Speaker 1: Exact. It's all booking fail, Clutch down, Miami Drun. What
Speaker 1: is up? Dolph Fans? 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 as always, each and every day, I
Speaker 1: am here to bring you your daily dose of Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins football. And on today's show, that's a rap from Chicago,
Speaker 1: at least as far as the practices are concerned. A competitive,
Speaker 1: at times chippy day produced plenty of good results in
Speaker 1: all areas. Will tell you about the wins, some of
Speaker 1: the losses, where the team sits heading into their first
Speaker 1: preseason game in two years, give you the matchup of
Speaker 1: the day, the top performers here from coach and Solomon Kinley,
Speaker 1: and give you all the practice notes from Chicago. This
Speaker 1: is the Drive Time Podcast. And before we go forward
Speaker 1: today on the Drivetime Podcast presented by Auto Nation, I
Speaker 1: wanted to go ahead and cover coaches media from today,
Speaker 1: which covered something I thought was important to get to
Speaker 1: today because of the opportunity the back and forth type
Speaker 1: of practice on Wednesday provided the football team and for
Speaker 1: those that didn't hear. Wednesday's practice saw a change of
Speaker 1: course a couple of times with going outside, then back inside,
Speaker 1: and finally back outside once more. So I asked coach
Speaker 1: on Thursday morning, how valuable was that? Given the football
Speaker 1: to me at least is essentially a contest of overcoming adversity.
Speaker 1: Let's go to coach. It was great for us. We
Speaker 1: get lightning in a game, we gotta go in, we
Speaker 1: gotta wait until passes and then come back out. So
Speaker 1: another report that, but for us as a team, as coaches,
Speaker 1: how we would handle that. We came in here, we
Speaker 1: huddled up. Hey, we're gonna do this when we go
Speaker 1: back out another delay. Hey we're gonna we gotta wait
Speaker 1: a little bit. We gotta stretch them this long. We
Speaker 1: gotta stretch them a little longer. We gotta do some individuals.
Speaker 1: And then I thought we went out and had good energy,
Speaker 1: good juice, and and uh, you know, finished practice out.
Speaker 1: So I think it's a good rep for us. I mean,
Speaker 1: you guys all know in South Florida there is sometimes delays,
Speaker 1: and we gotta be you have to be ready to adjust,
Speaker 1: be flexible, and you know, still perform opener against the
Speaker 1: tendency tightens. The longest game in National Football League history
Speaker 1: last year, Week two against the Buffalo Bills. A lightning
Speaker 1: delay as well our thunder delay in that game as well.
Speaker 1: I can't remember either one thunder, lightning. It's all the
Speaker 1: same to me. But it wasn't just the adversity they
Speaker 1: dealt with. It was working to make corrections, to get
Speaker 1: the film dissected, get it corrected, and go out there
Speaker 1: and apply those lessons on the practice field. And for
Speaker 1: this question at the press conference, coach was asked specifically
Speaker 1: about how the defensive line performed, but it gave him
Speaker 1: an opportunity to talk about going from day one to
Speaker 1: day two and making the corrections overnight and just kind
Speaker 1: of the process of training camp where you put the
Speaker 1: film on, take a look at things, make corrections, and
Speaker 1: try to get better the next day. Here's coach. I mean,
Speaker 1: I thought they you know, did some good things. You know,
Speaker 1: I think you in this type of environment, it always
Speaker 1: comes down to fundamentals and techniques um and some instances
Speaker 1: they were good, some instances they weren't good, and the
Speaker 1: route the results normally, you know, play out as as
Speaker 1: you think they would when they're good. And conversely when
Speaker 1: they're not good. So, um, you know, we made a
Speaker 1: lot of corrections yesterday. Um, hopefully we'll have another good
Speaker 1: day today, you know. And then again it's good to uh,
Speaker 1: you know, see a different opponent, different schemes, different skill
Speaker 1: sets from the receivers, from the alignment, from the tight ends,
Speaker 1: and uh, it's good for us. I mean we need that.
