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Speaker 2: welcome to the Drift Time Podcast, part of the Miami
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Speaker 2: it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And
Speaker 2: on today's show, we've got a football practice to talk about.
Speaker 2: Day one in the books. We heard from head coach
Speaker 2: Mike McDaniel to a tongue by low A, Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 2: Connor Williams, Brandon Jones. We had an explosive play from
Speaker 2: Tua to Waddle. We had a rookie Shine Bright, and
Speaker 2: much much more. We're gonna recap it all notes from practice,
Speaker 2: top quotes from media availabilities, and much much more from
Speaker 2: the Baptist Health studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is the Draft Time podcast. That's another Miami Always
Speaker 2: Caroline gets a vet day rest to day on the
Speaker 2: first down, call Kenny Walker back in our lives here
Speaker 2: today and just such first day of school vibes every
Speaker 2: year for the first day of training camp number four
Speaker 2: for me, you're number two under head coach Mike McDaniel,
Speaker 2: and a relief from the tortuous sunshine we've been facing
Speaker 2: here for seemingly the last two or three months. Down
Speaker 2: here in South Florida. Media coverage aplenty saw all the
Speaker 2: familiar faces, all the boys back in town, some new
Speaker 2: faces as well. Got a chance to see the guys
Speaker 2: run out of the indoor facility out to the outdoor
Speaker 2: practice field, and then a football practice broke out after
Speaker 2: all of that, and one of the themes today was
Speaker 2: that familiarity heading into the off or heading into year two,
Speaker 2: I should say, for the offensive side of the football,
Speaker 2: the level of competition raising the stakes for everybody involved.
Speaker 2: New system on defense and so much more than that.
Speaker 2: But let's go ahead and start here with that first piece,
Speaker 2: and particularly quarterback to a tongue of Iiloa. And to me, honestly,
Speaker 2: I just kind of appreciate that I feel like it
Speaker 2: should be or maybe it is in my neck of
Speaker 2: the woods, or maybe where I kind of isolate myself
Speaker 2: from the conversation is I don't feel like there's going
Speaker 2: to be as much back and forth about quality or
Speaker 2: whether or not this throw was good. Maybe there will
Speaker 2: be that. I don't know. I've seen some of it
Speaker 2: over the deep ball that he connected to waddle with
Speaker 2: already on social But anyway, it doesn't matter because it's
Speaker 2: kind of been proven at this point that the dude
Speaker 2: can flat out play. So I thought in this practice
Speaker 2: he was sharp and decisive. The ball rarely touched the
Speaker 2: ground when he was under center. There was one play
Speaker 2: that I can counted as a sack throwaway midway through practice,
Speaker 2: which was more of a coverage sack where Tua kind
Speaker 2: of went through his options before ultimately just killing the
Speaker 2: play despite stepping up into a clean pocket, which was
Speaker 2: also a bit of a theme in this practice. And
Speaker 2: you won't hear me talk too much o line d
Speaker 2: land before the pads come on, but clean pockets for
Speaker 2: most of the day. But I thought the progression of
Speaker 2: the day was the best part because to me, Tua
Speaker 2: really demonstrated and again, this is an area that maybe
Speaker 2: it's too intangible, maybe it's just you know, that's that's
Speaker 2: it really, I think is the fact that it is
Speaker 2: intangible over tangibility. Is that where his superpower and where
Speaker 2: he really shines is in the nuances of the game,
Speaker 2: and part of that is demonstrating the proficiency within the
Speaker 2: offense that just makes you know that for him, it's
Speaker 2: kind of second nature at this point. And we've talked
Speaker 2: about this last year into this year and really over
Speaker 2: the course of the entire offseason about having the offense
Speaker 2: be more you know, back of your hand, second nature
Speaker 2: like that, and that can result in more quick decisions
Speaker 2: and more you know, can pletions, more opportunities to stay
Speaker 2: on the field, which then creates more opportunities for the
Speaker 2: explosive plays. And we saw it play out like that
Speaker 2: here on Day one. Like you know, again, I did
Speaker 2: one training camp before I worked for the Dolphins, and
Speaker 2: so I've now seen a fifth year of practices. This
Speaker 2: day one was far and away offensively, it looked like
Speaker 2: the middle of camp when they kind of hit their
Speaker 2: stride and start to get more and more familiar. They're
Speaker 2: already in that form to me on day one, but
Speaker 2: the ball was out quickly. I loved, love, love, loved
Speaker 2: how they created run after the catch opportunities in the
Speaker 2: short passing game for the playmakers. That's a big part
Speaker 2: of you know, Tua's maturation here in year two of
Speaker 2: Mike McDaniel, Frank Smith, Daryl Bebbll and this Miami Dolphins
Speaker 2: offensive system. In fact, I want to go to coach
Speaker 2: right now, because the great Daniel Oyafusi of the Miami
Speaker 2: Herald asked this question to Mike in the morning regarding
Speaker 2: what he thinks about year two for the offense and
Speaker 2: for the quarterback and the nuances that come along with
Speaker 2: Because typically you asked the question, you get the same,
Speaker 2: you know, run of the mill answer. But with head
Speaker 2: coach Mike McDaniel, it's never going to be run of
Speaker 2: the mill. So Daniel did a good job asking about
Speaker 2: the nuances to make that kind of build as the
Speaker 2: execution and how you see that benefiting to a here
Speaker 2: in your number two. Here's head coach Mike McDaniel on
Speaker 2: QB one to a tongue.
