Speaker 1: To us fires touch style by waddle stuck into the
Speaker 1: end zone of Miami Boyd tight froll, tight window. They
Speaker 1: had to get that touchdown on that play. They get it.
Speaker 1: What is up, Dolphans And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast,
Speaker 1: part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team,
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield And on today's show, we are back at it.
Speaker 1: It's the final week of training camp and our last
Speaker 1: practice before the Eagles arrived from up north. We'll hear
Speaker 1: from head coach Mike McDaniel, cover the practice notes from
Speaker 1: a rainy Miami gardens, and we'll finish up with player
Speaker 1: media from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health
Speaker 1: Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Some roster news here. On cut down Day, the NFL
Speaker 1: teams across the league are required to get to eight
Speaker 1: d players at the four pm deadline. The Dolphins didn't
Speaker 1: waste any time early on Tuesday morning making their announcements
Speaker 1: as punter Stephen hoff richter, safety Sheldrick RedWine, and outside
Speaker 1: linebacker DeAndre Johnson were released on Tuesday, where john Lovett,
Speaker 1: the fullback, and Mackenzie Alexander, the newcomer at cornerback, were
Speaker 1: placed on injured reserve and as the rule state, players
Speaker 1: placed on i R before the season begins must miss
Speaker 1: the entire season. There was some good injury news from
Speaker 1: head coach Mike McDaniels Tuesday morning presser. He says that
Speaker 1: cornerback Nick need Um, after going straight to the locker
Speaker 1: room after his injury, is good to go. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be back out there on the practice field on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: and Keion Crossing is day to day with his injury.
Speaker 1: So some really good news there among those two cornerbacks.
Speaker 1: We didn't get an update on Byron Jones, just that
Speaker 1: he is working diligently to get ready for that Week
Speaker 1: one game, so we'll see what happens there. And then
Speaker 1: also coach spoke about some other stuff. Some more fascinating
Speaker 1: things that I find about this entire month of the calendar,
Speaker 1: this exhibition season, is how teams approached these preseason games
Speaker 1: and coach, as we talked about on the podcast Our
Speaker 1: shorthand c aw A, Coach's answer was awesome. Gave us
Speaker 1: more gold here about the preseason approach talking about the
Speaker 1: run game and their plan and approach for how to
Speaker 1: play these games. Again, like like I told you, I'm not, Um,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty well versed in preseason football. UM. And no,
Speaker 1: I look at it more like, Okay, what are we
Speaker 1: going against? How are they playing? And what should we do?
Speaker 1: You know? Is it our things in the run game
Speaker 1: a product of um, three or four guys and how
Speaker 1: they're operating, or is it one player on each play? Um?
Speaker 1: You know the more than anything, really this preseason, we
Speaker 1: haven't got stuff going because it's been one or two
Speaker 1: guys off, which UM, I'm more concerned about the players
Speaker 1: w they learn from that or not. Uh, joint practices
Speaker 1: generally have UM, you're you're a little more comfortable uh
Speaker 1: doing not the uh one oh one version of of
Speaker 1: your run game pass game defense. So uh, but I
Speaker 1: wouldn't see myself you know again, I'm I look at
Speaker 1: a collection of things. UM, I want stuff to be
Speaker 1: better from that Raiders game, and I want I want
Speaker 1: us to run the ball well. Um. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, I think, UM, our players are pretty confident
Speaker 1: that and and the coaching stuff I know is that
Speaker 1: we're we're gonna be fine moving forward. We just have
Speaker 1: to get better from stuff. That's what I'm concerned about.
Speaker 1: So um, I wouldn't. My philosophy is not going to
Speaker 1: change that. That's something that's par for the course in preseason. Sometimes, uh,
Speaker 1: depending on what the other team is trying to work
Speaker 1: on and do, um and what they're concerned about, sometimes
Speaker 1: you have awesome Yeah. I think we've had I've had
Speaker 1: a hundred and eight r running games in seasons that
Speaker 1: you haven't finished high in rushing yards and vice versa.
Speaker 1: So um, it's just kind of part for the course.
Speaker 1: So we've been the beneficiaries of some pretty good expertise
Speaker 1: there from head coach Mike McDaniel defensive cornea or Josh
Speaker 1: Boyer Earlier in the week. I believe I spoke to
Speaker 1: Matt Apple Obama as well about some of the stuff.
