WEBVTT - Drive Time: Thursday July 24 Dolphins Training Camp Report 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:12.440 This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. What is up, Dolphans 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:15.640 and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am your host, 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:19.640 Travis Wingfield, and on today's show, day number two, here 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:23.560 from Miami Gardens, better weather, more reps, and a full 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:26.319 fun day of work on that field. I'm working on 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:29.040 a few things here theme wise for this show, including 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:32.320 the incorporation of power football and how it opens up 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:34.880 things for the offense, the return of the power off 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:38.200 the edge in this defense with Bradley Chubb and Jalen 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:42.200 Phillips looking the absolute part. Jalen writes ascension, continuing Zach 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:46.000 Seeler being the ultimate elite player and everything he does, 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:48.880 growth from all the quarterbacks, and of course all the 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:51.959 highlights and notes and news from the practice. Plus we're 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:54.600 gonna hear from a handful of guys including right including Sealer, 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:58.440 Zach Wilson, and Moore from the Baptist Health Studios inside 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:02.600 the Baptist Health Training Complex is the Draft Time Podcast. 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:08.839 We touched on this yesterday as a continuation, I would 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:12.319 say of the off season themes that I've harped on 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:16.880 at length, but the idea of attacking things that gave 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:20.920 you fits in years prior, or the year prior, and 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:23.960 how they've done a nice job this offseason of giving 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:27.720 themselves an opportunity to correct some of those things. Going 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:30.720 over it again, Jonah and James acquisitions, Nick Westbrook, a 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.240 Keene and Farrell Brown off the edge, eight Chan further 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.240 evolving his role as a pass catcher and do it 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:38.959 all running back, and the emergence of Jalen Right, and 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.399 how those two things marry up together to give you 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:44.720 more flexibility and more disguise in what you do. Quite frankly, 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:47.480 and this is something that I want to touch on 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:50.280 a little bit more later with regards to the defense, 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:54.400 but I think this team is deeper in so many 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.160 spots and the offensive lines where you can really see that. 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:01.000 I mean, gosh, between you know, Pat Jonah Brew, James 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:04.240 Daniels and Austin Jackson, you're projected first five, and then 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:08.440 Larry Boram, Keon Smith, Leo Miikenberg, Daniel Brunskill. All those 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:10.680 guys can play guard and tackle. Two of those guys 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:13.880 have played center in their career and they can play 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:14.720 anywhere in a pinch. 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:14.960 Right. 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:17.400 But even though you probably prefer you know certain guys 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:19.560 at guard, certain guys a tackle and so on, and 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:22.799 with Andrew Meyer continuing his progress and looking pretty good 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:26.320 in that, that's nine really good options on top of 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:29.040 what you have on depth beyond that, and the ability 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:32.799 to shuffle as you see fit for whatever injury. You're 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:35.560 giving yourself a better chance to win in the short 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.799 yardage game, your power inside game, and off the edge. 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.400 You're giving yourself a better chance to withstand the attrition 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:43.720 that comes on the offensive line in a given season. 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:46.519 And this is not a knock on anybody in particular, 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:48.280 but you go into that Houston game last year, a 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:50.880 game that you had to win, and if you did 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:53.440 win that, coming off the you know, the Packers loss 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:55.640 and then the Jets win. You get to seven and 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:57.960 seven with a stretch of games that we were winnable. 0:02:58.040 --> 0:02:59.840 You know, you can beat the Niners and Browns and 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:02.440 the Jets in the finale and you make the playoffs 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:04.640 if you run the table there. And you go into 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:06.839 that game with a guy that you just signed off 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:09.760 the street in Jackson Carmen and a rookie on the 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:12.000 other side, and that's what you dealt with in a 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:15.680 game against d'anil Hunter and Will Anderson arguably the best 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.639 pass rush duo in the entire NFL. So the Dolphins 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:20.680 look at that and say, how do we make sure 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:23.959 that doesn't happen again? Well, you go nine, possibly ten 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:26.560 deep on your offensive line with guys that you feel 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.160 pretty good about inserting into a game and getting live 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:31.960 game reps in a December game. That is for all 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:35.240 the marbles, right, And I just think you're giving yourself 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:39.240 that opportunity to shore up those wrongs of the past. 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:42.880 And that's just the roster building. In the personnel aspect 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:45.480 of it. There's way more than meets the eye, right, 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:49.840 because how about the execution or the administration stuff to 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.160 help this team be the best version of themselves? Like 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.120 you have to think about football on a more granular 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:58.880 level about it's not just about Okay, I've got the 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:03.880 twelfth best you know, wide receiver with the ninth best quarterback. 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:06.560 I've got the third best defensive whatever it might be. 