Speaker 1: Practice. Are Alphis factors throwing touchdown? What a win for
Speaker 1: this Miami Dolphin team. Wow? What is up? Dolphans? And
Speaker 1: welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins official podcast network, covering your Miami Dolphins each and
Speaker 1: every day. How's it going everybody? It is Thursday. I
Speaker 1: am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I am here to
Speaker 1: bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And
Speaker 1: on today's show, we are getting a break from the
Speaker 1: sunshine as we'll hear from each of the Dolphins offensive
Speaker 1: assistants as well as safety Eric Rowe. Plus I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what lessons I've learned from my first month here
Speaker 1: in South Florida. All of that and more on this Thursday,
Speaker 1: August twenty edition of the Drivetime Podcast. Dolphins. So no
Speaker 1: practice on Thursday, but we are going to hear from
Speaker 1: the Dolphins offensive assistance chan Gaily, Robbie Brown, Eric Studisville,
Speaker 1: George Godzy, Steve Marshall, and Josh Grizzard. A little tidbit
Speaker 1: on Gailey's evolving offensive system, some research I did last night,
Speaker 1: and get to my exclusive interview with Dolphins safety Eric
Speaker 1: Row which you can also find on our debut episode
Speaker 1: of the Drivetime Training Camp Special, which is on the
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Speaker 1: Camp Special is a video show. Again. You can find
Speaker 1: it up on YouTube or on Dolphins social media. We
Speaker 1: originally plan to shoot the thing outside, but as we'll
Speaker 1: talk about here in the lessons I've learned in South
Speaker 1: Florida's segment, whether changes plans quickly down here, so we
Speaker 1: did it inside. Keep an eye out for that show.
Speaker 1: I'll be sure I tweeted out like crazy, and on
Speaker 1: that show, we had an exclusive interview with Dolphins safety
Speaker 1: Eric Row which we're gonna go ahead and roll right
Speaker 1: now on the Drivetime podcast. Alright, and joining me now
Speaker 1: is Dolphins safety Eric Row. Eric first, I want to
Speaker 1: ask you, man, how's camp going, how you're feeling, So,
Speaker 1: I mean Campbell was going good, though, I'm excited to
Speaker 1: get back out there put on the pads. I mean,
Speaker 1: we haven't played football since December, so I mean it
Speaker 1: was a long break, so it's always feel good to
Speaker 1: get back out there. Well, it's year two for you
Speaker 1: here in Miami. Do you get any sense of comfortability
Speaker 1: in the heat and humidity in the second year or
Speaker 1: is it just always hot? No, it's it's always high.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean because the last time legit do
Speaker 1: we practice, you know, and this heat probably like in
Speaker 1: probably last September. I mean, it cools off after a while,
Speaker 1: and you know, after you adjusted the heat the minute
Speaker 1: it's you know, maybe like eighty five and feel good outside.
Speaker 1: So uh so now it's back up there and it's hot.
Speaker 1: We're up in the shape up there on press row
Speaker 1: for the media, and I go stand by that fan
Speaker 1: and even then it's still really hot. So I even
Speaker 1: have that working for me. And I can't imagine you
Speaker 1: guys down there with all the gear on the in
Speaker 1: the Sunshine. It's it's brutal, but I do want to
Speaker 1: go back. I talked about the beginning of your time
Speaker 1: here in Miami. You come here as a cornerback. Now
Speaker 1: you're playing safety and playing on a second contract with
Speaker 1: the team. When they approached you about the change, what
Speaker 1: was that like for you? What was your initial reaction to, hey,
Speaker 1: we want you to play some safety. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: my insty action was. I mean, I understood at the time,
Speaker 1: we were you know, we were down. We're down, We're
Speaker 1: really low on debt with safeties. Uh, it wasn't a
Speaker 1: lot of depth going on, and we had some good
Speaker 1: depth that corner. So at the time I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, I was still playing corner at the same time,
Speaker 1: so I was kind of flip flopping back and forth,
Speaker 1: and I mean that that was kind of hard. But
Speaker 1: then when they're like, hey, you know, I guess I
Speaker 1: did a good job. We want to keep you at safety.
Speaker 1: I know because I know Rachard was her and shoot,
Speaker 1: we really have any safe after that, like strong, So
Speaker 1: you know, I understood. Then I guess a game by game,
Speaker 1: you know, I was getting a lot more comfortable with it,
Speaker 1: and you played some safety back in college at Utah, right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was mainly free safety though, so that was that's
Speaker 1: the difference. Can you talk a little bit about the
Speaker 1: difference between that free safety and strong safety role and
Speaker 1: what you have to do to prepare for that position. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean back in college, I was mainly free so
Speaker 1: I really didn't have any like you know, run fit responsibility,
Speaker 1: you know, taking on some linemen. And now it's strong.
Speaker 1: I mean, you you know, to prepare for a game,
Speaker 1: and I only got to study routes, you know, route
Speaker 1: skiing whatever for the tight end. I mean I have
Speaker 1: to study some run game like I mean because that corner.
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, like corner. I I didn't go through
Speaker 1: the rule. I mean I didn't go through the run clips,
Speaker 1: like if it came to me, it came to me.
Speaker 1: You know, I was on the island. Now it's strong,
Speaker 1: you know, I have to study the run game because
Speaker 1: you know, I have to watch if you know, how
Speaker 1: to tight end, but box or online pools. You know,
Speaker 1: I got different jabs at different schemes. So I mean
Speaker 1: it's it's a lot more you know, a little broader studying.
Speaker 1: And is it a bigger challenge for you when it
Speaker 1: comes like on the practice field, like out there today,
Speaker 1: for instance, you're going through different drills when it comes
Speaker 1: to playing safety and cornerback. I'd imagine, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I got I think I have some like god, some
Speaker 1: run kiss drills I gotta do now, Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: learn how to come out blocks. Uh you know, other
Speaker 1: than corner was working on your man technique. Uh you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: just working on different stuff. So I mean there's different
Speaker 1: drills out there now for me. So I wanted to
Speaker 1: go back to this note. I put my notes here
Speaker 1: for you, Eric. I was gonna try to talk some
Speaker 1: crap to you here because I was curious to see
Speaker 1: how your Utah career went up against my Washington State Cougars.
Speaker 1: But you guys were two and two, So we'll go
Speaker 1: ahead and just shake hands on that one to call
Speaker 1: it even. I gotta get my Pack twelve action here
Speaker 1: whenever I can, because we don't have any of it
Speaker 1: out here with the Dolphins, so I had to bring
Speaker 1: it up. But we'll come back here to the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Another Pack twelve guy. We had g a drill Alexander
Speaker 1: on this weekend for media availability, and he talked a
Speaker 1: lot about the importance of communication, especially at that safety position.