Speaker 1: But you get the idea like there are certain things
Speaker 1: you're trying to accomplish that don't involve the final score
Speaker 1: of the game or the result necessarily, but finding out
Speaker 1: what works on tape, how guys match up individually without
Speaker 1: help of the scheme, And that's where us next question
Speaker 1: goes towards about what are you trying to find out
Speaker 1: about these games and coach mentions directly like, we don't
Speaker 1: want to put scheme in there to benefit guys. We
Speaker 1: want to find out how they play on their own
Speaker 1: without the help of the scheme. Talking about lots of
Speaker 1: man coverage on defense, here's coach McDaniel. You also you're
Speaker 1: also doing on both sides of the ball. You are, um,
Speaker 1: you're really trying to be basic for the for that sense,
Speaker 1: because you want to see how they can perform without
Speaker 1: schematic help necessarily, UM your your you know, offensively and defensively.
Speaker 1: You call games different because you are trying to there's
Speaker 1: a portion of it that you're really trying to not
Speaker 1: just hold back the stuff that you're going to do
Speaker 1: in the regular season, but you're also trying to put
Speaker 1: people in positions to prove themselves. You know, UM, we
Speaker 1: had a ton of um man coverage uh in in
Speaker 1: this game, in this past game, a ton of it
Speaker 1: for that reason, so that we could evaluate people at
Speaker 1: all positions. UM. And you know that that's a very
Speaker 1: important thing. Now we might show up with games and
Speaker 1: do the same thing. You know, who knows, But the
Speaker 1: purpose of doing it was just for the reason you're
Speaker 1: talking about as we're trying to evaluate and see how
Speaker 1: people UM can do the fundamentals and technique that we
Speaker 1: talk about at length each and every day. Mike, you
Speaker 1: find it easier to evaluate analyzed players in those specific
Speaker 1: situations you can put them in and enjoin practices UM
Speaker 1: as opposed to the game format of of preseason and
Speaker 1: of course, with the Eagles coming to town tomorrow, coach
Speaker 1: was asked about joint practices and how you balance the
Speaker 1: value of those reps and practice versus measuring whether or
Speaker 1: not guys should play in the game. Here's McDaniel. The
Speaker 1: joint practices are easier because you can there's a large
Speaker 1: a large, there's a good majority that you can dictate
Speaker 1: the terms. You make sure you get a certain amount
Speaker 1: of plays. You can dictate how much run versus pass um.
Speaker 1: You know, those things UM are kind of controlled, you know,
Speaker 1: whereas in a game, you know you you you can't
Speaker 1: control whether or not you have multiple possessions and in
Speaker 1: the in the first quarter or and you can you
Speaker 1: can't really determine and whether or not UM. You know,
Speaker 1: people call games off of the momentum of it, so
Speaker 1: UM you end up adjusting to what's being called or
Speaker 1: trying to dictate the terms with what you call. So
Speaker 1: it's a lot easier there, UM and in joint practices really, UM,
Speaker 1: that's that is my favorite part of the preseason UM
Speaker 1: in general is when you do get those opportunities to
Speaker 1: practice against other people and and you know you're you're
Speaker 1: really trying to It's such a great opportunity for both
Speaker 1: sides of the ball to defend UM against and to
Speaker 1: run your offense against different techniques, coverages, UM, alignments, assignments,
Speaker 1: all that stuff that that is what you have to
Speaker 1: do to be successful in the NFL season is a
Speaker 1: just so the it it is. It is really fun. UM.
Speaker 1: It breaks stuff up. You know we've been doing this.
Speaker 1: I feel like I've been meeting guys in this room
Speaker 1: for um a couple of months now, maybe it's been one,
Speaker 1: but training camp does you know that does get monotonous
Speaker 1: to guys, And so it's a great way to really
Speaker 1: break stuff up, and UM, make sure you you keep
Speaker 1: that competitive nature UM going through the process and UM
Speaker 1: before you start preparing for your Week one opponent, we're
Speaker 1: gonna play an answer here just a minute about alec
Speaker 1: Ingolden coach actually did give us some details about the
Speaker 1: fact that he expects Ingle to play in the game
Speaker 1: on Saturday after wearing a medical red jersey for much
Speaker 1: of the training camp season here this month of August.
Speaker 1: But Coach was again asked about playing starter this week,
Speaker 1: and he gave you the same answer he's given you
Speaker 1: for the last three weeks about how we're not going
Speaker 1: to short change the process and we're gonna let this
Speaker 1: thing play out before and make decisions on the actual
Speaker 1: game day decision. But he did get a follow up
Speaker 1: question about how he would feel about this long layoff
Speaker 1: between now and the September eleven opener against the Patriots
Speaker 1: and not having starters play from this time in a
Speaker 1: game against live bullets until that game, and Coach basically said, well,
Speaker 1: last year's World champions didn't play their quarterback one time
Speaker 1: in August. Yeah, I mean, in theory, In theory, I
Speaker 1: could go, uh, I really like where we've developed on
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball. Um, in theory, you could
Speaker 1: I think what you guys are seeing um across the
Speaker 1: league is the bunch of a bunch of organizations and
Speaker 1: coaching staffs and head coaches trying to adjust to three
Speaker 1: preseason games because there there's way more variants in the protocol. Um.