Speaker 1: I mean that's what it is in this league is
Speaker 1: different every week. And you heard coach there say hopefully
Speaker 1: we have another good day. So if coach thinks there
Speaker 1: was a good day of practice, I tend to agree
Speaker 1: with him. So he also updated us there that there
Speaker 1: would be no Davante Parker, Albert Wilson, or will Fuller.
Speaker 1: Leam Eichenberg was also out. He was dressed and warmed up,
Speaker 1: but he did not participate in anything beyond stretching and
Speaker 1: warming up and going through some of the individual stuff
Speaker 1: in the beginning of practice. Coach told us he would
Speaker 1: be held out after he was nicked up and Wednesday's
Speaker 1: practice against the Chicago Bears, and he also touched on
Speaker 1: the ramp up of players coming back from those injuries.
Speaker 1: Regarding Jalen Phillips, for instance, he said that they were
Speaker 1: not going to take a guy up to seventy snaps
Speaker 1: on his first day back, So it's about working Phillips
Speaker 1: back in or a guy like Mike Gasicki, for instance,
Speaker 1: who just returned back from the COVID list. A different,
Speaker 1: different idea than injuries, but getting a guy to get
Speaker 1: his legs back under him. And we saw plenty of
Speaker 1: that today with Mike Gasicki. More on that later, and
Speaker 1: Vince Biegel did not practice today, neither did Brandon Jones
Speaker 1: or Derval Kirez Netto. Coach also praised the attention to
Speaker 1: detail of safety Javon Holland and what he's shown. A
Speaker 1: smart kid who drills the technique and fundamentals as coach
Speaker 1: loves to go back to, but also wants to let
Speaker 1: us know it, it's not just about the four or
Speaker 1: five plays that everybody sees that goes into the stat sheet.
Speaker 1: He's played Javon five hundred snaps give or takes so
Speaker 1: far in camp so far and the four or five
Speaker 1: plays good or bad, Because we'll come back to that
Speaker 1: layer in the podcast, good or bad are not the
Speaker 1: ultimate deciding factor of what that player ultimately is. He
Speaker 1: talked about it last year with Xavian Howard or Manuel Ogba.
Speaker 1: How it's not about the nine sacks or the ten picks.
Speaker 1: It's about the one thousand snaps a starter at cornerback
Speaker 1: place or the seven eight hundred snaps a defensive end
Speaker 1: will play. And he's mentioned that a lot over the
Speaker 1: last two seasons, and I'm glad that he does because well,
Speaker 1: I hope he sinks in that it sinks in rather
Speaker 1: because he's absolutely right, and for whatever reason, I don't
Speaker 1: always see it sinking in across all platforms. Finally, these
Speaker 1: joint practices are always going to inherently come with a
Speaker 1: bit of chippiness, and that's the product of competition. Right. So, yesterday,
Speaker 1: when there was a very minimal skirmish will call it
Speaker 1: between Alan Hearns and Tease Tabor after a hit in
Speaker 1: the defensive secondary, Flow got out there to help break
Speaker 1: things up, and he jokingly said at his press conference
Speaker 1: today that he was playing the role of bouncer on
Speaker 1: that play and to finish up my nose before practice here.
Speaker 1: The last audio I was going to deploy for you
Speaker 1: guys was Flow talking about seeing different schemes, employers and
Speaker 1: different types of pass rush moves, but he covered that
Speaker 1: in the previous answer I played. I didn't think of
Speaker 1: that before the show, but he talked about seeing different moves.
