Speaker 1: Bowdown miamis one at run. What is up, Dolphans And
Speaker 1: welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How
Speaker 1: is it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Winkfield,
Speaker 1: and as always I am here to bring you your
Speaker 1: daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today show,
Speaker 1: it's day three here at Dolphins camp. We have another
Speaker 1: long list of training camp notes, top performers, the matchup
Speaker 1: of the day, the post practice media, and a few
Speaker 1: general observations from my perspective at camp and a very
Speaker 1: competitive day of practice. Plus we'll take a few more
Speaker 1: of your Twitter questions. All of that and more from
Speaker 1: Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training camp plex.
Speaker 1: This is the Drive Time Podcast, and I want to
Speaker 1: first start this podcast in the way that, well, frankly,
Speaker 1: I think is a little bit hacky in terms of
Speaker 1: the way of storytelling, but my stubbornness doesn't care about that.
Speaker 1: I want to start at the end of this very
Speaker 1: high energy team period and point to the guys having
Speaker 1: some fun out there on the practice field. Now we'll
Speaker 1: go back to when the offense was reigning deep balls
Speaker 1: in the five on seven period, but the defense put
Speaker 1: the absolute clamps on during this final period of practice.
Speaker 1: It was tough sledding, regardless for the offense of which
Speaker 1: lineup was out there. And the reason we start there
Speaker 1: is because I thought it was emblematic of what this
Speaker 1: team is about. A bunch of guys that love football,
Speaker 1: that bring a fire and a passion and that spreads
Speaker 1: like wildfire throughout the roster, and with these coaches as well.
Speaker 1: It's a charged up period and with every pass break up,
Speaker 1: every would be sack or whatever the case. Maybe these
Speaker 1: guys were fired up out there. And we start with
Speaker 1: Shian Wilkins, who is coming off the football like Nick
Speaker 1: Cage and gone in sixty seconds this camp. He's looking very,
Speaker 1: very explosive, and he came in for a sack in
Speaker 1: that period and was greeted by Adam Butler for a
Speaker 1: back bump. Is that what it's called when you essentially
Speaker 1: do a chess bump, but instead you turn your back
Speaker 1: to the guy and you kind of bump lower back
Speaker 1: and butt to each other. I remember Chris Chambers and
Speaker 1: Marty Booker were the first ones to do that. Now
Speaker 1: it's become really popular anyway, they did that celebration. Remember
Speaker 1: the Hoods and Berbs game last year tracking takeaways, scoops
Speaker 1: and loose balls. But we know that game is back
Speaker 1: this year, at least from what we heard at O
Speaker 1: t a S back in May and June. And I
Speaker 1: think the best example was when a football was tipped
Speaker 1: near the sideline of the end zone and it rolled
Speaker 1: way away from the field and Sam eg Vaughan sprints
Speaker 1: over to collect the football, and I thought that was
Speaker 1: symbolic of the effort we saw all day on Friday
Speaker 1: here at Baptist Health Training Complex, which when you get
Speaker 1: past the first day or the first couple of days,
Speaker 1: the adrenaline maybe starts to wear off a little bit.
Speaker 1: To maintain the effort and energy, I don't think it's
Speaker 1: an easy task, so to see the guys playing with
Speaker 1: that effort is always awesome to see. And we'll track
Speaker 1: that now into the dog days of camp as well.
Speaker 1: So the defense is having a good old time and
Speaker 1: Javarus Davis got himself a pass breakup number thirty eight
Speaker 1: on your roster on a deep shot and the sideline
Speaker 1: lost their collective minds on that play. Congratulations all around
Speaker 1: with Gerald Alexander at the forefront of it, with Charles
Speaker 1: Brooks involved as well, and I think it stems from
Speaker 1: both of those coaches passion and love for the game,
Speaker 1: which is beyond evident whenever you watch practice. Let's conclude
Speaker 1: with some of the highlights of that period here before
Speaker 1: we get to the players opinions on it and some
Speaker 1: of the plays that occurred in this charged up period.
Speaker 1: Duke Riley had an opportunity where he comes up squared
Speaker 1: up with Patrick Laird in a one on one pass
Speaker 1: rush slash pass protection situation and he throws this wicked
Speaker 1: juke move that allowed him to get around the back
Speaker 1: untouched and route to the quarterback on a would be
Speaker 1: sack or possible sack at very least a quarterback pressure.
Speaker 1: And after the up Duke was hooting and holler in
Speaker 1: and I noted that we talked about his fluid movement
Speaker 1: skills on the podcast yesterday and drills, and then to
Speaker 1: see it applied and play out here in the team period,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what you want to see. He can really
Speaker 1: rev up those RPMs. Chat Griffin got what italied as
Speaker 1: his first team period sack of camp unofficial of course,
Speaker 1: and he threw a straight up speed rush well timed
Speaker 1: to the snap and got in there. After cornering and
Speaker 1: flattening off the edge, Clayton Federlin gets himself a pass
Speaker 1: break up at the line, very Mutumbo s because he
Speaker 1: was down in the traffic and the muck elevates and
Speaker 1: sends that thing back into the backfield, just like Mutumbo
Speaker 1: sending the ball into the tenth row of the bleachers
Speaker 1: all those years in the National Basketball Association. Eric Road
Speaker 1: then comes in on a quick hitter to Jalen Waddle
Speaker 1: and tags him off right at the line. More celebrations
Speaker 1: as Row was feeling it at this point, giving himself
Speaker 1: a little bit of a strut out there. He's had
Speaker 1: a very strong start to camp as well. Then Emmanuel
Speaker 1: Ogba gets in on the phone with a beautiful, beautiful
Speaker 1: cross chop where he throws a little delay step, a
Speaker 1: little hitch in the giddy up on his upfield rush
Speaker 1: and then once he kind of gathers and gets back
Speaker 1: to full speed, swipes the hands away on that patented
Speaker 1: cross chop and angles around the corner flattened to the
Speaker 1: quarterback to beat the tackle for a would be sack.