Speaker 1: You could almost like, uh, it was like clockwork when
Speaker 1: it was four preseason games. Um, But it's not just
Speaker 1: that it's only three. It's that there's two weeks until
Speaker 1: the regular season begins. So those compounding variables make it
Speaker 1: kind of tricky. UM. I believe, Uh, the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: champions last year didn't play anybody the entire preseason. I
Speaker 1: know Matthew Stafford didn't, so um. But then you know, philosophically, Uh,
Speaker 1: it kind of gears everything towards my belief anyway, which
Speaker 1: is it is case by case, and I don't I
Speaker 1: don't like absolutes. UM. I think there's a lot of people,
Speaker 1: um in that same boat because there's not an exact
Speaker 1: formula the you're trying to get guys to play together, um,
Speaker 1: and you want those opportunities. Well, some guys that's not
Speaker 1: as big a deal for because they're you know, vested
Speaker 1: veterans that have done it, um, you know that have
Speaker 1: a hundred games under their belts or whatever. Then UM,
Speaker 1: you're you're also trying to weigh the risk that that
Speaker 1: everyone undertakes every team every time they're on the football field.
Speaker 1: So it's a it's really a maddening non perfect formula.
Speaker 1: But you know, I feel very um uh uh, I'm
Speaker 1: happy and I feel like I'm very lucky to be
Speaker 1: able to have that burden of decision on my plate,
Speaker 1: you know. So that's uh, that's something that I don't
Speaker 1: take likely trying to figure out the best formula um
Speaker 1: for the final product. But UM, to do that for me,
Speaker 1: I have to just let the process play out, um
Speaker 1: and ignore my feelings, which I don't think you're that
Speaker 1: interested in because right now I'm hungry. Is that worth writing? Yeah,
Speaker 1: well I am hungry. Um. Maybe I'll explore more feelings
Speaker 1: moving forward. Frankly, I think we would all be interested
Speaker 1: in more more opening about coaches feelings. Up next, the
Speaker 1: question about alec Ingold, not just about Ingold's availability, but
Speaker 1: how the full back position might be beneficial for the
Speaker 1: rest of the running game on offense. Coach breaks that down.
Speaker 1: Remember on the Monday podcast we talked about the tight
Speaker 1: ends getting some run at that fullback position with Hunter Long,
Speaker 1: Durham Smith, and Seethan Carter. Let's go ahead and talk
Speaker 1: about alec Ingold first. When we'll come back and talk
Speaker 1: about Hunter Long to finish this thing up. He's you know,
Speaker 1: the fullback position in general, um is is something that
Speaker 1: I believe does assist um a lot of other players,
Speaker 1: not just his assignment, but how how offensive linemen are
Speaker 1: able to execute their their stuff. So I firmly believe
Speaker 1: in that. UM. You know, my I guess, um, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm just I'm feeling in a great mood. UM.
Speaker 1: My feeling is that Alec will get some get some
Speaker 1: time here Saturday. UM for that very reason. Boom, there
Speaker 1: we go. UM. But but it is it is a
Speaker 1: good Uh, it is a asset that not just you know,
Speaker 1: that position in particular, UM, ultimately affects UM really all
Speaker 1: the positions with how to do their job when you're
Speaker 1: schematically setting up a play. So that's that it will be.
Speaker 1: It will be exciting to see him get some joint
Speaker 1: work without a red jersey, UM, which is, by the way,
Speaker 1: one of the more confusing things fullbacks and red jerseys.
Speaker 1: But UM, nothing we haven't been able to handle. It's
Speaker 1: just another obstacle we've had to climb this this offseason.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think I think it will It will
Speaker 1: be cool to have him out on the field this week.
Speaker 1: UM and and hopefully everything goes well so that we
Speaker 1: can see a little bit of him on the game.
Speaker 1: And now a really cool story about second year tight
Speaker 1: end Hunter Long. Hunter Long had a very good week
Speaker 1: of practice. In particular, he was he he started off
Speaker 1: really really good UM in O, T, A. S. And
Speaker 1: then I think if you even asked him himself, you know,
Speaker 1: there was there was a little there's a little bit
Speaker 1: of time where you just kind of was out there
Speaker 1: and he wasn't making that many plays in the running
Speaker 1: past game UM and specifically his position coach John Embry, UM,
Speaker 1: you know, had a had a heart to heart with
Speaker 1: him about a week ago, uh, just because you know,
Speaker 1: just checking on him, and he really turned it up.
