WEBVTT - Drive Time: Minicamp 2024 Day 1 Recap 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:05.960 To on the move, Going Deep, Speedless Peas Doll From 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:10.400 the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:14.680 This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:25.919 He's God my hands in the playoffs. What is up, 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:29.800 Dolphans And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:32.720 your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, Many Camp 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:35.000 Day one is in the books and we had a 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:37.560 busy one breaking down all the action on the field. 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:41.200 Plus we'll hear from Tua Tounguava Loa, Mike McDaniel, Tyreek Hill, 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:44.360 Jalen Waddle, Davon Hien. We have a damn all star 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:46.600 team down here and we heard from all of them 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:50.320 on this beautiful June fourth, this Tuesday. From the Baptist 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:54.400 Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:57.320 the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:57.920 --> 0:00:59.560 Let's kick this off of the story of the day. 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:01.880 And we do that despite the fact that quite frankly, 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:04.400 guys and maybe some of you will disagree with me 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:06.760 here on this, maybe some of you even turn off 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:07.240 the show. 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:09.640 I doubt it as a result of this, but who knows. 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.200 But gosh, I just don't care to get into the 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:16.360 nitty gritty contract details of all these players, maybe I'm 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:17.120 the crazy one. 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:20.479 I just don't think it matters. Why because it's. 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:24.000 June fourth and the season starts in September. It's conjuring 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:25.800 up a story out of something that is not a 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:28.959 story yet because of the day on the calendar two 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:31.440 was not going anywhere. He said that he feels confident 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:33.280 something will get done and that should be the end 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:35.720 of it. Right, That's how I feel. Maybe I'm wrong. 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.720 Maybe you guys do want to hear the beat, try 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:42.320 to guess the twelve words that describe how to A 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.479 feels about the contract negotiations so far, and maybe there 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:49.120 is a story there regarding him not being completely thrilled 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:50.840 about it. That's not what he said, but that was 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:54.280 kind of the message he portrayed there. But he said 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:56.400 that he's confident it'll get done by the time they 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:59.000 get back for camp, So like, is it a story? 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:01.480 I kind of feel like it's not. Wattle got his bag. 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:04.120 Tyreek, as we heard today, is very very happy to 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.360 be here in Miami. I just want to address it 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:09.080 off the top so that we cover it, because I 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.920 do call this the most comprehensive Dolphins podcast in the land. 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:13.920 But like, we had a lot of football today and 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:16.799 that's where I want to talk. That's what I want 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:18.800 to cover here. I think if you're looking for a 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:21.200 show that has a focus on that, I would recommend 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:23.480 Kyle at Lockdown Dolphins, as I do for pretty much 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:26.200 everything else in the Dolphins sphere. He's better than I 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:29.119 am to contract stuff and he will unpack it since 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:30.520 he probably didn't have a chance to or I know 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:31.880 he didn't have a chance to watch practice, so I 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:34.480 assume he'll get more into that than I will, I'm sure, 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:37.040 But I think come to this podcast to hear practice 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:41.119 breakdowns and what I have kind of turned into my own, 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:45.560 like you know, true crime podcast in terms of the 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:48.040 storytelling and the sound engineering. Like I've become a big 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.240 fan of that style of podcast, and so that's how 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:53.359 I cover these practice podcasts with quotes from the day 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:55.919 that help confirm the things we saw that you guys 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:57.520 didn't have a chance to see, so that you can 0:02:57.520 --> 0:02:59.840 trust what I'm saying and completely affirm it with what 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:02.040 the coaches and the players are saying themselves. So I'm 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:05.840 not going to not cover the contract stuff. I just 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:07.600 want to put out this disclaimer first, and I'm not 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:10.600 going to have a whole episode on these topics, which 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:13.560 again a lot of other shows probably will do that. 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.880 So if it's your prerogative, feel free to go ahead 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.240 and do that. And there's no one way to enjoy 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:21.680 coverage or your favorite football team. So I'm not saying 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.040 you shouldn't do that. I'm just telling you I don't 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:27.480 see the value in getting in depth to all that 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:31.119 stuff beyond just what guys said and where we are 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:35.560 today on June fourth, when there's no eminent deadline in place. Now, 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.280 Tua did say he's a little bit and he didn't 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:40.520 use this word, he wouldn't give us the word, but 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:42.920 I'm going to go with anxious, antsy to get a 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:45.200 deal done. He wants to be here, and he expressed 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:47.320 his knowledge of the market and when they talked about 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:49.640 Jared Goff and basically saying, guys, look, the market is 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:52.320 what the market is, and that's what dictates what guys 