Speaker 1: Is there a big increase in your level of comfortability
Speaker 1: now that you're in your second year as a safety
Speaker 1: in this defense, Like, do you feel more comfortable communicating
Speaker 1: to the defense this year than you did last year? Yeah?
Speaker 1: There's uh, I mean there's there's there's a little bit
Speaker 1: different calls, but I mean I have a lot of
Speaker 1: better understanding of you know, kind of when to make
Speaker 1: that call and you know how to make that call
Speaker 1: other than I mean, I was comfortable last year, but
Speaker 1: last year I didn't have too many calls. I think
Speaker 1: the coach knew like, hey, you know, man up on
Speaker 1: the tight end and you'll fit in the run game
Speaker 1: kind of when you fit in. But now this year, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I have run you know, responsibilities fits. You know,
Speaker 1: I'd a cast to the line calls, the linebackers, calls
Speaker 1: to the corners, I mean, even to the other safety,
Speaker 1: to Bobby. You know, there's a lot of different calls.
Speaker 1: But I'm a lot more confident this year though, And
Speaker 1: so one of the things I think that kind of
Speaker 1: contributes to that is the ability to communicate with new
Speaker 1: teammates and we got you guys have brought in a
Speaker 1: few new defensive backs over the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: and I want to kind of tie that into last
Speaker 1: year again, because you played all sixteen games last year
Speaker 1: and you oversaw plenty of turnover in that secondary from
Speaker 1: week one to week seventeen. You mentioned the injuries being
Speaker 1: down so many guys. Did that experience kind of accelerate
Speaker 1: your ability to communicate and assist in helping the other
Speaker 1: new guys on the roster? Yeah, I mean it shoot
Speaker 1: started last year when we were getting new corners every
Speaker 1: probably like every other week, and we're doing right in
Speaker 1: the game, and you know, there's couple plays like hey,
Speaker 1: like you know what I got. I'm telling them, you know,
Speaker 1: con tell them like, hey, you know you have this.
Speaker 1: Make sure you don't stay outside leverage or you have this.
Speaker 1: So so now with this year, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: we got kind of got the guys like so I
Speaker 1: have to make kind of like tell them what to do.
Speaker 1: But you know, if they need me, like I know
Speaker 1: what they're doing, like, you know, especially if it's like
Speaker 1: a rookie, like hey, like make sure you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know you stay outside. You know, I got your
Speaker 1: helping here. Blah blah blah. But yeah, this year, I
Speaker 1: mean I I kind of did accelerated though. I watched
Speaker 1: some of the breakdowns on like Twitter. For instance, Darius
Speaker 1: Butler does a bunch of good stuff with that, and
Speaker 1: he talks about the communication you guys have to go through.
Speaker 1: It all happens so lightning fast. It blows my mind
Speaker 1: how quick you guys are able to read and react
Speaker 1: to that stuff. And speaking of the new guys, you
Speaker 1: mentioned the rookies. Wanted to get your take here. I've
Speaker 1: seen quotes on both Noah egit Agay and Brandon Jones,
Speaker 1: the two rookie defensive back draft picks for the Dolphins
Speaker 1: this year. I've seen quotes from their ex coaches and teammates.
Speaker 1: They cannot say enough about their competitiveness and dedication. Are
Speaker 1: you seeing the same thing here in Miami? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I see it on the field, you know, with
Speaker 1: the way they you know, both of them, they run
Speaker 1: to the ball. I mean I can see how hard
Speaker 1: you know, they want to. They want to get the
Speaker 1: defense down like you know, they want to get perfect
Speaker 1: with it right now. But even though it doesn't really
Speaker 1: happen like that, I mean, you know, you can see
Speaker 1: it in their eyes and their actions. You know, I
Speaker 1: see the way they take the field, So I mean
Speaker 1: they yeah, they're both really competitive. Eric. Want to finish
Speaker 1: up here with the question for you about last year
Speaker 1: and kind of where your career came to those cross
Speaker 1: roads here in Miami because you previously had missed a
Speaker 1: lot of time with some injuries. I was curious to
Speaker 1: get your take on how it felt for you to
Speaker 1: get that contract extension last year and to kind of
Speaker 1: have your football talent finally be able to show itself
Speaker 1: on the field. What was that moment like when you
Speaker 1: got approach with the Dolphins with a new contract. Oh man,
Speaker 1: so it's so great. I mean just one you know,
Speaker 1: you know I want to be here, you know, I
Speaker 1: want of you would flow and Josh, I mean the
Speaker 1: reason why I came here, uh, you know, to get
Speaker 1: that extension and then yeah, plus like the years passed,
Speaker 1: so just you know, injury after injury, you know, something
Speaker 1: that you can't control. Then you know them to you know,
Speaker 1: giving me, you know, final shot too, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of show my talent and you know kind of all
Speaker 1: the Harvard kind of like you know, pays off me.
Speaker 1: You know, sending my family up and you know, being
Speaker 1: a place that I want to be at. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's so great. I have to imagine the only thing
Speaker 1: that felt better than that was the pick six last
Speaker 1: year in Foxborough. Right nice, Yeah, especially, I know I
Speaker 1: knew it all right there. He is Eric Roe, your
Speaker 1: Dolphins safety, leader of the secondary, leader of this defense. Eric.
Speaker 1: We appreciate your time today, man, I appreciate it. I
Speaker 1: always love talking to Eric Row because he always gives
Speaker 1: such a unique perspective and just such an honest, transparent
Speaker 1: perspective on football, on life, on his career so far.
Speaker 1: You heard him talk about the injury past he had,
Speaker 1: their the injury history, and how important and how special
Speaker 1: it was to him to get the contract extension here
Speaker 1: at the Miami Dolphins, and how he wanted to be
Speaker 1: here with Brian Flores and Josh Boyer and these guys
Speaker 1: down here in Miami. Looking at his his NFL Pro
Speaker 1: Football Reference game logs. Over the course of his career,
Speaker 1: he played all sixteen games as a rookie in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Then he was traded to phillip to New England, and
Speaker 1: he missed seven games that year. He missed eight games
Speaker 1: the following year and then twelve games and eighteen. So
Speaker 1: you hear him talk about things out of your control,
Speaker 1: injuries that just they just happened to guys sometimes, Like
Speaker 1: it's not a knock on how a guy works or prepares.
Speaker 1: He obviously works very hard at his craft. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: just can't control the way injuries pop up. And for
Speaker 1: Eric Row, he's had bad luck with that in his past.
Speaker 1: But last year started sixteen games, or rather started fifteen games,
Speaker 1: played in all sixteen games, had the interception, had eight
Speaker 1: pass breakups, forced to fumble, eighty one tackles. He was
Speaker 1: a really valuable asset for this Dolphin secondary. Last year.
