Speaker 1: To on the move, Going Deep, Speedless Peas Doll From
Speaker 1: the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 1: He's God my hands in the playoffs. What is up,
Speaker 1: Dolphans And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am
Speaker 1: your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, Many Camp
Speaker 1: Day one is in the books and we had a
Speaker 1: busy one breaking down all the action on the field.
Speaker 1: Plus we'll hear from Tua Tounguava Loa, Mike McDaniel, Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle, Davon Hien. We have a damn all star
Speaker 1: team down here and we heard from all of them
Speaker 1: on this beautiful June fourth, this Tuesday. From the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is
Speaker 1: the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 2: Let's kick this off of the story of the day.
Speaker 1: And we do that despite the fact that quite frankly,
Speaker 1: guys and maybe some of you will disagree with me
Speaker 1: here on this, maybe some of you even turn off
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 2: I doubt it as a result of this, but who knows.
Speaker 1: But gosh, I just don't care to get into the
Speaker 1: nitty gritty contract details of all these players, maybe I'm
Speaker 1: the crazy one.
Speaker 2: I just don't think it matters. Why because it's.
Speaker 1: June fourth and the season starts in September. It's conjuring
Speaker 1: up a story out of something that is not a
Speaker 1: story yet because of the day on the calendar two
Speaker 1: was not going anywhere. He said that he feels confident
Speaker 1: something will get done and that should be the end
Speaker 1: of it. Right, That's how I feel. Maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: Maybe you guys do want to hear the beat, try
Speaker 1: to guess the twelve words that describe how to A
Speaker 1: feels about the contract negotiations so far, and maybe there
Speaker 1: is a story there regarding him not being completely thrilled
Speaker 1: about it. That's not what he said, but that was
Speaker 1: kind of the message he portrayed there. But he said
Speaker 1: that he's confident it'll get done by the time they
Speaker 1: get back for camp, So like, is it a story?
Speaker 2: I kind of feel like it's not. Wattle got his bag.
Speaker 1: Tyreek, as we heard today, is very very happy to
Speaker 1: be here in Miami. I just want to address it
Speaker 1: off the top so that we cover it, because I
Speaker 1: do call this the most comprehensive Dolphins podcast in the land.
Speaker 1: But like, we had a lot of football today and
Speaker 1: that's where I want to talk. That's what I want
Speaker 1: to cover here. I think if you're looking for a
Speaker 1: show that has a focus on that, I would recommend
Speaker 1: Kyle at Lockdown Dolphins, as I do for pretty much
Speaker 1: everything else in the Dolphins sphere. He's better than I
Speaker 1: am to contract stuff and he will unpack it since
Speaker 1: he probably didn't have a chance to or I know
Speaker 1: he didn't have a chance to watch practice, so I
Speaker 1: assume he'll get more into that than I will, I'm sure,
Speaker 1: But I think come to this podcast to hear practice
Speaker 1: breakdowns and what I have kind of turned into my own,
Speaker 1: like you know, true crime podcast in terms of the
Speaker 1: storytelling and the sound engineering. Like I've become a big
Speaker 1: fan of that style of podcast, and so that's how
Speaker 1: I cover these practice podcasts with quotes from the day
Speaker 1: that help confirm the things we saw that you guys
Speaker 1: didn't have a chance to see, so that you can
Speaker 1: trust what I'm saying and completely affirm it with what
Speaker 1: the coaches and the players are saying themselves. So I'm
Speaker 1: not going to not cover the contract stuff. I just
Speaker 1: want to put out this disclaimer first, and I'm not
Speaker 1: going to have a whole episode on these topics, which
Speaker 1: again a lot of other shows probably will do that.
Speaker 1: So if it's your prerogative, feel free to go ahead
Speaker 1: and do that. And there's no one way to enjoy
Speaker 1: coverage or your favorite football team. So I'm not saying
Speaker 1: you shouldn't do that. I'm just telling you I don't
Speaker 1: see the value in getting in depth to all that
Speaker 1: stuff beyond just what guys said and where we are
Speaker 1: today on June fourth, when there's no eminent deadline in place. Now,
Speaker 1: Tua did say he's a little bit and he didn't
Speaker 1: use this word, he wouldn't give us the word, but
Speaker 1: I'm going to go with anxious, antsy to get a
Speaker 1: deal done. He wants to be here, and he expressed
Speaker 1: his knowledge of the market and when they talked about
Speaker 1: Jared Goff and basically saying, guys, look, the market is
Speaker 1: what the market is, and that's what dictates what guys
Speaker 1: get and he wants a deal to get done. Maybe
Speaker 1: isn't thrilled that right now at this time it's not
Speaker 1: done yet. Can you blame him? He's a human and
Speaker 1: he's he certainly has grown in terms of the way
Speaker 1: he kind of takes control of I guess everything in
Speaker 1: his life, you know, in his fifth year in the
Speaker 1: National Football League, and he certainly deserves to be paid,
Speaker 1: and he's going to get paid. It's a top ten
Speaker 1: quarterback in the NFL. I argue he was six. I
Speaker 1: would listen to the argument says he's ninth or eights,
Speaker 1: But I digress, and I can understand maybe a hint
Speaker 1: of frustration in that regard. But also, these things tend
Speaker 1: to get done sometime during the summer camp, right training
Speaker 1: camp or preseason, whatever you want to call it, as
Speaker 1: they can be pretty complex. It's lots of language and
Speaker 1: there that has to get sorted out, and it's not
Speaker 1: just a quick document you sign and call it good. Sure,
Speaker 1: Jared Goff did get done, and you can point that
Speaker 1: back at my face and say, well, this got done.
