WEBVTT - Drive Time: August 23 Training Camp Recap 0:00:01.639 --> 0:00:05.440 You're listening to the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. This is 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:07.600 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield. 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:10.360 Back to throw to a looking clips about a. 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:16.360 Wide Dolphin touchdown Tyrick cal uncolievable, just. 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:19.239 Blue fire for a second time. Don't know where he 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:20.320 was going right away. 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:21.600 I want to hit that though. 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:23.079 Man, I'm gonna help you. 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:27.120 Someone up on your man away Wattle to a shotgun, 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:28.760 back to throw, looking at them. 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:33.560 Up Myers touchdown. It's Waddle his sixth touchdown. 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:34.880 Paradoun's this team. 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:39.000 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:41.519 Now check your pulse if you're not for. 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:45.080 What is up? Dolphins? 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:48.040 And welcome to the Drive Time podcast, part of the 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:53.080 Miami Dolphins podcast Network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:54.240 How's it going? Everybody? 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:57.280 I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:01.680 Practice does the penultimate training camp episode as we break 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:04.360 down the second from last day of Dolphins. 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:05.000 Camp twenty twenty three. 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:07.760 Plenty of good work to chew on, plus audio from 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:11.039 Quarterback to a Tongue Bailoa, Bradley Chubb and cater Coo 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:13.040 who all of that and more from the Baptist Health 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:15.560 Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:17.880 This is the Draft Time podcast. 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:22.280 Hey, it's kind of funny to me, man, Like every 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:24.959 year training camp takes the same arc for me, and 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:27.200 this is my fourth now covering the team, or I 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:29.880 guess fifth because I was here for a year before I. 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:30.640 Worked for the team. 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:33.360 And I'm sure it's similar to how the players are 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:37.240 probably everybody involved with the NFL absorbs camp, Like, I 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:39.480 could not be more fired up for day one at 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:41.200 the start of camp. Then we get a little bit 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:43.000 of a lull about a week and a half in 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:45.800 before those first joint practices, Then you get a bump 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:48.600 from those, and then after a couple of preseason games, 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.160 you're just ready for the dan thing to be over with. Now, 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:53.440 that said as a great promo for the podcast. Here 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:56.280 to kick it off, I thought today was an absolute blast. 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:58.880 What's the old saying, do something you love, something you're 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.680 passionate about, that you'll never work a day in your life. 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:05.000 That applies to me big time. But comparatively speaking, Day 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:08.320 seventeen does not quite have the same shine as day 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:08.880 number one. 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:09.680 I think we start. 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:12.840 Today's practice at the same place we start most practices, 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:15.520 the quarterback position, and we start where we usually start 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:17.240 with quarterback two with Dongo Bailoa. 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:18.200 It was funny. 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:23.000 I watched practice with Clay Ferrero from WPLG, our local 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.720 ABC affiliate down here, and I told him after the 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:29.079 second passive practice, and this included ROA routes on air 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:31.919 and individuals as well, I said, check back in two 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:34.239 hours and we're gonna all rave about the practice that 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:36.560 two I had today. And I said that because I 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:39.640 just thought he was incredibly sharp right from the jump, 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.880 the equivalent of watching him on the driving range just 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:45.560 picking out targets with different clubs. I got seventy five 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:47.560 yards from my lob wedge, I got one hundred yards 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:49.799 from my gap wedge, my nine nine one hundred and 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.480 fifty yards away, got that too, just dotting him up 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:54.920 ahead of the round. And there were two throws that 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:58.240 told me he was going to be in pristine rhythm today. 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.119 He threw a ball to Eric Azuka coming back down 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.200 the stem on a hitch where the ball was on 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:06.000 the face mask, not like right when he turned around, 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:08.200 because that's too early to me, but right when he 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:09.880 turned around and was able to get his hands up 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:11.640 in front of the face mask, the ball was there, 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:15.000 and you just cannot defend that unless you're taking big gambles. 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:17.160 And if you want to do that, we're happy to 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:18.720 welcome it because then we have the over. 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:19.560 The top stuff as well. 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.360 Then he threw one to tight end Julian Hill running 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:26.680 away from towards the perimeter, and Julian put his hands 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:28.960 out right next to his frame, and the ball just 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:31.480 kind of like remember in Madden, I haven't played Madden 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:33.680 in a long time, but a long time ago, when 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:35.480 you would throw the ball and the receiver would like 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:37.840 have it kind of come near him, it would sort 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:41.320 of vacuum into like their arms like it just the 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:43.440 ball would move in a way that's not natural to 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:44.600 science and gravity. 