Speaker 1: He earns the new contract in Miami, and you can
Speaker 1: hear you can tell why by hearing him speak and
Speaker 1: the way he communicates and how he leads this defense
Speaker 1: on that back end. Very very happy for Eric Row,
Speaker 1: and I cannot wait to watch him on Sundays this year.
Speaker 1: And we'll go ahead and pivot here from the guys
Speaker 1: Eric Row was playing with on defense. So the guys
Speaker 1: the defense are trying to stop on the offensive side
Speaker 1: with the assistant coaches. The players are off, but the
Speaker 1: coaches are here and we're gonna hear from each of
Speaker 1: the Dolphins offensive assistance, and we're gonna play some sound
Speaker 1: from each of those coaches here in just one second.
Speaker 1: But first, before we do that, I went ahead and
Speaker 1: did some research on offensive personnel groupings and production from
Speaker 1: previous Chan Gailey offenses, and the only one I can
Speaker 1: go back and find was with the Jets. And but
Speaker 1: I wanted to detail this interesting fact toy that I
Speaker 1: found on Changailes offense from those two years there with
Speaker 1: the Jets, and the difference in personnel packaging and how
Speaker 1: the numbers bear out a cliche we hear from coaches
Speaker 1: all the time, right, we're gonna adapt our personnel or
Speaker 1: our play calls rather to our personnel, and the numbers
Speaker 1: between these two seasons, Chan's last in the NFL as
Speaker 1: a play caller in twenty seen with the New York Jets,
Speaker 1: they proved the old adage to be true for Chan Gaily.
Speaker 1: For instance, in the Jets ran twelve personnel that's one
Speaker 1: running back to tight ends just two percent of their
Speaker 1: offensive play calls. In sixteen, that number jumped up to
Speaker 1: sixteen point four percent, for a fourteen and a half
Speaker 1: percent change in terms of twelve personnel usage, so we
Speaker 1: found more tight ends and called on them, called on
Speaker 1: the tight ends more often that season. The story was saying,
Speaker 1: with twenty one personnel, that's two backs, one tight end.
Speaker 1: In twenty fifteen, the Jets went fourteen point eight percent
Speaker 1: time out of twenty one personnel and only point five
Speaker 1: percent a half percentage in twenty one personnel in sixteen,
Speaker 1: so another fourteen percent drop off there in usage. In
Speaker 1: the Jets ran ten personnel four hundred snaps. The next
Speaker 1: highest and up ball that year was one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty six snaps. Only two other teams had more than
Speaker 1: forty snaps from that package, so that's more of a
Speaker 1: spread out for wide type of offense. One back, no
Speaker 1: tight ends, four receivers. The Jets ran that four hundred
Speaker 1: times that year, and again the next highest was one
Speaker 1: d thirty six snaps. In they ran eleven personnel three
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty three times fewer than anybody else in
Speaker 1: the National Football League. So he is not really beholden
Speaker 1: to any one specific offensive scheme, and he's proven that
Speaker 1: with his play calls as personnel groupings in the past.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead now and get to audio from Chan Gailey,
Speaker 1: who talked to the South Florida media on Thursday afternoon
Speaker 1: and up first, he talked about the rotation of reps
Speaker 1: and practice between the quarterbacks and the rest of the
Speaker 1: players on offense and how they worked that rotation to
Speaker 1: make sure everybody is getting even reps with the right players.
Speaker 1: We try to get different guys. We have a quarterback rotation,
Speaker 1: and we try to put different people in with those quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Rather than saying, you know, first group, saying third group.
Speaker 1: We just have a quarterback rotation and we mix a
Speaker 1: lot of different people in with those with when those quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: when the quarterback rotation is so that we um know
Speaker 1: how many plays we're getting with everybody. And on the
Speaker 1: topic of quarterbacks, coach Gailey was asked about the knowledge
Speaker 1: between quarterbacks that play under multiple offensive coordinators in a
Speaker 1: short number of years, talking about Josh Rose and bouncing
Speaker 1: around from different play cars for the first couple of
Speaker 1: years of his career. But he also talked about two
Speaker 1: a tongue of voloa at Alabama and playing with three
Speaker 1: different coordinators. They're really interesting answer here from Shan Gailey.
Speaker 1: There's really only x amount of plays in in football,
Speaker 1: so what you're trying to do is teach him a
Speaker 1: new language. How quickly can he learn a new language
Speaker 1: and get to where he can speak it fluently rather
Speaker 1: than he's memorizing what something means. And so the biggest
Speaker 1: thing is to try to get him to put things
Speaker 1: in the past, terminology in the past, put it away,
Speaker 1: put it over to the side, and grasp the new terminology.
Speaker 1: It's okay in your brain to say, well, that used
Speaker 1: to be called this, but now it's called this and
Speaker 1: use that as a reference. That's a good thing, but
Speaker 1: not to get it where it's clogging up learning what
Speaker 1: new is going on. And that's that's true with I
Speaker 1: mean two has got the same issue. He had three
Speaker 1: coordinators is three years in college he's got the same issue.
Speaker 1: And Um. The great thing about um, you know Fits,
Speaker 1: is Fits has done put different offenses out of his
Speaker 1: mind so many times in his career that he's kind
Speaker 1: of used to it. It takes a while to learn
Speaker 1: to do that, put it all away and start something new. Man.
Speaker 1: I tell you what, I'm really enjoying the transparency of
Speaker 1: these Changuille Press conferences, especially his answer here talking about
Speaker 1: the value having size on the offensive line and how
Speaker 1: maybe that's not the most important thing. You have to
Speaker 1: be able to use it for it to matter. There
Speaker 1: are a bunch of four hundred pound people around out
Speaker 1: there that can't play football. Okay, So size is not
Speaker 1: the only factor. It's like people used to tell me, Hey,
Speaker 1: you got to you got some great speed at receiver. Well,
Speaker 1: if speed was the only factor, we go signed the
Speaker 1: Olympic team to come play football. So size is not
Speaker 1: the only factor in the offensive line. But the key
Speaker 1: is to get those guys using that strength in that way,
Speaker 1: going in the right direction, doing the right things. Uh,
Speaker 1: And that's the challenge for us. Bigger is better only
Speaker 1: if it's better. Bigger is better only if it's better.
Speaker 1: What a quote to end that question up. Next, Chance
Speaker 1: was asked about the progress of rookie Malcolm Perry and
Speaker 1: his offense so far and what he's seen from the
Speaker 1: former Navy star. Malcolm is is an interesting guy, having
Speaker 1: played quarterback in the option and um, he's got some
Speaker 1: good quickness. Uh, he's got a feel for the game.
