Speaker 1: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. What is up, Dolphans
Speaker 1: and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, and on today's show, day number two, here
Speaker 1: from Miami Gardens, better weather, more reps, and a full
Speaker 1: fun day of work on that field. I'm working on
Speaker 1: a few things here theme wise for this show, including
Speaker 1: the incorporation of power football and how it opens up
Speaker 1: things for the offense, the return of the power off
Speaker 1: the edge in this defense with Bradley Chubb and Jalen
Speaker 1: Phillips looking the absolute part. Jalen writes ascension, continuing Zach
Speaker 1: Seeler being the ultimate elite player and everything he does,
Speaker 1: growth from all the quarterbacks, and of course all the
Speaker 1: highlights and notes and news from the practice. Plus we're
Speaker 1: gonna hear from a handful of guys including right including Sealer,
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson, and Moore from the Baptist Health Studios inside
Speaker 1: the Baptist Health Training Complex is the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: We touched on this yesterday as a continuation, I would
Speaker 1: say of the off season themes that I've harped on
Speaker 1: at length, but the idea of attacking things that gave
Speaker 1: you fits in years prior, or the year prior, and
Speaker 1: how they've done a nice job this offseason of giving
Speaker 1: themselves an opportunity to correct some of those things. Going
Speaker 1: over it again, Jonah and James acquisitions, Nick Westbrook, a
Speaker 1: Keene and Farrell Brown off the edge, eight Chan further
Speaker 1: evolving his role as a pass catcher and do it
Speaker 1: all running back, and the emergence of Jalen Right, and
Speaker 1: how those two things marry up together to give you
Speaker 1: more flexibility and more disguise in what you do. Quite frankly,
Speaker 1: and this is something that I want to touch on
Speaker 1: a little bit more later with regards to the defense,
Speaker 1: but I think this team is deeper in so many
Speaker 1: spots and the offensive lines where you can really see that.
Speaker 1: I mean, gosh, between you know, Pat Jonah Brew, James
Speaker 1: Daniels and Austin Jackson, you're projected first five, and then
Speaker 1: Larry Boram, Keon Smith, Leo Miikenberg, Daniel Brunskill. All those
Speaker 1: guys can play guard and tackle. Two of those guys
Speaker 1: have played center in their career and they can play
Speaker 1: anywhere in a pinch.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: But even though you probably prefer you know certain guys
Speaker 1: at guard, certain guys a tackle and so on, and
Speaker 1: with Andrew Meyer continuing his progress and looking pretty good
Speaker 1: in that, that's nine really good options on top of
Speaker 1: what you have on depth beyond that, and the ability
Speaker 1: to shuffle as you see fit for whatever injury. You're
Speaker 1: giving yourself a better chance to win in the short
Speaker 1: yardage game, your power inside game, and off the edge.
Speaker 1: You're giving yourself a better chance to withstand the attrition
Speaker 1: that comes on the offensive line in a given season.
Speaker 1: And this is not a knock on anybody in particular,
Speaker 1: but you go into that Houston game last year, a
Speaker 1: game that you had to win, and if you did
Speaker 1: win that, coming off the you know, the Packers loss
Speaker 1: and then the Jets win. You get to seven and
Speaker 1: seven with a stretch of games that we were winnable.
Speaker 1: You know, you can beat the Niners and Browns and
Speaker 1: the Jets in the finale and you make the playoffs
Speaker 1: if you run the table there. And you go into
Speaker 1: that game with a guy that you just signed off
Speaker 1: the street in Jackson Carmen and a rookie on the
Speaker 1: other side, and that's what you dealt with in a
Speaker 1: game against d'anil Hunter and Will Anderson arguably the best
Speaker 1: pass rush duo in the entire NFL. So the Dolphins
Speaker 1: look at that and say, how do we make sure
Speaker 1: that doesn't happen again? Well, you go nine, possibly ten
Speaker 1: deep on your offensive line with guys that you feel
Speaker 1: pretty good about inserting into a game and getting live
Speaker 1: game reps in a December game. That is for all
Speaker 1: the marbles, right, And I just think you're giving yourself
Speaker 1: that opportunity to shore up those wrongs of the past.
Speaker 1: And that's just the roster building. In the personnel aspect
Speaker 1: of it. There's way more than meets the eye, right,
Speaker 1: because how about the execution or the administration stuff to
Speaker 1: help this team be the best version of themselves? Like
Speaker 1: you have to think about football on a more granular
Speaker 1: level about it's not just about Okay, I've got the
Speaker 1: twelfth best you know, wide receiver with the ninth best quarterback.
Speaker 1: I've got the third best defensive whatever it might be.
