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Speaker 4: And on today's show, we've got more football practice to dissect.
Speaker 2: The Dolphins were back.
Speaker 4: On the field for the final week of many camps
Speaker 4: and we'll break it all down right here with practice notes.
Speaker 4: Mike McDaniel's press conference. We'll hear from Jalen Ramsey, Xavien Howard,
Speaker 4: and Jalen Phillips from the Baptist Health studios inside the
Speaker 4: Baptist Health Training Complex.
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Speaker 4: I want to start this podcast today was something we've
Speaker 4: covered on previous OTA Practice reports that continues to be
Speaker 4: a theme, at least from my takeaways, mostly because we
Speaker 4: got a great synopsis of how that coverage works, how
Speaker 4: this defensive system and the man calling it, Coach Vic Fangio,
Speaker 4: benefits that defensive side of the ball and the pursuit
Speaker 4: of keeping points off the scoreboard, but also how the
Speaker 4: offense can take from what the d gives them on
Speaker 4: a daily basis with looks in practice and just the
Speaker 4: overall reps they go through.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and go to coach Mike McDaniel to.
Speaker 3: Hear more on just that an unintended consequence.
Speaker 6: It's something that you know as a football coach, but
Speaker 6: you it's not steadfast to the forefront of your thought
Speaker 6: process when you're making decisions like that, Okay, who what
Speaker 6: defense do you want to run?
Speaker 3: Who do you want in charge of it?
Speaker 6: Your mind goes straight to what the best defense we
Speaker 6: can have and want the best defensive coordinator we can have.
Speaker 6: You know, I think that has been accomplished A subset
Speaker 6: unintended consequence is that you know, the the the technique
Speaker 6: with which they perform their assignments really takes advantage of
Speaker 6: poor technique offensively, meaning that they the the way they
Speaker 6: pattern match and the way they they they really play
Speaker 6: with vision as a as a receiver, it's the best
Speaker 6: training you could get. As the tight end, it's the
Speaker 6: best training you can get. All these route runners are
Speaker 6: getting this elite training because they're getting made pay.
Speaker 3: When their techniques.
Speaker 6: Off if they're not vertical enough on their stem. Traditionally,
Speaker 6: from a coach's perspective, I have to say, yeah, this worked,
Speaker 6: However in game situation it probably won't, and that you're
Speaker 6: kind of selling to them. Then you have to grab
Speaker 6: a game clip and whatever. It is so much more
Speaker 6: efficient and better for the offensive coaches when something that
Speaker 6: we've emphasized doesn't get done and the defense makes you pay, well,
Speaker 6: you know, we're pushing that envelope on both sides of
Speaker 6: the ball. Now where and and my ultimate desire I
Speaker 6: don't want I want a good team. I don't want
Speaker 6: to go out there today and have the defense dominate
Speaker 6: the offense or vice versa. I want guys trading punches, handling, diversity,
Speaker 6: what we're starting to see is there'll be eleven guys
Speaker 6: out there. One offensive player will be off and the
Speaker 6: play will not work at all, or one defensive player
Speaker 6: will be off and it will be a big play.
Speaker 6: That's what for me as a head coach, that's how
Speaker 6: I go to practice. I don't I want punches traded
Speaker 6: left and right. That that's the game that we play
Speaker 6: and that's how you get better at it. And that's
Speaker 6: what I'm starting to see. Unintended consequence of vic in
Speaker 6: a system is the system is so sound and true
Speaker 6: and coached. The defensive coaching staff has done a phenomenal
Speaker 6: job giving answers to the test through technique to the
Speaker 6: players that both sides of the ball are benefiting.
Speaker 5: For sure.
Speaker 4: Had to cut around an interruption there mid media session
Speaker 4: as a phone went off, So I apologize for that.
Speaker 2: Hope it's sound that I'll write to you guys.
Speaker 4: But to expand on that, and first of all, how
Speaker 4: great was that the idea that the looks that you're
Speaker 4: getting afford you opportunities to make corrections right then and there,
Speaker 4: opposed to potentially having to rep it, go in, watch it,
Speaker 4: cut it, then communicate it, then change for practice the
Speaker 4: following day.
Speaker 2: I just have to imagine that's.
Speaker 4: Like a coach's dream, but to expand, and this takes
Speaker 4: us into the quarterback discussion for the day June the sixth,
Speaker 4: here out at Dolphins camp. I thought it was largely
Speaker 4: an uneventful day for the quarterbacks, and allow me to
Speaker 4: tell you how that can be a good thing. First off, though,
Speaker 4: I thought Skyler had one of his best throws I've
Speaker 4: seen as a member of the Miami Dolphins between two
Speaker 4: defenders in that turkey hole portion over the top, underneath
Speaker 4: one defender along the sideline, where he layered it with
Speaker 4: touch over the one defender, but enough zip to get
Speaker 4: it underneath the other defender before they could drive and
Speaker 4: make a play on the football. And it was located
Speaker 4: outside enough for Freddy Swain to make a catch and
Speaker 4: get the feet and bounds. And that was after a
Speaker 4: pretty rough stretch of late timing throws and inaccurate ball,
Speaker 4: so to bounce back I thought was impressive to see there.
