Speaker 1: Two fires touch stop Waddle knocked into the end zone
Speaker 1: of Miami type broke window. They had to get that
Speaker 1: touchdown on that play, they give it. What is up?
Speaker 1: Dolphans And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: How's it going? Everybody? I am your host Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 1: And on today's show we heard from Dolphins assistant coaches.
Speaker 1: This week, we'll play the audio from that and get
Speaker 1: the details of my key and day with a handful
Speaker 1: of the Dolphins assistant coaching staff plus another signing will
Speaker 1: break down quarterback Chris Traveler's game from somewhere in South Florida.
Speaker 1: This is the Drive Time Podcast. Dolphins want to kick
Speaker 1: off this Friday edition of the Drivetime Podcast by looking
Speaker 1: into new Dolphins quarterback Chris Streveler. And this is a
Speaker 1: pretty interesting player here joining the squad and from just
Speaker 1: gathering some of the reaction from the media around the league,
Speaker 1: there's some belief in s Traveler's upside here among draft
Speaker 1: knicks and beat writers and national coverage guys. And we
Speaker 1: talked in the podcast on Monday about having to find
Speaker 1: a solution at quarterback to whether that's finding one on
Speaker 1: the free agent market, in the draft or retaining Jacoby Brissette.
Speaker 1: But if you could get a player like Straveler in
Speaker 1: here and develop his game and a little bit of
Speaker 1: you know, identifying him as such for the season, and
Speaker 1: that's not to cap his potential there by any means,
Speaker 1: but if you can get him into that role for
Speaker 1: the season and feel good about that, what a boon
Speaker 1: that would be. So another tire in the fire, so
Speaker 1: to speaker and iron in the fire, I should say,
Speaker 1: with Chris Traveler. And he served as the Cardinals backup
Speaker 1: under Colt McCoy for that stretch of games last year
Speaker 1: when Kyler Murray was down, so technically QB three, but
Speaker 1: he has seen some NFL action the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: Not of his passes came last year the rest He
Speaker 1: had seven total rushing attempts for twenty one yards. More
Speaker 1: on that in just one moment in his career seventeen
Speaker 1: twenty five for a buck forty one, a touchdown and
Speaker 1: a pick, and a total of fifty four snaps played
Speaker 1: thirty and twenty four last year, and though he was
Speaker 1: not deployed in this role with the Cardinals in the
Speaker 1: regular season. He's the type of quarterback that can function
Speaker 1: is part of your game plan with specific packages because
Speaker 1: of his very unique running skill set. And we talked
Speaker 1: about fullback John Lovett on the Wednesday podcast and his awesome,
Speaker 1: fun to watch Princeton tape where he's taken direct snaps
Speaker 1: and bowling over defensive backs. That's Streveler at South Dakota,
Speaker 1: and that's Straveler in the Canadian Football League. Like, go
Speaker 1: watch those clips. It's kind of hilarious. I think Josh
Speaker 1: Howtz posts a clip of him just bulldozing some unassuming
Speaker 1: defensive back up there in the Great White North six
Speaker 1: fifteen pound guy, and he packs a real punch. And
Speaker 1: his pro day numbers back in were a four five
Speaker 1: one forty yard dash with a one inch broad jump
Speaker 1: and a thirty eight point five inch vertical with a
Speaker 1: seven point three five three cone time. Those are really good,
Speaker 1: like middle linebacker numbers and for the layman, very very
Speaker 1: very explosive metrics at the quarterback position. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: Kent Lee Platt on the podcast after the combine. He's
Speaker 1: the creator of the Relative Athletics scorecard, which cumulatively measures
Speaker 1: a player's workout numbers and categorizes the best scores by
Speaker 1: position and overall, going back to like you know, N
Speaker 1: seven or something crazy like that. And Cam Newton is
Speaker 1: his number one quarterback ever on that chart who scored
Speaker 1: a perfect ten. And while pro days have traditionally produced
Speaker 1: better numbers in the combine and Traveler did not work
Speaker 1: out the combine that year, but Cam was in the green,
Speaker 1: which is the elite category for every measure with a
Speaker 1: four sixty six three cone for a quarterback at that size. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: it is completely absurd vertical and a one inch broad
Speaker 1: jump lower body explosion. That's the name of the game,
Speaker 1: for every position, for every sport. It all starts in
Speaker 1: the lower half. As Chubbs once said, it's all in
Speaker 1: the hips. That's the play style for Traveler, the power
Speaker 1: running ability. So that alone fascinates me for the possibility
Speaker 1: of incorporating him as an offensive weapon in addition to
Speaker 1: his duties as a full time reserve quarterback. If that
Speaker 1: were how it shook out watching some of his preseason
Speaker 1: work with the Cardinals, you better freaking maintain your rush
Speaker 1: Land integrity because he can hit the top of that
Speaker 1: drop and then get the hell out of there in
Speaker 1: a flash. There's a great moment from this past August
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys where he just hits the top of
Speaker 1: the drop on a third down in three sees a
Speaker 1: lane open up in the middle against you know, man coverage,
Speaker 1: so there's no underneath hook linebacker hanging out, and he
Speaker 1: takes off for like twenty five yards and five of
Speaker 1: those yards were after contact as he just lowers his
Speaker 1: shoulder and like he did in college, like he did
Speaker 1: in the CFL, runs over a defensive back. And you
Speaker 1: go back to his CFL tape, they're throwing passes to
Speaker 1: him like Philly specials, letting him take those quarterback lead
Speaker 1: slash quarterback power snaps, as well as playing a true
Speaker 1: drop back game. And we should mention that the running
Speaker 1: game and the CFL. You know, after thoughts are strong word,
Speaker 1: but they don't use it very often because well, you
Speaker 1: only get three downs. So to call those quarterback runs
Speaker 1: that shows you how much confidence they had in his
Speaker 1: ability to get positive yards and ultimately led to them
Speaker 1: winning a great cup up there under Straveler. That's their
Speaker 1: super Bowl. Something else I think speaks to his athletic ability.