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:10.360 It's not as simple as a spreadsheet. Like there's how 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:12.960 do I maximize each of the ninety players or the 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.120 fifty three players once you get in season? How do 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:19.200 I motivate them individually and collectively? There's just so many 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:23.600 intangibles and this esoteric nature into the weeds of football 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:27.159 about what actually goes into the product that comes out 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:29.760 on Sundays and why there's so many damn surprises across 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:31.839 the league every year. I don't think anybody in the 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.760 world predicted the Washington Commanders would go to the NFC 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.479 Championship Game last year, but they put it together with 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:39.719 Dan Quinn. They brought in a bunch of guys that 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.839 people thought maybe couldn't play anymore. But between Bobby Wagner 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.159 being the key cogna middle of that defense and Austin 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:48.000 Eckler's experience in the backfield, like those moves matter, and 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:52.040 they were impactful players on a championship game loss, but 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:55.960 still appeared in that game football team like it happens 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:58.480 every single year. And I just listened to the Kenny 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:02.600 Steells Fish Tank episode where they were so bought in 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:05.719 in twenty sixteen that playoff year compared to twenty fifteen 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:07.919 when they couldn't get anybody bought in according to Kenny, 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.200 and how he knew the game plans so well that 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.960 he could break the huddle before Tannehill finish, barking out 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:14.599 the play call because he knew what it was going 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:18.320 to be based upon his just intent investment into those 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:21.040 game plans every single week. And that's something you have 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:25.040 to curate across the NFL season. And not all thirty 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:27.359 two teams get that every single year. I think you 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:30.440 could argue not even half the teams get that every 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.680 single year. It's why our expectations for what's supposed to 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:37.520 happen every August goes completely belly up, you know, outside 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:40.480 of the main stays in the league, the Kansas City Chiefs, 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:42.680 that Philadelphia Eagles, the Bottomble Ravens, and so on and 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:46.200 so forth. So I make this whole point because these 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:49.640 earlier practices, and you know, we heard coach McDaniel touch 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:51.719 on the reasoning behind it, and I think he said 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:54.640 there was like, you know, exaggerating four hundred reasons behind it, 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:56.960 but he gave us a couple of specific reasons, talking 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.520 about going up to playing the Bears and the Lions 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.479 and ten day stretch and joint practices and dealing with 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:04.680 tough football teams and the change and schedule that they'll 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:07.800 see up there, and just really trying to weigh out 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:10.760 all the options and the variables that can help this 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:14.479 team map out the best roadmap to be successful, to 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:17.200 be a winning football team, Like when you, you know, go 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:18.960 on a road trip, and this is probably different from 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:20.280 what it was when I was a kid, but like 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:22.840 you had to get the old Rand McNally map out 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:25.520 and map that thing out. Otherwise you're kind of winging 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:27.200 it and you might make mistakes. But if you have 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:29.680 the roadmap and the game plan, and you've kind of 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:31.719 decided the best way to get to this gas station, 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:33.599 the best way to get to our exit for this 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:35.960 this lunch we're gonna have right here, you're probably going 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:39.240 to better execute that plan. And if this all like 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:43.040 increases your ability to get in more quality work in 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:46.440 the summer and also maybe not expose yourself in these 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:49.120 pretty rough conditions in the middle of the day. Like 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:51.880 I'll tell you first hand, I've been in South Florida 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:53.720 for this is my six year down here, or I 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:55.080 guess fifth year, because I didn't move down here in 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.479 the pandemic here for the entire season or the entire year. 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:00.440 But like, it is different at nine am than it 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:02.520 is at even eleven am. It gets a lot harder 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:04.479 than even worse at one o'clock in the afternoon, and 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:06.600 right now at two o'clock. So I'm talking to this podcast. 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:09.480 It's pretty miserable out there. But nine o'clock in the morning, 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:13.040 slight breeze, some cloud coverage, wasn't that bad. And so 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.040 I think that, you know, I heard the Heat the 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:17.280 Call podcast and they were talking about one of the 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:20.400 hosts had come down to Disney World in July and 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:22.480 he was like, never again. I'm never going to Florida 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:24.920 in July again, And like, I get it. My kids 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:27.280 are going stir crazy because it's tough to get outside 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:30.480 right now. And the whole thing behind that is like, well, 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:33.080 maybe if we can reduce the number of hours we're 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.360 out in the worst part of the day, maybe that 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:38.960 can have like a long term impact on how this 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:42.960 team is able to be sustained, you know, for the 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:44.760 entirety of the season, not even just coming out of 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:46.760 the gates like six and two and then being in 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:48.640 a good spot going into the late part of the season. 