Speaker 1: Practice, Rolphs factor growing textower. What a win for this
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphin teams. Wow? What is up? Dolphins? And welcome
Speaker 1: to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins
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Speaker 1: How's it going? Everybody Happy Tuesday? I am your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, and I am here to bring you your
Speaker 1: daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show,
Speaker 1: we continue our roster preview series with the offensive line.
Speaker 1: We're gonna break this thing up into two parts because
Speaker 1: we have fifteen guys along the offensive line. We'll get
Speaker 1: into seven of the fifteen guys of that group. The
Speaker 1: same mindset remains here with plenty of change upfront to
Speaker 1: be physical and versatile. Will detail all of that, Plus
Speaker 1: we'll hear from Coach Flores on his Monday media availability
Speaker 1: as well as update you on all the latest around
Speaker 1: Dolphins camp. All of that and more on this two
Speaker 1: day August the fourth edition of the Drive Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: And before we dive into the offensive line preview and
Speaker 1: Coach flores media availability from Monday, a couple of notes
Speaker 1: on the Miami Dolphins roster as our third player has
Speaker 1: come off the COVID nineteen slash reserve list, and linebacker
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker he was removed from that list. Running Back
Speaker 1: Malcolm Perry has been added to the COVID nineteen Slash
Speaker 1: reserve list, and the Dolphins add another defensive back to
Speaker 1: the roster by way of Picasto Nelson Jr. What a name.
Speaker 1: Nelson spent the nineteen season on the Indianapolis Colts practice squad.
Speaker 1: He originally entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent
Speaker 1: out of college with Jacksonville on May the tenth, nineteen.
Speaker 1: He played fifty games at Southern Miss between ten and seventeen.
Speaker 1: He recorded two hundred two tackles there, one d twenty
Speaker 1: of those solo, fifteen passes, defense, five picks, and he
Speaker 1: forced one fumble. As a senior in eighteen, he earned
Speaker 1: honorable mention All Conference USA. So Picasso Nelson Jr. In
Speaker 1: the building, as are the Dolphins in their strength and
Speaker 1: conditioning program. We had tons of content up on the
Speaker 1: website up on socials taking a look at these guys
Speaker 1: doing their conditioning drills, getting some stretching and getting out
Speaker 1: on the football field. And I don't know about you,
Speaker 1: but for me, lifelong Dolphins fan, it feels incredible to
Speaker 1: see those guys back in their jerseys, their awkward colored jerseys,
Speaker 1: their white colored jerseys. And for the three quarterbacks, of course,
Speaker 1: the red jersey, the stop signed jersey. Do not hit
Speaker 1: me with those guys in the red jersey. So we're
Speaker 1: back on the football field getting after it. And among
Speaker 1: that group of Miami Dolphins, fifteen of those guys play
Speaker 1: along the offensive line. We're gonna cut this thing into
Speaker 1: two parts as we continue our roster training camp preview.
Speaker 1: As we swing by the offensive line room, we have
Speaker 1: gone over each part of the offense so far, quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: running backs, receivers, and tight ends. And we finish it
Speaker 1: up up front in the trenches along that offensive line.
Speaker 1: And once again we are going in order of jersey
Speaker 1: number as we spend it forward here to last year's
Speaker 1: undrafted rookie that started ten games. Check that started seven
Speaker 1: games for the Miami Dolphins. He played in seven games,
Speaker 1: and Shock Calhoun as he enters your number two here
Speaker 1: in Miami. He wears number sixty two out of Mississippi State,
Speaker 1: Gonna be twenty four years old. On opening day, he
Speaker 1: played four hundred and seventy one snaps last year on offense,
Speaker 1: thirty four on special teams, and he was in the
Speaker 1: lineup for one hundred and thirty nine run blocking snaps
Speaker 1: and three hundred and thirty two pass blocking snaps on
Speaker 1: which he only surrendered five quarterback hits. Throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the year. Coach Flora's applauded Calhoun, among a few
Speaker 1: other U d f as in last year's crop, for
Speaker 1: the desire to improve and develop on a daily basis.
