WEBVTT - Dolphins Training Camp 2021 Day 3 Recap 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:16.400 Bowdown miamis one at run. What is up, Dolphans And 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:19.840 welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:25.439 Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:28.920 is it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Winkfield, 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:31.400 and as always I am here to bring you your 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:35.600 daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today show, 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:40.240 it's day three here at Dolphins camp. We have another 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:44.360 long list of training camp notes, top performers, the matchup 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:47.440 of the day, the post practice media, and a few 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:50.920 general observations from my perspective at camp and a very 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:53.800 competitive day of practice. Plus we'll take a few more 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:56.640 of your Twitter questions. All of that and more from 0:00:56.640 --> 0:01:00.400 Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training camp plex. 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:06.800 This is the Drive Time Podcast, and I want to 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:10.399 first start this podcast in the way that, well, frankly, 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:12.920 I think is a little bit hacky in terms of 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:16.280 the way of storytelling, but my stubbornness doesn't care about that. 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:18.880 I want to start at the end of this very 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:22.400 high energy team period and point to the guys having 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:24.920 some fun out there on the practice field. Now we'll 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:27.880 go back to when the offense was reigning deep balls 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:30.440 in the five on seven period, but the defense put 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:33.480 the absolute clamps on during this final period of practice. 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.520 It was tough sledding, regardless for the offense of which 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:39.120 lineup was out there. And the reason we start there 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:42.759 is because I thought it was emblematic of what this 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:45.560 team is about. A bunch of guys that love football, 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:48.440 that bring a fire and a passion and that spreads 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:51.760 like wildfire throughout the roster, and with these coaches as well. 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:54.560 It's a charged up period and with every pass break up, 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.760 every would be sack or whatever the case. Maybe these 0:01:57.760 --> 0:01:59.680 guys were fired up out there. And we start with 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.800 Shian Wilkins, who is coming off the football like Nick 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:06.240 Cage and gone in sixty seconds this camp. He's looking very, 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.640 very explosive, and he came in for a sack in 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:11.320 that period and was greeted by Adam Butler for a 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.280 back bump. Is that what it's called when you essentially 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:16.120 do a chess bump, but instead you turn your back 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:17.919 to the guy and you kind of bump lower back 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.040 and butt to each other. I remember Chris Chambers and 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:22.040 Marty Booker were the first ones to do that. Now 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:26.160 it's become really popular anyway, they did that celebration. Remember 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:29.560 the Hoods and Berbs game last year tracking takeaways, scoops 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:31.799 and loose balls. But we know that game is back 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:33.560 this year, at least from what we heard at O 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:35.640 t a S back in May and June. And I 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:38.480 think the best example was when a football was tipped 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:41.080 near the sideline of the end zone and it rolled 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:44.120 way away from the field and Sam eg Vaughan sprints 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.640 over to collect the football, and I thought that was 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:49.880 symbolic of the effort we saw all day on Friday 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:53.519 here at Baptist Health Training Complex, which when you get 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.320 past the first day or the first couple of days, 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:58.240 the adrenaline maybe starts to wear off a little bit. 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:01.000 To maintain the effort and energy, I don't think it's 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:03.120 an easy task, so to see the guys playing with 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.800 that effort is always awesome to see. And we'll track 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:07.960 that now into the dog days of camp as well. 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.120 So the defense is having a good old time and 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:14.240 Javarus Davis got himself a pass breakup number thirty eight 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:17.080 on your roster on a deep shot and the sideline 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:20.880 lost their collective minds on that play. Congratulations all around 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:23.799 with Gerald Alexander at the forefront of it, with Charles 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:26.639 Brooks involved as well, and I think it stems from 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:29.960 both of those coaches passion and love for the game, 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:33.880 which is beyond evident whenever you watch practice. Let's conclude 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:36.360 with some of the highlights of that period here before 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:38.960 we get to the players opinions on it and some 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.800 of the plays that occurred in this charged up period. 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:44.800 Duke Riley had an opportunity where he comes up squared 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:47.160 up with Patrick Laird in a one on one pass 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:50.960 rush slash pass protection situation and he throws this wicked 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:53.000 juke move that allowed him to get around the back 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:55.840 untouched and route to the quarterback on a would be 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:59.040 sack or possible sack at very least a quarterback pressure. 