WEBVTT - Drive Time - Fitzpatrick Returns 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:06.880 Practice are Dolphins Pafford row Parkard touchdown? What a win 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:12.120 for this Miami Dolphin team. Wow me? What is up? Dolphins? 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:16.000 And welcome to the Drivetime podcast part of the Miami 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:21.000 Dolphins official podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins, 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:24.360 each and every day. How's it going, Everybody? Happy Monday? 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:27.280 I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I am here 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:30.800 to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:33.640 And on today show, it's back to the grind of camp. 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:36.440 Back on the field for this Monday, as we are 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:40.080 just thirteen days out from kickoff in New England against 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:42.720 the Patriots. We're gonna hear from Coach Flores a few 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:45.720 selected Dolphins players after practice, and of course get you 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:48.800 caught up on everything in between here and the latest 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:52.040 from Davy here. All of that and more on this Monday, 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:58.760 August the thirty one edition of the Drivetime Podcasts. It 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:01.840 is the last day of August. Tomorrow is the beginning 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:05.560 of the second best month on the calendar for my money, 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:08.160 October taking the title here for best month out of 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:10.320 the year in a normal year, at least that is 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:13.039 with the middle of the NFL calendar, the start of 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:17.039 conference play in college football, the MLB Playoffs, Halloween just 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:19.840 around the corner, and of course, the best weather back 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.640 where I'm from, back home in the Pacific Northwest, on 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:25.200 the entire calendar. Might have to revise that, now that 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:28.160 I'm a South Florida man, which month here is the 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:30.920 best for weather? I'm gonna go ahead and assume it's February, 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:34.280 maybe March, you guys tell me. But enough about the weather. 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:37.399 Let's go ahead and talk about coaches media on Monday morning. 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:40.320 But first, before we do that. As the official wellness 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:44.399 provider and sports medicine provider of the Miami Dolphins, Baptist 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:47.720 Health is ready and committed to continue caring for you safely. 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:51.440 This pandemic has reminded us that crisis doesn't build character, 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.600 it reveals character. It's also taught us that our health 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:57.680 is truly what matters most. We have the power to 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:00.320 protect each other by wearing a mask. So who do 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:03.559 you wear a mask for? Mask up, South Florida, Keep caring, 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:07.520 live healthy, stay strong, and learn more at Baptist Health 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:11.079 dot net slash coronavirus and let's go ahead and get 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:14.680 to Brian flores Is Monday morning Media availability he spoke 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:17.680 to the media for about ten fifteen minutes, and last 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:20.080 year I spoke with my buddy Kevin durn We know 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:22.600 who he is at Kevin m d four on Twitter. 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:25.520 He writes for Dolphins Talk these Days. We talked about 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:28.560 how when football is around the corner, or when there's 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:31.040 a game on tap, or it's getting closer, there's a 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:34.640 bit more of a jovial look from Brian Flores. And 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:37.680 maybe I'm talking out of my backside here, but I 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.760 just noticed he seems a little more jazz, a little more, 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:44.280 a little more smiling at the camera during these media availabilities, 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:46.920 a little more joking with the media. So I thought 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:49.320 this one was a great media availability from Brian Flores, 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:51.720 kind of joking back and forth with some of the reporters. 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:53.440 Let's go ahead and start off here with a question 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.960 to update you on the status of Ryan Fitzpatrick. So 0:02:57.040 --> 0:03:00.320 fitz was back in bil this morning. Spront listen it 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:03.400 so fits is back. That's obviously great news to hear. 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:05.640 Looking forward to seeing him on the field with his 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:09.400 teammates up next. Coach was asked about relationships with players 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:12.000 that were here last year, how those evolved from year 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.840 one to year two, and also how he developed relationships 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:17.040 with the players who are in their first year under 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:21.080 a Brian Fluores program. I think it's like, um, any relationship, 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:28.120 you have friendships, relationships over time. He raised relationships involved evolves. 