a phenomen at closing down
Speaker 1: the strong side sea gap, week side sea gap, coming
Speaker 1: off the edge, flattening and getting to the running back
Speaker 1: before he can get the yard to gain. Javon Halland
Speaker 1: wrapped around the edge the exact same way, made a
Speaker 1: big hit in the backfield and shut down that run
Speaker 1: short of the end zone on a play round from
Speaker 1: the two yard line where Wilkins and Butler had stacked
Speaker 1: things up as well. Holland had a good day in
Speaker 1: coverage and in the early portions of practice two. Nice
Speaker 1: day from the rookie Brandon Jones and Clayton Federalum team
Speaker 1: up this time for a run stuff and this time
Speaker 1: it was ray Kuan Davis who got up chirping. He
Speaker 1: took on a big double team to stack that thing up.
Speaker 1: Guys taking turns, making plays. And before we get to
Speaker 1: our top performers and your questions, I want to go
Speaker 1: ahead and finish up with some audio from Albert Wilson,
Speaker 1: who we haven't heard much on this podcast. We had
Speaker 1: another day of catches in the In the one on
Speaker 1: one period, he talked about developing chemistry with two a
Speaker 1: tongue of byloa and doing it previously in the off season.
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty good. We've these last two off seasons.
Speaker 1: Actually we've we've been gotten. We got a lot of
Speaker 1: work in when he first got here before I opted out,
Speaker 1: we spent the whole off season again there in this
Speaker 1: past offseason, Um, we didn't work at the same the
Speaker 1: same facility, but we was we was close and we
Speaker 1: got a lot of work in. So I feel like
Speaker 1: the chemistry has just picked up, picked up where he
Speaker 1: left off for the off season. And we'll go ahead
Speaker 1: and close it up on the audio from this podcast
Speaker 1: with Albert Wilson talking about the catchable ball thrown by
Speaker 1: two a tongo by Lola. He has a really nice
Speaker 1: catchable ball, is not too tough to catches, is not
Speaker 1: darting at you, so it's pretty much easy to grab
Speaker 1: and go. So I like it. So there you go,
Speaker 1: grab and go, get that thing, get out of their
Speaker 1: get up field, make plays happen. Our top performers today
Speaker 1: you might have a guest for who leads this list off,
Speaker 1: but Nargik McKinney playing fast every single gap, aggressive and
Speaker 1: physical tone that are out there, big day for number fifty.
Speaker 1: Robert Hunt had consistent pushing the run game I thought
Speaker 1: was the best offensive lineman today. Miles Gaskin just maximizes
Speaker 1: his runs, contributing the passing game in the three on
Speaker 1: three period as well as special teams. He continues to
Speaker 1: look good out there and smooth and fast. Brennan Scarlett
Speaker 1: strong edge and the run game, creates chances and make
Speaker 1: some stops of his own, but he's so adept at
Speaker 1: getting outside of that man, which shortens the edge and
Speaker 1: forces it back into a quick decision to do two
Speaker 1: things you don't want to do, which is bubble go
Speaker 1: backwards or go back inside to the teeth of the defense.
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle. Those routes he was putting together out there
Speaker 1: were something plus the possibly long run after the catch
Speaker 1: on a simple swing route and the shaking pursuit drills
Speaker 1: that gets him on the list today. John Jenkins consistent
Speaker 1: against the run and more than just creating chances and
Speaker 1: keeping his back ards clean, he was in there for
Speaker 1: lots of plays of his own right as well. Adam
Speaker 1: Butler the big tackle for lost, the consistent penetration, working
Speaker 1: down the line to stack things up, but also make
Speaker 1: plays of his own. Zach Seeler there was one point
Speaker 1: where he want to rep and just kind of walked
Speaker 1: back with his head down with a quiet fist pump.
Speaker 1: And this was after he had made a few plays,
Speaker 1: you know, indicating to me that he was just like, yep,
Speaker 1: not gonna happen today. I'm here today, boys. Brandon Jones,
Speaker 1: special teams and defense, the effort, the pursuit angles, the
Speaker 1: ability to come from depth. I like what he brings
Speaker 1: the entire outfit. And Kirk Merritt. The big catch was
Speaker 1: the big lay offensively of the day. And he's just
Speaker 1: getting his name in here pretty much every single day.
Speaker 1: He's earned that right, but also promotions up to the
Speaker 1: second team throughout the course of camp with Jacoby Brissett
Speaker 1: and not offense, so Kirk Merritt, Brandon Jones, Zach Seeler,
Speaker 1: Adam Butler, Jalen Waddle, Brennan Scarlett, Miles Gascon, Robert Hunt
Speaker 1: and but Nargick McKinney. Let's go ahead and finish up
Speaker 1: this podcast with two of your questions from the mail bag.
Speaker 1: First one from Russell Grace At Russell Grace, I are,
Speaker 1: he asks, I know it's hard to tell before the
Speaker 1: pads come on, but how are things looking at center?
Speaker 1: I watched that spot a lot more today because of
Speaker 1: the pads, and I thought Deeter had some really good moments,
Speaker 1: especially with his play strength. And that's something that kind
Speaker 1: of feels like it's been a thorn in the side
Speaker 1: of the Dolphins for decades now, almost, doesn't it like
Speaker 1: something like sansonce to Telly, for instance, going up against
Speaker 1: Vince Wilfork those days back in the mid to early
Speaker 1: two thousand's, And the a f C East has loaded
Speaker 1: at defensive tackle now, so I think it's really important
Speaker 1: to have that. I also liked Cameron Tom's day today too.
Speaker 1: He's strong as hell. And then also Matt Scura. I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna get better as we go along because
Speaker 1: he'll show you his best stuff in games, because he's
Speaker 1: such a cerebrally sound player that passes off stunts and
Speaker 1: things like that and communicates people forget this guy was
Speaker 1: just a couple of years ago playing at a very
Speaker 1: high level Pro Bowl level with the Baltimore Ravens. And
Speaker 1: then one more here from Glenn and Rushworth at g
Speaker 1: L Rush thirteen has to a show in the ability
Speaker 1: to look off defenders with his eyes. There are videos,
Speaker 1: there's you know, there's videos I've used myself to show
Speaker 1: some of the work he's done in that regard. Might
Speaker 1: recall the Jacheme Grant bomb from O. T A S
Speaker 1: where he starts right, flips his hips back to the post,
Speaker 1: comes back to the right outside to deliver an absolute
Speaker 1: dark to Jachemee where he moved the safety off that
Speaker 1: particular play. And then of course there was the throw
Speaker 1: on day one of camp to Adam Shaheen where he
Speaker 1: had to move Baker out of that passing lane, and
Speaker 1: there were a few others as well, but this was
Speaker 1: one of my favorite traits of two US coming out
Speaker 1: of college, and I think there were certainly instances of
Speaker 1: it last season and now this camp as well. Alright, guys,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be my time for this Tuesday edition of
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