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:45.760 That's what it looked like. 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:48.120 The ball just wedged in there perfectly in a way 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:50.440 that you could not have done it better if you 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:52.800 handed it off to him. Then the play that made 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:54.640 me say that to Clay was the one that you 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:57.160 saw on Twitter, and actually the play prior as well. 0:03:57.360 --> 0:03:59.320 Remember that play that X made a pass break on 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.680 break up on in the game in Houston. Similar look 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:05.440 where he's kind of squatting and playing off and drives forward. 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:08.200 But this time Tua and this is where I think 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.160 he does a great job of keeping defense is honest 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:13.600 until it's too late. Like they're indicators, He's not giving 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:15.720 it to them until it's too late, which is the 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:18.560 ball coming out. He rips this shot to Cedric Wilson 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:20.599 where X fired the gun and tried to get around 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:23.680 the receiver Cedric Wilson, but the route and the ball 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.279 were indefensible. That was the first playoff team. And then 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:28.120 he comes back with the ball to chosen that you 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:30.760 all saw on Twitter. And you know how I always 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:33.440 say the best thing out here is when I theorize 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:36.440 something entirely on my own and get it confirmed. 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:38.080 This is not quite that. 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:41.680 But yesterday at practice OJ McDuffie solid name drop here, 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.360 Fish Tank podcast with Seth Levitt. Check them out, check 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:46.680 us out. In the postgame show on the iHeart app 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:49.640 on WIOD on Big FM one oh five point nine, 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:52.200 OJ was telling me he thought the practice was more 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:56.200 game plan stuff opposed to training camp script and straining 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:59.160 to beat your men individually just to get work on tape. 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:01.760 There's a big different in training camp football in game 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.880 plan football, massive massive difference. Right we all understand that, 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:09.200 I hope, maybe not sure enough. We got confirmation on 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.839 that from both Tua and Bradley Chubb. Today, let's go 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:12.960 first to QB one. 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:17.599 Well, I think our focus starts here with Jacksonville. We're 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:20.160 treating this as if it were a game week, So 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.280 just preparing the way we would on a normal day 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:27.080 to day week, normal down in distances, third downs, red 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:31.840 red area, you know, and we'll see what they give us. 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:35.040 So I'm preparing as if I'm gonna play. I mean, 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:38.560 it feels good to practice against other teams, get other looks. 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:43.240 The preparation is a little different when you're joint practicing, 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:47.040 but you know, when when you're able to practice on 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:51.440 your own get looks from the scout team, I think 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:55.320 that that definitely helps in preparation to play on the weekend. 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:58.560 The Ones did play last year in that final preseason 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:00.840 game against the Philadelphia Eagle, So if you want to 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:05.159 kind of play, you know, Mystery Solver or the Hardley 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:07.279 Boys as it were, I guess that would be your 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:09.600 indicator that they are. But that was a day where 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:11.560 that was the day we lost Jason Jenkins last year, 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:13.080 so that whole entire day was kind of a blur 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:15.200 and toil that point to a talk a little bit 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:17.279 about Jason Jenkins impact. I'm not going to play it 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:18.760 here because I didn't want to have to go through 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:20.800 and cut it because it makes me cry every time. 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:22.440 So we're gonna skip that. 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:24.240 But let's go ahead and go ahead to Bradley Chubb 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:26.560 right here where he talked about the idea of working 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:28.400 for a game plan apposed to just what you go 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:29.560 through in training camp. 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:31.440 Yes, for sure, it's a great change of place, you know, 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:34.640 getting a chance to kind of hone in your craft, 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:37.200 you know what I mean, kind of better yourself. I 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.120 mean the last two weeks we were doing that as well, 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.200 but it's against other competition and all that, so you 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:44.440 want to you kind of sacrifice the not if I 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:46.480 wouldn't say the fundamentals just to win, but like you 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:48.840 know what I mean, that competitive edge comes over now. 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:50.520 It's a good change up just to like kind of 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:53.839 really better yourself, better everybody around you, and take it 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:55.919 into Saturday with full steam ahead. 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:58.120 I do want to come back to Bradley Chubb here 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.320 in a moment, but first I want to get back 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:02.200 to TU And I know I'm a broken record with this, 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.119 but I only am a broken record when I'm an 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:08.039 insistent about a point, and it's been a theme all 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:13.000 camp long. First, this defense forces offenses to play patient. 