Speaker 4: By law, I would equate it. I would equate it.
Speaker 4: The starting point is equate it to language.
Speaker 1: And you.
Speaker 4: Know, when you're learning a foreign language, you have to
Speaker 4: like translate in your head and and then at some
Speaker 4: point in time, if you're fluent enough, you can think
Speaker 4: in terms of that language. Last year too, it was,
Speaker 4: you know, we put a lot on the quarterbacks in
Speaker 4: terms of how to communicate and being in charge of everything.
Speaker 4: And he was literally speaking a foreign language and doing
Speaker 4: it at a pretty high level. And this year he
Speaker 4: he owns owns the language. What what that manifests everything
Speaker 4: you talk about? You know, ask ask a player, uh,
Speaker 4: what conviction does in a play call within a huddle?
Speaker 4: These little nuances are a big deal. All of a sudden,
Speaker 4: your conviction, you know, the quarterback, you're you're saying the
Speaker 4: same play, but with authority and ownership. Uh, guys believe
Speaker 4: in it that much more. All of a sudden, your
Speaker 4: pre snap penalties are are less as well, because you're
Speaker 4: getting a line of scrimmage faster. That in combination with
Speaker 4: other people doing their part, including myself gives a potential
Speaker 4: to have a really cool product and as well as
Speaker 4: like there there were so many things we asked to
Speaker 4: to do. That was a first for him last year,
Speaker 4: and to his credit, he was able to do a
Speaker 4: lot of really cool things. Ownership of it and knowing
Speaker 4: with conviction and confidence exactly why you're doing something so
Speaker 4: you can self correct gives you a chance to take
Speaker 4: your game to another level. And he's had a tremendous
Speaker 4: offseason and.
Speaker 2: So after watching him pepper these short, accurate passes to
Speaker 2: the you know, short in intermediate portions of the field,
Speaker 2: but really in kind of that five yards in area,
Speaker 2: I thought it created what you see across the NFL nowadays,
Speaker 2: where all these defenses want to play too high shell
Speaker 2: and protect the roof of the defense and make sure
Speaker 2: that teams have to, you know, take twelve fifteen play
Speaker 2: drives by going short. And you know, we heard two
Speaker 2: of talk today about the QB one or Quarterback Show
Speaker 2: on Netflix, and Patrick Mahomes is a good example of that.
Speaker 2: In that show, he talked about how teams have been
Speaker 2: playing in a certain way and if they're going to
Speaker 2: give him the deep ball, it's time to go back
Speaker 2: to the deep ball, right, And so I think that
Speaker 2: what you can do to benefit from last year's success,
Speaker 2: as this offense saw down the field, is to take
Speaker 2: that short change, take the you know, the pocket change
Speaker 2: the defense wants to give you, because all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: you just extend the game for the defense. You shorten
Speaker 2: the game for your defense, and again you create more plays,
Speaker 2: which creates more chances to you know, make mistakes for
Speaker 2: the defense. And so I thought we saw that build
Speaker 2: up as to a found those short outlet passes. He
Speaker 2: found alec Ingold, he found durham smythe he was finding
Speaker 2: Eric Azukama in the short areas. But then he got
Speaker 2: the chance to hit the big one and he didn't miss.
Speaker 2: And it was akin to the processing and quick decision
Speaker 2: making and ball out early that you see on the
Speaker 2: short throws too, which kind of makes it all blend
Speaker 2: together in a way that makes it even more difficult
Speaker 2: and confusing for the defense. So on this play, it's
Speaker 2: Jalen Waddle one on one to the perimeter. I wasn't
Speaker 2: sure if it was the short side or white side,
Speaker 2: doesn't matter, but Tua catches a shotgun snap takes a
Speaker 2: couple of steps, hitches up and fires a pass when
Speaker 2: waddle is like maybe twenty yards down the field, and
Speaker 2: he got on top of Javon Holland of all people,
Speaker 2: and to let this thing fly early. We saw it
Speaker 2: looked like, you know, Max Verst stapping here at the
Speaker 2: Miami Grand Prix, coming out of the blocks to start
Speaker 2: the grid and get that whole shot, and all of
Speaker 2: a sudden he's in first place for the rest of
Speaker 2: the race. That's what it looked like. Jalen was screaming
Speaker 2: out of the blocks on that release and he got
Speaker 2: on top of Javon pretty quickly. But Tua let that
Speaker 2: thing fly before he even got to that point because
Speaker 2: Javon was giving him some you know, I suppose, some
Speaker 2: space to deal with because why wouldn't you. And that's
Speaker 2: part of the space that this offense creates, just merely
Speaker 2: from the playmakers that it has within it. And so
Speaker 2: he lets the thing fly early, and you know, all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, it's a foot race between Javon and Jalen,
Speaker 2: and Javon's no slouge in that regard. He did a
Speaker 2: good job of staying kind of stride for stride. But
Speaker 2: I think this is where some of the I guess
Speaker 2: gray area that you saw on social media because we
Speaker 2: put the video up. It's not the entire play. It's
Speaker 2: just the quarterback, the ball, and the play that happens
Speaker 2: down the field, so you guys don't get a chance
Speaker 2: to see the route develop the way we did in stands.