Speaker 1: Why can't another one? Absolutely can and to acknowledge that.
Speaker 1: But he wants to be here. They want him here.
Speaker 1: I just don't see the point in spinning our wheels
Speaker 1: on something that has, you know, a deadline months into
Speaker 1: the future. Maybe that's the benefit of not being tethered
Speaker 1: to numbers and engagement.
Speaker 2: I don't have to put.
Speaker 1: Two a contract talks in the headline because I have
Speaker 1: other priorities here on the podcast. And again, maybe that's
Speaker 1: not what a great show is. Maybe you guys do
Speaker 1: want to hear that, but this isn't the place for that.
Speaker 1: I can just focus on what I think makes a
Speaker 1: good show. I don't have to worry about what I
Speaker 1: think will get the most attention across a national landscape.
Speaker 1: I just want to talk about football. Does that work
Speaker 1: for you, guys? I think you're here for that reason.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and keep it on that topic. I'll
Speaker 1: leave the first take headline stuff to Mike Greenberg and
Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith, Waddell, Wadell what Jalen Waddle also addressed
Speaker 1: his contract. He's obviously thrilled to have gotten paid. Got
Speaker 1: that money you on, as he would say. And then
Speaker 1: there's Tyreek. He addressed his situation as well, said his
Speaker 1: agent will take care of all that stuff. That's what
Speaker 1: makes him great. His job is to go be great
Speaker 1: a football and help the team win, whether it's a restructure,
Speaker 1: whatever that may be. In fact, let's just go ahead
Speaker 1: and hear from Tyreek real quick on how he's feeling.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm doing great, man, I'm feeling fabulous,
Speaker 3: feeling healthy, feeling Bobby's great to be back in Miami
Speaker 3: for another year. So it's amazing, man, to be around
Speaker 3: the guys once again.
Speaker 4: It's a great feeling. As y'all can see.
Speaker 3: I've been all around the world getting my ass torched,
Speaker 3: my kids, but I'm here in Miami, so I'm great
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 4: Man, I'm feeling good.
Speaker 1: The first part is about how he's feeling physically and
Speaker 1: just how his day is going. This one here is
Speaker 1: about the contract, about.
Speaker 3: The contract situation. You know what, I'm gonna let my
Speaker 3: agent do his job. That's his job, man, His job
Speaker 3: is to be great at that. And my job is, obviously,
Speaker 3: you know, to come out here and continue to do
Speaker 3: whatever I can to help this team win, whether that's
Speaker 3: a restructure, whether that's whatever the case may be. You
Speaker 3: feel me, but we want to make sure that it
Speaker 3: benefits both sides. And I want to be able to
Speaker 3: help the team as much as I can, you know.
Speaker 5: And that's it.
Speaker 4: And that's as much as I can say about it.
Speaker 2: I mean, pretty great there.
Speaker 1: He told He told us about to a tongue of
Speaker 1: bi lower that he thinks that tu it gets better
Speaker 1: every year. He's gonna keep getting better. That's what he does.
Speaker 1: And last year was the Pro Bowl. This year is
Speaker 1: the playoff win, and much more so. We good on
Speaker 1: all that, I think we are. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: get into this and start today with surprise, surprise, the
Speaker 1: quarterback position to a tongue. Bailoa was on the field,
Speaker 1: and man.
Speaker 2: He who.
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope a lot of these guys that
Speaker 1: are here watching these practices here in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three are here for a long enough time
Speaker 1: to see post Tua and if there is a couple
Speaker 1: of years the Dolphins don't replace Tua, you know in
Speaker 1: twenty to forty where it's kind of tough. I hope
Speaker 1: they're here long enough to see that, to appreciate what
Speaker 1: we get to watch in practice every day. Because man,
Speaker 1: it was it's so crisp, it's so sharp. It was
Speaker 1: all seven on seven for the quarterback. But you can
Speaker 1: clean a lot from that. We also got commentary from
Speaker 1: the top two receivers, the head coach, the quarterback himself,
Speaker 1: and it's just more of the same from last week
Speaker 1: on this guy. He looks better at everything, and that's
Speaker 1: something that we've been harping on here on draft time
Speaker 1: for a while. Right to a skill set is one
Speaker 1: that ages very well, and you pair that with an
Speaker 1: insatiable work ethic. The result is year over year improvement,
Speaker 1: which in any walk of life is the desired outcome,
Speaker 1: getting better or from what you were previously. And we'll
Speaker 1: hear from McDaniel about Jalen Waddle in a moment. But
Speaker 1: the talent mixed with the hunger is a great combination
Speaker 1: and both those former Bama boys have plenty of that.