Speaker 1: Finally back to one of the guys we're gonna hear
Speaker 1: from here. In just a second, Javon Holland closes the
Speaker 1: drill with tight coverage on a pass intended for rookie
Speaker 1: tight end fellow rookie Hunter Long and Halland played this
Speaker 1: thing beautifully, trailling on his back and reaching around without
Speaker 1: contact to disrupt the eye line and the sight of
Speaker 1: the past for Hunter Long. As the past goes in complete,
Speaker 1: javan strikes a pose with his arms crossed, kind of
Speaker 1: looking out there like, yeah, I made that play, and
Speaker 1: of course his teammates like that as well. So after
Speaker 1: practice I had a chance to ask Byron Jones, Dolphins cornerback,
Speaker 1: about the energy on the sideline. Here's what Byron had
Speaker 1: to say about it. It's football, man, It's what we
Speaker 1: go through it. It looks nice on the outside, but
Speaker 1: it's really hard. So you build those bonds very quickly,
Speaker 1: and uh, we all kind of been through it. We
Speaker 1: don't understand what it's going to need to take. And
Speaker 1: it takes that bond of energy, that juice and when
Speaker 1: when one guy does well, we uplift him. When one
Speaker 1: guy does bad, we still uplift him. So that's kind
Speaker 1: of where you build it during camp. I mean leadership
Speaker 1: defined right there, and he is such a strong lead,
Speaker 1: not just in the way he conducts himself at press conferences.
Speaker 1: We heard from Noah ibn Agay yesterday talking about Jones
Speaker 1: and just total pro was the term the IGBO used,
Speaker 1: and I saw some of that today as he was
Speaker 1: kind of an on field director of the defensive back unit.
Speaker 1: This is not exclusive to today, but I paid attention
Speaker 1: to it today after what Noah told me on Thursday.
Speaker 1: And Byron runs from drill to drill, then starts kind
Speaker 1: of directing guys on where to go, where to get
Speaker 1: lined up, like, let's hustle up and get as much
Speaker 1: reps in as we can because this time of year,
Speaker 1: with so many guys in the roster, as Coach Flora's mentioned,
Speaker 1: with the dueling reps on either side of the practice field,
Speaker 1: it's tough to get everybody the right amount of reps.
Speaker 1: So he's kind of offering encouragement and it just goes
Speaker 1: back to something I talked to O. J. McDuffie, the
Speaker 1: great host of the Fish Tank podcast and obviously Dolphins
Speaker 1: legend here in South Florida. I asked him about this
Speaker 1: this offseason about when your players who are your best
Speaker 1: players are also the hardest working guys and the most engaged,
Speaker 1: the impact that can have on a team is tangible.
Speaker 1: And Juice will talk about that more, I'm sure later
Speaker 1: when we get to him here on a crossover podcast
Speaker 1: with the Fish Tank, but he said, that's a very
Speaker 1: great trait to have when your hardest working players are
Speaker 1: also some of your most productive players. And so Byron's
Speaker 1: working with guys like Noah Igbanogny, Brandon Jones, and Javon Holland,
Speaker 1: all these young talented defensive backs on the roster who
Speaker 1: we got to talk to Javon Holland, by the way,
Speaker 1: and he had a few things to say. I asked
Speaker 1: him about the visible kind of reactions he has on
Speaker 1: a rep by rep Basis. I referenced that in the
Speaker 1: podcast on Thursday, about how he is excited when he
Speaker 1: makes a play and tough on himself when he doesn't,
Speaker 1: and of course the pose after the play today, then
Speaker 1: the handclap when he's frustrated after a guy makes a
Speaker 1: catch or whatever, the visual frustration that he might be showing.
Speaker 1: And I just asked him, and you know, am I
Speaker 1: correct in what I'm seeing and do you kind of
Speaker 1: put pressure on yourself to make every play. I mean,
Speaker 1: as coach Flores said on the NFL Network on Friday morning,
Speaker 1: there's never been a per game played in football, but
Speaker 1: yet we strive for that. We make corrections hoping to
Speaker 1: get towards that perfection. So here's what Javon had to
Speaker 1: say about it. Yeah. Absolutely, I mean I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a creditor I need to put, you know,
Speaker 1: being my biggest critic, make sure that I'm always on
Speaker 1: myself and that I'm always taking the next step. Like
Speaker 1: I said, like it really does come down to the
Speaker 1: T and T s, like y'all watching this right now,
Speaker 1: the T and T s that takes no talent, Like
Speaker 1: those are some things that you know, the communication, the
Speaker 1: effort to the ball, the technique like that stuff that
Speaker 1: is taught to us and that we take under ourselves
Speaker 1: to execute every place. So I feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: those are the things that I stressed the most on myself.
