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Speaker 2: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 3: He's joy my hav hands in the playoffs.
Speaker 4: What is up Dolph fans and welcome to the Draft
Speaker 4: Time Podcast. I am your host, Travis Wingfield and on
Speaker 4: today's show, Fien.
Speaker 2: That is it. That is all.
Speaker 4: There is no more training camp in twenty twenty four
Speaker 4: is a wrap. We have the notes from the last
Speaker 4: day of work with our in state Cross Conference rivals.
Speaker 4: Plus we'll hear from head coach Mike McDaniel, wide receivers
Speaker 4: Jylen Waddle and Braxon Barrios, and a whole heck of
Speaker 4: a lot more from the road in Tampa Bay. This
Speaker 4: is the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: Couzie gaffis.
Speaker 2: Disclaimer off the top.
Speaker 4: We are back to a USB microphone on the road,
Speaker 4: so I hope the audio quality is where we've come
Speaker 4: to expect it with the upgrades and equipment I have
Speaker 4: recently on the last couple of months of podcast here,
Speaker 4: but want to go ahead and put that out there
Speaker 4: off the top because I have become very strict about
Speaker 4: the audio quality here on the show. I hope it
Speaker 4: sounds good. I think it sounds good. I've tested it
Speaker 4: a few times. Sounds good to me. I guess we'll
Speaker 4: find out from the audience what you all think. And
Speaker 4: speaking of all of that, it's a wrap on my
Speaker 4: fifth training camp, sixth in total, five with the team,
Speaker 4: I should say six in total, and time sure flies
Speaker 4: when you're having fun, man, I will say, I think
Speaker 4: this year, more than any the camp fatigue has kind
Speaker 4: of settled in, and this podcast is something of a celebration,
Speaker 4: not necessarily the camp is over, but that the season
Speaker 4: is really upon us for the Miami Dolphins. One more
Speaker 4: exhibition game Friday, and I have a podcast coming up
Speaker 4: that will cover that for you guys tomorrow. But I'm
Speaker 4: ready for the season, man. And I think today was
Speaker 4: a really good close to training camp, a rather dominant
Speaker 4: day by your Miami Dolphins. But I think this camp
Speaker 4: as a whole was just a smashing success. I don't
Speaker 4: remember a camp in my five years that was so
Speaker 4: intentional and obviously that first year they had to get
Speaker 4: familiar with everything and there you know, last year was
Speaker 4: fine tuning, taking things to another level. But I think
Speaker 4: this year was more of a playground for the coaches
Speaker 4: and players to really try things out and hone in
Speaker 4: on things they wanted to work on, to sharpen those
Speaker 4: things and expand what this offense can be when things
Speaker 4: get tough, when the bread and butter gets taken away
Speaker 4: from press man or two man and trying to I
Speaker 4: should say two man with with coverage shells that can
Speaker 4: defend the run from those looks as well as take
Speaker 4: away your deep passing.
Speaker 2: What can you do beyond that?
Speaker 4: And we have heard from players that there's some stuff
Speaker 4: that's coming on the pike you haven't seen yet, and
Speaker 4: that that shouldn't surprise anybody, And that should be a
Speaker 4: good reason why you don't just uniformly dismiss this team
Speaker 4: based upon a couple of training camp reports, because as
Speaker 4: they are going to come out in September with cutting
Speaker 4: edge innovation that no one has ever seen before, like
Speaker 4: they have done the last couple of years. But last
Speaker 4: year I talked about how excited I was for a
Speaker 4: team that I felt could really win in any form
Speaker 4: or fashion in the sixth ranked rushing offense, the top
Speaker 4: ranked passing offense, a defense that turned the screws by
Speaker 4: about midway through the season, a kicker that nails five
Speaker 4: field goals in a game or a playoff clinching game,
Speaker 4: they just had it all. And this brings me to
Speaker 4: a point that I want to address on the pod
Speaker 4: real quick, because I know you guys have seen it.
Speaker 2: I know you've talked about it.
Speaker 4: I know Kyle Krabs, the great host of the Lockdown
Speaker 4: Dolphins podcast, has been a visceray in this take on
Speaker 4: his show today as I speak here, but using the
Speaker 4: December records of this team in twenty twenty and twenty
Speaker 4: twenty one versus McDaniel's team in twenty twenty two and
Speaker 4: twenty twenty three, Like, what the hell are we doing?
Speaker 4: You know, it's the same thing for all these detractors,
Speaker 4: you know, goalposts being moved, like Stephen Ruiz for instance,
Speaker 4: which my circle has a joke that we don't ever
Speaker 4: talk about Stephen Ruiz, even if it's to dunk on him.
Speaker 4: You don't bring them up because it's not worth it.
