Speaker 1: To on the move, galling deep, speedless Peace doll from
Speaker 1: the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. He's joy my hav
Speaker 2: hands in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: What is up Dolphins? And welcome to the Drift Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and on today's show.
Speaker 1: And then there was just one remaining one preseason game,
Speaker 1: that is, but the Dolphins do notch another exhibition win.
Speaker 1: They go right down the field on the opening drive.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you the things I liked from a general standpoint,
Speaker 1: go over the game numbers, hear from some of the guys,
Speaker 1: and break down the hits and misses on the night.
Speaker 1: From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1: This is the Draft Time Podcast. This is kind of
Speaker 1: what you get in the preseason, right, A little bit
Speaker 1: of fireworks early on, and then three or so quarters
Speaker 1: of not much, and especially when you get so depleted
Speaker 1: by the numbers that you wind up using a receiver,
Speaker 1: a rookie receiver nonetheless, as you're running back throughout most
Speaker 1: of the second half of that game and being down
Speaker 1: to one tight end in the game, previous and just
Speaker 1: being so thin across the board that there's just not
Speaker 1: much you can do from an offensive standpoint, and we
Speaker 1: see teams that aren't that banged up have the same
Speaker 1: number of struggles. But Jakwan Burton, tip of the cap
Speaker 1: to you, sir. You got Seth Levitt's game ball on
Speaker 1: the postgame show for the work you did. We saw
Speaker 1: him on the sideline getting coached up from Eric Studisville
Speaker 1: to go play running back up position that he actually
Speaker 1: since high.
Speaker 2: School college has never played.
Speaker 1: So good for him for getting Miami through a game
Speaker 1: that has to be played through the end of the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter by NFL laws and rules. So that was
Speaker 1: one of the things that most throughout the course of
Speaker 1: the night and a thirteen to six victory for the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. Let's go over the numbers here. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about some general thoughts and some individual evaluations and here
Speaker 1: from TUA and head coach Mike McDaniel. So the Commanders
Speaker 1: had twelve firs first downs to Miami's check that the
Speaker 1: Commanders had seventeen first downs to Miami's twelve. They were
Speaker 1: five for eighteen on third down, Miami just four for fifteen.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins did convert two fourth downs, however, both of
Speaker 1: those on the Tua Tunga Bai Lowa drive to kick
Speaker 1: off the game. The Commanders were one for two on
Speaker 1: fourth down. The Commanders did outgain Miami three forty to
Speaker 1: two eighty eight, and that includes two to twenty nine
Speaker 1: through the air one eleven on the ground to Miami's
Speaker 1: two two and eighty six through the air and on
Speaker 1: the ground, respectively. Both teams turned the football over twice.
Speaker 1: Both teams had their quarterbacks sacked four times. The Dolphins
Speaker 1: had six fouls for fifty five yards and possessed the
Speaker 1: ball for twenty eight and a half minutes in the game.
Speaker 1: So not really worth going through all the stats in
Speaker 1: a game like that, but worth the note of record,
Speaker 1: I think in any game that you cover here as
Speaker 1: a podcaster and someone that covers this team. But more importantly,
Speaker 1: what these games are for is for the evaluation of
Speaker 1: what you might get in a month from now, or
Speaker 1: check that in three weeks, as when you hear this
Speaker 1: podcast on Sunday morning or sometime on Sunday, you'll be
Speaker 1: three weeks away from the opener against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 1: And some things that I liked about what I saw
Speaker 1: in this game, just the design on both sides of
Speaker 1: the football. I mentioned on the stadium walk and talk portion,
Speaker 1: or the second week of doing that walking from my
Speaker 1: car in the parking lot up to the stadium, that
Speaker 1: one of the very best things about this team is
Speaker 1: the ability to scheme things up. And that's offensively and
Speaker 1: defensively and for the offense. I mean and again like
Speaker 1: I love, I love measuring this. It's a little bit
Speaker 1: of tip of the cap to yourself on your own show,
Speaker 1: talking to yourself at twelve fifty one am in a
Speaker 1: building where no one's in here, but you know, confirmation
Speaker 1: of some of the things we talked about all camp long.
Speaker 1: Devon a chan being you utilized in more of a
Speaker 1: receiving role, catching a pass up the perimeter against cover
Speaker 1: two where he's flexed out and beating cornerbacks and safeties.
Speaker 1: Tua on the quick RPO pop that can flicts defenders
Speaker 1: in so many ways where his eyes are going one
Speaker 1: way and there's two routes and two positions, and he
Speaker 1: can hold those defenders and manipulate them with his eyes
Speaker 1: and his body position. The deadliness of our quick game
Speaker 1: and John new Smith's incorporation in the quick game with
Speaker 1: the jet motion pop pass or Julian hill on little
Speaker 1: bootleg play action under route, or he catches that thing
Speaker 1: and turns into a runaway truck on the freeway man.