Speaker 2: And I just thought that the urgency and the timing
Speaker 2: that Tua threw the football with the created urgency for
Speaker 2: Jevon Holland up against Jalen on that play. That's what
Speaker 2: happens because the quarterback is on top of his stuff
Speaker 2: for lack of a better term, like on top of
Speaker 2: his you know, it's different S word, but two got
Speaker 2: that thing out there early, and Javon, you know, you can't.
Speaker 2: There's not much you can do when you're running full
Speaker 2: speed trying to keep track of a track star, and
Speaker 2: that's what he had to do here. So the ball
Speaker 2: being where it was on top of his helmet is
Speaker 2: perfect location. And Jalen goes up and didn't catch the
Speaker 2: initial ball, which I thought was tipped by Javon. It wasn't.
Speaker 2: Jalen just didn't secure the catch originally, so I thought
Speaker 2: it was more of a catch than it was a
Speaker 2: great throw. But going back and looking at it, it's
Speaker 2: a great throw. Waald did get his hands on it first,
Speaker 2: which is high point in the football. Good job of
Speaker 2: doing that, and then a better job of corralling the
Speaker 2: football off the deflection, And it was so impressive that
Speaker 2: Javon Holland kind of went to him and said like, yeah, man,
Speaker 2: you got me a great play to go over there
Speaker 2: and dap up Jalen Waddle. So as a whole, I
Speaker 2: thought the off looked like they were just picking up
Speaker 2: where they left off in terms of having the same
Speaker 2: system and language. Let's go back to head coach Mike
Speaker 2: McDaniel who talked about the benefit for the coaching staff.
Speaker 2: We hear it from the players perspective all the time.
Speaker 2: How about the coaching staff's benefit of having that second
Speaker 2: year in the system and with the same roster or
Speaker 2: buying large the same roster. How it benefits those guys
Speaker 2: and how they craft together an offense and game plans
Speaker 2: and the like.
Speaker 4: You know, I think the it's important to always evaluate
Speaker 4: everything you do. I would actually be self conscious if
Speaker 4: I was like, no, something's good, I'm not gonna visit that.
Speaker 4: I think in terms of uh schematically that you know
Speaker 4: you're you're always you're always diving deep into what's the
Speaker 4: best for your players. Anytime your players change it, all
Speaker 4: your scheme should change. And that does. It's it's organic plusters,
Speaker 4: you Know's what's very unique about last year to this
Speaker 4: year is last year you're putting forth and specifically for offense,
Speaker 4: you're putting for You're putting forth scheme not totally knowing
Speaker 4: what your players do best, you're projecting what they do best,
Speaker 4: but you're having them learn it and kind of seeing
Speaker 4: where your offense goes this offseason, you can kind of
Speaker 4: structure it more tailored towards your players, evolve your scheme
Speaker 4: towards your players because you know what they are and
Speaker 4: or you little not what they are, but more things
Speaker 4: that they're comfortable with, things that they they have room
Speaker 4: to grow in, things that you know they can they
Speaker 4: can make plays and be the best player that they're
Speaker 4: trying to be. And that alone has been so powerful,
Speaker 4: and even just defensively we have a new scheme, but
Speaker 4: knowing player's strengths and weaknesses, being able to talk through
Speaker 4: with Vic and you know, you know who you can
Speaker 4: lean on. All that stuff changes for me the most
Speaker 4: because you know the people and that's a very cool
Speaker 4: thing here.
Speaker 2: Two, I think we've really seen a bit of that
Speaker 2: theme play out with press conference or I should say
Speaker 2: media availability conversation from several of the guys, but also
Speaker 2: the examples you get from what you see on the
Speaker 2: practice field. You know, we heard Raheem Mostart talk about
Speaker 2: adding more to his plate and not just coming into
Speaker 2: the second year of the offense, but his first year
Speaker 2: off of the knee injury and feeling more natural like
Speaker 2: himself in his second season off the knee injury, and
Speaker 2: he talked about kind of adding more to his plate
Speaker 2: in the passing game. We saw Savon catch some footballs
Speaker 2: last year and the today in training camp. Van A
Speaker 2: Chain obviously the same. Eric Azukama will talk about his
Speaker 2: game here in a moment because I thought he was
Speaker 2: such a natural for how the Dolphins can create space
Speaker 2: and generate mistackle opportunities for these guys that specialize in
Speaker 2: that regard, like in Eric Azukama. I think there's a
Speaker 2: big opportunity for him this year. We'll talk more about
Speaker 2: that here at a moment. Alec Ingold being more involved
Speaker 2: in the passing game. There are so many good options
Speaker 2: to fill the space vacated by what both ten and
Speaker 2: seventeen do and kind of you know, the run after
Speaker 2: ability idea that really tracks with how they wanted to
Speaker 2: build the team around those guys. Hedrick Wilson was a
Speaker 2: big run for the catch guy in Dallas, Aszukama in
Speaker 2: that role at Texas Tech. That's all he did. Guys
Speaker 2: bounced off him in the screen game, the short passing game,
Speaker 2: and he would take off with long speed after the fact,
Speaker 2: I think you're gonna have an opportunity to create space
Speaker 2: for those guys underneath, kind of a reaction to the
Speaker 2: reaction of what you did well last year, right the
Speaker 2: Dolphins offense attacked vertically and intermediately and really pushed the
Speaker 2: second level of defenses back. Well, if you do that
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, you create poor angles in the
Speaker 2: short passing game for us Heedrick Wilson, for and Eric Azukama.