Speaker 1: He had this to say about Calhoun and the other
Speaker 1: U d f as as part of the question from
Speaker 1: the media availability. He says, Calhoun and I would really
Speaker 1: say of all the undrafted kids, those guys are doing
Speaker 1: a really good job. They're all working hard. They're all
Speaker 1: very eager to learn and to do extra on the
Speaker 1: practice field and in the meetings. They stay late there
Speaker 1: in early they're out there lifting. End quote. And you'll
Speaker 1: hear more of that later in this podcast. For the
Speaker 1: desire for these guys to have a certain criteria, a
Speaker 1: certain mindset to be a Miami Dolphin. So Flora speaks
Speaker 1: that way about Shaq Calhoun as he does the players
Speaker 1: he wants to bring in to this Miami Dolphins program.
Speaker 1: And up next a player that was added last year
Speaker 1: as well, but this one through the draft and third
Speaker 1: round draft pick in twenty nineteen. Michael Dieter played his
Speaker 1: first season last year with the Dolphins enters number two.
Speaker 1: Of course, this season in he wears number sixty three
Speaker 1: out of Wisconsin. Gonna be twenty four years old on
Speaker 1: opening Day. And this guy is playing multiple positions going
Speaker 1: back to college and in the pros. He made fifty
Speaker 1: three consecutive starts in college, didn't miss a single one
Speaker 1: along that Badger's offensive line. Played sixteen games at center
Speaker 1: in college, thirteen at left tackle, and twenty four at
Speaker 1: left guard, the same position he played last year with
Speaker 1: Miami for fifteen games. In his rookie season. He played
Speaker 1: nine hundred and nine offensive snaps, getting a lot of
Speaker 1: experience last year up front on that line, and he
Speaker 1: played sixty one more snaps on special teams, so up
Speaker 1: over one thousand snaps last year. For Jesse Davis and
Speaker 1: Badger's football and offensive lineman, well they go together, like
Speaker 1: pardon this horrible analogy, like Wisconsin and cheese. Technique and
Speaker 1: power are traits. The most of those eleven Badger offensive
Speaker 1: lineman who have been drafted over the last decade all
Speaker 1: feature and if you listen to Duke Mayweather talk about
Speaker 1: offensive line play, he's one of the elite trainers of
Speaker 1: offensive line, one of the foremost opinions on offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: He had this to say about Wisconsin lineman last year,
Speaker 1: as he always has a crop of guys come and
Speaker 1: work out with him and train with him in the
Speaker 1: run up to the draft. Quote. Wisconsin has traditionally done
Speaker 1: a great job of recruiting talent from the high school
Speaker 1: ranks that not only have the physical traits we all
Speaker 1: get enamored with, such as height, length, weight, power, explosion,
Speaker 1: and athleticism, but they find the players that usually have
Speaker 1: a very good base of fundamentals and technique and quote,
Speaker 1: and Dolphins general manager Chris Career he at those comments
Speaker 1: after Miami selected Deeter last April with the seventy pick
Speaker 1: in that twenty nineteen draft quote, just his consistency and toughness,
Speaker 1: Greer says of his desirable traits, It's typical Wisconsin. You
Speaker 1: kind of watch it, you kind of know what you're getting.
Speaker 1: It's kind of the meat and potatoes, not the flash.
Speaker 1: So that's what you appreciate. This guy started fifty three
Speaker 1: consecutive games in that conference, which speaks for itself. He's
Speaker 1: an easy player to evaluate and a great kid as well,
Speaker 1: and Deeter improved on the stretch last year. His numbers
Speaker 1: proved that he didn't allow a sack after the Week
Speaker 1: eleven game against the Buffalo Bills and finished the season
Speaker 1: with his best Pro Football Focus run blocking grade in
Speaker 1: the Week seventeen victory over the New England Patriots. Up
Speaker 1: next on our rundown here is jersey number sixty five,
Speaker 1: Danny Isadora, who has three years in the NFL, entering
Speaker 1: his second with the Miami Dolphins. He's a hometown product,
Speaker 1: went to the University of Miami, gonna be twenty six
Speaker 1: years old on opening day, and again returned back to
Speaker 1: hard Rock Stadium after playing his college ball there with
Speaker 1: the Hurricanes, and he played three games with the Dolphins
Speaker 1: last year after coming over in a September trade from
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings, but he only played one twenty seven
Speaker 1: snaps and those three games because his season was cut
Speaker 1: short with an injury. But he did say the best
Speaker 1: for last in that third game against the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: with an eight three point six PFF pass blocking grade
Speaker 1: in that Dallas game, a clean sheet and pass protection
Speaker 1: zero sacks, zero hits, and zero quarterback pressures for Isa Dora.