Speaker 1: The way we can tilt the field with speed and
Speaker 1: the counter of power to that. You really see the
Speaker 1: areas this team went after this offseason, at least one
Speaker 1: of them to better round out the offense. And truth
Speaker 1: be told, we haven't really seen the next part of
Speaker 1: that with Odell Beckham Junior, except for today we kind
Speaker 1: of did. When Eric Azukama, who has leaping ability, vertical
Speaker 1: threat ability, high pointing ability, all the things that not
Speaker 1: many other guys on this roster feature, he kind of
Speaker 1: gives you some of what OBJ offers in that vertical
Speaker 1: threat in the presence of getting downfield on top of
Speaker 1: having reek and waddle. I think you saw a proof
Speaker 1: of concept in that with Eric Azukama in the game today,
Speaker 1: and hopefully he can keep going forward with that performance
Speaker 1: and become a real threat on this team. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about him more in just a second, but outside of
Speaker 1: that vertical threat, the three receiver I mean eight chan
Speaker 1: is a pass receiver and why you draft Jalen Wright
Speaker 1: to give him more opportunities in that role.
Speaker 2: John Us Smith, I mean you've seen it now.
Speaker 1: I you know, we can't talk about it in training camp,
Speaker 1: but orbit motion, return motion, jet motion handoffs. It's doing
Speaker 1: a lot of that stuff I talked about on the
Speaker 1: postgame show. How I you know, you go back to
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one when Mike McDaniel, you know, he was
Speaker 1: a de facto OC slash like Kyle Shanahan's right hand man,
Speaker 1: but in twenty twenty one became the actual OC and
Speaker 1: he was the one that was adamant about Deebo Sam
Speaker 1: going from fourteen carries as a rookie to eight carries
Speaker 1: as a sophomore to fifty one carries in this third
Speaker 1: season and his a breakout all Pro fourteen hundred receiving yard,
Speaker 1: eight billion touchdowns whatever he scored that year in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one for the Niners en route to an NFC
Speaker 1: Championship Game appearance. I thought that that was just super
Speaker 1: instructive to what we've seen the John Ruis Smith and
Speaker 1: how he can impact the game and have the flow
Speaker 1: of his motion pre snap or his ability to lap
Speaker 1: in the short screen game and catch balls and break
Speaker 1: tackles off the backside of the formation when it's tilted
Speaker 1: towards Reekan Waddle. It's really impressive. And then where I
Speaker 1: think River Craycraft is right now with his game, I
Speaker 1: think it could all be a glimpse of what's to come.
Speaker 1: Because that look you got from Craycraft there, and McDaniel
Speaker 1: talked about the great route that he ran on that play,
Speaker 1: the release he had in the play, I should say
Speaker 1: you're going to get that look from anybody that plays
Speaker 1: that position. When you have Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle
Speaker 1: on the field on the opposite side of the field,
Speaker 1: they are going to send safety help to the speed
Speaker 1: side and your backside, your boundary. The short side of
Speaker 1: the field is going to be a one on one
Speaker 1: coverage opportunity a lot of the time. And craig Craft
Speaker 1: sells the inside slant, breaks the outside release and gets
Speaker 1: that leverage and stack and makes a beautiful catch over
Speaker 1: the shoulder on a perfect ball from to a tongue
Speaker 1: of Iloa. That was something we didn't have in the
Speaker 1: bag last year, whether it was craig Craft or Barrios
Speaker 1: or Cedrick Wilson. We weren't making those plays last year,
Speaker 1: So for Craycraft to get in that position I thought
Speaker 1: was really cool and a really good testament to his skill.
Speaker 1: So let's go ahead and hear from Tua Tongue of Iloa,
Speaker 1: who touched on where River Craycraft is right now the
Speaker 1: best he's seen of the form Washington State Cougar.
Speaker 3: Going on to the third year that I've been able
Speaker 3: to compete with River and see River, I think this
Speaker 3: is probably the best training camp that Rivers had. The
Speaker 3: mental stamina and the mental strength that he has to
Speaker 3: come out every day and really work. I just think
Speaker 3: that's where his growth has come from. A lot is
Speaker 3: the mental aspect of it.
Speaker 1: And then additionally from this offense, you see the way
Speaker 1: they can manufacture pockets in the short game. The very
Speaker 1: first three that Scalar Thompson made was an errant deep
Speaker 1: ball where he had space to throw that thing out
Speaker 1: there for Brotheran Sanders, but he threw it too far
Speaker 1: back inside off the hash when he had the defender
Speaker 1: stacked on his back heading towards the perimeter, and also
Speaker 1: had him a Leake Washington wide open on the crosser goal.
Speaker 1: In the other direction. It just looked like our offense
Speaker 1: in general, though, whether it was two Oz with the
Speaker 1: ones or Skylar with the ones. With those you know,
Speaker 1: impactful pre snap plays where the motion and the ball
Speaker 1: quickness gets out and makes the offensive line completely irrelevant
Speaker 1: in the play. It's weird how that works. Or the
Speaker 1: play where they get a two man shot call in
Speaker 1: the route concept with max protection where they give Scalar
Speaker 1: Thompson a a whole century's worth of time to throw
Speaker 1: from back there. I couldn't find the word it's twelve
Speaker 1: fifty six am. I just think it looked like you're
Speaker 1: going to see in the regular season, at least a
Speaker 1: glimpse of it, and good execution and doing that when
Speaker 1: you had critical or key parts of the offense actually
Speaker 1: on the field for the Dolphins. I also thought the
Speaker 1: defensive system around the two linebackers Jordan Brooks and David
Speaker 1: Long Junior looked like I thought it was going to.