Speaker 1: He's played tag growing up. You know he knows how
Speaker 1: to make people miss and make him get out of
Speaker 1: the way. You know, he he learned early on how
Speaker 1: to do that, how to look look at a guy
Speaker 1: and know when he's off balance, so he's got his
Speaker 1: foot in the wrong place and he can make a
Speaker 1: move the other way. So he's got a little unique
Speaker 1: talent there. And that's one thing that gives me hope
Speaker 1: that he can, you know, play receiver for us because
Speaker 1: he does have a feel for getting people off balance,
Speaker 1: finding holes. He understands the game pretty well. Probably playing
Speaker 1: quarterback helped him understand the game fairly well. So he's
Speaker 1: an interesting guy, uh to work with. And um, the
Speaker 1: other guys are working. You know, we hadn't had but
Speaker 1: what three or four at it. I don't even know.
Speaker 1: They run into each other now, three padded practices. We've
Speaker 1: got to We've got a lot of work to do
Speaker 1: in a short time to do it up. Next, coach
Speaker 1: evaluates another wide receiver on his roster, a player who's
Speaker 1: come out of the gates hot and training camp picking
Speaker 1: up where he left off last season. He's had excellent
Speaker 1: hand eye coordinations, got route running skills. He's got the
Speaker 1: speed and the size to make a difference on the
Speaker 1: football field, especially when he's one on one. He can
Speaker 1: be physical with guys. Um. I'm I'm really looking forward
Speaker 1: to working with him and see what he develops into
Speaker 1: UM and hopefully we can build on what he how
Speaker 1: he finished the year last year. Hopefully we can build
Speaker 1: on that. That of course about Davonte Parker, Dolphin's wide receiver.
Speaker 1: To finish this up here with chan Gailey, he was
Speaker 1: asked about how he adapts the offensive personnel he has
Speaker 1: and how you want to emphasize the strengths of the
Speaker 1: players you have and put them in a position to
Speaker 1: really show those strengths on Sundays. As a coordinator, you
Speaker 1: get excited about what guys can do. You don't fret
Speaker 1: about what they can't do. Uh. So you take the
Speaker 1: guys and take their skill set and the things that
Speaker 1: you're excited about, and you try to put them in
Speaker 1: position to be successful. And I think we have a
Speaker 1: set of guys on our football team. They give me
Speaker 1: some excitement about what we might be able to do
Speaker 1: with this crew. Up next, we got coach Studentsville, who
Speaker 1: of course coaches the running backs, and he started off
Speaker 1: with the question about evaluating both Jordan Howard and Matt
Speaker 1: Brita so far through the first week of training camp, well,
Speaker 1: I think you think you see them is that they're
Speaker 1: both competitive people, which is one of the things you
Speaker 1: know we really want is we're looking for guys who
Speaker 1: want to come in and compete and work. Those guys
Speaker 1: feel those those roles for us for sure. Um, you
Speaker 1: know you see Matt bursting speed. We've seen a couple
Speaker 1: of times in the opening. You see, Um, Jordan's got
Speaker 1: really good feed, in line, vision, in line, all the
Speaker 1: things you expect. I think they both you know, will
Speaker 1: be able to contribute as m pass protectors. We started
Speaker 1: to do some more drills with that in practice as
Speaker 1: far as rush drills, so we're seeing that. We got
Speaker 1: to continue to develop that. But we're just we're continuing
Speaker 1: to get them doing everything. I just don't have enough
Speaker 1: of a feel for them on a big volume to
Speaker 1: know what exactly their whole packages are right now. But
Speaker 1: you love everything about both of those guys on the
Speaker 1: field and the classroom. They're smart, they understand football, They're
Speaker 1: they're passionate about it. They want to be good, they
Speaker 1: want to work, and so we just gotta keep developing
Speaker 1: and building up. Next, coach talked about the benefit of
Speaker 1: size up front on the offensive line, and how the
Speaker 1: offense can go through the running game to create play
Speaker 1: action opportunities, and how the entire balance of the offense
Speaker 1: depends on itself. Well, hopefully it's gonna help us overalls
Speaker 1: and offense. You know those big guys too, they gotta pass,
Speaker 1: protect and and those kind of things. So I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna factor into the run game as well as
Speaker 1: the pass game, and then hopefully we have some play
Speaker 1: actions in there too. So the better we run the ball,
Speaker 1: the more we'll be able to play action ass off
Speaker 1: of it, and we'll still be able to drop back,
Speaker 1: pass and do some things. So I think, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we've gotten better. I think in that, but again, we
Speaker 1: don't know really how much better yet until we start
Speaker 1: doing some more things and pass. We've only had a
Speaker 1: few days in past, so we gotta keep building this.
Speaker 1: But um, I like the direction that goes. I think
Speaker 1: there's a good mix with what the offensive line and
Speaker 1: the backs are figuring out from each other right now.
Speaker 1: We just we still gotta keep working on And as
Speaker 1: I record this podcast, I'm drinking a diet pepsi out
Speaker 1: of my Washington State Cougars Cuzy. Here is coach talking
Speaker 1: about Washington Husky Miles Gaskin, and I'll go back to
Speaker 1: crying into my DIEPEPSI thinking about those four Apple cups
Speaker 1: he once ruined for Washington State Cougar fans and alumni everywhere.
Speaker 1: You know, Miles. Miles has done a great job. I think, uh,
Speaker 1: so far and what we've done, I think he's, you know,
Speaker 1: head and shoulders above where he was at this time
Speaker 1: last year. I think, you know, the work and the
Speaker 1: effort that he puts into the game, and the passion
Speaker 1: that he has to want to work and to want
Speaker 1: to be good at this and to get everything, I
Speaker 1: think has started to really show. And he invested in
Speaker 1: himself last year and is paying off for him now.
Speaker 1: He's playing more confident, he's playing faster, and I think
Speaker 1: we're seeing some of the skill set that that he's
Speaker 1: had in the past. We're starting to see now what
Speaker 1: really some of his potential is. And we'll go ahead
Speaker 1: and finish this one up with a question from yours truly. Hey, coach,
Speaker 1: you want to go back to Jordan Howard here again.
Speaker 1: You touched on his vision a little bit there in
Speaker 1: the first question. Is that something that's just inherent in
Speaker 1: the back or can he kind of help impart some
Speaker 1: of that wisdom on the rest of the room and
Speaker 1: the way he reads blocks and sets things up. Well,
Speaker 1: a lot of it is is reactions and what they do.
Speaker 1: But certainly we have things that we're looking at as
Speaker 1: to what how a play is designed. I mean we
Speaker 1: talked about that a lot of times and meetings. Hey,
Speaker 1: where what are eyes doing? What are we thinking here? Um?