Speaker 1: And of course, Javon wore many hats at the University
Speaker 1: of Oregon and he was able to match open coverage,
Speaker 1: play down in the muck, play over the top. So
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask him about getting acclimated here and
Speaker 1: how he's absorbing what the coaches are asking of him
Speaker 1: so far. Here's Javon once more. Yeah, I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm accumating pretty quickly. You know, you
Speaker 1: gotta live, adapted die, basically, that's what you know, said
Speaker 1: to a coach has that to us a lot, adapt
Speaker 1: to die. So um, I'd rather adapt than die. So
Speaker 1: I love that last phrase. They're adapt or die from
Speaker 1: Coach Flora's and he's kind of king that on himself.
Speaker 1: Of course, Coach did say after the draft that javan
Speaker 1: was one of his favorite players to watch on tape,
Speaker 1: and one of my favorite plays of the day was
Speaker 1: a deep shot from Jacoby Brissette where Holland had to
Speaker 1: come from the middle of the field, you know, the
Speaker 1: middle hash and the two hash marks in the middle
Speaker 1: of the field all the way out to the perimeter,
Speaker 1: and it was a slow developing deep shot off play actions.
Speaker 1: So you've gotta you know, you have to honor the
Speaker 1: run and make sure that those slow developing routes are
Speaker 1: not going to turn into something underneath or a handoff
Speaker 1: for the quarterback going boot to the opposite side of
Speaker 1: the formation and when he sees it, he just gets
Speaker 1: on his horse and takes a great angle to the
Speaker 1: catch point. He arrives, gets his hands on the football,
Speaker 1: and Foster did a good job to break it up.
Speaker 1: It was Robert Foster on the deep shot to save
Speaker 1: the interception, but the range on full display the ball
Speaker 1: skills to get it into his hands. And then Trull
Speaker 1: Williams also on that particular play, had really good coverage
Speaker 1: underneath two. So Brissette had a very small window to
Speaker 1: work with with strong coverage on that back end. So
Speaker 1: that's the kind of conclusion of the energy and the
Speaker 1: overall camaraderie of this group to at the end of
Speaker 1: practice and the defenses outright dominance towards the end of practice.
Speaker 1: But I want to go back now to the start
Speaker 1: and some of the pre practice notes and kind of
Speaker 1: go in chronological order here. I mentioned the energy of
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins and Shack Shakim Griffin on Thursday, and that
Speaker 1: didn't slow down one iota on Aloha Friday. Here Christian
Speaker 1: was feeling the music and some dance moves during the
Speaker 1: stretching period, and Shakim is kind of skipping around and
Speaker 1: bouncing all over the place chirping to guys. It's just
Speaker 1: a great way to start practice. It's kind of like
Speaker 1: that first sip of coffee for you coffee drinkers out there.
Speaker 1: And I imagine I've had a few coffees in my
Speaker 1: in my day, but I usually have them in the afternoons.
Speaker 1: I don't really know how it goes in the morning.
Speaker 1: I finally watched the quarterbacks warming up a little bit.
Speaker 1: I usually don't do this because they get plenty of
Speaker 1: attention throughout the rest of practice, so I try to
Speaker 1: pick up some other tips and cues, but I wanted
Speaker 1: to see I wanted to note the ball placement on
Speaker 1: this kind of you know, half speed ramp up type
Speaker 1: of throws. They build up to full speed, just like
Speaker 1: you would anytime you use your arm for throwing footballs
Speaker 1: or otherwise. And while you might think this is kind
Speaker 1: of a given or a routine in an NFL practice,
Speaker 1: it's just not. I've been covering for three years here.
Speaker 1: It's not just run of the mill, show up and
Speaker 1: put the ball on the right location. It's just not
Speaker 1: how it is. But the accuracy on the throws from
Speaker 1: Tah is really a treat to watch Anyone who's ever
Speaker 1: thrown a football, and again a baseball, whatever the ball
Speaker 1: might be for that matter, knows that when you change
Speaker 1: your base, you change your platform, you move in either direction,
Speaker 1: that's going to alter your arm slot and the release points.
Speaker 1: You have to then, through muscle memory, be able to adapt,
Speaker 1: as Javan Holland said, to adapt or die. And the
Speaker 1: only way you can naturally adapt to that muscle memory
Speaker 1: is from repetition. And not to make us about me,
Speaker 1: but it's something that I can attest to because I
Speaker 1: was a middle infielder in baseball up through college, and
Speaker 1: I've literally thrown tens of thousands of baseballs, whether I'm
Speaker 1: falling away towards third base from the shortstop side or
Speaker 1: into right field from the second base side, I've thrown
Speaker 1: the baseball from every imaginable arm slot and arm angle.
Speaker 1: So kind of my way of saying, those who know
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about, you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: So with Ta, he's doing these half speed movement throws
Speaker 1: to either direction from different platforms, and the ball is
Speaker 1: just constantly popping the chest and face mask area. I
Speaker 1: just thought, this is what this is supposed to look
Speaker 1: like ideally, right, and now he's out here doing it.