Speaker 1: Was there a play where Brooks did not come downhill
Speaker 1: on a blitz, I don't remember, except for the second drive,
Speaker 1: he might have had a couple, but the first drive
Speaker 1: he was mugged up and he was rushing and he
Speaker 1: was setting picks and he was basically putting himself into
Speaker 1: blockers to create runs and chances for other guys. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to watch it on tape because the way
Speaker 1: he played the game and how fast he played and
Speaker 1: how physical and connected. I mean, the way that those
Speaker 1: guys speed. It's the pillar, the pillars of this team,
Speaker 1: the words that are up on the wall in the building. Fast, physical,
Speaker 1: and elite technique. That's those three players, two players to
Speaker 1: a t, or those those two players fit those three
Speaker 1: things to a t. It's twelve fifty seven, Am, and
Speaker 1: I don't think it's an accident that Joe Barry gets
Speaker 1: the call as linebackers coach and run game coordinator. And
Speaker 1: you see where he's been in the linebackers he's had
Speaker 1: in Green Bay previously and Tampa going back to you know,
Speaker 1: the Derek Brooks day, like he wants guys to can
Speaker 1: play vertical upfield and downfield and siling the sideline in
Speaker 1: those instances, the cover two, the Tampa two pipe linebacker
Speaker 1: running vertical down the field to take away seam shots
Speaker 1: like yeah, that's where he came from and cut his
Speaker 1: teeth in that cloth. But he still kind of utilizes
Speaker 1: players that have similar skill sets because it expands how
Speaker 1: much space the defense can cover, and those guys' ability
Speaker 1: both Brooks and Long to impact the game as rushers
Speaker 1: but also peel off into coverage is exactly what you need.
Speaker 1: There was a screen where Brooks went and took on
Speaker 1: two blockers and freed up d Long. I just am very,
Speaker 1: very excited about what I think are two of the
Speaker 1: most instinctive linebackers in the game, two of the fastest
Speaker 1: linebackers in the game, and two of the most physical
Speaker 1: linebackers in the game, and what they do for the system.
Speaker 1: And to that point, I thought we saw plenty of
Speaker 1: the same pillars that we've long speculated on this podcast
Speaker 1: of what Anthony Weaver's defense might look like. You know,
Speaker 1: the Cam Smith pass breakup was a very well timed
Speaker 1: slot blitz from I think it was Cater Kohu. I
Speaker 1: could be wrong on who that was. When you know
Speaker 1: you're going to get the quarterback hot, it helps the
Speaker 1: defensive back commit to a specific route. I know they're
Speaker 1: I'm pressed, they're probably gonna go vertical. I'm off, They're
Speaker 1: probably gonna throw a short route and I can rally
Speaker 1: up and tackle. There's not gonna be double moves. That
Speaker 1: forces you to play with hesitancy. It allows everyone to
Speaker 1: play fast and smart and see it and go get ball.
Speaker 1: And there was another stick check down where Cam was
Speaker 1: in that off cloud position where he rallied up and
Speaker 1: made a tackle short of the sticks on third and long.
Speaker 1: And then yeah, the speed off the edge, like that's obvious,
Speaker 1: but you saw real glimpses of that tonight with those
Speaker 1: linebackers and with the edge rushers and Mow and Chop
Speaker 1: both causing issues. More on those guys in the individuals.
Speaker 1: I just think we got more confirmation tonight on things
Speaker 1: that we've talked about since February and March with the
Speaker 1: coaching additions and free agent acquisitions into April with a draft,
Speaker 1: and I'm really excited about what I'm seeing in that regard.
Speaker 1: I also was a fan of the short, poochy laser kickoffs,
Speaker 1: whatever the hell you want to call those things, and
Speaker 1: the way we covered them, because we had four kickoffs
Speaker 1: in this game, and their kickoffs or their drives after
Speaker 1: kick returns began at the twenty, the twenty two, the
Speaker 1: twenty three, and the twenty three yard line, and last
Speaker 1: week in the preseason across the National Football League, the
Speaker 1: average starting field position for all the teams was their
Speaker 1: own twenty nine yard line, so every single play was
Speaker 1: at least six yards behind that, and the average was
Speaker 1: more like eight yards behind that. A couple of things
Speaker 1: I didn't think were great. Not a lot of good
Speaker 1: surge in the running game, with some guys that are
Speaker 1: going to play some time, and notably you know, Kendall
Speaker 1: Lamb and Austin Jackson on the offensive line are probably
Speaker 1: gonna play this year, along with you know, Rob Jones
Speaker 1: getting some time out there, and Lea Mikenberger center opposed
Speaker 1: to being at right garb he has been most of camp.