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of people that can know
Speaker 1: what the place you're doing. Then there's a difference in
Speaker 1: the guys that can make the play do what it's
Speaker 1: supposed to do. And Jordan's has that ability to find
Speaker 1: holes to create for himself. He's got good feed in line. Um,
Speaker 1: he has. He has what we call vision and be
Speaker 1: able to find things up. Next, we have Coach Marshall
Speaker 1: the offensive line, and at yesterday's practice, I noticed Eric
Speaker 1: Flowers coming out of the building with this band and
Speaker 1: harness apparatus that he was carrying all by himself out there,
Speaker 1: and I didn't think much of it, but then late
Speaker 1: on Wednesday night, I saw a tweet from Omar Kelly
Speaker 1: of the South Florida Sun Sentinel where he talked about
Speaker 1: the Dolphins offensive line working every day after practice and
Speaker 1: Eric Flowers kind of being the ring leader, the leader
Speaker 1: of that group, getting those young guys the extra reps.
Speaker 1: And I went back and found this quote that I
Speaker 1: found from Bill Callahan, the interim head coach last year
Speaker 1: and former offensive line coach up in Washington with Eric Flowers.
Speaker 1: Here's what he had to say about Flowers quote. I
Speaker 1: love Flowers. I loved him coming out of the draft.
Speaker 1: I think the world of him. He's physical, He's been
Speaker 1: really good in past protection. He's a strong square force
Speaker 1: in that respect. I just love the kid. I just
Speaker 1: like the way he works, how he goes about his business.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's a breath of fresh air. I've had a
Speaker 1: lot of guys in my career, a couple of different
Speaker 1: places that sometimes a different exposure to new techniques, a
Speaker 1: different system, it kind of revives them. He'll hit the
Speaker 1: free agency market and I think he'll do well. It's
Speaker 1: just going back to the work ethic and the fact
Speaker 1: that he's all about business we see on the practice
Speaker 1: field and the extra reps and him getting work with
Speaker 1: the younger guys. We also hear it here from coach
Speaker 1: Marshall talking about his new offensive Lineman and Eric Flowers. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it's huge, not only Eric and Ted
Speaker 1: and Jesse and some of the guys that have played
Speaker 1: in this league. Uh, it's it's really guys like that
Speaker 1: and help guys, you know, because those young guys, you know,
Speaker 1: they've had you know, three weeks work and it's a
Speaker 1: whole different ballgame. The speed is different, the obviously the
Speaker 1: size and the physical movement. Uh So yeah, every day, Uh,
Speaker 1: that not only helps them, they they give them a
Speaker 1: little uh tidbit and help him do with with fundamentals
Speaker 1: and technique and some of the things we're asking them
Speaker 1: to do. And then you know, that's what that's what
Speaker 1: that's what old line do. That that helps build camaraderie
Speaker 1: and all all the different aspects that that goes into
Speaker 1: playing offensive line in this league. Up next, coach talks
Speaker 1: about the evaluation so far of his three rookie draft
Speaker 1: picks along the offensive line, and Solomon Kinley, Robert Hunt
Speaker 1: and Austin Jackson. Uh, those three guys, if I have
Speaker 1: taken the role, you know, they're coming in and they're
Speaker 1: learning every day. Every every play is a new adventure
Speaker 1: for those guys. Uh, there were very good players at
Speaker 1: the last at college level, and uh, they're they're getting
Speaker 1: better every day. Uh their bright eyed, they learn and
Speaker 1: uh they're they're competing heart you know, I mean they're
Speaker 1: they're we've been pleased a guy that's just starting three
Speaker 1: days of pads and the flow in the hot Florida
Speaker 1: sun is Uh, he's a little bit of an eye
Speaker 1: opener for some of those guys. But uh uh they're
Speaker 1: fighting through it. And you're gonna kind of notice a
Speaker 1: theme here on these press availabilities, as these guys will
Speaker 1: talk about football and break the game down for you
Speaker 1: in a way that's easy to understand. Coach Marshall was
Speaker 1: asked about how he evaluates offensive lineman because there's not
Speaker 1: really a way to quantify how they perform. Here's what
Speaker 1: coach had to say about how he evaluates his offensive lineman. Well,
Speaker 1: it goes the skill set, it goes to smarts, that
Speaker 1: goes to toughness. Uh uh is he a team guy?
Speaker 1: And you know Cam uh is it Cameron? Yeah? He? Uh,
Speaker 1: those guys usually our team guys because you know they
Speaker 1: obviously as you know, they don't there's no stats involved
Speaker 1: with offensive line. You know, they try to make them
Speaker 1: with all these different different things. But the end of
Speaker 1: the day, the the best five guys that can block
Speaker 1: them all right, you can do it intelligently and do
Speaker 1: it over a long period of time are the ones
Speaker 1: that are very successful in this le And uh, that's
Speaker 1: what kind of we're trying to build filled with these guys.
Speaker 1: And that's the best I can tell you. There's they
Speaker 1: got to have the skill set, you know that it's
Speaker 1: it's bigger, faster, stronger. But there's a lot more that
Speaker 1: goes into an old line is all about intelligent, being
Speaker 1: able to work on your feet, being able to change,
Speaker 1: you know, doing things quickly, uh, mentally and physically. And
Speaker 1: here's some further evaluation on Dolphins fourth round draft pick
Speaker 1: out of Georgia Solomon Kinley. Well, Solomon is a guy.
Speaker 1: You know, if you went back and looked at him
Speaker 1: at Georgia, you know, he's a big man, he's smart,
Speaker 1: he's you know, he's a smart guy. He loves to
Speaker 1: play the game. And that's the one thing I think
Speaker 1: that uh, you know, for a twenty one year old
Speaker 1: kid that's that left college early to come to the NFL,
Speaker 1: he's got to want to be a very good player.
Speaker 1: But obviously he has physical attributes and skill set that
Speaker 1: that you know, my grandmother can see that. He's, you know,
Speaker 1: a big man. But the thing about Solomon he comes
Speaker 1: to work every day so far he is not we
Speaker 1: put a lot on him. We want to see where
Speaker 1: he is, and he's not back down a bit. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, every days an adventure for him. Joe, he's
Speaker 1: guy that you know, like you said, it's a whole
Speaker 1: new thing for him, a whole new Norman Clakes are
Speaker 1: a whole new thing. And and you know, uh, as
Speaker 1: rookies do, they have good plays, they have bad plays.
Speaker 1: And my job is to eliminate the bad ones and
Speaker 1: keep making the good ones better. And that's really where
Speaker 1: Solomon is, as is Rob and a j and some
Speaker 1: of the other young guys that are playing on the
Speaker 1: offensive play. And we'll go ahead and finish up with
Speaker 1: my question for coach Marshall. Hey, good morning, coach. How
Speaker 1: are you. What's up, Dravis? I were doing I'm doing well.