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:50.360 And I'm not gonna sit here and say that hard 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:52.280 training camps are why this team has had, you know, 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:56.040 less than desirable December results. But I think you can 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:58.960 look at it and pontificate that and wonder how you 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:01.840 can fix that, and then I guess the pushback on 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:05.840 that might say, like, well, yeah, the seventies Dolphins under Shula, 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:07.840 you know, they were out there three times a day 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:09.720 in this stuff. But you know, if you're as old 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:12.000 as me, you remember Zach Thomas and Jason Taylor and 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.560 those Dolphins teams. They were consistently you know, five and 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:16.560 one out of the gates and then would have a 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:19.880 tough December loss, And you know, I just think maybe 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:23.000 there's something there to reducing some of that workload and 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:25.840 just not being in the hottest part of the hottest 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:28.200 or in the hottest part of the day in the 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:31.080 hottest region in America. I don't know, I feel like 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:33.200 there could be something to that, and maybe it can 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:35.640 help you just sustain the season a little bit better. 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:39.080 But back to the larger point, let's create harder elements, 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:42.959 right to push us through that adversity now and McDaniel 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:45.920 touched on this various points of the offseason, about making 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:49.760 practice hard and creating competition through the roster construction. And 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:51.440 you can look at that on the defensive side of 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.000 the ball, in the defensive backfield, there are guys competing 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:56.480 for work there and really everywhere across the football on 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:59.040 both sides. And I've talked in the podcast about how 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:02.440 by doing that at you create this level of strain 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:05.760 where maybe maybe in years past it was like, well, 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:07.440 I have this rep and I'm trying to get better, 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:09.560 but if I lose it, then it doesn't matter in 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.080 terms of my ability to start on Sunday. But what 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:13.720 if you go into that rep with the mindset of 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:15.840 if I can get this third and seven rep locked 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:18.960 down and show good technique and get the quarterback to 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.280 either you know, not come at me or to break 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:23.080 the pass up, or if I win this pass rush 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:24.520 is at an edge guy, or if I can hold 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:27.080 the pass protection as an offensive lineman, then maybe that 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:28.880 will get me in the starting lineup. Like that type 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:32.160 of mindset and mentality creates a different level of strain. 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:34.920 To go back to the golf analogy, on the range 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:38.840 versus on the tee box are entirely different golf shots. 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.800 It's not it's the exact same thing, provided you're hitting 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.880 off grass and not mats, But your mindset doesn't have that. 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:46.480 When you get on the tee box, you know that 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:48.960 this ball goes in the woods. I'm now hitting three 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:50.840 off the tee opposed to on the range. It's like, Oh, 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:53.160 I'll just try it again. It doesn't matter like it's different. 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.520 You have to adjust your mindset and put yourself in 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:59.160 as many situations to make yourself battle tested. And I 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:03.040 think these vironments that create that provide value. I think 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.880 there's value to coming out in the rain on Wednesday 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:08.280 in day one and getting work in in inclement weather. 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:10.839 It rained today too, so they got that experience and 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:12.679 they got some of the hot, hot heat out there 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:16.480 today as well. So that's like all the administrational execution 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:19.480 stuff that I think pairs with how they've altered their 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:22.880 roster and team building approach. We'll hear from Jalen Wright 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:25.439 on this in a moment in a way that helps 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:29.000 corroborate the idea of something that coach talked about at 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.160 the owners meetings back in March or April whenever. That 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.800 was about setting your culture through the draft, and Jalen 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:35.839 Wright is a good example of that. We'll come back 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:38.160 to that in one second, but before we continue on that, 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.640 just a couple of housekeeping items here before we move 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.000 on to the next thing. It's being reported that the 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:46.680 Dolphins are signing Cornell Armstrong a former cornerback out of 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:48.960 Southern miss who was drafted here in the sixth round 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:51.760 back in twenty eighteen. So if that does go through 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.680 and becomes an official move, he will join the Dolphins 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:58.679 defensive backfield. Bayron Mactos has movement in all extremities and 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.600 is in stable condition. He remains at the Writer Trauma 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:05.160 Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital for continued observation. So good 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:07.360 news for the big fellow there. And then the last 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:10.120 thing here, Benito Jones was in the Orange Jersey and 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:12.840 quite frankly, I thought he brought the noise on his playlist, 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.800 very very good playlist for Benito. And I am now 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:18.400 realizing that I just forgot to drop a SoundBite that 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:21.000 I had on my rundown here, and this goes back 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.120 to the offensive line stuff. So sorry for the kind 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.199 of out of order, but this is a SoundBite from 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:27.360 Patrick Paul that I meant to play earlier talking about 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:31.199 the offensive line in developing chemistry with the fellow young 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:33.960 player on the offensive line in Jonas ofvit Naya. I 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.600 thought this was just excellent to hear from the two 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:38.640 young Dolphin studds on the offensive line. 