Speaker 1: I thought there was just a lack of surge. And
Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna complain about the complaints about the
Speaker 1: offensive line and how much it's going to, you know,
Speaker 1: make this team not be able to click, even though
Speaker 1: it's you have two years of proof of concept. That's
Speaker 1: not correct. But I will, Bill Cater, I will bend
Speaker 1: the knee at the idea that where you get your
Speaker 1: shortcomings from the way this team is built philosophically is
Speaker 1: going to be in short yardage and when you have
Speaker 1: true dropback situations on third and longs or in obvious
Speaker 1: passing situations where you can get exposed on one on
Speaker 1: one matchups. But my counterpoint is that you don't see
Speaker 1: very many of those situations, and when you have John
Speaker 1: Smith and Odell Beckham and Devon Hian in the passing game,
Speaker 1: with Jalen Wright in the additions, you have there that
Speaker 1: can help you get out of those situations by being
Speaker 1: more effective in the other situations, and it gives you
Speaker 1: more answers when you are in those situations. I also
Speaker 1: thought defensively, it was kind of annoying how unable they
Speaker 1: were to stop Jeff Driscoll from running around.
Speaker 2: For instance.
Speaker 1: You know he's not a running quarterback, but he made
Speaker 1: it look like it, even when Daniel Jones stumbling bumbling
Speaker 1: all the way through the secondary and outran both Zee
Speaker 1: Vandenberg and Duke Riley, so that was kind of just annoying.
Speaker 1: I thought Brian Robinson's ability to break tackles and the
Speaker 1: kind of slow where run fits early on wasn't great either.
Speaker 1: I'm excited to go home and watch that on tape
Speaker 1: and kind of see what it actually looked like, because
Speaker 1: live it looked bad. But I want to get a
Speaker 1: better look at it. Just two things that I wasn't
Speaker 1: pleased with the overall surge and the offensive line and
Speaker 1: the running game and short yardage and really overall all
Speaker 1: night long, and then the inabilities top throw on the
Speaker 1: other side of the football against a commander's team and
Speaker 1: Brian Robinson, let's go ahead and take our first break
Speaker 1: right there, come back on the other side, talk a
Speaker 1: why the players it stood out the players that I
Speaker 1: thought missed in this one. That's all Next Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by autotation.
Speaker 4: Probably the least amount of nerves that he's had the
Speaker 4: first time stepping out on the football field. I thought
Speaker 4: it was just us executing some some of our Day
Speaker 4: one concepts and and he you know, didn't force any issues.
Speaker 4: I really liked his decisions. I like this ball placement.
Speaker 4: I thought he did a good job and his I
Speaker 4: think eleven reps. So it was nice to see him
Speaker 4: out there and connecting some passes. I know he was
Speaker 4: fired up.
Speaker 1: That was head coach Mike McDaniel talking about his quarterback
Speaker 1: playing his first action since the shoot the playoff game
Speaker 1: back in Kansas City. In terms of playing a live
Speaker 1: actual game. Tula goes five for five on the day,
Speaker 1: fifty one yards a touchdown pass, the only touchdown in
Speaker 1: the entire game. No Reek, no Waddle, no te Stead,
Speaker 1: no win, no Aaron Brewer, and by the way, just
Speaker 1: a casual, perfect drive with a perfect dot off the
Speaker 1: top to start that drive. Also had a little no
Speaker 1: look action on that first play of the game with
Speaker 1: the quick best ball handling in the league to River
Speaker 1: cray Craft, and then finish it off with the touchdown
Speaker 1: pass to cray Craft on fourth down with a just
Speaker 1: perfectly perfectly located football there from Twua, who played on
Speaker 1: time in rhythm, mitigated pressure on a couple of plays
Speaker 1: as well, just at everything that you've come to expect
Speaker 1: from him. And the part of that McDaniel SoundBite that
Speaker 1: I really thought was interesting was the limited amount of
Speaker 1: jitters that Tua experienced or displayed early in this game,
Speaker 1: because that's something that he's kind of talked about and
Speaker 1: you know, they've you know, bandied about it between Tua
Speaker 1: and McDaniel and getting two down himself in certain spots.
Speaker 1: I just wonder how much of Tua having a full
Speaker 1: commitment from the organization and the coaching staff and everyone
Speaker 1: knowing this is his team, how much that might kind
Speaker 1: of elevate his game, and the pushback on that I
Speaker 1: might be, well, he shouldn't care about that stuff.
Speaker 2: Well, human beings are human beings. And I think that his.
Speaker 1: Being accepted by all those people I just mentioned are
Speaker 1: going to go a long way into his confidence. And
Speaker 1: when you play confidence, you play better football. And we
Speaker 1: are seeing the fruits of that labor, if you will,
Speaker 1: And I am very excited for you guys to all
Speaker 1: get a chance to see what I've seen this entire
Speaker 1: summer and back in spring. A better version of Tua
Speaker 1: and being even better than last year's quarterback that led
Speaker 1: the NFL in passing yards and better than the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two quarterback led the NFL and passer rating. He
Speaker 1: just looks like I expected a top seven or eight
Speaker 1: quarterback in the National Football League. And just a quick
Speaker 1: note right here, we're gonna play some sound from Tua.