Speaker 1: It's not as simple as a spreadsheet. Like there's how
Speaker 1: do I maximize each of the ninety players or the
Speaker 1: fifty three players once you get in season? How do
Speaker 1: I motivate them individually and collectively? There's just so many
Speaker 1: intangibles and this esoteric nature into the weeds of football
Speaker 1: about what actually goes into the product that comes out
Speaker 1: on Sundays and why there's so many damn surprises across
Speaker 1: the league every year. I don't think anybody in the
Speaker 1: world predicted the Washington Commanders would go to the NFC
Speaker 1: Championship Game last year, but they put it together with
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn. They brought in a bunch of guys that
Speaker 1: people thought maybe couldn't play anymore. But between Bobby Wagner
Speaker 1: being the key cogna middle of that defense and Austin
Speaker 1: Eckler's experience in the backfield, like those moves matter, and
Speaker 1: they were impactful players on a championship game loss, but
Speaker 1: still appeared in that game football team like it happens
Speaker 1: every single year. And I just listened to the Kenny
Speaker 1: Steells Fish Tank episode where they were so bought in
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen that playoff year compared to twenty fifteen
Speaker 1: when they couldn't get anybody bought in according to Kenny,
Speaker 1: and how he knew the game plans so well that
Speaker 1: he could break the huddle before Tannehill finish, barking out
Speaker 1: the play call because he knew what it was going
Speaker 1: to be based upon his just intent investment into those
Speaker 1: game plans every single week. And that's something you have
Speaker 1: to curate across the NFL season. And not all thirty
Speaker 1: two teams get that every single year. I think you
Speaker 1: could argue not even half the teams get that every
Speaker 1: single year. It's why our expectations for what's supposed to
Speaker 1: happen every August goes completely belly up, you know, outside
Speaker 1: of the main stays in the league, the Kansas City Chiefs,
Speaker 1: that Philadelphia Eagles, the Bottomble Ravens, and so on and
Speaker 1: so forth. So I make this whole point because these
Speaker 1: earlier practices, and you know, we heard coach McDaniel touch
Speaker 1: on the reasoning behind it, and I think he said
Speaker 1: there was like, you know, exaggerating four hundred reasons behind it,
Speaker 1: but he gave us a couple of specific reasons, talking
Speaker 1: about going up to playing the Bears and the Lions
Speaker 1: and ten day stretch and joint practices and dealing with
Speaker 1: tough football teams and the change and schedule that they'll
Speaker 1: see up there, and just really trying to weigh out
Speaker 1: all the options and the variables that can help this
Speaker 1: team map out the best roadmap to be successful, to
Speaker 1: be a winning football team, Like when you, you know, go
Speaker 1: on a road trip, and this is probably different from
Speaker 1: what it was when I was a kid, but like
Speaker 1: you had to get the old Rand McNally map out
Speaker 1: and map that thing out. Otherwise you're kind of winging
Speaker 1: it and you might make mistakes. But if you have
Speaker 1: the roadmap and the game plan, and you've kind of
Speaker 1: decided the best way to get to this gas station,
Speaker 1: the best way to get to our exit for this
Speaker 1: this lunch we're gonna have right here, you're probably going
Speaker 1: to better execute that plan. And if this all like
Speaker 1: increases your ability to get in more quality work in
Speaker 1: the summer and also maybe not expose yourself in these
Speaker 1: pretty rough conditions in the middle of the day. Like
Speaker 1: I'll tell you first hand, I've been in South Florida
Speaker 1: for this is my six year down here, or I
Speaker 1: guess fifth year, because I didn't move down here in
Speaker 1: the pandemic here for the entire season or the entire year.
Speaker 1: But like, it is different at nine am than it
Speaker 1: is at even eleven am. It gets a lot harder
Speaker 1: than even worse at one o'clock in the afternoon, and
Speaker 1: right now at two o'clock. So I'm talking to this podcast.
Speaker 1: It's pretty miserable out there. But nine o'clock in the morning,
Speaker 1: slight breeze, some cloud coverage, wasn't that bad. And so
Speaker 1: I think that, you know, I heard the Heat the
Speaker 1: Call podcast and they were talking about one of the
Speaker 1: hosts had come down to Disney World in July and
Speaker 1: he was like, never again. I'm never going to Florida
Speaker 1: in July again, And like, I get it. My kids
Speaker 1: are going stir crazy because it's tough to get outside
Speaker 1: right now. And the whole thing behind that is like, well,
Speaker 1: maybe if we can reduce the number of hours we're
Speaker 1: out in the worst part of the day, maybe that
Speaker 1: can have like a long term impact on how this
Speaker 1: team is able to be sustained, you know, for the
Speaker 1: entirety of the season, not even just coming out of
Speaker 1: the gates like six and two and then being in
Speaker 1: a good spot going into the late part of the season.
Speaker 1: And I'm not gonna sit here and say that hard
Speaker 1: training camps are why this team has had, you know,
Speaker 1: less than desirable December results. But I think you can
Speaker 1: look at it and pontificate that and wonder how you
Speaker 1: can fix that, and then I guess the pushback on
Speaker 1: that might say, like, well, yeah, the seventies Dolphins under Shula,
Speaker 1: you know, they were out there three times a day
Speaker 1: in this stuff. But you know, if you're as old
Speaker 1: as me, you remember Zach Thomas and Jason Taylor and
Speaker 1: those Dolphins teams. They were consistently you know, five and
Speaker 1: one out of the gates and then would have a
Speaker 1: tough December loss, And you know, I just think maybe
Speaker 1: there's something there to reducing some of that workload and
Speaker 1: just not being in the hottest part of the hottest
Speaker 1: or in the hottest part of the day in the
Speaker 1: hottest region in America. I don't know, I feel like
Speaker 1: there could be something to that, and maybe it can
Speaker 1: help you just sustain the season a little bit better.