Speaker 4: And for those not in the know, you know, first think,
Speaker 4: first of all, think you're lucky stars. But he's a
Speaker 4: writer for the Ringer, and you know that changes. He
Speaker 4: changes the way he sees the game based on his priors,
Speaker 4: like this guy is supposed to be a quarterback guru,
Speaker 4: which is hilarious in its own right. And last year
Speaker 4: he said the anticipation might not be a good thing
Speaker 4: because you're guessing, like, okay, dude, tell us you've never
Speaker 4: once played or seen a coaching clinic without telling us,
Speaker 4: right and man, just to confirm your priors. It's such
Speaker 4: a bad way to approach this whole thing. And he
Speaker 4: had a tweet about McDaniel's win loss record, like, to me,
Speaker 4: it's so funny how these accounts will be quiet while
Speaker 4: two was on a player of the Month pace, which
Speaker 4: happens every year the last two years. You know, these
Speaker 4: stretches of play where you just can't say anything negative
Speaker 4: about the guy because he's completing seventy five percent of
Speaker 4: his passes for nine yards attempt, and he's throwing ten
Speaker 4: touchdowns to two picks in those runs. And then something
Speaker 4: negative comes out or he plays poorly in a game,
Speaker 4: and those guys just jump on Twitter to get their
Speaker 4: takes off, right, And he compared the win loss record
Speaker 4: of McDaniel in December to Brian Floores, which minds you
Speaker 4: go back and look at the schedules, and the quarterbacks
Speaker 4: those teams played. And you can see the easy answer
Speaker 4: right there for yourself. But my biggest thing here, like,
Speaker 4: if you are paid to cover this game and you're
Speaker 4: willing to boil everything down to a single number, if
Speaker 4: that's all it took to analyze football, every single person
Speaker 4: listening to this podcast and listening to any football podcast
Speaker 4: anywhere would then go quit their job and work in
Speaker 4: football content because that makes it really easy. Anybody can
Speaker 4: tell me someone's passer rating. It is such a disgrace
Speaker 4: to the game and to this profession in general to
Speaker 4: do that. And that's why I'm biting back today because
Speaker 4: I just think fans deserve more than that. I think
Speaker 4: you deserve more than passer rating ninety one point too.
Speaker 4: He sucked like that is not at all how it works, man.
Speaker 4: Like for instance, notice Ben Volan, where the hell does
Speaker 4: this guy come from? By the way, doesn't he cover
Speaker 4: the Patriots? Like he's part of that contingency? And I
Speaker 4: thought he went away when he was, you know, grifting
Speaker 4: back in twenty twenty two, But here he is again,
Speaker 4: just talking about the records and who's got the better results.
Speaker 4: Just these opinions from folks that you would never trust
Speaker 4: the ones that continue to show up when there's something
Speaker 4: negative or could be construed as negative towards the Miami quarterback.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: And it's just so funny because you know, I see
Speaker 4: to a ball out at practice, come back and play
Speaker 4: guitar with his wife and kids and just have a
Speaker 4: great time, and everyone kind of gather around his aura
Speaker 4: as this lovable, likable guy that is a top ten
Speaker 4: quarterback atop five or six quarterback who everybody wants to
Speaker 4: be around. And yet you have these miserable people on
Speaker 4: Twitter tweeting about the guy. And I'm so glad that
Speaker 4: he came out and said, like, I don't care about
Speaker 4: the good or the bad because it doesn't matter to me.
Speaker 4: That's how you should approach this thing. And I will,
Speaker 4: since I do operate in the space, I will gladly
Speaker 4: go to bat for a guy that I like personally,
Speaker 4: that I know personally that I love his game, I
Speaker 4: always have since the Alabama days.
Speaker 2: And I just think it's kind of sad.
Speaker 4: It's kind of sad that you're staying up all nights
Speaker 4: of the all hours of the night to tweet about
Speaker 4: a guy who hasn't thought about you ever.
Speaker 2: Once.
Speaker 4: And the reason that I do get into this die
Speaker 4: try because I was thinking about all of this on
Speaker 4: the drive into Tampa, where you know, everybody's pointing out
Speaker 4: the playoff record, the Oftens haven't won playoff games, therefore
Speaker 4: it's not successful. And look, that's another thing where I
Speaker 4: go back to, like are you providing a service to
Speaker 4: your readers by providing context and listing out the reasons
Speaker 4: why things were the way they were? Or are you
Speaker 4: just pointing to an ultimate WNL column and being like
Speaker 4: sports writer you know, like that's not valuable to you.
Speaker 2: Guys, you can do that.
Speaker 4: It's an insult to your intelligence to do that, right.
Speaker 4: I get there's a reason why all these ESPN shows
Speaker 4: and talking heads and just yelling into a microphone is successful.