Speaker 1: And with Tua again, just surgical and that's all I've
Speaker 1: seen from him this offseason. First off, the way the
Speaker 1: offense looks, just in how it's kind of clicking on
Speaker 1: all cylinders and enveloping new wrinkles to the offense we
Speaker 1: got to see last year. I'm not gonna give you
Speaker 1: guys details on that because that goes against reporting rules,
Speaker 1: but just further incorporation of expanded ideas from what we've
Speaker 1: done in the past and the ability to maximize the
Speaker 1: overplay to what's been successful. So essentially what teams might
Speaker 1: take away there are more and more answers to potential problems.
Speaker 1: All of that that you'll get a chance to see
Speaker 1: in a couple of months when you come out of
Speaker 1: the training camp or when the season starts against the
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars. I think for Tua's purposes, we saw every
Speaker 1: club in the back that he was hitting the stingers
Speaker 1: with a three iron. He was hitting lob shots of
Speaker 1: the sixty degree club. He was driving the ball in
Speaker 1: the middle of the fairway every shot you need. He
Speaker 1: was Scottie Chef. He threw a touchdown to Wattle at
Speaker 1: the back Pileloin or camp Smith was over the top
Speaker 1: of Wattle. Tua throws it way before the whole even
Speaker 1: he's leaving idea and the ball essentially had to be
Speaker 1: placed in who's the now I'm drawn of Blake. Who's
Speaker 1: the bad guy in the movie seven? I know it's
Speaker 1: Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. Who's the one that puts
Speaker 1: the head in the box. Anyway, he had to put
Speaker 1: the ball in the seven box right the ups the
Speaker 1: shipment that I get my golf balls in. I get
Speaker 1: three dozen golf balls every few months that I get
Speaker 1: shipped to my house, and it's like in a little
Speaker 1: eight by ten bucks that's exactly where the football went
Speaker 1: once in the box a touchdown.
Speaker 2: That's when the box Brad Pitt.
Speaker 1: Later he had Hayden Roucci Ricci sorry, working down the
Speaker 1: middle of the field and he feathers this touch throw
Speaker 1: that descends into the bread basket without breaking stride. And
Speaker 1: that's not you know the thing about these throws, like
Speaker 1: these are different players, different speeds, different skill sets, and
Speaker 1: Twoo just has this calibration like, is it my slow
Speaker 1: tight end running free down the middle of the field.
Speaker 1: I'll go ahead and put that ball between the four
Speaker 1: and the two or whatever his number is, Like, can't
Speaker 1: remember the number of the jersey is, or do I
Speaker 1: have to throw the shot a number seventeen who runs
Speaker 1: a four to two forty yard dash down the field,
Speaker 1: I can do that too. He was dotting guys up
Speaker 1: out of the break, and this is where I feel
Speaker 1: like the one percent improvement can dictate. Call it ten
Speaker 1: percent better production, if that makes sense. So we know
Speaker 1: that Tua is one of the best in the game
Speaker 1: and throwing guys right out of the break with the
Speaker 1: balls on them the second they get out of their break,
Speaker 1: hit your landmark, snap off the route, get your eyes
Speaker 1: back to the quarterback because the ball is going to
Speaker 1: be right there because the defender, that's what the separation
Speaker 1: is maximum on the route right out of the break.
Speaker 1: So Tua has always won because he anticipates that throw
Speaker 1: better than anybody else. In times it out better than
Speaker 1: anybody else. But I'm telling you everything is just a
Speaker 1: little bit better. And when I see Jody Fortson pluck one,
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle get one, River Craycraft who also made this
Speaker 1: stellar one handed catch in the corner of the end zone,
Speaker 1: and you'll see that on social In fact, one of
Speaker 1: the shots we got. You can see me at the
Speaker 1: top of the bleachers in the background raising my arms
Speaker 1: because sorry, I started singing the Cougar's fight song when
Speaker 1: he caught that touchdown. I'm not by I'm as a
Speaker 1: team reporter. And the best throw of the entire day
Speaker 1: of my money was this rip to Brayln Sanders where
Speaker 1: he's twenty yards down the field comes out of the
Speaker 1: break and the ball just pops the pads and he
Speaker 1: body catches this one right. And typically you want to
Speaker 1: get your hands turned over and catch it with your hands,
Speaker 1: but sometimes the ball gets into your gut. You kind
Speaker 1: of have to body catch it and from the top
Speaker 1: row of the bleachers where I'm cheering the WSU fight song,
Speaker 1: fifty yards away from the players on the field. In
Speaker 1: addition to being up that high, you could hear the
Speaker 1: thing pop the pads and that might seem innocuous to you,
Speaker 1: but Tua hasn't done that in the past. That's not
Speaker 1: usually a to a throw. Usually it's a feathered, layered
Speaker 1: throw that kind of runs the guy into space. But
Speaker 1: this was a stick a shot into a point that
Speaker 1: just popped the pads and put it on him right
Speaker 1: when he needs it. Now, I need the ball right now,
Speaker 1: put it on me. That's exactly what Tua did to
Speaker 1: put in Sanders for a big, big play. So if
Speaker 1: he's adding that to his game, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's like getting thirty more yards in your drive. And
Speaker 1: he also said he feels more nimble, lighter on his feet. Again,
Speaker 1: it's a beautiful thing when your twenty six year old
Speaker 1: quarterback continues to improve his craft. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: take our first break right there. Come back out of
Speaker 1: the break on the other side, and here from Tua
Speaker 1: on what it's been like working with John Beck back
Speaker 1: here a segment two Draft Time podcast covering Day one
Speaker 1: of Mini Camp twenty twenty four. Picking it back up
Speaker 1: here I left off the other side talking about some
Speaker 1: audio clips here from Tua Toungua Bai Looa. Again, if
Speaker 1: you guys want to go watch the entire media availability,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's up on the YouTube channel by now.
