Speaker 1: Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins.
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Speaker 3: What is up? Dolphins?
Speaker 4: And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast, part of the
Speaker 4: Miami Dolphins podcast network covering your team, your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 3: How's it going everybody?
Speaker 4: I am your host, Travis Wingfield And on today's show,
Speaker 4: practice number ten in the books and against a different
Speaker 4: color jersey. We'll break down the day's work against the Falcons.
Speaker 4: Here from Miami Gardens who stood out in team the
Speaker 4: one on ones two minute drill. Plus we'll hear from
Speaker 4: head coach Mike McDaniel, Mike White, Jalen Twyman, Devon a Chain,
Speaker 4: and Brandon Jones from the Baptist Health Studios inside the
Speaker 4: Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 3: This sues the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 5: Maye Gaffie.
Speaker 4: You may have heard the Falcons are in town and
Speaker 4: we got to see an action packed practice session today.
Speaker 4: Way too much going on with two fields of work,
Speaker 4: four stations of one on ones and the ramp up
Speaker 4: to team drills. As it is, there's gonna to be
Speaker 4: some things that you just cannot possibly watch and you
Speaker 4: have to punt on.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and get that out of the way.
Speaker 4: First, I watched a lot of the offense and team
Speaker 4: and did not see a single moment of our defensive
Speaker 4: line in the O line, D line pass rush drills.
Speaker 4: And I'm gonna see this every time we have joint practices,
Speaker 4: people are going to bring up conflicting camp observations.
Speaker 3: Can we just acknowledge that they're not all the same?
Speaker 4: Like tweeting about a player who's not out there and
Speaker 4: then correcting it later on, probably not a reliable source
Speaker 4: of information. So that and then also, like I saw
Speaker 4: someone came at me for talking about the Dolphins interior
Speaker 4: having a good one on one pass rush or pass
Speaker 4: blocking rep against the Falcons pass rush, and I mentioned
Speaker 4: interior because exterior was bad. And I saw that the
Speaker 4: quote that was used against that was a stat showing
Speaker 4: seven imaginary sacks on thirty one pass rush reps. Well,
Speaker 4: batting twenty five percent in one on one drills is
Speaker 4: not a good number for pass rushers. That drill is
Speaker 4: tilted to the defense and the same way receivers have
Speaker 4: the advantage in.
Speaker 3: The one on one opportunity.
Speaker 4: So I just want to get that out of the way,
Speaker 4: because you're gonna see all of that, I'm gonna see
Speaker 4: a bunch of it.
Speaker 3: It drives me crazy. But we move on.
Speaker 4: Let's get to the one on ones here in a moment,
Speaker 4: including what I thought was a very good period from
Speaker 4: our guys in those pass blocking drills on the interior
Speaker 4: exterior not so much. I thought it was a very
Speaker 4: bad showing off the right tackle position and left tackle
Speaker 4: as well. Let's go ahead and start here though, first,
Speaker 4: because the depth chart is officially out, and as you
Speaker 4: would expect, there's a good deal of seniority in there,
Speaker 4: and I don't think any real surprises based upon how
Speaker 4: the roster shakes out. The only note I would give
Speaker 4: on that that I think is worth talking about because
Speaker 4: I mean like Nick Needham, for instance, is on their
Speaker 4: head of cater Ko who Noah Igbinoghany and Cam Smith.
Speaker 4: Nick Needham hasn't practiced yet, He's not going to practice
Speaker 4: for a minute. So I get the purpose of it,
Speaker 4: but the accuracy of it, it's not like real time.
Speaker 4: And so let's go ahead and hear from head coach
Speaker 4: Mike McDaniel on preseason depth charts and the best quote
Speaker 4: I think of camp so far.
Speaker 2: Depth charts.
Speaker 1: Okay, preseason depth charts, which there's nothing wrong with them
Speaker 1: in theory, but for what we do here and you
Speaker 1: guys hear me talk about it all the time, like
Speaker 1: every day we're evaluating. Every day is important and I
Speaker 1: am a principle that players decide where they're at on
Speaker 1: the field and doing that preseason depth charts are like
Speaker 1: my nemesis because I just make sure that they have
Speaker 1: every player on the team. But to sit here and
Speaker 1: say this person is that stuff. We are rotating guys,
Speaker 1: giving guys, you know, I put a precedent on giving
Speaker 1: guys the opportunity and having them decide where they stand.
Speaker 1: So if someone's listed as a guard, that doesn't mean
Speaker 1: they're not getting tackle work or vice versa. You have
Speaker 1: to put something on paper in general, But like, realistically
Speaker 1: there should be about fifteen starters on each side of
Speaker 1: the ball because you're talking about different personnel groups.
Speaker 2: Can you do you do that? Do I just release
Speaker 2: the days depth chart? You know that all those things.
Speaker 2: It's very malleable.
Speaker 1: I understand why it feels like it's annoying something.
Speaker 2: It's really really not. He's listed there.
Speaker 1: Because he does play that position, but there's like three
Speaker 1: other positions that he that he's playing. Unlike years past,
Speaker 1: I think in my history and definitely from last year,
Speaker 1: we have more competition in a lot of spots. So
Speaker 1: you might see somebody starting that's listed as in the
Speaker 1: third team. I really don't care about it, but that
Speaker 1: only because ar Mantra, like I can't speak out both
Speaker 1: sides of my miles, so I just I'm just like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of names here. Oh there's five, there's seven. Okay,
Speaker 1: we got them all, sweet. And that's about the end
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 4: So with that out of the way, let's go ahead
Speaker 4: and talk about the quarterbacks, who I described them today
Speaker 4: as feast or famine. Some bad interceptions, including a very
Speaker 4: uncharacteristic interception of Tua down in the team red zone work.