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you about the communication and protection
Speaker 1: calls up front and seeing a defense like the one
Speaker 1: that Flores and Boyer run with all those fronts and
Speaker 1: different rush packages, does that kind of help accelerate the
Speaker 1: growth of your young line up front. Oh, there's no
Speaker 1: doubt it starts. It starts, not just the young line,
Speaker 1: but you know, the whole group. You know you've got
Speaker 1: to be And as as we've all documented, part of
Speaker 1: offensive line play, you know, was more of the pre
Speaker 1: snap stuff than the post snap stuff. You come out
Speaker 1: of the huddle, Uh, they give you a specific look.
Speaker 1: We have to make a specific call based on that look,
Speaker 1: and especially in past protection, but also in the run game.
Speaker 1: So yes, there's a huge communication um uh factor that
Speaker 1: we go through, making sure it goes from the guard
Speaker 1: to the tackle to the guard, the center to the
Speaker 1: guard to the tackle. Um and making sure when when
Speaker 1: we get different looks like our defense does, they're very multiple.
Speaker 1: They give you a lot of different uh problems, And
Speaker 1: it's it's really part of the whole maturation process and
Speaker 1: learning process to get the line to come together. And
Speaker 1: a lot of it is just time on the job
Speaker 1: over and over again and seeing the different things that
Speaker 1: we've got to see and be able to handle and
Speaker 1: pass protection and and not andy obviously in the run
Speaker 1: game too, but past protection is really where that's the
Speaker 1: difference between pro ball and as opposed to kind of
Speaker 1: college ball. You know what these young guys have, but
Speaker 1: not only for that, but for the Ted Carresses and
Speaker 1: Eric Flowers and Jesse's and the guys that have had
Speaker 1: who are basically young veterans that you know every year. Again,
Speaker 1: the nomenclature and the different ways we say things and
Speaker 1: the different language that we use has got to be
Speaker 1: practiced in meetings and practiced in games to be able
Speaker 1: to handle all the different uh looks, some pressures you get.
Speaker 1: And we go hot change here and bringing coach Robbie Brown,
Speaker 1: the coach of the quarterback room, and we start with
Speaker 1: the question once again from yours truly. You know, I
Speaker 1: find the personality dynamic in that quarterback room pretty intriguing.
Speaker 1: And my question here is sort of two pronged. One,
Speaker 1: how are those personalities meshing? And do you find yourself
Speaker 1: not just teaching but also kind of learning from the
Speaker 1: cerebral guys you have in that room there and fits
Speaker 1: in Josh and Toua, well, the room does have a
Speaker 1: lot of personality, is fun to be in, and most
Speaker 1: quarterback rooms you go into you gotta be on your
Speaker 1: toes because they're witty. There. You know, you gotta know
Speaker 1: what you're saying, be ready for all kinds of comments
Speaker 1: and things like that. So it's a lot of fun
Speaker 1: being in there, being around them. It's fun watching them
Speaker 1: interact together, learn from each other, and yeah you I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously you're gonna learn something from every single guy, how
Speaker 1: they see things, how they process things. Uh So it
Speaker 1: has been a good time learning, seeing, teaching all three
Speaker 1: of those guests. I told some of the people in
Speaker 1: the building here how much I love Coordinator Day on
Speaker 1: the podcast or on media availability because you get so
Speaker 1: many inside techniques or inside ideas about how coaches think
Speaker 1: and how they evaluate. Here's Coach Brown talking about the
Speaker 1: quarterback room, quarterback play in general, and how they think
Speaker 1: and how they're wired in that competitive mindset. You see
Speaker 1: some good you see some throws that they wish they
Speaker 1: could do better. Um and and that's the way practice is,
Speaker 1: and that's the way games are. Every NFL quarterback is
Speaker 1: extremely competitive. So if they're fifty nine and sixty, they're
Speaker 1: worried about that one and it doesn't matter if it's
Speaker 1: Josh or Fits or two or whoever it is. Uh
Speaker 1: But I tell you, it's just been fun to get
Speaker 1: out there and be on the grass and see all
Speaker 1: three of them throws to see uh see a practice go.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's been fun for you guys as well,
Speaker 1: but UM, you know, we just got to try to
Speaker 1: get better each and every day, and all three of
Speaker 1: them in every aspect, whether it be calls and throws, footwork, everything,
Speaker 1: just trying to improve every single day. And we wrap
Speaker 1: up with coach Brown here with an evaluation on Josh
Speaker 1: Rose and entering your number two here with the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: He has come in mentally really trying to learn the offense,
Speaker 1: understand the offense. Uh. And just like the other two guys,
Speaker 1: he's made some good throws the past few days. He's
Speaker 1: made them not so great throws the past few days.
Speaker 1: But his effort to improve every day has been really good. Uh.
Speaker 1: Improve mentally, Uh, improve his throws, improve his footwork. He's
Speaker 1: always thinking through those kind of things. Um. And and
Speaker 1: I think really the mantra that that flow has put out, hey,
Speaker 1: let's go out there and get better today, I think
Speaker 1: he is really trying to do that and living by
Speaker 1: that rule and talking about the quarterbacks to the guys
Speaker 1: they throw too and the receivers and coach Josh Grizzard
Speaker 1: here is coach answering my question to start things off
Speaker 1: about Isaiah Ford. I wanted to ask you about Isaiah Ford.
Speaker 1: In a comment that Ryan Fitzpatrick made last December about
Speaker 1: his knowledge of the offense went as far as to
Speaker 1: call him special on the way he prepares and studies.
Speaker 1: Can you tell us what you see from Isaiah Ford
Speaker 1: in terms of a preparation standpoint and how he's able
Speaker 1: to really absorb the offense so comprehensively. Isaiah is a very,
Speaker 1: very smart football player. He completely understands not only his job,
Speaker 1: but the guy beside him. He might even be able
Speaker 1: to tell you what the old lines doing. He might
Speaker 1: tell you what the protection is, so he knows that
Speaker 1: because he studies it. He loves the game. He and
Speaker 1: I can see his gut coaching one day down the
Speaker 1: line and he um he does have elite knowledge of
Speaker 1: what we're doing, what his role is, and he's just
Speaker 1: enjoyed to be around because he understands it from our level.
Speaker 1: And next a question about coaches, focus on DeVante Parker
Speaker 1: and what he wants to work on and get better
Speaker 1: at this season to improve upon last year's breakout season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the fact that he's healthy last year and had all
Speaker 1: that success, it's beautiful to see this year that he's
Speaker 1: now more vocal. Um, you can tell that's coming along. Um.
Speaker 1: The first couple of weeks of camp really the same thing.