Speaker 2: And I just think there's gonna be tons of opportunities
Speaker 2: where the speed the Dolphins have can create spaces and
Speaker 2: chances for other people, you know, throwing short routes to
Speaker 2: Tyreek Hill for instance, just putting guys in more and
Speaker 2: more binds based upon your formation and the personnel you have.
Speaker 2: Man I am excited about all of that. So the
Speaker 2: ball was rarely on the ground for in the first
Speaker 2: team offense or I guess the offense that he was operating.
Speaker 2: That they switched it up a lot, so it's hard
Speaker 2: to call first and second team. There was a miscommunication
Speaker 2: on a deep throw that the wide receiver came back on.
Speaker 2: It was like a head ran a hitch to or
Speaker 2: through deep and they just were on the wrong page.
Speaker 2: A batted ball at the line and the aforementioned Xaving
Speaker 2: Howard pass breakup on that ball to Tyreek Hill. I
Speaker 2: thought this was the best practice of Skyler Thompson's career
Speaker 2: as a Miami Dolphin. And you know, I've talked about
Speaker 2: some of the timing issues. I thought that was a
Speaker 2: lot better in this practice. Maybe it's recentcy bias, but
Speaker 2: just that timing and rhythm of his throws into tight windows.
Speaker 2: It was. It was precise today, very very precise. Now
Speaker 2: the defense also got their wins. In fact, let's go
Speaker 2: ahead and take our first break rate that we're getting
Speaker 2: deep into the podcast and come back and talk about
Speaker 2: the defense on the other side. Recap of practice, get
Speaker 2: to more media availabilities for you guys plenty to come
Speaker 2: your way here on the first edition of Drive Time
Speaker 2: Training Camp Recap podcast. That's a mouthful date number one.
Speaker 2: That's next your host, Travis Wingfield, brought to you by
Speaker 2: Auto Nation. I do apologize if I'm talking a little
Speaker 2: bit quickly today. I'm a little bit fired up. It's
Speaker 2: basically first day of school in a good way, your
Speaker 2: senior year, right, Like football practice is fun and I
Speaker 2: have the coolest job in the world. So we're talking
Speaker 2: all things football. Left off on the other side, talking
Speaker 2: about how the defense did get their wins on what
Speaker 2: I thought was just an efficient, really well constructed day
Speaker 2: from the offense. But probably the best example of that
Speaker 2: was good on good with Xavi and Howard getting a
Speaker 2: pass breakup working up against Tyreek Hill and just I
Speaker 2: mean iron Sharpin's iron right. It was good tight coverage
Speaker 2: playing back down the stem on this play where Tyreek
Speaker 2: came back to the quarterback to interfere with the route,
Speaker 2: the timing of the route and kind of turning Tyreek
Speaker 2: in a way that was legal but very veteran savvy
Speaker 2: movement from Xavier Howard and he just drove on the
Speaker 2: football and got his hand on it, broke it up
Speaker 2: and it was an impressive PBu. But the best part
Speaker 2: about it to me was how the sideline reacted and
Speaker 2: just went wild. Legitimately, twenty guys came over and tapped
Speaker 2: up x after the play. And it's one of those
Speaker 2: things where, like, you know, if you go into a
Speaker 2: game against the Chiefs and you're playing Patrick Mahomes, like,
Speaker 2: you know you've got a tall task ahead of you
Speaker 2: and you're gonna celebrate getting the wins against that guy.
Speaker 2: I feel like in practice for Xaviing and Jalen, and
Speaker 2: even though those guys are two of the best cornerbacks
Speaker 2: of the last you know, half decade plus in the NFL,
Speaker 2: knowing you have Tyreek and Jalen to go up against
Speaker 2: on the other side, it's a challenge. It's something you
Speaker 2: look forward to and something you celebrate when you do
Speaker 2: it well. And I thought it was a perfect example
Speaker 2: of this comment from coach before practice about the way
Speaker 2: the players like Tyreek, Jalen, Jalen and x the way
Speaker 2: they raised the level of competition and carry a specific
Speaker 2: burden with them because of who they are and where
Speaker 2: they've been and their star power and how the other
Speaker 2: guys in the roster view them.