Speaker 1: But I want to focus on the football stuff that
Speaker 1: he talked about. And I'm very glad that I got
Speaker 1: the last question of the day in because I wanted
Speaker 1: to follow up on this first first one here that
Speaker 1: we're going to play, talking about what he's been working
Speaker 1: on with John Beck in his private quarterback.
Speaker 6: Coach, sort of using my hips, getting my hips more
Speaker 6: involved with my throwing, and sort of the rubber band theory.
Speaker 6: If you guys know about that, you know about it.
Speaker 1: And Tua did address the training and the weight loss
Speaker 1: this off season and saying that he wants to be
Speaker 1: more nimble, a little bit more capable of making plays
Speaker 1: off script. A couple of the focuses that.
Speaker 2: I mean they were obvious.
Speaker 1: I mean we knew what he wanted to get better at,
Speaker 1: and I mean a little bit more of that too,
Speaker 1: is the more pop and the zip, and I mean
Speaker 1: I keep saying, but this guy just came back and
Speaker 1: got better, just like he does every off season.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and hear from him again.
Speaker 1: When you heard him talk about the rubber band theory there,
Speaker 1: I asked him, what's what does that do? How is
Speaker 1: that applicable for football improvement? Here?
Speaker 6: Is too on just that the football benefit to the
Speaker 6: rubber band theory. Its seamless when you throw, so your
Speaker 6: hips go before your upper body and then it's sort
Speaker 6: of like when you release it, it just snaps, so
Speaker 6: just a flick of the wrist, but that ball takes
Speaker 6: off for you.
Speaker 1: So I thought, again, really really good answer there, and
Speaker 1: it jizz with what we've talked about this offseason. Right,
Speaker 1: he's incorporating a tighter, more compressed throwing angles, and that
Speaker 1: is basically the rubber band theory is, you know, you
Speaker 1: maximize the elasticity of the rubber band and it creates
Speaker 1: more pop, more drive, more length, all that stuff and
Speaker 1: using the hips that makes it all tracks. It all
Speaker 1: tracks everything we've talked about here on the show. I
Speaker 1: think Chris Kaufman talked about this with Tua incorporating his
Speaker 1: hips and news mechanics a little bit more. It's all there.
Speaker 1: It's all out there now we can all see it.
Speaker 1: And if you go back to pre practice, McDaniel addressed
Speaker 1: not just that with Tua, but the offense as a
Speaker 1: whole in your number three evolving their game and getting
Speaker 1: also even better.
Speaker 7: We've had a tremendous offseason with regard to developing certain
Speaker 7: things within our offense, and two has done a great
Speaker 7: job developing on some stuff that we've asked him to do.
Speaker 7: So if there's more development live action today, awesome.
Speaker 5: If there's not, all just as well.
Speaker 1: I just think that it's apparent again we have the
Speaker 1: answers what we were looking for. He's clearly worked on
Speaker 1: the the movement skills, the creation off the off script,
Speaker 1: and also the arm strength and just making things more
Speaker 1: seamless and a quicker release.
Speaker 2: All that stuff is part of his game now. That
Speaker 2: just looks really really good.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and talk about receivers, tight ends and
Speaker 1: backs of skill players. He just kept finding all of them.
Speaker 1: I mentioned the big play to Brolin. Sanders also had
Speaker 1: another big play layer in practice, but also had a
Speaker 1: bad drop that would have been a big play. That's
Speaker 1: just kind of who he's been so far in his career.
Speaker 1: Early on, Malik Washington continues to impress. Had a nice
Speaker 1: little catch and run in mid red zone where he
Speaker 1: sets up a block with one man in space and
Speaker 1: got around the potential tackler for a touchdown. I just
Speaker 1: love what he can do to turn a short gain
Speaker 1: into a significant one.
Speaker 2: And then there was Jalen.
Speaker 1: Waddle, who what a ballplayer this guy is. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and start with Waddle and what he worked on
Speaker 1: this offseason with his personal training.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, a lot of things.
Speaker 8: The quick game, something that was going to emphasize. I
Speaker 8: felt like I need to work on more in the offseason.
Speaker 8: So something that we really emphasised that on me and
Speaker 8: my trainer at Goldfee my guy, So, yeah, been.
Speaker 1: Working and I asked him about the workout videos that
Speaker 1: he's been working on. That's what he told me there.
Speaker 1: So I thought that was interesting. I was hoping to
Speaker 1: hear him talk a little about hands catching, but we didn't
Speaker 1: get to that point. But before practice, McDaniel also expressed
Speaker 1: the feeling about Wattle and how he works.