Speaker 1: He spent time with the Ravens and look at the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks the Ravens have developed or attempted to develop under
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. Tyler Huntley this past season successfully in my opinion.
Speaker 1: We know what he can do with his legs in
Speaker 1: the running game. That's what he was a Utah, That's
Speaker 1: what he was as a pro. In relief of Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: Trace mcsolier was drafted there. He was a scramble and
Speaker 1: create type of quarterback at Penn State and in his
Speaker 1: brief cameo there in the National Football League and even
Speaker 1: r G three who came back out of retirement, what's
Speaker 1: the theme there? They wanted athletic quarterbacks who could help
Speaker 1: maintain some semblance of that offense that Lamar Jackson ran.
Speaker 1: And nobody in the National Football League can run the
Speaker 1: same style as Lamar Jackson, but you want to have
Speaker 1: at least comparable analogs. And they always had that. And
Speaker 1: that's where s Traveler wound up at one point his career.
Speaker 1: And just watching more of the Cardinals preseason tape, I
Speaker 1: see a triple option reverse on tape. He's a trigger man.
Speaker 1: I see him dropping a dime over the top of
Speaker 1: a fade route. From about twenty five yards out where
Speaker 1: his receiver stacked his defensive back and he just drops
Speaker 1: that thing right into the elevator shaft and down it
Speaker 1: goes into the bucket. His loan career touchdown pass was
Speaker 1: a jet sweet pop pass where he takes off on
Speaker 1: miss directions. So you get the idea of the skill
Speaker 1: set here, right. You have to go to the CFL
Speaker 1: to get a better grasp of his passing game skill set,
Speaker 1: but even there you see a ton of touchdown runs
Speaker 1: on goal to go situations. Quarterback lead quarterback pilot you
Speaker 1: talked about, but with the arm, there's a lot of dropback,
Speaker 1: see it's not there, and then go off script and
Speaker 1: ad lib. And he was fantastic at that up in
Speaker 1: the Great White North. He can really drive the ball
Speaker 1: to the perimeter. So a big, strong arm, which to
Speaker 1: me is always a nice pairing as far as getting
Speaker 1: a quarterback into your system and working with him and
Speaker 1: developing him to pair that with a good plus running
Speaker 1: skill set, you'll always take a chance on guys like that.
Speaker 1: To me, he's an intriguing player for two reasons here
Speaker 1: for a couple of reasons, with the main two to
Speaker 1: develop him under McDaniel, Smith and Bevil and staff curious
Speaker 1: about that. And then also number two, what he did
Speaker 1: in zone read design quarterback runs from the pistol with
Speaker 1: the motion and misdirection game, there could be a possibility
Speaker 1: of something there with an eye towards some packages you
Speaker 1: can utilize that skill set within. So good stuff there,
Speaker 1: Chris Traveler, another signing here in the month of I'm
Speaker 1: worried for the Miami Dolphins. Let's take a quick break
Speaker 1: here and go back to quite literally my favorite content
Speaker 1: we do here on the Drivetime Podcast. It's almost exclusively
Speaker 1: an in season segment, but today we get to treat
Speaker 1: you to assistant coaches media availability. They met with us
Speaker 1: earlier this week that next Drivetime Podcast with Travis Wingfield
Speaker 1: presented by a donation back here on the Friday edition
Speaker 1: of the Drive Time Podcast. And I am very excited
Speaker 1: about this as I was bi weekly on the in
Speaker 1: season editions of Drive Time to bring you guys assistant
Speaker 1: coaches media and we have a lot to get to here.
Speaker 1: I spoke to almost every single coach. I couldn't quite
Speaker 1: get to everybody. Pat and Sam had a lot of
Speaker 1: the scrum around them throughout the course of the day,
Speaker 1: so I didn't get any audio from Pat and I
Speaker 1: only spoke to Sam or was around Sam for a
Speaker 1: couple of minutes. So we'll go ahead and play the
Speaker 1: entirety of what I have for you guys here, starting
Speaker 1: with Mike McDaniel, who came out and addressed us before
Speaker 1: the assistant coaches came out and met with us. And
Speaker 1: he starts off with a great joke, So American went
Speaker 1: out here, so I couldn't resist, you know. UM, So
Speaker 1: excited UM today for you guys to meet the the
Speaker 1: entire coaching staff. Feel extremely proud, UM and UH and
Speaker 1: blessed to have these men working with me. UM. The
Speaker 1: The biggest thing with with coaches in general, UM that
Speaker 1: shouldn't be lost in all of it, is it's about
Speaker 1: their ability to communicate to players, because it's all about
Speaker 1: the players, really, And that's why I'm so excited about
Speaker 1: the group of guys you guys are about to meet, UM,
Speaker 1: not only for their aptitude in coaching, but really who
Speaker 1: they are as human beings and their ability to connect
Speaker 1: to players. I think will prove the the Miami Dolphins organization.