Speaker 1: So those are the things that I really really look for,
Speaker 1: UM as a coach when you're when you're when you're
Speaker 1: looking at players, is how do they handle, um any
Speaker 1: sort of adversity, So that that being a light adversity.
Speaker 1: He he had his best week of practice last week,
Speaker 1: and I thought he played very very good in the game. UM.
Speaker 1: One of the reasons that you call in the red zone, UM,
Speaker 1: you go for it on fourth and seven, UM, is
Speaker 1: not because that's your philosophy in the preseason or just
Speaker 1: your philosophy and football. UM. I I was excited for
Speaker 1: a fourth and seven play to be called because I
Speaker 1: wanted to see what players would do what UM, you know,
Speaker 1: in a big moment. All right, it's fourth and seven.
Speaker 1: Do they all of a sudden make stuff up and
Speaker 1: go rogue or do you see their best UM version
Speaker 1: of whatever route they're running UM on the field. And
Speaker 1: Hunter was in on that play and he ran one
Speaker 1: of my favorite UM routes on the concept we ran
Speaker 1: that he's ever run. That told me a lot. That
Speaker 1: was cool to see UM, and I think, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: he's I'm excited for him. The joint practices to build
Speaker 1: upon his specifically his last week of work, which I
Speaker 1: thought was outstated. And go back and check out that
Speaker 1: route by Hunter along very good job sticking his footing
Speaker 1: the ground a little whip route and creating some separation
Speaker 1: that way on a very very well run route there
Speaker 1: as coach mentions. So there you go, head coach Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and take our first break and come
Speaker 1: back here and get to the practice notes, and we'll
Speaker 1: preview some top matchups for Dolphins and Eagles this week
Speaker 1: here live from the Baptist Health Training Complex. That's next
Speaker 1: Drive Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you
Speaker 1: by Auto Nation. A practice broke out on Tuesday, and
Speaker 1: it wasn't a whole bunch of work, a bit of
Speaker 1: an abbreviated period for us to get eyes on this
Speaker 1: football team one last time before they take on the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles tomorrow and Thursday, before the game on Saturday,
Speaker 1: and then it's full go into the season from there.
Speaker 1: The notes as a result gonna be a little bit shorter,
Speaker 1: but also taking a look at the Eagles matchups coming
Speaker 1: to town tomorrow. It started today with three splash plays,
Speaker 1: two of two Ingold, two to Tyreek and twoa to
Speaker 1: Mike Alec. Ingold caught the ball along the sidelines heading
Speaker 1: vertical and according to him, a little bit of toe
Speaker 1: drag swag on that he pulls that thing down and
Speaker 1: gets the feet down in bounds. And the other two
Speaker 1: were against the blitz and I loved the poise we
Speaker 1: saw from Tua and his approach to get the ball
Speaker 1: out early and where it needed to be with plenty
Speaker 1: of arc to allow the receiver's time to find it
Speaker 1: go get it and adjust to it. And first with Tyreek,
Speaker 1: actually you know, let's go let's go ahead and go
Speaker 1: back here a little bit. I just love watching the
Speaker 1: receivers work through the individual drills, and when they go
Speaker 1: inside for a little bit, they're closer to us. I
Speaker 1: get a chance to keep a closer eye on those guys.
Speaker 1: You know, when we're outside the defense's nearest us offense
Speaker 1: on the far field. That gets flipped when we go inside.
Speaker 1: But the line of scrimmage release packages, that portion of
Speaker 1: their drills is appointment viewing for a football dorc. And
Speaker 1: if you know this podcast by now, that is me,
Speaker 1: especially with ten and seventeen, Tyrek and and and Jilen Waddle.
Speaker 1: I mean West has that unit West Welker bouncing around,
Speaker 1: running from drill to drill. And in fact, when they
Speaker 1: went from indoors to outside, I saw West kind of
Speaker 1: doing that hop skip and throwing his arms up to
Speaker 1: pump up the crowd that wasn't there by the way,
Speaker 1: like he was coming out of the tunnel back in uniform.
Speaker 1: You just don't manufacture that kind of passion. I think
Speaker 1: it rubs off on the rest of the room and
Speaker 1: the way they work now back to practice, Tyreek deploys
Speaker 1: that same release game that we saw in the individual
Speaker 1: portion during the team portion on a play from the
Speaker 1: plus forty yard line forty yard by going in and
Speaker 1: to a has a shotgun snap and loft this thing
Speaker 1: downfield immediately. There's a video of it on social go
Speaker 1: check it out. And when he threw the thing, Tyrek
Speaker 1: is barely ten yards out of his break, like he's
Speaker 1: at the thirty yard line, but there was enough air
Speaker 1: under it down to the goal line so that Tyreek
Speaker 1: could run under it for a score and actually rewatching it.