Speaker 4: Also thought Tua had some really nice in rhythm rips
Speaker 4: in this practice. He threatened a few passes prices in
Speaker 4: traffic that popular receiver's jersey right between the two numbers
Speaker 4: on those jerseys, one to Waddle and one to Smythe
Speaker 4: both went for twenty plus yards, possibly a breakaway touchdown
Speaker 4: to Wattle. When you talk about what he can do
Speaker 4: with the football in space, he had one man to
Speaker 4: beat in space to make a potential long touchdown happen there.
Speaker 4: But Tua just continues to look as advertised in all
Speaker 4: assets or aspects of the position. But really those catch
Speaker 4: rock throw reps that he's really perfected, going back to
Speaker 4: his time at college in Alabama, I thought he showed
Speaker 4: the ability to sense that exterior pressure and push up
Speaker 4: in the pocket. I think he showed you a fearless
Speaker 4: presence under that heat of a damn good pass rush
Speaker 4: this Dolphins defense has. And it's not live, but you
Speaker 4: can extrapolate what he's done in games and understand that
Speaker 4: those reps carry over live or not. It's cool to
Speaker 4: watch them go through install on air and then implement
Speaker 4: the team or the plays in the team portion of practice.
Speaker 4: I also love watching practices with my guy OJ McDuffie.
Speaker 4: Shout out to Juice and Seth making out the pre
Speaker 4: today because he always provides that player's perspective and he
Speaker 4: loves telling me when he thinks that the defense was
Speaker 4: privy to the play because just as the offense is
Speaker 4: getting ready to rep the on air work and team,
Speaker 4: the defense is too. And there's a couple of plays
Speaker 4: where like defenders converge before the play happened, and he's like.
Speaker 2: That's that's bs man, they know the play.
Speaker 4: So I love Juics' perspective there, And that's where it
Speaker 4: ties back to the comment that we kicked off the
Speaker 4: show from Coach because the first red zone period was
Speaker 4: great coverage on all the reps, like two, I had
Speaker 4: four reps, and we saw him go through each read fast.
Speaker 4: On each of those plays, every single throw, you'd see
Speaker 4: him start to one side of the field and the
Speaker 4: ball eventually made it to the opposite side of the
Speaker 4: field as you see his helmet go one, two, three, four,
Speaker 4: get across the field, make a full field read. And
Speaker 4: I think that's part of the theme we've sort of
Speaker 4: established here on the podcast this offseason, how the second
Speaker 4: year in this system can make things a little more
Speaker 4: second nature, which obviously makes you play faster and ultimately
Speaker 4: more productive.
Speaker 2: But I thought, again he was accurate.
Speaker 4: I think he continues to do a really good job
Speaker 4: in the practices i've seen of getting the football to
Speaker 4: the backs and tight ends again fast to maximize their
Speaker 4: chances of making a play after the catch. He didn't
Speaker 4: turn the ball over. He hasn't yet in the three
Speaker 4: practices we've seen so far from the media. I think
Speaker 4: there's a level of command that he's showing that should
Speaker 4: inspire a lot of confidence for where he is and
Speaker 4: that match is obviously the performance in terms of getting
Speaker 4: through those reads. I just thought the defense was incredibly
Speaker 4: tough today. Those first red zone reps saw them really
Speaker 4: plastering on the outside and then communicating and driving and
Speaker 4: passing off super well in this man match pattern match
Speaker 4: type of skime that you hear coach talk about there
Speaker 4: the coach Fangio runs in terms of the fundamentals and
Speaker 4: that matching. For the first year in a new system,
Speaker 4: they seem to really be connecting on all their rules
Speaker 4: and the structure of the defense. If this guy goes
Speaker 4: this way, you have that way, I have to do this,
Speaker 4: and vice versa. Like they are on top of the
Speaker 4: stuff early on. It looks like to me we'll find
Speaker 4: out more to go along, But I think it can
Speaker 4: be easy to lose those routes in the curl flat
Speaker 4: or the zones. Those tight end, running back, linebacker responsibilities
Speaker 4: that are you know, in today's game, a little bit
Speaker 4: of a mismatch because of the athletes you have on
Speaker 4: offense versus you know, guys that are put in there
Speaker 4: more to defend the run. It can be a mismatch.
Speaker 4: But they were capping those potential throws to backs and
Speaker 4: tight ends very quickly, driving on those plays and not
Speaker 4: displacing coverage enough where it was causing you know, vulnerabilities elsewhere.
Speaker 4: It looks very impressive. It's just June, but I'm so
Speaker 4: impressed by the way this defense has come along already.
Speaker 4: Let's go back to Mike McDonel now for a follow
Speaker 4: up to the Fangio question where he talked a little
Speaker 4: bit about facing a zone defense and how those challenges
Speaker 4: can you know, help the offense even more so.
Speaker 6: The teams that are capable of playing good zone defense
Speaker 6: make you earn everything, and really they really force teams
Speaker 6: to execute and execute across the board. Whereas you know,
Speaker 6: even great Man demand coverage team one guy steps on
Speaker 6: the side of his foot right where where it's.
Speaker 3: Where. In in zone defense, you you really have to
Speaker 3: get your depth.
Speaker 6: The quarterback has to be precise with his footwork so
Speaker 6: that his time and is right, his eyes, his progression,
Speaker 6: the distribution has to be correct. That makes it harder
Speaker 6: to be a good zone defense, uh on the front end,
Speaker 6: because there's a lot of people working together. But if
Speaker 6: you invest time into it, you invest time and and
Speaker 6: it is a slower build. It is more of a
Speaker 6: process zone defense. But the I think the rewards you
Speaker 6: reap you know when it's sound are are huge because
Speaker 6: it really put puts pressure on offenses to execute.