Speaker 7: It's been a really cool process with with Jalen, just
Speaker 7: because you know, I got involved in his career, got
Speaker 7: to start coaching him after he had one hundred reception
Speaker 7: rookie year, and you know these it was early on
Speaker 7: that I could tell that this guy has, you know,
Speaker 7: unique skills to play at a high level, really across
Speaker 7: the board, unique slot route running, you know, full field speed,
Speaker 7: playmaking ability, all that.
Speaker 5: But then year around him you see the competitor.
Speaker 7: He's such a great human being, but you know, the
Speaker 7: the drive for greatness is real for him. I know
Speaker 7: last year, I guess from a statistical standpoint, measured against
Speaker 7: the year before, may have been.
Speaker 5: Dip in numbers.
Speaker 7: However, I think his play had improved from the year before.
Speaker 7: I think he had an unbelievable offseason that you know,
Speaker 7: there was a couple injury blips on the radar that kind.
Speaker 5: Of kept him from his game.
Speaker 7: But I think he's continuing to develop, which is great
Speaker 7: news for the Miami Dolphins because I think he's a
Speaker 7: big time player that's hungry and those are great, great
Speaker 7: things for fans to watch and organizations to have on
Speaker 7: their team.
Speaker 1: Kialen made so many plays in this practice, you just
Speaker 1: can't cover him with one guy. Quite frankly, I thought
Speaker 1: the one rep that someone actually mirrored his route was
Speaker 1: Cam Smith. On a route going back to the quarterback
Speaker 1: on a comeback where he squad and showed good recognition
Speaker 1: and change a direction which always jumps off the you know,
Speaker 1: off the practice field when I watch him in individual drills.
Speaker 1: But when it comes to the team period, that's where
Speaker 1: things kind of get crossed up. And I had saran
Speaker 1: Neil who had a massive day with a big pass
Speaker 1: breakup on a throw where he's all over Braxon burials
Speaker 1: from Tua and that might have been like one of
Speaker 1: two Tua incomplete passes on the entire day. And I
Speaker 1: noted this is what we lost to Buffalo last year
Speaker 1: in the finale. You cannot have saran Neil, who's a
Speaker 1: good player, he's a special teamer mostly taking out your
Speaker 1: number three option all by himself. You can't have that
Speaker 1: because Taron Johnson's going to do that. And then some
Speaker 1: more on the additions to the offense in a moment,
Speaker 1: But first a few reps later, Braxton sets up cam
Speaker 1: Smith with a little double move cross face out to
Speaker 1: end and just roasted him and took off for a
Speaker 1: long play. Like I don't know, man, I watch him
Speaker 1: move and fly around the practice field. It looks good,
Speaker 1: but you wonder is there something that hasn't clicked from
Speaker 1: the mental standpoint that allows him to play that fast
Speaker 1: when it comes to team drills to carry over from
Speaker 1: the individual wil drills went through the exact.
Speaker 2: Same thing with no Iguinogny.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to call it the same situation yet,
Speaker 1: but it is similar in that regard. I just I
Speaker 1: think there's some good, some bad, and I think the
Speaker 1: bad right now probably outweighs the good. But I do
Speaker 1: want to see those physical traits get maximized at some
Speaker 1: point because if it does, it looks really really good.
Speaker 1: So waddle back to the offense. He caught contested touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He made one play on a back shoulder throw from
Speaker 1: Mike White where he adjusted snatched it away from his
Speaker 1: frame while diving to the ground to make that catch.
Speaker 1: He looks to me more comfortable and how he receives
Speaker 1: the football and just looks like a superstar receive. That's
Speaker 1: why I wanted to ask him about the hands catching,
Speaker 1: because it looked better to me on the practice field today,
Speaker 1: the one time I had a chance to get to
Speaker 1: get a good look at him out here at OTAs.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and hear from his teammate Tyreek Hill
Speaker 1: on the development of Gylan Waddle and where he's come
Speaker 1: from his first year in the league or first year
Speaker 1: with Tyreek Hill and year number two to now heading
Speaker 1: into year number four.
Speaker 4: It's great.
Speaker 3: It's been awesome man Like just to see his just
Speaker 3: like his whole development from where he's come from. Because
Speaker 3: when I first got here, there were a lot of
Speaker 3: things that ne to be clean and cleaned up. And
Speaker 3: I was the same way too, though young pup, very explosive, fast,
Speaker 3: could move with some of the best on But as
Speaker 3: far as with Jalen, he's done a great job of
Speaker 3: you know, taking on like some of the things what
Speaker 3: I've been telling them. And we have such a tremendous
Speaker 3: receiver coach in West Worker that.
Speaker 4: He's been listening to him also. So just just to
Speaker 4: see him.
Speaker 3: Get paid, just to see him, you know, get recognized
Speaker 3: as one of the top guys in this league is awesome, man.
Speaker 3: So it's fun. So now his new now his new
Speaker 3: nickname for me is twenty eight. Every time I see him,
Speaker 3: I say, what's up twenty eight?
Speaker 1: So so we know about all those superstars, Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and talk about the tight end position. That could
Speaker 1: have a lot to a lot to chew on this
Speaker 1: season because I alluded to McDaniel addressing the development of
Speaker 1: his offense back in his pre practice press conference Say
Speaker 1: that twelve times fast. He was asked about the tight
Speaker 1: end position and what the additions of John hu and
Speaker 1: Jody Fortson a little bit different than what they have
Speaker 1: with obviously Durham Smyth's and Julian Hill and for sure
Speaker 1: Tyler Croft last season in terms of speed and tackle breaking.