Speaker 4: Being a good player and getting paid a lot of
Speaker 4: money has its burdens too. What I'm pumped about is
Speaker 4: I think those four guys specifically are are competitors that
Speaker 4: want to win in the worst way and want to
Speaker 4: be the best version of themselves. So what that gives
Speaker 4: you a chance to do is dictate the competitiveness of
Speaker 4: your entire team. But it's also a burden because you know,
Speaker 4: if you don't come to play one day, it affects
Speaker 4: a lot of people. So you know, those guys specifically
Speaker 4: know that their their actions can influence a lot of
Speaker 4: the team and where we're going, even how even if
Speaker 4: it has nothing to do with their stats or production,
Speaker 4: I think having those types of guys uh is invaluable
Speaker 4: in terms of talented players that want to be great,
Speaker 4: that are willing to do the work.
Speaker 2: And I would alf for those guys is that Speaking
Speaker 2: of past breakups, Cam Smith from OTAs up until today
Speaker 2: just continues to stand out to me. His length always
Speaker 2: stands out even when they're running through individual drills, and
Speaker 2: Sam Madison is peppering footballs with those guys and a
Speaker 2: funny story for you guys from from OJ McDuffie from
Speaker 2: back in the day. He always talked about how those
Speaker 2: guys loved, you know, trying to play a little bit
Speaker 2: of quarterback and showing off their arm. I know, my guy,
Speaker 2: Juice loves showing off his arm. Like we went to
Speaker 2: MetLife for the MetLife takeover a couple of years ago,
Speaker 2: and fans wanted to play catch with Juice, But he
Speaker 2: just wants to throw the ball because he's got a
Speaker 2: pretty good cannon, and he loves showing off the throwing arm,
Speaker 2: and he likes he likes to watch, you know, Sam
Speaker 2: and last year Pat throw the football in practice to
Speaker 2: their guys, and Sam loves cranking those balls out to
Speaker 2: uh for the guys and individual drills. But I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go ahead and say this. You know, maybe Sam wouldn't
Speaker 2: like it, but he's not the most accurate with the
Speaker 2: football and quite frankly doesn't have the best arm I've seen.
Speaker 2: And so a lot of those balls are coming out,
Speaker 2: you know, not on targ And there was one that
Speaker 2: I was certain was more than likely to be caught
Speaker 2: by a media member and the stands than it was
Speaker 2: by Cam Smith. Then he just extends the go go
Speaker 2: gadget arms and plucks it from thin air and corrals
Speaker 2: it for a catch and individual drills. But it just
Speaker 2: speaks to his strength, I think, which is the length
Speaker 2: and the ability to kind of react quickly and anticipate
Speaker 2: in those things put him in position to be in
Speaker 2: passing lanes more often than not, and he just knows
Speaker 2: how to use that length to his advantage. We talked
Speaker 2: about all OTAs making plays in the football. Had a
Speaker 2: PBu right away today in seven on seven, one play
Speaker 2: after I thought he was the reason that the window
Speaker 2: was so tight on a completion to alec Ingold. But
Speaker 2: then again during eleven on eleven he damn near picks
Speaker 2: off a pass from Skyler Thompson just didn't quite survive
Speaker 2: the ground and the catch going to the ground. But man,
Speaker 2: he was. He was impressive. It was tough out there.
Speaker 2: I thought there was a few more balls on the
Speaker 2: ground offensively and defensively than there probably should have been
Speaker 2: because there was a constant drizzle all morning, and I
Speaker 2: actually joked in the office that it was like a
Speaker 2: Seattle drizzle, which, if you guys are familiar with the Northwest,
Speaker 2: it rains a lot, but it's like these short rains
Speaker 2: that are not very heavy downpours. It's not like a
Speaker 2: South Florida downpour where you have a puddle after two minutes.
Speaker 2: But so the field was wet, the balls were probably
Speaker 2: a little bit wet as well as there was just
Speaker 2: some moisture in the air. But also nobody complaining about
Speaker 2: that because it was literally the coolest day temperature wise
Speaker 2: we've had all summer on the first day of camp,
Speaker 2: which just tells me the football gods are real. But
Speaker 2: a couple of drop passes Tyreek had won. There was
Speaker 2: some balls on the ground that were dropped by the
Speaker 2: offense that probably should get cleaned up in the coming days.
Speaker 2: But staying in the defensive backfield, you know, Brandon Jones
Speaker 2: has been working his way back and it's so good
Speaker 2: to see him out there playing. And I always just
Speaker 2: love to see a player who's been out with an
Speaker 2: injury and going through rehab because you take away like
Speaker 2: a man's purpose. And I've been there before. The pandemic
Speaker 2: was kind of that where all of a sudden, we're
Speaker 2: not doing as much content and we're not really you know,
Speaker 2: working the same way we used to. And what's your purpose,
Speaker 2: and I can see how that can impact a young man,
Speaker 2: especially who does the same thing all day every day,
Speaker 2: has put his entire life into this profession and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, you can't do it anymore. And Brandon's
Speaker 2: so introspective and so intelligent that I just wanted to
Speaker 2: hear his opinion on that. So I asked him after
Speaker 2: practice today three questions. I'll go ahead and play the
Speaker 2: Q and A for you guys, how did your downtime
Speaker 2: help you in terms of getting your game back from
Speaker 2: a mental standpoint? And then kind of his answer was
Speaker 2: similar to what he did at the combine when he
Speaker 2: couldn't do on field work and got everyone's playbook and
Speaker 2: learned an advantage. And then also I asked him, how
Speaker 2: would you describe coach Vic Fangio's coaching style. Here's that
Speaker 2: entire Q and A with Brandon Jones.