Speaker 4: There's a faction of the world that likes that, right,
Speaker 4: but not here, not on drive time, dude, and everyone
Speaker 4: always points to that playoff record, the inability to play
Speaker 4: in the cold weather, and I just keep thinking, like,
Speaker 4: this team was fifty yards away in twenty twenty two
Speaker 4: from beating Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills on the
Speaker 4: road with the seventh round rookie quarterback who still doesn't
Speaker 4: really see the offense that well, who's never been more
Speaker 4: than a third string quarterback in the NFL. So if
Speaker 4: we get those fifty yards, if we get the proper
Speaker 4: measurement on the third downplay, that gives us a first down,
Speaker 4: and then go on to score on that drive, which
Speaker 4: we probably wouldn't have because that that game never had
Speaker 4: to drive over forty yards on the offense. But we
Speaker 4: were that close to pulling off a huge double digit
Speaker 4: point underdog upset. And if you get that win and
Speaker 4: then you go into Kansas City the following week and
Speaker 4: get proper wax, which they would have, right, there's no
Speaker 4: way they would have pulled off a miracle twice there
Speaker 4: with the current quarterback situation. Would that have changed how
Speaker 4: you felt about where this team is today? Would that
Speaker 4: have changed anything for you? To win a game without Tua?
Speaker 4: Does that change anything? You would have said that was
Speaker 4: two years ago and it was like a fluke, right,
Speaker 4: I guarantee that'd be the take. I'm just curious because
Speaker 4: we put way too much into these small sample sizes
Speaker 4: in a game that is often dictated by the flip
Speaker 4: of a coin, and there's only sixteen of them, seventeen
Speaker 4: of them every single year.
Speaker 2: It's not.
Speaker 4: I mean, seventeen games in baseball is like a drop
Speaker 4: in the bucket. We see these reactions to you know,
Speaker 4: Austin Booker on Hard Knocks, Oh, that he had a
Speaker 4: sack In practice, the Bears made the right choice trading
Speaker 4: up for him, really, really, because we've seen guys have
Speaker 4: dominant rookie years and never come back again.
Speaker 2: So I just really despise.
Speaker 4: I loathe this short timeline expansion of that's who the
Speaker 4: player is, that's who this team is.
Speaker 2: And look, I get it.
Speaker 4: I get that the narrative is yours to change, and
Speaker 4: I just think it's disingenuous to do that in this position.
Speaker 2: I get it when fans do it.
Speaker 4: I get it when you guys are upset on social media,
Speaker 4: and I probably get a little sensitive when you say
Speaker 4: that stuff I believe otherwise, and maybe I clap back
Speaker 4: sometimes and I shouldn't. And I get that you have
Speaker 4: the emotions that you are entitled to. I'm that fan
Speaker 4: a lot of the times as well. I do a
Speaker 4: better job nowadays of staying off Twitter when those case
Speaker 4: those cases arrive. But if you cover this game, I
Speaker 4: think you owe it to the fans to provide the
Speaker 4: why and the context of things like if you go
Speaker 4: if you guys are from there with locked On podcast network,
Speaker 4: you probably are because that's where I came from. And
Speaker 4: Kyle Krabs does a great job there. The Lockdown Titans
Speaker 4: guy did a film segment breakdown and he didn't know
Speaker 4: what he was doing.
Speaker 2: It's very clear he.
Speaker 4: Didn't know what he was doing, and Luke McCown got
Speaker 4: on him and Kurt Warner got on him, like, your
Speaker 4: job is to convey context and provide analysis for fans
Speaker 4: that want more, to want to understand more about this game.
Speaker 4: That's how I view my job. That's how the Dolphins
Speaker 4: view my job. And I just think it's a mega,
Speaker 4: mega disservice to use your own personal agendas and peel
Speaker 4: things back to their very basic core numbers to just
Speaker 4: say wins, losses, passer rating.
Speaker 2: That's it. That's all.
Speaker 4: Okay, rant over And I'm really excited right now because
Speaker 4: you know, I also think I'm a little bit ready
Speaker 4: to move to September and that's where this excitement comes from.
Speaker 4: But I think it's going to have you know, this
Speaker 4: camp is going to have this nice tangible impact on
Speaker 4: the season. And I also kind of feel like it's
Speaker 4: kind of unfinished business from last year. And as coach
Speaker 4: always says again to the point about narratives, you're the
Speaker 4: one that's in control of what your narrative will be
Speaker 4: going forward. And unfortunately, the narrative, no matter how good
Speaker 4: this team might be up into Thanksgiving, you know, if
Speaker 4: they're nine and two going into that Packer game, the
Speaker 4: only thing that people are going to talk about is
Speaker 4: not the nine and two. They're going to talk about
Speaker 4: how do they perform in Lambeau on Thanksgiving, in Cleveland
Speaker 4: in week seventeen and at the Jets in Week eight.
Speaker 4: Team the cold weather road games will always be the
Speaker 4: thing that the detractors point back to. If this team
Speaker 4: is sitting once again at nine and two or nine
Speaker 4: and three, whatever it might be, none of it will
Speaker 4: matter in the detractor's eyes. So I am ready for
Speaker 4: the opportunity for this team to prove that wrong. As
Speaker 4: they say, our narratives until they are not. And it'll
Speaker 4: only take one to put some cold water on that.
Speaker 4: Much like Steve Young and the Monkey Off the back
Speaker 4: game and Peyton Manning and finally beating Belichick in the playoffs,
Speaker 4: and Drew Brees and finally getting his big victory. It
Speaker 4: happened to every single quarterback that ever play this game,
Speaker 4: and it's the great ones that ultimately ultimately overcome that.