Speaker 1: But back to the larger point, let's create harder elements,
Speaker 1: right to push us through that adversity now and McDaniel
Speaker 1: touched on this various points of the offseason, about making
Speaker 1: practice hard and creating competition through the roster construction. And
Speaker 1: you can look at that on the defensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball, in the defensive backfield, there are guys competing
Speaker 1: for work there and really everywhere across the football on
Speaker 1: both sides. And I've talked in the podcast about how
Speaker 1: by doing that at you create this level of strain
Speaker 1: where maybe maybe in years past it was like, well,
Speaker 1: I have this rep and I'm trying to get better,
Speaker 1: but if I lose it, then it doesn't matter in
Speaker 1: terms of my ability to start on Sunday. But what
Speaker 1: if you go into that rep with the mindset of
Speaker 1: if I can get this third and seven rep locked
Speaker 1: down and show good technique and get the quarterback to
Speaker 1: either you know, not come at me or to break
Speaker 1: the pass up, or if I win this pass rush
Speaker 1: is at an edge guy, or if I can hold
Speaker 1: the pass protection as an offensive lineman, then maybe that
Speaker 1: will get me in the starting lineup. Like that type
Speaker 1: of mindset and mentality creates a different level of strain.
Speaker 1: To go back to the golf analogy, on the range
Speaker 1: versus on the tee box are entirely different golf shots.
Speaker 1: It's not it's the exact same thing, provided you're hitting
Speaker 1: off grass and not mats, But your mindset doesn't have that.
Speaker 1: When you get on the tee box, you know that
Speaker 1: this ball goes in the woods. I'm now hitting three
Speaker 1: off the tee opposed to on the range. It's like, Oh,
Speaker 1: I'll just try it again. It doesn't matter like it's different.
Speaker 1: You have to adjust your mindset and put yourself in
Speaker 1: as many situations to make yourself battle tested. And I
Speaker 1: think these vironments that create that provide value. I think
Speaker 1: there's value to coming out in the rain on Wednesday
Speaker 1: in day one and getting work in in inclement weather.
Speaker 1: It rained today too, so they got that experience and
Speaker 1: they got some of the hot, hot heat out there
Speaker 1: today as well. So that's like all the administrational execution
Speaker 1: stuff that I think pairs with how they've altered their
Speaker 1: roster and team building approach. We'll hear from Jalen Wright
Speaker 1: on this in a moment in a way that helps
Speaker 1: corroborate the idea of something that coach talked about at
Speaker 1: the owners meetings back in March or April whenever. That
Speaker 1: was about setting your culture through the draft, and Jalen
Speaker 1: Wright is a good example of that. We'll come back
Speaker 1: to that in one second, but before we continue on that,
Speaker 1: just a couple of housekeeping items here before we move
Speaker 1: on to the next thing. It's being reported that the
Speaker 1: Dolphins are signing Cornell Armstrong a former cornerback out of
Speaker 1: Southern miss who was drafted here in the sixth round
Speaker 1: back in twenty eighteen. So if that does go through
Speaker 1: and becomes an official move, he will join the Dolphins
Speaker 1: defensive backfield. Bayron Mactos has movement in all extremities and
Speaker 1: is in stable condition. He remains at the Writer Trauma
Speaker 1: Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital for continued observation. So good
Speaker 1: news for the big fellow there. And then the last
Speaker 1: thing here, Benito Jones was in the Orange Jersey and
Speaker 1: quite frankly, I thought he brought the noise on his playlist,
Speaker 1: very very good playlist for Benito. And I am now
Speaker 1: realizing that I just forgot to drop a SoundBite that
Speaker 1: I had on my rundown here, and this goes back
Speaker 1: to the offensive line stuff. So sorry for the kind
Speaker 1: of out of order, but this is a SoundBite from
Speaker 1: Patrick Paul that I meant to play earlier talking about
Speaker 1: the offensive line in developing chemistry with the fellow young
Speaker 1: player on the offensive line in Jonas ofvit Naya. I
Speaker 1: thought this was just excellent to hear from the two
Speaker 1: young Dolphin studds on the offensive line.
Speaker 3: Ah Man Jonah I mean, we hang out all the time,
Speaker 3: so throughout the off season, me and him were here
Speaker 3: in this building every single day working, so naturally, when
Speaker 3: you spend that much time together, you're jailed like one,
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 1: So we covered the topic of making things harder on
Speaker 1: yourself intentionally. The next theme, I guess I want to
Speaker 1: cover that sort of coincides with that, because this idea
Speaker 1: of the additions and how they can execute the offense
Speaker 1: and Austin Jackson talking about the multiplicity of the run game,
Speaker 1: it all kind of blends into this idea of being
Speaker 1: a tough football team and being a team that can
Speaker 1: go out and implement weather late in the season, playoff games,
Speaker 1: all that stuff, and execute a running game and develop
Speaker 1: that toughness and lean on teams, right, And we've talked
Speaker 1: about the impact of how a strong running game can
Speaker 1: really help open your passing game, especially in modern football
Speaker 1: with the way coverages are. And I wanted to get
Speaker 1: into this because I thought the first three plays of
Speaker 1: today's team period work set the.
Speaker 4: Tone and really was really what I wanted to see.
Speaker 1: And I know it's a shorts and shells practice day
Speaker 1: two which July twenty fourth, but it's better than not
Speaker 1: seeing that, right, Like, all I have to go off
Speaker 1: of is the evidence that we have in front of us,
Speaker 1: and what I saw was what I was hoping to see.