Speaker 1: I thought that was very valuable, like for instance, and
Speaker 1: the one on one drills on the offensive line where
Speaker 1: the Bears guys would throw something out a guy and
Speaker 1: they would beat them and then they'd come back and
Speaker 1: have to adjust and show progression against the move or
Speaker 1: the possible counter to that move. I just think these
Speaker 1: practices are so valuable. We get to do it again
Speaker 1: next week against the Atlanta Falcons too, So I think
Speaker 1: that taking advantage of not just O T S and
Speaker 1: being back on the field. You heard coach talk about
Speaker 1: five hundred snaps for Javon holland he'll see, you know,
Speaker 1: at least five hundred more practice snaps going forward, as
Speaker 1: well as some practice, some game reps in preseason games
Speaker 1: and the joint practices in addition to the training camp
Speaker 1: and the O T A s. To go against the
Speaker 1: Falcons two days, the bear As two days, and to
Speaker 1: have those three games, I think when you put that
Speaker 1: together with a coaching staff that harps these things, the fundamentals,
Speaker 1: the techniques, the things that take no talent, but also
Speaker 1: ultimately drive success of a football team. And I think
Speaker 1: those are the types of things that have allowed the
Speaker 1: Dolphins to play above their head as far as what
Speaker 1: the projection was the last couple of years. Right back
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, the projections did not say five wins
Speaker 1: for that football team. And I no coach won't say
Speaker 1: the five was good enough, but that was not what
Speaker 1: was expected of that team last year. I believe for
Speaker 1: most accounts it was between seven and eight wins for
Speaker 1: that club. They go out and win ten games last year.
Speaker 1: So I think that's the reason why this team's insistent
Speaker 1: on the fundamentals, the technique, execution of those things. I
Speaker 1: think that's why they're capable of winning more games than
Speaker 1: people typically think they will as far as the pub
Speaker 1: public goes, the national media goes, whatever it might be.
Speaker 1: And I think that the addition of those things we
Speaker 1: didn't have last year in a off season shortened by
Speaker 1: a global pandemic, I think that's going to play in
Speaker 1: the Dolphins advantage this year and going forward. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and jump right in. Today. I was
Speaker 1: right at the fifty yard line on the far field
Speaker 1: where the Dolphins offense was working defense on the far
Speaker 1: field on the opposite side of the practice facility. Yesterday
Speaker 1: I was in the end zone, so some good vantage
Speaker 1: points scattered about the gorgeous facilities out here at Lake Forest.
Speaker 1: In fact, one of my favorite parts of the day
Speaker 1: was a Dolphins fan and his son coming up next
Speaker 1: to me looking out over the back of the bleachers
Speaker 1: into that forestry area. I talked about with the train
Speaker 1: tracks on the railroad and something or he said something
Speaker 1: to himself kind of an earshot of me, but also
Speaker 1: talking to himself look at this romantic setting, and I
Speaker 1: was like, hey, he's talking about me. So I great
Speaker 1: to meet a fan of the team and the podcast
Speaker 1: and your son as well, Tyler. Great to meet you
Speaker 1: guys before practice there. On that note, as a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, I saw so many awkward jerseys the last
Speaker 1: couple of days, and not just among the few Dolphins
Speaker 1: contingencies or families I saw there in attendance. There were
Speaker 1: so many Bears families where there was one kid in
Speaker 1: the group and it was like little Travis back when
Speaker 1: he was twelve years old, rocking the number one to
Speaker 1: a tongue by lower jersey me with number thirteen Damn
Speaker 1: Marino Jersey. Love love seeing that. And then finally I
Speaker 1: met a great family from the area here in Chicago,
Speaker 1: and it was a father, daughter and the grandparents, and
Speaker 1: the little girl was just the most adorable thing I
Speaker 1: had ever seen in my life, besides my little girl,
Speaker 1: of course. So we got to talking about girl dad
Speaker 1: life and just seeing the grandfather's face light up every
Speaker 1: time she did something right in the fields. Man made
Speaker 1: me miss the hell out of little Caroline days coming
Speaker 1: home in three days a little girl hang tight. All right,
Speaker 1: Enough with the onion chopping, let's talk some football. I
Speaker 1: want to start today off with the backs and offensive line,
Speaker 1: because the run game got it going today. In fact,
Speaker 1: the offensive line as a whole had a terrific day.