Speaker 1: I saw this on the on the tweet that I
Speaker 1: sent out of Tua coming out with the Dolphins lineup
Speaker 1: out of the tunnel tonight. If Liam's playing center, you
Speaker 1: better not play Tua. I just every year, you know,
Speaker 1: I say that I say, can't we learn from the
Speaker 1: previous year, And I just generally think it's not happening
Speaker 1: a lot across like most fan bases, And it looks
Speaker 1: like that'll be the case again this year because I
Speaker 1: saw that argument, like if so and so is not playing,
Speaker 1: you can't play to a.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: We just saw it. Why it doesn't matter at least
Speaker 1: in this instance. But whatever, I have some thoughts on that,
Speaker 1: but I'll save my entire rant. I won't use it
Speaker 1: on a preseason game where they executed one drive. I'll
Speaker 1: wait until they come out and tear teams up and
Speaker 1: go on another record's heading pace and score the most
Speaker 1: points in the league and the most yards again, and
Speaker 1: then I'll go ahead and do that rant once again.
Speaker 1: But even Tua is tired of hearing about how you're
Speaker 1: doing this when certain guys aren't available.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not the first time we've not had those
Speaker 3: guys in there, and we've played it and we've scored.
Speaker 3: You know, would it be good to have those guys.
Speaker 3: It'd be great to have those guys. It opens up
Speaker 3: our game plan for a lot of deep things, and
Speaker 3: it opens up the run game as well. With the
Speaker 3: two shelves that we get with those guys in, but
Speaker 3: outside of that, football is football. With whoever you got
Speaker 3: in there. You got to call the play, you got
Speaker 3: to see it, envision it, and then you go through
Speaker 3: your keys. If it's one high, this is how I'm
Speaker 3: going to read it. If it's too high, this how
Speaker 3: I'm going to read it, regardless of who's in.
Speaker 1: I thought Mike White played pretty good in this game
Speaker 1: as well, and there was some pushback late in the game.
Speaker 1: I saw some comments about it. But what you saw
Speaker 1: from Mike White was the best command of the offense.
Speaker 1: I thought the best playing in rhythm and on time
Speaker 1: of the offense that we've seen from a non to
Speaker 1: a quarterback now in games in training camp in August
Speaker 1: or July, and an Ota is back in the spring.
Speaker 1: That version of what we saw from Mike White was
Speaker 1: the best version of any quarterback besides to a you've
Speaker 1: gotten so far because of the command, because of the
Speaker 1: pocket management. He made a play while he was in
Speaker 1: the grasp and got out of that a nice see
Speaker 1: it and rip it throw to Roucie before he cleared
Speaker 1: the linebacker. Had one just like that later on in
Speaker 1: the game where he threw it before the linebacker had
Speaker 1: been cleared by the crossing route and put it on
Speaker 1: time and in rhythm for a nice run. After the catch,
Speaker 1: he had that deep shot to Eric Azukama that was
Speaker 1: right on the money over the outside shoulder, had another
Speaker 1: deep shot that should have been caught by Mike Harley
Speaker 1: who was wide open on the sideline after once again
Speaker 1: he broke pocket, that broke the contain in the pocket
Speaker 1: and got on the perimeter and threw a deep ball
Speaker 1: and it was dropped. I just think it was the
Speaker 1: fastest we've seen a quarterback play this year besides Tua,
Speaker 1: and not that it was super fast, but it was
Speaker 1: fast enough to win, and that is all I need
Speaker 1: from him. I thought River Craycraft was fantastic, as he's
Speaker 1: been all camp long. I'm gonna go ahead and set
Speaker 1: my watch to him right here as I talk about
Speaker 1: that a lot. You can do that with this guy
Speaker 1: because he's always where he's supposed to be. And again
Speaker 1: I mentioned it early on, but just how valuable the
Speaker 1: ability to beat that side one on one coverage, sell
Speaker 1: the inside slant, get on top of the outside level
Speaker 1: or on top of the inside leverage with an outside
Speaker 1: release stack him, make the catch, put the feet in bounds.
Speaker 1: What a beautiful play by the former Washington State kug
Speaker 1: Go Koog's go creat craft. I thought Braylen Sanders looked
Speaker 1: nice in this game. Had a nice off frame catch
Speaker 1: on third to down one by one on one back
Speaker 1: shoulder fade to the boundary. The ball was high and
Speaker 1: away as it can be from Skyler at times. I
Speaker 1: quite liked the body control and the ability to make
Speaker 1: a contested play in a one on one situation. He's
Speaker 1: done that in practice, I think he's failed to do
Speaker 1: it in game situations. Nice to see it happen here
Speaker 1: for him in a game. And that little move on
Speaker 1: the screen pass that got called back on the Willie
Speaker 1: snead hoole. Two defenders, one blocked, one unblocked. He made
Speaker 1: a miss. That's all you can do. Speaking of Azukama earlier,
Speaker 1: that reverse field run, I mean, that's what we've seen
Speaker 1: from this guy at Texas Tech, what we saw in
Speaker 1: that first preseason in camp, saw it in the first
Speaker 1: couple of games last year before he got injured. I'm
Speaker 1: kind of buying back in man after seeing that today,
Speaker 1: because that was awesome. That double move in the slot
Speaker 1: to the field was awesome. Again, a vertical stretch element
Speaker 1: that he brings. If he can be healthy and be
Speaker 1: a guy that can impact your offense. Again, if this
Speaker 1: offense has that with reak and waddle, things get so interesting.