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:29.720 Excuse me. You know, the players who were here a 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:33.359 year ago, they're more comfortable with me. I'm more comfortable 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:36.320 with them. Um. And you know what, the new players 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:39.800 that are here, you just you know, uh, you put 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:41.360 the time in and get to know them, get to 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.520 know them on the field, off the field, some of 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:47.640 their quirks are trying to build, build that trust, build 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:51.840 that camaraderie. So it's been uh, obviously, you know what, 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:56.760 a year later, some of those relationships are stronger than 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.560 they were a year ago, which, you know, I think 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.040 that's the way should be. I'm sure it is that. 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:04.040 I think that's the way it is in most relationships. 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:06.880 We've talked before on this podcast about the number of 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.400 first and second year players on this Dolphins roster. I 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.560 think it last time I checked, it was thirty eight, 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:13.320 but that number could have gone up or down a 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:16.080 couple of spots because of some recent roster news and 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:19.239 roster movements. I should say and so Flora's talks about 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:22.720 the importance of finding out about how each guy responds 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.440 to different situations. You hear him talk about what guy's 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.239 quirks are and how you coach players differentely that way. 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:30.760 And so this roster has plenty of rookies, plenty of 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:32.920 young players, but it also has some guys that came 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.000 over here that had pre existing relationships with Brian Flores, 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:38.839 like a Kyle van Noy, like e Land and Roberts Cammu, 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.160 Gruge Hill, some players that can kind of come over 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:44.160 here and help the coaching staff communicate that message and 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:47.520 what's expected of players on this young roster. Next we 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:51.839 get health updates on Xavien Howard and Davante Parker obviously 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:55.000 ex coming off of the knee, uh, just coming off 0:04:55.000 --> 0:05:00.840 of p P COVID conditioning. And then just those fundamentals, 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:04.080 those techniques and footwork and hand placement, and everyone takes 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:08.440 for granted that people just think just happened. Um, he 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:11.880 needs to work on those and he he has been, uh, 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:15.600 but he needs to kind of work work on those techniques. UM, 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:19.400 work against the receiver, you know, work with his teammates. 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:22.680 From the communication. I think a lot of people, you know, 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:25.719 just kind of take those things for granted. Um, I 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:28.720 know he doesn't know. He's working diligently to get in 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.039 and get those reps, and he has talked about it, 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:33.479 and he's anxious to get in there because he knows 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:36.440 he needs him and I think he'll he'll work, it'll 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:39.720 work towards get to where he needs to be. And look, 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:42.280 if we feel like he's he's ready to go a 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:47.200 week one and we'll let him go. And if we 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:50.560 feel like he's not, then you know, we'll make the 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:53.400 decision when we get to that point. As far as Davante, 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:57.880 uh like he's working, you know, every day to get 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:02.719 back out there as soon as he can again. Yeah, 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:05.039 you know, he's he's been through some of the training 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:06.599 camp and some of the conditioning and some of the 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:11.200 fundamentals and techniques and uh, you know, when you're out 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:12.599 a couple of days, you just don't want to lose 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:16.960 those which if you don't practice them, you know, they 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:19.600 start to you start to lose them a little bit. Um. 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:22.400 But he's built up enough or I feel like he's 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:25.160 built up a good a good amount so that uh, 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:27.400 you know, he hopefully he can kind of get right 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:29.440 back to it. He will lose a little bit, but 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:31.039 then he can get right back to where he was 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:36.160 and continue improving and elevate. Hopefully I will elevate. I've 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:38.480 talked about how I thought xaviing Howard looked on the 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:42.280 practice field and the individual drills and the warm up sessions, 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:44.240 and you hear a coach they're talking about how he 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:47.200 is working diligently to get back to his full strength 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:49.680 when it comes to conditioning in the strength and and 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:51.760 working on the fundamentals and the techniques and how those 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:53.640 things can be taken for granted but not on this 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:56.599 football team. And x is working hard in those areas, 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.120 and personally, I just can't wait to see him get 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:02.000 out there with Iron Jones and Noah Ignogny and Nick 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.599 need Um and Bobby McCain and Eric Rowe and Brandon 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:07.600 Jones and Cavan Fraser. Think the secondary has a lot 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:08.919 of nice parts, a lot of guys that can do 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:11.200 different things. So excited to see how they turn out 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.120 and how they look when this is all, when this 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:15.800 all comes together and everybody's healthy on the field together. 