Speaker 1: And and guys gravitated that. The young guys that are around,
Speaker 1: they see that, they see the way he works. Um,
Speaker 1: he now understands, I think more than ever that not
Speaker 1: only is your job to get open to catch the ball,
Speaker 1: but if it's a concept that you need to go
Speaker 1: get doubled or you need to be in this spot
Speaker 1: to open it up for the next guy. He understands
Speaker 1: that side of it too. I think he understands defenses
Speaker 1: more than ever. So just seeing him take those strides
Speaker 1: has been good. Kind of just going down the roster
Speaker 1: here we did Isaiah Ford, DeVante Parker and now coach
Speaker 1: will talk about both Matt Cole and Gary Jennings. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Matt, Um, it's been good to actually get a
Speaker 1: chance to work with them and get to the point
Speaker 1: where we're putting the pads on. And what you see
Speaker 1: from Matt is Matt is a strong player. Um, he's
Speaker 1: an explosive guy. He can get in and out of
Speaker 1: breaks quickly and and we've been able to see that
Speaker 1: over the last few practices on the field. So just
Speaker 1: seeing that in person, and really the same thing of
Speaker 1: going from talking about this thing on zoom to give
Speaker 1: him the field of doing it has been has been good.
Speaker 1: And then to Gary, Uh, Gary's a tough player, he's physical, UM,
Speaker 1: a lot of the same things where sometimes you rather
Speaker 1: run through a guy than around him. So it's good
Speaker 1: to see that aspect of the game as well. And
Speaker 1: we'll just go ahead and keep on rolling here with
Speaker 1: Preston Williams. Yeah, I think that he's really just focused
Speaker 1: on the last few months of just getting back to
Speaker 1: where he was and and now that, um, he's working
Speaker 1: towards that. It's how can I run this route slightly differently,
Speaker 1: or if I'm seeing this coverage the same thing to
Speaker 1: the point I was making about Davante and really the
Speaker 1: rest of the group on it's not always me I
Speaker 1: gotta go beat this guy, but let me be in
Speaker 1: this spot so that this play is effective. So the
Speaker 1: Dolphins move the ball down the field, and I think
Speaker 1: he sees that more. He's seeing more defenses he's just
Speaker 1: putting that in his mind on catalog and they're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I can reach back to this at some point down
Speaker 1: the line on I've had that experience. So um, he's
Speaker 1: done a good job with that and just getting that
Speaker 1: feel for it. Ums has been his main thing and
Speaker 1: one more coach to get here to the tight ends
Speaker 1: coach George Gotzi talked about Adam Shaheen to kick things
Speaker 1: off here, but just in general the way coach breaks
Speaker 1: things down from a football perspective, really good insight here
Speaker 1: from the Dolphins tight end coach. Here he is talking
Speaker 1: about new tight end Adam Shaheen. Well, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: he's he's gradually grasping the offense. You know, Unfortunately for Adam,
Speaker 1: uh you know, it wasn't here in the spring, so
Speaker 1: to be able to digest that amount of time that
Speaker 1: we spent in these virtual meetings he's put He's put
Speaker 1: a lot of effort and uh, you know, really commend
Speaker 1: him on on catching up honestly from a mental standpoint,
Speaker 1: and then you know physically, Uh, there's there's obviously some
Speaker 1: history of him not being out there from the field.
Speaker 1: He's been working hard in the training room and to
Speaker 1: get out there, continue to improve his reps, and then
Speaker 1: continue to show some production from especially a blocking standpoint. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's hard in the preseason to get everybody
Speaker 1: the ball. Um. He has definitely some uh you know,
Speaker 1: touchdown background, let's call it in the NFL. Also, we
Speaker 1: know he can he can catch the ball. Um. But
Speaker 1: you know, when you're trying to evaluate, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: an extra group of running backs, some extra receivers, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, all the different quarterbacks trying to rotate that.
Speaker 1: There's it's complex and getting you know, the ball distributed
Speaker 1: to everybody. So, um, we're gonna take it, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: one day at a time. But you know, you bring
Speaker 1: up some good points there as far as him improving
Speaker 1: day to day, and we've got about two more weeks
Speaker 1: for that to to keep going before it's you know,
Speaker 1: season time. Last week, coach joked with Cameron Wolf of
Speaker 1: ESPN about his backdrop in the balcony and how inviting
Speaker 1: it looked. Cam didn't have that backdrop this time, but
Speaker 1: Coach did joke with him about his traps and how
Speaker 1: they're looking better. A George don't have a balcony in
Speaker 1: the backdrop this week, but that's where I traps look
Speaker 1: a little bigger. Though. UM, I want to ask you,
Speaker 1: I guess you got you got It seems like you
Speaker 1: have guys that may not necessarily be in your room
Speaker 1: full time, but may play some some h back or
Speaker 1: some move tight end. You know, maybe like a mac
Speaker 1: Hollins or like a Chandler Cop. How do you work
Speaker 1: with those guys? Google? Like you said, like I said,
Speaker 1: may not be in your room full time, but maybe
Speaker 1: play some tight end roles. Yeah, that that's a This
Speaker 1: is a very complicated thing with really every club. It's
Speaker 1: you know, the hybrid players, um, you know, and being
Speaker 1: able to um, let's say, adapt to another another role.
Speaker 1: So you know, potentially could Chandler Cox carry the football,
Speaker 1: so he's got to learn some running back stuff from
Speaker 1: a protection standpoint, from a running back landmark standpoint. Um.
Speaker 1: And then the tight end role. You know, obviously there's
Speaker 1: on the line, there's extended as a technically they're tight
Speaker 1: ends in the in the media guy, but they could
Speaker 1: be extended and play essentially a receiver or detached eligible position.
Speaker 1: So um. And then you know, as a tight end,
Speaker 1: does you get off the ball and get into a
Speaker 1: position to to block as a fullback. So, um, you know,
Speaker 1: it takes obviously a lot of extra time. And you know,
Speaker 1: when we're talking about being physical, obviously the fullback and
Speaker 1: the tight end, those two positions have a lot of
Speaker 1: merging roles. So those two guys essentially, or those two
Speaker 1: positions are are in this room and it's it's you know,
Speaker 1: something that I say. I may be talking to Chandler,
Speaker 1: but I'm really speaking to the whole room so that
Speaker 1: they hear the point. Because you know, I always bring
Speaker 1: up as you may get up to bat and face
Speaker 1: you know, three straight fastballs, but you know at some
Speaker 1: point you're going to face the curveball, and if you're
Speaker 1: not listening to a correction that was made to another player,
Speaker 1: then you know we're not going to be ready for
Speaker 1: that pitch or that defense. So to say so, um,
Speaker 1: it's definitely a burden for those guys when they're sitting
Speaker 1: there in the meeting room and you're really addressing a
Speaker 1: certain player, but for them to process that information and
Speaker 1: put them in that spot. Um, you know, that's how
Speaker 1: that whole room improves from, like you said, a toughness
Speaker 1: or physical standpoint, especially in the run game and the
Speaker 1: next question for coach had to deal with Dolphins third
Speaker 1: year tight end Durham Smith and an overall evaluation of
Speaker 1: what he brings to the Miami tight end room. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean the whole room is essentially a young room.