Speaker 4: What do you say we spend this thing over to
Speaker 4: the defensive side now and here from a guy that
Speaker 4: we haven't really played much or any audio of all. No,
Speaker 4: we played his introduction press conference on the podcast, but
Speaker 4: Jalen Ramsey was out there today and met with the
Speaker 4: media after practice. Let's go ahead and hear from him
Speaker 4: on how playing and this defense in the pass can
Speaker 4: benefit him here already in twenty twenty three with your
Speaker 4: Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 5: I mean, I know the defense, so that's how it helps.
Speaker 7: I mean it's the same I've been running the same
Speaker 7: defense for three years now, my past three years in
Speaker 7: LA So now it's the same defense. It's just a
Speaker 7: little bit different terminology, but same type of stuff. And
Speaker 7: there's different ways to play this defense. So Vic has
Speaker 7: his own way of putting his own like flavor in it,
Speaker 7: and I guess kind of catering it to certain people
Speaker 7: who will stand out in the defense and who can
Speaker 7: stand out in any defense really.
Speaker 4: And then conversely, wanted to ask Jalen the same question
Speaker 4: I asked coach about how the offense challenges and ultimately
Speaker 4: improves the defense just from seeing them every single day
Speaker 4: in practice.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just.
Speaker 7: Good players going against other good players and really competing
Speaker 7: and challenging us to you know, bring the best out
Speaker 7: of each other. Obviously, you know, you got the receivers,
Speaker 7: you got the running bad you got everybody over there
Speaker 7: who you need to challenge us.
Speaker 5: And we feel it the same way.
Speaker 4: You're gonna hear a lot from Jalen Phillips on this podcast.
Speaker 4: Let's first go ahead and go to him about how
Speaker 4: this offense makes you lock in on your job more
Speaker 4: on the defensive side of the ball, particularly off that
Speaker 4: edge position.
Speaker 8: I mean, this offense is so multiple different things they do,
Speaker 8: so they're always testing your eyes, making sure that you're disciplined.
Speaker 8: I think that's one of the hardest things as an
Speaker 8: edge rusher, really as a football player in general, but
Speaker 8: specifically on the edge. When you have an offense that
Speaker 8: has so many different motions and so many different different
Speaker 8: possible players out of the same looks, it really just
Speaker 8: you know, kind of makes you hone in.
Speaker 5: So it's awesome having on a daily basis.
Speaker 8: Is frustrating at times, for sure, because there might be
Speaker 8: a couple of practices where they get my edge a
Speaker 8: couple of times and have these crazy players.
Speaker 5: So it's definitely a good experience.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, and I almost forgot Tua was in the
Speaker 4: Orange Jersey. And what's funny is the first song was
Speaker 4: a Michael Jackson tune, and myself and Daniel O. Yafusi
Speaker 4: of the Miami Herald, we're trying to figure out whose
Speaker 4: playlist that might be. He picked Christian Wilkins and really
Speaker 4: sold me on the fact that it would be Christian Wilkins.
Speaker 4: But then when that Island Music popped on the second track,
Speaker 4: we had a feeling, and sure enough one came running
Speaker 4: out in the Orange Jersey.
Speaker 2: Really good mix, really good tracks.
Speaker 4: Some crowd pleasers and some deep cuts, one of my
Speaker 4: favorite playlifts so far in twenty twenty three. Let's go
Speaker 4: ahead and get back into the practice notes, but that's
Speaker 4: next on the Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
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Speaker 4: get back into the media availabilities here in the next segment.
Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and rip through the practice notes here
Speaker 4: and filter in some media avails as well. We covered
Speaker 4: the quarterbacks, we'll come back to the offense. Let's go
Speaker 4: ahead and talk some defense, which we don't usually do
Speaker 4: first here on the podcast. My lifelong football study has
Speaker 4: always began with offense, and I guess my defensive knowledge
Speaker 4: is kind of a counter to that. But we got
Speaker 4: to get some love to the defensive guys because I
Speaker 4: thought they played really well today. And I'm going to
Speaker 4: start with a deep cut on that portion as well
Speaker 4: with the rookies and udfas here because there was tons
Speaker 4: of good from that group. And it starts with Mitchell Agude,
Speaker 4: who was consistently in the backfield both as a rusher
Speaker 4: and run defender. I thought he bent the corner extremely
Speaker 4: well and played through contact in a way that you
Speaker 4: absolutely have to at this level. And you see guys
Speaker 4: at the college level, you know, win with their peer speed,
Speaker 4: win with like a spin move inside. But the ability
Speaker 4: to play through that contact and adjust and that second
Speaker 4: move is what makes you an NFL pass rusher in
Speaker 4: my opinion, and he clearly knows how to do that,
Speaker 4: how to play off leverage of a tackle that he rushes,
Speaker 4: and how to make that secondary move to free himself
Speaker 4: up the field. Let's go ahead and go back to
Speaker 4: my guy, Jalen Phillips, who was asked about a gooday
Speaker 4: after practice.
Speaker 2: Crazy similarities here in their career paths.