Speaker 1: I think he got tackled at the one, but who
Speaker 1: cares the same idea later on another blitz, and I
Speaker 1: think this is a good example of two of showing
Speaker 1: post snap application of pre snap acumen. The rush had
Speaker 1: more guys than the protection had to account for. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's blitzing one on one right create free runners. We've
Speaker 1: seen this defense cripple opposing offensive attacks for sixty minutes
Speaker 1: with that approach. On this one, too, of fades back
Speaker 1: just enough to buy an extra tick and lobs that
Speaker 1: thing down the field. This time it's Mike gets Sicky
Speaker 1: who gets free. He has a hatch and has to
Speaker 1: contend with a defensive back for run after the catch.
Speaker 1: I didn't see the number, but I'm about sure we
Speaker 1: have a sixty yard touchdown on that place. So three
Speaker 1: big splash plays in the short period. Just really good
Speaker 1: work from two of showing the same stuff we saw
Speaker 1: Saturday with processing, getting through your reads based upon your
Speaker 1: pre snap snapshot and post snap rotation. And rather than
Speaker 1: exploiting checkdowns in this practice, you're hitting home runs with
Speaker 1: long touchdowns. That's why you love to see that first
Speaker 1: part because you can apply it to more explosive plays
Speaker 1: that you will naturally create by getting the football out,
Speaker 1: moving the chains, and giving yourself more reps. If they're
Speaker 1: gonna give you that, keep going after it. Eventually they
Speaker 1: won't give it to you, and that opens up opportunities downfield.
Speaker 1: Playing quarterback isn't just about the four or five downfield
Speaker 1: throws a game. It's every single snap playing with an
Speaker 1: attention to detail and the precision to put yourself in
Speaker 1: position that when those big opportunities arise, you can capitalize
Speaker 1: on them. That and the fact that I think to
Speaker 1: A has demonstrated an ability to help raise the floor
Speaker 1: a little bit and eliminate some of the more costly plays,
Speaker 1: the sacks and the turnovers. As a result of this
Speaker 1: quick processing, I think those two things could add up
Speaker 1: to go a long long way for two and this
Speaker 1: Dolphins team this year. Teddy Bridgewater had some good work today.
Speaker 1: There was one ball I think he'd like to have
Speaker 1: back on a deep shot to Braylon Sanders who got
Speaker 1: free and stacked the defensive back. The ball was just
Speaker 1: under thrown, but he was in rhythm on time and
Speaker 1: threw it accurately. Today there was some tough sledding for
Speaker 1: the running backs, just not a lot of room to
Speaker 1: operate with. Chase Edmonds had a nice run to the
Speaker 1: second level with his patented one cut, getting north and
Speaker 1: south and explode type of move. And then Myles Gaston
Speaker 1: bounced one run outside where I thought he looked really
Speaker 1: quick out of that break. But it was a lot
Speaker 1: of stacking up and penetration for the front on the
Speaker 1: defensive side. Just some last notes here on the offense.
Speaker 1: I thought Mike get Sick he had a really good day.
Speaker 1: I thought Hunter Long had himself a really nice day,
Speaker 1: getting in and out of breaks but also holding his
Speaker 1: own and some pass pro slash run block looks. I
Speaker 1: want to take talk more about Hunter Long down the
Speaker 1: road this week. He's an interesting topic here, I think
Speaker 1: on the podcast we'll come to that, I think probably tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Braylon Sanders had some big plays. River Craigcraft caught a
Speaker 1: couple of passes, including a five yard touchdown pass from
Speaker 1: Teddy where he got all alone in the back of
Speaker 1: the end zone. And as for the guys upfront that
Speaker 1: made those stops in the running game, Wilkins had one.
Speaker 1: John Jenkins got good pushed from much of the day.
Speaker 1: Zack Seeler had one that I saw, Ray Kwon Davis
Speaker 1: had a couple of pile ups, Andrew Van Ginkle crashed
Speaker 1: that edge for a couple of plays, and then Jerome
Speaker 1: Baker fit the run really nicely today. He had one
Speaker 1: play where he was pretty much it was him or
Speaker 1: nobody to make a stop on Chase Edmonds for your
Speaker 1: potential long touchdown run. And he scrapes off of this
Speaker 1: block and squares up Chase and meets him in the
Speaker 1: gap and tags him off. So good stuff from the linebackers.