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.640 As far as Davanta Parker, you heard him talk about 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:21.760 how Davanta was out here during the early portions of camp, 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:23.720 so he doesn't have as much ground to make up. 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:25.640 But of course it's important to get back out there, 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:27.640 to try to get back and sustain the level that 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:29.920 he felt Parker was at before he missed a few 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.600 practices in a row. So Parker, Exavian, we'll get We'll 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:34.720 get attendance on those guys for you here in just 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:38.080 one second. Up next, coach was asked to evaluate practice 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:40.440 on Saturday and how he felt the team performed after 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:42.760 watching the tape on you know, I was starting to 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:46.240 pick in the kicking game, so um, I thought our specialists, 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:51.360 m you know, played well, I mean, had a couple 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:53.520 of really good punts. Jason kicked the ball. Well, we 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:57.760 got some good snaps out of Blake. Just from you know, 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:01.880 the phases, I thought, you know, working our techniques and 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:05.760 fundamentals and communication you know on punt and punt return, 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:09.520 kick off, kickoff return. So again, still a lot of 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:11.520 work to do there, but I thought it was, you know, 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:13.480 a step in the right direction, and it's always good 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:17.040 to you know, get onto the stadium field and you know, 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:21.680 work through those phases, uh offensively, you know, from no 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:24.200 line standpoint. I thought, uh, you know, we made a 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:27.239 few moves there. We played Robert Hunt with some different 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:30.240 guys played so some different guys. It was good to 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:32.640 get you know, Hunt up there with with you know, 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:36.520 some of those more veteran players. Um, so that was good. 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:39.400 I thought he played well. Um again, I thought all 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:44.120 you know, the line as a whole, um played well, 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:47.839 you know, both units that were out there. Uh, but 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:49.880 you know, we can always get better communication, a little 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:52.960 bit better fundamentals technique. You know, the quarterbacks were played well. 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:54.480 Ou there, they made some good decision I think they 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.920 made some not some good decisions defensively. I'm not gonna 0:08:57.920 --> 0:08:59.560 go through the whole thing. And then just could quickly 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:04.719 defense of league. Um again, you know, just communication. A 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:07.480 couple of instances where we you know, have the wrong 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:10.280 amount of people on the field. So again we gotta 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:12.839 get that cleaned up. Until they played hard at these 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:16.400 conditioning was you know, okay, still needs some improvement, but 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:19.520 just you know, we've still got a long way to go. 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:21.480 All the days it kind of running to get whatever 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.439 practice their tune or something like that. So they're working 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.640 and trying to get better. Some interesting notes are about 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:30.199 the offensive line. Two rookies he mentioned Robert Hunt and 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:32.480 Solomon Kiley. We'll talk more about them here in just 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.600 a moment on the podcast, But we heard coach earlier, 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:37.400 was it last week or maybe the week before that, 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:40.080 talking about how this season is going to be unique 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.880 and that they might do more combinations on both the 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:45.400 offensive and defensive side when it comes to regular season 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:47.760 games and trying to get more guys involved. He talked 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.040 about the rotation on the offensive side of the football 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:52.720 with the quarterbacks, how they're trying to rotate each quarterback 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.280 with different lineups on the offense, not just first team, 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:57.920 second team, third team, so it's been a unique approach. 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:00.439 Coach addresses it. Their coach also address us. Is here 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:02.600 a comment he made earlier last week about not being 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.320 a good recruiter. Here's coach talking about where that comment 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:09.480 came from. I've never I've never been in college football. 