Speaker 4: He was looking for Freddie Swayin on a timing shot
Speaker 4: down around the goal line over the middle, and linebacker
Speaker 4: Troy Anderson, who was very well known for this at
Speaker 4: Montana and through his rookie year with the Atlanta Falcons,
Speaker 4: very athletic player, gets depth, falls into the hook zone,
Speaker 4: reads the eyes of the quarterback into the route, and
Speaker 4: jumps it and takes it back the other way, probably
Speaker 4: till about midfield before I think Tua would have got
Speaker 4: him down or at least slowed him up for everyone
Speaker 4: else to catch up and go make a play on
Speaker 4: the linebacker run down the field. But really good play
Speaker 4: by Anderson, not a good throw by Tua. And that's
Speaker 4: usually the type of rep where Tua does a good
Speaker 4: job of moving the defender with his eyes. I can't
Speaker 4: sit here and tell you I have analysis like that
Speaker 4: seeing a play live one time, but in a snapshot.
Speaker 4: First thought on that was the fourth and eight touchdown
Speaker 4: against the Patriots to Waddle last year where he moved
Speaker 4: the second level and dropped the ball into the vacancy.
Speaker 4: And Tua had another miss on a short throw to
Speaker 4: Jeff Wilson that I thought was uncharacteristically off the mark
Speaker 4: from him, just a couple of other balls that were
Speaker 4: not necessarily like we get so spoiled by his ball
Speaker 4: placement to watch him just time after time put the
Speaker 4: ball on the correct shoulder, on the correct hip on
Speaker 4: you know, outside shoulder on a deep ball inside to
Speaker 4: the post. Like the ball placement we are so spoiled by.
Speaker 4: And when it's off like I thought it was today,
Speaker 4: I think it stands out and so no, he was
Speaker 4: not sailing balls all day long. He missed like four
Speaker 4: or five throws, but for the most part he was
Speaker 4: in command, had a few more incompleations that we're used
Speaker 4: to seeing. Things just seemed a little bit off, like that,
Speaker 4: there was one to waddle that was a little bit
Speaker 4: below the bell and Jalen could not hang on as
Speaker 4: he went to the ground. Just stuff like that. Could
Speaker 4: have been a better throw, could have been a better catch.
Speaker 4: There was one the Tyreek on the sideline where he
Speaker 4: got free like he was all damn day long, and
Speaker 4: Tua was a little bit high and it forced Tyreek
Speaker 4: to make a circus catch and tap the toes. But
Speaker 4: I mean five throws out of a whole day of
Speaker 4: camp where there was a lot of reps. And Skyler
Speaker 4: didn't get a lot of reps today, so it was
Speaker 4: mostly Tua and Mike White. But Tua had a bunch
Speaker 4: of reps, like fifty plus, I would say, And I
Speaker 4: thought his best throw the day was a shot to
Speaker 4: chosen who had his best day of camp so far.
Speaker 3: More on him in a moment. But Tu, this is
Speaker 3: like Vintage two.
Speaker 4: At this point, pumps deep to Tyreek comes back to
Speaker 4: the middle to Chosen in the intermediate and shoots it
Speaker 4: between three Falcons in a spot that allowed Chosen to
Speaker 4: run through the football and into the secondary for at
Speaker 4: least a thirty yard game not even scored the way
Speaker 4: he was cooking. He also gave River Craycraft a very
Speaker 4: nice yak ball run. After the catch ball, River got
Speaker 4: free working on their best cover guy, aj Terrell, who
Speaker 4: kind of got some of the business today from some
Speaker 4: of these Dolphins receivers. It was interesting a lot of
Speaker 4: Miami's passing was for chunk yards and on the far field.
Speaker 4: The Falcons completions were largely in the quick and short game,
Speaker 4: which kind of reminds me of like the eight Dolphins.
Speaker 4: And we're gonna talk about this here in a minute.
Speaker 4: The Falcons want to be a run first, short passing game,
Speaker 4: control of the clock, good defense type of team. Under
Speaker 4: Arthur Smith. They have a good defense. I thought they
Speaker 4: played pretty well in this practice. The running game is
Speaker 4: pretty strong. I just will find out about Desien Ridder
Speaker 4: here as we go along. But you might see a
Speaker 4: similar number of like wins in terms of the Falcons
Speaker 4: won that play. The Dolphins won that play. But I
Speaker 4: think if you look at the total yardage game. I
Speaker 4: think Miami significantly won that battle, if that makes sense,
Speaker 4: because like our completions would go for like twenty, the
Speaker 4: Falcons would go for like four or five. Tua dropped
Speaker 4: some really pretty shots in the one on ones portion
Speaker 4: of practice, including one to Chosen who was open all
Speaker 4: day long. I thought Mike White was kind of the same,
Speaker 4: some really good rips, some not so great ones, mainly
Speaker 4: the two minute drill interception to end practice where he
Speaker 4: tried to force it into a window and was picked off.
Speaker 4: And you can kind of look at that and say, well,
Speaker 4: he's trying to get the ball down the field because
Speaker 4: a pick and going four and out. It's the same
Speaker 4: thing there, and it kind of is. But three picks
Speaker 4: today was the most I think in a practice so far.