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:54.720 get and he wants a deal to get done. Maybe 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:57.640 isn't thrilled that right now at this time it's not 0:03:57.760 --> 0:03:59.600 done yet. Can you blame him? He's a human and 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:03.280 he's he certainly has grown in terms of the way 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.320 he kind of takes control of I guess everything in 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:08.320 his life, you know, in his fifth year in the 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:11.040 National Football League, and he certainly deserves to be paid, 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.320 and he's going to get paid. It's a top ten 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:15.600 quarterback in the NFL. I argue he was six. I 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:17.520 would listen to the argument says he's ninth or eights, 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:20.279 But I digress, and I can understand maybe a hint 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:23.400 of frustration in that regard. But also, these things tend 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:27.360 to get done sometime during the summer camp, right training 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:29.560 camp or preseason, whatever you want to call it, as 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:31.440 they can be pretty complex. It's lots of language and 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:32.919 there that has to get sorted out, and it's not 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:35.400 just a quick document you sign and call it good. Sure, 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:37.520 Jared Goff did get done, and you can point that 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:39.479 back at my face and say, well, this got done. 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.600 Why can't another one? Absolutely can and to acknowledge that. 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:44.960 But he wants to be here. They want him here. 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:48.440 I just don't see the point in spinning our wheels 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:52.000 on something that has, you know, a deadline months into 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:55.200 the future. Maybe that's the benefit of not being tethered 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:56.880 to numbers and engagement. 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:57.680 I don't have to put. 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.600 Two a contract talks in the headline because I have 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:03.640 other priorities here on the podcast. And again, maybe that's 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:05.480 not what a great show is. Maybe you guys do 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:07.120 want to hear that, but this isn't the place for that. 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:09.440 I can just focus on what I think makes a 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:11.480 good show. I don't have to worry about what I 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:14.520 think will get the most attention across a national landscape. 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:16.760 I just want to talk about football. Does that work 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:18.559 for you, guys? I think you're here for that reason. 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:20.840 Let's go ahead and keep it on that topic. I'll 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:24.440 leave the first take headline stuff to Mike Greenberg and 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:29.160 Stephen A. Smith, Waddell, Wadell what Jalen Waddle also addressed 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:32.320 his contract. He's obviously thrilled to have gotten paid. Got 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:33.920 that money you on, as he would say. And then 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:36.760 there's Tyreek. He addressed his situation as well, said his 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:38.640 agent will take care of all that stuff. That's what 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:40.920 makes him great. His job is to go be great 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:43.400 a football and help the team win, whether it's a restructure, 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:46.039 whatever that may be. In fact, let's just go ahead 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:48.279 and hear from Tyreek real quick on how he's feeling. 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:50.520 You know what I'm doing great, man, I'm feeling fabulous, 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:55.040 feeling healthy, feeling Bobby's great to be back in Miami 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:57.240 for another year. So it's amazing, man, to be around 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:58.120 the guys once again. 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:00.680 It's a great feeling. As y'all can see. 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.159 I've been all around the world getting my ass torched, 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:06.680 my kids, but I'm here in Miami, so I'm great 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:07.120 right now. 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:08.000 Man, I'm feeling good. 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:10.680 The first part is about how he's feeling physically and 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:12.680 just how his day is going. This one here is 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:14.560 about the contract, about. 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:17.480 The contract situation. You know what, I'm gonna let my 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:21.080 agent do his job. That's his job, man, His job 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:23.360 is to be great at that. And my job is, obviously, 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:25.800 you know, to come out here and continue to do 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:30.440 whatever I can to help this team win, whether that's 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.599 a restructure, whether that's whatever the case may be. You 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:35.640 feel me, but we want to make sure that it 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:39.520 benefits both sides. And I want to be able to 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:41.320 help the team as much as I can, you know. 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:41.800 And that's it. 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:43.760 And that's as much as I can say about it. 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.080 I mean, pretty great there. 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:47.480 He told He told us about to a tongue of 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:49.080 bi lower that he thinks that tu it gets better 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.560 every year. He's gonna keep getting better. That's what he does. 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:53.680 And last year was the Pro Bowl. This year is 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:56.440 the playoff win, and much more so. We good on 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:58.200 all that, I think we are. Let's go ahead and 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:00.920 get into this and start today with surprise, surprise, the 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.360 quarterback position to a tongue. Bailoa was on the field, 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:05.200 and man. 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:06.839 He who. 