Speaker 1: That was a lot of fun to watch. I also
Speaker 1: noted some flexibility I saw from guys and stretching, which
Speaker 1: it might sound weird, but Jalen Phillips got my attention
Speaker 1: and so touted Andrew Van ginkle More on him in
Speaker 1: just a moment. But Phillips was kind of sprawled out
Speaker 1: and doing this arm over the back thing, and I
Speaker 1: just thought, man, the way he moves at that size,
Speaker 1: no wonder. The athletic ability is all there for him.
Speaker 1: Then we broke into individual drills and I gotta look
Speaker 1: at some of the receivers working on air down around
Speaker 1: the end zone, and the coaches had those big, goofy
Speaker 1: looking orange cone pads on their arms, which helps to
Speaker 1: simulate a corner getting hands on the receiver. And just
Speaker 1: watching the feet of Albert Wilson on those releases I
Speaker 1: thought was pretty cool. Then the ball is a bit long,
Speaker 1: but he tracks it down and catches the back of
Speaker 1: the football. You remember the game against the Jets the
Speaker 1: week seventeen, two thousand and eight, the division clinching game
Speaker 1: where Ted Geint caught a ball from Chad Pennington and
Speaker 1: he squeezed the back end of the football and he's
Speaker 1: like holding a quarter of the ball barely hangs onto it.
Speaker 1: That's what Albert Wilson did on this play because it
Speaker 1: was so far out of reach, but he runs through it,
Speaker 1: snatches the back of the football, taps the toes, and
Speaker 1: corrals it while full speed. That is not an easy
Speaker 1: thing to do, but it was a theme today for
Speaker 1: these guys. And you know, back to the Van Ginkle note,
Speaker 1: I got a good look at the backers and defensive
Speaker 1: line working the bags in pre practice with their hands
Speaker 1: and pass rush drills and geink. Maybe I've been talking,
Speaker 1: you know, I've been talking a lot about his past
Speaker 1: coverage this this offseason, but we all remember how his
Speaker 1: past watch really came last year. Came along last year,
Speaker 1: especially down the stretch of that Las Vegas game. He
Speaker 1: was a tough guy to get blocked for that Raiders
Speaker 1: O line. And when he's going through this drill where
Speaker 1: he has to put a move on the bag and
Speaker 1: then flatten around the back side of that bag, it's
Speaker 1: just like you're trying to win the corner rushing off
Speaker 1: the edge and see the same type of idea put
Speaker 1: put your gameplay aptitude into a drill and try to
Speaker 1: drill it that way so when it comes up in
Speaker 1: the game, you know what to do. And that's where
Speaker 1: you see the scouting term for flexible ankles come into play.
Speaker 1: It allows the guys to turn that corner without having
Speaker 1: to throttle down and slow the acceleration. I saw that
Speaker 1: in spades today with number forty three. Then later in
Speaker 1: practice he went through that down up drill where the
Speaker 1: pursuing tackler hits the turf, pops up and angles to
Speaker 1: the ball carrier. And I talked about Duke Riley doing
Speaker 1: this on yesterday's podcast with warp speed but also doing
Speaker 1: it right, and Gek did the exact same thing. I thought,
Speaker 1: he's moving very very well out there. Speaking of Wisconsin guys,
Speaker 1: more individual drills, Michael Dieter I noticed constantly consistently had
Speaker 1: one of the lower pad levels I saw out there.
Speaker 1: He was firing out of his stance with good pop,
Speaker 1: but not popping straight up, which is you know, one
Speaker 1: oh one, do not do that. He was firing out
Speaker 1: low and the stands in control looked good that way.
Speaker 1: That's always a good sign. And finally, a group of
Speaker 1: defensive backs worked industrill against a group of wide outs
Speaker 1: where there were they're defending the ever popular look in
Speaker 1: today's NFL, which the offense goes with a bunch or
Speaker 1: a stacker and trips. And what this means did you
Speaker 1: line up two or three receivers up on top of
Speaker 1: each other. And that forces the defense to communicate who
Speaker 1: goes where like because you're not really sure who's gonna
Speaker 1: break in which direction. First man inside of yours, next
Speaker 1: guy's mind, first man outside his mind, you know, vice versa,
Speaker 1: what have you. Whatever your system calls for. It's it's
Speaker 1: commonplace across the league. But bunches and stacks create natural
Speaker 1: rubs and that's so hard to get through today in
Speaker 1: the NFL, with you know, limited contact allowed on the receivers.
Speaker 1: So it's imperative to have these assignments down pat to
Speaker 1: communicate it and execute it. And not one time did
Speaker 1: I see a receiver spring a leak in the trail
Speaker 1: and get wide open. It was very professional in the
Speaker 1: execution of it. And again I love watching g A
Speaker 1: and Coach Burkes do their thing in those drills. Then
Speaker 1: we get to our first team period of the day,
Speaker 1: and how about some running backs carrying the football? We've
Speaker 1: covered them passing catching passes rather. But Myles Gaskin had
Speaker 1: some big runs today and one in particular, he approached
Speaker 1: the line with patients then looked like he was going
Speaker 1: to bounce it. And you can either bounce, bang or bend,
Speaker 1: and bounce means you go outside, bang means you stick
Speaker 1: to the whole you're the path you're on, and bend
Speaker 1: makes you go back against the grain. Gaskins has so
Speaker 1: many great bend runs in his career, and it looks
Speaker 1: like he's gonna bounce that he sticks the outside foot
Speaker 1: in the ground and it was like one of those
Speaker 1: flat escalators. What are those things called, the ones you
Speaker 1: see in airports. It looked like he was on one
Speaker 1: of those as he just shoots out of a cannon
Speaker 1: into the second level. Man, he looks fascinating. And that
Speaker 1: gap was created by Solomon Kinley from what I saw.