Speaker 8: I mean, you know this on table what you've been saying. Man,
Speaker 8: he's a bother. He is super twitchy, super athletic. You know,
Speaker 8: me and miss Go we have a little bit of
Speaker 8: history now because obviously he went to UCLA and then
Speaker 8: transferred out to Miami. While he was being recruited to Miami,
Speaker 8: I kind of talked to him and told him about
Speaker 8: my journey and kind of the blueprint that that I
Speaker 8: kind of found, and he really kind of like felt
Speaker 8: that locked in with it. So when he got to
Speaker 8: the Dolphins, I was like, man, this is not a
Speaker 8: prophecy here at this point. So it's been really cool.
Speaker 8: It just kind of being a mentor to him and
Speaker 8: seeing him work. But we got a great young group,
Speaker 8: and Garrett Nelson's don't really well.
Speaker 4: Too, so s good Eric planes, construction, all the stuff
Speaker 4: going on there in the background. I'm also glad he
Speaker 4: mentioned Garrett Nelson because Nelson made a play early on
Speaker 4: and I told Seth and Juice that guy right there
Speaker 4: is college tape is that of a maniac in the
Speaker 4: best way possible. He plays with his hair on fire,
Speaker 4: full effort, full just production out of wanting it more
Speaker 4: than you. And he did that all day today.
Speaker 2: He was very good.
Speaker 4: I thought Zeke Vanderbert sorry, Vandenberg was the other one
Speaker 4: who flashed consistently, primarily in run support. You'd often see
Speaker 4: a play get made or him, you know, come in
Speaker 4: and tag off in fifty seven is right there in
Speaker 4: the mix, you know, talking about how he's down right here.
Speaker 4: I touched him down after a one yard loss. But
Speaker 4: it's tough to gauge that stuff. But typically guys reactions
Speaker 4: tell you what happened on the play. So those were
Speaker 4: a trio of rookies, Nelson, Agude and Vandenberg. I was
Speaker 4: also really impressed by what I saw from Malik Reid
Speaker 4: his tape under Vic Fangio and Denver with some very
Speaker 4: very good stuff that we got a chance to see
Speaker 4: a glimpse of that today. He's so good with his
Speaker 4: hands and it puts him in position to hold that
Speaker 4: point against the run but also disengage as a pass rusher.
Speaker 4: But I didn't know he had the speed that I
Speaker 4: saw today. He was quick off the football and quick
Speaker 4: to the edge, which you get tested in this defense
Speaker 4: a lot when it comes to speed off the edge.
Speaker 4: In that same position group, I thought Andrew Van Ginkel
Speaker 4: was really damn good too, and he's playing multiple roles
Speaker 4: you know, on that defense that I think suit his
Speaker 4: game well. I've always been impressed by a guy who,
Speaker 4: you know, by traditional standards, is undersized compared to his
Speaker 4: position mates and how he plays the run. But that's
Speaker 4: where he killed it today, just fitting up and tagging
Speaker 4: off pretty regularly, you know, flowing behind blockers, which hasn't
Speaker 4: been where he's played in the past, but I think
Speaker 4: he can do it. I think the run defense really
Speaker 4: showed their stuff, and you can't mention that part of
Speaker 4: the game without Christian Wilkins. Like I wrote, I wrote, dude,
Speaker 4: he's such a freaking good player. Like I guess that
Speaker 4: conveys my thoughts. Let's go ahead and hear Jalen Phillips
Speaker 4: on his teammate.
Speaker 3: Here real quick.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean Christian is the same guy every single day.
Speaker 8: He's gonna come with energy, yelling all the time and
Speaker 8: just enjoying life. And I think it shows on the
Speaker 8: field is the passion that he plays with and the
Speaker 8: energy that he has is super contagious. And so I
Speaker 8: think he's a great leader for this team, brings guys
Speaker 8: up with him and man, you see him on the field,
Speaker 8: that dude is different. Just break down the state he's different,
Speaker 8: like Christian is a botherer man.
Speaker 4: One thing that's nice about Christian again, amidst all the
Speaker 4: chaos and the trenches and look again, it can be
Speaker 4: impossible sometimes to break down what happened on one live
Speaker 4: rep from typically bad angles of the play. But when
Speaker 4: I watch you know, tape or even games live, I'm
Speaker 4: usually seeing the play three or four times before offering
Speaker 4: up an opinion on it. But Christian comes out of
Speaker 4: the mess wagging his finger a lot when he makes
Speaker 4: a play, and he does it a lot so it's
Speaker 4: helpful and I trust him because he knows what making
Speaker 4: a play looks like.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: Again going back to Juice and Seth, he was like,
Speaker 4: sometimes you know, guys think they got a tackle, but
Speaker 4: they didn't. And I'm like, well, Christian's argument could be
Speaker 4: last year I got one hundred of these and the
Speaker 4: William Mays Hayes one.
Speaker 2: Hundred batting gloves that he bought.
Speaker 4: Kind of a reference off that, but in all seriousness,
Speaker 4: just getting off blocks rushing the quarterback. There was one
Speaker 4: rep where he ran a pass rush clean off the
Speaker 4: off one of the edges of the offensive line straight
Speaker 4: away for a would be sack, and the ball comes
Speaker 4: out and he turns around and pursues it twenty yards
Speaker 4: down the field. I just think he's the model player
Speaker 4: for how the game should be played. And like Phillips said, yeah,
Speaker 4: we've talked about the tape and it's different. It's a
Speaker 4: different type of animal. After that pass rush, when I
Speaker 4: mentioned working around Austin Jackson, he got double on the
Speaker 4: next play between he and Rob Hunt, and I thought
Speaker 4: Jackson and Hunt really hit that double really well together.