Speaker 1: Coming back to Miami this year, trying to carve out
Speaker 1: a spot on the offensive line. Up next rookie Solomon Kinley,
Speaker 1: the fourth round draft pick this year out of Georgia.
Speaker 1: He's number sixty six, three years old. You can't miss him,
Speaker 1: six ft four, three hundred thirty nine pounds. He is
Speaker 1: a wrecking ball. Guys bounce off of him in his
Speaker 1: Georgia tape down there in the sec He has that
Speaker 1: sheer density, which just by virtue of the size, creates
Speaker 1: longer routes to the quarterback for his opponents in the
Speaker 1: passing game and leads to some almost comical pancake blocks
Speaker 1: on that college tape. NFL draft analyst Lanczerline noted Kiley's
Speaker 1: ability to both win with power and finesse. He said
Speaker 1: this quote, nasty guard who lives in scrap mode, looking
Speaker 1: for fights inside a relatively small phone booth. Kindley has
Speaker 1: the frame of a powerful guard. He's a maller with
Speaker 1: enough finesse to get some reach blocks and cut off blocks.
Speaker 1: The size and toughness are great end quote, and he
Speaker 1: played mostly on the right side early in his career,
Speaker 1: but he did move to left guard, where he started
Speaker 1: each of the last two seasons. Kiley played two thousand
Speaker 1: five snaps in his collegiate career and allowed just four snacked,
Speaker 1: sacks and fourteen hurries on nine one pass blocking reps. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm not one for guarantees, but I can guarantee that
Speaker 1: Kinley had more than four snacks in his college career
Speaker 1: down there at Georgia. And Flora's appreciates that physical aspect
Speaker 1: of the game right. He talks about playing with a fullback,
Speaker 1: playing behind guys that can run the football and really
Speaker 1: move guys off the line of scrimmage. That's what he
Speaker 1: sees when he watches Kindley play. This quote from back
Speaker 1: in April when the Dolphins drafted him. Well, I always
Speaker 1: say that's the one thing that stands out. Flora says.
Speaker 1: He's a physical kid. He plays the game physically and
Speaker 1: looks like he enjoys the game. When you watch him play,
Speaker 1: you get the feeling that he enjoys the physical aspect
Speaker 1: of the game. And quote and staying on the interior
Speaker 1: offensive line up next on our offensive line training camp preview,
Speaker 1: Part one. We will get to part two on tomorrow's podcast,
Speaker 1: talking about new Dolphins center slash interior lineman Ted Carriss
Speaker 1: played four years, all with the New England Patriots, entering
Speaker 1: his first here in Miami, coming on a one year contract.
Speaker 1: Sixty seven is the jersey number he went to Illinois
Speaker 1: for his college. He's gonna be twenty seven years old
Speaker 1: on opening day and he played three years as a
Speaker 1: swing interior lineman, the backup lineman on the interior there
Speaker 1: for the Patriots, before being called upon as the starting
Speaker 1: center last year en Patriots, where he started fifteen games,
Speaker 1: play of the Patriots offensive snaps and continued an impressive
Speaker 1: run of mostly a mistake free football. I love cool stats.
Speaker 1: How's this for a cool stat? Over the last six
Speaker 1: years of ariss football career four as a pro two
Speaker 1: in college, he's committed only eight penalties over that eight
Speaker 1: five game span, and that includes forty five starts, So
Speaker 1: very mistake free football. Type of guy can communicate the offense,
Speaker 1: to the quarterback, to the rest of the line, all
Speaker 1: that good stuff. His best football came down the stretch
Speaker 1: last year for the Patriots. He was Pro Football focuses
Speaker 1: number two overall graded center. Over the final six games
Speaker 1: of the season. On the year, he allowed just fourteen
Speaker 1: quarterback pressures. That was six among all centers that played
Speaker 1: at least five hundred snaps in pass protection, and only
Speaker 1: three of those pressures resulted in hits on the quarterback,
Speaker 1: giving Carrots an impressive point o five quarterback hit a
Speaker 1: loud rate. He keeps your quarterback clean on the interior
Speaker 1: offensive line. And of course, a former Patriot will reunite
Speaker 1: now in Miami with head coach Brian Flores. They spent
Speaker 1: three years there together as members of the a f
Speaker 1: C East rival of the Miami Dolphins, and the head
Speaker 1: coach of the Patriots, Bill Belichick, had some really good
Speaker 1: praise of the Dolphins new man in the middle, saying
Speaker 1: Ted's been a dependable player for US for four years.