Speaker 1: We saw this on tape a few times last year,
Speaker 1: where Solomon gets moving at that second level and he
Speaker 1: can really put some domination on film when he does that,
Speaker 1: and he had a few of those blocks today I
Speaker 1: really liked. I saw from Big Number sixties six the
Speaker 1: Big Fish on the next place, von achmed subs in
Speaker 1: and he has a nice gap opened up by Robert Hunt,
Speaker 1: who I also thought I had another strong day on
Speaker 1: the offensive line, but on this run Sam egg Van,
Speaker 1: who was also very active in this practice, closed on
Speaker 1: the gap and there would have been a really nice
Speaker 1: battle there between eg Von and Akhmed in a live
Speaker 1: tackling period. Obviously you don't get to see that today
Speaker 1: without passing, without tackling, but it was a good matchup there.
Speaker 1: I also mentioned Wilkins earlier. He had a great rep
Speaker 1: working down the line, staying in the play while engaged,
Speaker 1: then cutting off the block for the stop. This defensive
Speaker 1: tackle group, man, it's in the running for top performing
Speaker 1: groups so far through three days of practice. The next
Speaker 1: play Zack Seeler and that group gets my attention and
Speaker 1: I just watch him shoot his hands and plant that
Speaker 1: base in space, nice rhyme, and he can't be moved.
Speaker 1: This happened a few times where his combination of reach
Speaker 1: and power it just has to be a tall order
Speaker 1: for opposing offensive lineman to deal with because he can
Speaker 1: lock you out, but he also is so far away
Speaker 1: that you just can't get off the block or off
Speaker 1: the hold to get that block progressed and to get
Speaker 1: pushed back on the defensive line. I have to imagine
Speaker 1: he's a lot to deal with in that way. Jalen
Speaker 1: Phillips received some buzz from myself and others for the
Speaker 1: pass rush and dropping in coverage last couple of days.
Speaker 1: But I thought he had his best rundown rep today
Speaker 1: where the tight end kicks out and tries to dig
Speaker 1: him out of the backside of the formation and he
Speaker 1: absorbed the contact, not giving an inch and plugging the
Speaker 1: gap for in the running back to bubble which means
Speaker 1: to go backwards. Remember when I asked Jalen Phillips about
Speaker 1: his matchups with Austin Jackson and he detailed a bit
Speaker 1: of their matchups kind of going back to high school. Well,
Speaker 1: I asked Austin about that same thing from his perspective
Speaker 1: today after practice. Oh yeah, well, definitely like Jalen is
Speaker 1: a great player too. Um, you know, he's you know,
Speaker 1: definitely a guy that gets you better. He's a great athlete,
Speaker 1: um since high school. So I'm excited for him and
Speaker 1: his role in his team and to work with a
Speaker 1: guy like him because you know he's he's great. Also,
Speaker 1: to add to that, I always love Austin's media because
Speaker 1: he's very insightful. Here's what he says he's been working
Speaker 1: on so far in camp, among other things obviously, but
Speaker 1: this is one answer he gave today post practice. I
Speaker 1: think for offensive line play, your landmark is crucial, um
Speaker 1: for many different things. So it's just you know, working
Speaker 1: on again into a certain landmark, making sure my beat
Speaker 1: here in the ground, and just kind of study and
Speaker 1: tape enough to know what to expect with certain blizzes. Um.
Speaker 1: He's talked a lot about footwork and landmarks and finding
Speaker 1: his particular spot in those landmarks. Just really insightful there
Speaker 1: with Austin Jackson. Two quick notes here on the tackling
Speaker 1: slash tag off drills. Later on in practice Byron Jones
Speaker 1: had one against Jalen Waddle, which again you know how
Speaker 1: this guy operates in space where Jones squares one up
Speaker 1: with a change of direction of Waddle and just kind
Speaker 1: of planted in front of him and held that thing
Speaker 1: to a you know, making the tackle or what would
Speaker 1: have been a tackle in my opinion on that tag off.