Speaker 4: And I think our quarterback in this team are in
Speaker 4: that category and can become that who get that ring.
Speaker 4: And move us on to the next facet of all this.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and.
Speaker 4: Start the show today here as we already deep into
Speaker 4: it ranting and raving with sound from coach regarding a
Speaker 4: common theme on the show and in the media circles
Speaker 4: among the players, the third year in the system and
Speaker 4: the comfort that creates. I was such a fan of
Speaker 4: that answer from Frank Smith earlier this week that I
Speaker 4: wanted to follow up with Coach McDaniel on the way
Speaker 4: the third year in the offense streamlines communication and really
Speaker 4: what I was getting at is can we get in
Speaker 4: and out of the play the huddle a little bit
Speaker 4: faster than we have in the past.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, you know, reps are key, specially deliberate reps and
Speaker 5: where you know, I think there's a lot of things
Speaker 5: that our benefits of being able to have a streamline
Speaker 5: communication and just you.
Speaker 6: Know, exped expedited.
Speaker 5: Uh coaching process to the players, because the one thing
Speaker 5: is not only to do all your position coaches understand
Speaker 5: the expectations, but the players do as well. So you
Speaker 5: get a new guy on the team, a new guy
Speaker 5: in your position group. And the fastest way for people
Speaker 5: to learn how to do something is to watch a
Speaker 5: teammate do it correctly.
Speaker 6: So the more the more.
Speaker 5: Elite technique that we are able to put on tape,
Speaker 5: the faster the whole the process goes for all new players.
Speaker 5: And you know, I think that that's what you're looking
Speaker 5: for your three is You kind of expect that, but
Speaker 5: players have to earn that.
Speaker 6: Or work towards that, and I think they really.
Speaker 5: Have leaned into it, found new ways to get better
Speaker 5: while sharpening their acts for the stuff that they're good at.
Speaker 4: And earlier I used that term cold water. And that's
Speaker 4: how this practice on Wednesday began, at least with the
Speaker 4: team period, as Tua tried to shoot one up the
Speaker 4: sideline to Braxon Barrios, but Zion McCollum stepped in front
Speaker 4: of it and picked it off. Really nice tracking on
Speaker 4: the ball there, and they must have just gotten to
Speaker 4: it their rotation because from that point he was locked in.
Speaker 4: And I want to play this sound for you because
Speaker 4: this from Braxon Barrios tells you about that play, and
Speaker 4: they would later come back to that play for Braxton
Speaker 4: for a big gain. This this is what training camp
Speaker 4: was all about, and this is why you should be
Speaker 4: excited about your twenty twenty four Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 7: No, absolutely double down on that. I mean even today
Speaker 7: there was something I came back from a route and
Speaker 7: immediately we were talking and you know, I'm not saying
Speaker 7: that that's foreign or that's rare, but you know, when
Speaker 7: it's in practice, you know a lot of times that
Speaker 7: didn't happen because you know, you move on to the
Speaker 7: next play, but you know comes up and we have
Speaker 7: that communication right there on the sideline and the next
Speaker 7: time we get it. So I think the communication and
Speaker 7: the vocalness of him has been has been a huge step.
Speaker 4: And he came back with two explosive plays really almost immediately,
Speaker 4: and one of them was a shot to Braxen Barrios,
Speaker 4: who had a hell of a day on pretty much
Speaker 4: the exact same play, and then also one to Devon
Speaker 4: Chen who did the type of stuff today that made
Speaker 4: him an eight yards per carry running back last year.
Speaker 4: The throat to Braxen, though, was this gorgeous throw that
Speaker 4: I've seen too a make. I've lost count of how
Speaker 4: many times he's made this throw where there's a like
Speaker 4: a deep over like twenty five thirty yards down the field.
Speaker 4: Defender tries to undercut it. Maybe they're not giving his
Speaker 4: arm enough love or enough respect, and they try to
Speaker 4: undercut this throw and it goes right over the top
Speaker 4: of them into the bucket. A nice little layer on
Speaker 4: that throw that goes for about thirty yards. He also
Speaker 4: had a long touchdown pass it on eighth Chan up
Speaker 4: the sideline as well, and there was a defender in
Speaker 4: coverage right on his hip, which McCallum can run. It's
Speaker 4: the same guys, guys looks like a playmaker out there.
Speaker 4: And this one has me fired up because I thought
Speaker 4: that we just barely missed, like several times last year
Speaker 4: to a Chan, Like there was a ninety plus yard
Speaker 4: touchdown in the Titans game that I think would have
Speaker 4: tilted that thing before all the chaos happened at the
Speaker 4: end of the game. If we were just one yard closer,
Speaker 4: or if a Chan had maybe taken one more stride
Speaker 4: before laying out, being a little bit more in sync.