Speaker 1: And so those first run is a devon a Chan
Speaker 1: explosive run inside, maybe even scored a touchdown from whatever
Speaker 1: seventy seventy five yards wherever the football was. It's hard
Speaker 1: to tell, but he did go untouched at the point
Speaker 1: of attack and into the second level with a full
Speaker 1: head of steam. And who was at the point of
Speaker 1: attack folding back the backside cut for eight Chan but
Speaker 1: Jonas ofvit Naya and pushing Zach Seeler into the linebackers.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I've seen Zach give ground like that before,
Speaker 1: and maybe he got caught by surprise. Maybe it's because
Speaker 1: there's no pads. I don't know the context behind it.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you what I saw, and I haven't seen
Speaker 1: that happen tonight you two ever, So that was great
Speaker 1: to see and possibly a first play seventy yard touchdowns
Speaker 1: obviously great to see. The very next play is play
Speaker 1: action with one of the craziest anticipation throws I've ever
Speaker 1: seen too, a make which if you know his game
Speaker 1: capital a anticipation is his game where Waddle runs this
Speaker 1: deep crosser to the other side of the field about
Speaker 1: twenty five yards down the field and to a layers
Speaker 1: this thing to a spot with touch and loft, which
Speaker 1: when you do this, like if you if you shoot
Speaker 1: a fastball in there, like the receivers to catch it
Speaker 1: pretty much where he is. But when you can do this,
Speaker 1: and you can see with this type of foresight, you
Speaker 1: can mitigate pass rush tenfold, right, and that's part of
Speaker 1: what makes two us so good. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: layer this thing softly into a spot and let our
Speaker 1: receiver get there, and that will just take away time
Speaker 1: where I have the ball in my hands, which reduces
Speaker 1: the time the pass rush can get me to the
Speaker 1: ground and hit me and force a negative play or
Speaker 1: maybe even hurt me. And Wattle runs right under it
Speaker 1: and intersects with it at the exact same time as
Speaker 1: the football descends towards the earth, and he had the
Speaker 1: time to get it out there to what did But
Speaker 1: that just helps reduce the need for pass protection.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 1: Then the third play they come back and they run
Speaker 1: this wide outside play with Devon a Chan where he
Speaker 1: gets to the edge with another full head of steam
Speaker 1: into the second level and probably ten yards before he
Speaker 1: gets even bumped to the sideline or contacted. And so
Speaker 1: I think you've seen this element of power running game
Speaker 1: they've added to this front, but doing so without sacrificing
Speaker 1: even a modicum of athleticism. In fact, I think it's
Speaker 1: not a stretch to say, based upon athletic testing, the
Speaker 1: film itself, and just what guys look like on the field,
Speaker 1: that you've gotten much more athletic on the offensive line
Speaker 1: this year, and it more closely reflects what you had
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three before Rob Hut and Isaiah Win
Speaker 1: both took injuries that you forced backups into those spots
Speaker 1: and didn't give you your a team offensive line late
Speaker 1: in that season. And to me, the impact of that
Speaker 1: was the passing offense today looked a lot more like
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three than it did in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: What I mean by that was I had Waddle catching
Speaker 1: three passes on intermediate targets between and outside the numbers.
Speaker 1: But you know, kind of the flood the middle of
Speaker 1: the football field fifteen to twenty twenty five yards down
Speaker 1: the field, make these catches where we're chewing off big
Speaker 1: chunks with air yards, and Tyreek had two of those
Speaker 1: as well, including one of the sickest routes I've ever
Speaker 1: seen out here, where it almost looked like he was
Speaker 1: going to run a comeback and like showed the shoulders
Speaker 1: to the sideline and that widens the corner, and then
Speaker 1: he broke it back across face and froze the safety
Speaker 1: because the safety's like, what the hell route is that?
Speaker 1: What the hell is even that? Then he whips it
Speaker 1: back inside and Tua throws another perfect touch timing pass
Speaker 1: twenty five yards down the field. Reek accelerates through it
Speaker 1: for additional yards of the yach ariety, and I just
Speaker 1: saw those things paired together, and I was thinking, like,
Speaker 1: all right, well, day two in, I've got some confirmation
Speaker 1: on what I thought it might look like. And we'll
Speaker 1: see if it continues. But it's pretty excited about that man.
Speaker 1: We also saw Ollie Gordon with some inside runs getting
Speaker 1: downhill where it's like in your face, now, make a decision,
Speaker 1: because I'm going to hit you with the full head
Speaker 1: of steam. Makes a move and goes and Jalen Wright, Buddy,
Speaker 1: my goodness, I was impressed last year. It's even better
Speaker 1: this year. He gets to that second gear off of
Speaker 1: his initial cut, so damn fast. It's like a vertical cut,
Speaker 1: not horizontal. He was excellent once again today. So that
Speaker 1: was my biggest takeaway, this element of power with elite
Speaker 1: movers up front who can help the run game, the
Speaker 1: play pass game, get more opportunities for the pass game
Speaker 1: beyond the second level of defense. And let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and conclude this thought here with some soundbites from Jalen
Speaker 1: Wright as he discussed the growth that he's experienced with
Speaker 1: reading blocks, reading angles, and his tracks as a runner
Speaker 1: from year one to year two.