Speaker 1: And then later Malcolm Perry gets in the notes here
Speaker 1: for the first time he showed some real wiggle on
Speaker 1: that in the open field getting by a tackler in
Speaker 1: this particular drill. Then the real fund started for the
Speaker 1: offense the five on seven period, and it was raining
Speaker 1: long balls, starting with Jalen Waddle coming wide open on
Speaker 1: a corner route and to puts it on him and
Speaker 1: then Waddle it's basically him and a safety and plenty
Speaker 1: of space. Just like the tackling drills are an unenviable
Speaker 1: position for any defender. I'd like to have seen the result,
Speaker 1: but I'm probably taking Jalen in most cage cases. In
Speaker 1: that particular situation, tough sitch for the defense and that
Speaker 1: comes up. Then came what I thought would be the
Speaker 1: best ball of the day until it was topped a
Speaker 1: few plays later. But to activates the launch coach to
Speaker 1: Robert Foster, who hits this little stutter step on the
Speaker 1: outside a stutter and go, I should say, And you
Speaker 1: couldn't have handed this thing to Foster any better than
Speaker 1: it was thrown. I mean, he makes the catch beyond
Speaker 1: a laid out cornerback who was an inch from getting
Speaker 1: a finger on it, and Foster catches it and goes
Speaker 1: on into the end zone. The next play to a
Speaker 1: rolls to his left and finds Jachem Grant on what
Speaker 1: looked like a little jerk or a whip route where
Speaker 1: you basically fake one direction come back the other way.
Speaker 1: It's Julian Edelman and Wes Welker and Danny Am and
Speaker 1: Dola made hay off this route in New England. And
Speaker 1: to remember the pre practice note on the move. He
Speaker 1: allows Jachim to catch you and stride and you get
Speaker 1: somebody with that kind of speed and stride working horizontally
Speaker 1: that almost always leads to big yards after the catch,
Speaker 1: So a big throw there. Then Jacoby Purcette checks in
Speaker 1: and gets in on the deep ball action with a
Speaker 1: dime of his own to Robert Foster a nine row stacks.
Speaker 1: The dB gets him on his back, never broke stride.
Speaker 1: He actually accelerates through the catch, which is always what
Speaker 1: you want to see from receiver, like that extra gear
Speaker 1: with the ball in the air, the competitive spirit. We
Speaker 1: saw that with Robert Foster. Then the defense scores will win.
Speaker 1: Via Justin Coleman, who I've kind of taken notice of
Speaker 1: the last couple of days with how savvy he is
Speaker 1: and the way he uses the five yard contact window,
Speaker 1: but also his hands in the arm bar to fight
Speaker 1: with his man, to always jockey for position. He generated
Speaker 1: some incompletions today with this very aggressive corner and the
Speaker 1: best way possible. Then we get the best throw of
Speaker 1: the period. Jachims stacks no Ignogamy on the outside, who
Speaker 1: stayed stride for stride, step for step with Jachim up
Speaker 1: the sideline. And we know how fast Chachim can run,
Speaker 1: so to be able to stay in you know that
Speaker 1: phase is pretty impressive from the young cornerback. But the
Speaker 1: ball descends right over his shoulder perfectly, and what a
Speaker 1: hell of a catch it was by Jachim. Contact going
Speaker 1: to the ground, survives the ground, and it's a case
Speaker 1: of a great route, great coverage and a perfect throw.
Speaker 1: I just saw the video of it, and you could
Speaker 1: not have handed it to Jachim any better. Absolutely chef's
Speaker 1: kiss on that throw. And Jachim had another gorgeous catch
Speaker 1: working in the end line in the back of the
Speaker 1: end zone with two on the move earlier in practice,
Speaker 1: and there was coverage underneath. So Ta throws this thing
Speaker 1: high where only Jachim can get it, and he had
Speaker 1: the absolute ups to not just go up and get it,
Speaker 1: but somehow to angle his feet back inward after jumping
Speaker 1: outward to tap them back in the end zone for six.
Speaker 1: I think if if we had the good old next
Speaker 1: gen stats on this, the completion probability on that throw
Speaker 1: probably would have been very, very low. But they hit
Speaker 1: it to and Jachim or filling it throughout the day,
Speaker 1: and that ladder repped I talked about there was in
Speaker 1: the red zone for housekeeping purposes. Back to the secondary,
Speaker 1: Nick need Um had another good day and almost got
Speaker 1: the loan pick from t on the day. Now, there
Speaker 1: was one pass that was intercepted, but the play was
Speaker 1: blown dead by a coverage sack, something that happened a
Speaker 1: couple of times today. But on this particular play, Nick
Speaker 1: came off his man and jumped a route but just
Speaker 1: couldn't quite squeeze it. He did push ups afterwards, but
Speaker 1: he's made plays on the football each day. So far,
Speaker 1: So good camp so far from Nick Needham. And then
Speaker 1: how about Brandan Scarlett, the newcomer from the Houston Texans
Speaker 1: and free agency, getting some big pass rush production today.
Speaker 1: My notes on him so far had been strong edge,
Speaker 1: the strong edge that he sets in the running game,
Speaker 1: but he had back to back pressures with the second
Speaker 1: one almost certainly a sack and on that play to
Speaker 1: extended it just like on the I N T which
Speaker 1: was a tip ball on the end zone like I mentioned,
Speaker 1: and gave Foster a fifty fifty ball opportunity on the outside.