Speaker 4: Skyler was picked off when he had chosen deep in
Speaker 4: a one on one shot, but the ball was short
Speaker 4: and gave aj Terrella play on it. Let's actually go
Speaker 4: to Mike White now, who spoke to the media after
Speaker 4: practice and hear his thoughts on the day.
Speaker 5: We have some good, had some bad, and I mean
Speaker 5: that's going to be any practice. Nothing's ever as good
Speaker 5: as it looks, and nothing's ever as bad as it looks,
Speaker 5: but there'll be some good stuff to learn off of
Speaker 5: the tape, I think from from all sides or all
Speaker 5: groups or whatever you want to call it. So yeah,
Speaker 5: I just got to get in there, get better from it,
Speaker 5: and build on it tomorrow.
Speaker 4: And the reason I think you can point to the
Speaker 4: good with the quarterbacks is because we can point to
Speaker 4: so many skill guys that really had nice days. And
Speaker 4: it began with Tyreek Hill. This this guy's so freaking good.
Speaker 4: He was fast, he was explosive. He put on our
Speaker 4: show for the fans for sure, And I almost think
Speaker 4: you got more of a charged up Tyreek today knowing
Speaker 4: he was going up against somebody else and looking forward
Speaker 4: to the opportunity to, like he said, with Eli Apple
Speaker 4: coming down here to embarrass some folks. And it began
Speaker 4: in the early one on one portion. He was just
Speaker 4: putting guys in the spin cycle. He had this one
Speaker 4: route where he like broke it off twice. And it
Speaker 4: wasn't like the slow developing camp route that's not applicable
Speaker 4: to regular football.
Speaker 2: Like.
Speaker 4: It happened so fast and so effectively that I believe
Speaker 4: in that route as an actual route he can run
Speaker 4: on game days. I've never really seen it before because
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna talk about it in death because it
Speaker 4: goes against reporting rules. But the way he chased this
Speaker 4: man's blind spot was just outrageous. And the way he
Speaker 4: did it it was like teaching tape, and it put
Speaker 4: the defensive back in a position where I think by
Speaker 4: the time he got his head back around to where
Speaker 4: he wanted to be, I don't think he knew where
Speaker 4: Tyreek was.
Speaker 3: And it was like that all day long.
Speaker 4: He caught ball short, he caught balls deep, he caught
Speaker 4: balls in the intermediate, he caught balls up off of
Speaker 4: his frame where he had to go up a lot
Speaker 4: bigger than his five foot ten frame would suggest.
Speaker 3: Just a very, very impressive day.
Speaker 4: The best play of all was a forty six yard
Speaker 4: touchdown where Mike White took the took the ball, fired
Speaker 4: it quickly, and the gear that he fired up the seam,
Speaker 4: I should say quickly, and the gear that Tyreek hit
Speaker 4: when the ball was in his hands. Like sorry for
Speaker 4: the cheap reference here, but it reminded me of like
Speaker 4: the takeoff at the F one the Miami Grand Prix,
Speaker 4: Like it was catch and he was gone, Like on
Speaker 4: a different level of track, like you know the airport
Speaker 4: escalator where you can walk across the escalator and it
Speaker 4: celebrates your foot speed. It looked like that he ran
Speaker 4: past all these guys, had to make a turn around
Speaker 4: the chicine at one point as well to angle a block,
Speaker 4: and it kind of reminded me of the touchdown running
Speaker 4: he had against the Bills when he was with the
Speaker 4: Chiefs in the playoffs a couple of years ago. We're
Speaker 4: so fortunate to have this guy man I mentioned Chosen
Speaker 4: and been impressed by his body of work in this
Speaker 4: day after a slow starts to camp, I thought he
Speaker 4: got open, caught the one on one deep shot from Tua,
Speaker 4: worked the soft spots and the zones with good timing.
Speaker 3: With all the quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: Seems to have something that clicked for him, and McDaniel's
Speaker 4: mentioned that, and throughout the course of training camp where
Speaker 4: this progression, the journey of things clicking, I think that
Speaker 4: might have been today for Chosen. I hesitate to make
Speaker 4: that commitment. We'll see what happens tomorrow if he can
Speaker 4: take it into a game and take it into next
Speaker 4: week into Houston. But I'm encouraged by what I saw
Speaker 4: today because so far not a great camp, but today
Speaker 4: very good for chosen. You know who I really liked
Speaker 4: today was Brax and Barrios. Man he I've been pumping
Speaker 4: the a Zuokama train. Barrios is right there at this
Speaker 4: point for me for that like kind of you know,
Speaker 4: secondary role to the top two guys in the offense
Speaker 4: in the running game that I think will have a
Speaker 4: big role as.
Speaker 3: Well, but tough catches in traffic.
Speaker 4: I thought Mike White's best throw was a dart right
Speaker 4: into the bulls eye on the zero in his jersey
Speaker 4: with the defender on his back. And actually Clark Phillips
Speaker 4: got carted off after the play, which you hate to see.
Speaker 4: Both he and Brayln Sanders got carted off. It didn't
Speaker 4: look good, but we'll find out what happened to them
Speaker 4: both probably tomorrow. But Braxon made the tough contest to
Speaker 4: catch hung on and that was his game today, man
Speaker 4: catching third down completions in tight quarters. And so I
Speaker 4: asked Mike White after practice, what is it about Braxon
Speaker 4: Barrios that makes him so tough in those situations?
Speaker 3: Here's the Miami QB.