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.280 And there was an article by Kevin Clark yesterday and 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:19.960 The Ringer about Joe Burrow exploding teams, exploding exploiting teams 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:23.040 playing those two high and three high shells that force 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:26.920 patients in hopes of generating offensive mistakes. Think about the 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.679 Bills game last year in Miami. The Dolphins frustrated Josh 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.680 Allen into a ton of mistakes. Now we didn't capitalize 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:35.360 on all of them. Had several drop picks in that game, 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:37.800 but that fourth down miss where Allen short hopped the 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:41.120 ball on a relatively routine pass to the outside, that's 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:43.960 what you're looking for. You make them run enough plays, 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.640 eventually they'll melt down and have mistakes. From an operational 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:50.239 standpoint from a quarterback, so you're making standpoint drops, short hops. 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:51.320 It's all involved in that. 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:54.440 Even if teams possessed the ball more than you and 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.000 they move it more than you, if you don't score touchdowns, 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.040 the game was always going to be close late. That's 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:02.720 how defenses have combatted explosive offenses in what is now 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:06.520 a very much pass heavy league, and no defense stresses 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:09.920 this more than Vic Fangio's scheme. Historically, no system forces 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:11.760 you to use every blade of grass more than this 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:15.200 defense does. No defense has given Tua more issues in 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:17.720 his young career so far than this, And we saw 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:20.320 Brandon Staley, who runs a variation of that, give two 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:23.080 of fits last year. The worst game I thought of 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:27.920 Tua's twenty twenty two campaign. Because Tua loves to live 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:31.040 within the timing and rhythm over the middle, this defense 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:34.080 stresses taking that away. And before I say this next part, 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:36.880 please allow me to clarify that doesn't mean that the 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:38.800 middle of the field passing game is going to go away, 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.319 not at all, not by a long shot. But if 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:43.760 you can counter that, if you can exploit the areas 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:46.440 that become vulnerable when you stress the middle to take 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:49.120 it away from an offense like this one, then you 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.360 become impossible to stop because now we have a counter 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:52.760 to your counter. And then if we can develop a 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:54.439 counter to that counter to the counter to the counter of. 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:55.960 The counter, good luck. 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:58.000 And with the speed this offense has, with the precision 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:00.520 Tua has, we saw in the Texans game those two 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:02.960 cover six beaters to durham Smythe and Brax and Barrios. 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.720 Just really good quarterback play from Tua. Throwing away from 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:07.679 the double, throwing away from the bracket, throwing away from 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:10.640 the leverage of that inside coverage. I've been talking about 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.000 it all camp, those cover six beaters, the blitz beaters, 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.839 getting it into the back's hands early to exploit the 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:19.320 vacancies of the blitz and before the shell can close downhill. 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:20.319 That's sharp. 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:22.480 That's where I thought Tua was super super sharp in 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.199 practice today, just taking what. 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:25.080 The defense gave him. 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:28.240 And Raheem Mostert, Miles Gaskin, Jeff Wills and all these 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:30.480 guys had a bunch of catches in this practice. I 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:32.600 love the way that Tua can use finesse to get 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:34.720 the ball to those spots. I referenced it on a 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:36.880 podcast last week or I don't know what it was. 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.280 It doesn't matter, gold jack, a green jacket, but about 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:42.120 how Ryan Tannehill never had that like throttle down, arm 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:44.640 speed to throw screen passes, to throw swings and wheel 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:47.719 routes that require touch and finesse. Tua is such a 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:49.959 master at that, and you're just not always going to 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:51.400 be able to stride into every throw. 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:52.920 You're not gonna always have a clear lanes. 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:54.600 You're gonna have to drop the arm angle and throw 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:57.240 soft touch passes and shovel whatever it might be. So 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.679 Tua's ability to manipulate the ball flight was really on 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:04.000 display today in this practice. I don't read the other 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:05.480 camp reports. I bet you're gonna get a lot of 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:07.200 people saying it was a ho hum day for the offense. 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:10.880 But I thought it was great. And people love Justin Herbert, right, 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.679 and I understand all the traits that Herbert offers. Last year, 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:15.360 he didn't have that great of a year, but I've 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:19.280 liked the way he accounted for quick reacting defenses, got 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.439 the ball of his hands and put in Austin Eckler's hands. 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:23.920 That's what we saw a lot from today from Tua. 