Speaker 1: And it was an absolute beautiful poster job by Robert Foster,
Speaker 1: who continues to show out with the strong hands and
Speaker 1: the speed and the vertical play making ability. Vince Bagel
Speaker 1: also got in on the fund with a really nice
Speaker 1: dip and rip move off the edge. He gave a
Speaker 1: good fist pump after that what would have likely been
Speaker 1: a big blindside shot on the quarterback on Jacoby Brissette
Speaker 1: in live game action, but of course he pulls up
Speaker 1: and gives the fist pump. That was the move I
Speaker 1: thought Vince did best back in nineteen when he led
Speaker 1: the team in QB pressures. And then Kirk Merritt who
Speaker 1: finished the period with a diving catch and traffic from
Speaker 1: Reid Senet and that combination has been a damn good
Speaker 1: one so far out there. And Merritt then got some
Speaker 1: run with j Kobe at quarterback and he runs a
Speaker 1: fade into the corner of the end zone and he
Speaker 1: has to come back for the ball a little bit,
Speaker 1: and boy did he. He survives the contact of the
Speaker 1: dB and made the play, survived the ground for a
Speaker 1: big touchdown and a nice contest and catch in the
Speaker 1: end zone. What else we got here some more notes.
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones knifed into the backfield on one instance for
Speaker 1: what would have been a quarterback pressure Eric Rowe, he
Speaker 1: talked about him earlier. He had a nice drive on
Speaker 1: a quick throw from a goal line type set from
Speaker 1: like the two yard line for a pass breakup on
Speaker 1: a throw to a tight end where he knifed in
Speaker 1: there and got his hands in the football. Later in
Speaker 1: practice to a through a short pass in the same
Speaker 1: period down around the goal line to Lynn Bowden who
Speaker 1: had to make a guy miss in the open field,
Speaker 1: and he did as far as what I could tell
Speaker 1: from you know, live tackling from the five yard line
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. And then it was the final period
Speaker 1: that we already covered. So that means we have our
Speaker 1: three final segments to get to here on the podcast,
Speaker 1: and let's start with our matchup of the day. The
Speaker 1: matchup of the day Robert Foster and no Ig Monogamy
Speaker 1: are the ones gonna put on here. Foster had the
Speaker 1: two long completions, but Igbo was in phase on one
Speaker 1: of those, and it goes back to the case of
Speaker 1: you just can't defend a perfect pass, and that's what
Speaker 1: it was on this occasion where Igbo was in coverage.
Speaker 1: There was also some work early in the day on
Speaker 1: some more short stuff and they were just locking up
Speaker 1: and competing with regularity. In fact, Igbo was in these
Speaker 1: competitive battles with a few of the guys, including Jachim
Speaker 1: Grant on one of the deep passage of Jachim that
Speaker 1: we mentioned, where Igbo's just stride for stride, step for step,
Speaker 1: and again you know what kind of speed Jachim has,
Speaker 1: so you can measure the same idea there for number nine.
Speaker 1: The top performers of the day quarterback to a tongue
Speaker 1: of volo. When you hit deep balls with that regularity,
Speaker 1: regardless of its team seven on seven or otherwise, with
Speaker 1: the ball placement more than once that you get in
Speaker 1: that particular bucket with not breaking stride, that's gonna get
Speaker 1: you a top performer. Nod I've just been so impressed
Speaker 1: with his first three days so far. I'm excited to
Speaker 1: see if he can keep this thing rolling, but gosh,
Speaker 1: I'm having fun watching it. Robert Foster, the recipient of
Speaker 1: two deep balls, another triffic contested catch. You look at
Speaker 1: the speed, the reliable hands, the special team's prowess he's
Speaker 1: shown and passed stops. This receiver's room has some tough
Speaker 1: decisions coming because there are so many guys that can
Speaker 1: just play and that have played well so far. Jachem
Speaker 1: Grant loves seeing Jachim go off and have a day.
Speaker 1: The catch he made in that long ball. If he
Speaker 1: can do that consistently, I mean, there's no denying his
Speaker 1: ability to create separation and get open deep and those
Speaker 1: contesting deep catches. A few things in football are harder,
Speaker 1: and he made that look easy today. Great practice for
Speaker 1: Jachem Grant. Brennan Scarlett two pressures and Team one would
Speaker 1: be sacked. Strong edge presence in the run game. Thought
Speaker 1: fifty seven looked really strong today. Christian Wilkins, speaking of excited,
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see where this guy goes this year
Speaker 1: and what he does in year three because he looks trim,
Speaker 1: looks explosive and like he's having an absolute blast out there.
Speaker 1: That sack on third and six, was an outright clinic
Speaker 1: with an arm over and a quick angle to the
Speaker 1: quarterback and what was a big spot. Third down pressures
Speaker 1: always come with a little more luster. Solomon Kinley had
Speaker 1: some real imposing blocks today. When they're on the far field,
Speaker 1: I see the back kind of scoot through the whole.
Speaker 1: On those running plays. I looked through my binocular to
Speaker 1: see which lineman comes off the block and kind of
Speaker 1: chases the play, and that was number sixty six a
Speaker 1: couple of times on Friday, Miles Gaskin speaking of the
Speaker 1: big runs. Nice to see him get some room to
Speaker 1: operate with. Also, that jump cut and acceleration looked like
Speaker 1: he accessed another speed, which, man, if he can do
Speaker 1: that and add that to his vision and his field
Speaker 1: for the for the game, the running game, watch out
Speaker 1: for him. Javon Holland, the range, the sticky coverage and
Speaker 1: tight quarters. There aren't many things I would feel uncomfortable
Speaker 1: with Javon Holland doing. He's got the mindset and the
Speaker 1: skills had to do it, and he's got an opportunity
Speaker 1: to this camp to really make that role for himself
Speaker 1: here in Miami. Two more Eric Rowe the quick clothes
Speaker 1: in short space. Tackling on Jalen Waddle is always going
Speaker 1: to get in the notes. Plus the downfield coverage also
Speaker 1: had the PBu on that quick set up and throw
Speaker 1: and goal line didn't see who the tight end was
Speaker 1: that play, but he was right there for the play.