Speaker 5: I think, I mean, the short area of quickness is
Speaker 5: is so good by him, and I think he does
Speaker 5: such a good job of making those one step cuts,
Speaker 5: and you can you can feel his body language and
Speaker 5: know when he when he's leaning into someone, when he's
Speaker 5: when he's getting ready to break out. He has a
Speaker 5: really good feel for the zone looks as well. Like
Speaker 5: man to man, he's fast and he's crafty, so he's
Speaker 5: gonna he's gonna beat you just off of peer speed
Speaker 5: a lot of the time. But it's the zone looks
Speaker 5: that he knows when he needs to throttle down, when
Speaker 5: he needs to kind of lean into something, if it's
Speaker 5: if it's an outbreaker, but it's versus cloud, he knows,
Speaker 5: all right, I can out, I can break out, but
Speaker 5: I don't need to break out as fast. I can
Speaker 5: kind of throttle in that dead zone and the little
Speaker 5: stuff like that that makes him really really fun to throw.
Speaker 4: Tom still very convinced that Mike White and I have
Speaker 4: a chance to be best friends in the future. I
Speaker 4: love that guy. I love the way he talks football.
Speaker 4: I love the fact that he loves golf. He's a
Speaker 4: father of two children. That's kind of my guy right now.
Speaker 4: So after that I had to ask him because another
Speaker 4: reason I like him so much is because he gives
Speaker 4: these great detailed football answers.
Speaker 3: So I had to ask.
Speaker 4: Him, like it seems like Braxon is the kind of
Speaker 4: guy that would spend time in the quarterback room and
Speaker 4: develop that trust with you guys. Do you kind of
Speaker 4: get a sense of that with Braxton. Here's Mike White
Speaker 4: once again on brax burials.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of stress. You can just tell when
Speaker 5: you're talking to him after a route. He understands, he thinks.
Speaker 5: He'll even sometimes come up to us, hey this is
Speaker 5: where I was thinking, and nine times out of ten
Speaker 5: it's it's the right thing. So it's it's a lot.
Speaker 5: It's a lot of fun to play with him. Luckily,
Speaker 5: I'm going on year five watching him get.
Speaker 4: Some off the White and Wingfield Show. Maybe a future
Speaker 4: podcast idea, I don't know. I mentioned River cray Craft
Speaker 4: speaking of guys I love go Koog's Death of the
Speaker 4: pac twelve kills me breaks my heart.
Speaker 3: Uh the past I mentioned from him earlier. You can
Speaker 3: see it on Twitter.
Speaker 4: I thought he had a really good day of being
Speaker 4: detailed in his routes and showing the quarterback his numbers
Speaker 4: and just got open. Typical River Craycraft, typical Washington State coog,
Speaker 4: typical guy from the police.
Speaker 3: He's not from the police, but I'm going on to
Speaker 3: this point.
Speaker 4: What else, Let's go ahead and get to the backs,
Speaker 4: tight ends, and wide receivers. Go ahead and take a
Speaker 4: break though, before you do that. Draft Time podcast, your
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Speaker 4: Practices Halfway Home. Let's go ahead and hear from coach McDaniel,
Speaker 4: who addressed some of the things he's looking for this
Speaker 4: morning ahead of the practice with Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, there's a there's so many people can
Speaker 1: get enamored.
Speaker 2: With, like, Okay, I'm gonna replicate the starters were three for.
Speaker 1: Five at and that, and yes, we are assessing how
Speaker 1: the starting players are playing.
Speaker 2: But in these practices you get you get a.
Speaker 1: Great lens into your roster and and you're you have
Speaker 1: a ton of really tough, tough decisions, really difficult decisions
Speaker 1: that are that are coming a couple of weeks away.
Speaker 2: UH And this is a great.
Speaker 1: This is a great aspect of the whole uh precinct
Speaker 1: process where you get, you know, a little heightened information
Speaker 1: on who's going to be a part of your team.
Speaker 2: We are uh, don't get it twisted.
Speaker 1: We have we have a uh on our journey.
Speaker 2: We're just citing.
Speaker 1: Really, the players are to side on the field, what
Speaker 1: the locker room is going to look like, and the
Speaker 1: younger guys that maybe don't get as many opportunities and
Speaker 1: team periods generally get a little bit more opportunities. And
Speaker 1: in joint practices for that reason, the one on ones
Speaker 1: are heightened because it is more monoly mono less well,
Speaker 1: you did this yesterday, I got a plan for you today.
Speaker 1: Those deciding what your roster is going to become as
Speaker 1: a hard, hard thing that Chris and I and the
Speaker 1: coaching staff and the personnel have to come up with.
Speaker 2: And these joint practices serve as a.
Speaker 1: Very helpful tool and that along with everything else that
Speaker 1: we evaluate.
Speaker 4: And then the second part I wanted to play for
Speaker 4: you all was him talking about things he wanted to
Speaker 4: see cleaned up from the scrimmage. Obviously, we know the
Speaker 4: offense was not at their best on Saturday. Here's coach
Speaker 4: talking about the progression of what they saw on the
Speaker 4: practice field Saturday at hard Rock Stadium and bringing it
Speaker 4: back over here to the BPT BP tc H Baptist
Speaker 4: Hell's Train Complex.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everything that you guys noticed that was bad. I'm
Speaker 1: hoping that is good.
Speaker 2: Because I was. I was there too. The it it is.
Speaker 1: But but what you're bringing up is like, what did
Speaker 1: I do? Is it too hot in here? Every like?