Speaker 4: But it just speaks to Christian's impact, like this is
Speaker 4: a guy that can line up. And by the way,
Speaker 4: I saw the tweet from like one of the beat
Speaker 4: guys that Rayquan Davis is the reason the run defense
Speaker 4: is elite. It's because of Christian Wilkins and Zach Steeler,
Speaker 4: and Rayquan has the role and he fulfills a certain
Speaker 4: you know role within that run defense. But Wilkins is
Speaker 4: the guy that makes it go. Steelers a guy that
Speaker 4: makes it go. And I just the reason I mentioned
Speaker 4: that is because he can play that one technique. He
Speaker 4: can play up over the nose, but to go out
Speaker 4: to the five technique or you know, outside of defensive
Speaker 4: end position that he's played a lot in his career
Speaker 4: and get double teams as a pass rusher. Phillip said
Speaker 4: it perfectly, like just cut the tape, man. It's not
Speaker 4: hard to do and to see I thought Emmanuel Ogba
Speaker 4: played a big part in the run defense off the
Speaker 4: edge in this session. His length always always stands out,
Speaker 4: I thought. Cater Co, who had some damn good work today.
Speaker 4: Bryce Thompson made arguably the play of the day, laying
Speaker 4: out for an interception on a pass from Skyler Thompson
Speaker 4: looking for Eric Azukama, who fell down, but the route
Speaker 4: was not there.
Speaker 8: It was.
Speaker 2: It was a bad rep on the offense. Shouldn't have
Speaker 2: been thrown there.
Speaker 4: Got picked off in a great diving catch Bryce Thompson
Speaker 4: as well, but he did it right in front of
Speaker 4: the defensive sideline and they were fired up for him
Speaker 4: about that play again. Good to see Jalen Ramsey out there.
Speaker 4: Like I mentioned, just watching him go through indies, like
Speaker 4: his ball skills and body control are evident, even in
Speaker 4: that portion of practice where guys are kind of getting
Speaker 4: loose and you know, maybe not ripping at full speed
Speaker 4: just yet. I thought Xavi and Howard was exceptional. One
Speaker 4: of those quiet, shutdown type of days. We've been seeing
Speaker 4: those from him for years, and we saw another one today.
Speaker 4: I thought Justin Bethel was around the football a lot.
Speaker 4: He got targeted a lot too, And actually the catch
Speaker 4: of the day was against him from Tyler Croft who
Speaker 4: went up over the top of Bethel who was in
Speaker 4: great position and just plucked it over the top like
Speaker 4: a mossing and not just staving a pick but really
Speaker 4: scoring a touchdown as well, pulled it in for the score.
Speaker 4: But Bethel was really good in coverage consistently. One of
Speaker 4: my favorite plays of the day was to throwing a
Speaker 4: seed to Cedric Wilson on the move out in front
Speaker 4: like he saw it early, got the ball out there,
Speaker 4: and that's that's the biggest difference I see from one
Speaker 4: to the rest of the QBS is just how on
Speaker 4: time and how quickly he played the position. But Cedric
Speaker 4: Wilson gets a step upfield and then Javon Holland comes
Speaker 4: from By god, that's John Cino's music from out of nowhere?
Speaker 4: Am I confusing wrestling references because I don't know what
Speaker 4: I'm talking about, But he came from out of nowhere
Speaker 4: on the opposite side of the field, and he well,
Speaker 4: he tagged off. But I've seen Javon make that play
Speaker 4: enough time to know that he was going to make
Speaker 4: a highlight level hit if we were live on the
Speaker 4: other side. I guess stop me if you've heard this before,
Speaker 4: But Jalen Waddle is so awesome. I mentioned this in
Speaker 4: the Twitter thread the practice notes thread, But breaking down
Speaker 4: Tyreek Hill's tape last year when we got him to
Speaker 4: the Dolphins, my appreciation for his route running really grew
Speaker 4: from that study because he doesn't cut corners, which can
Speaker 4: be so easy to do, and it doesn't always have
Speaker 4: a negative impact when you do. But the way he
Speaker 4: extrapolates every route in a way that keeps the defender
Speaker 4: guessing up until decision time where he breaks the route
Speaker 4: off at the top of the stem. And so not
Speaker 4: only do you have to beat him from a speed
Speaker 4: and suddenness standpoint, or you are already beaten in that
Speaker 4: standpoint because no one matches him in that skill set,
Speaker 4: but he's also getting a head start on you. Like
Speaker 4: imagine Max Verstappen getting to start fifty yards in front
Speaker 4: of the rest of the grid.
Speaker 2: Good luck.
Speaker 4: I see the exact same thing with Jalen Waddle out here.
Speaker 4: He ran one route in low red zone where like
Speaker 4: he got to the front pylon and it was like
Speaker 4: three steps and he was there and he uncovered so
Speaker 4: fast and the ball was late because it wasn't too
Speaker 4: a but the separation was so fast that it just
Speaker 4: didn't matter. And like the way he leans into that
Speaker 4: route and takes that extra step upfield to create that
Speaker 4: you know, indecision of the defensive back. It makes life
Speaker 4: on the defense tough. It makes life on your quarterback
Speaker 4: so much easier. This dude were in such good hands
Speaker 4: with ten and seventeen and into the future because seventeen's like,
Speaker 4: what is he twenty three, twenty four years old?