Speaker 4: Here's right a lot.
Speaker 3: I mean last year, I didn't you know the system.
Speaker 3: I came from Tennessee. We never ran like outside zone,
Speaker 3: wive zone, stuff like that. It's just you know, just
Speaker 3: me studying, watching film, you know, just just me being disciplined.
Speaker 3: Like I just keep saying discipe because that's what it is,
Speaker 3: you know, just staying the course and then you know,
Speaker 3: just putting the ball in the right spots.
Speaker 1: And you heard him talk about the aforementioned discipline. I
Speaker 1: want to go ahead and just play that answer his
Speaker 1: sound bite from that answer, because I think it provides
Speaker 1: more context to him talking there about the comfortability, comfort
Speaker 1: level going from year one to year two as a
Speaker 1: patient and the vision as a runner. Here he is
Speaker 1: providing more context on discipline in the process.
Speaker 3: Just me, me being disciplined, and you know, being disciplined
Speaker 3: in my responsibility, not not you know, you're putting the
Speaker 3: ball in the right spot. No, not every run is
Speaker 3: gonna be clean. So you know what I did today,
Speaker 3: I was just being patient, just waiting for the opportunity
Speaker 3: to happen, just putting the ball on the right spot.
Speaker 3: The line of eventure. The line will eventually clean it up.
Speaker 3: And when they clean it up, that's when you know,
Speaker 3: that's when I flurted.
Speaker 1: So and to put a bow on this first segment
Speaker 1: and that topic, you know, coach talked about their fast
Speaker 1: twenty one personnel grouping last year, which is two backs
Speaker 1: in the field, which is not a fullback right when
Speaker 1: you call it fast, it's two running backs and it.
Speaker 4: Was eight chan and raheem.
Speaker 1: I think you've got even more potential there this year,
Speaker 1: especially with how DeVaughn continues to grow as a route
Speaker 1: runner and progress in that area. And I think right
Speaker 1: is more adept at some of the power inside stuff
Speaker 1: with a chan's ability to motion and take a jet sweep,
Speaker 1: catch a screen run vertical. It puts you in a
Speaker 1: buying with your coverage and your personnel, and it just
Speaker 1: gives Miami these matchup nightmares together. So that's where I
Speaker 1: think that right is so damn valuable. If we have
Speaker 1: this back who can be a bit of a bully
Speaker 1: and a chan puts you in these defensive minds, It's
Speaker 1: so much to think about.
Speaker 4: So I like it a lot.
Speaker 1: I'm excited abou where we're going there in the running
Speaker 1: game and how it impacts the rest of the offense.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and talk some defense on the other side.
Speaker 1: Draft Time podcast brought to you by AutoNation, So I
Speaker 1: touched on this on the opening part of the podcast
Speaker 1: about the depth of the offense, and I had this
Speaker 1: conversation with with Kyle Crabs and John Knjemmy and we
Speaker 1: were talking about how to best deploy this defense and
Speaker 1: with all the depth they have at linebacker, at safety,
Speaker 1: up front, on the entire front seven really and perhaps
Speaker 1: you know, protect a corner room that as of today
Speaker 1: is pretty unproven, and building this defense in a way
Speaker 1: where you can mix personnel through various spots and their
Speaker 1: depth to mitigate putting more cornerbacks on the field. Because
Speaker 1: Kyle made the point like your all your best packages
Speaker 1: on defense are going to have three safeties. If you
Speaker 1: conclude that you know Minca and if he are are
Speaker 1: guys that are going to be the primaries. And then
Speaker 1: between the two third round Earth Day three picks the
Speaker 1: last two years with Dante, Trader and Patrick mc morris,
Speaker 1: if one of them can come down and be like
Speaker 1: a quasi you know, box safety, buck linebacker, subpackaged type
Speaker 1: of role that can really like expand your versatility in
Speaker 1: terms of like Minca can cover everywhere, right if he's
Speaker 1: a former college cornerback, so you can use him in
Speaker 1: a variety of roles. Cater Co who can do everything,
Speaker 1: and then Trader mc morris. These two guys that have
Speaker 1: this box presence and can play some hook and can
Speaker 1: even play in the deep posts as well.
Speaker 4: It keeps you flexible.
Speaker 1: And maybe it is just cater and Storm Duck or
Speaker 1: Cater and you know whoever else the other cornerback might be,
Speaker 1: or you know, a new cover whatever it is, Like,
Speaker 1: there's all those options, and I just think that between
Speaker 1: that the depth linebacker and guys like Willie Gay who
Speaker 1: can really help you play in that hook zone, and
Speaker 1: that can reduce the need for you know, a safety
Speaker 1: in that area.
Speaker 4: So maybe one of your three stages can play back
Speaker 4: in the post.
Speaker 1: Like you've got depth in certain areas that can cover
Speaker 1: parts of the field where you think like we have
Speaker 1: to have x amount of corners, x amount of safeties.
Speaker 1: You don't think of like that, think about like the
Speaker 1: roles of covering certain areas of the field, having guys
Speaker 1: that can rush and cover, having guys that can play
Speaker 1: the run, having guys that are stronger versus faster, Like
Speaker 1: there's different ways to skin a cat. Here's what I'm
Speaker 1: trying to say. And I think that all of that
Speaker 1: surrounding elements around that can help you mitigate that and
Speaker 1: maybe we can get some growth from that position. Maybe
Speaker 1: we can bring in some exterior guys, whatever it might be.