Speaker 1: He's played guard for US. This year with David Andrews
Speaker 1: who was out for the entire season last year. With
Speaker 1: David Andrews situation, Ted's had the opportunity to play more
Speaker 1: and he stepped in and played consistently like he really
Speaker 1: always has for US. Ted's a smart player, He's strong,
Speaker 1: he could anchor the middle of the pocket, and his
Speaker 1: communication with his teammates on the offensive line, which is
Speaker 1: critical for the center position to handle blocking schemes and
Speaker 1: protections and so forth, has been good and quote and
Speaker 1: speaking of crazy stats, are next player here on this list,
Speaker 1: number sixty eight, the rookie Robert Hunt. He has one
Speaker 1: of my favorite stats that was given out throughout the
Speaker 1: course of draft weekend out of Louisiana Lafayette. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be twenty four years old on opening Day. This was
Speaker 1: a stat given by Trey Wingo on the ESPN broadcast,
Speaker 1: which he got from the Louisiana Lafayette coaching staff down
Speaker 1: there and that Rageing Cajuns program. They said that over
Speaker 1: the course of the last season, Hunt allowed only two
Speaker 1: quarterback pressures and did not miss a single run blocking assignment.
Speaker 1: Of course, they're the ones they're gonna track that thing
Speaker 1: and they know the call of the offensive line. Because
Speaker 1: for fans, even the most knowledgeable a fan who can
Speaker 1: read back stats and everything and give you all the
Speaker 1: knowledge of the game. From a fans perspective, we really
Speaker 1: don't know the true responsibility of each player on any
Speaker 1: given play. So who else would you trust besides the
Speaker 1: coaching staff, and they say that his stat sheet was
Speaker 1: pretty clean at Louisiana Lafayette, and his tape really checks
Speaker 1: out too, because it is full of dominant play where
Speaker 1: he controls the point of attack against the run and
Speaker 1: locks out in pass protection. He's played both guard and tackle.
Speaker 1: You'll hear Brian Flores later in this podcast talk about
Speaker 1: that versatility and how important it is. And according to
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus, raging Cajun runs behind Robert Hunt in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen resulted in a six success rate and four
Speaker 1: point one yards before contact. Now, most of the times
Speaker 1: you're gonna get one to three yards four point one
Speaker 1: yards before the back is even touched running behind Robert Hunt.
Speaker 1: That of course led all twenty two interior line prospects charted.
Speaker 1: They charted him as an interior line prospect, as some
Speaker 1: have considered him an insider outside guy, but he will
Speaker 1: have a chance to play on the offensive line insider outside. Again,
Speaker 1: that versatility is valuable here, but he led the nation
Speaker 1: in that four point one yards before contact stat And
Speaker 1: according to Chris Greer, the Dolphins took Hunt off the
Speaker 1: board in that second round in front of some other
Speaker 1: teams that were hoping to land the six ft five
Speaker 1: three pound lineman. Greer had this to say. He's a tough,
Speaker 1: physical player. He plays with an attitude, He's got good
Speaker 1: football intelligence. It's important to him. A lot of those
Speaker 1: criteria and qualities the coaching staff is looking for. This
Speaker 1: kid has them, so we're very excited. After we took him,
Speaker 1: Brian and I got multiple text from people on other
Speaker 1: teams saying that was their guy. So we were happy
Speaker 1: to get him and think he'll be a good fit.