Speaker 1: And outside of OBJ, I think Azukama is the best
Speaker 1: on the team at that exact trait.
Speaker 2: John U.
Speaker 1: Smith here's one. Now here's a guy that I've been
Speaker 1: talking about in this vein for a while. I mean
Speaker 1: the run after the catch, the blocking hit, that key
Speaker 1: block on the slip screen to eight Chan. He's a
Speaker 1: sure handed target that knows when and where to hook up.
Speaker 1: Lewis Riddick tweeted about this during the game. How big
Speaker 1: of a fan he was of the addition of John
Speaker 1: HU Smith And on top of all the stuff we
Speaker 1: talked about already and what you've seen from John who
Speaker 1: in the game and the carries and the running guys
Speaker 1: over like his ability to just know where he's.
Speaker 2: Supposed to be.
Speaker 1: If I can go empty, if I can go twenty
Speaker 1: twelve personnel, twenty one personnel, attach him into the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage and spread out the options with wreaking, wattle
Speaker 1: on OBJ and all all of a sudden they can't
Speaker 1: play man coverage because I have too much speed in
Speaker 1: the field and now I need a third and four conversion,
Speaker 1: And you have to worry about the deep balls. And
Speaker 1: John who goes and runs a little hook up over
Speaker 1: the ball and it's an easy pitching catch in a
Speaker 1: sauce spot in the zone.
Speaker 2: For a first down.
Speaker 1: They didn't have that last year they had that, And
Speaker 1: John why on top of a whole bunch of other
Speaker 1: stuff as you'll hear here here here from Mike McDaniel
Speaker 1: and to a tongue by Lowa, it was.
Speaker 4: Cool to have him out there. Uh, you know, I
Speaker 4: think he brings physicality and a guy that really enjoys
Speaker 4: having the football in his hands and can do some
Speaker 4: really cool stuff with that. You know, I think there's
Speaker 4: there there's times when your offense is clicking that you know,
Speaker 4: defenses will really just try to defend space and and really, uh,
Speaker 4: the field is expanded, so to speak with with where
Speaker 4: defenders are defending in those situations, Having fast, aggressive playmakers
Speaker 4: with the ball in their hands, you know, they can
Speaker 4: take advantage of those types of things. So I think
Speaker 4: he's a great addition to to our team. And you know,
Speaker 4: I think there's a multitude of ways that you can
Speaker 4: use players, and uh, he's no exception.
Speaker 3: He's used in multiple ways. As you guys have seen.
Speaker 3: We had given him a jet sweep. Uh, he blocks.
Speaker 3: I mean he's a you know, we look at him
Speaker 3: sort of as a as a yak monster. I mean
Speaker 3: he catches the ball and you know he can get
Speaker 3: some yards after the catch. So he's very versatile and
Speaker 3: what we can do with him, and you know, we're
Speaker 3: just slowly, slowly finding finding things to to do with.
Speaker 3: You know, guys like.
Speaker 1: New Devon ahen Man in a role as a receiver
Speaker 1: that that cover two turkey hole beater. You love to
Speaker 1: see that that is the exact element of this offense
Speaker 1: you want to see. And teams talk all the time
Speaker 1: about using receivers and splits out wide.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 1: Teams don't do it very often, but they have it
Speaker 1: in Devon Hien. He's gonna playmaker as a receiver this year.
Speaker 1: Chris Brooks sucks to see him go down like he
Speaker 1: did the power on that big run. He reminded me
Speaker 1: of Ronnie Brown on the long touchdown run over the Patriots,
Speaker 1: the final one in the two thousand and eight Wildcat game,
Speaker 1: and yes, I saw that highlight this morning, which every
Speaker 1: time it comes up on my Twitter account, I watch
Speaker 1: it every single time. But he got into space and
Speaker 1: kind of set that tackler up where he could kind
Speaker 1: of make a move at the point of attack and
Speaker 1: then drop the shoulder run him over for a fifty
Speaker 1: eight yard run. He was impressive. He's done that a
Speaker 1: couple times now in the preseason and then against the
Speaker 1: Bronco was last year in Week three. Thought Rob Jones
Speaker 1: had the key block on that fourth down on the
Speaker 1: opening drive. I want to go back and watch the
Speaker 1: offensive line again, but I thought he had some good
Speaker 1: plays in there, especially on that particular play. Jack Driscoll
Speaker 1: had the big seal on the Chris Brooks run. I
Speaker 1: want to go back and look at more of him.