Speaker 1: UM very proud. Moving forward, UM, Starting with an on
Speaker 1: offense Frank Smith. UM. I couldn't be happier to work
Speaker 1: with us this guy. He's very diligent, very good at
Speaker 1: his job, and a great leader of men that I
Speaker 1: think all the players will really respond to and that
Speaker 1: people will enjoy working for UM. And also very excited
Speaker 1: UM to be working with Josh Boyer. UH. Not only
Speaker 1: is his you know, I hated going against the scheme
Speaker 1: really UM. Not only does he do a great job
Speaker 1: with that, but his ownership of that scheme UM is
Speaker 1: really gonna be awesome moving forward for the Miami Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins and all the players involved. And he's surrounded by
Speaker 1: by outstanding individuals UM that command the respective players. But
Speaker 1: also no UH are are true to the whole vision
Speaker 1: of what coaching should truly be and that's a dedication
Speaker 1: to getting each and every player better, UM, one day
Speaker 1: at a time. So without further ado, I want to
Speaker 1: induce them as fast as possible so you guys can
Speaker 1: get through it, so then we can, I don't know,
Speaker 1: continue our planned Wes Welker versus Pat certain and Sam
Speaker 1: Madison one of the ones that barring old man injury,
Speaker 1: UH hopefully it's a fixture for Miami practices moving forward.
Speaker 1: I believe most of us would pay to see that.
Speaker 1: So he's just joking around there, maybe about the one
Speaker 1: on ones, the old man injury. But let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and kick this off here with let's go to Frank Smith,
Speaker 1: who you heard Coach talk about first. There he did
Speaker 1: us talk about Josh Boyer and hating going against that scheme.
Speaker 1: I asked Boyer about that. We'll come back to that.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and get to Frank Smith here first.
Speaker 1: And first, when I approached Coach Smith, he was answering
Speaker 1: a question from another reporter who had asked about outside
Speaker 1: zone wide zone schemes, and he basically talked about how
Speaker 1: in his coaching career, in his stops they were able
Speaker 1: to adapt to the players they had in their systems,
Speaker 1: and he referenced his time with the Oakland Raiders before
Speaker 1: the move to Las Vegas with Rodney Hudson and Collecchio Assemmibly,
Speaker 1: who are two massive, massive human beings. And you might recall,
Speaker 1: you might not, the Raiders were one of the primary
Speaker 1: gap slash power scheme teams in the NFL those years.
Speaker 1: So it's not just about zone outside zone, the type
Speaker 1: of thing it's about adapting to your scheme. So that
Speaker 1: was a big part of really all these coaches messages
Speaker 1: here on this Wednesday, we spoke to them. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and get back to Frank Smith, her Dolphins offensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: I asked him about what is the one common theme
Speaker 1: across all these players for yourself and all these other
Speaker 1: coaches who have managed to get career years out of
Speaker 1: players so many stops along the way in your guys career,
Speaker 1: what's the key to that? I think that the biggest
Speaker 1: thing that UM collectively us as coaches, I think we're uh.
Speaker 1: Communication skills are really strong, uh. And that starts as listening.
Speaker 1: So I would think that UM listening to your players here,
Speaker 1: hearing what they have to say about what they're doing,
Speaker 1: and also when you're explaining to them, you're listening at
Speaker 1: the same time. So I think that it's a game
Speaker 1: of people, and when you want to win with people,
Speaker 1: it's a two way communication. In the one way, I
Speaker 1: think that's where a lot of art the staff you
Speaker 1: would tell they're really really good communicators and makes our
Speaker 1: process so far been really from that point so UM.
Speaker 1: And that's also holding players to a standard that you're
Speaker 1: gonna hold yourself too. So I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people sometimes it's easy to you know, say one thing
Speaker 1: and not be about it. And I think that's one
Speaker 1: thing here is gonna be. We're gonna try to excel
Speaker 1: in communication and hold ourselves and basically running the program
Speaker 1: to a standard of excellent. Up Next, I wanted to
Speaker 1: ask coach about the idea of the collaboration across the
Speaker 1: staff with his offensive coordinator and run game title, Darryl
Speaker 1: Bevil's passing game title, Coach McDaniel as the play caller,
Speaker 1: and how all of that and the entirety of the
Speaker 1: staff comes together for one ultimate plan. Here's Coach Smith.
Speaker 1: I think the big thing of regardless of whatever title
Speaker 1: you have, because we have a tremendous amount of experience
Speaker 1: on his staff, I think whatever it is is ultimately
Speaker 1: um game playing process, building the offense processes U collaborative
Speaker 1: together as you're looking at UH what they did in
Speaker 1: San Francisco versus UH experiences that I've had different things
Speaker 1: we've done U. Matt Common has a little bit of
Speaker 1: the college perspective John and West for with UH, Mike
Speaker 1: and San Francisco. Bevan his wealth of experience, Eric and
Speaker 1: everywhere he's been. I mean, you look at the staff,
Speaker 1: there's a ton of experiencing different facets, a lot of
Speaker 1: NFL experience, and then um perspective, And I think when
Speaker 1: you have perspective and experience with good guys, guys who
Speaker 1: communicate well, we're gonna build something that is obviously tailored
Speaker 1: to our players. That's gonna hopefully bring out what they
Speaker 1: do well. And I think all those like you could
Speaker 1: do circle back around titles and all that just give
Speaker 1: you know, the wealth of like you know what ever
Speaker 1: whatever for the hiring process. But ultimately it's gonna be
Speaker 1: all of us coming together, putter has together, and make
Speaker 1: sure we get if that's right for the players. Next night,
Speaker 1: I asked coach about playing and sell Florida and recognizing
Speaker 1: the early season temperature as you get in September and
Speaker 1: October and the like. Here's Coach talking about what that
Speaker 1: weather has been like on the other side of the sidelines.