Speaker 1: I just think there's options in a way to get
Speaker 1: it done. That's my my general take with my general point.
Speaker 4: And so it.
Speaker 1: Wasn't all offense on this Thursday. It usually never is
Speaker 1: one side or the other. As much as I laud
Speaker 1: the running game, I think my orange Jersey either goes
Speaker 1: to Bradley Chubb or Jalen Phillips. Either way, their impact
Speaker 1: was felt whoever you want to give it to the
Speaker 1: way they can operate as double agents both from the
Speaker 1: run game and pass game. And by that I mean
Speaker 1: I saw Chubb win with speed around the corner. I
Speaker 1: saw him win with power inside. I saw Jalen Phillips
Speaker 1: wreck tight ends and fullbacks and tackles on a handful
Speaker 1: of outside runs. He had one tackle for loss that
Speaker 1: came from that, but he also helped set up Jordan
Speaker 1: Brooks for a number of heat seeking missile collision plays
Speaker 1: that he would have made in live contact. Might be
Speaker 1: another Orange Jersey candidate right there. Those guys might be
Speaker 1: the top three on there. Phillips and Chubb run game work.
Speaker 1: I know it's the pass rush that makes the marque
Speaker 1: for those guys, but damn it, we missed them. We
Speaker 1: missed their energy, their impact and the running game, their
Speaker 1: impact overall. I asked Chop Robinson what it was like
Speaker 1: to have those two guys back on.
Speaker 5: The It's been great, especially those guys since they helped
Speaker 5: me so much lest year off the fielding in on
Speaker 5: the field, so being out there in the field with him,
Speaker 5: and they're the guys that I used to watch when
Speaker 5: I was in college and everything, So it just it's
Speaker 5: a blessing and it's fun to be out there with him.
Speaker 1: Chop also got in on the fund with a sack
Speaker 1: of his own today. I think we had two from
Speaker 1: Chubb as well. There was also some coverage sacks in
Speaker 1: this practice, or at least you know, the pressure throwaway
Speaker 1: impacted the quarterback by their pressure that was aided by
Speaker 1: good coverage down the field, and I think Minka fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: had a lot to do with that. Ashton Davis as well.
Speaker 1: Patrick McMorris nearly had a pick and I thought was
Speaker 1: in good shape throughout the day. But back to Minka,
Speaker 1: I just kept an eye on him throughout individual drills
Speaker 1: today and he looks like a wide receiver tracking the
Speaker 1: football and the way he plucks it and gets the
Speaker 1: feet down like it kind of reminds me of like
Speaker 1: if you ever have a chance to watch a world
Speaker 1: class golfer on the driving range, Like, let me emphasize
Speaker 1: and slow take away, my takeaway of the club, my rotation,
Speaker 1: the club face, and the right spot at the top
Speaker 1: of the swing. The trail arm, dropping back into the slot,
Speaker 1: rotate through the finish and strike and hold that finish.
Speaker 1: It's just all very intentional, and that's how you kind
Speaker 1: of create this muscle memory of sequencing things together. That
Speaker 1: was the vision that I got when watching Minka go
Speaker 1: through individual drills. And speaking of intentionality, I am just
Speaker 1: such a big fan of Zach Sealer.
Speaker 4: Man. He had some plays today as well. He always
Speaker 4: makes his plays.
Speaker 1: I know he kind of got the brunt of my
Speaker 1: comment about Jonas Ofvit Andaya, but that's more of a
Speaker 1: praise of the rookie, because when you can beat a
Speaker 1: guy that deserves All Pro team like Zach Seeler, it
Speaker 1: speaks more to you than it does the All Pro
Speaker 1: or potential All Pro. But I want to play some
Speaker 1: soundbites here from Zach Sealer because this guy is the man.
Speaker 1: He was asked about his situation and I just think
Speaker 1: this is how you answer this question, and there's no
Speaker 1: better way to do.
Speaker 2: It really came down to is being able to get
Speaker 2: here seasons right around the corner, four or five weeks away,
Speaker 2: and I want to be out here and be with
Speaker 2: the guys like I talked about earlier and build that
Speaker 2: culture to have a fast start to the season and
Speaker 2: carry that out all the way to the winner.
Speaker 1: He was also asked about his level of compensation over
Speaker 1: the years and how he feels about it. And I
Speaker 1: just think this is this is who zax Hiler is
Speaker 1: right here.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: We have more than we ever imagined. I am beyond
Speaker 2: blessed from these last seven years alone. My wife and
Speaker 2: I love how our life has turned out, and it's
Speaker 2: just been awesome. Now I do feel like I want
Speaker 2: to get there. I do feel that respect coming and
Speaker 2: I feel like I've earned it. I know I've earned it.
Speaker 2: And I think something we always joke about my wife
Speaker 2: and I is I played at D two. Christian likes
Speaker 2: to tell me that all the time. He still does.
Speaker 2: He told me that before we start a camp, I
Speaker 2: was cut twice. All that stuff I think I have.
Speaker 2: I know I have the best years ahead of me.