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.560 And after the up Duke was hooting and holler in 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:04.560 and I noted that we talked about his fluid movement 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:07.600 skills on the podcast yesterday and drills, and then to 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:10.560 see it applied and play out here in the team period, 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:12.800 that's exactly what you want to see. He can really 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:17.120 rev up those RPMs. Chat Griffin got what italied as 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:20.040 his first team period sack of camp unofficial of course, 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:23.000 and he threw a straight up speed rush well timed 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.480 to the snap and got in there. After cornering and 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.680 flattening off the edge, Clayton Federlin gets himself a pass 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:31.520 break up at the line, very Mutumbo s because he 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:33.880 was down in the traffic and the muck elevates and 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.680 sends that thing back into the backfield, just like Mutumbo 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:38.960 sending the ball into the tenth row of the bleachers 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:42.719 all those years in the National Basketball Association. Eric Road 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:45.360 then comes in on a quick hitter to Jalen Waddle 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.840 and tags him off right at the line. More celebrations 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:51.320 as Row was feeling it at this point, giving himself 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:53.160 a little bit of a strut out there. He's had 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:56.039 a very strong start to camp as well. Then Emmanuel 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.839 Ogba gets in on the phone with a beautiful, beautiful 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.440 cross chop where he throws a little delay step, a 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:03.599 little hitch in the giddy up on his upfield rush 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:05.840 and then once he kind of gathers and gets back 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.880 to full speed, swipes the hands away on that patented 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:11.960 cross chop and angles around the corner flattened to the 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.280 quarterback to beat the tackle for a would be sack. 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:17.440 Finally back to one of the guys we're gonna hear 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:20.200 from here. In just a second, Javon Holland closes the 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.360 drill with tight coverage on a pass intended for rookie 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:26.520 tight end fellow rookie Hunter Long and Halland played this 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:29.640 thing beautifully, trailling on his back and reaching around without 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:32.560 contact to disrupt the eye line and the sight of 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.239 the past for Hunter Long. As the past goes in complete, 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:38.479 javan strikes a pose with his arms crossed, kind of 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:40.280 looking out there like, yeah, I made that play, and 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:43.000 of course his teammates like that as well. So after 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:46.560 practice I had a chance to ask Byron Jones, Dolphins cornerback, 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:49.600 about the energy on the sideline. Here's what Byron had 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:51.720 to say about it. It's football, man, It's what we 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:53.440 go through it. It looks nice on the outside, but 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:55.520 it's really hard. So you build those bonds very quickly, 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:57.640 and uh, we all kind of been through it. We 0:05:57.680 --> 0:05:59.520 don't understand what it's going to need to take. And 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.120 it takes that bond of energy, that juice and when 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:03.839 when one guy does well, we uplift him. When one 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.280 guy does bad, we still uplift him. So that's kind 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.440 of where you build it during camp. I mean leadership 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:11.600 defined right there, and he is such a strong lead, 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:14.360 not just in the way he conducts himself at press conferences. 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:18.279 We heard from Noah ibn Agay yesterday talking about Jones 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:21.320 and just total pro was the term the IGBO used, 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.760 and I saw some of that today as he was 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:27.320 kind of an on field director of the defensive back unit. 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:29.480 This is not exclusive to today, but I paid attention 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.200 to it today after what Noah told me on Thursday. 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:34.920 And Byron runs from drill to drill, then starts kind 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:36.800 of directing guys on where to go, where to get 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:38.680 lined up, like, let's hustle up and get as much 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.160 reps in as we can because this time of year, 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:43.640 with so many guys in the roster, as Coach Flora's mentioned, 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:45.960 with the dueling reps on either side of the practice field, 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:48.640 it's tough to get everybody the right amount of reps. 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:50.880 So he's kind of offering encouragement and it just goes 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:53.080 back to something I talked to O. J. McDuffie, the 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.760 great host of the Fish Tank podcast and obviously Dolphins 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:58.720 legend here in South Florida. I asked him about this 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:02.520 this offseason about when your players who are your best 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.480 players are also the hardest working guys and the most engaged, 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:07.920 the impact that can have on a team is tangible. 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.000 And Juice will talk about that more, I'm sure later 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:12.040 when we get to him here on a crossover podcast 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:14.120 with the Fish Tank, but he said, that's a very 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:16.520 great trait to have when your hardest working players are 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:19.880 also some of your most productive players. And so Byron's 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:23.400 working with guys like Noah Igbanogny, Brandon Jones, and Javon Holland, 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:26.400 all these young talented defensive backs on the roster who 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:28.600 we got to talk to Javon Holland, by the way, 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:30.560 and he had a few things to say. I asked 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.440 him about the visible kind of reactions he has on 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:35.440 a rep by rep Basis. I referenced that in the 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:38.640 podcast on Thursday, about how he is excited when he 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:40.440 makes a play and tough on himself when he doesn't, 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:42.800 and of course the pose after the play today, then 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:44.880 the handclap when he's frustrated after a guy makes a 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:48.000 catch or whatever, the visual frustration that he might be showing. 