Speaker 1: And speaking of good linebacker play, Melvin Ingram was a
Speaker 1: bit of a bowl today. Man. He sets one of
Speaker 1: the hardest edges I've seen out here. He is getting
Speaker 1: the job done consistently. And then Channing Tindall also had
Speaker 1: a big stick or a would be stick in the
Speaker 1: running game. He continues to look good. I continue to
Speaker 1: be very pressed by his game. I would take that
Speaker 1: word of mine. Jalen Phillips really showed his stuff with
Speaker 1: a pair of would be sacks in this practice. The
Speaker 1: first one was an awesome bull rush where he did
Speaker 1: something similar to what Tyreek Hill did that I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 1: where he put the application of individual work into the
Speaker 1: team period. He gets initial contact and sends that punch
Speaker 1: across the offensive tackles chest and then spun back inside
Speaker 1: to get to the quarterback. He worked on that move
Speaker 1: continuously with Tyrone mackenzie in the pre practice portion, and
Speaker 1: then he's later in the practice he wins with a
Speaker 1: speed rush around the edge. He's just one of those
Speaker 1: guys that I think in a practice you maybe can't
Speaker 1: fully appreciate it, or in a preseason game where he has,
Speaker 1: you know, seven or eight snaps, but when he gets
Speaker 1: forty snaps and he can incorporate that rush. Arsenal And
Speaker 1: put together a plan for I'm gonna do this move
Speaker 1: three times. In the fourth time, I'm going to counter
Speaker 1: off of that. Keep an eye on that this year
Speaker 1: as we get into more games and more snaps for Phillips,
Speaker 1: I think that he can really show you his stuff
Speaker 1: in that arena. And I don't really have any notes
Speaker 1: on the defensive backs, but I did like watching them
Speaker 1: after practice get some extra work. Exaving Howard one of
Speaker 1: the main ones I saw working on their press and
Speaker 1: mirror technique. Him and Nick Needham were out there. I
Speaker 1: just can't wait to watch those guys compete against the
Speaker 1: Eagles tomorrow with A J. Brown DeVante Smith And speaking
Speaker 1: of that, well, actually, hang on, real quick, real real quick,
Speaker 1: let's give some punterer love. Thomas Morrist had hit about
Speaker 1: twenty puns a day from his own forty thirty five
Speaker 1: and thirty yard line, aiming for the coffin corner but
Speaker 1: also checking some balls up on the hash marks like
Speaker 1: a good golf approach shot. And I was blown away
Speaker 1: by the way he did it, because he hit every
Speaker 1: single one of them down around the five yard line
Speaker 1: just like it's It was like watching you know, I
Speaker 1: don't wally, no golf is Rory McElroy good like just
Speaker 1: putting a hundred and sixty yard approach shots right next
Speaker 1: to the pin. It was fun to watch so Eagles
Speaker 1: this week. I wanted to talk about a couple of
Speaker 1: matchups I'm looking forward to as we get into the
Speaker 1: one on ones, but also the team portion of practice.
Speaker 1: I'm also very excited to have my perch up top
Speaker 1: to watch these practic this as opposed to being on
Speaker 1: the field up in Tampa Bay. Some things I'm excited
Speaker 1: to see, I think traits that will provide a good
Speaker 1: test for our guys. Look, the whole thing is a
Speaker 1: good test, but there are some personal, uh my personal
Speaker 1: marquee matchups here. Jordan Davis in the middle, just the
Speaker 1: pure strength that he offers, how we move him and
Speaker 1: anchor him against pass rush as a pass rusher. Really
Speaker 1: curious to see that. Hassan Reddick for a guy outside
Speaker 1: his ability to convert speed to power and the secondary
Speaker 1: moves kind of like we talked with Jalen Phillips, I
Speaker 1: think are a good test with what we've been really
Speaker 1: impressed with all camp, how our guys keep their feet
Speaker 1: moving and redirect those rush moves. Excited to see Darius
Speaker 1: Slay and James Bradberry, two of the best mirror coverage
Speaker 1: cornerbacks in the league. I talked about the receivers working
Speaker 1: on the releases in the start of the notes. Here
Speaker 1: here's a really good test for you. Nakobe Dean and linebacker.
Speaker 1: I have no idea how he felt to the third round.
Speaker 1: He's having a great training camp in preseason. I'm just
Speaker 1: excited to see how we can work off of blocks
Speaker 1: on him in the second level running game. And then
Speaker 1: the other side of the ball, Davante Smith and A. J. Brown.
Speaker 1: Do you really need an explanation here? One of them
Speaker 1: is the smoothest, most detailed rout runners to ever come
Speaker 1: out for my money, and the other is a physical technician.