Speaker 1: We are looking forward to having him to work and
Speaker 1: get on the field and compete for a job, Greer
Speaker 1: said there after the Dolphins drafted him back in April.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and finish up part one here with
Speaker 1: offensive tackle Julian Davenport three seasons in the NFL, entering
Speaker 1: number two with the Miami Dolphins, number seventy out of Bucknell,
Speaker 1: still just twenty five years old on opening Day. He
Speaker 1: came over last year in that trade towards the end
Speaker 1: up training camp and entered the lineup right away as
Speaker 1: a left tackle, but got hurt in that game and
Speaker 1: missed a big chunk of the season, but he did
Speaker 1: come back in the Week eleven game against Buffalo, and
Speaker 1: he finished out the season over the final four games
Speaker 1: with positive Pro Football Focus grades in the past blocking
Speaker 1: department with just one sack, two QB hits, and seven
Speaker 1: pressures allowed. So incremental improvement there for Davenport as the
Speaker 1: year went along, and Flora's talked about that improvement and
Speaker 1: areas where Davenport can improve his game. He said, quote,
Speaker 1: We've harped on him about just consistency with this technique.
Speaker 1: The kids athletic, but he's got to play with good footwork,
Speaker 1: hand placement, tight hands, a low base in the run game.
Speaker 1: He's starting to do those things a little bit more
Speaker 1: consistently and quote. So check out the written piece up
Speaker 1: on Miami Dolphins dot Com the offensive line training camp preview. Again,
Speaker 1: we have all this content for you guys up on
Speaker 1: the website taking a look at the offensive players we're
Speaker 1: gonna transition in two days now to the defensive side
Speaker 1: of the football. Tomorrow is going to be the offensive
Speaker 1: line Part two. We'll get a look in that piece
Speaker 1: at guys like rookie Austin Jackson, the eighteenth pick in
Speaker 1: this year's draft, and Jesse Davis, as well as the
Speaker 1: rest of the offensive lineman let's go ahead now and
Speaker 1: pivot over to the media availability of head coach Brian
Speaker 1: Flores from Monday. He spoke with South Florida reporters for
Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes, answered some really good questions and gave
Speaker 1: us some good insight into what the Dolphins are doing
Speaker 1: this week and beyond here in training camp. And I
Speaker 1: thought the first question was a great leadoff question to
Speaker 1: the media availability because every year you'll see teams talk
Speaker 1: about their motto or their slogan, the kind of top
Speaker 1: priority for that season. That was the first question put
Speaker 1: to Brian Floores about this year season. What is your
Speaker 1: motto or slogan or theme for the year? As well
Speaker 1: as is everybody there and reported to camp. Here's Flores's
Speaker 1: answer on both those two questions. Well, to your first question,
Speaker 1: every one here, UM, as far as a model or theme,
Speaker 1: I think you know, safetyes is probably the first word
Speaker 1: that comes to mind. O. You know, just trying to
Speaker 1: make this place is as safe as possible, UM, you know,
Speaker 1: on the field, off the field. Up next a question
Speaker 1: posed to coach Flora's about the shape of the players
Speaker 1: reporting to camp as we get ready for this strength
Speaker 1: and conditioning program and the ramp up up to actual
Speaker 1: training camp practices that begin on auguste. Here's coach Flora's
Speaker 1: talking about the state and the condition of his team
Speaker 1: without the benefit of O T A S and a
Speaker 1: normal off season. Well, you know, the first week it's been,
Speaker 1: it's been good. You know, the information period um, you
Speaker 1: know that the league, in the in the p A
Speaker 1: agreed to. And I think it kind of shows how
Speaker 1: importantly offseason is. It's from a rep standpoint on the field,
Speaker 1: but also from a strength and condition extampoint. I think
Speaker 1: guys are okay shape, I've got a long way to go,
Speaker 1: but they're working. They're working pretty diligently, and you know,
Speaker 1: I've seen already have some improvement for the first week,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure that they'll continue to proved. But you know,
Speaker 1: the off seasons, you know, obviously very important, and I
Speaker 1: think the players they understand that too, you know, which
Speaker 1: is why they asked for this. And when we do
Speaker 1: these media availabilities, I always try to find the key
Speaker 1: story of the thing we really want to point out
Speaker 1: in that story up on Miami Dolphins dot com. And
Speaker 1: the thing I found most interesting was the attention to
Speaker 1: detail and how Brian Flores and his staff are always
Speaker 1: going to have contingencies and plans in place in the
Speaker 1: event that something does come up they have to address
Speaker 1: and how they will handle any potential coaches going on
Speaker 1: the COVID list and having to replace those coaches for
Speaker 1: practices games. And here's Coach Floras on any contingency plans
Speaker 1: regarding that. Yeah, we we talked about this in the spring.