Speaker 1: I've been on the other part of it where the
Speaker 1: team melted when we came here. So in Oakland and
Speaker 1: the fourth quarder we do guys were passing out on
Speaker 1: the sideline. I mean, it was unbelievable and now, that
Speaker 1: was the first thing I thought about when I was
Speaker 1: in the building staring at the stadium, going, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be awesome because now we get to be a
Speaker 1: part of watching them melt uh. So literally that was
Speaker 1: one of the first things that I remember talking to
Speaker 1: Mike about. But I mean, I think it starts with
Speaker 1: you know, ultimately circle back around to what we're trying
Speaker 1: to build here and as a as a program is
Speaker 1: UH standard performance. And the standard performance takes parts every day,
Speaker 1: whether it's inside or outside. And if you have that
Speaker 1: UH measuring stick, the practice field will be so competitive
Speaker 1: that it would be just basically you'll take that from
Speaker 1: out here and to put it on the field so
Speaker 1: as I'm not trying to knock over the table, but
Speaker 1: basically like that is where you want to go. You
Speaker 1: create that practice habits that go onto the field on
Speaker 1: Sundays and Mondays that just make it all worthwhile. And
Speaker 1: the training is really as hard or if not harder
Speaker 1: than the games. You've been watching this here about twenty years.
Speaker 1: I'd say every two years, there's a guy on TD
Speaker 1: that throws up on the opposition self. I know, okay,
Speaker 1: I had I had one guy almost passed out and
Speaker 1: then another one have full body cramps. Goodness, So it
Speaker 1: was it was like, and we're from northern California, so
Speaker 1: we're like, you know, there's nothing you can do because
Speaker 1: you can't simulate this environment. There's so that you have
Speaker 1: coach Frank Smith talking about his experiences here in some
Speaker 1: early season games in South Florida. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: spend this over to the defensive coordinator, Josh Boyer, who
Speaker 1: was asked about the philosophy of building the defense. Is
Speaker 1: it back to front and the way you build a defense?
Speaker 1: Here's coach Boyer, so, I I think basically what you
Speaker 1: do is you try to accumulate good players. That again,
Speaker 1: and there's there's certain guys that are fits for different schemes,
Speaker 1: and you know, you always try to get at guys
Speaker 1: that you feel like you can fit in your scheme
Speaker 1: or have a skill set that will fit in your scheme.
Speaker 1: And I think you take from that pool, you take
Speaker 1: the best players available, and then you kind of retool
Speaker 1: what you're doing from there. And next back to the
Speaker 1: question I asked coach Boyer about what Mike McDaniel said
Speaker 1: about hating going up against this defensive scheme that Bowyer
Speaker 1: has overseen the last couple of years. Here's Josh Boyer
Speaker 1: on how he and McDaniel can kind of help give
Speaker 1: each other eyes on the opposite side of the football.
Speaker 1: It's awesome, you know, because especially when you you get
Speaker 1: firsthand knowledge of a certain scheme or a certain how
Speaker 1: certain type of offense, of why they're installing, what their
Speaker 1: adjustments are. Um, you know, and I I've been in
Speaker 1: such a you know, call it one system type thing
Speaker 1: that the offense has kind of been this and this
Speaker 1: is from afar. You're like, you think this, you think that,
Speaker 1: And sometimes it's like yeah, okay, you were right on that. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is how they do it. And then there's other little,
Speaker 1: um say, little tweaks to how they do it or
Speaker 1: how they teach it to kind of give you a
Speaker 1: knowledge of you know, when you're going up against guys
Speaker 1: that you know for common systems, you're like, okay, when
Speaker 1: you see it on film, you're like, all right, okay,
Speaker 1: that makes sense. Or you know, and again you like
Speaker 1: week the week you go you go in and you
Speaker 1: study guys and like, you know, okay, or and just
Speaker 1: because somebody comes from someplace like Zach Taylor. He's he's
Speaker 1: a great example of like you know, everybody's like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's McVeigh, it's McVeigh. It's like, no, it's not really McVeigh.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Mike Sherman, you know that that's
Speaker 1: his big influence, and like you know, and again they're
Speaker 1: all intertwined and they all have their own little thing
Speaker 1: about him and they all do a great job at it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's been awesome to sit there and talk to Mike
Speaker 1: about his experiences and how he builds an offense and
Speaker 1: the things that he does. There. Did you ever get
Speaker 1: back in the paper for a big hit later on
Speaker 1: after the fresh Now, Josh Biner, that was it? So
Speaker 1: that's that, that's what happened. You can't you can't get
Speaker 1: it because I can't. I can't ever come back in
Speaker 1: the varsity again, like three more years. You have to
Speaker 1: have had something. Oh yeah, yes, yes, yes, so yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I was but like that was the but
Speaker 1: I stopped But to be honest, I stopped looking. I
Speaker 1: want ahead and included that last little note there because
Speaker 1: Coach talked about how when he was a freshman in
Speaker 1: high school he got called upon for a big spot
Speaker 1: in a varsity baseball game and got the game winning knock,
Speaker 1: and he was so pumped to go check the paper
Speaker 1: the next day, and when he did, they put Josh
Speaker 1: Biner in the newspaper. So he never looked at the
Speaker 1: paper again after that. And I know exactly what you're
Speaker 1: talking about, coach, because in our paper it was if
Speaker 1: you get two hits in the game, your name automatically
Speaker 1: goes in the paper. So I was always pumped up
Speaker 1: to check it after that. Luckily it was never Winfield,
Speaker 1: even though I head coach always called me Travis Winfield.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and go back to the offensive side
Speaker 1: of the football now and quarterbacks coach Darryl Bevil, And
Speaker 1: I asked coach, as you heard Frank Smith say earlier,
Speaker 1: about his wealth of experience and knowledge in this game
Speaker 1: as an offensive coordinator going back to two thousand six,
Speaker 1: that's been the role he's been in and now as
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks coach here, he talked a little bit about
Speaker 1: how the offense goes with the quarterback. Thought it was
Speaker 1: very good insight here from coach about how that experience
Speaker 1: helps him in this position at quarterbacks coach and passing
Speaker 1: game coordinator with the Miami Dolphins. Oh, I mean I've
Speaker 1: I've been around UM. I'm very fortunate in my career
Speaker 1: to be around some great quarterbacks you know, also some
Speaker 1: great quarterback coaches. UM as an offensive coordinator never got
Speaker 1: far away from that that spot, you know, I mean
Speaker 1: that's really where the you know, the game has played
Speaker 1: on offense. UM. So I spent a lot of time
Speaker 1: in that room, so a lot of confidence to be
Speaker 1: over the term's quarterback friendly offenses all the time. Where
Speaker 1: does that How would you describe with a quarterback friendly?