Speaker 1: Everything that we're doing, it's it's it's kind of what
Speaker 1: you're hitting on is a microcosm of what the NFL
Speaker 1: season is is. It's about today and then tomorrow. It's
Speaker 1: about tomorrow and what did you use from the day
Speaker 1: before to make yourself the best version of the present,
Speaker 1: So that that is an easy said than done thing
Speaker 1: that we have to accomplish in the regular season. It's
Speaker 1: as simple as like, so you beat a team by
Speaker 1: twenty five points, do.
Speaker 2: You let your foot off the gas and then get
Speaker 2: pummeled that next week? Or do you lose the.
Speaker 1: Game by twenty five points and not make the decision
Speaker 1: that hey, we're not gonna lose again. These types of things,
Speaker 1: that emotional roller coaster of taking what you've done before
Speaker 1: and pressing forward to be the best version of yourself.
Speaker 1: That that's what across the board I look at each
Speaker 1: every each and every day. So the scrimmage was an
Speaker 1: opportunity we had. We had some explosive plays given up
Speaker 1: that I don't want to see given up. We have
Speaker 1: procedural penalties with certain groups, some operational stuff with a
Speaker 1: snap or two, and we had some decisions from the
Speaker 1: quarterback and some routes you know, and angles by blockers.
Speaker 2: I mean, the list goes on and on.
Speaker 1: But what I can tell you is that that's what's
Speaker 1: cool about looking at it that way is the second
Speaker 1: that on this practice field, I guarantee today I'm gonna
Speaker 1: see somebody do something that will be a positive result
Speaker 1: as a result of something that they didn't do well
Speaker 1: in the scrimmage. You're trying to stack those things and
Speaker 1: make sure that is how we operate in training people
Speaker 1: with muscle memory on, like, all right, I'm gonna take yesterday,
Speaker 1: but it's about today, and so there'll be much of that.
Speaker 1: In the midst of the heat index and the varying
Speaker 1: various jersey colors.
Speaker 4: We talked about the passing game. I thought the back's
Speaker 4: involvement in the passing game was a nice step in
Speaker 4: the right direction. Raheem got loose for a big play
Speaker 4: at the sideline and that continued to be impressed by
Speaker 4: what he offers in the passing game. Think you can
Speaker 4: see more of that this year. He also caught a
Speaker 4: little swing pass in the red zone where I loved
Speaker 4: how Tua got through the entire progression, found him out
Speaker 4: for the swing, a little escape route and alec ingold
Speaker 4: gets out there from a nasty alignment and tight split
Speaker 4: to the formation, and he winds up wheeling out there
Speaker 4: and making a key lead block and Raheem cuts off
Speaker 4: that and knifes his way into the end zone. So
Speaker 4: I think, I don't know if the long ball is
Speaker 4: a touchdown. If it was, we're calling it two pass
Speaker 4: or receiving touchdowns for him. On the day, I thought
Speaker 4: Devon A. Chane had another one of his vintage A
Speaker 4: chain practice days. Awesome, awesome, awesome, two explosive runs. He
Speaker 4: also had the run of the day knifing through the
Speaker 4: line and dropping the shoulder at the goal line for
Speaker 4: a touchdown and really popped the defender on that play.
Speaker 4: I asked him about that after the fact. Here's a
Speaker 4: Dolphins worker running back talking about running somebody over at
Speaker 4: the goal line.
Speaker 1: It felt good, you know, he just you know, like
Speaker 1: you said, we was playing against a self all on
Speaker 1: the spring and training camp, so you know, you know,
Speaker 1: Jop showed is on.
Speaker 2: My teammates, so you know. But it was funny, you know,
Speaker 2: look content you kind.
Speaker 4: Of get a sense from how the veteran guys talk
Speaker 4: about rookies to really get a gauge for how they're
Speaker 4: progressing out here. And Jayleen Waddall spoke glowingly of devon
Speaker 4: a chain. All these guys kind of are so I
Speaker 4: think that you kind of see how it tracks and
Speaker 4: I'm I think these top two draft picks I think
Speaker 4: are gonna have a big impact on the team this year.
Speaker 4: I think Elijah Higgins is going to as well. We'll
Speaker 4: talk about him here in just a second, but let's
Speaker 4: go ahead and talk about Elijah Higgins.
Speaker 3: I jumped the gun there. I love his game, man.
Speaker 4: He had a blockout in space at one point where
Speaker 4: he totally wiped out the cornerback in pursuit. I don't
Speaker 4: know who's carrying the football, but I think you see
Speaker 4: his progress from day one to right now in camp,
Speaker 4: and he might be one of the guys that's taken
Speaker 4: the biggest jump so far with his game from where
Speaker 4: he was day one to where he is now just
Speaker 4: really impressed by his blocking game, and I already know
Speaker 4: what he can do as a pass receiver because he
Speaker 4: was a receiver. And then I think his speed also
Speaker 4: translates to special teams as well, So I'd be surprised
Speaker 4: if Higgins is not a big part of this team
Speaker 4: going forward. Julian Hill, the other tight end other rookie
Speaker 4: tied in here, had an awesome rebound touchdown grab on
Speaker 4: a batted pass exactly the same as the batted ball
Speaker 4: from Tannehill to Jarvis Landry in a twenty fifteen game
Speaker 4: in Philadelphia. If you do not recall that game, go
Speaker 4: back and check it out. Exact same thing. Moving inside,
Speaker 4: I thought the one on one drill and pass rush
Speaker 4: was split pretty evenly. I thought our interior anchored well
Speaker 4: and their edges put a ton of pressure on the
Speaker 4: imaginary quarterback.
Speaker 3: That's part for the course. In that drill.