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:12.079 That was the first kind of I thought, the king 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:15.079 of mind, And it's probably just me being self deprecating 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:18.360 to be honest with you. Uh probably you know, if 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:20.600 I wasn't college to be, I feel like I probably 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:24.640 wouldn't be uh a great recruiter. I like to be 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:27.720 hard on guys. That's not a big part of recruiting 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:31.040 what I hear, so, but I don't know much. That's 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:33.079 kind of where that came from Stephen. So you hear 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:35.920 him talking about being hard or being difficult on players, 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:39.840 especially young players. Here is coach talking about a trend 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.840 on social media about the looks he gives to ray 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:45.280 Kwon Davis on photos that capture him in the rookie 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:48.160 Here's coach talking about those smiles, those looks, and how 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:50.280 we should has ray Kwon Davis, how he feels about 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:53.079 how coaches to him on and off the field. Yeah, 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:55.880 I don't know if Rake won't say that, So am 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.880 I gonna ask him? If I'm always smiling at him? 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:02.200 Someone catches a pick, Sure at the right time, Rake 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:05.400 Won happens to be in the in the area. It's 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:08.319 a good picture. And I mean, have got sent to 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:12.040 me a few times. I could see, uh where someone 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:13.800 can get a few last night. I'm not sure Rake 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.480 Korn feels like I look at him with that much 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:20.120 admiration on a daily basis. You should ask him now, 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:23.520 or any of the rookies to be honest with you. 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:27.480 Speaking of rookies in college football up next, Joe Shadow 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:29.800 of the Palm Beach Post pulled out a reference to 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:32.599 the Austin p Central Arkansas game that took place the 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:34.839 other night. Stayed up late and watched that game on 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:37.680 Saturday night and talked about how one of the teams 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.360 had to use their fourth long snapper because of COVID 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:43.080 type of contingencies they had to go ahead and enact. 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:46.600 He asked coach about any possible contingencies at the long 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:50.120 snapper position and who might be in line to fulfill 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.079 that role should something happen to Blake Ferguson, Should we 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:55.640 be without Blake Ferguson and need to find a backup 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:59.240 long snapper. This is something we talked about at length. 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:01.599 So we've got three other guys who can snap on 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:03.480 the team, you know, the most interesting one of the 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:05.719 three was Mac Collins. I didn't realize that so that 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:09.079 was it was. But the more you can do in 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:14.080 this league, uh and obviously this year in a pandemic, 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:15.920 we've got to be ready to go, you know, at 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:20.160 all positions, you know, especially um as as a long 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:24.000 snipper position. What you don't want is to have a 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:28.200 situation where you don't have anybody to you know, long 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:32.520 or short snap. So um, no one really kind of 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:34.680 take it for granted until it's until it's an issue. 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:38.000 So um, but we we we We've had that conversation 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:40.120 for sure, joke as well as at all positions, but 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:44.320 definitely long sniper, definite pointer kicked. It's something we've thought about. First. 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:47.280 My apologies for having the laptop keyboard right next to 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:49.520 my microphone there for the recording of that. You picked 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:51.319 up a lot of the audio there. Kind of sounds 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:53.800 like a real press media availability though in a non 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:56.319 COVID situation when you're gonna have reporters sitting in front 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:59.040 of coach as he addresses the media, and you would 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.800 hear that laptop clicking in a normal season, So maybe 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.920 I'm not too apologetic about it. Up next, Coach talks 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:06.600 about the depth of the running back room and how 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:10.160 he feels about all five guys in that room. Uh, well, 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:13.680 I feel good about you know, um really all five guys. 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.640 You know, Salvin just who just got him Salving, I 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.480 mad and um, you know looking forward to see him, 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:22.800 you know what he can do today. Um, it is 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.800 really just being his first time out there. Um. But 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:30.959 Laird and Gasking and Brita and Jordan's um. All four 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:34.400 guys are capable, all competitive guys. All have you know, 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.320 some role in the kicking game. UM, and there are 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:40.120 different styles back. You know, I'm comfortable with with with 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:43.120 any of the five guys. UM, well, four guys. I've 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.800 been seen Salven you know close and up close. Yet, yeah, 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:47.760 I'm comfortable with all guys. I think. You know, they're 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:50.080 hard there. It's a hard working group and a competitive group. 