Speaker 1: I think it's you know, things that that the one
Speaker 1: of the things that the quarterback does best. And then
Speaker 1: to UM is when you have we were just talking
Speaker 1: about when you have the ability to run the ball.
Speaker 1: You know that that is very quarterback friendly. You know,
Speaker 1: there's UM instead of having you know, seventy five plays
Speaker 1: where pressures on the quarterback every play, you know, now
Speaker 1: you're taking it down to you know, forty five plays
Speaker 1: where you know he has an opportunity to kind of
Speaker 1: take a broad trucking along. Here on the offensive staff
Speaker 1: with assistant head coach and tight ends coach John Embry,
Speaker 1: who I asked the same question, I was to Frank
Speaker 1: Smith about and I listed the names for him and
Speaker 1: he knew each one as I went along the list
Speaker 1: of of Tony Gonzalez, of Chris Cooley, of Cameron Brad
Speaker 1: of Cameron Jordan's or I'm sorry Jordan, Cameron, and as
Speaker 1: well with um more recently George Kittle with the forty niners.
Speaker 1: How do you get that peak performance out of those players?
Speaker 1: What's the common trade across those players? Here's coach embree. Uh,
Speaker 1: the one trade that does go through all of those
Speaker 1: guys because they're all different type players as they love
Speaker 1: football and they're willing, you know, they're willing to let
Speaker 1: me coach them. And you know that's that's a big thing.
Speaker 1: Not everyone wants to be coached because you know, I
Speaker 1: tell those guys, my job is to never be satisfied.
Speaker 1: And so you can come off a big game or
Speaker 1: certain things and then you come in and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, but hey, this isn't you can't keep doing this.
Speaker 1: And and so if you're a person that wants to
Speaker 1: just revel in what just happened, it's not gonna work.
Speaker 1: But if you have that short memory and understand, like, hey,
Speaker 1: you got that twenty four hours to enjoy it. Let
Speaker 1: anyone tell you how great you were, because when you
Speaker 1: come in money, I'm gonna tell you all the things
Speaker 1: you didn't do right and how we got to work
Speaker 1: at it to get better. So if you love football
Speaker 1: and you're a true competitor, that's where and that's what
Speaker 1: all those guys have in common. They're true competitors. They
Speaker 1: don't listen to the outside noise. Like cam Brake. You know,
Speaker 1: I had Cam on the practice squard basically for two years,
Speaker 1: you know, just trying to develop him and teach him in.
Speaker 1: Remember the first time he hit the sled, it hit him,
Speaker 1: you know, but he didn't flinch and he and he
Speaker 1: kept working in grinding the same with Jordan. When I
Speaker 1: got Jordan and Cleveland. It's it's uh when it's it's
Speaker 1: fun for me as a coach. It's probably more fun
Speaker 1: for me as a coach when you get that clay,
Speaker 1: so to speak, and you get to mold it and
Speaker 1: and it's not going to fight you back, and you
Speaker 1: get to help try to create it, helped create something
Speaker 1: that that you know has an opportunity to be special.
Speaker 1: And then all those guys absolutely have a lot of talent.
Speaker 1: You know that that goes without saying. Yeah. So you
Speaker 1: you mentioned love with the game, this is not your
Speaker 1: position group. Have you met Christian Wilkins jet No, I haven't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna love him and he loves he loves football.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit up there. Yeah, he's a he's
Speaker 1: he's a character. But um, I'm sure you got this
Speaker 1: already earlier. But you know, obviously you have some experience
Speaker 1: on coach McDaniel. I've heard all these stories about you know,
Speaker 1: the way he watches tape and the way he puts
Speaker 1: himself in it, just buries himself in the film room
Speaker 1: and kind of comes up with things. Obviously you've watched
Speaker 1: tape with him in your career too. What's what of
Speaker 1: those film sessions? Good? Like, like, what's can you describe
Speaker 1: them for us at all? Um? I'm actually not in
Speaker 1: there while he's doing all of it, but I might
Speaker 1: be in there and while he's doing some of it.
Speaker 1: And you know, Mike is is unbelievably detailed. Uh. I
Speaker 1: think one of the another great trade of his is
Speaker 1: he has great patience and he's not afraid to fail.
Speaker 1: You know, he will tinker and and tries different things.
Speaker 1: I remember the first time we uh did we call
Speaker 1: it spirit motion. It's where a guy basically motions full
Speaker 1: speed and then we do different running place off of it,
Speaker 1: and I think the guys are kind of looking around
Speaker 1: like we're really gonna do this, like he's what's wrong
Speaker 1: with them? And then all of a sudden we're practicing
Speaker 1: and it was working and now they love it, and
Speaker 1: then they nicknamed themselves to spirit bros. So it's like
Speaker 1: only certain guys were getting to do it and the
Speaker 1: other guys wanted to do it. And then you go
Speaker 1: fast forward a year later you got Trent Williams doing it.