Speaker 1: In my eyes, they were back to back periods one
Speaker 1: from the thirty or thirty five I always forget. Typically
Speaker 1: the eleven on eleven field stuff is run anywhere between
Speaker 1: the minus thirty and forty yard line, And when you
Speaker 1: hear me say minus or plus minus means you're on
Speaker 1: your own out of the field. Plus means you're on
Speaker 1: the opposite side of the field going into the end zone.
Speaker 1: So just keep that in mind. For future reference as
Speaker 1: far as verbiage goes, But the Dolphins opened up gap
Speaker 1: after gap in that first period and then could not
Speaker 1: be held out of the end zone except on a
Speaker 1: couple of occasions in that red zone period. First the
Speaker 1: run game, and let's you know what, let's go back
Speaker 1: to the running backs. First, I was watching them in
Speaker 1: the past protection drills, and the appreciation I have for
Speaker 1: Miles Gascon grows every single time I have fixed my
Speaker 1: eyes in his direction. First, I just love what he's
Speaker 1: all about. He communicates the level of professionalism that he
Speaker 1: presents on the football field. He does that in his
Speaker 1: press conferences. You get a better field for how he
Speaker 1: works and how his mind works when he talks to us.
Speaker 1: And then just the workman like mentality he has on
Speaker 1: the football field. They were going through pass protection reps
Speaker 1: and let me go ahead and just set the scene
Speaker 1: for you here real quick. So the same pads I
Speaker 1: talked about the offensive line using yesterday. The back gets
Speaker 1: into a pass set and one of his teammates, a
Speaker 1: fellow running back, grab that pad and rush in and
Speaker 1: the back has to prevent that momentum from continuing. How
Speaker 1: do you do this? Well? It starts with the base, right,
Speaker 1: That's all of sports, the base, the footwork. That's where
Speaker 1: everything starts, whether it's a baseball swing, a golf swing,
Speaker 1: in basketball, everything starts with the base. And Miles gets
Speaker 1: into the crouch, steps up with the hands and feet
Speaker 1: at the same time. That's so important. Don't lunge and
Speaker 1: then throw the hands, because then you lose your power
Speaker 1: from the base. But he throws it all together at
Speaker 1: the same time, like I talked about yesterday with Derve Ball,
Speaker 1: Kiras netto and fires an upward and explodes up through
Speaker 1: the block into the pad to square that thing up perfectly.
Speaker 1: And then he carried this over into the team periods
Speaker 1: of practice. He checks all the parts of a three
Speaker 1: down back. And I think it's pretty clear that his
Speaker 1: experience and his skill set and what he is to
Speaker 1: this football team fits anything you want to do, and
Speaker 1: you cannot measure the value that he presents because of that.
Speaker 1: He had some nifty runs today also to take advantage
Speaker 1: of those big lanes created by the offensive line. And
Speaker 1: we can't know this without going inside the mind of
Speaker 1: Myles obvious sleep, but it looked to me like he
Speaker 1: was setting up some of those blocks to really help
Speaker 1: his guys get in the right position to create space.