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:40.240 Ah Man Jonah I mean, we hang out all the time, 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.240 so throughout the off season, me and him were here 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:44.679 in this building every single day working, so naturally, when 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:46.760 you spend that much time together, you're jailed like one, 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:47.400 all right. 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:50.240 So we covered the topic of making things harder on 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:54.480 yourself intentionally. The next theme, I guess I want to 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:59.680 cover that sort of coincides with that, because this idea 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:02.520 of the additions and how they can execute the offense 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.200 and Austin Jackson talking about the multiplicity of the run game, 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:09.040 it all kind of blends into this idea of being 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:11.199 a tough football team and being a team that can 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:14.880 go out and implement weather late in the season, playoff games, 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:17.640 all that stuff, and execute a running game and develop 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:20.600 that toughness and lean on teams, right, And we've talked 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:23.160 about the impact of how a strong running game can 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:25.760 really help open your passing game, especially in modern football 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:28.360 with the way coverages are. And I wanted to get 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:32.640 into this because I thought the first three plays of 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.360 today's team period work set the. 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:38.760 Tone and really was really what I wanted to see. 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:42.520 And I know it's a shorts and shells practice day 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.840 two which July twenty fourth, but it's better than not 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:48.360 seeing that, right, Like, all I have to go off 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:49.800 of is the evidence that we have in front of us, 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:51.560 and what I saw was what I was hoping to see. 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:53.640 And so those first run is a devon a Chan 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:57.160 explosive run inside, maybe even scored a touchdown from whatever 0:12:57.200 --> 0:13:00.640 seventy seventy five yards wherever the football was. It's hard 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:03.200 to tell, but he did go untouched at the point 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:05.560 of attack and into the second level with a full 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:07.599 head of steam. And who was at the point of 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.839 attack folding back the backside cut for eight Chan but 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:16.000 Jonas ofvit Naya and pushing Zach Seeler into the linebackers. 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:20.160 I'm not sure I've seen Zach give ground like that before, 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:23.400 and maybe he got caught by surprise. Maybe it's because 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:25.640 there's no pads. I don't know the context behind it. 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:27.280 I'm telling you what I saw, and I haven't seen 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:30.160 that happen tonight you two ever, So that was great 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.920 to see and possibly a first play seventy yard touchdowns 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:35.760 obviously great to see. The very next play is play 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:39.560 action with one of the craziest anticipation throws I've ever 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.600 seen too, a make which if you know his game 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:45.319 capital a anticipation is his game where Waddle runs this 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:47.480 deep crosser to the other side of the field about 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:50.200 twenty five yards down the field and to a layers 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:53.319 this thing to a spot with touch and loft, which 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:57.679 when you do this, like if you if you shoot 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:00.400 a fastball in there, like the receivers to catch it 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:02.280 pretty much where he is. But when you can do this, 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.720 and you can see with this type of foresight, you 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.640 can mitigate pass rush tenfold, right, and that's part of 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:10.760 what makes two us so good. Let's go ahead and 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:12.720 layer this thing softly into a spot and let our 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:15.400 receiver get there, and that will just take away time 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.480 where I have the ball in my hands, which reduces 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:19.240 the time the pass rush can get me to the 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:21.080 ground and hit me and force a negative play or 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:23.560 maybe even hurt me. And Wattle runs right under it 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:25.600 and intersects with it at the exact same time as 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:29.000 the football descends towards the earth, and he had the 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:31.160 time to get it out there to what did But 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:33.880 that just helps reduce the need for pass protection. 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:34.160 Right. 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:36.200 Then the third play they come back and they run 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:39.520 this wide outside play with Devon a Chan where he 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:41.440 gets to the edge with another full head of steam 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:44.040 into the second level and probably ten yards before he 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:48.760 gets even bumped to the sideline or contacted. And so 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:51.600 I think you've seen this element of power running game 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:54.840 they've added to this front, but doing so without sacrificing 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:58.360 even a modicum of athleticism. In fact, I think it's 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:02.040 not a stretch to say, based upon athletic testing, the 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:05.080 film itself, and just what guys look like on the field, 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:08.080 that you've gotten much more athletic on the offensive line 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:10.240 this year, and it more closely reflects what you had 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:12.920 in twenty twenty three before Rob Hut and Isaiah Win 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.720 both took injuries that you forced backups into those spots 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.760 and didn't give you your a team offensive line late 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.320 in that season. And to me, the impact of that 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:24.400 was the passing offense today looked a lot more like 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.480 twenty twenty three than it did in twenty twenty four. 