Speaker 1: You know, Trent being a spirit bro. So, uh, he
Speaker 1: is very creative and he has great patience, and I
Speaker 1: think you know, when you're creative like that, there's gonna
Speaker 1: be times things don't work. And you know the great
Speaker 1: thing about him is that does and prevent him from
Speaker 1: trying or tweaking or fixing or and doing it. And
Speaker 1: and the thing about what we do when we fail
Speaker 1: and when it doesn't work, it's it's on the biggest
Speaker 1: stage that you can be on, you know, And so
Speaker 1: you have to be able to block out the crowd noise,
Speaker 1: which I think he does a k a Twitter, Instagram,
Speaker 1: all those different things and all that and media and
Speaker 1: and focus and really trust and believe in your plan.
Speaker 1: And I think that Mike has has proven that over
Speaker 1: his career. He trusts and believes in his plan and
Speaker 1: it's landed him in this position. We have two more
Speaker 1: coaches here on the offensive side to cover. We'll go
Speaker 1: ahead and pick it up with Matt apple Bomb, Dolphins
Speaker 1: offensive line coach, and I posed the question that you
Speaker 1: heard Frank Smith talked about earlier with regards to the
Speaker 1: vast experience and different experiences of guys at the college level,
Speaker 1: National Football League level. Here's Matt Applebaum talking about the
Speaker 1: college experience, NFL experience and what it can ultimately do
Speaker 1: for him at this level and this role with the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. I mean, I think, uh, we're all product
Speaker 1: of our experiences, and I try to pull from all
Speaker 1: my experiences in a positive way. So I don't know
Speaker 1: if there's like a you know, a direct correlation that
Speaker 1: I was just in a college program and you know,
Speaker 1: we've got some young guys and maybe we'll play out
Speaker 1: that way, you know, um, maybe from a scheme perspective.
Speaker 1: I mean there's, um, there's some carryover. We ran a
Speaker 1: very pro style attack at BC, but other college jobs
Speaker 1: I had we didn't. And maybe you know, some of
Speaker 1: that stuff can get dabbled in or something like that.
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, I'm one to just try to
Speaker 1: pull from all my experiences and use the moving forward.
Speaker 1: So when you kind of self scout and look at
Speaker 1: what you're inheriting here on the Dolphins offensive line, what
Speaker 1: have you seen so far? From you know, we're it's
Speaker 1: brand new man, you know what I mean. We're all
Speaker 1: just been here for a short order. Uh. Like I said,
Speaker 1: we're trying to do a lot of things. Get to
Speaker 1: know each other, put the scheme together, put the playbook together,
Speaker 1: figure out what we have. Your finger out free, you
Speaker 1: can figure out the draft. So you know, I can't
Speaker 1: give via the type of thorough answer that you deserve
Speaker 1: for that. Um, but I'm excited to work with those guys. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I have watched some and I feel like
Speaker 1: there's some guys in the room that have ability and
Speaker 1: I'm just looking forward to get my hands on. All Right,
Speaker 1: there's coach Apple Bam, let's go ahead and finish up
Speaker 1: on the offensive side before we take a break and
Speaker 1: then get to the defensive coaches on the other side.
Speaker 1: Here with Wes Welker, who I asked about the process
Speaker 1: of the Deebo Samuel position change last year, not position change,
Speaker 1: but maybe rule change to get more handoffs, and how
Speaker 1: that kind of coincided with the Niners offense taking off
Speaker 1: and the winning streak they went on after that as
Speaker 1: a result. How did that kind of plan come to
Speaker 1: fruition with you and the receiver's room, with Deebo Samuel,
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel as the run game coordinator, and the entire
Speaker 1: staff they're working on that, how did it all come together? Well,
Speaker 1: you know there's a few times even last year, especially
Speaker 1: like at New England, um, where we put him in
Speaker 1: the backfield. Uh, a few times. Um, you know it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's a matchup night nightmare, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: I always knew how Bill was about matchups and everything. So, UM,
Speaker 1: you know, when you're on the third down and you
Speaker 1: get her first down and then you go fast and
Speaker 1: you put Devo in the backfield and you're eleven personnel.
Speaker 1: Next thing you know, you're in one personnel and you know,
Speaker 1: and he's pretty much one of the best running backs
Speaker 1: in the league as well. So it's um, it's it's
Speaker 1: really tough on defenses and and matching you up and
Speaker 1: whether they need to go base, whether you go nickel,
Speaker 1: all these different things. It's, um, you know, it really
Speaker 1: messes with defenses as far as that goes. And and
Speaker 1: then uh, we we just kind of built on it.
Speaker 1: And you know, and I think we we had some
Speaker 1: running backs go down and and um, you know, we
Speaker 1: had some uh rookies and stuff like that playing running
Speaker 1: back that you know, maybe weren't ready for those carries
Speaker 1: a game where you know, um, you know Debo's you know,
Speaker 1: it's a big kid, and and uh you know he
Speaker 1: he's a help of player and and um, you know,
Speaker 1: being able to maybe take you know, five to ten
Speaker 1: of those runs um off those young guys plays. How
Speaker 1: much of that can you translate over to here? I
Speaker 1: don't think you brought depot with you. We did. Jeez man,
Speaker 1: what are we gonna do? Uh now, Um, I think
Speaker 1: you you build it around your personnel and you kind
Speaker 1: of build from there. Um. It's not like we drafted
Speaker 1: Debo right off the bat and said, all right, we're
Speaker 1: gonna make him running back. Um, you know, we wanted
Speaker 1: to make him a receiver and build him up as
Speaker 1: a receiver and put him up as a receiver, and
Speaker 1: and then it just kind of happened to um, you know,
Speaker 1: start to move him into running back a little bit.