Speaker 1: I thought Patrick Paul had a rough night. He was
Speaker 1: comfortable and passed pro early until he wasn't and even
Speaker 1: when he wasn't right, sometimes he got some wins. But
Speaker 1: that overset and then reached back inside was a pretty
Speaker 1: good referendum on the technique and where his feet are
Speaker 1: in his hand. His eyes just needs to kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of lock it in and get better
Speaker 1: and develop in that area, and I think that he will. Defensively,
Speaker 1: I thought Chop and Mo were awesome that sack where
Speaker 1: Mohammed Kamara crossed face and had the low pad level
Speaker 1: and ran the tackle right into the quarterback. And if
Speaker 1: you watch the play on the other side of the formation,
Speaker 1: Chop is coming off the edge and forces the quarterback
Speaker 1: to run away right into Mo. Chop also had the
Speaker 1: negative four yard play on the TfL where he came
Speaker 1: flying off line of scrimmage into the backfield. Also greeted
Speaker 1: the kickoff return man at the fourteen yard line on
Speaker 1: a kickoff coverage play. His speed, it plays man, It's
Speaker 1: fun to watch.
Speaker 2: I was supposed to take a break right there.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and bump the break right now and
Speaker 1: come back and do the rest of the hits, talk
Speaker 1: about the misses all of that. Next Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by it I
Speaker 1: Don't Nation, picking up segment number three talking about a
Speaker 1: Dolphins thirteen to six win over the Washington Commanders. When
Speaker 1: we go back to the defense here, I mentioned him earlier,
Speaker 1: but just Brooks and long for Brooks, a tone setter
Speaker 1: of multiplier, the way he opens things up for others guys,
Speaker 1: the speed and block beating, getting downhill range side to side.
Speaker 1: He is a hell of a football player and I
Speaker 1: cannot wait to watch him come Jacksonville Week one. David
Speaker 1: Long and how well Long pairs with him, who was
Speaker 1: so physical, got dinged up, left the tent and came
Speaker 1: back to the sidelines. So I think he was okay,
Speaker 1: but I just love watching him for the first time
Speaker 1: with Jordan Brooks. I cannot wait to see these guys
Speaker 1: become in the regular season. Channing Tendall, That sack was
Speaker 1: like an actual pass rush move, like speed upfield. The
Speaker 1: bat comes up to greet you, you step under him and
Speaker 1: bend the ark and get after the quarterback. I think
Speaker 1: that Tendall's put himself on this football team in addition
Speaker 1: to all the work he's done on special teams. His
Speaker 1: speed is going to play in this defense as a
Speaker 1: backup rotational guy and a guy that can get downfield
Speaker 1: on special teams coverage units.
Speaker 2: Cater Kohu.
Speaker 1: Does he ever miss an open field tackle on a screen?
Speaker 1: There was one that I thought he was going to miss,
Speaker 1: but he ended up tripping the guy up at the
Speaker 1: very end of it, and if there's a blocker there,
Speaker 1: he always seems to beat that guy too. I also
Speaker 1: thought he made a really nice heady play when he
Speaker 1: was in cover three and fell off the coverage and
Speaker 1: Nick Needham turned his guy free in the interior and
Speaker 1: he came over the top and challenged the ball on
Speaker 1: the seam. It was caught, but good instincts and good
Speaker 1: job challenging that reception there by cater Coohu. I thought
Speaker 1: Cam Smith had a really nice night tonight. He got
Speaker 1: beat on that Terry McLaurin route where he got shook
Speaker 1: in some short space and then missed the tackle, but
Speaker 1: the pass breakup was textbook where he stayed in phase,
Speaker 1: got his head back to the football and they'll allow
Speaker 1: contact if you do that, and by doing that he's
Speaker 1: able to kind of armbar the receiver and ride him
Speaker 1: into the sideline make a super athletic diving pass breakup.
Speaker 1: He also tackled well in space beyond the McLaurin play.
Speaker 1: Seemed comfortable and if things start to kind of click
Speaker 1: for him, that could be a big addition to the
Speaker 1: secondary and that confidence could go a long way as well.
Speaker 1: Marcus may I thought really had a nice night, coming
Speaker 1: from depth downhill and making plays or going sideline to
Speaker 1: the sideline. I just love his range and striking as
Speaker 1: a tackler. He makes for a nice big nickel option
Speaker 1: or a dimeback if you want to go that way
Speaker 1: as well. I thought Storm Duck had some nice plays.