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.200 I hope, I hope a lot of these guys that 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:13.560 are here watching these practices here in twenty twenty four, 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:15.960 twenty twenty three are here for a long enough time 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:18.680 to see post Tua and if there is a couple 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:21.240 of years the Dolphins don't replace Tua, you know in 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:23.720 twenty to forty where it's kind of tough. I hope 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:25.760 they're here long enough to see that, to appreciate what 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:28.960 we get to watch in practice every day. Because man, 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:33.360 it was it's so crisp, it's so sharp. It was 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:35.160 all seven on seven for the quarterback. But you can 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.240 clean a lot from that. We also got commentary from 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.520 the top two receivers, the head coach, the quarterback himself, 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.280 and it's just more of the same from last week 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:45.640 on this guy. He looks better at everything, and that's 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:47.520 something that we've been harping on here on draft time 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:49.720 for a while. Right to a skill set is one 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:52.400 that ages very well, and you pair that with an 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:56.800 insatiable work ethic. The result is year over year improvement, 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:59.440 which in any walk of life is the desired outcome, 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:01.800 getting better or from what you were previously. And we'll 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:04.120 hear from McDaniel about Jalen Waddle in a moment. But 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:07.040 the talent mixed with the hunger is a great combination 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:10.120 and both those former Bama boys have plenty of that. 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.760 And with Tua again, just surgical and that's all I've 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.880 seen from him this offseason. First off, the way the 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:19.400 offense looks, just in how it's kind of clicking on 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.640 all cylinders and enveloping new wrinkles to the offense we 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:24.360 got to see last year. I'm not gonna give you 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:26.760 guys details on that because that goes against reporting rules, 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:30.480 but just further incorporation of expanded ideas from what we've 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:33.760 done in the past and the ability to maximize the 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:37.520 overplay to what's been successful. So essentially what teams might 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:40.800 take away there are more and more answers to potential problems. 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:42.600 All of that that you'll get a chance to see 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:43.719 in a couple of months when you come out of 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.640 the training camp or when the season starts against the 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:50.960 Jacksonville Jaguars. I think for Tua's purposes, we saw every 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:52.840 club in the back that he was hitting the stingers 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:54.959 with a three iron. He was hitting lob shots of 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:56.599 the sixty degree club. He was driving the ball in 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.080 the middle of the fairway every shot you need. He 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:02.000 was Scottie Chef. He threw a touchdown to Wattle at 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.000 the back Pileloin or camp Smith was over the top 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:07.000 of Wattle. Tua throws it way before the whole even 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:10.280 he's leaving idea and the ball essentially had to be 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:15.280 placed in who's the now I'm drawn of Blake. Who's 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:19.400 the bad guy in the movie seven? I know it's 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:21.000 Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. Who's the one that puts 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:23.440 the head in the box. Anyway, he had to put 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.800 the ball in the seven box right the ups the 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:28.520 shipment that I get my golf balls in. I get 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.400 three dozen golf balls every few months that I get 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:32.760 shipped to my house, and it's like in a little 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.200 eight by ten bucks that's exactly where the football went 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:36.439 once in the box a touchdown. 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:37.640 That's when the box Brad Pitt. 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:42.079 Later he had Hayden Roucci Ricci sorry, working down the 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:43.840 middle of the field and he feathers this touch throw 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:47.080 that descends into the bread basket without breaking stride. And 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:49.560 that's not you know the thing about these throws, like 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:51.760 these are different players, different speeds, different skill sets, and 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:54.319 Twoo just has this calibration like, is it my slow 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:56.360 tight end running free down the middle of the field. 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.080 I'll go ahead and put that ball between the four 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:00.160 and the two or whatever his number is, Like, can't 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:01.760 remember the number of the jersey is, or do I 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:03.880 have to throw the shot a number seventeen who runs 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:05.720 a four to two forty yard dash down the field, 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.120 I can do that too. He was dotting guys up 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:09.920 out of the break, and this is where I feel 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:14.160 like the one percent improvement can dictate. Call it ten 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:17.280 percent better production, if that makes sense. So we know 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:19.160 that Tua is one of the best in the game 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:21.480 and throwing guys right out of the break with the 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:23.839 balls on them the second they get out of their break, 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.440 hit your landmark, snap off the route, get your eyes 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:28.000 back to the quarterback because the ball is going to 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.400 be right there because the defender, that's what the separation 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.280 is maximum on the route right out of the break. 