Speaker 1: Good blend between those guys to give us different body
Speaker 1: types and different looks. And then Dallas Godder is a
Speaker 1: good matchup for our safeties and linebackers. Just any good
Speaker 1: tight ends good for that, and he's definitely one of
Speaker 1: those guys. So those are a field looking at I
Speaker 1: would I would put Jalen Hurts in there, but it's
Speaker 1: difficult with a quarterback that you can't you know, hit,
Speaker 1: especially a running quarterback. So I'll keep him off the
Speaker 1: list here, but good work coming your way here against
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles. Let's go ahead and take our last break,
Speaker 1: and then we'll go ahead and get right into player
Speaker 1: media availability. I've got alec Ingold, Cater Caho, Melvin Ingram,
Speaker 1: and Zach Seeler. That's next here on the Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 1: We had fullback alec Ingold at the podium today after
Speaker 1: practice and he is a fun interview, a great guy
Speaker 1: to talk to. Let's go ahead and start his media
Speaker 1: off about how do you feel about getting out there
Speaker 1: for a game. We heard Mike McDaniel say that you're
Speaker 1: gonna see Alec in gold on Saturday in the game
Speaker 1: against the Eagles. And he has not played. It's the
Speaker 1: a c L injury last season. The red jersey is off,
Speaker 1: he's practicing the full go had the big catch today.
Speaker 1: Fun to talk to you. So, how are you feeling
Speaker 1: about your first time back on a game day football field? Alec,
Speaker 1: there you go, It's been a long time coming. It's um.
Speaker 1: I love playing football as a football player. You love
Speaker 1: playing football, and I've spent way too long in film
Speaker 1: rooms and practice fields, like it's time to it's time
Speaker 1: to go strap up with these guys. So I'm really excited.
Speaker 1: Earlier we heard coach McDaniel talk about the value of
Speaker 1: the fullback and alec Ingold and how not only they
Speaker 1: can just help the offense from their own position, but
Speaker 1: how it helps the rest of the guys. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and get alec Ingold to take on the running
Speaker 1: game here in Miami. I mean, I think it's all
Speaker 1: about the details, and I think we got a lot
Speaker 1: of guys that are detail oriented, a lot of talent,
Speaker 1: a lot of characters. So it's just staying on schedule,
Speaker 1: is staying on all these installs and not taking anything lightly.
Speaker 1: So every detail, every place we have on practice field,
Speaker 1: you have to have all of the intent in the
Speaker 1: world to make it better, make it go, and then
Speaker 1: we'll it's time to translate onto the game field. It's
Speaker 1: really exciting. And continued regarding that McDaniel quote, Lineman, they
Speaker 1: line up there in the trenches right here, nose to nose,
Speaker 1: face to face, face mask to face mask, and they
Speaker 1: got those cages on right, so they're seeing things quick.
Speaker 1: As a fullback, I got five yards to be able
Speaker 1: to read things, to be able to see the defense.
Speaker 1: I have one of the best seats in the house,
Speaker 1: so anytime there's any late stems, any late rotation in
Speaker 1: the backfield, we can pick that up and we can adjust.
Speaker 1: So I think that's you know, everyone's gonna take responsibility
Speaker 1: for it, but as a fullback you definitely want to
Speaker 1: help the guys in front of you and then the
Speaker 1: guy behind you too. I'm really excited to watch Alex
Speaker 1: trap it up and play a game because I think
Speaker 1: that his impact is going to be much more, much
Speaker 1: greater than I think that a lot of folks realize
Speaker 1: when it comes to this running game and really getting
Speaker 1: the taken off we had, I mean tight ends play
Speaker 1: in that position all all game on Saturday. Alec is definitely,
Speaker 1: you know, a more natural fullback to can play that
Speaker 1: position pretty well. So next we heard from Kater Caho,
Speaker 1: the undrafted rockie out of Texas and m Commerce had
Speaker 1: a big, big game on Saturday point one five yards
Speaker 1: per coverage snap, four yards on twenty uh man, my
Speaker 1: math getting tested here, twenty seven coverage snaps. I think
Speaker 1: it was in three run stops on fourteen rundowns really
Speaker 1: interesting kid. And we talked to him about the fact
Speaker 1: that Josh Boyer has such a good history of developing
Speaker 1: undrafted rookies. How important was it for you to come
Speaker 1: here knowing that Josh Boyer was a guy that you
Speaker 1: that liked you. And the question was, we know he
Speaker 1: called you about the you know, the U d F
Speaker 1: A process. Here's Cater on his relationship with Josh Boyer
Speaker 1: and him recruiting him to the Miami Dolphins. Yeah, oh no,
Speaker 1: I try to make it. I know, when you get
Speaker 1: recruited to college, you want to you want to go
Speaker 1: to like a good coach guy every relationship. When when
Speaker 1: I had when I talked with Josh, he seemed like
Speaker 1: he was just uh funny, like real, real, real to
Speaker 1: everything he was saying. And I just I read that
Speaker 1: zoom cross. That was like a big deal. First chance
Speaker 1: seeing Cater up close like that, and man, he is
Speaker 1: rocked up. That dude. Is he kind of has that
Speaker 1: like Tyreek muscle composition where he's just not only is
Speaker 1: he super fast you see out there, but every muscle
Speaker 1: in his in his body pops And that certainly looks
Speaker 1: the part getting off the bus. I didn't notice about
Speaker 1: him either. He came here from the Ivory Coast as
Speaker 1: a kid and didn't speak English. His first language language
Speaker 1: was French. And let's go ahead and hear him tell
Speaker 1: the story about how he got to the States. And
Speaker 1: this first part of this answer. I have about a
Speaker 1: million questions, but I don't know how to ask them.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and go to cater short story. My
Speaker 1: dad just won the lottery and we moved over here.