Speaker 1: Here's McDaniel on the thinking behind those signings. I just
Speaker 1: love the overall message here on top of what we
Speaker 1: have now at the tight end spot.
Speaker 7: Some people think that there's just whatever it was, it
Speaker 7: will always be. You know, I think much of NFL
Speaker 7: offense you're making best with the resources available and playing
Speaker 7: to people's skill sets when you are afforded an opportunity
Speaker 7: to have people of different skill sets, you know. You know,
Speaker 7: I've been fortunate enough in my career to playing within
Speaker 7: the same system, have all sorts of different attributes had.
Speaker 7: You know, there's a time that I was on a
Speaker 7: team that had the leading tight end in the in
Speaker 7: the NFL. You know, So I think you're always just
Speaker 7: finding ways to make your team better. And I think,
Speaker 7: you know, with the proven history of the the attention
Speaker 7: that some of the other guys in our offense get,
Speaker 7: I think that for a defense to fully defend the
Speaker 7: entire field, you know, those those couple guys along with
Speaker 7: the whole group are really work and take advantage of
Speaker 7: that because there's opportunities there for sure.
Speaker 1: And Jody Fortson continues to just it kind of reminds
Speaker 1: me of Eric Azuokama, And I don't really know how
Speaker 1: to describe it because it just looks different, like the length.
Speaker 1: I keep going back to the go go Gadget reference
Speaker 1: because their length really stands out. Among Malik Washington and
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle, Jody Fortson's length is real, man.
Speaker 1: I saw him sort of box out Jordan Colbert on
Speaker 1: a red zone rep and none of these safeties can
Speaker 1: match his size and the linebackers can't run with him.
Speaker 1: His length and ability to sort of have that go
Speaker 1: go gadget catching footballs off of his frame, it just
Speaker 1: serves to increase the ability to attack leverage. Like if
Speaker 1: you want to line up inside and we're gonna throw
Speaker 1: a speed out off of the break, well, now I've
Speaker 1: got six more inches to work with because I've got
Speaker 1: long armed that can go out and pluck that football.
Speaker 1: It just gives you more room to attack in the
Speaker 1: tightest area of the field down on the end zone.
Speaker 1: And gosh, Toua was painting the corners like Jamie Moyer.
Speaker 1: That's a Mariner's throwback for you, guys. I thought he
Speaker 1: played for a bunch of teams over a twenty seven
Speaker 1: year major league career, but he was throwing those footballs
Speaker 1: right where they had to be, and not even Angel
Speaker 1: Hernandez could miss those calls.
Speaker 2: They were perfect.
Speaker 1: Also saw Jody ketch a pass and open it up
Speaker 1: a little bit and run on the open field for
Speaker 1: a long catch and run. I'm telling you, guys, if
Speaker 1: he stays healthy, he's a big piece of this offense.
Speaker 1: I had this conversation with Marcel and Cam Wolfs today
Speaker 1: and we were like talking about tight ends and they
Speaker 1: were like, well, Mike Kasiki was one of the guys
Speaker 1: that you know, kind of like, was was Guziki actually good?
Speaker 2: Because is he good? I don't think he's that good.
Speaker 1: I think forts is a better player. Just gonna go
Speaker 1: ahead put it out there. These better player if he
Speaker 1: stays healthy. You know who else is great after the catch?
Speaker 1: Now the tight end who led the NFL in that
Speaker 1: category a year ago. Let's go ahead and hear from
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel on John Hout.
Speaker 7: He's a you know, a fast, dynamic football player. But
Speaker 7: what I love that he he provides is a tonality,
Speaker 7: you know at the point of contact that you know
Speaker 7: he's he has become a master of yak not only
Speaker 7: because of speed, but because of a mindset that I
Speaker 7: think I'm paired with his position coach John Embry. I
Speaker 7: think that's a that's a great working relationship because John Embery,
Speaker 7: uh coaches tight ends not to get tackled or that
Speaker 7: one player can't tackle you, and that's that's John his life.
Speaker 7: So I think it's I think it's adding a a mentality,
Speaker 7: adding a physical presence at the point of attack, for
Speaker 7: you know a lot of times if people want to
Speaker 7: really really give up a bunch of space and and
Speaker 7: sit back there or or drop seven and and and
Speaker 7: with some depth, you can make them pay.
Speaker 5: In a short amount of time.
Speaker 7: And then he can also stretch the field and do
Speaker 7: some cool stuff too. So having all those guys work
Speaker 7: together has been awesome this offseason.
Speaker 1: And John who did lots of that today. First off,
Speaker 1: just a strong presence. I can't tell you how many
Speaker 1: times I saw him catch a tightly contested throw and yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no contact, but I've seen enough of his game
Speaker 1: film to know that's where he bounces off that tackle
Speaker 1: and rips off twelve more yards to put us in
Speaker 1: a field goal range before the half.