Speaker 1: So UM, you know, I think it's all about the
Speaker 1: skill sets of your guys and and um, how in
Speaker 1: trouble they are, uh with all those positions. And you
Speaker 1: know Debos, you know, extremely smart kid and UM, but
Speaker 1: you have to build that. You can't sit there and
Speaker 1: start right off the bat. Okay, you're gonna play receiver
Speaker 1: and running back your rookie year or anything like that.
Speaker 1: It's something that happens over time, and you continue to
Speaker 1: work with guys and and prepare them and get them ready.
Speaker 1: And um, some guys can handle that. Some guys can Um.
Speaker 1: You know, Debos was one of those special players that
Speaker 1: I could handle it. What do you see when you
Speaker 1: watch Juliet want Um, I see speed, I see you know,
Speaker 1: the acceleration. I see a passion for the game. I
Speaker 1: see um you know a guy that's that's not scared. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, and and just a heck of a football player.
Speaker 1: And UM, you know anytime, you know, no matter the
Speaker 1: skill set and all those different things, you you've got
Speaker 1: to have a mind for the game, and he definitely
Speaker 1: has that, and you know, I'm looking forward to working
Speaker 1: with them on that. So there you go. Wide receivers
Speaker 1: coach Wes Welker talk about Jalen Waddle and just the
Speaker 1: experience of adapting your scheme for a player and having
Speaker 1: a plan for the player to develop them in certain areas.
Speaker 1: Great stuff there. We're gonna take our last break here
Speaker 1: on this Friday edition of the Drivetime Podcast and come
Speaker 1: back on the other side and get to the rest
Speaker 1: of the defensive assistance. I spoke to Drivetime Podcast, brought
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Speaker 1: here as we get ready to close up the month
Speaker 1: of February and head into March for the scouting Combine,
Speaker 1: ultimately free agency, and then finally the draft in April.
Speaker 1: After that, we go back now to assistant coaches media,
Speaker 1: and I spoke to Dolphins defensive line coach Austin Clark
Speaker 1: and asked him a little bit about Jalen Phillips and
Speaker 1: his rookie season and year number two and what he's
Speaker 1: looking forward to for the second year player in that
Speaker 1: second season, Yeah, I think for him and he would
Speaker 1: tell you, this is becoming a three down player, you know,
Speaker 1: playing a run at a high level, continually to develop
Speaker 1: his past us at multiple spots, um, you know, and
Speaker 1: just becoming more reliable. I think it's it's a hard
Speaker 1: thing to do as a rookie like he did and
Speaker 1: come in and you know see that he had that
Speaker 1: streak of production where he kind of figured it out,
Speaker 1: you know, and I think he was you know, he
Speaker 1: was a little thinged up in preseasons that kind of
Speaker 1: hurt him a little bit. But to have a full
Speaker 1: off season of O T A S you know, build
Speaker 1: on the things he was he was good at and
Speaker 1: then take some of those areas of growth, um and
Speaker 1: and just keep going with him, just focus on him
Speaker 1: throughout O T AS. That's why I think it's nice
Speaker 1: about that stuff and then carry that into training camp
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, play playing every game healthy. You know.
Speaker 1: It was really proud of what he did and how
Speaker 1: hard he plays. You know, this guy plays freaking hard
Speaker 1: and and we're fired up about it. Finished up here
Speaker 1: with coach Clark about the retention of himself and some
Speaker 1: other defensive assistance and just assistance across the entire staff
Speaker 1: and what that says about McDaniel's plan and approach and
Speaker 1: the importance of those relationships and the maintaining of them.
Speaker 1: Here's Coach Clark talking about went back to the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins under a new head coach. Yeah, I would say,
Speaker 1: you know, I was fired up Coach mcgein to give
Speaker 1: me the opportunity personally, because you know, I love this organization,
Speaker 1: love these players, and love the direction that's going. And
Speaker 1: then to to meet him and hear his vision and uh,
Speaker 1: you know the other coaches like them guys over there
Speaker 1: with all those people over there to bring to know
Speaker 1: that there's like phenomenal coaches, players people. I think, you know,
Speaker 1: he's built the hell of his staff and you know,
Speaker 1: not not just like the position coaches, you know, like
Speaker 1: Derek LeBlanc and some of these other guys that keeps
Speaker 1: bringing in here to help out the front and the defense,
Speaker 1: you know, And uh, just fired up about that man
Speaker 1: and really like the vision at at a program and
Speaker 1: lucky as hed to be a part of it. So
Speaker 1: the guys he was talking about, and I apologized some
Speaker 1: of the audio here was Wendy. There was some trains
Speaker 1: and construction, just a lot going on out there. But
Speaker 1: the guys he was talking about where pats are Tan
Speaker 1: and Sam Madison, who again had scrums around them the
Speaker 1: entire time. Let's go ahead and pick it up here
Speaker 1: with Sam Madison, who was asked about, well, what else
Speaker 1: the special opportunity to come back not just by himself
Speaker 1: but with his former counterpart in Lockdown Corner on the
Speaker 1: other side of the field and Pastor Tan. Here's Sam
Speaker 1: Madison talking about that experience and the opportunity they have
Speaker 1: here in South Florida back with the Miami Dolphins. Yeah. Man,
Speaker 1: the only thing we you know, we talked about, like
Speaker 1: I I thought he would h eventually got a college
Speaker 1: head job or college job somewhere, and I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: just to make sure you come back and get me
Speaker 1: to come a coach for you. But uh didn't see
Speaker 1: this coming out of the blue. Um lying on my
Speaker 1: couch and getting ready to go back because we were
Speaker 1: on vacation now and I was I was home and
Speaker 1: my phone just rung at an awkward hour and it
Speaker 1: was coach read So uh, just happy and thankful, you know,
Speaker 1: to be back here in South Florida. But you can
Speaker 1: still be able to come back to an organization that
Speaker 1: I know, that I care about, that I love and
Speaker 1: hopefully being able to help me. Youm in um eventually
Speaker 1: get the best out of their career playing in Nation
Speaker 1: Football games. And Sam Madison will of course were speed
Speaker 1: coaching a pair of very accomplished cornerbacks like himself and
Speaker 1: pass or Tan and xaviing Howard and Byron Jones. What
Speaker 1: does he seeing those two players they have they have it.