Speaker 5: One just not being able to be out there. It
Speaker 5: was tough from that aspect, I think anytime, especially I
Speaker 5: think when I had my little elbow situation a couple
Speaker 5: of years ago, is being able to not being on
Speaker 5: the field, you recognize and realized so much more things.
Speaker 5: And the biggest thing that I had was time, which
Speaker 5: was the first time I've ever had that much time
Speaker 5: to just focus on other things, and I really took
Speaker 5: that up all myself to learn the defense, learn everything,
Speaker 5: not just about the states position and trying to I'm
Speaker 5: always looking for an edge. So I couldn't run, I
Speaker 5: couldn't back better, I couldn't do any of that stuff.
Speaker 5: So my edge was mentally locking in understanding the new
Speaker 5: new playbook, new defense and kind of going from there.
Speaker 2: The compline when you couldn't work out there and do
Speaker 2: the same thing.
Speaker 5: But exactly, that's one thing if no matter if whatever's
Speaker 5: wrong with me, I'm always going to figure out some
Speaker 5: type of edge, something that's gonna help me strive and
Speaker 5: you know, excel my game at a high level. It's
Speaker 5: a it's a lot, it's a it's it's definitely good.
Speaker 5: It's a unique defense, I think, just the amount of
Speaker 5: different schemes and the way we can run certain things.
Speaker 5: But it also gives the DBS a lot of freedom
Speaker 5: and kind of play and make calls based on what
Speaker 5: we see, based on formations. So with that freedom, I
Speaker 5: think it's gonna give us a lot of a lot
Speaker 5: of leeway to have fun and communicating I'll be on
Speaker 5: the same page.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm jazzed up about getting brand Jones back into
Speaker 2: the fold. We talked about the new system, new defensive coordinator,
Speaker 2: and Vic Fangio's style. On the other side, we saw
Speaker 2: lots of seven on seven in this practice, and I
Speaker 2: think that, you know, my perspective is picking up and
Speaker 2: teaching a new defense can be more definitive and give
Speaker 2: you more of a thought of where you have to
Speaker 2: go based upon certain reactions to you know, passing concepts
Speaker 2: and just different movements with fewer bodies to assess, you
Speaker 2: know in front of you doing seven on seven, just
Speaker 2: more space to work through your roles on a given play,
Speaker 2: because there was more seven on seven in this practice
Speaker 2: really than I think any practice last year mentioned the PBUs,
Speaker 2: but I think the best play was from the aforementioned
Speaker 2: dead play where Tua opted to not throw the football
Speaker 2: down the field in the coverage. It was a combination
Speaker 2: of X Holland and Ramsey essentially floating back into what
Speaker 2: you know, I wouldn't I wouldn't say I know the
Speaker 2: defensive call, but looked like a cover three. All three
Speaker 2: of those guys in deep portions of the field. Keeping
Speaker 2: the roof on top of the defense and cutting off
Speaker 2: any throwing windows down the field. They kind of gathered
Speaker 2: after the play and for what to me seemed like
Speaker 2: a confirmation of a job well done. I saw some
Speaker 2: fist pumps and things going on like that. Cool as
Speaker 2: he then kind of just mature throughout the course of
Speaker 2: the practice and get rules and jobs done. Some other
Speaker 2: plays I wanted to point out some explosives. Savon Ackman
Speaker 2: had two plays almost back to back, one in the
Speaker 2: passing game, one as a runner, and the running play.
Speaker 2: It looked like he kind of put a move on
Speaker 2: where he felt really good about it because he threw
Speaker 2: his hand up in the air and to me, that
Speaker 2: says like, I'm going to the end zone for six,
Speaker 2: kind of like you didn't, Matt. I think it was
Speaker 2: R one on the PS two the R one put
Speaker 2: the finger up in the air and say, hey, I'm
Speaker 2: going to the end zone. He also caught a pass
Speaker 2: over the middle of the field where he put a
Speaker 2: little shake on the defender and to it, just rip
Speaker 2: that thing right in there, right on time, and it
Speaker 2: led him into a big run. After the catch, did
Speaker 2: the exact same thing hand in the air he thought
Speaker 2: he had a touchdown there. We'll see. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Raheem's best run was behind a really good block from
Speaker 2: Connor Williams and Rob Hunt. You can just see the
Speaker 2: difference with Connor Williams in the lineup. In fact, let's
Speaker 2: go ahead and here from Connor here for just a second,
Speaker 2: where he talked about how excited he is to get
Speaker 2: back on the field and play with his teammates once again.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously you can't. You can't be on this
Speaker 1: field if you don't love football. So I love foot ball.