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:51.080 And I just asked him, and you know, am I 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:53.120 correct in what I'm seeing and do you kind of 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:55.600 put pressure on yourself to make every play. I mean, 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:58.800 as coach Flores said on the NFL Network on Friday morning, 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.240 there's never been a per game played in football, but 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:03.920 yet we strive for that. We make corrections hoping to 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:06.600 get towards that perfection. So here's what Javon had to 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:08.720 say about it. Yeah. Absolutely, I mean I feel like, 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:10.160 you know, it's a creditor I need to put, you know, 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.480 being my biggest critic, make sure that I'm always on 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.640 myself and that I'm always taking the next step. Like 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:16.840 I said, like it really does come down to the 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:18.280 T and T s, like y'all watching this right now, 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:20.480 the T and T s that takes no talent, Like 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:22.840 those are some things that you know, the communication, the 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:25.280 effort to the ball, the technique like that stuff that 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:27.280 is taught to us and that we take under ourselves 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:29.160 to execute every place. So I feel like, you know, 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:30.920 those are the things that I stressed the most on myself. 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:34.439 And of course, Javon wore many hats at the University 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.840 of Oregon and he was able to match open coverage, 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:38.640 play down in the muck, play over the top. So 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:41.080 I wanted to ask him about getting acclimated here and 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:43.760 how he's absorbing what the coaches are asking of him 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:46.520 so far. Here's Javon once more. Yeah, I feel like 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:48.480 I'm you know, I'm accumating pretty quickly. You know, you 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.520 gotta live, adapted die, basically, that's what you know, said 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:53.760 to a coach has that to us a lot, adapt 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.000 to die. So um, I'd rather adapt than die. So 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:58.800 I love that last phrase. They're adapt or die from 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:00.840 Coach Flora's and he's kind of king that on himself. 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.360 Of course, Coach did say after the draft that javan 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:05.680 was one of his favorite players to watch on tape, 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:07.640 and one of my favorite plays of the day was 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:10.520 a deep shot from Jacoby Brissette where Holland had to 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:12.360 come from the middle of the field, you know, the 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:14.280 middle hash and the two hash marks in the middle 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:16.160 of the field all the way out to the perimeter, 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:19.240 and it was a slow developing deep shot off play actions. 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.120 So you've gotta you know, you have to honor the 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:24.040 run and make sure that those slow developing routes are 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:26.120 not going to turn into something underneath or a handoff 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:28.040 for the quarterback going boot to the opposite side of 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.880 the formation and when he sees it, he just gets 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:32.880 on his horse and takes a great angle to the 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:36.199 catch point. He arrives, gets his hands on the football, 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:38.560 and Foster did a good job to break it up. 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:40.600 It was Robert Foster on the deep shot to save 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:43.439 the interception, but the range on full display the ball 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:45.559 skills to get it into his hands. And then Trull 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.600 Williams also on that particular play, had really good coverage 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:51.160 underneath two. So Brissette had a very small window to 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:54.200 work with with strong coverage on that back end. So 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:58.080 that's the kind of conclusion of the energy and the 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:00.440 overall camaraderie of this group to at the end of 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:04.160 practice and the defenses outright dominance towards the end of practice. 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:05.520 But I want to go back now to the start 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:07.400 and some of the pre practice notes and kind of 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:11.199 go in chronological order here. I mentioned the energy of 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:15.040 Christian Wilkins and Shack Shakim Griffin on Thursday, and that 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:18.600 didn't slow down one iota on Aloha Friday. Here Christian 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:20.880 was feeling the music and some dance moves during the 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:23.640 stretching period, and Shakim is kind of skipping around and 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:26.000 bouncing all over the place chirping to guys. It's just 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:27.880 a great way to start practice. It's kind of like 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:30.880 that first sip of coffee for you coffee drinkers out there. 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:32.560 And I imagine I've had a few coffees in my 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:35.120 in my day, but I usually have them in the afternoons. 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:36.800 I don't really know how it goes in the morning. 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:39.400 I finally watched the quarterbacks warming up a little bit. 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:41.360 I usually don't do this because they get plenty of 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:43.400 attention throughout the rest of practice, so I try to 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.040 pick up some other tips and cues, but I wanted 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:48.120 to see I wanted to note the ball placement on 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:51.120 this kind of you know, half speed ramp up type 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:53.840 of throws. They build up to full speed, just like 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:56.600 you would anytime you use your arm for throwing footballs 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:59.320 or otherwise. And while you might think this is kind 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:01.880 of a given or a routine in an NFL practice, 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:04.640 it's just not. I've been covering for three years here. 