Speaker 4: But to see Tua hit a chan in stride on
Speaker 4: a vertical route, that's gotta be a scary thought for
Speaker 4: opposing defenses. Man, let's go ahead and throw it to
Speaker 4: coach McDaniel, who talked about the things that he has
Speaker 4: seen to improve in his game, and the question was
Speaker 4: framed there was four things to a totus back at
Speaker 4: the Pro Bowler around that time that he wanted to
Speaker 4: work on. Wouldn't divulge Coach was asked to divulge. He
Speaker 4: wouldn't do that, but he did provide an update on
Speaker 4: those improvements.
Speaker 2: For to a tongue bilevel, let's.
Speaker 6: Just say my confidence.
Speaker 5: And my previous proclamation of him being as coachable as
Speaker 5: any any player I've ever been around, and like if
Speaker 5: freakish learner.
Speaker 6: So absolutely.
Speaker 5: You know we were connected from our exit interview right
Speaker 5: after the season, you know, where we first began the
Speaker 5: conversations of what those things could look like, and him
Speaker 5: being the competitor that he is, he wasted no time
Speaker 5: to attack those You know, I'm I won't divulge exactly
Speaker 5: what they are, but I think you know, visibly you
Speaker 5: could see one of them the first time.
Speaker 6: You guys saw him.
Speaker 5: And there was It wasn't like okay, you started to
Speaker 5: notice that because he was getting to that point of emphasis. No,
Speaker 5: he wasted no time to to do what you'd hope
Speaker 5: which is, Hey, bottom line is, I want to get better.
Speaker 5: I'm not happy with the results, so I'm going to
Speaker 5: work to change them. And I think that's been the
Speaker 5: whole mindset of the team. And you know, you're led
Speaker 5: by the quarterback, so it's very important that he is
Speaker 5: that way for himself for his production, but along the
Speaker 5: same lines to lead by example for the what players
Speaker 5: and coaches and the whole organization need to do for
Speaker 5: us to get what we want.
Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and put a pen in the show
Speaker 4: right there. Take our first break late into the show,
Speaker 4: and come back and hear more about Tua's improvement. The
Speaker 4: receivers will break down the entire practice. That's all next
Speaker 4: Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you
Speaker 4: by automation. Let's pick it back up here in segment
Speaker 4: number two with some more sound from Jalen Walla, who
Speaker 4: was asked, how would you assess Tua's game at this stage?
Speaker 2: Here's the star.
Speaker 6: Receiver, man, Yeah, see it, man? Day in and day out.
Speaker 8: He's just making tremendous plays, playing with a lot of
Speaker 8: confidence leading our guys, and man, I'm excited for him.
Speaker 8: I excited for the year, excited for the team, and
Speaker 8: he's gonna contribute to the team.
Speaker 4: It's good to hear Walla's voice. Good to see him
Speaker 4: back out there again. He was going through some light work.
Speaker 4: Haven't had much of a chance to talk to him lately,
Speaker 4: but I didn't want to run this sound becu I
Speaker 4: thought it was really cool to hear him talk about
Speaker 4: a new perspective of when you're out and you can't
Speaker 4: be out there running routes and doing stuff with your team.
Speaker 4: How is that perspective added to your I guess the
Speaker 4: way you see the game from that perspective. On the
Speaker 4: sideline here once again is dos Penguin.
Speaker 8: Man, you see a lot more, especially when you when
Speaker 8: you're not playing, you get to watch the offense, you know, work,
Speaker 8: especially from the sideline view, and when you get back
Speaker 8: in the game, you kind of can take some of
Speaker 8: the stuff you learned from sideline because it's like a
Speaker 8: different point of view. Knowing that you don't have to
Speaker 8: focus on listen to all these special teams and having
Speaker 8: players or players around you really get the feedback of
Speaker 8: receivers with what they're saying and going to the quarterback
Speaker 8: telling them so kind of get a different view and
Speaker 8: it definitely helped me when you get back out there.
Speaker 4: Let's continue talking whiteouts right now, because the receivers had
Speaker 4: a pretty good day today despite being down so many guys.
Speaker 4: I mean, no Reek, no Waddle and team period, no Obj,
Speaker 4: no River, kray Craft and Azukama left late in practice,
Speaker 4: but if you guys saw his tweet after practice, it
Speaker 4: sounds like he's gonna be just fine. After limping off
Speaker 4: the practice field, Barrios made a bunch of plays today.
Speaker 4: McDaniel was loving what he was seeing. We had a different
Speaker 4: vantage point down on the field today so we could
Speaker 4: be more in tune to the chatter. And probably my
Speaker 4: favorite period of the entire of the entire camp so
Speaker 4: far was these last four plays where both teams lined
Speaker 4: up with the plus two yard line and I was
Speaker 4: on the end line ten yards away from all the action,
Speaker 4: and Miami scored with a slip screen to devon a
Speaker 4: Chan like the Tyreek conversion against the Cowboys. There was
Speaker 4: a ball in the corner to Jody Fortson that got
Speaker 4: broken up. He continues to not really get open, and
Speaker 4: then on defense plays, Campbell rejected a pass that was
Speaker 4: thrown on the Bucks first play, and then Nick Needham
Speaker 4: strapped a receiver for an incomplete ball into the corner.