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:52.480 Those are the things I'm looking for. They run hard 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.560 to get their fast uh, they'll block, catch the ball 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:58.680 out of the backfield. Looking forward to seeing what they 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.320 can do. Thirteen days you hear a coach talk about 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:03.840 the diversity of that running back room. All five guys 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:07.040 can do something different. Obviously, Chandler Cox the big banger 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:08.920 as far as the full back go is knocking guys 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.040 out of holes and creating space for the running backs. 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:13.079 Matt Breta one of the fastest players in the National 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:16.079 Football League. We've talked about Jordan Howard's patients and vision 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:18.679 and power on this podcast relentlessly. You know, I'm a 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:20.640 big fan of Miles Gaskon how he can make that 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.080 one quick cut jump and get off to the races. 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.280 I think Salvin Achmed is a good running back as well. 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:28.200 He definitely hurt me and some Apple cups at Washington State. 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:30.320 A big you Dub guy there. He and Myles Gas 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.520 can share the load at you Dub and he caught 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:34.560 plenty of passes there as well. We'll go ahead and 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:38.440 finish up this portion of Brian Flores's Monday morning media 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:41.480 availability with a question about soft tissue injuries and the 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:44.480 emphasis on hydration, nutrition and how the Dolphins prepare for 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.680 that type of thing in a shortened training camp. We're 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:53.320 constantly emphasizing hydration, stretching, getting the training real room, cold tubs, 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:58.080 hot tubs, nutrition, you know, it all plays a role 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:01.320 in it. Something I talked about really every day. They're 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:03.200 probably sick of hearing me, you know, say it, but 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:07.360 I say it every day. Um Oderation testing. I know 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.480 it's been a little bit of an issue around the league. 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:14.120 I know that, you know, coming off of and the 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:19.280 the lockout year, it was an issue. So we tried 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:23.000 to do everything you know, we can from an education 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:26.320 standpoint to help educate them to do all the things 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:30.720 we can to prevent them Obviously, it's football and things happen. 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:32.640 All we can do is educate them let the chips 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:35.440 fall where they may. So we're gonna go out there 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:38.760 in practice and try to get better and improve hopefully, 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:40.920 you know, from a soft tissue standpoint, and we make 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:43.760 it out. We make it out clean every day. So 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:46.440 there he goes, There goes Coach Flores for his Monday 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:50.160 morning media availability. That marks the point of practice where 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:52.800 media is only available for the first fifteen minutes, So 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:54.560 we're gonna go check it out, see who's out there, 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:56.760 who's playing, who's on the field, and we'll come back 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:59.720 and finish up this podcast with player availability and some 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:01.840 oats on some of the players coach talked about there 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:05.200 in his presser this morning, and then we got onto 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:08.080 the practice field for the warm ups and stretching portion 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:10.880 of practice, a little bit of individual drills. But as 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:13.440 we turn to the regular season form of practice now 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:16.240 that means no media after the first fifteen minutes, so 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:19.080 no practice updates for you guys. From here forward. We're 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:21.320 gonna be talking about this team, some of the individual 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:23.920 players and the evaluations of those players. Will get into 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:26.520 some regular season content next week as well. Here, but 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.040 we do have media availability coming up with some players. 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:31.200 But as far as what we saw on the football field, 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:33.400 Ryan Fitzpatrick is in fact back out there in his 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:36.360 red fourteen jersey along with the other quarterbacks to and 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:38.960 Josh Rosen. And then also in a red jersey is 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:42.000 Patrick Lair, the running back who injured his shoulder last week. 