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:06.920 It's not just run of the mill, show up and 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:09.040 put the ball on the right location. It's just not 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:12.280 how it is. But the accuracy on the throws from 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:15.360 Tah is really a treat to watch Anyone who's ever 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:17.840 thrown a football, and again a baseball, whatever the ball 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:21.360 might be for that matter, knows that when you change 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.440 your base, you change your platform, you move in either direction, 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:27.480 that's going to alter your arm slot and the release points. 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:32.119 You have to then, through muscle memory, be able to adapt, 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:34.480 as Javan Holland said, to adapt or die. And the 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:37.000 only way you can naturally adapt to that muscle memory 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:40.040 is from repetition. And not to make us about me, 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:41.920 but it's something that I can attest to because I 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.560 was a middle infielder in baseball up through college, and 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:48.120 I've literally thrown tens of thousands of baseballs, whether I'm 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:51.360 falling away towards third base from the shortstop side or 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.920 into right field from the second base side, I've thrown 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.800 the baseball from every imaginable arm slot and arm angle. 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.040 So kind of my way of saying, those who know 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:01.240 what I'm talking about, you know what I'm talking about. 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:04.640 So with Ta, he's doing these half speed movement throws 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:07.320 to either direction from different platforms, and the ball is 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.600 just constantly popping the chest and face mask area. I 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:13.439 just thought, this is what this is supposed to look 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:15.600 like ideally, right, and now he's out here doing it. 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:17.720 That was a lot of fun to watch. I also 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:21.280 noted some flexibility I saw from guys and stretching, which 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:24.120 it might sound weird, but Jalen Phillips got my attention 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:26.400 and so touted Andrew Van ginkle More on him in 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.360 just a moment. But Phillips was kind of sprawled out 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:31.120 and doing this arm over the back thing, and I 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:33.400 just thought, man, the way he moves at that size, 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:35.920 no wonder. The athletic ability is all there for him. 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:38.480 Then we broke into individual drills and I gotta look 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:41.440 at some of the receivers working on air down around 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:44.320 the end zone, and the coaches had those big, goofy 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:46.720 looking orange cone pads on their arms, which helps to 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:50.000 simulate a corner getting hands on the receiver. And just 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:52.720 watching the feet of Albert Wilson on those releases I 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.360 thought was pretty cool. Then the ball is a bit long, 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.280 but he tracks it down and catches the back of 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:00.600 the football. You remember the game against the Jets the 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:03.600 week seventeen, two thousand and eight, the division clinching game 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:06.240 where Ted Geint caught a ball from Chad Pennington and 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.120 he squeezed the back end of the football and he's 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:11.199 like holding a quarter of the ball barely hangs onto it. 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:13.240 That's what Albert Wilson did on this play because it 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:15.480 was so far out of reach, but he runs through it, 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:17.800 snatches the back of the football, taps the toes, and 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:21.160 corrals it while full speed. That is not an easy 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.360 thing to do, but it was a theme today for 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:25.800 these guys. And you know, back to the Van Ginkle note, 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:28.440 I got a good look at the backers and defensive 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:31.240 line working the bags in pre practice with their hands 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.640 and pass rush drills and geink. Maybe I've been talking, 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:36.600 you know, I've been talking a lot about his past 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.720 coverage this this offseason, but we all remember how his 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:42.480 past watch really came last year. Came along last year, 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:44.880 especially down the stretch of that Las Vegas game. He 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.400 was a tough guy to get blocked for that Raiders 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:50.240 O line. And when he's going through this drill where 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:51.680 he has to put a move on the bag and 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.079 then flatten around the back side of that bag, it's 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.040 just like you're trying to win the corner rushing off 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:58.040 the edge and see the same type of idea put 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:01.880 put your gameplay aptitude into a drill and try to 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:03.360 drill it that way so when it comes up in 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:05.120 the game, you know what to do. And that's where 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:07.959 you see the scouting term for flexible ankles come into play. 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.360 It allows the guys to turn that corner without having 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:13.440 to throttle down and slow the acceleration. I saw that 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.560 in spades today with number forty three. Then later in 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:18.760 practice he went through that down up drill where the 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:22.200 pursuing tackler hits the turf, pops up and angles to 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:24.720 the ball carrier. And I talked about Duke Riley doing 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:28.320 this on yesterday's podcast with warp speed but also doing 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:30.680 it right, and Gek did the exact same thing. I thought, 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:34.080 he's moving very very well out there. Speaking of Wisconsin guys, 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:38.520 more individual drills, Michael Dieter I noticed constantly consistently had 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:42.040 one of the lower pad levels I saw out there. 