Speaker 1: I mean, sometimes the running back can be just as
Speaker 1: responsible for a good blocks alignment because he puts you
Speaker 1: in the space where he gets behind you and your man,
Speaker 1: and that makes it easier to block right because you're
Speaker 1: squared up. And once again he caught a bunch of passes,
Speaker 1: and he does it on a variety of routes. You
Speaker 1: go back to his dub career, he started, he just
Speaker 1: started good there and got better every single year. It
Speaker 1: took until the end of his rookie season here to
Speaker 1: really get cranking. That Bengals game. He had some production
Speaker 1: the Giants game, I think too. Maybe then he enjoys
Speaker 1: what is by all accounts a breakout year and year
Speaker 1: two and I think it would have gotten recognition as
Speaker 1: such if he had played all sixteen games. And I
Speaker 1: think he looks a step faster this year. So who
Speaker 1: knows what will happen in year three. From Miles Gascon,
Speaker 1: I'm very excited about his prospects and it was a
Speaker 1: day for the Backs in general. Savon Akhmed continues to
Speaker 1: show that speed as there aren't many guys that can
Speaker 1: win the foot race to the corner against him. He
Speaker 1: just super fast. Then he is showing real strides as
Speaker 1: a past receiver, catching balls over the middle, out wide,
Speaker 1: whatever you want him to do in the passing game,
Speaker 1: he's contributing that way as well. Jared Oakes, speaking of
Speaker 1: the pass Pro drill, you could hear the bag popping
Speaker 1: every time he took a rep. He also showed some
Speaker 1: more strong runs and tight quarters today. He always pushes
Speaker 1: the pile forward. Speaking of pushing the pile forward, the
Speaker 1: back of the day was Malcolm Brown, and what a
Speaker 1: welcome sight to see him have sort of a breakthrough
Speaker 1: performance of sorts. I don't know how many touchdowns he
Speaker 1: scored today, but it was a lot. At one point
Speaker 1: he broke out the corner McGregor walk because he powered
Speaker 1: through a stacked up pile of bodies into the end zone.
Speaker 1: The reff come running in, the rest come running in
Speaker 1: with their hands up over their heads, and he breaks
Speaker 1: up the McGregor walk, and he deserved it because it
Speaker 1: was probably not even joking. Guys like his fifth or
Speaker 1: six touchdown on the day, and most of them came
Speaker 1: from the goal line period obviously, but he also scored
Speaker 1: two runs in the red zone one a fifteen yard
Speaker 1: run untouched and another run from the ten yard line
Speaker 1: into the end zone through a couple of arm tackles.
Speaker 1: Both those lanes were cleared in behind Solomon Kinley, who
Speaker 1: stepped in for Liam Eichenberg who missed practice today and
Speaker 1: had what I thought Oloman his best day of camp
Speaker 1: so far. He had a media session with us after
Speaker 1: practice and touched on looking from Malcolm Brown his position
Speaker 1: on the team. But I thought the best part of
Speaker 1: his media which is always a treat for us, was
Speaker 1: when he was asked about what he's looking forward to
Speaker 1: most about his first preseason game of his career, and
Speaker 1: he said it's been so long since they've played a
Speaker 1: game of any kind that he's excited to be able
Speaker 1: to be on TV so his mama can watch him play.
Speaker 1: Perfect answer, Solomon. He was also asked about the message
Speaker 1: to a tongue of Byloa has given the line this
Speaker 1: camp and this offseason, and he said, Toua just tells
Speaker 1: us that he loves us, that we're family and he
Speaker 1: loves us. That's all we need. Kind of a Kumbaya moment.
Speaker 1: They're very cool from Solomon Kindley and to wrap up
Speaker 1: his media before we get back to the football. I
Speaker 1: asked him about the run game and how much fun
Speaker 1: it was to have success in that area today, and
Speaker 1: he said, what we all know, every lineman loves to
Speaker 1: run the football. So I followed up and asked him
Speaker 1: what contributed to the success of the running game today.
Speaker 1: Here's Solomon, no doubt office. We love running football. So yeah,
Speaker 1: was that was good? Oh? You know, dis great greet anger,
Speaker 1: you know, given effort, that's all offensive. I'm in great
Speaker 1: anger and effort. That's definitely what Solomon excels in. He
Speaker 1: was clearing some past that that way and just blowing
Speaker 1: guys off the football. And if we can get those
Speaker 1: big dudes up front leaning on people like they did
Speaker 1: today with all the speed on the outside, the proficient
Speaker 1: nature of two in the quick game, with the ball handling,
Speaker 1: the footwork, the rpo action, all of that, that can
Speaker 1: be a perfect compliment to what this offense wants to be.
Speaker 1: Big day from Solomon Kinley. I thought Jackson, Deeter, Hunt,
Speaker 1: and Davis all had good days. To the entire offensive
Speaker 1: line was good today. It was just one of those days.