Speaker 3: Have mercy?
Speaker 4: He also pulled down an absurd one handed catch during
Speaker 4: the on air portion of practice. This guy's at a
Speaker 4: superstar already. River Kraycraft made a tough catch on a
Speaker 4: really good ball from Mike White. He was covered pretty
Speaker 4: well in the end zone, but White through this pass
Speaker 4: where you know it's man coverage, so he's chasing the
Speaker 4: receiver to the back pylon and then he River has
Speaker 4: his eyes back on the quarterback, so he throws it,
Speaker 4: you know, the opposite direction where they're running, which allows
Speaker 4: River to adjust, you know, away from that leverage.
Speaker 2: The cornerback keeps moving. He makes a tough catch to
Speaker 2: score a touchdown. Go Koog's.
Speaker 4: I thought Raheem Moster looked super smooth finding space in
Speaker 4: the run game. His backside vision pairs so well with
Speaker 4: the way he stretches you with that speed and then
Speaker 4: change course. It just forces you to defend the entire
Speaker 4: field horizontally on top of what you have to deal
Speaker 4: with vertically. From this receiving cores. I think you see
Speaker 4: the football IQ of a chain that Jimbo Fisher talked
Speaker 4: about with us in the podcast, because like Raheem Moster,
Speaker 4: there was a run today where he had daylight outside.
Speaker 4: But again it's the same thing as Tyreek and Jalen.
Speaker 4: He's not just gonna run to the daylight. He knows
Speaker 4: if I press up to the line of scrimmage, press
Speaker 4: my left tackle, press my tight end, that's gonna suck
Speaker 4: those linebackers, those second level defenders downhill more than otherwise
Speaker 4: they would probably get more with and that creates a
Speaker 4: worse angle for those guys and bad angles in this
Speaker 4: running back, it's lights out, it's good night to the crib, touchdown,
Speaker 4: all the fun superlatives. And after he did that, he
Speaker 4: accelerates around the edge and got loose into the secondary.
Speaker 2: He's got some skill man.
Speaker 4: I thought Chosen was potentially an Orange Jersey winner today.
Speaker 4: His long speed creates space in a way that I
Speaker 4: don't think we've had previously outside of Tyreek and Jalen.
Speaker 4: And he's really showing you a knack for uncovering. I
Speaker 4: didn't know he had that game in his bag. From
Speaker 4: a release standpoint, from a separation standpoint, I just didn't
Speaker 4: realize he had that tight area separation that he showed
Speaker 4: in the red zone today where he scored a few times.
Speaker 4: He also opened up a big play by just running
Speaker 4: a takeoff that took coverage away from Cedrick Wilson coming
Speaker 4: across the field the other direction. I think Chosen might
Speaker 4: low key be a big hit here, guys, because his
Speaker 4: ability to just kind of take the eyes of the
Speaker 4: defense somewhere else and make plays because he made him
Speaker 4: today could be a big boom. We'll find out about that,
Speaker 4: but he could be a sneaky big acquisition for this offense.
Speaker 4: I thought Liam Eikenberg had a good day in the
Speaker 4: ground game, and Rob Hunt was a guy that I
Speaker 4: typically credit with some big blocks on big running plays.
Speaker 4: That was the case again today. I relearned this every year,
Speaker 4: but gosh, it's so tough to watch more than just
Speaker 4: one side of the offensive line, and then if the
Speaker 4: play goes elsewhere, you basically missed the entire reps. So
Speaker 4: it's tough to focus on that part of the line.
Speaker 4: It's typically why I'm light on offensive line notes. I'll
Speaker 4: go back to you know, training camp and get one
Speaker 4: on one pit drill type of content for you guys,
Speaker 4: because that's the best measure I can get because team
Speaker 4: drills it can.
Speaker 2: Be tough sometimes to get a feel for that.
Speaker 4: I thought the edge though, in general, got the best
Speaker 4: of the tackles, especially without Tron Arms out there off
Speaker 4: that left side, you know, Kendall Lamb, James Tunstall, Isaiah Winn.
Speaker 4: We're in there for some reps against the guys I
Speaker 4: mentioned previously, and I thought a Goode and Nelson and
Speaker 4: those guys really got their their work done in this practice.
Speaker 2: So really good work all the way around.
Speaker 4: Some back and forth, Like coach mentioned, let's go ahead
Speaker 4: and take our last break right there and come back
Speaker 4: on the other side and get additional media availability soundbites.
Speaker 4: That's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought
Speaker 4: to you by Auto Nation. So we heard additional media here,
Speaker 4: and I want to go ahead and play some sound
Speaker 4: from both or all three Mike McDaniel, Jalen Phillips, and
Speaker 4: Xaving Howard. Let's go ahead and pick it up here
Speaker 4: with Coach who talked a little more heat and Panthers.
Speaker 4: He talked about is there more pressure on the Dolphins
Speaker 4: this year because of the success of those two teams.
Speaker 6: Here's Coach This question fires me up because I've had
Speaker 6: you know, it's kind of I've been frustrated with myself
Speaker 6: because I don't.
Speaker 3: Think I've really adequately articulated that experience. It has been unbelievable.