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:44.720 He was firing out of his stance with good pop, 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:47.240 but not popping straight up, which is you know, one 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.360 oh one, do not do that. He was firing out 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:51.680 low and the stands in control looked good that way. 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:54.200 That's always a good sign. And finally, a group of 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:57.240 defensive backs worked industrill against a group of wide outs 0:14:57.240 --> 0:15:00.400 where there were they're defending the ever popular look in 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:03.240 today's NFL, which the offense goes with a bunch or 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:05.440 a stacker and trips. And what this means did you 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:07.960 line up two or three receivers up on top of 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.360 each other. And that forces the defense to communicate who 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:12.720 goes where like because you're not really sure who's gonna 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:15.320 break in which direction. First man inside of yours, next 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.120 guy's mind, first man outside his mind, you know, vice versa, 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:21.320 what have you. Whatever your system calls for. It's it's 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:25.160 commonplace across the league. But bunches and stacks create natural 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:27.440 rubs and that's so hard to get through today in 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:30.640 the NFL, with you know, limited contact allowed on the receivers. 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:33.240 So it's imperative to have these assignments down pat to 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:36.240 communicate it and execute it. And not one time did 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:38.120 I see a receiver spring a leak in the trail 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:40.280 and get wide open. It was very professional in the 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:42.600 execution of it. And again I love watching g A 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:45.280 and Coach Burkes do their thing in those drills. Then 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:48.040 we get to our first team period of the day, 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:50.400 and how about some running backs carrying the football? We've 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:54.200 covered them passing catching passes rather. But Myles Gaskin had 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.760 some big runs today and one in particular, he approached 0:15:57.800 --> 0:15:59.520 the line with patients then looked like he was going 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:02.000 to bounce it. And you can either bounce, bang or bend, 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:04.320 and bounce means you go outside, bang means you stick 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:06.240 to the whole you're the path you're on, and bend 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:08.640 makes you go back against the grain. Gaskins has so 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:11.200 many great bend runs in his career, and it looks 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:13.640 like he's gonna bounce that he sticks the outside foot 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:15.960 in the ground and it was like one of those 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.080 flat escalators. What are those things called, the ones you 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:20.120 see in airports. It looked like he was on one 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.080 of those as he just shoots out of a cannon 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:24.840 into the second level. Man, he looks fascinating. And that 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:27.160 gap was created by Solomon Kinley from what I saw. 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:29.200 We saw this on tape a few times last year, 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:31.720 where Solomon gets moving at that second level and he 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:34.560 can really put some domination on film when he does that, 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:36.480 and he had a few of those blocks today I 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:38.640 really liked. I saw from Big Number sixties six the 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:41.560 Big Fish on the next place, von achmed subs in 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:44.040 and he has a nice gap opened up by Robert Hunt, 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:46.000 who I also thought I had another strong day on 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:48.760 the offensive line, but on this run Sam egg Van, 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.920 who was also very active in this practice, closed on 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:53.560 the gap and there would have been a really nice 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:57.000 battle there between eg Von and Akhmed in a live 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:59.000 tackling period. Obviously you don't get to see that today 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:02.000 without passing, without tackling, but it was a good matchup there. 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:04.440 I also mentioned Wilkins earlier. He had a great rep 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:06.960 working down the line, staying in the play while engaged, 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.800 then cutting off the block for the stop. This defensive 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:11.920 tackle group, man, it's in the running for top performing 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.840 groups so far through three days of practice. The next 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:17.840 play Zack Seeler and that group gets my attention and 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:20.719 I just watch him shoot his hands and plant that 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:24.160 base in space, nice rhyme, and he can't be moved. 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:27.359 This happened a few times where his combination of reach 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:30.200 and power it just has to be a tall order 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:33.320 for opposing offensive lineman to deal with because he can 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:35.280 lock you out, but he also is so far away 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:36.920 that you just can't get off the block or off 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:39.600 the hold to get that block progressed and to get 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:42.000 pushed back on the defensive line. I have to imagine 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:44.600 he's a lot to deal with in that way. Jalen 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:47.159 Phillips received some buzz from myself and others for the 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:49.560 pass rush and dropping in coverage last couple of days. 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:51.960 But I thought he had his best rundown rep today 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:54.240 where the tight end kicks out and tries to dig 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:56.240 him out of the backside of the formation and he 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:59.199 absorbed the contact, not giving an inch and plugging the 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:01.560 gap for in the running back to bubble which means 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:04.440 to go backwards. Remember when I asked Jalen Phillips about 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:07.040