Speaker 4: So Miami won that three to one in terms of
Speaker 4: the the victorious reps there between either side, and I
Speaker 4: thought those plays were kind of indicative of the entire
Speaker 4: day Miami's offense splitting a little bit back and forth
Speaker 4: in a lot of that was the interior run game
Speaker 4: not getting much going, but the defense was just dominant.
Speaker 4: Even without the Campbell tip. It was crowded in there
Speaker 4: just nowhere to go really on either play from my perspective.
Speaker 4: More on that in a moment. So back to Barrios.
Speaker 4: He made a bunch of plays. Malik Washington caught a
Speaker 4: bunch of passes from different alignments, different routes, just showcased
Speaker 4: his versatility. In fact, Barrios talked after practice about the
Speaker 4: importance of knowing every position in this Mike McDaniel offense.
Speaker 7: Yeah, a ton, I mean, I think you know in
Speaker 7: this offense, the more you can do you know, it's
Speaker 7: not it's not the easiest all around, but you know
Speaker 7: once once you get one, you get two, you get three.
Speaker 7: You know, things happen in games, and you know the
Speaker 7: fact of that you can play X, F and Z
Speaker 7: across the board a name point in time is extremely valuable.
Speaker 4: And I will say when as Zuokama did exit the practice,
Speaker 4: I kind of had a mass of breath come out
Speaker 4: of my chest because he was so good all day
Speaker 4: they couldn't cover him in the one on ones. And
Speaker 4: I'm absolutely loving the way he catches the ball when
Speaker 4: there is a defender in phase. Almost deep balls, really
Speaker 4: good concentration.
Speaker 2: It's just an.
Speaker 4: Element of this team where he's gonna get those one
Speaker 4: on one looks and if he can just get on
Speaker 4: top of guys and stack them and then make contested
Speaker 4: catches like that's going to be a huge role for
Speaker 4: you in this offense.
Speaker 2: Brother man.
Speaker 4: He shook a dB so bad that the rep basically
Speaker 4: died and just caught it and prance into the en
Speaker 4: zone during the one on one portion, made more plays
Speaker 4: and team and did exit the practice with the injury.
Speaker 4: But it sounds like he might be okay. I mentioned
Speaker 4: the big play in the passing game by eight Chan
Speaker 4: He also had what I would score as a fifty
Speaker 4: yard touchdown rush. In fact, he and Raheem had rumor
Speaker 4: on the edge all day long, not so much inside.
Speaker 4: And I already spent this joke on Twitter, but I'll
Speaker 4: go ahead and repeat it here. Videveya is basically Gandolf
Speaker 4: protecting the rings inside. Go back and look at the
Speaker 4: bucks rushing totals when he's playing. Teams don't run on
Speaker 4: them ever, and so for us to get on the
Speaker 4: perimeter on them is impressive because able to commit so
Speaker 4: many bodies on the outside, especially with Greg Gaines inside
Speaker 4: to limit anybody's rushing attack. And Miami got some big
Speaker 4: pops today. We also had a clinical day from the
Speaker 4: tight ends, who I think were a big part of
Speaker 4: why the running game was so successful. I had Moster
Speaker 4: on a twenty five yard touchdown run off the right.
Speaker 4: He had a couple of easy glide runs where he
Speaker 4: hit the second level with conviction and had speed to burn.
Speaker 4: He's looking in the midst he's inform and back to
Speaker 4: those tight ends.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: I think John hu Smith is a problem. I think
Speaker 4: he's a freaking problem. They couldn't stop him today. He
Speaker 4: had a moss catch that you saw during one on
Speaker 4: ones on our social media accounts. He dominated in seven
Speaker 4: on seven and team it was just all John hu
Speaker 4: all day. And then you get Durham Smyth and Julian
Speaker 4: Hill wiping out the edge in the running game for
Speaker 4: all these big runs.
Speaker 2: It was just nice. Man.
Speaker 4: I thought Austin Jackson was a big part of those.
Speaker 4: I saw Kendall Lamb getting out wide, but it was
Speaker 4: in fact tough sledding inside.
Speaker 2: More on that in a moment.
Speaker 4: Let's go back to coach who talked about John hw
Speaker 4: Smith and these Miami Dolphins tight ends.
Speaker 5: John Whu is an example of I think there's a
Speaker 5: there's multiple players offensively for us that can that can
Speaker 5: serve different roles at different times, which which kind of
Speaker 5: you know, uh, from a schematic standpoint, you're you're able
Speaker 5: to present different problems in in varied personnel groups and
Speaker 5: feature different skill sets.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 5: That that makes your offense more multiple. So and on
Speaker 5: top of that, I think we got to see, you know,
Speaker 5: a little taste of you know what what he can
Speaker 5: bring to the physical mentality of our of our unit
Speaker 5: and our team, you know. And I think one thing
Speaker 5: that I haven't heard people talk about it. You know,
Speaker 5: maybe I don't no offense, but I'm not really reading
Speaker 5: much in training camp, but you know, I think, uh,
Speaker 5: his his second touch during the last preseason game was
Speaker 5: cool for multiple reasons if you if you look back
Speaker 5: on it, seeing some of its teammates on the sidelines,
Speaker 5: and what energy he brings to the game, how connected
Speaker 5: the team is at this stage. You know, I think
Speaker 5: I think we've been a very close team the last
Speaker 5: couple of years, and I think we're much further along
Speaker 5: in that, in those relationships, and so that's exciting for us.