Speaker 1: Twenty one all over the place on Friday. And finally,
Speaker 1: Andrew Van Geinkle explosive was all get out today good
Speaker 1: and individuals and team drills just another wave in this
Speaker 1: offense pass rush options or plethora of pass rushers. And
Speaker 1: I think he's a guy that you saw today can
Speaker 1: win some of the one on one matchups that he
Speaker 1: gets out there. So Van Ginkl, Eric Roa, Javon Holland,
Speaker 1: Miles Gaskin, Solomon Kinley, Christian Wilkins, Brand Scarlett Jachem Grant,
Speaker 1: Robert Foster, and to a tongue by Lola caught my
Speaker 1: eye as top performers. Let's finish up here with two
Speaker 1: more Twitter questions. I put the call out on Thursday.
Speaker 1: If you guys want to find that thread, you can
Speaker 1: go ahead and do that and put a question there
Speaker 1: for me. We'll answer a couple of these each day
Speaker 1: on the podcast. Here. The first one comes in from
Speaker 1: Gabe Harai at Gabe Hawai on Twitter, and Gabe used
Speaker 1: to write for Lockdown Dolphins, good to see you here,
Speaker 1: virtually gave I guess I hope you're well man, He asks,
Speaker 1: I was hoping to get your thoughts on the offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator set up? How is it looking during camp? And
Speaker 1: this is now me speaking again. Thank you to everybody
Speaker 1: that wrote in with these questions, and there are plenty
Speaker 1: of questions on this topic. I just want to go
Speaker 1: ahead and shout out that I saw them. We're gonna
Speaker 1: go ahead and answer it kind of collectively here once,
Speaker 1: and I think the best way to answer that is
Speaker 1: with what coach Flores said this morning on NFL Network,
Speaker 1: which was a great interview. By the way, if you
Speaker 1: haven't seen it, William mcguinnist Andrew Ceciliano were here at
Speaker 1: practice covering Dolphins practice. So turn on NFL Network and
Speaker 1: go watch that back. They'll replay all night tonight, I'm sure.
Speaker 1: But he talked about the alternating of play calling with
Speaker 1: George Gtzie and Eric Studisville. I thought he was very
Speaker 1: respectful and the way he said, we have a plan
Speaker 1: for what we're gonna do come game day, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna keep that internal for now. He even noted Siciliano's
Speaker 1: face kind of lighting up when he asked the question, saying,
Speaker 1: you've got that twinkle in your eye when this came up.
Speaker 1: But the best quote I thought of all was when
Speaker 1: he was asked about the approach of two O c
Speaker 1: s and he really broke it down and simple terms, saying,
Speaker 1: you know, football is all about collaboration. And he said
Speaker 1: it's not just like George only works with the receivers
Speaker 1: and quarterbacks because he's the passing game coordinator, and e
Speaker 1: coach Studentsville works with the backs in line because he's
Speaker 1: the run game coordinator. It's a collaborative process. And he
Speaker 1: says he said that for three years now, so there's
Speaker 1: consistency in that message. I'll just leave it at this.
Speaker 1: Coach says there's a plan. I believe him. Why wouldn't you?
Speaker 1: And then the second one here comes from Gary Garrito
Speaker 1: X at Garrito X on Twitter. He asks, every year,
Speaker 1: there's usually a guy who takes a tremendous leap in progression.
Speaker 1: Who do you think that will be this camp? You know,
Speaker 1: after thinking about this for just a moment, I have
Speaker 1: two answers, and they're pretty different. Just basing off last
Speaker 1: year's camp and where he was and how he finished
Speaker 1: the year and where he is now. I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: Rob Hunt because he obviously didn't start the first four
Speaker 1: games last year, then finished strong, and then where I
Speaker 1: think he looks right now, pretty good, moving good out there,
Speaker 1: carrying his weight really good. I think I'll go with
Speaker 1: him on the offense on defense. I've talked about him
Speaker 1: a lot in the podcast, but Christian Wilkins, and I
Speaker 1: want to be very clear here that Christian has been
Speaker 1: a productive player here. First two years. He's been dependable, reliable, productive,
Speaker 1: run game, pass rush, whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 1: But I think he's got a chance to take it
Speaker 1: to another level this year. And he's really been putting
Speaker 1: in the work. And that's not something new with him.
Speaker 1: He always works his butt off, but through three days
Speaker 1: at least, it's really been clicking so far here for
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins. All right, that is gonna be my time.
Speaker 1: My daughter was up at five a m. This morning,
Speaker 1: and it was my day to get up with her,
Speaker 1: so that wake up call came a little bit too early.
Speaker 1: So I'm running on fumes and diet pepsi at the moment,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna go ahead and get out of here.
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