WEBVTT - Rookie Minicamp Recap, Twitter Mailbag and 2021 Schedule Notes 0:00:01.760 --> 0:00:15.600 Low down, Miami U. What is up, Dolph Fans, and 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:19.440 welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:24.960 Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:28.720 it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield writing 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:32.000 solo on this edition of the Drivetime Podcast And on 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:35.160 today's show, we've got several categories to cover. We're gonna 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:38.120 go back into the schedule and talk about some quirks 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:40.640 of this year's schedule for the Miami Dolphins. We're gonna 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:43.760 get to rookie Minicamp, play some audio from the media 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:46.760 press conferences over the weekend, and we're gonna get to 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:49.800 your questions on the Twitter mailbag. All of that and 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:53.200 a whole bunch more on this edition of the Drive 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:59.000 Time Podcasts. And we covered the schedule very in depth 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:02.080 and broke down every single matchup on this year's schedule 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:06.360 last week on the Wednesday Night slash Thursday Morning podcast. 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:07.960 You can go back and check that out right now 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:12.000 on Spotify, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast from. 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:15.160 But that show, if you couldn't tell, was pre recorded 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:19.720 with the Dolphins schedule and the placing of the games 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:22.360 and the breakdowns all ready for you guys right at 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:24.680 eight o'clock when the schedule came out, so I didn't 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:28.040 have a chance to go look at buys beforehand, or 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:31.480 long weeks or short weeks, or potential trap scenarios. So 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:33.280 I want to go ahead and do that here on 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:35.800 this podcast real quick to start things off, and then 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:37.960 we'll get into rookie mini camp and then your questions 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:41.080 on the mailbag early on. There's not much by way 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:43.680 of potential look ahead games. I like to look at 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:47.600 possible national television games before the are the opponents, before 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.600 they play Miami, and after Miami for potential look ahead 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:53.960 scenarios or let down hangover type games, but that's usually 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:57.000 more of a in season type of situation. There are 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:58.880 some things you can look at in the off season 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:00.880 and have a bit of an idea, like, for instance, 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.280 the first one I think that really stands out here 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.600 is that the Buccaneers game that in week number five. 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:09.640 They are at the Patriots the week before on Sunday 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:12.360 Night Football and then have a short week after the 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:15.800 game at home against Miami with the Eagles on Thursday 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.040 Night Football. So you come from pretty much the Marquee 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:22.040 game on their schedule they know Brady back to Foxborough 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.280 ahead of time. A week later Miami, and then four 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:27.840 days later a short week, And if you guys recall 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:30.680 on the podcast on Thursday, I talked about how the 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:34.960 game before a short week typically doesn't go well for 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:37.640 the team that has the four day rest because for 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:39.919 whatever reason, that's just how the numbers work out. So 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:42.280 that's the first one that releasted out to me on 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:45.760 the schedule. The Jaguars have a bye after they play Miami, 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.040 of course, because of the London game. The Falcons have 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:50.760 a bye before they play Miami, and so do the 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:54.360 Bills in that Halloween game. And beyond that, there's really 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:56.839 not much to look at. There's a few instances where 0:02:56.880 --> 0:03:00.000 the team that is playing against Miami in that particular 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:02.120 year the week the previous week is coming off a 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.600 divisional game, which I guess can have some of that 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:07.160 hangover potential. But of course that works both ways. With 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:10.360 the Dolphins in their post Buffalo New England or Jet 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:13.120 games the following week, the Colts in Week four play 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:15.840 the Titans. Prior to that, in week number three, the 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:19.000 Jags have the Titans as well before the London trip 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:21.200 when they come to play Miami, and then you also 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:23.840 have the Giants facing the Eagles before the game in Miami, 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:26.480 and the Saints have a Dolphins game sandwich between the 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:30.239 Bucks and Panthers two divisional games, so not really that much. 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:32.920 It's crazy. We covered most of the quirks in the 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.520 Thursday podcast last week. I want to go ahead and 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:37.560 mentioned here that I like the way the schedule starts 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:40.400 off early with games against the Colts and Raiders because 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:43.920 both those teams have significant turnover, so do the Patriots. 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.640 Now that said, last year, in the Week one game, 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:50.880 the Patriots unveiled that run centric offense with wrinkles off. 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:52.680 The wrinkles off, the wrinkles and you kind of have 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.080 to just adjust on the fly a post a week 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:57.240 fift team when you had tape of their offense a 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.040 little bit easier when you have an idea of what 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.080 that team is gonna roll, especially with that coaching staff. 