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:45.040 He was out there pre scrimmage for workouts and did 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.200 not participate in the scrimmage, but he is back out 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:50.040 here again on the field on Monday in the red 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:53.160 no contact jersey, not in pads, but out there working 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:56.120 on the exercise bike. Was number nineteen. Jachem Grant. He 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:59.120 will not practice on Monday. I did see Xavien Howard 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:02.080 over there. He's back practice once again getting some individual 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:04.960 instruction as coach Floras talked about building up some of 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:07.440 those fundamentals and some of those key aspects of the 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:10.119 game that everybody has to learn at every position and 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:13.040 especially at that cornerback spot for Xavien Howard. So he 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:16.320 is back in working some roster updates. The Dolphins waived 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:20.560 James Crawford, the linebacker in his place as receiver Andy Jones. 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:22.959 He war number eight on the practice field. You might 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:25.960 recognize that name. He's been with the Dolphins previously and 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:29.159 in number forty five running back Solving Ahmed out of 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:31.959 University of Washington. He was out there on the practice 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.720 field as well. No DeVante Parker, he was absent, No 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.680 Jonathan Hubbard, and no Kirk Merritt. So those three still 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:41.840 down not practicing on Monday, and without having practice notes 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:43.280 to cover, I want to just talk about a few 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:45.399 of the players that Brian flora Is mentioned in his 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:49.840 Monday morning media availability, and we start with quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick, 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:52.199 and I go back to a quote from last training 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:55.000 camp when he spoke to the media and said this quote, 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:57.040 I think in the last four or five years, I've 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:59.400 really gotten better every year, and I think, as funny 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:01.600 as that sound ounds, I think my best football is 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:04.440 still ahead of me. And quote there for Fitzpatrick, and 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.000 I've talked about that on this podcast, how his timing, 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:10.200 his repetition of all these different offenses, of all these 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:12.920 different play calls has really allowed him to just play 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:18.000 with the ultimate anticipation, the ultimate confidence. And the first 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.840 thing I said when watching Fitzpatrick's tape back in twenty 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.960 nineteen when the Dolphins signed him from Tampa Bay. Was 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.240 that he trust his eyes as well as any quarterback 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:28.639 I had watched in recent memory. He sees it, he 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:30.920 lets that thing fly, and he plays with that gun 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:34.880 slinger mentality, and it's certainly benefited guys like Preston Williams 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:37.560 and DeVante Parker, and both of those guys vertical skill 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:39.480 sets last season. Now, I do want to make it 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:41.119 a point to say that I don't believe that that 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:44.359 Williams and Parker are the same player by any stretch 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:46.880 of the imagination. I think Parker's game is more about 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:49.760 elevating and pulling the football down when he does get vertical. 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:52.480 I think Preston Williams is more about creating separation and 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:54.960 getting open that way and kind of attacking the football 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:57.720 and stride. So difference employers, even though they have similar 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:00.400 body compositions. But just to go back to fitz Patrick's 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:03.440 comment here about playing the best football of his career, 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:06.440 listen to these stat lines. From two thousand five rather 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:09.320 through two thousand thirteen, he had a fifty nine point 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:12.320 eight percent completion percentage, six and a half yards per attempt, 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:15.560 four point one touchdown rate, and three point six interception 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:18.560 rate and a passer rating of seventy seven point five. 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:22.960 Now from nineteen the last six seasons where Fitzpatrick says 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:24.760 he feels like he's getting better at this point of 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:28.200 his career, here's his numbers over that stretch. Sixty point 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:31.640 eight percent completion and improvement there, seven point four yards 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:34.639 pertempt up almost a full yard, a four point eight 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:37.800 touchdown rate up point seven percent, and a three point 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:40.480 one interception rate down a half of percent there, and 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:43.439 at eighty six point three passer rating that is almost 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:45.960 ten points better than what it was the previous portion 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:48.440 of his career. But you narrow that focus to the 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:50.560 last couple of years with Tampa and the last season 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:53.080