Speaker 1: Everyone's gotta backup? Was that two backups. It's something we
Speaker 1: talked about. We've gotta we're taking this the same coach
Speaker 1: will take with the players that you know, I go
Speaker 1: down the line, coach will down doing this and so
Speaker 1: on and so forth. So it's something we talked about.
Speaker 1: But it's not just you know, in the coaches and
Speaker 1: coaching the players staffs. It's try addition to coach, trainer,
Speaker 1: head equipment guy on christianness. You got that point where
Speaker 1: everyone especially time with you, and so we talked about
Speaker 1: the buzzwords Coach Flora's loves to use and the kind
Speaker 1: of pillars he's building this program around the criteria of
Speaker 1: being a Miami Dolphin. We've talked about the attention to detail,
Speaker 1: the quizzes he'll give players throughout the course of the
Speaker 1: week and meetings and practices in the film room and
Speaker 1: so forth. Well, the other thing we talked about a
Speaker 1: lot on this podcast on the website with anything regarding
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins football is versatility, right, And so coach Floores
Speaker 1: was posed the question about the approach of adding players
Speaker 1: up front to the front seven and what each of
Speaker 1: those players might fill, which role each of those players
Speaker 1: might feel rather, and how Flora's feels about where guys
Speaker 1: like Emmanuel Ogbas, Shack Lawson and the like might fit
Speaker 1: into the defense. Well, Flora's had this to say about
Speaker 1: everybody on his roster, including those guys in the front seven.
Speaker 1: Who you want to bring in? Good players, guys who
Speaker 1: you know fit the criteria. We're looking forward, tough, smart, talented,
Speaker 1: able to communicate, and I think we we feel good
Speaker 1: about the guys required. But at the same time, um,
Speaker 1: it takes time for a defensive line of Gael. So
Speaker 1: we need to hit the practice field. We need to
Speaker 1: get you together meetings and talk through yeah, cause communication scheme,
Speaker 1: where guys fit the best, what specific roles is best
Speaker 1: for each individual players. So that's what that's what training
Speaker 1: camps about. So we had a long way to go.
Speaker 1: There was a makeover to a degree, but we got
Speaker 1: a long way to go and up next, coach was
Speaker 1: asked about the plan for quarterback Josh Rosen, but again
Speaker 1: that gave him a chance to really emphasize the importance
Speaker 1: of every single player taking each day, taking each rep,
Speaker 1: each meeting, each practice, each walkthrough with a certain sense
Speaker 1: of urgency and the opportunity to get better and to
Speaker 1: earn yourself reps come game day, and how everyone right
Speaker 1: now is under the evaluation process heading in to training
Speaker 1: camp and the season. You know, the vision for Josh's
Speaker 1: is is the same vision for every player you come in.
Speaker 1: That's it's a new offense, there's a you know, new teammates,
Speaker 1: used to learn the playbook, get to know your teammates,
Speaker 1: work hard in practice, try to improve every day, take
Speaker 1: advantage of your opportunity to take advantage of your reps,
Speaker 1: and let your play on the field. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: what you do on the field will at the end
Speaker 1: of the day that that'll that'll uh will know if
Speaker 1: you'll earn your excuse me, you'll earn your your reps
Speaker 1: on the field based on how you play in practice.