Speaker 2: I didn't play for three years in the NFL, only
Speaker 2: played two and a half in college, so you really
Speaker 2: think about it like I got less years under my
Speaker 2: belt than some rookies do. So I really feel like
Speaker 2: my best years are ahead of me, and I have all
Speaker 2: that knowledge and experience from the last seven years, so
Speaker 2: I'm really excited to see what his next few years
Speaker 2: have in.
Speaker 1: Store for me. And just one more I asked Zach
Speaker 1: for a little scoutyrpoort on jonahsavit Naya after the rep
Speaker 1: that I talked about.
Speaker 4: Here is the event on the.
Speaker 2: Rook Jonas is obviously young. He has all the talent
Speaker 2: in the world. His frame is great, he has good
Speaker 2: I'm excited to see him grow as a player. It's
Speaker 2: been awesome to work with him, and at the old adage,
Speaker 2: iron sharpens iron, so the best thing to do is
Speaker 2: go out there and play against each other make each
Speaker 2: other better. So it's been really cool seeing him and
Speaker 2: Pat Paul grow and work together, as well as all
Speaker 2: the guys across the line.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Man, Like with Steeler, you talk about wanting to lock
Speaker 1: in your culture. You want to afford yourself to shoot
Speaker 1: some spending flexibility, Like is there anybody on this roster
Speaker 1: who a sets a better example in terms of how
Speaker 1: to do everything, like literally everything, or be someone that
Speaker 1: you can trust to play at a high level for
Speaker 1: several more years, like he talked about it there about
Speaker 1: you know his how he feels like his best ball
Speaker 1: still ahead of him, and even at his age, I
Speaker 1: think there's like a lot of kalay Is Campbell there right.
Speaker 1: Like the length isn't going to go anywhere. He still
Speaker 1: has those long arms and that pure brute strength. The
Speaker 1: work habits sure as hell aren't disappearing. He's durable as hell.
Speaker 1: He missed two games one time because he got his
Speaker 1: freaking eyebroken in practice, and he was ever a guy
Speaker 1: that won with pure speed. So even if that goes
Speaker 1: a little bit, I don't think his game goes at all.
Speaker 1: He's got eighteen other things he can use to win,
Speaker 1: and he's going to do that year in and year out.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, I just think that he's like a
Speaker 1: franchise cornerstone that it can help you in every single
Speaker 1: way that a football team can be improved. Speaking of
Speaker 1: defensive tackles, I am so confident in what I've seen
Speaker 1: from Jordan Phillips in just two practices, and I've been
Speaker 1: wrong plenty, but pairing that with his tape and the
Speaker 1: way I think he can naturally leverage guys with the
Speaker 1: grip strength. Again, I talk about it all the time,
Speaker 1: but I also sat with John Knjemmi today and he
Speaker 1: was talking about Tony Siragusa, a noted wrestler turned Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame football player, and he was saying that before
Speaker 1: Goose got huge, he was just a guy that would
Speaker 1: whip you at two hundred and seventy pounds using those
Speaker 1: wrestling traits, and guys had no idea how to contend
Speaker 1: with him. And I'm not making the comparison there, but
Speaker 1: you see the impact of those wrestling traits both in
Speaker 1: his Maryland tape and so far here at practice. And
Speaker 1: the thing that really gets me excited about him is
Speaker 1: the biggest flash I saw from him the entire day
Speaker 1: was a rep where he got out of the gate
Speaker 1: off the football before anybody else offense or defense, and
Speaker 1: by the time he contacted Dan Brunskill, he was just
Speaker 1: getting out of his stance and Jordan was so effective
Speaker 1: in his technique and pad level and hand placement that
Speaker 1: he had no shot to anchor against Jordan, and he
Speaker 1: went for a ride into the backfield. I freaking love
Speaker 1: his game. Man. Let's go back to the offense here
Speaker 1: real quick. I think Zach Wilson's growth in timing is noticeable,
Speaker 1: but I think there's something that he's currently working through
Speaker 1: and he's talked about this that can really help him
Speaker 1: gain confidence and maximize the traits that he offers within
Speaker 1: the offense and take a bigger step here. Like most
Speaker 1: the reps were really good today and yesterday too, And
Speaker 1: when he isn't perfectly on time, he can overcome that
Speaker 1: with some escapability but also the strong arm to jam
Speaker 1: that thing into a tight window. But on the incompletions,
Speaker 1: it looks like his processing is going faster than his
Speaker 1: feet and the feat can kind of get stuck, and
Speaker 1: that's a sequencing.
Speaker 4: You have to kind of pair it together.
Speaker 1: And I want to make it clear that I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to disparage his game or his practice, but I'm
Speaker 1: saying that, I think because that's something that can come
Speaker 1: with time as he gets more and more reps here,
Speaker 1: live reps in these practices like it's day two, but
Speaker 1: even just from the spring, I think there's noticable growth
Speaker 1: that he's made there and Quinn viewers for that matter
Speaker 1: as well. Let's go ahead and play this sound by
Speaker 1: here from Zach to close out the segment, talking about
Speaker 1: the growth and timing from the spring now to the summer.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's been good. I feel like I've
Speaker 6: been playing more on time, but I think it's just
Speaker 6: consistently getting even better, and I think as camp goes on,
Speaker 6: I'll feel more of that. But I feel like I
Speaker 6: worked on a lot of these things in the last
Speaker 6: forty days that I feel good when when I'm able
Speaker 6: to go out there and do some of them coming
Speaker 6: into camp.