Speaker 4: Connor Williams anchored several times. Rob Hunt had some really
Speaker 4: good dominant reps Dan Feenie as well, but feene kind
Speaker 4: of does really well in that drill all the time,
Speaker 4: I'm noticing, and Rob Jones and Isaiah Win both had
Speaker 4: good work in the period. I thought Isaiah Winn had
Speaker 4: one of the best pickups in pass protection of the
Speaker 4: day where he kind of noted the looper coming around
Speaker 4: his gap and this isn't team period and picked it
Speaker 4: up for a good completion from Tua to chosen at
Speaker 4: one point in practice, let's go ahead and flip this
Speaker 4: thing over to the defense on the other side of
Speaker 4: the podcast here on other side of the break, I
Speaker 4: should say Draft Time podcast.
Speaker 3: Your host Travis.
Speaker 4: Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation, had a nice
Speaker 4: little one on one chat with Dolphins defensive lineman Jalen
Speaker 4: Twyeman after practice.
Speaker 3: He had a huge day on Saturday.
Speaker 4: We're not gonna talk to him after the scrimmage, requested
Speaker 4: him after practice.
Speaker 3: Here's my chat with Jalen Twyman. So pretty big day
Speaker 3: on Saturday. Man, How did it feel to have so
Speaker 3: much success in the scrimmage like that?
Speaker 6: You know, I'm just trying to keep stacking days, you
Speaker 6: know what I mean. That's what Coach Clark is preaching
Speaker 6: for me, to be consistent every day. So I know
Speaker 6: the techniques. I just got to keep executing the techaniques
Speaker 6: and pitting the days all together.
Speaker 4: Christian made a comment that your inquisitive nature has kind
Speaker 4: of helped him better himself because it makes him think
Speaker 4: about more stuff. I'm curious, is that something they encouraged
Speaker 4: you guys, or is that something you've always done to
Speaker 4: ask questions of bets like that.
Speaker 6: Well, I always asked a lot of questions, but you know,
Speaker 6: this camp, I've asked more questions than I ever have.
Speaker 6: Because Christian is one of the best, if not the best,
Speaker 6: at what he does in this defense, in this style
Speaker 6: of play. You know what I mean, him being relentless.
Speaker 6: I want to, you know, be just like Christian and
Speaker 6: his defense, and you know, there's no better guy to
Speaker 6: be behind. You know, the things that he's went through,
Speaker 6: what he's conquered, what he's currently going through.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: So his technique is falling flawless, and he's been a
Speaker 6: great big brother to me, along with Ray Kwan and
Speaker 6: Seala and all those guys that a masterminds in his defense.
Speaker 6: So I'm just trying to take behind them and add
Speaker 6: a piece of their all three of their game and
Speaker 6: put it all in the mind.
Speaker 4: He's a pretty well known for his regimen as his
Speaker 4: routine he goes throvery day.
Speaker 3: You trying to kind of pick that up as well.
Speaker 6: Uh, yes, sir, Actually I am. I just asked him Saturday,
Speaker 6: you know when we were just in our scrimmage, you know,
Speaker 6: what does he do at halftime when we had to
Speaker 6: take the rain break and all of that stuff. So
Speaker 6: I'm just literally I do everything, you know behind him
Speaker 6: Raekwon and Seala like I. I will stretch behind him,
Speaker 6: go behind him on the drills, play on the same
Speaker 6: side of him. So I'm just trying to, you know,
Speaker 6: mimic my game out to him because if he's at
Speaker 6: the top of the game and I wanna get up
Speaker 6: to the top of the game, I gotta do everything
Speaker 6: just like him.
Speaker 3: As well as your game out there on Saturday and
Speaker 3: Fort Camp.
Speaker 4: If I've been pretty good, I think your celebrations is
Speaker 4: probably my favorite as well.
Speaker 3: Do you get that from Christian two?
Speaker 6: So I've been I've been celebra I've been doing my celebrations,
Speaker 6: that's one of it. But he's really good at celebration too.
Speaker 6: He always had a signature, and I had to find
Speaker 6: my signature. That's what I've been navigating through, you know,
Speaker 6: but I got to execute it in the real games
Speaker 6: for it, you know, go viral. But I'm kind of
Speaker 6: feeling the Lebron celebration.
Speaker 3: That's the one I like. Man, I've been seeing that one.
Speaker 4: You excited to get out here across street for a
Speaker 4: big game on Friday night.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir man, but you know I gotta stack keep
Speaker 6: stacking days, and it starts with tomorrow and you know,
Speaker 6: just not getting too high and not getting too low.
Speaker 6: Just you know, staying ease.
Speaker 4: Fun guy, right, and yeah, if you want to be
Speaker 4: great in this league, go do what Christian Wilkins does.
Speaker 4: I think he kind of gets it at this point
Speaker 4: of his career. I wanted to run that because I
Speaker 4: just thought he earned a little bit of shine after
Speaker 4: the showing on Saturday and really his entire camp. He
Speaker 4: has a chance to, I think, be one of the
Speaker 4: guys in the rotation, you know, after the deshauns Hands signing,
Speaker 4: which I think will obviously have an impact on how
Speaker 4: the rotation goes. But to me, Twyman's been the next
Speaker 4: guy beyond Wilkins, Seiler and Davis who you know, Wilkins
Speaker 4: and Steiler play a million snaps, so there's not gonna
Speaker 4: be a whole lot left over, but there's gonna be
Speaker 4: some snaps for guys to play. I think jaylen Twyman's
Speaker 4: put his best foot forward to earn some of those.