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:04.400 So some mixed reviews here and there in the first 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:07.040 part of the schedule, I think I just absolutely love 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.440 that chunk in the middle there in terms of home 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.480 games and that stretch of not leaving Miami but one 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:14.400 time to go to New York to play the jets 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:18.159 between Halloween and Christmas. That is a very fortuitous middle 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.280 part of the schedule. And then, of course I think 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:23.320 this Brian Flores team always gets better as the season 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:25.560 goes along, so a chance to make a nice run 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.919 in December after that stretch of games in November, largely 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:31.320 at home. We'll see how this team performs if they 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:33.360 can get off to a faster start. I think that's 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:35.760 important this year. If you get to the Bucks game 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.200 at two and two or three and one, man, we 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:40.240 could be cooking with gas at that point. But again, 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:43.200 every game is its own independent events, so we're gonna 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.160 see and we'll have to wait to get to that. 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.240 But we don't have to wait to get to is 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:50.159 Rookie Minicamp which occurred over the weekend, and I took 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.840 down a few notes. We also had media availability for 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:54.680 some of the players that were out there on the 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:58.040 practice field, namely the draft picks and undrafted free agents 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:01.200 in this year's class, and just based on the videos 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:03.600 shared on social as well as the b role that 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:06.680 I tweeted out on Friday after practice, they got up 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:08.880 close look at some of the players, namely the draft 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.520 picks for your Miami Dolphins. I think the first thing 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:13.640 that we all saw that stood out in the Friday 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:17.479 practice video was Jalen Waddle. And you know, I'm gonna 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.560 talk about this this technique here a lot on this 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:23.000 podcast or with another player to hunter along the rookie 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:26.000 tight End about stemming, and what stemming is is when 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.880 the defensive back is in off coverage, the receiver wants 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.760 to attack directly at the defensive back so that he 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.159 has the least amount of time possible to make a 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:36.800 decision which way to flip his hips and which way 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:39.720 that route is gonna break off the top of the stem. 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:42.080 And Waddle had a rap against the coach, of course 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:43.960 of all people. But he was in off coverage but 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:46.159 to the sideline, which is usually the sign for a 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:48.680 zone turn in some type of zone coverage. And we're 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.640 gonna talk about this on the podcast on Friday, about 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:54.440 how speed can impact the offense. You saw it on 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:56.760 this one rep. He runs even against the coach because 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:58.960 he runs a little curl route coming back to the 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:02.240 quarterback and man, he gets up to the top of 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:05.920 the stem very quickly and then it's ankle breaking from there, 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.679 pivoting in that grass and grass kicking up under his feet. 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:11.599 But my goodness, he snapped that thing off and shows 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:15.200 you the suddenness, shows you the class leading GPS metrics 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:18.080 for Jalen Waddle, and my goodness, he looks healthy. He 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:20.680 looks ready to go. I can't wait to watch that 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:24.599 guy play football games for your Miami Dolphins. Jalen Phillips 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:27.479 punching the bag from the knee position. We're gonna play 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:29.400 his audio on that just one second. But getting out 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:32.760 of that on your knees position and upward thrusting into 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:36.240 the bag. Man, he explodes through that thing. Strong lower half, 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:39.679 strong upper half. He is physically physically gifted. I also 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:42.000 liked watching a little video clip of him playing both 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:44.960 going forwards and backwards and coverage as well, so they'll 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:47.320 have a variety of roles on this defense. I do 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:51.000 believe I talked about stemming and hunter long running routes 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:52.760 in this camp. There was a great video where he 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.400 did exactly what I talked about on his BC film 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.160 where he stems the cornerback, gets into his hip pocket, 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:01.200 forces that late decision, and then throws an arm over 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.440 move which helps him gain leverage and get up field 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:06.120 and then stack the defensive back. From that point, he's 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:10.040 a very crafty, nuance route runner already at this early age. 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:12.520 Then we get a look at Javon Holland on the 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:16.160 Saturday podcast or Saturday video clip, I should say, where 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.800 he's down in doing the hand fighting drills up against 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.440 the bag and really putting in the effort to really 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:24.440 showcase his ability as a possible run fitter. A guy 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:26.600 that comes down in the box and makes some noise 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:28.760 down there and hand fights with tight ends and gets 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:31.280 into the mix and plays those sea gaps off either 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:33.360 the strong side or weak side. I think that's a 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:36.040 big important deal for defensive backs in this defense. And 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.000 I think he showed you the willingness just in those 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:40.360 videos alone, again taking kind of a reach here to 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:42.360 talk about this and break it down, but it's football 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:44.480 and we're excited to talk about it. I also just 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:46.560 watked there was a close up of him showing him 