Speaker 1: Let's take our last break right there, come back on
Speaker 1: the other side, and get a few more practice highlights.
Speaker 1: That's next Draft Time podcast, brought to you by AutoNation.
Speaker 1: Concluding this podcast with some highlights from practice. I did
Speaker 1: a little breakdown on Cater's past breakup on Twitter, but
Speaker 1: he's been super sharp through two days, including some nice
Speaker 1: leverage and technique and a good rep a good win
Speaker 1: against Tyreek Hill. Of all people out there, Ethan Bonner
Speaker 1: had himself a day. Zach Wilson threw a gorgeous ball
Speaker 1: up the sideline to Erica Zookama, and he had Bonner stacked,
Speaker 1: but Bonner stayed right and trail technique and beat the
Speaker 1: safety to the sideline. That the football did and Bonnard
Speaker 1: did as well. But Bonnard pokes his hand the last
Speaker 1: second knocks that thing out. Damn nearest tole a pick
Speaker 1: but gets a pass breakup. Also had a punch out
Speaker 1: fumble in the seven to seven portion of practice on
Speaker 1: Malik Washington. Wanda had a fumble later on as well
Speaker 1: during the team drills, and Patrick mc morris also had
Speaker 1: a really nice day, though he did drop a pick
Speaker 1: one of two dropped i iNTS, one was from Zach Wilson,
Speaker 1: one from Quinn Ewers. The other drop pick was Elijah Campbell,
Speaker 1: and the entire team ran gassers at the conclusion of practice,
Speaker 1: with the defense doing some push ups as well. That's
Speaker 1: just a continuation of that self policing self punishment that
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson talked about and we kind of alluded to
Speaker 1: off the top of the podcast. Bj Adams ran stride
Speaker 1: for stride with Malak Washington to force an incomplete pass
Speaker 1: on a deep ball. He's got those those man coverage
Speaker 1: press chops that I thought showed out a little bit today.
Speaker 1: And then Jordan Brooks. I just keep talking about him,
Speaker 1: but it's it's pretty simple, like he's just dominant. He
Speaker 1: plays so fast, he gets downhill. In fact, Zach Seiler
Speaker 1: talked about Jordan Brooks a little bit here after practice.
Speaker 2: You know, like Jordan Brooks got here last year. Me
Speaker 2: and him really started clicking last season because you know,
Speaker 2: it's not immediate. You can't build a relationship out of
Speaker 2: thin air. And nothing beats that more in time. So
Speaker 2: to have that time with these guys and be able
Speaker 2: to work with them from day in and day out,
Speaker 2: and not even on the field, just in life. Hey,
Speaker 2: I got an issue off the field, like something's going
Speaker 2: on back home whatever, just talking through it and just
Speaker 2: being vocal about it all. Sorry whoever that is. But yeah,
Speaker 2: so that's the best part.
Speaker 1: That was a recorder being knocked off the table and
Speaker 1: then returned to the table by Zack Seiler.
Speaker 4: What a guy. So there you go. More stuff there.
Speaker 4: A couple more notes.
Speaker 1: I thought Alec Ingold had a nice day, although the
Speaker 1: rep that jumped out to me the most was the
Speaker 1: one matchup with Jalen Phillips where Jalen got the better
Speaker 1: of Alec. But Jalen was doing that to everybody all
Speaker 1: day long. Tanner Connor made a few plays again, I
Speaker 1: think he's looked sharp. See what else here? Moo Kamara
Speaker 1: got really good knockback on a rep against Jackson Carmen.
Speaker 1: I had changin Tindall with a tag off around the
Speaker 1: lion of scrimmage in the running game to Quat and
Speaker 1: Jackson had stuff on Alexander Madison run and quinn Ewers
Speaker 1: had to throw where he like dropped his arm angle
Speaker 1: and flipped that thing out there and it was a
Speaker 1: drop pass. But I was like, that looks pretty nice
Speaker 1: right there, the way he can drop that slot and
Speaker 1: flinging that ball out there. I thought there were some
Speaker 1: challenging days that can be improved upon. Daniel Brunskill was
Speaker 1: one of those guys. Larry Borham, Ryan Hayes thought Kenneth Grant,
Speaker 1: like I keep getting asked about him, I think that
Speaker 1: he's kind of going through a golf reference here, a
Speaker 1: swing change, getting the pad level, playing more consistently low.
Speaker 4: I think that that's haven't seen the major impact.
Speaker 1: I think because of that, and JJ Watt tweeted about
Speaker 1: how like he can't believe people keep stats on practice
Speaker 1: because of the purpose of practice. I highly recommend going
Speaker 1: and finding that tweet when you think about training camp practices.
Speaker 1: I just think he's working and I have no question
Speaker 1: whether or not he can get himself going full speed
Speaker 1: by the time this season gets here and being a
Speaker 1: dominant player. I thought Kendall Sheffield and Cam Smith were
Speaker 1: in some coverage or they were, I didn't think that
Speaker 1: on some of the intermediate passes to Reek and Waddle.
Speaker 4: So there we go. That's it. Tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Will do the exact same thing over again on Saturday
Speaker 1: as well, and then take Sunday off and come back
Speaker 1: and do it a bunch more times next week. In
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