Speaker 4: I thought Zach Steeler and again Christian Wilkins did not
Speaker 4: really play team today, even though he might have saw
Speaker 4: that he got dominated or whatever, but he didn't play,
Speaker 4: so that's not possible. But Zax Steeler was out there
Speaker 4: and he was a regular in the backfield. Well, my
Speaker 4: first note I wanted to watch is how the Dolphin,
Speaker 4: how Steeler and Wilkins played against Chris Lenstrom and Matt
Speaker 4: Hennessy and their interior offensive line, because that's kind of
Speaker 4: the strength of their team, one of the strengths of
Speaker 4: our team, one of the many strengths of our team,
Speaker 4: and Zax Steeler was as advertised, he kicked their button man.
Speaker 4: He was stacking things up. His power against the realm
Speaker 4: was so very good. He just consistently got off blocks
Speaker 4: and made plays. Speaking of Christian, Coach did talk about
Speaker 4: Christian Wilkins, who had a great interview at the stadium
Speaker 4: on Saturday after the scrimmage. Let's go ahead and hear
Speaker 4: from Coach on Christian Wilkins, his energy level and how
Speaker 4: he's worked to really fine tune the way he asserts
Speaker 4: his energy on the practice field in the building, and it's.
Speaker 1: One of the reasons it gives me a little goosebumps
Speaker 1: when I I just got them say literal because the
Speaker 1: progression of players and their journey is just why you
Speaker 1: get into coaching. And yeah that when I first got here,
Speaker 1: he's always been so coachable, so like he would be,
Speaker 1: his antics were less directed towards the team as they
Speaker 1: are now. Like he when he has enthusiasm, he's bringing
Speaker 1: his teammates along.
Speaker 2: He is he is letting them know that you know.
Speaker 1: That he's the tone setter, he's the standard, and he's
Speaker 1: a It's not just him, it's all of his ten
Speaker 1: other teammates on the field at the time with him.
Speaker 1: At the beginning, it was more let's just say it
Speaker 1: was concerted.
Speaker 2: S talk SA.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did that myself, I believe to myself, and
Speaker 1: it was just more about like being intense. He goes
Speaker 1: to a place when he plays football. That is one
Speaker 1: of the reasons why he's such a good players because
Speaker 1: he he sees red and now he's learned how to
Speaker 1: channel and it's been awesome to see because it where
Speaker 1: he was starting maybe some fights my first week here.
Speaker 1: Now he's setting energy, you know, and how awesome is that?
Speaker 1: How did I coach him? I'd coach him in team
Speaker 1: meetings in front of his piers and be like, listen,
Speaker 1: this is you can you can utilize this.
Speaker 2: Energy better And he did, and now.
Speaker 1: You know you want when he makes the play, it
Speaker 1: makes other people better offensively and defensively on our team.
Speaker 1: So it's a really cool progression to watch and I
Speaker 1: love him for it.
Speaker 3: We love him too, Mike, We love him too.
Speaker 4: Brandon Peeley had a sack in the team period. I
Speaker 4: thought he carried it over from what looked like a
Speaker 4: good one on one period the good swim move available
Speaker 4: on our Twitter account right now. Rayquan's doing a very
Speaker 4: good job all camp but really stacking things up with
Speaker 4: the point and he's working down the flow of the
Speaker 4: line of scrimmage against like outside zone plays to make
Speaker 4: more plays. More on him in just a moment. DeShawn
Speaker 4: Hand had a sack and team period. We should mention
Speaker 4: him right. New member of the squad here, four year
Speaker 4: pro with really good athletic ability, strength and explosiveness. I
Speaker 4: thought he played really well in a rotational role for
Speaker 4: the Lions, and given our depth, he could slot into
Speaker 4: a similar role here if he earns that position. Perry
Speaker 4: Nickerson is here too, new corner who we signed yesterday.
Speaker 4: Didn't get a good look at him today. I'll try
Speaker 4: to get a better look at him on Wednesday. Back
Speaker 4: to Rayquan in the running game, though, I know I'm
Speaker 4: a broken record with this because Jalen Phillips's edge setting
Speaker 4: has been one of my favorite things all camp long.
Speaker 4: They couldn't get a block today, guys, and he was
Speaker 4: either coming off these blocks to make the play or
Speaker 4: he was stacking it up to let the cavalry arrive.
Speaker 4: Raqwon Davis a couple of times, so he just has
Speaker 4: been stellar in that regard. I thought Garrett Nelson had
Speaker 4: a good day. He had at least one sack on
Speaker 4: Logan woodside. Let's go ahead and get to the secondar now,
Speaker 4: X and Cater were up to their usual stuff again.
Speaker 4: A million things happening. But besides one deep shot from
Speaker 4: Heineke to Ali Smith, I didn't see the coverage, but
Speaker 4: it was Cam Smith and Brandon Jones closest to the football.
Speaker 4: At the end of it, everything was really underneath. It
Speaker 4: was quick game Robinson Pitts heavily involved, which again this
Speaker 4: is guesswork, but to me that says the coverage was good.
Speaker 4: I know Cater was good because I saw him blow
Speaker 4: up a screen pass where he ran through a blocker
Speaker 4: and created a big lane for Deshaun Elliott to run through.
Speaker 3: He also was doing a good job.
Speaker 4: Of causing incompletions, had a couple of hands on balls
Speaker 4: for pass breakups. Same with Noah Igbinoghanny, who I think
Speaker 4: has really picked up his play speed from a year ago.