Speaker 1: Missed it, missed the teammates, missed the players, and I
Speaker 1: missed my time here. But like I said, that's all
Speaker 1: the pass we're here now, I'd say, just solidifying my game.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, coming in last year, new position things
Speaker 1: you're picking up on the fly, and now she's about
Speaker 1: solidifying that spot and feeling comfort with all the blocks,
Speaker 1: all positions, and being able to solidify my role as
Speaker 1: a leader as the center and being able to lead better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, whether it's the screen game, getting out in space,
Speaker 2: making a key block at the point, pass protection, getting
Speaker 2: things called out up front. The offense is just simply
Speaker 2: better when Connor Williams is in the lineup. We mentioned
Speaker 2: Tyreek getting a chance to see him work as always fun.
Speaker 2: He caught one short pass and made a move before
Speaker 2: getting into that sprint where that offhand is kind of
Speaker 2: flapping around all over the place, almost like a dog's
Speaker 2: mouth out the window, and the cheeks are blowing in
Speaker 2: the wind. He runs so damn fast. The arm the
Speaker 2: ball is not in just looks like it's flailing around
Speaker 2: out there, and that to me always a sign that
Speaker 2: he's moving. He's cooking, ready to go to the end zone.
Speaker 2: And on this play, he sure as hell thought he
Speaker 2: made the defender miss to create a long run after
Speaker 2: the catch because that arm started going there up in
Speaker 2: the wind. Let's go ahead and hear from Tyreek on
Speaker 2: his preparation for this offseason and what he expects in
Speaker 2: the coming season.
Speaker 6: You know what, man, I've been grounding this whole offseason.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 6: Obviously, I've been doing the camps all over the US,
Speaker 6: but I've had time to just, you know, fine tune
Speaker 6: my game. You know, when I come ouhead of practice,
Speaker 6: you know, to me, it's not all about running fast anymore,
Speaker 6: because now it's all about getting open and just being
Speaker 6: in the right spots, you know, for my gut tour
Speaker 6: or whoever's in that quarterback in the moment. So as
Speaker 6: you've seen today, Man, I was just out there coasting,
Speaker 6: you know, trying to find ways to get open, you know,
Speaker 6: trying to be like Travis Kelce ish you feel me,
Speaker 6: So yeah, Man, just running the game a little bit more.
Speaker 6: I'm playing at my own pace and just trying to
Speaker 6: control the tempo for myself.
Speaker 2: And how about the comment that McDaniel made about foreign
Speaker 2: language year two of the offense. Let's put that same
Speaker 2: question of Tyreek and how it helps him at that
Speaker 2: receiver position just get even better after a seventeen hundred
Speaker 2: yard season.
Speaker 6: Man, Like I said, just being able to play, you know,
Speaker 6: at your own tempo, just being in the right spots,
Speaker 6: and then just understanding every route and how to run
Speaker 6: every route. Like I said, last year, Man, I was
Speaker 6: decided there running routes and you know, just getting open.
Speaker 6: But this year, I completely understand the offense and you
Speaker 6: know how to use leverage against dbs, and you know
Speaker 6: where I need to be at on this certain covery,
Speaker 6: so everything can slowed down.
Speaker 2: Man, Let's go ahead and take our last break. Right
Speaker 2: there on the podcast and come back on the other side,
Speaker 2: get some additional practice notes and hear more from head
Speaker 2: coach Mike McDaniel as well as your quarterback to a
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Speaker 2: every day for the drive home in the East. I
Speaker 2: thought Alec Ingold had a really good day today. Talked
Speaker 2: a little bit about that in the previous segment. With
Speaker 2: the short passing game options this team now has between Azukamas,
Speaker 2: Cedric Wilson, Ingold, all the running backs Braxton Barrios to
Speaker 2: tight ends, I just think Alec is going to really
Speaker 2: expand with this offense. Can do as much as anybody
Speaker 2: in the sense of that year two in the system
Speaker 2: type of thought process because of you know, integrating a
Speaker 2: full back is just one of the things a lot
Speaker 2: of these players haven't been around, you know, with kind
Speaker 2: of the death of the full back position, but Alec
Speaker 2: is keeping it alive in a big way. I think
Speaker 2: his inclusion of the offense could be even greater in
Speaker 2: that regard. I mentioned Eric Azukama earlier. I just a
Speaker 2: big target, really good balance that lends itself to yak ability,
Speaker 2: and I just continue to think that the space this
Speaker 2: offense can create with other guys will create chances for
Speaker 2: guys like that. We also saw Braxon Barrios catch a
Speaker 2: really nice timing rip down the middle from Mike White
Speaker 2: mentioned the raheem nice run working off Connor and Rob
Speaker 2: That was pretty much it, like, we'll get you some
Speaker 2: more notes. Rayqwon Davis had a big stack and shed,
Speaker 2: so did Brandon Peelee. I saw Aubrey Miller get a
Speaker 2: couple of run stops. I thought David Long Junior made
Speaker 2: a play that is is gonna be one We're gonna
Speaker 2: see a lot from him this year where he just
Speaker 2: you know, anticipated fired the gun and made his play
Speaker 2: in the backfield and he came off yelling about how
Speaker 2: excited he was about tagging off Aubrey Miller. The undrafted
Speaker 2: rookie had a couple of stops in the backfield, and
Speaker 2: there was one play where Jalen Phillips is going up
Speaker 2: against Austin Jackson off the edge and they run an
Speaker 2: outside play and Rayquan makes a big stuff in the backfield.