Speaker 6: The the support, the excitement, just the general enthusiasm for
Speaker 6: the Dolphins, you know, when I'm at an event that is,
Speaker 6: you know, an organization's pinnacle of working for an entire
Speaker 6: year to get into these playoff games that are hard
Speaker 6: to get to. That by itself has been unbelievable. I've
Speaker 6: tried to share it to with the team as much
Speaker 6: as I can. They know they feel it when they're
Speaker 6: out and about as well.
Speaker 5: So the the.
Speaker 6: Team within this building is very aware and definitely finds
Speaker 6: exuberance from all of the juice that that is in
Speaker 6: South Florida right now.
Speaker 2: Lots of juice.
Speaker 4: How about coaches comments to Eric Spolstra after some of
Speaker 4: these big wins.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they have a text thread. Here's coach.
Speaker 6: The best words I could come up for textan right
Speaker 6: after they won Game seven was something that he knew
Speaker 6: what I was getting at.
Speaker 3: But adversity's opportunity. You I say that to the team
Speaker 3: all the time.
Speaker 6: I really really believe that, and I don't care how
Speaker 6: sick of sick anybody ever gets of hearing it. I
Speaker 6: think it's true to the to what life and professional
Speaker 6: sports and team is all about.
Speaker 3: And you want to talk about a team that has.
Speaker 6: Utilized adversity for their own gain, that those lessons, especially
Speaker 6: now you know, buying large. You know, almost every player
Speaker 6: on our on our team is watching their season, the
Speaker 6: heat season unfold, and it's hard not.
Speaker 3: To, you know, you hear all these people so surprised.
Speaker 6: I feel like there's a sports caster every you know,
Speaker 6: a national sports caster definitely not local, but naturally sportscaster
Speaker 6: every week or every game that's.
Speaker 3: Saying, oh yeah, they have no chance.
Speaker 6: That, you know, is the pinnacle of success in sports
Speaker 6: is a group of individuals working towards a goal and
Speaker 6: not letting anything stand in their way. So they're they're it.
Speaker 6: You know that just for example the last game they
Speaker 6: just won. You know, there's a lot of I to
Speaker 6: be able to look at a sports team and say,
Speaker 6: you know what, I don't necessarily know how they're going
Speaker 6: to do it, but I'm not going to bet against them.
Speaker 6: I think it it's an example for all teams I
Speaker 6: think we're very fortunate to see it firsthand and feel
Speaker 6: like we're indirectly a part of it. But you know,
Speaker 6: I I think it also goes for just people in general.
Speaker 6: I think it's a it's a life lesson that it's
Speaker 6: amazing what you can accomplish when you really, really, really commit.
Speaker 2: So we've heard from Jalen Phillips a lot. Let's go
Speaker 2: back to coach on Jalen Phillips.
Speaker 4: Brian Baldinger in the house today asking great questions here
Speaker 4: he is talking about the development and the arc of
Speaker 4: Jalen Phillips, and here's Coach's answer.
Speaker 6: I've seen him practice at a level that's far superior
Speaker 6: than any other level of practice that I've seen from
Speaker 6: him since I've been here.
Speaker 3: So take that for what it's worth. You know, you don't,
Speaker 3: you don't.
Speaker 6: I think it's very important not to get ahead of yourselves.
Speaker 6: It's hard, very hard for people on the outside because
Speaker 6: like you're excited about the team, so you're thinking of September,
Speaker 6: we're thinking a day at a time, And all I
Speaker 6: know is the you know, the last practices I'm seeing
Speaker 6: him have have been the best practices that he's had.
Speaker 3: I think that's very encouraging, you know that. You know.
Speaker 3: One of the things that.
Speaker 6: You know Vic and I shared on his interview was
Speaker 6: his appreciation for that for Jalen in particular, who he
Speaker 6: was very high high on coming out, so very happy
Speaker 6: with where he's at. He is goal oriented, great, great
Speaker 6: human being that has his vision set on what he
Speaker 6: wants to do, and now he's just trying to take
Speaker 6: care of it each and every day.
Speaker 3: And it's cool to watch a young player.
Speaker 6: Not get caught up in September and get more focus
Speaker 6: on June sixth, which is the only day that exists.
Speaker 4: And we'll hear from JP on this as well. But
Speaker 4: how about the element of Chubb and Phillips working together.
Speaker 4: I mentioned it in the OTA notes two weeks ago
Speaker 4: about how those guys spend the entire pre practice working
Speaker 4: on some pass rush hand placement stuff together. You see
Speaker 4: the affinity for one another there. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 4: hear from coach on the pairing of those two and
Speaker 4: how they work together.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I really appreciate you.
Speaker 6: You'll notice it today just in general, they gravitate to
Speaker 6: each other and that to me speaks it speaks of
Speaker 6: everything that I want in a team. I don't want
Speaker 6: players trying to have success in spite of someone. I
Speaker 6: want players competing, making each other better and trying to
Speaker 6: be the best versions of themselves. So they they have been,
Speaker 6: you know, they they want to be a great pair
Speaker 6: and they want to be a part of a great
Speaker 6: defense and they're doing handling that the right way instead
Speaker 6: of just wishing and hoping. They're working the you know
Speaker 6: between coach Fangio, who has you know, coach elite edge player.
Speaker 3: Since I was.
Speaker 6: Before kindergarten maybe then uh, you know with coach slowik
Speaker 6: and and coach Harmon has been helping out that I've
Speaker 6: seen significant gains and improvements.