Speaker 1: Got on the opening kick off, made a nice pass
Speaker 1: breakup on a deep shot where he stayed on top
Speaker 1: of the post and never gave in and eventually broke
Speaker 1: it up. He's made plays all along the way here
Speaker 1: in training camp. Elijah Campbell got flagged on that tackle
Speaker 1: on the punt team, but that was an amazing play,
Speaker 1: and he was also the first down there a couple
Speaker 1: of other times. He is going to be probably a
Speaker 1: special team's ace, if not a captain. Jordan Colbert made
Speaker 1: some really nice plays. Had a big tackle in space
Speaker 1: in that third third quarter, and then made a play
Speaker 1: on a screen in the fourth quarter. Playing fast is
Speaker 1: the number one thing I look for in these games,
Speaker 1: and he checked that box nicely. Then he had to
Speaker 1: splash play with the force fumble, got off a block,
Speaker 1: put his hat on the football and winds up ripping
Speaker 1: it free with an assist from Curtis Bolton on the
Speaker 1: force fumble, and then you know, we'll do a little
Speaker 1: bit more on this in the game on Monday of
Speaker 1: some emissions and stuff. But I want to look at
Speaker 1: some other things on the team that I thought stood out,
Speaker 1: which I don't have yet, but some things that I
Speaker 1: thought went the other direction. I thought Skylar Thompson had
Speaker 1: a very rough game where he was bailing on clean pockets,
Speaker 1: missing open players with inaccurate throws, waiting too long, the
Speaker 1: timing was off, and we heard from coach after the
Speaker 1: game talk about this quarterback battle between Mike and Skaler
Speaker 1: for the backup job. Let's go ahead and throw it
Speaker 1: to Mike McDaniel, Like.
Speaker 4: All position battles, just just out of the sake of
Speaker 4: pure competition. You know, when you have opportunities left right
Speaker 4: in front of you, you For me, I hesitate to
Speaker 4: make any sort of grandiose judgment.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: I think there's opportunities to compete, and when you have
Speaker 4: those left before you make decisions that you you let
Speaker 4: those play out. We have been very intentional with our
Speaker 4: opportunities that we've given Skyler. I think he's uh, he's
Speaker 4: made some plays, he's had some stuff that he that
Speaker 4: he knows he can get better at, and then you're
Speaker 4: trying to make sure that you can try to balance
Speaker 4: out the competition with some opportunities for for Mike. But
Speaker 4: you know, I think that's it's progressive. I'm not I'm
Speaker 4: not great to like throw people off the sense. It's
Speaker 4: really a true belief that I have that you just
Speaker 4: let you don't try to determine how things are going
Speaker 4: to play out. You let people take control and and
Speaker 4: it will be a very important week of practice and
Speaker 4: another game and we'll let those play out. But they
Speaker 4: I think there's been pros and cons with with everyone's
Speaker 4: play really. Uh and but I did I did think
Speaker 4: that Skylar did some good stuff. He had some opportunities
Speaker 4: and he was able to do some good stuff, and
Speaker 4: there's some stuff that he could have done better.
Speaker 2: Other misses in this game.
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, Braxon, that was a tough catch
Speaker 1: in the back of the end zone. But that's not
Speaker 1: really what I'm putting him in this category. For just
Speaker 1: watching him run routes, there's just never any separation. That's
Speaker 1: a tough way to make a living, especially in this offense.
Speaker 1: Willie Snead had another bad play. He had a bad
Speaker 1: hole that wiped out a nice brother and Sanders went
Speaker 1: after the catch. I mentioned Patrick Paul had a rough night.
Speaker 1: Just can't do that, you know, over set and get
Speaker 1: your quarterback killed if you want to play right away,
Speaker 1: and he's not going to soo. He had some time
Speaker 1: to do that, but it was a rough night for him.
Speaker 1: I thought Lester Cotton same things as last year. Zero
Speaker 1: pushing the running game, coming off of blocks way too early,
Speaker 1: no second level climb, kind of tire of seeing that.
Speaker 1: DeShawn Han got taken off the ball a heck of
Speaker 1: a lot tonight, which is a guy that's gonna play
Speaker 1: a lot of snaps for us, So that was a
Speaker 1: little bit of a concern. I thought the same was
Speaker 1: true of Isaiah Mack and Brandon Peely at times, although
Speaker 1: Peely had the sack and had a nice bounce back.
Speaker 1: I thought Duke Riley had some rough run fits and
Speaker 1: couldn't run down Draft driscoll. Driscoll on that play. Zeke
Speaker 1: Vandenberg to me, was a little bit slow to get
Speaker 1: to spots as well and coverage in the running game.
Speaker 1: And I'll go ahead and acknowledge this, but I better
Speaker 1: not see anybody getting mad about it. The fourth quarter
Speaker 1: interior offensive line play with Matthew Jones, Andrew Meyer and
Speaker 1: Chase and Hines.
Speaker 2: I mean, it is what it is.
Speaker 1: That's you know, three udfas up there or two udfas
Speaker 1: and a guy that was cut last week. So I
Speaker 1: just can't get too upset about that. But those are
Speaker 1: some things that took out in a negative manner. I
Speaker 1: still believe this is one of the best teams in
Speaker 1: the league. I thought we saw that early on, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna see more of that. We go forward here
Speaker 1: and we'll continue to just rant until it's proven right
Speaker 1: coming the regular season.
Speaker 2: So but you go, that's the podcast. We'll come back
Speaker 2: on Monday.
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