Speaker 1: It's just one of those days for the offensive line.
Speaker 1: The protection was mostly good. Now, in the first period,
Speaker 1: the passing offense was a little bit stuck in neutral
Speaker 1: and some pressure was the main culprit of that. But
Speaker 1: after those big runs, they carried the work over into
Speaker 1: the red zone and started creating some nice pockets. I
Speaker 1: thought Jackson and Hunt were big winners on Day two.
Speaker 1: In the two days really actually, I should say, and
Speaker 1: Davis had more good match ups with Khalil Mack. Now,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna win all those matchups because well he's
Speaker 1: Khalil Mack. But we also saw him get some surge
Speaker 1: in the running game as well. He and Adam Shaheen
Speaker 1: and Drham Smith and had some good blocks off the edge.
Speaker 1: But he also with Rob Hunt had some awesome combo blocks.
Speaker 1: And Hunt continues to get to that second level with
Speaker 1: a lot of success. And then Deeter, he was in
Speaker 1: there on a few of those big runs we talked about.
Speaker 1: He helped push some piles in short yardage, showing that
Speaker 1: power I talked about in the podcast. Again really encouraging
Speaker 1: from the group up front and among the second group
Speaker 1: of offensive lineman. I thought Pinky had a really good
Speaker 1: day and this was a carryover from what I thought
Speaker 1: was a good camp last year, and then good work
Speaker 1: as the extra offensive lineman into the game and heavy
Speaker 1: personnel last season, and then some good work when he
Speaker 1: was pressed into duty at tackle as well after injuries.
Speaker 1: Also Matt Scura and Cameron Tom Tom was getting some
Speaker 1: good push on some of those jokes touchdown runs and
Speaker 1: Secura Sakura Matt Scura not Tom. Segura, one of my
Speaker 1: favorite comics, had one rep that I particularly loved where
Speaker 1: he had to get outside and seal a man to
Speaker 1: open a gap on a reach can. Showed some of
Speaker 1: the athletic ability to get out in space, turn it,
Speaker 1: seal that thing off and he did it, so that
Speaker 1: was good to see. And then Robert Jones also got
Speaker 1: some run game surge. I want to go ahead and
Speaker 1: make sure to mention that because I put it in
Speaker 1: my notes. Didn't have anything else than him, but he
Speaker 1: was getting some push in the running game. How about
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks? Thought this was probably Jacoby Brissette's best day
Speaker 1: of training camp. He launched one deep to Kai Loxley,
Speaker 1: who made a great diving catch on the one on ones,
Speaker 1: but he was decisive, put the ball on target and
Speaker 1: moved the offense a bunch, including his own touchdown barrage
Speaker 1: in the red zone. Work hit a nice little touchdown
Speaker 1: flip to Chris Myrick as he moved outside and and
Speaker 1: Mirack was kind of chasing him to the pylon. He
Speaker 1: flips that thing to myrack for a touchdown. And I
Speaker 1: have no idea how many balls today or in camp
Speaker 1: he's completed to Isaiah Ford, but it's a ton. Ford
Speaker 1: made a big play on a fifty fifty ball and
Speaker 1: one on ones and caught a couple of quick hitters too.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins operation on those plays with the quarterback catches
Speaker 1: the snap, rocks and throws, just quick operation at sharp
Speaker 1: bang bang bang between two and Brissette. And finally he
Speaker 1: had one of the throws of the day where he
Speaker 1: found Robert Foster for a tough contest and catch. But
Speaker 1: Jacoby stood in the pocket with good protection, but coverage
Speaker 1: made things get tight and dicey at the end, and
Speaker 1: he stood in there in the face of pressure and