Speaker 1: You know, x is definitely one of the tops in
Speaker 1: the league right now. You look at Byron, He's going
Speaker 1: out there heat challenging. You know, our our job that's
Speaker 1: coming here and get those guys better and the guys
Speaker 1: that's behind them and show them a little small things
Speaker 1: that you know, because they've been in the league long enough,
Speaker 1: they understand and know exactly, you know, how to get
Speaker 1: through this season knowing that it's going to be grueling
Speaker 1: and it's totally different. Joe like, uh, you know, this
Speaker 1: is the first year for seventeen games. It was rough,
Speaker 1: you know, and now being able to talk to these
Speaker 1: guys through it, how to get through it, but just
Speaker 1: knowing that every game is going to be that important.
Speaker 1: You can't have a day off, you can't have a
Speaker 1: game all. You know, it's just gonna be fun to
Speaker 1: be able to give them the things that they need
Speaker 1: to be able to go out there and and and
Speaker 1: and help us win football games. But I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: be easy. I'm gonna beat tough. I'm gonna be demanding.
Speaker 1: And that's what they I think they did with expect
Speaker 1: That's what we expected. Mail demanded the best out of
Speaker 1: us each and every day. We demanded the best out
Speaker 1: of each other, each other when we're in practice doing games.
Speaker 1: And that's the same thing that that we've been preaching
Speaker 1: and talking since our kids been a little and seven
Speaker 1: o seven and all those other different things. And that's
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do. No great stuff there from the legend.
Speaker 1: Let's keep it going with another former player here and
Speaker 1: Stephen Gregory, who I asked, what is the benefit for
Speaker 1: you to have both played and coached in a similar system,
Speaker 1: because he played with the Patriots when Josh Boyer coached there,
Speaker 1: and he also coached with the Lions under Matt Patricia
Speaker 1: in a similar scheme. Here's safety's coach Stephen Gregory on
Speaker 1: how that helps him prepare for this job with the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. It definitely helps. No. Obviously, being a player
Speaker 1: back in New England when I was there within this
Speaker 1: system helped me, uh, you know, really develop a good
Speaker 1: knowledge had not only coach the system, to play in
Speaker 1: the system. Uh, kind of feeling really to the players,
Speaker 1: you know what it's like to be in those positions. Uh,
Speaker 1: the communication of terminology, everything that goes with it. And
Speaker 1: then obviously, you know, my time in Detroit was kind
Speaker 1: of running the same system with Matt Patricia there and um,
Speaker 1: you know, getting an opportunity to coach in it and
Speaker 1: then learn all the nuances of different levels of the defense,
Speaker 1: you know, just prepares me to kind of help these
Speaker 1: guys as much as I can. And you know, obviously
Speaker 1: some of the different wrinkles and different things that they've
Speaker 1: adapted and developed over the years, which I learned, you know,
Speaker 1: some more things last year being here. I think it all,
Speaker 1: it all encompasses a good foundation of of trying to
Speaker 1: teach and and develop. Last question here for coach Gregory,
Speaker 1: what do you think you've got in those two impressive
Speaker 1: young safeties and Javon holland Brandon Jones Yeah. Obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: the natural u natural instincts in the the athleticism that
Speaker 1: they bring, the speed at which they played the game
Speaker 1: is uh, are things that you love. Obviously they're still young. Uh,
Speaker 1: they're still young players in their career, and there's still
Speaker 1: so much that they can learn from a formation identification,
Speaker 1: route recognition and the offensive concepts. You know, just being
Speaker 1: able to see things a little bit faster to help them,
Speaker 1: you know, for themselves in a position to make more plays. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, it's exciting. I'm extremely grateful for the opportunity
Speaker 1: to work with those guys, work with this staff or
Speaker 1: with the people that are around this building. Um, I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be something special. And we'll go ahead
Speaker 1: and finish up here with the last coach. I've got
Speaker 1: audio on with Tyrone mackenzie, Dolphins outside linebackers coach, and
Speaker 1: I asked him about his experience with Mike Vrabel, who
Speaker 1: of course was a long time Patriot and played there
Speaker 1: at the same time that Josh Boyer was a coach
Speaker 1: there and had that connection come across as anything that
Speaker 1: he noted for experience within this system to get this
Speaker 1: job here under Josh Boyer. Here's coach Mackenzie, I think
Speaker 1: every everywhere you go is going to be a different system.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody has their own style of it, um.
Speaker 1: So I mean like being with deem Piece, you know,
Speaker 1: and Mike and Tennessee is different from being with uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Appatricia or Matt Eager flu or Wade Phillips
Speaker 1: or here with Josh Boyd because everybody has around down man,
Speaker 1: and so the biggest thing for me, um, it's just
Speaker 1: to get there, understand the standard, understand the schemes that
Speaker 1: you want to run, and kind of take it from there.
Speaker 1: So there you go. Assistant coach Media, a little bit
Speaker 1: of sound bites from most of the guys. Next time,
Speaker 1: I'll go ahead and hit the guys we didn't get
Speaker 1: this time around, and we'll hear from every coach on
Speaker 1: this Dolphins staff until next time. That's gonna be my time.
Speaker 1: We have plenty of content coming your way next week
Speaker 1: from the combine in Indianapolis. You'll want to keep it
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