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:49.040 kind of pick through his progressions in the defense. In 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:51.680 terms of how he reads things active eyes. He's very 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.400 studious and keeps his eyes, you know, moving around the 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:56.600 formation trying to find out what's going on as he 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:59.360 processes information. And I think you saw that in his 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:01.880 college tape with the smarts and the instincts that he 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:03.560 played with. So just a few notes there on the 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:05.920 videos we saw. Let's go ahead and play some media 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:08.800 from rookie Camp weekend here as the guys met with 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:10.720 the media for the second time now and some of 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:13.600 these undrafted free agents for the very first time, and 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:15.800 before we get to the individual comments, and we'll roll 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:17.640 through these things pretty quickly because there's a lot of it, 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:19.600 and you guys can find all of these videos in 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:22.920 their entirety up on the Miami Dolphins YouTube channel. There 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:25.880 was obviously a theme here with the rookies team first mindset. 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:28.200 They're here to absorb as much knowledge as they can 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:30.560 as they kind of go through fundamentals and technique and 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:32.920 how to practice, how to walk through how to be 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:36.000 a Miami Dolphin under Brian Flora's vision, and of course, 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:37.480 how do they help the team win a lot of 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:40.040 questions about which position are you gonna play, what weight 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:42.040 should you be at, what do you like in terms 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:44.720 of this technique or this style, and the answers were 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.480 always about helping the team win football games. Now, there 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:49.600 were some good hidden gens in there, and those are 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:51.160 the ones we're gonna get to. I had a chance 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:53.280 to ask a lot of these guys about on field 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:56.320 drills and how they apply to actual game day situations. 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:58.400 I thought I got some great answers there, and the 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:02.439 final takeaway is that these guys they're definitely very, very coachable. 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:04.960 We'll go ahead and start here with Jalen Waddle, Dolphins, 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:08.000 first pick in this year's draft, and first before we 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:11.600 do that, we do have official contracts signings. Jalen Waddle 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:14.520 the first in the top ten to sign his rookie contract. 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:17.880 We also had Larnel Coleman and Jared Oakes agreed to 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:20.240 terms with the Miami Dolphins over the weekend, and four 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:24.480 undrafted players Jerome Johnson, Carl Tucker as well as Robert 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:28.120 Jones and Jaitlyn ask you the dB out of Georgia Tech. 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:30.840 Let's go ahead and get nowt to Waddles presser, and 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:32.760 the first question I wanted to cover was one that 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:35.760 I asked him about what he learned under Steve star 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:38.280 Keys and in terms of his final year at Alabama 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:40.520 as he kind of extended his route tree and became 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:43.440 responsible for more in that Bama offense those first four 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.240 games as he was producing at an unreal clip, and 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:47.880 he said he thought that a showcase a lot of 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.800 ability that maybe wasn't question coming into his last season 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:53.440 there at Alabama. He thought he showcased his route running 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:57.640 ability as well as showcasing his talent. He also talked 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.040 about first impressions of his teammates and how every but 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.839 he had the same team first mentality and team first goal, 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.880 and how he likes that everybody in the organization is 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:08.640 real personal. I said, you can go up and talk 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:11.280 to coaches and they're willing to coach you. All the 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:13.439 things you look for in a good organization, a good club, 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:16.080 it's pretty much here, he said. He was asked about 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:19.240 quarterback to a Tongue Baloa, his former teammate at Alabama 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:22.319 and now current teammate again in Miami as this year's 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:24.960 first round pick out of Alabama to Miami. Was asked 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:27.840 about last year's first round pick and the leadership of 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:31.240 to a Tongue Baloha and natural born leader's confident. Um know, 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:33.319 if us all do a very smart everything you look 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:36.040 for in the leader, um, I feel like to you know, 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:39.080 showcase and presents. So that was the question about the quarterback. 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:41.920 He was also asked about his mindset growing up and 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:45.560 how it produced this ultimately very humble kid who has 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.680 produced big time at the biggest stages of college football. 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:50.720 But you won't hear him chirping, you won't hear him talking. 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.319 You don't see a diva in this receiver. Here is 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:56.840 Jalen talking about how he developed that mindset and that attitude. 