Speaker 1: So you know, that that hasn't changed for but Josh
Speaker 1: or anyone else on the roster, and the next question
Speaker 1: here on our media availability from Brian Floors on Monday,
Speaker 1: August the three. On this Tuesday, August, the fourth edition
Speaker 1: of the Drivetime Podcast is another opportunity for him to
Speaker 1: tell you this team will not make excuses and will
Speaker 1: not look at any circumstance or situation as a reason
Speaker 1: for why they might not get victories on Sunday, this
Speaker 1: is the hand you're dealt. You gotta play the card
Speaker 1: you get. Here's Brian Flores's answer regarding that. You know, David,
Speaker 1: it is an odd year, it's a different year. But
Speaker 1: you know, like I said the last time last week,
Speaker 1: we want to talk to when I talk to you guys,
Speaker 1: these are the cards you've been dealt. So you know,
Speaker 1: we gotta play this hand. And um, you know they're
Speaker 1: gonna be some some obstacles, but um, you know, I
Speaker 1: think we're you know, we've got to make the best
Speaker 1: of the situation. I think as coaches, as a coaching staff,
Speaker 1: we understand that. So we have a plan in place,
Speaker 1: So we we put a lot of thought into you know,
Speaker 1: trying to to build in a competitive team. Um, you
Speaker 1: know in a short period of time. You know what
Speaker 1: that entails. I'm not gonna get into right now what
Speaker 1: we felt like an entails. I'm not gonna get into
Speaker 1: that right now, but you know we put a lot
Speaker 1: of thought into that really in all in all areas,
Speaker 1: you know, strength trenthing into its strength and condition conditioning phase.
Speaker 1: If you learn right now to walk the rules which
Speaker 1: are also in you know, when you start to kind
Speaker 1: of ramp it up in the phase two an O
Speaker 1: T A days and finally little bit the pads kind
Speaker 1: of try to put a schedule in place that you know,
Speaker 1: we're building on the course of that and hopefully we're
Speaker 1: ready to play when the season starts. But you know,
Speaker 1: we are taking the one day at a time approach.
Speaker 1: You know. It's that's that's that's things are changing one
Speaker 1: of the other base. I think one of the things
Speaker 1: you can really appreciate about Brian Flores and his transparency
Speaker 1: with the media is that he's going to kind of
Speaker 1: help you get an understanding of his thinking with certain things.
Speaker 1: And this year especially, which is gonna be a different year.
Speaker 1: Here he talks about the idea of being multiple and
Speaker 1: having versatility built into the scheme, both on offense and
Speaker 1: defense and the kicking game, and how that's not going
Speaker 1: to change anytime soon for this Dolphin squad under Brian Flores.
Speaker 1: I think it's it's it's built into the you know,
Speaker 1: the versatility in the scheme. It's it's it's it's built
Speaker 1: into we do offensively defensively in the ka um. So
Speaker 1: you know, a player maybe this you know, this position,
Speaker 1: in this group, in this position or another group. So
Speaker 1: I don't think that changes. I think that's that that
Speaker 1: remains the same for for our team, and I imagine
Speaker 1: that's the way it's the way it is a lot
Speaker 1: of teams. So we still need guys for multiple We
Speaker 1: still need guys who played mortiple positions. And I think
Speaker 1: that's you know, even more important this year, in the
Speaker 1: year where we don't know, um, you know, you could
Speaker 1: lose a uh you know, one, two or three, a
Speaker 1: few a group of guys, We're gonna need other guys
Speaker 1: to step in. So, you know, tackles are playing guard
Speaker 1: guards were playing centers. Uh, you know, defensive tackles will
Speaker 1: end up kicking out the defensive end. You know, poets
Speaker 1: playing safety and safety's playing corner. You can't get all
Speaker 1: of that practice. And I'm not saying that, but you know,
Speaker 1: the guys we feel are flexible enough and smart enough
Speaker 1: to to handle those different positions. You know, we'll try
Speaker 1: to m introduced those physicians in those schemes to them. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, in small increments, I would say. And next
Speaker 1: you here coach talk about the rookie class and getting
Speaker 1: these guys acclaimented to the season to training camp this year,
Speaker 1: and you'll hear him refer to the evaluation period and
Speaker 1: how right now is kind of a ramp up period,
Speaker 1: just getting guys bodies used to the riggers of training
Speaker 1: camp and of football every single day. Here's coach talking
Speaker 1: about his rookie class and the evaluation of his players
Speaker 1: on his roster. I think we've got a pretty solid group.