Speaker 3: On our edge play that I'm that I'm fired up about.
Speaker 6: And you know, all you can do is really position
Speaker 6: yourself to be at your very best for when Pad's
Speaker 6: come on in uh July practice three for that position.
Speaker 6: And that's what I've seen them do, working on footwork,
Speaker 6: hand placement, disruption, the their their handful.
Speaker 3: And that's a good thing, not the.
Speaker 6: Best thing for a practice that you're trying to orchestrate
Speaker 6: some sort of success. What you'd you'd rather practice against
Speaker 6: it than have a surprise come whatever, which is imperative
Speaker 6: for for for really our offense and defense or defense
Speaker 6: needs uh hyper productivity from edge play as well as
Speaker 6: you have to go against productive edge play because the
Speaker 6: really good teams generally have that whether it's a four
Speaker 6: three or three four, and you're gonna have to figure
Speaker 6: out how to how to to execute offense against that.
Speaker 4: Let's ask JP about coaches comments regarding the way he's
Speaker 4: practiced this year.
Speaker 2: Here's Jalen Phillips.
Speaker 5: Oh, I just try to take a day by day.
Speaker 8: I honestly don't think it's been as good as he
Speaker 8: said they were, but I'm just a really hard critic
Speaker 8: on myself and awesome constantly trying to improve. So it's
Speaker 8: been a great offseason so far though. Obviously feeling confident
Speaker 8: and comfortable in the defense, comfortable with the guys, So
Speaker 8: just looking to build on you know, what we did
Speaker 8: last year and well had done so far this offseason.
Speaker 2: And your experience working with Bradley Chubb.
Speaker 5: JP.
Speaker 2: Here's the Dolphins outside linebacker.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I mean we definitely spent a lot of time getting
Speaker 8: closer with each other off the field, and I think
Speaker 8: that just helps on the field. I think when you
Speaker 8: have those relationships with your teammates and it just you know,
Speaker 8: brings up the motivation, makes want to play for them
Speaker 8: even more. So I think it's just iron sharpening and
Speaker 8: iron with us. We're competitive, but you know, we're for
Speaker 8: each other. So whether it's the weight room, whether it's
Speaker 8: off the field with our habits, whether it's out here, like,
Speaker 8: we're always.
Speaker 5: Making sure that we're on point.
Speaker 8: So it's nice to have kind of like an accountability
Speaker 8: brother when it comes to that.
Speaker 4: And why don't you go ahead and tell us about
Speaker 4: the best part of Bradley Chubb's game.
Speaker 5: I mean, he's just he's a baller bro, He's a game.
Speaker 5: His technique is really what I like the most.
Speaker 8: I kind of look out to him when it comes
Speaker 8: to that, honestly, and have him kind of put me
Speaker 8: on games, showing me different techniques and things. So I
Speaker 8: think he's very crafty and obviously physically gifted. So I
Speaker 8: love having him on the opposite side of me for sure.
Speaker 4: And last but not least, you heard him talk about
Speaker 4: technique and fundamentals. Here's his takeaway from what Chubb and
Speaker 4: coach Fangio and just the idea of perfecting technique and
Speaker 4: what it means to him to be sharp with your technique.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, I'm just trying to get everything to
Speaker 8: kind of be muscle memory at this point. I think
Speaker 8: that's kind of the moment when that switch happens, is
Speaker 8: when you know all the things that you're working become
Speaker 8: just second nature, so that when you're playing, not even
Speaker 8: thinking about throwing moves and different doing different things, or
Speaker 8: just going.
Speaker 5: So I think that's kind of what I'm trying to
Speaker 5: get to and what I've been working towards.
Speaker 4: Xavier and Howard has his charity softball game coming up
Speaker 4: on June seventeenth. We asked him about that and why
Speaker 4: maybe baseball softball not his preferred game.
Speaker 1: We'll still recruit, still trying to get some guys that
Speaker 1: come in to all a couple of guys on the
Speaker 1: team coming and other guys around the league, especially on guys.
Speaker 5: From here also in the league. Trying to get the gumbyballs.
Speaker 1: I just want to kiss the ball, really, I don't
Speaker 1: want to beat. I'm scared to get hit by the ball,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to catch it though.
Speaker 4: All right, there you go, tons of media in this podcast.
Speaker 4: You know, practices are short, it's limited. Team periods, So
Speaker 4: not a ton to cover like we get in training camp,
Speaker 4: but I think it's fun to talk about what we
Speaker 4: see on the football field.
Speaker 2: Those are my car keys.
Speaker 4: But let me know you guys, think you guys like
Speaker 4: the style of the podcast kind of incorporating some more
Speaker 4: audio into the mix there as we go along. I
Speaker 4: want to hear from you guys.
Speaker 2: I want to make the show for you guys.
Speaker 4: Really, There's some stuff in here for me always obviously,
Speaker 4: but it is ultimately for you guys, the fans.
Speaker 2: Also want to go ahead and tell you about.
Speaker 4: Tehron Armstead's work over the weekend and really promote what
Speaker 4: he did for that family out in the state of Illinois.
Speaker 2: Go ahead and check out my timeline.
Speaker 4: I retweeted the tweet from toront arms So basically gifted
Speaker 4: a family some transportation for both the children and the parents. There,
Speaker 4: So really cool stuff from Tron Armstead. We back at
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