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:01.720 Just know where I came from. Um, you know my mom, 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:05.160 my parents, teammates and everyone to help me get to 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:10.800 this point. Um, really just keep keep me humbled in 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:13.800 everything that I had to, you know, do to get 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:17.480 to this point. No tim to you know, be you know, 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:21.880 complacent or no time to be complacent, is right? The 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:23.800 right mindset as he comes into the NFL is the 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:25.920 sixth pick in the draft, but he's not anywhere close 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:28.840 to being done yet. Let's pick this up with tight 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:32.600 end Hunter Long, who answered the same question I asked 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:35.280 him on draft not about playing in two different offenses, 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.559 a run heavy offense and a past heavy offense in 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:41.000 Boston College with coaching changes against the same thing, talking 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:43.680 about how he got the best of both worlds, working 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:45.520 both in the run game in the passing game. But 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:47.520 then we jumped ahead to a question I asked him 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:50.040 about one are you still wearing hoodies in South Florida? 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:52.440 But also what did you learn this weekend in your 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:54.600 first rookie mini camp getting to know the guys and 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:58.320 the jump from college academia when it comes to football 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:00.360 to what you have to learn in the classroom at 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:03.360 the National Football League level. To answer your first question, 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:05.760 I did not learn honestly traveling down here. It was 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:09.600 like forty degrees when I left Boston, and I didn't learn. 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:11.920 I started threating instantly. Uh. And then to answer your 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:14.880 second question, I'm just trying to put in putting as 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:16.920 much time as I can to the playbook and taking 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:20.040 as much information as I can and uh, kind of 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:22.040 catch up to the older guys as best as possible. 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:24.679 So just as much time as possible I I can 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.480 put into the playbook, I'm gonna do. And like I mentioned, 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:29.120 that was kind of the theme of the day for 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.679 the rookies, talking about putting their nose down, keeping their 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:34.160 head in the playbook, and just keep into the grindstone. 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:36.400 Let's go ahead and jump out to an undrafted free 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:40.319 agent in fullback Carl Tucker out of Alabama. He played 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:43.120 some tight end, some h backs, from fullback, also played receiver, 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:46.360 he told us initially in college he was a fun interview, 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.480 and he was first asked about the move from North 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:52.120 Carolina to Alabama where he came to you and c 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:55.240 as a receiver, and then Obama took him from the 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:57.760 tight end position that he moved to from receiver and 0:12:57.800 --> 0:12:59.880 made him more of a fullback h back tight end, 0:12:59.880 --> 0:13:02.600 but talked about his versatility and the role he played 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:06.079 there in Tuscaloosa. They told me exactly what I was 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:09.640 gonna do. UM, I had plans on you know, being 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:13.680 there extra blocker, being the extra fullback. UM, And I 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:16.160 just I took that chance because I knew that would 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:20.840 better my opportunity and that would um bring growth to 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:24.320 my versatility. So that's the reason I wanted to play. 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:26.120 That was because that last sentence that where he talked 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:29.240 about the opportunity of growing his versatility, which of course 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:31.640 gave him a better chance at the National Football League. 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:33.480 So I came back and asked him a couple of 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:36.800 questions later about kind of the mindset of going from 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:39.719 receiver to playing inside and being a blocker. Because you 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:42.320 see this guy on tape at Alabama. He's throwing people 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:45.680 to the ground. He's playing physical, violent, aggressive football. So 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:47.480 I asked him about that and all the takedown See 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:50.360 hadd and tape. Here's Carl Tucker talking about the mindset 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:53.240 of moving inside as a former receiver who now plays 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:56.400 tight end slash fullback, slash h back. It absolutely grew 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:59.559 on me. Starting off at Chapel Hill came in as 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:02.400 a received her. Uh well, I was. I played receiver 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:04.640 in high school and I came in playing tight end. 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:07.040 Um at that point, I've never played tight end in 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:11.199 my life. Um So. I was coached by one of 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:14.160 the hardest coaches probably at the time, was coach ceth 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.360 Let Traill. Um. He was a fullback at Oklahoma, and 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:22.320 uh he was a hard nose, uh heavy, heavy, hidden guy. 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.600 So he would definitely get on your ass if if 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:26.400 you weren't, you know, doing what you're supposed to do, 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:28.640 if you weren't physical enough, he definitely called you out 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:32.040 in front of everybody. And I remember just the day 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:35.240 that changed. It was when he just got on me 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.960 the whole meeting. Um So, I just told myself I'd 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:42.360 never be soft ever again. And you heard me laugh 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:44.840 there at the end of the conversation there with with 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:47.120 Carl Tucker. He was a great interview. Like I mentioned, 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.560 let's go ahead and jump ahead now to Laurnel Coleman, 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:51.880 Dolphin seventh round draft pick, who was asked about the 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:55.200 expectation Brian Floras relayed to the rookies this weekend as 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:58.640 they get their first taste of professional football. He told 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:00.840 us that, like this is a real earning weekend. You know, 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.360 make sure you know you're really in your playbook in 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.000 especially getting used to the weather down here and everything, 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.680 you know, is making sure that you know we come 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:11.680 out of this weekend healthy and that we come out 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:15.240 better in terms of you know, just