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:25.960 And Tua we know how deadly he is in the 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:28.920 middle downfield intermediate portion in the passing game. If he 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:30.920 really compared that with the short passing game and the 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:34.200 quick answers to mitigate that stuff, like I said, it's 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:38.240 going to be unstoppable. I just like how he's really 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.080 really drilling the parts of the game. Last year, they 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:44.120 gave him fits a lot of those short receptions become 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:46.480 these ten plus yard runs because there's just so much 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:50.520 space that you're operating against and because mainly the football 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:53.840 is out early. I asked Tua about playing that style 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:58.880 of offense and how important it is to balance explosive 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:02.439 offense with law methodical drives. Here's the Miami quarterback on 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:04.680 the balance between the two styles of offensive play. 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:08.160 Well, I think it's very encouraging to see for our offense, 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:13.839 adversity hit quick within the first two plays, and we 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:17.240 were able to knock that offense just continue to sustain 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.760 the drive. We converted our third downs and we were 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:21.720 able to finish those. So I thought it was really. 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:25.559 Good and finishing up Twou's day, clean operation, no footballs, 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:28.199 and Harm's way. He finished off that opening series I 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:31.400 mentioned with completions to Azukama on a quick hitter, Durham 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:34.640 smythe on that little rpo flat that we've known we've 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:36.600 seen in this offense a few times, and then had 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:38.800 Raheem Moster for a touchdown on third down on a 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:40.920 little flat route as well, but heam dropped it. 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:43.359 He's been making that catch off camp. It happened sometimes. 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:44.120 Oh yeah. 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:46.760 He also threw the first play of the entire series 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:49.360 was the exact same play that got picked off in Houston. 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.160 Again to Tyler Croft thought that was cool to see. 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:54.600 So aside from that play, you know at the running 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:57.000 back position from Raheem, I thought he was super nice 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.520 with it today. Heavily involved in both the running pass game. 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:01.800 He also housed a forty yard touchdown run on the 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:03.920 last play of the day where he stuck his foot 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:05.720 in the ground and in the process of turning up 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:08.000 Field made a man miss and took it for six. 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:10.480 And then Rob Hunt and Connor Williams, who really opened 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:12.800 that lane for him key blocks at the point of attack. 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:16.480 Rob Hunt ran downfield and Raheem slid onto the grass 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:18.800 like a baseball slide, and Rob Hunt came down to 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:20.120 it too. It was kind of cool to watch those 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.520 guys have some fun at the end of practice. Let's 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:24.120 go ahead and take our first break right there and 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.160 come back and do more practice. Notes whilso here from 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:29.000 Bradley Chubb and Caterkohu. All of that's next Draft Time 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.640 podcast your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by I 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:37.000 don'tation is this or is this not the very best 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:39.640 time of year? I mean, I still contend it's October 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:44.000 because college football, NFL football, baseball playoffs, basketball is getting underway, 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:46.600 hockey too. Actually, my family, I think we're gonna become 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:49.120 a Pantherush family this year because my man Goldie has 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:52.640 the ticket hookup and Caroline's excited about going out and 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:54.360 doing some stuff. We're actually going to Disney on Ice 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:56.319 in a couple of weeks, and I cannot wait to 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:58.040 take her to that. She's gonna lose her mind over 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:01.439 in conto and elsa man. She it's Mirabell, but she calls. 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:03.160 Her in condo. But you get the idea. 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:05.560 But this time of year, you begin to notice the 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:07.800 football content that we get. It seems like it's getting 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:09.960 more and more. On top of the season coming up 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:13.040 right around the corner, we get the Manzel doc Hard 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.520 Knocks has past the halfway point. We've got swamp Kings 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:19.360 of Florida documentary, that BS High documentary on HBO. Looking 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:21.640 at that high school football team that wasn't the high 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:24.200 school football team that comes out. I think tonight we 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.040 made it. Man made it through the dog days of 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:27.880 no football. It is here, It is back, and it 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.360 is glorious and back to the practice notes. I thought 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:32.760 Miles Gaskin was really sharp today, popped a big run 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:34.200 that looked similar to the one he had in the 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:36.559 Falcons game, where he'd made a couple of moves at 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:39.440 that second level. He also got his fair share of 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:42.079 passes against same with Jeff Wilson. I can't wait to 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.720 watch Jeff Wilson get some run in live action because 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:46.880 he's had so many plays where he springs that first 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:50.079 layer her first level, and then we know about the 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:52.959 physicality he offers the second level. Then he popped one 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:54.800 for what I thought would be a thirty yard touchdown 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.959 run at some point in practice. The running games clicking, man, 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.800 these games, it's I've been talking about all Campu's not 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:02.319 just happening in the games, it's happening out here in 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:04.760 practice too, and against a front that does not allow 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.240 running yards from running backs like the quarterbacks have gotten 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:10.120 us but not running backs. Alec Ingold. I'm just so 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:11.600 good to have him back, and he's a big part 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:13.480 of that. Obviously. I say this all the time, but 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:15.760 you just notice it with him and without him. But 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:17.760 the stuff that he does, no one else in the 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:20.640 roster can really do. So obviously very valuable. I thought 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.320 Cedric Wilson continued to show what's been a good week. 