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:37.839 So Tua has always won because he anticipates that throw 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:40.120 better than anybody else. In times it out better than 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:43.240 anybody else. But I'm telling you everything is just a 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:47.079 little bit better. And when I see Jody Fortson pluck one, 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:50.439 Jalen Waddle get one, River Craycraft who also made this 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:54.320 stellar one handed catch in the corner of the end zone, 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:56.480 and you'll see that on social In fact, one of 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:58.320 the shots we got. You can see me at the 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:00.520 top of the bleachers in the background raising my arms 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:02.400 because sorry, I started singing the Cougar's fight song when 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:05.080 he caught that touchdown. I'm not by I'm as a 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.559 team reporter. And the best throw of the entire day 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:10.280 of my money was this rip to Brayln Sanders where 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:12.760 he's twenty yards down the field comes out of the 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.040 break and the ball just pops the pads and he 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.920 body catches this one right. And typically you want to 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:19.720 get your hands turned over and catch it with your hands, 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:21.880 but sometimes the ball gets into your gut. You kind 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:24.280 of have to body catch it and from the top 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.320 row of the bleachers where I'm cheering the WSU fight song, 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:31.240 fifty yards away from the players on the field. In 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:34.080 addition to being up that high, you could hear the 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:37.400 thing pop the pads and that might seem innocuous to you, 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:41.320 but Tua hasn't done that in the past. That's not 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:44.840 usually a to a throw. Usually it's a feathered, layered 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:46.600 throw that kind of runs the guy into space. But 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:49.800 this was a stick a shot into a point that 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:52.199 just popped the pads and put it on him right 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:53.920 when he needs it. Now, I need the ball right now, 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:55.920 put it on me. That's exactly what Tua did to 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:57.560 put in Sanders for a big, big play. So if 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.560 he's adding that to his game, you know, I mean, 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:03.000 that's like getting thirty more yards in your drive. And 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:06.080 he also said he feels more nimble, lighter on his feet. Again, 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.840 it's a beautiful thing when your twenty six year old 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.839 quarterback continues to improve his craft. Let's go ahead and 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.040 take our first break right there. Come back out of 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.120 the break on the other side, and here from Tua 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:20.560 on what it's been like working with John Beck back 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:23.800 here a segment two Draft Time podcast covering Day one 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.280 of Mini Camp twenty twenty four. Picking it back up 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.760 here I left off the other side talking about some 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:31.480 audio clips here from Tua Toungua Bai Looa. Again, if 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.640 you guys want to go watch the entire media availability, 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:36.280 I'm sure it's up on the YouTube channel by now. 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:38.280 But I want to focus on the football stuff that 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:40.120 he talked about. And I'm very glad that I got 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:41.880 the last question of the day in because I wanted 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:43.480 to follow up on this first first one here that 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:45.880 we're going to play, talking about what he's been working 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.760 on with John Beck in his private quarterback. 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:52.280 Coach, sort of using my hips, getting my hips more 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:55.640 involved with my throwing, and sort of the rubber band theory. 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:57.360 If you guys know about that, you know about it. 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:00.000 And Tua did address the training and the weight loss 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:02.840 this off season and saying that he wants to be 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:06.000 more nimble, a little bit more capable of making plays 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:09.240 off script. A couple of the focuses that. 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:09.920 I mean they were obvious. 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:11.600 I mean we knew what he wanted to get better at, 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:13.280 and I mean a little bit more of that too, 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:15.559 is the more pop and the zip, and I mean 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:17.560 I keep saying, but this guy just came back and 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:19.840 got better, just like he does every off season. 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:21.240 Let's go ahead and hear from him again. 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:23.720 When you heard him talk about the rubber band theory there, 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:25.520 I asked him, what's what does that do? How is 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:27.880 that applicable for football improvement? Here? 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:30.360 Is too on just that the football benefit to the 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:36.280 rubber band theory. Its seamless when you throw, so your 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:38.720 hips go before your upper body and then it's sort 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:41.160 of like when you release it, it just snaps, so 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:43.480 just a flick of the wrist, but that ball takes 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:43.880 off for you. 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:47.439 So I thought, again, really really good answer there, and 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:50.120 it jizz with what we've talked about this offseason. Right, 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:53.720 he's incorporating a tighter, more compressed throwing angles, and that 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:56.079 is basically the rubber band theory is, you know, you 0:13:56.280 --> 0:14:00.440 maximize the elasticity of the rubber band and it creates 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:03.440 more pop, more drive, more length, all that stuff and 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.160 using the hips that makes it all tracks. It all 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.120 tracks everything we've talked about here on the show. I 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:11.240 think Chris Kaufman talked about this with Tua incorporating his 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:13.320 hips and news mechanics a little bit more. It's all there. 