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:30.560 What I mean by that was I had Waddle catching 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:34.800 three passes on intermediate targets between and outside the numbers. 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:36.520 But you know, kind of the flood the middle of 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:38.920 the football field fifteen to twenty twenty five yards down 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.280 the field, make these catches where we're chewing off big 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:43.760 chunks with air yards, and Tyreek had two of those 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:45.760 as well, including one of the sickest routes I've ever 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:47.800 seen out here, where it almost looked like he was 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:50.400 going to run a comeback and like showed the shoulders 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:52.640 to the sideline and that widens the corner, and then 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.000 he broke it back across face and froze the safety 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:56.920 because the safety's like, what the hell route is that? 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.400 What the hell is even that? Then he whips it 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:03.360 back inside and Tua throws another perfect touch timing pass 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:06.480 twenty five yards down the field. Reek accelerates through it 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:09.960 for additional yards of the yach ariety, and I just 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.320 saw those things paired together, and I was thinking, like, 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:16.480 all right, well, day two in, I've got some confirmation 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:18.080 on what I thought it might look like. And we'll 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:20.800 see if it continues. But it's pretty excited about that man. 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.600 We also saw Ollie Gordon with some inside runs getting 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.320 downhill where it's like in your face, now, make a decision, 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:27.720 because I'm going to hit you with the full head 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:30.640 of steam. Makes a move and goes and Jalen Wright, Buddy, 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:33.200 my goodness, I was impressed last year. It's even better 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:35.640 this year. He gets to that second gear off of 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:39.280 his initial cut, so damn fast. It's like a vertical cut, 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:42.320 not horizontal. He was excellent once again today. So that 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.880 was my biggest takeaway, this element of power with elite 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.120 movers up front who can help the run game, the 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:50.880 play pass game, get more opportunities for the pass game 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:53.400 beyond the second level of defense. And let's go ahead 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:56.560 and conclude this thought here with some soundbites from Jalen 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:59.640 Wright as he discussed the growth that he's experienced with 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:02.840 reading blocks, reading angles, and his tracks as a runner 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:03.840 from year one to year two. 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:05.560 Here's right a lot. 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.280 I mean last year, I didn't you know the system. 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:10.720 I came from Tennessee. We never ran like outside zone, 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:13.520 wive zone, stuff like that. It's just you know, just 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:17.600 me studying, watching film, you know, just just me being disciplined. 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:19.359 Like I just keep saying discipe because that's what it is, 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:21.600 you know, just staying the course and then you know, 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:22.919 just putting the ball in the right spots. 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:26.399 And you heard him talk about the aforementioned discipline. I 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:28.520 want to go ahead and just play that answer his 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:30.240 sound bite from that answer, because I think it provides 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:33.480 more context to him talking there about the comfortability, comfort 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:36.120 level going from year one to year two as a 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:38.520 patient and the vision as a runner. Here he is 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:41.480 providing more context on discipline in the process. 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:45.040 Just me, me being disciplined, and you know, being disciplined 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:48.240 in my responsibility, not not you know, you're putting the 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:50.639 ball in the right spot. No, not every run is 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:52.280 gonna be clean. So you know what I did today, 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:54.440 I was just being patient, just waiting for the opportunity 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:56.080 to happen, just putting the ball on the right spot. 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:58.880 The line of eventure. The line will eventually clean it up. 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:00.720 And when they clean it up, that's when you know, 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:01.719 that's when I flurted. 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:03.920 So and to put a bow on this first segment 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:06.520 and that topic, you know, coach talked about their fast 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:08.920 twenty one personnel grouping last year, which is two backs 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:11.560 in the field, which is not a fullback right when 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:13.359 you call it fast, it's two running backs and it. 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:14.199 Was eight chan and raheem. 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:16.719 I think you've got even more potential there this year, 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:19.640 especially with how DeVaughn continues to grow as a route 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.520 runner and progress in that area. And I think right 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:25.160 is more adept at some of the power inside stuff 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:28.119 with a chan's ability to motion and take a jet sweep, 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:30.679 catch a screen run vertical. It puts you in a 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:33.119 buying with your coverage and your personnel, and it just 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:35.679