Speaker 1: a slowly collapsing pocket and delivered a strike. Now where
Speaker 1: the Bears got him was seven on seven. That was
Speaker 1: a tough period for the Dolphins second team offense, but
Speaker 1: they would pick it back up in the next period
Speaker 1: as for twa. I just want to speak to the
Speaker 1: body of work for him this camp, because I know
Speaker 1: you guys are inundated with tweets and reports and all
Speaker 1: this stuff, not just from me but everybody on the
Speaker 1: beat every single day, every single pass. It can be exhausting,
Speaker 1: but the body of work and you consider all the
Speaker 1: things together. I covered it in the Five Takeaways podcast
Speaker 1: back on Monday. But the mechanics I was watching him
Speaker 1: today in Indies, the individual drills where the quarterbacks kind
Speaker 1: of dummy the mesh point and ride the back on
Speaker 1: the zone read r P O, look, pull that thing out,
Speaker 1: zip and fire, and that the way he can get
Speaker 1: into the threatening positions. That's to me where he's special. Now,
Speaker 1: there are other areas accuracy, twitch, the top of the drop,
Speaker 1: but all of this coincides with that skill set. The
Speaker 1: skills had to go from like let's use a basketball
Speaker 1: analogy here, you're dribbling at the point at the top
Speaker 1: of the circle, standing straight up, slowly bouncing the ball.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're looking to the coach on the sideline. You're
Speaker 1: not in a position to threaten anybody. The defender is
Speaker 1: not concerned about the shot. A dribble drive or even
Speaker 1: a pass. You're in this lacks of daisical posture and stands,
Speaker 1: and not that to Ah to say he's ever lack
Speaker 1: of daisical by any stretch. But when he's still getting
Speaker 1: to the back foot of his drop, when he's riding
Speaker 1: the mesh point, when he's on the move and not
Speaker 1: in position to throw the ball because he's on a
Speaker 1: boot or a roll, the speed from which he gets
Speaker 1: from that position to where he's not in position to
Speaker 1: throw the football to getting it out is really quite
Speaker 1: remarkable to me. In fact, the Bears family I referenced
Speaker 1: earlier in the podcast, one of my favorite parts of
Speaker 1: the entire trip. Everybody in this family is in Bears jerseys.
Speaker 1: And the dad says, wow, look at Justin Fields's release.
Speaker 1: It's really good and this is a paradetical for me.
Speaker 1: Justin Fields, man, he's going to be a player. He
Speaker 1: went off in the final red zone period today running
Speaker 1: with the Bears. Two's but the Sun, who was in
Speaker 1: a Khalil mac jors He says, yeah, but did you
Speaker 1: see Tah, And I'm thinking to myself, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I did see Tah. That's right back to it. I
Speaker 1: mentioned the opening team period that didn't go well. Then
Speaker 1: there was a seven on seven with two straight pass
Speaker 1: breakups after a couple of completions to Hollands and Gaskin.
Speaker 1: Hollands kind a ton of balls this week, including one
Speaker 1: of my favorite balls of the day where the line
Speaker 1: provides a good wall of protection for Tua, but the
Speaker 1: coverage was good, so to a scans, he climbs and
Speaker 1: as he found a spot in the front of the
Speaker 1: pocket right before he kind of got into the mess
Speaker 1: of it all, gets the ball out wide, rips it
Speaker 1: to the front, Pilon across the field and Mac catches it,
Speaker 1: toe taps it. Nice drive and accuracy to be able
Speaker 1: to put that ball on the spot when you're kind
Speaker 1: of working across all the chaos, and then the fantastic
Speaker 1: concentration by Mac get the toes down as well. The
Speaker 1: other moments that went away from Tah and the offense.