Speaker 1: He just went a bad opportunity for his kids, so
Speaker 1: we moved out here and knew it was That was
Speaker 1: proye the way hardestansition not speaking English, uh, not knowing
Speaker 1: anything about football, but I kind of use sports, uh
Speaker 1: to make friends and stuff like that. So from then on,
Speaker 1: it just kind of just starts sticking on top of
Speaker 1: each other. So blearning the language was the biggest It
Speaker 1: was the biggest barrier though. So I have to learn
Speaker 1: the language. I can start it going along pretty smoothly.
Speaker 1: Really cool story there from Cato. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: go next to Zach Seeler, another guy that kind of
Speaker 1: came from nowhere, off the radar, and uh has made
Speaker 1: a big career for himself here at the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: He was asked about how it feels to watch his
Speaker 1: teammates make plays in that preseason game. When you're done,
Speaker 1: your night is done, you're off the field, And I
Speaker 1: wanted to play it because it goes along with this
Speaker 1: message about how this team loves playing for each other.
Speaker 1: Here's Zack Seeler on the rest of the guy's performance
Speaker 1: on Saturday. It's awesome. We're excite if everybody who want
Speaker 1: to see everyone succeed here. Um, So it's it's a
Speaker 1: great feel and seeing those guys take the technique they've
Speaker 1: learned in the last few months and kind of apply
Speaker 1: it and using in games and be successful with it.
Speaker 1: One more here for Zach. He was asked about what
Speaker 1: stands out and Connor Williams game is something we've been
Speaker 1: talking about all offseason. So I want to let Za
Speaker 1: go ahead and tell you how he feels. He's very smart. Um,
Speaker 1: he's very smart. He knows he knows what to do. Um,
Speaker 1: he's savvy, and he's just he works short and sweet.
Speaker 1: They're just like it's gonna be here with this guy.
Speaker 1: Melvin Ingram was asked about facing the Eagles and practice.
Speaker 1: How do you feel the team is going to perform
Speaker 1: against the Eagles. Here's Melvin Ingram. We're gonna come out
Speaker 1: and step up to the town. That's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: We're gonna always do that, no matter who we yet,
Speaker 1: We're gonna come out and do it. We're gonna play football.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be another day, another day office thanking for
Speaker 1: the hard head. I want to go work last one
Speaker 1: here for Melvin and the day. Asked about coach McDaniel's
Speaker 1: thoughts this morning about joint practices versus games. Here's Melvin
Speaker 1: Gram and how he feels eleven year vet about just that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you get a chance, you get a chance to go
Speaker 1: and get another opponent innocent a practice style like environment
Speaker 1: where you can do move the ball, run and you
Speaker 1: can you can kind of control everything. So it's definitely
Speaker 1: always good to do do things like that. The preseason
Speaker 1: is always good to you can go out of full
Speaker 1: attack when c clais do they think, but it's always
Speaker 1: a good thing to go out of hand joint Paris
Speaker 1: and there you have it, short and sweet today, but
Speaker 1: we've got plenty of content and there for you. We'll
Speaker 1: come back tomorrow and do it all over again with
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles in town. Don't forget the notebooks up
Speaker 1: on Miami Dolphins dot com as well, so check that out,
Speaker 1: some videos on social all that fun stuff for you
Speaker 1: in the meantime, that's gonna be my time, you all.
Speaker 1: Please be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast.
Speaker 1: Leave us a rating, leave us a review. You can
Speaker 1: follow me on Twitter at Wingfield NFL. Follow the team
Speaker 1: at Miami Dolphins. Check out the fish Tank podcast and
Speaker 1: our weekly Twitter Spaces show Wednesdays at eight o'clock and
Speaker 1: the post game show after every Miami Dolphins game on
Speaker 1: five six w q AM and Country down Here in
Speaker 1: South Florida out of town on the Odyssey app. Check
Speaker 1: out the YouTube channel for media availabilities and Dolphins Today,
Speaker 1: and last but not least, Miami Dolphins dot com. Until
Speaker 1: next time finds up Caroline Daddy is going