Speaker 2: But Phillips chucked his dude to out of the club
Speaker 2: and that was just an example of his strength and
Speaker 2: how I expect him to play this year. So plenty
Speaker 2: of good. We'll have more of those practice notes for
Speaker 2: you guys on the coming days here and continue to
Speaker 2: get more looks and hopefully we see more one on one,
Speaker 2: some more pit drill. I just want to see more
Speaker 2: of that action because seven on seven it's fun, but
Speaker 2: I like one on ones and then eleven on eleven.
Speaker 2: Hopefully we get more of that here, especially when you
Speaker 2: guys get out here for practice here coming up on Sunday,
Speaker 2: go ahead and play a couple more soundbites here and
Speaker 2: then get out of here. Coach touched on the pup players.
Speaker 2: I think it's right to show you guys that for
Speaker 2: the news portion here, let's go ahead and hear what
Speaker 2: Coach had to say about Tron Armstead, Isaiah win Tanner Connor,
Speaker 2: and Nick Needham.
Speaker 4: I think if I would order where the guys are
Speaker 4: are at, you're probably talking. I'm expecting sooner with Armstead
Speaker 4: and when than Nick than Tanner as far as when
Speaker 4: that is, uh, Like I said, I kind of learned
Speaker 4: my lesson on that. But they are, they've uh we
Speaker 4: have feel pretty good about each and every one of
Speaker 4: them in terms of, uh where they're at, where they
Speaker 4: need to be, and where they're going.
Speaker 2: So sure, you guys saw the news on Tuesday that Tua,
Speaker 2: Christian Wilkins, and Toront Armstead checked in at eighty one,
Speaker 2: eighty two, eight three, respectively on the NFL's Top one
Speaker 2: hundred players list. And I've always crapped on that list
Speaker 2: because it's just crazy sometimes. But hearing the testimonies from
Speaker 2: Fred Warner, from Patrick start ten to the second our
Speaker 2: own guys like Tron Armstead and talking about how high
Speaker 2: level they believe to a plays the game at, to
Speaker 2: me was very confirming in a lot of ways. Let's
Speaker 2: go ahead and go back to head coach Mike McDaniel
Speaker 2: who talked about to landing on the top one hundred
Speaker 2: list for this year soon.
Speaker 4: So those things are really cool. I think that's awesome.
Speaker 4: And you know, when I talk, you know, top hundred
Speaker 4: stuff does come up naturally, naturally every year, and it
Speaker 4: means a lot, and it means nothing. Respect amongst your
Speaker 4: peers is a big deal. What does that mean? Is
Speaker 4: it right? And what does it mean for you moving forward?
Speaker 4: Not that much, But you want to talk about something
Speaker 4: that you know without a shadow of a doubt is
Speaker 4: earned respect. That's what That's what that one tells me
Speaker 4: because I looked really hard and I didn't see his
Speaker 4: name the year before, and I think that is something
Speaker 4: knowing to a he may not even know that it happened,
Speaker 4: nor would he care because he's forward focused. But you know,
Speaker 4: I think deep down there's there's probably some I mean,
Speaker 4: shoot there when you're begging, you're begging for a little
Speaker 4: positive reinforcement and you're considering if you suck. I do
Speaker 4: think that I could officially say, if you're on that list,
Speaker 4: you don't suck.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and finish up here with QB one
Speaker 2: who was asked again. I feel like this the entire
Speaker 2: media landscape was kind of taking the drive time theme
Speaker 2: to and talking a lot about year two in the
Speaker 2: offense and trying to get a feel for how the
Speaker 2: staff and players might feel that could benefit them. Let's
Speaker 2: go back to Tua, who touched on year two in
Speaker 2: the offense and how it's going to benefit his game,
Speaker 2: just being a little bit more comfortable with in the system.
Speaker 3: It's been good. It's been really good. It's not only
Speaker 3: good for me, but it's good for a lot of
Speaker 3: the guys that have been here last year as well.
Speaker 3: Getting comfortable with the offense, being able to understand the logic,
Speaker 3: understand why we're doing things more and not just going
Speaker 3: out there and running and trusting and hoping that this
Speaker 3: is what the expectation is from said coach to said player,
Speaker 3: So we all have the same expectation out there when
Speaker 3: we play with each other. There's still some things that
Speaker 3: we got to clean up, but I think overall, it's
Speaker 3: been a really good first day to be able to
Speaker 3: go out compete against the guys that are going to
Speaker 3: be on both sides of the field, Tyreek and Jalen,
Speaker 3: you know, on this side and then obviously the other side.
Speaker 3: Everyone wants to see X and also Jalen Ramsey, So
Speaker 3: it was good to see everyone.
Speaker 2: I know. You have. That's a wrap on day number one.
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