Speaker 1: And so I see those guys improving, um in all phases, uh,
Speaker 1: every day. And you know there's a certain degree in
Speaker 1: the run game, uh or if we're speaking to Derham specifically,
Speaker 1: that he's able to provide for us maybe a little
Speaker 1: bit differently than um, Michael, uh say. And then there's
Speaker 1: also some things that he can do, um that maybe
Speaker 1: Michael you can't do. So UM. He's concentrating on, you know,
Speaker 1: some of the weaknesses from last year and improving those.
Speaker 1: But professional and mental standpoint, this guy is as sharp
Speaker 1: as anybody in our offensive room. UM. You know, he
Speaker 1: understands defenses, he understands techniques. UM. And again to Cameron's question,
Speaker 1: when you're blocking all those different angles inserta and as
Speaker 1: a fullback on the point of attack, as a tight end,
Speaker 1: you know, that's just that's not like a one stop
Speaker 1: shop like and to process that and understand what exactly
Speaker 1: those players are doing. UM. You know, I took my
Speaker 1: hat to Durham because sometimes it's a thankless job because
Speaker 1: it doesn't show up in the staff book eight catches.
Speaker 1: Um uh, you know, for whatever yards. But he's a
Speaker 1: big part of us of being successful. Run play action
Speaker 1: and you know, when the ball is thrown to him,
Speaker 1: he gets his opportunity. He's got to take advantage of it,
Speaker 1: which you know he's shown a little bit of that
Speaker 1: here in these first few days. With paths up next
Speaker 1: a question from once again yours truly, Hey, coach, I
Speaker 1: want to kind of continue that theme about talking about
Speaker 1: the way Mike and Durham kind of balance each other
Speaker 1: because we saw the versatility last year with Mike playing
Speaker 1: a lot out wide in the slot in line and
Speaker 1: I'm curious, when you're in twelve personnel there with two
Speaker 1: tight ends, how important is it to have some type
Speaker 1: of balance in both play style and body type and
Speaker 1: those two tight ends on the field. It's it's extremely important. UM.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't want to loaded boxes what we
Speaker 1: say when everybody just comes down there and plays it
Speaker 1: on and you know, if you're if you're facing a
Speaker 1: defense that UM wants to respect your ability to threaten
Speaker 1: them vertically essentially in the passing game, then we need
Speaker 1: to have you know, enough hands on hands or hats
Speaker 1: on hats from a blocking standpoint to be able to
Speaker 1: allow us to run for some yards. So the tight
Speaker 1: end position, you know, it's it's a threat initially because
Speaker 1: we're on the line of scrimmage for the most part
Speaker 1: um and we're able to get into the defense a
Speaker 1: little bit different from a full back position because we're
Speaker 1: now you know, at let's call level two, level three
Speaker 1: in the backfield dependent on exactly the position, um. So
Speaker 1: the tight end position is a vital position to providing
Speaker 1: that pass and run threat um. So it's it's it's
Speaker 1: extremely important for both of those guys to excel at
Speaker 1: both run and pass. You know, albeit they're they're blocking
Speaker 1: different players at certain times, sometimes dvs, sometimes defensive alignment,
Speaker 1: and you know, that's our job to put those guys
Speaker 1: in positions where we feel like either most effective versus
Speaker 1: that defense. And now you have it. If you want
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Speaker 1: Wacky races in South Florida. You can host an Animal
Speaker 1: Planet show from the garage at the Nova Southeastern campus
Speaker 1: where we park for Dolphins facility Dolphins practice, everything dolphins related.
Speaker 1: I found a raccoon in Iguana. There are straight cats
Speaker 1: out there, there's ducks walking around. I have seen pretty
Speaker 1: much every kind of animal you can imagine out in
Speaker 1: that garage. Might have to pull Steve Irwin side episode
Speaker 1: here of the Drivetime podcast one of these days. Number three.
Speaker 1: Always be privy of the weather report, because I've been
Speaker 1: caught out in the rain on jogs on my walk
Speaker 1: from the facility out here to the podcast studio, I
Speaker 1: get caught in the rain as much as anybody I
Speaker 1: feel like, and that's a South Florida lesson. Number one.
Speaker 1: Be aware of the weather report and probably always have
Speaker 1: an umbrella. Also, enjoy the tame temperatures. Number four here
Speaker 1: because on Wednesday's practice, the sun was a little bit
Speaker 1: of cloud coverage out there, there was a cool breeze,
Speaker 1: and my goodness, it was so much more enjoyable than
Speaker 1: sitting out in the hot, baking sun and that just
Speaker 1: thick heat and humidity so when you get those days,
Speaker 1: you really have to enjoy them. Number five, This is
Speaker 1: probably not South Florida, but more of just living in
Speaker 1: a gated complex. Do not order food delivery service. If
Speaker 1: you live in a gated complex, it never gets there.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, for three, I'm just gonna have to
Speaker 1: go start driving two places, which is kind of a
Speaker 1: bummer because I get home late. I don't want to
Speaker 1: go cook. I don't want to go out to a restaurant.
Speaker 1: So I need that delivery service, but it's just not
Speaker 1: working out for me. Number six, being a fan of
Speaker 1: a West Coast team is just not possible if you
Speaker 1: have an alarm clock to wake up to the next morning.
Speaker 1: Trying to watch my marriage games, I fall asleep in
Speaker 1: the fifth or sixth ending almost every single night. They
Speaker 1: started most of those games at nine forty Eastern time.
Speaker 1: I just can't make it because I'm in bed by
Speaker 1: eleven even at the latest. And this one from my wife.
Speaker 1: I was surprised by this comment. She said, people out
Speaker 1: here are nicer. Do you guys have that same experience?
Speaker 1: People in South Florida are nicer than other parts of
Speaker 1: the country, That's what she said. She said that that
Speaker 1: is what she said. She said that was her experience
Speaker 1: at Target and place different stories. She went to Like
Speaker 1: Home Goods. She said everybody was super nice and like
Speaker 1: greeted her and was very kind to her that way.
Speaker 1: So those are my South Florida lessons so far. Let
Speaker 1: me know what you think about those on Twitter. Let
Speaker 1: me know if you think they're wrong, if I should
Speaker 1: change those, if I should add more to them. I
Speaker 1: want to hear your takes on South Florida from the
Speaker 1: folks that live here. As for today's podcast, that is
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