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:26.320 He's been really sharp with his movement and that includes releases, 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:29.000 that includes top of the route, just looks shifty. This 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:30.880 is a player who, you know, two years ago in 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:33.160 Dallas was one of the top YAK players, one of 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:35.920 the most efficient guys in terms of taking advantage of 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:39.480 the opportunities he got. You know, it wasn't obviously an 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:42.120 ideal year for Cedric last year, but man, he's had 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:44.240 a really good week and that game on Saturday really 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:46.280 kind of turned me on to what I thought was 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:48.760 his skill set last year. Is quickly separating and making 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:52.160 plays after the catch. I thought chosen was super sharp today. 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:55.040 My issue there is he's been not catching these passes 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.120 and traffic in the middle of the field, and man, 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:00.000 those tips and overthrows, you can't do that with this quarterback. 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:03.080 He's so reliant upon timing and rhythm in that part 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:05.200 of the field. You have to catch those. He has 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:07.200 to be able to trust you in those spots. Because 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:08.880 he had one go through his hand in the game 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:11.760 and then again yesterday, I think it was But anyway, 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:13.240 the speed with chosen. 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:14.600 Is just so evident, man like. 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:17.360 He caught a vertical shot yesterday from the slot right 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:19.120 up the numbers that I think is one of two 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:21.120 of his best throws. And then he had one today 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.040 where he ran the over route just running away from 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:25.280 the defense where you can really see that speed as 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:27.400 he opens up. Also made a gorgeous catch up the 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:29.920 sideline from Skyler at one point in practice. I've been 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:33.000 really appreciative of Durham's smythe in the role that he fulfills. 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.280 We saw it last year. Not tons of opportunities in 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:37.000 the passing game, but he got a few today and 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:39.160 just doesn't drop the ball. He's catching a wall. He's 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:41.080 really taken to the run scheme. I think, to me 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:42.600 this has been the best he's look as a run 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:45.000 blocker in his what is it six seven years now 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.480 for Durham Smyth. I continue to be really impressed by 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:49.400 Isaiah Winn. He stands out in the way that he 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:51.200 gets movement in the running game, but also how he 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:53.520 can redirect in pass pro I talked about it in 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.200 the film review. Saw more of that today in practice. 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:58.720 I mentioned Connor and Rob in the previous segment. Those 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:01.480 guys pop every single day. Thought Kendall Lamb had some 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:03.960 really good blocks out in space on this one particular 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:06.200 short throw from Tua like a screen where he got 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:09.680 out wide and made a big block. So offense looks sharp. 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.320 I think defense is competing obviously as well. Let's go 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:13.880 ahead and pivot to that side of the football here 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:15.720 and start up front. You know who's had a really 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.800 good camp is Raekwon Davis and at tracks because Fangio 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:21.760 always has this massive space eating nose tackle and Rayquan 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:24.320 Davis is the biggest human being in an organization. I 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:26.920 think he's added more penetration on top of the way 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:29.920 we're accustomed to watching him, you know, plant the trigueast 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.680 double teams and ride the wave down the line against 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.440 zone running plays. Everything just looks a little more tuned 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:38.120 up from him to me, the hands, the eyes, the feet, 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.360 and as a result, he's getting more chances at splash 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:44.120 plays and doing more playmaking. Zach Steeler, who left practice 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:46.680 momentarily with what looked like a cramp, came right back 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.280 in shortly after just another day at the office for him. 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:51.000 I had him with a sack and a run stuff 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.600 and a batted pass. Isn't that just fitting? Like this 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:55.800 guy always fills up the stat sheet across the board 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:58.280 on game days. Did it again here today in practice. 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:00.760 Josiah Bronson made a bunch of plays in practice today. 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.120 Just kept seeing ninety five coming off the pile of chirping, 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:04.560 and he earned it by the way he was beating 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:07.399 blocks and making plays. I thought Emmanuel Ogba had some 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:09.440 really good work hemming the edge in the running game, 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:11.840 aside from the couple that pops, but more against the 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:15.200 second temo also saw him win with a quick step 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:17.600