Speaker 5: I think he's a galvanizer, and I think the sidelines
Speaker 5: you can see how how that is talked about.
Speaker 4: The offensive line and Gandolf himself in the middle of
Speaker 4: the Bucks defense there and again with the rest of
Speaker 4: the offensive line being on the field level is not
Speaker 4: a great place to be for offensive line play. It's
Speaker 4: it's hard enough to really get a good field live
Speaker 4: from a perch when you don't have replay to go
Speaker 4: back to, but field level, like you just can't take
Speaker 4: it all in. So that's why I talk in absolutes
Speaker 4: with the outside and inside and kind of group it
Speaker 4: all together. Now I do have some audio here from
Speaker 4: coach that could help us kind of parse out of
Speaker 4: this offensive line in the competition on the interior so far.
Speaker 2: Here is Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 5: The competition, It is very good at that position. I
Speaker 5: do think that, you know, the the guys that have
Speaker 5: been working with the first unit, you know that's that's
Speaker 5: been about seven guys, I think they're they're they're pretty
Speaker 5: solid in in their areas.
Speaker 6: There are some.
Speaker 5: Uh, pretty competitive battles going on, uh from specifically in
Speaker 5: the interior where you know, if I'm the fifth or
Speaker 5: sixth guy, I'm my job isn't necessarily as set in
Speaker 5: that role, and that you could you know, there's just
Speaker 5: some real growth from some of our younger players as
Speaker 5: well as we've lineups have changed a little bit since
Speaker 5: Brewer went out, just because of the complexion of the
Speaker 5: how many players we have at the position and how
Speaker 5: who's overstrained and who's not.
Speaker 6: I feel very good about.
Speaker 5: I feel very good about the top portion of our
Speaker 5: offensive line, and I feel very strong about the competitors
Speaker 5: pushing those guys to the point that it's you know,
Speaker 5: there's there's some spots still to settle, but it's not
Speaker 5: because of the failure of one. It's because of the
Speaker 5: the push from the other.
Speaker 4: I spend twenty eight minutes telling you about how good
Speaker 4: the defense was, and we just now get to that
Speaker 4: portion of the podcast. But first, let's go ahead and
Speaker 4: take our last break, come back and recap this dominant
Speaker 4: day from the defense. That's next Draft Time podcast, your
Speaker 4: host Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2: Brought to you by AutoNation The defense Man.
Speaker 6: Whoo whoo wait.
Speaker 4: They got after it today. It was just sacks, picks, touchdowns,
Speaker 4: going back the other way, run stuffs, All parts were
Speaker 4: firing on all cylinders. And it began upfront with two
Speaker 4: guys that are going to start a lot of things
Speaker 4: this year, and Zach Steeler and Kalais Campbell. The Bucks
Speaker 4: ran the ball eight times in the first two team
Speaker 4: periods and not a single run went from more than
Speaker 4: four or five yards. So if they're going after chop
Speaker 4: and the reputation's out already, the results weren't there. Jordan
Speaker 4: Brooks and David Long were active as hell in doing that,
Speaker 4: but Zach and Campbell, Zack and Campbell. Stealer and Campbell
Speaker 4: just kind of whipped a really good interior offensive line
Speaker 4: with Cody Mock, Cody Barton, and Ben Brettison, and I
Speaker 4: had Seeler with two sacks, Kalayas with one no run
Speaker 4: game and a squatted ball in the end zone by Campbell.
Speaker 4: Brandon Peelee flew around and made some plays. I had
Speaker 4: him on a pressure as well, and then off the edge.
Speaker 4: I thought Quentin Bell had one of his best practices
Speaker 4: in a couple of weeks. He had a sack and
Speaker 4: set hard edges in the running game, and he was
Speaker 4: always able to kind of play read and react when
Speaker 4: they would either send split flow his way or pull
Speaker 4: a guard his way, or have a tight end try
Speaker 4: to cat and mouse him with chips and releases. He
Speaker 4: just seemed to be kind of on his stuff in
Speaker 4: this practice. I mentioned Brooks and David Long. Just watching
Speaker 4: them work together and tandem has been so much fun.