Speaker 1: They worked hard, they've worked hard this first week. They're
Speaker 1: into it. They're picking up the schemes offensively, defensively in
Speaker 1: the kicking game. But again it's it's walk through. So um,
Speaker 1: as far as you know anything, you know past their
Speaker 1: high weights, Um, you know, you we're not really seeing
Speaker 1: them move and you know, change the directions, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: really sprint, you know, we're not. We're we're really not
Speaker 1: seeing that from anyone in the group to conclude to us,
Speaker 1: So I think they're all doing a good job. We've
Speaker 1: got a long way to go, um and as as
Speaker 1: we start to practice, starts to go, you know, ramp up,
Speaker 1: and we're in more to the phase two, the O
Speaker 1: t A and the actual practice that we're really good
Speaker 1: in evaluation. And speaking of rookies, we go back for
Speaker 1: the final question of the presser with a question about
Speaker 1: a strong rookie from last year's team in Preston Williams
Speaker 1: and how he's progressing this year through his off season
Speaker 1: rehab coming off the a c L injury in the
Speaker 1: middle of the nineteen season. Well, Preston's he's worked extremely
Speaker 1: hard since the injury, worked his way back to uh
Speaker 1: so where he was clear for activity. Again, it's it's
Speaker 1: walked through right now. So you know he's you know,
Speaker 1: the strength and conditioning in the morning, so he's running
Speaker 1: his lift in and then you know we see him
Speaker 1: to walk through setting, but again propressing. It's a new offense,
Speaker 1: so you know, learning the terminology, you know, the depths
Speaker 1: on some routes and things of that nature that a
Speaker 1: little bit different than aywhere a year ago. That's kind
Speaker 1: of worries focus is right now. But he's worked extremely hard,
Speaker 1: as all of our guys have from a rehab standpoint. No, look,
Speaker 1: we just got to put take this thing one day
Speaker 1: at a time. That should be his approach and every
Speaker 1: every every player on our team's approach, and you know,
Speaker 1: just try to get better at their own a daily basis.
Speaker 1: And I continue, you know, you've got you guys, probably
Speaker 1: I say to hear me say that, but it's it's
Speaker 1: something that I try to appreciate these guys every day.
Speaker 1: Let's just try to get better. Let's trying to improve us.
Speaker 1: As we say, if this makes smart decisions, who do
Speaker 1: those consistently will be okay? And so there's coaches, media,
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Speaker 1: I know you had to have some some memorable moments
Speaker 1: in times with coaching and some experience. NICKI tell us
Speaker 1: about a little bit of a yeah, well, you know.
Speaker 1: The one that comes to mind is probably one of
Speaker 1: the more recent ones, which uh I went out with
Speaker 1: him and Bob Reefs is the gold Stream Racetrack and
Speaker 1: sat for an hour and listen to it coaches awful jokes.
Speaker 1: The funny thing is he got older, he actually lightened
Speaker 1: up and he let you in and uh he has
Speaker 1: since you were you saw it a lot more when
Speaker 1: he had the full pressure on him of coach Schula.
Speaker 1: You knew if you wrote something he didn't like, you
Speaker 1: would hear about it. He had. Confrontation was in his toolbox.
Speaker 1: You know. That was a great tool he had. And
Speaker 1: I don't mean that in any bad way because everybody says, oh,
Speaker 1: tell a story of coach school blowing up at you. Well,
Speaker 1: here here's the story. I went out there one day
Speaker 1: and back then again with access after lunch in the
Speaker 1: media the cafeteria, back players eight media in the same room,
Speaker 1: there's a media table. Coach would walk over and sit
Speaker 1: down at the media table. You'd ask him questions. So
Speaker 1: I asked the question and he goes, after the crap
Speaker 1: you wrote, you're asking that? And I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't know where we are on the rating scale here, okay,
Speaker 1: after the horse wrote And I was like, and I said,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? And he goes, you don't
Speaker 1: even remember what you wrote? And I said, yeah, coach,
Speaker 1: but I wrote two columns this week. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: which what you're talking about. That Actually, that actually got
Speaker 1: a little chuckle out of me. At the point, if
Speaker 1: you gave something, you know, you couldn't just take it
Speaker 1: with him, if you gave something back a little and
Speaker 1: he appreciated that. He that's what he and at the
Speaker 1: same time, some sometimes you just let had to let
Speaker 1: the thunder storm roll over you. And but he was
Speaker 1: very good. Once he said what he had to say,
Speaker 1: he was done with it. He didn't carry grudges he
Speaker 1: didn't carry remind you the next time, but he got
Speaker 1: it out and and I think talking with players, he's
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