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:15.360 It's all out there now we can all see it. 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:18.600 And if you go back to pre practice, McDaniel addressed 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:21.520 not just that with Tua, but the offense as a 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:24.520 whole in your number three evolving their game and getting 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:25.920 also even better. 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:33.400 We've had a tremendous offseason with regard to developing certain 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:35.960 things within our offense, and two has done a great 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.160 job developing on some stuff that we've asked him to do. 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:44.120 So if there's more development live action today, awesome. 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:45.640 If there's not, all just as well. 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:49.720 I just think that it's apparent again we have the 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:51.840 answers what we were looking for. He's clearly worked on 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:56.640 the the movement skills, the creation off the off script, 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:58.800 and also the arm strength and just making things more 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:00.000 seamless and a quicker release. 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:01.960 All that stuff is part of his game now. That 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:03.480 just looks really really good. 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:06.080 Let's go ahead and talk about receivers, tight ends and 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:08.000 backs of skill players. He just kept finding all of them. 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.120 I mentioned the big play to Brolin. Sanders also had 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:11.880 another big play layer in practice, but also had a 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:14.040 bad drop that would have been a big play. That's 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:15.760 just kind of who he's been so far in his career. 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:19.280 Early on, Malik Washington continues to impress. Had a nice 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:21.000 little catch and run in mid red zone where he 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:23.160 sets up a block with one man in space and 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.600 got around the potential tackler for a touchdown. I just 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:27.240 love what he can do to turn a short gain 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:28.680 into a significant one. 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:30.280 And then there was Jalen. 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:32.160 Waddle, who what a ballplayer this guy is. Let's go 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.440 ahead and start with Waddle and what he worked on 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:36.960 this offseason with his personal training. 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:39.360 Yeah, man, a lot of things. 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:44.600 The quick game, something that was going to emphasize. I 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:47.760 felt like I need to work on more in the offseason. 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:49.760 So something that we really emphasised that on me and 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:53.720 my trainer at Goldfee my guy, So, yeah, been. 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:55.600 Working and I asked him about the workout videos that 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:57.280 he's been working on. That's what he told me there. 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.480 So I thought that was interesting. I was hoping to 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:01.400 hear him talk a little about hands catching, but we didn't 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:04.600 get to that point. But before practice, McDaniel also expressed 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:06.600 the feeling about Wattle and how he works. 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:10.280 It's been a really cool process with with Jalen, just 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:16.280 because you know, I got involved in his career, got 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:19.760 to start coaching him after he had one hundred reception 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:27.080 rookie year, and you know these it was early on 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.560 that I could tell that this guy has, you know, 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:37.240 unique skills to play at a high level, really across 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:43.480 the board, unique slot route running, you know, full field speed, 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:45.160 playmaking ability, all that. 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:50.080 But then year around him you see the competitor. 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:55.080 He's such a great human being, but you know, the 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:59.200 the drive for greatness is real for him. I know 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:04.920 last year, I guess from a statistical standpoint, measured against 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:07.320 the year before, may have been. 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:10.080 Dip in numbers. 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:16.800 However, I think his play had improved from the year before. 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:21.399 I think he had an unbelievable offseason that you know, 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:25.480 there was a couple injury blips on the radar that kind. 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:26.440 Of kept him from his game. 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:31.560 But I think he's continuing to develop, which is great 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:37.960 news for the Miami Dolphins because I think he's a 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:43.919 big time player that's hungry and those are great, great 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:47.960 things for fans to watch and organizations to have on 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:48.320 their team. 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:50.679 Kialen made so many plays in this practice, you just 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.240 can't cover him with one guy. Quite frankly, I thought 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:56.000 the one rep that someone actually mirrored his route was 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:58.400 Cam Smith. On a route going back to the quarterback 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:01.240 on a comeback where he squad and showed good recognition 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:03.639 and change a direction which always jumps off the you know, 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:07.040 off the practice field when I watch him in individual drills. 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:09.840 But when it comes to the team period, that's where 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:12.639 things kind of get crossed up. And I had saran 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:16.400