Speaker 2: You know, like he's got that kyp of skill set
Speaker 2: in his bag.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I just see I see this
Speaker 1: offense as an embarrassment of riches, multiple options and diverse
Speaker 1: skills that can maximize the result of how teams have
Speaker 1: to defend ten and seventeen. And I don't think that's
Speaker 1: anybody that can actually truly stop those two guys in
Speaker 1: Waddle and Hill. And then I think we have a
Speaker 1: specific purpose with each of the other weapons and how
Speaker 1: those guys can contribute.
Speaker 6: It's just.
Speaker 2: I don't know what you do. I really don't.
Speaker 1: I had the six hundred point goal podcast like a
Speaker 1: month ago. I've only strengthened that belief over the last
Speaker 1: month of watching these guys play football. It's they're so good,
Speaker 1: they are so tough, I mean beyond Reek and Waddle,
Speaker 1: Malik has a role.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: I think Jody Fortson has a role. John new Smith
Speaker 1: has a big role. Devon ah Chan we'll talk about
Speaker 1: him in a second. My goodness, Raheem Moster like Rikazukama's
Speaker 1: in there. Oh yeah, by the way, Odell Beckham is here,
Speaker 1: I haven't even seen that yet. I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think this team looks really really good,
Speaker 1: especially on offense. Let's go ahead and go to Devon
Speaker 1: ah Chan here, who had another awesome day catching the football.
Speaker 1: Let's actually go ahead and take our last break right there.
Speaker 1: Come back on the other side, cover that. The rest
Speaker 1: of the notes from practice. Will also hear again from
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill. All of that and more Draft Time podcast
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 1: Somehow Devon ah Chan looks faster. How does that make sense?
Speaker 1: Because this guy has like what two of the top
Speaker 1: ten speeds in the NFL last year. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and hear from Devon ah Chan on the second year
Speaker 1: in the offense, and maybe there's something to that with
Speaker 1: how much more comfortable he is in the offense six years.
Speaker 9: Always you know it's supposed to been in your first year,
Speaker 9: because you know, your first year when you first come in,
Speaker 9: you know, you knew, you know, you still have just
Speaker 9: you still learned it even through the season. So you know,
Speaker 9: sake ye, I'm way more comfortable than I am last
Speaker 9: year because I feel like, you know, I know enough
Speaker 9: to where I can go in. He can call anything,
Speaker 9: and I know what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: And then I wanted to play this sound bite for
Speaker 1: you guys because I've seen Devon ah Chang catching passes
Speaker 1: from every alignment, from every position, from every depth of
Speaker 1: route like he's he's just looks like a receiver in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways. And so I'm gonna go ahead
Speaker 1: and play back to back sound bites here for you
Speaker 1: when I asked him about, you know, in what ways
Speaker 1: has has been playing receiver or how's the comfortability allowed
Speaker 1: you to expand your role in the offense as a receiver.
Speaker 1: And then also are you taking from the guys that
Speaker 1: are here because you have some of the world class
Speaker 1: best receivers in the world on your team.
Speaker 2: Here's Devon ah Chan back to back clips.
Speaker 9: Yeah, man, most likely you know just me no lining
Speaker 9: up a different positions as far As, like you know,
Speaker 9: receiver of routes and stuf. So that's something that we're
Speaker 9: doing different this year. So that's something that I've been
Speaker 9: doing his offseason. Oh yeah, like you said, like you said,
Speaker 9: I got got some of the best receivers in the
Speaker 9: room here Ocia. You know when they was you know,
Speaker 9: I was going out there with the running rouse with them,
Speaker 9: you know when it wasn't here.
Speaker 4: So I did that with them.
Speaker 9: So basically what night you know, like like you said,
Speaker 9: like come on, our receiver room is you know, one
Speaker 9: of the greatest. So I mean, if I want to
Speaker 9: do the stuff that they want me to do, I
Speaker 9: might as well, like you know, take tips to learn
Speaker 9: from him.
Speaker 1: So yeah, he was running routes with Tyreek and Jalen
Speaker 1: right like duh. Obviously that made him better. Okay, some
Speaker 1: final notes here on the rest of the positions. Offensive line,
Speaker 1: I thought Aaron Brewer had an awesome day. There was
Speaker 1: a rapper he got displacement on the nose tackle well
Speaker 1: I think was Brandon Peeley driving him off the football
Speaker 1: and created a big gap. Working alongside Lea Mikenberg and
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson to completely erase the right side of the
Speaker 1: Dolphins defensive line or I guess their left side. Austin
Speaker 1: Jackson continues to be one of the best in the
Speaker 1: league at that same idea, and you know, the passing
Speaker 1: game kind of takes care of pass prob. But I
Speaker 1: didn't see him have any struggles of getting guys to
Speaker 1: the ground that we're trying to bend the corner around
Speaker 1: him or cut back across the face. Austin just looks
Speaker 1: apart again this year. He's gonna be fantastic for us.
Speaker 1: A couple of notes on guys that got worked today.
Speaker 1: I thought the two UDFA O lineman Andrew mayer Meyer
Speaker 1: and Matthew Jones kind of got the kind of got
Speaker 1: their their lunching a little bit Byron Mattos is a
Speaker 1: guy that is intriguing to me. We're gonna hear from
Speaker 1: him on the podcast sometime this summer. He did an
Speaker 1: interview with me at Media Day that was really good,
Speaker 1: but he had one of those like engulfing blocks where
Speaker 1: the guy kind of disappears underneath him. He is some
Speaker 1: kind of specimen. Speaking of specimen, Patrick Paul looks good.