Speaker 4: I think they pair together as well as any linebacker
Speaker 4: in linebacker duo in the NFL because of their strengths
Speaker 4: and traits. And We've talked about them being tone centers
Speaker 4: the other day, and I felt we really saw that
Speaker 4: and the Bucks felt that.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 4: I did see the Bucks complete a couple of long
Speaker 4: passes and they were a perfect absolutely perfect balls from
Speaker 4: Baker Mayfield and b You guys play Madden right well,
Speaker 4: I used to, at least like fifteen years ago, and
Speaker 4: the game engine back then was so bad that the
Speaker 4: ball would often like arrived to the receiver like on
Speaker 4: the spiral, and then the ball would like stop midair
Speaker 4: and then turn over and then just be in the
Speaker 4: receiver's hands like there wasn't a fluid enough of a
Speaker 4: fluid CGI or however you call that for.
Speaker 2: The ball to like look normal.
Speaker 4: That was both of these long completions the Bucks had
Speaker 4: in this practice. One was on Kendall Fuller, one was
Speaker 4: on Ethan Bonner, who both had great practices, and on
Speaker 4: both I literally thought the ball was going to bounce
Speaker 4: off the top of their helmets because they were right
Speaker 4: in phase, right in position. But it was Cody Thompson
Speaker 4: and Katot and two bigger receivers and a tight end there,
Speaker 4: I should say for the Bucks that went up and
Speaker 4: made these really good catches on perfectly placed balls. Those
Speaker 4: were legit the only wins I saw outside of a
Speaker 4: couple of short intermediate throws to Mike Evans, who is
Speaker 4: just so so good. Evan's got cater on a couple
Speaker 4: of plays that I was like, it's a tough fast
Speaker 4: for cater Co who Fuller had a pick six where
Speaker 4: he undercut a Baker throw but he couldn't finish the catch,
Speaker 4: so it goes as a PBu. But Storm Duck had
Speaker 4: two picks today, one during one on ones and then
Speaker 4: he also got the same look on an out route
Speaker 4: where he undercuts it, picks it off and does take
Speaker 4: it back for six either direction. That cornerback room is
Speaker 4: going to be tough, man. I think there's something there
Speaker 4: with Storm. I like Johnson and Matrix as well. Matree
Speaker 4: got a lot of work down the slot and around
Speaker 4: the box in this practice, and he kind of would
Speaker 4: convert from if the receiver if there was no receiver,
Speaker 4: to the strong side of the formation, the tight ends
Speaker 4: side of the formation. He would like kick inside for
Speaker 4: like a will linebacker role and put his face in
Speaker 4: the fan in the running game. So I'm a huge
Speaker 4: fan of what he features and brings to the defense.
Speaker 4: They also ran this gunner drill where they had two
Speaker 4: defenders jamming at the line of scrimmage and they would
Speaker 4: have to try to get around that, and Duck consistently
Speaker 4: got around it and The only one that I thought
Speaker 4: was better at doing it was Elijah Campbell, who's been
Speaker 4: a phenomen in special teams all camp long. They made
Speaker 4: all these plays and Ramsey wasn't even one of them,
Speaker 4: but they just didn't go after him at all. I
Speaker 4: saw Cater have a one pass break up despite some
Speaker 4: of the Evans plays. And then Marcus May he might
Speaker 4: be a freaking hit man. I saw him flying all
Speaker 4: over the field once again. He did allow one deep
Speaker 4: shot in one ones, but I don't really care about
Speaker 4: that because it's it's fun when you can, you know,
Speaker 4: when you can see certain trends and traits that kind
Speaker 4: of jump off the practice field at you. But for
Speaker 4: the for the most part, not a lot you can
Speaker 4: take from those. Let's go ahead and finish up though,
Speaker 4: because coach mentioned one player who came back to practice.
Speaker 4: It was Jordan Poyer, and he continues to get after
Speaker 4: it and look very good and kind of bans this
Speaker 4: entire group together. Here is coach on safety Jordan Poyer.
Speaker 6: Yesterday was.
Speaker 5: An example of the power that one player can have
Speaker 5: toward a unit. He's a tone setter. You know, we
Speaker 5: talk a lot about communication on defense because you know,
Speaker 5: you're positioning, positioning yourself to be in front of the
Speaker 5: offensive play at the beginning of snap. So how convicted
Speaker 5: you are in your calls and your responsibilities and your
Speaker 5: alignments and assignments. That's the tone setter for the play.
Speaker 5: And you know, even before the ball is snapped, Jordan
Speaker 5: Poyer impacts the team in a huge way by how
Speaker 5: he toned sets before the snap. And then, uh, you
Speaker 5: know there there was a couple of examples in practice
Speaker 5: specifically that you know after the period to went up
Speaker 5: to Poyer directly and was like, wow, that was that
Speaker 5: was tough.
Speaker 6: You play You play that with conviction. I was trying
Speaker 6: to look you off and it didn't work.
Speaker 5: He has an impact in the way uh that we
Speaker 5: absolutely hoped and it's it's awesome to have him out
Speaker 5: there for a multitude of reasons before the snap and after.
Speaker 4: After all, Right, I want to close the show here
Speaker 4: with a few words of gratitude. I am just so
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Speaker 4: one yet and for the Miami Dolphins in my tenure
Speaker 4: here with the team, which also would mean the best
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