are no one 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:18.640 the playbook and everything. So really it was. So those 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:22.600 are the Friday interviews we had with Larnel Coleman, Jillan Waddle, 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:25.120 Hunter Long, and Carl Tucker. I did not play any 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:27.800 sound from Jared Oakes or from Jitaln ask you on 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:29.480 this podcast, but if you guys want to check that 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:31.680 out on YouTube and go find those. We'll go ahead 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:33.960 and finish up today with Jalen Phillips as well as 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:37.920 Javon Holland and Liam Eichenberg, who along with Robert Jones 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:40.720 and Jerome Johnson met with the media on Saturday. Let's 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:43.120 go ahead and start here with Jalen Phillips and the 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:46.800 question I had for Jalen regarding that great video social 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.520 media put up of him work in the bag, exploding 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:51.600 from the knees and kind of getting that hip drive 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:53.600 in the mid section and the arms and the shoulders, 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.080 all of it working in one on those pads. I 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:57.880 asked him to go ahead and tell us about the 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:01.600 translation of that drill into game day. Here's Phillips's answer 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.800 on my question. That's that's the six point drill, and 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:07.400 that's just kind of like the perennial d line, you know, 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:10.240 like that's explosion out of your hips, uh, and really 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:13.520 focusing on quick hands and just like Hans where you're 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:16.960 looking and just like I said, just getting explosive and 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:18.720 that's kind of just the base of every movement when 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.280 you're a d linement. So and then I came back 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:23.320 a few questions later and asked you, then the difference 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:25.280 between playing with your hand in the dirt and a 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.800 three point stands firstus a two point stance, Because you 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:29.960 watch his tape at Miami does a little bit of 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:32.640 both of those. Here's Jalen talking about the differences and 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:34.920 a three point stance and a two point stance off 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:37.640 the edge. UM, It's that's really like, you know, sometimes 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.280 when you're standing up, it's more advantageous being able to 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:43.000 see everything like contact, a snapshot of what's going on. 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:45.440 And then when you're in the three point obviously you're 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:48.280 having more leverage because you're coming low to high. UM. 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:51.320 But yeah, having played both, definitely comfortable doing whatever I 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:53.600 need to do. UM. But that's yeah, that's just kind 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:55.840 of the basics of you know, football one on one 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:58.280 and if you can't tell a theme and my questions 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:00.720 for these guys, I was really trying to utilize the 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:02.920 advantage we have of watching them go through drills and 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.159 kind of educate us on football, because I want to 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:07.800 learn from these guys what these drills me and how 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:10.399 they translate to game day situations. So I asked ja 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:13.359 Von Hall in the exact same thing, because defensive backs 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:15.720 and especially safeties and this defense have to get up 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:17.280 on the line of scrimmage and they have to get 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:20.120 physical and they have to get engaged with bigger offensive 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:22.560 lineman and so Javon Holland. I asked him about the 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:24.680 hand fighting drill because there was a clip on social 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:27.600 of him doing that. Here he is talking about doing that, 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:30.320 but just being a well rounded defensive back who's going 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:32.960 to do what the coaches ask of him, no questions asked. 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:35.960 I think it's important to be as well rounded as possible, uh, 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:38.560 and absorbed as much knowledge as possible, like I've previously 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:41.359 said in the previous questions, of course, but just trying 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:44.119 to get um, you know, as wide as perspective as 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:46.919 possible as a player, you know, new to a team, uh, 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.520 finally trying to find my role. So I'm really trying 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:54.160 to absorb everything like I said previously, and um really 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:57.080 just helped the team in anywhere. And so we come 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:59.760 back with a similar question here with for Liam Eichenberg, 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:02.879 who had mentioned in his post draft pressor that he 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:06.359 worked with coach Lemille Jean Pierre, new Dolphins offensive line 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:08.520 coach back at the Senior Bowl and some of the 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:10.640 workout stuff they're up at New Ord Dames Pro Day, 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:12.800 and I asked him about the difference between working out 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:15.119 with coach then versus working out with him now that 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.719 he has the aquand Orange. John and first I had 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:19.359 to ask him because he showed up at a press 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:22.040 conference with a fresh new buzz cut, and he said 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:24.240 that's something he does every year in football, kind of 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:26.760 a fresh restart. And then he was asked later in 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:28.680 a follow up question about it. He points his head 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:30.080 down and goes, I also do it because if he 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:32.960 can't notice, I'm going bald, which was a fun moment 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:35.280 of the press are good and lighthearted. And then we 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:37.680 got back to the football and that question about coach 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:40.480 Lamil John Pierre. I mean, it's he's he's a very 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:43.119