Speaker 1: I had a rep where he's you know, playing left
Speaker 1: tackle obviously and he flattens a wide nine, like he
Speaker 1: takes the wide nine all the way to the ground.
Speaker 1: Shouldn't do that in practice, but he did it. And
Speaker 1: I'm telling you guys, this guy can flat out play.
Speaker 1: There was a play where Malik h Washington breaks attack
Speaker 1: on Ethan Bonner in a one on one situation for
Speaker 1: a touchdown. I'll catch and run, but it was because
Speaker 1: Patrick Paul got out wide and wiped out the corner
Speaker 1: for him to get that edge. Like he is getting
Speaker 1: off the football, he's finding his target, he's squaring it up,
Speaker 1: and he's putting those guys on the ground. On defense,
Speaker 1: Zach Seeler had a rep where and this is just
Speaker 1: Zach be and Zach where he reset Rob Jones two
Speaker 1: yards into the backfield then rejected a pass and kind
Speaker 1: of chirped about a little bit. I'm sure the offensive
Speaker 1: line didn't love hearing that. Butnito Jones, I thought had
Speaker 1: a pretty good day of work. Did the first time
Speaker 1: I saw him out there working. And he's very hard
Speaker 1: to miss because he is large in the midsection, if
Speaker 1: you will. He had some good work dropping up some
Speaker 1: or dropping some ball carries at Lascarridge and earning lots
Speaker 1: of DAPs from Austin Clark. Brandon Peely had a run
Speaker 1: stuff and practice that I thought was pretty impressive. Chop
Speaker 1: Robinson ruined yet another play by beating everybody off the snap.
Speaker 1: He burns around the edge and wins the corner and
Speaker 1: Mike White just throws the ball over the entire field
Speaker 1: and the defense just to kill the play, just to survive.
Speaker 1: Quentin Bell, you guys might remember that name from last
Speaker 1: year at Hard Knocks. He was the one that always
Speaker 1: got credit for the way he would help the defense
Speaker 1: get good looks for what the opposing defense is going
Speaker 1: to present.
Speaker 2: He was awesome in practice.
Speaker 1: He blew up a now throw a quick screen to
Speaker 1: Malik Washington, he beats a block and shuts down a
Speaker 1: run on the inside. He got lots of love from
Speaker 1: the coaching staff today and also sure for that practice
Speaker 1: squad work He has popped out here so far.
Speaker 2: And O T A. S.
Speaker 1: Saran Neil was everywhere, which is obviously great to see.
Speaker 1: Javon Holland had some great rangy reps where he got
Speaker 1: to places before the offense did. And Chuck plays down
Speaker 1: and I want to go ahead and conclude the podcast. Well,
Speaker 1: I've got two more things for you here. One audio
Speaker 1: SoundBite from Tyreek Hill, and the second part is gonna
Speaker 1: be the best part of the podcast of the entire day,
Speaker 1: Saven the best for last. Let's go ahead and hear
Speaker 1: first though from Tyreek.
Speaker 3: Hill, ensuring I'm a dolphin for life. That's number one man,
Speaker 3: that's prior to number one man. But this is obviously
Speaker 3: the best situation for myself and my and and the family.
Speaker 4: I don't think it could get any better, you.
Speaker 3: Know, whether it's you know, just to live in establishment
Speaker 3: in the state, the taxes is just everything, the weather
Speaker 3: just it's just everything that comes with just.
Speaker 4: Living in Miami is just beautiful, man.
Speaker 3: So we love it and it's awesome, man, just to
Speaker 3: be here.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: Coaches are a wonderful teammates a wonderful man.
Speaker 4: And I'm like twining in fight from the Bahamas.
Speaker 3: So I can just go to Baja Mare anytime I
Speaker 3: want to, man, and do what I gotta do.
Speaker 1: Feel So, you hear this audible yelling coming from the field,
Speaker 1: and I hear Omar.
Speaker 2: I'm like, what the hell omar?
Speaker 1: And I look down and there is Jalen Phillips running
Speaker 1: onto the field in a good casual jog a run,
Speaker 1: and he said, am I limping? Everyone quite enjoyed that. So,
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips, you are an elite pass rusher. You're an
Speaker 1: elite human being, and you are now clowning Omar Kelly,
Speaker 1: so therefore you are the fan favorite. All right, good
Speaker 1: stuff there, fun podcast. Let's go ahead and call the show.
Speaker 1: We're gonna come back tomorrow and do it all over
Speaker 1: again Thursday. We'll see if we're on the field. I
Speaker 1: don't know if we are are yet not, but we'll
Speaker 1: have plenty of content for you guys. I have so
Speaker 1: many more soundbites I want to play for you that
Speaker 1: I wanted to just kind of push off till later
Speaker 1: in the week because we have so much on this
Speaker 1: show with Tua, Reek and Waddle all talking today, so
Speaker 1: all that to look forward to, and then we go
Speaker 1: to summer break next week. So we'll talk about that
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