Speaker 4: Like he was lost in coverage last year, right his
Speaker 4: whole career, really, but he looks different that way this year,
Speaker 4: driving on passes with better timing, decreasing windows with much
Speaker 4: greater frequency we've seen in the past. Might be buying
Speaker 4: back in on Noah Egenogany what we'll see. I'm very
Speaker 4: curious to watch him the rest of camp. Cam Smith
Speaker 4: had another really good pass breakup, working underneath the unders
Speaker 4: had of a receiver to poke the ball free. And
Speaker 4: then I mentioned Deshaan Elliott as safe. Let's get to
Speaker 4: him last. Actually, if Roan McKinley had a pick six
Speaker 4: of ninety or so yards where he came off his
Speaker 4: man jumped a little throat of the flat and took
Speaker 4: it all the way back for a touchdown. Elijah Campbell
Speaker 4: almost had a pick. Had a really good day today,
Speaker 4: but on this play he came from the far hash
Speaker 4: all the way over to the sideline, got his hands
Speaker 4: in the football and just couldn't bring it down with him.
Speaker 4: Make that catch next time, Elijah, I know you will.
Speaker 4: And then finally, Deshaun Elliott.
Speaker 3: I love this guy. He was everywhere.
Speaker 4: First, there was a quick throw to the outside where
Speaker 4: Cater stacked the block and gave him that run through,
Speaker 4: and he thudded that thing up man like a nice
Speaker 4: little shot on the ball carrier, but didn't wrap up
Speaker 4: and finish.
Speaker 3: Good job on you taking care of the guys. He
Speaker 3: was also just all over the field and coverage.
Speaker 4: I think he had about He's probably had about seven
Speaker 4: or eight big hits right now. If we're playing live
Speaker 4: football all camp long, I cannot wait to watch him
Speaker 4: unload on somebody when we get live in actual games.
Speaker 4: I asked Brandon Jones about Deshaun Elliott, who has just
Speaker 4: won everybody here over from his personality standpoint.
Speaker 3: I don't have the audio.
Speaker 4: Here because I apparently didn't record it, but I asked
Speaker 4: Brion Jones about that type of personality and if he's
Speaker 4: always been that way, or how you feel about Deshaun Elliott.
Speaker 4: He told me everyone has to have a friend like
Speaker 4: Deshaun Elliott because he's the guy with no filter who
Speaker 4: says what comes to his mind and whether it's good
Speaker 4: or bad, sometimes you have to hear those things. So
Speaker 4: he feels like Deshaun Elliet's the kind of friend that
Speaker 4: everybody has to have and I.
Speaker 3: Can totally see that. All right, those are the practice notes.
Speaker 4: I have two more clips here I want to play
Speaker 4: for y' all with Mike McDaniel talking about Jalen Ramsey
Speaker 4: being without.
Speaker 3: Crutches, a great joke that he coach was.
Speaker 4: On once day with the humor. He had about eight
Speaker 4: laughs in that press conference. And then he also talks
Speaker 4: about Brandon Jones's plan. Let's go ahead and play both
Speaker 4: of those.
Speaker 3: Back to back.
Speaker 1: There's been a slew of crutches thievery in Miami Gardens
Speaker 1: now is again It's a beautiful balance because I love
Speaker 1: where Jalen's at.
Speaker 2: He is attacking everything.
Speaker 1: I love that I can depend on our training staff
Speaker 1: to know that that leads someone vulnerable to over exerting
Speaker 1: at the stage, so that balance has been doing excellent.
Speaker 2: Right now he is in terms of ahead.
Speaker 1: I I think if I if I say ahead of
Speaker 1: schedule to our head trainer, he might open hand slap
Speaker 1: me because he doesn't believe in that. He believes in
Speaker 1: he's doing well at this juncture, but you have to
Speaker 1: go through steps and plateaus. You know, he was already
Speaker 1: resisting the crushes when he had the crushes. I pointed
Speaker 1: out to him that his triceps could use the work,
Speaker 1: but he didn't agree. And you know, his spirits are
Speaker 1: great and he is you know, it speaks to him
Speaker 1: like you know, how many other guys do you see
Speaker 1: with a timetable such as his having ownership of the
Speaker 1: team and his guys more than Jalen Ramsey. You know,
Speaker 1: I think it speaks to the type of individual, type
Speaker 1: of leader that we have on the team.
Speaker 2: And the fact that.
Speaker 1: You guys have a visual aid of his recovery and
Speaker 1: that he's not on crutches speaks to who he is
Speaker 1: and what this what this team in this locker rooms about.
Speaker 1: And Brandon Jones, it's he's it's more than last week,
Speaker 1: not as much as the next week. You know, very
Speaker 1: individualized Brandon specifically, it falls into the category of the
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramseys.
Speaker 2: Of the world. Brandon will do anything and.
Speaker 1: Everything uh to expedite his his return. It means so
Speaker 1: much to him, so he's pro He was probably ready
Speaker 1: for a little bit more than we gave him last week,
Speaker 1: but that's intentional because we don't want to put him
Speaker 1: in a precarious situation have a setback, so there was
Speaker 1: no setbacks from last week. Very encouraged by it. I'm
Speaker 1: hoping to take another step forward this week.
Speaker 4: And there you go. That is the podcast. That's gonna
Speaker 4: be my time. Back at it again tomorrow for joint Practices.
Speaker 4: We have a podcast on Thursday where I'm gonna break
Speaker 4: down my ten takeaways from camp so far and also
Speaker 4: have Mike Kuno from CBS Miami on the pod.
Speaker 3: Friday, no podcast, but Saturday morning in the.
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