Speaker 1: There was a failed exchange with he and Miles and
Speaker 1: red zone work, so that was the two lost fumbles
Speaker 1: in two days. Not great. And then an interception that
Speaker 1: Jachem Grant had a chance to squeeze on the back
Speaker 1: line of the ends own but it was bobbled up
Speaker 1: into the air, and Jalen Johnson grabbed it and picked
Speaker 1: it off and took it back the other way. But
Speaker 1: that was pretty much it for the negatives I had
Speaker 1: in the passing game. From two of the deep ball,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you read about there was a defender over
Speaker 1: the top and Jachim got immediate separation in the middle
Speaker 1: of the field, but he had some space, like plenty
Speaker 1: of space in the middle of the field and two
Speaker 1: of throws it short and it was under thrown for sure,
Speaker 1: but also smart to not run him into the coverage
Speaker 1: up top into a collision. But Jachim just couldn't quite
Speaker 1: throttle that thing down and he wound up fighting fighting
Speaker 1: the football going to the ground. In the ground jarred
Speaker 1: it free. So I'm not going to call it a
Speaker 1: horrible throw because it was ultimately dropped, but the ball
Speaker 1: could have been located better, So just better from both
Speaker 1: guys could have been a better result in the play.
Speaker 1: And I want to implore you to understand this that
Speaker 1: Jachim has made so many good plays this camp, and
Speaker 1: that includes today, and you go back to what coach
Speaker 1: says about four or five plays that stand out, you'll
Speaker 1: see the two bad ones and those carry so much weight.
Speaker 1: I understand why they do. But he racked up a
Speaker 1: bunch of impressive plays today too, and to have got
Speaker 1: flushed from the pocket on one throw o where he
Speaker 1: had to throw across his body and it was pretty
Speaker 1: right on target from an awkward angle and Jachim catches
Speaker 1: it right at the five yard line. There's a dB
Speaker 1: in front of him. The sideline two was right and
Speaker 1: he puts on this ridiculous juke move where you can
Speaker 1: only go left because the sidelines right to your right,
Speaker 1: and he makes the guy missed entirely for the touchdown.
Speaker 1: But back to the quarterback, I thought the way to
Speaker 1: a manage both clean and messy pockets today was nice.
Speaker 1: He talked yesterday about simulating that pocket presence and he
Speaker 1: really has a feel for it. How to get to
Speaker 1: those spots where he can wind up and drive the
Speaker 1: ball down the field, or went to get it out
Speaker 1: quickly for his backs to make a play. He had
Speaker 1: a quick pot pass to Mike Gasicki, who reached out
Speaker 1: and stabbed it one handed on a quick in breaking
Speaker 1: route and I don't think anybody was gonna catch him.
Speaker 1: I put it in the books at seventy yard touchdown
Speaker 1: run right down the middle because he caught that thing.
Speaker 1: The safety kind of misplayed it and he goes right
Speaker 1: past it after the failed exchange with Gaskin to have
Speaker 1: found Foster for a touchdown, so a nice bounce back there.
Speaker 1: Earlier in the red zone period, he threw a strike
Speaker 1: to Mike Gassicki and it looks like it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a twenty yard touchdown right over the top up of
Speaker 1: the dB on a ball to the corner, but the
Speaker 1: dB puts his hands between Mikes and separates the hands
Speaker 1: for the past breakup. People celebrated a touchdown and embarrass
Speaker 1: fans celebrated afterwards because it was ruled incomplete. I thought
Speaker 1: one of the best throws of the day was a
Speaker 1: strike to Shaheen under pressure. The dB is right on
Speaker 1: the back hip the back of Adam Sheheen on a
Speaker 1: ball right to the goal post. But once again he's
Speaker 1: made this throw a few times this week. It was
Speaker 1: perfectly located right before the goal post, right before the
Speaker 1: end line. Touchdown US and os from the crowd from
Speaker 1: fifteen yards out on that score, so the ball continues
Speaker 1: to get spread around. Thought Shaheen and Ghiziki had big
Speaker 1: days at the tight end position and the way they
Speaker 1: compliment each other. I thought that showed out there today
Speaker 1: a lot. And some of these bigger body receivers are
Speaker 1: catching a ton of touchdowns in the red zone and
Speaker 1: goal line works, so hopefully that continues in addition to
Speaker 1: the speed merchants you have both at the running back
Speaker 1: position and at the wide receiver spot. Onto the defense
Speaker 1: didn't watch them as closely today as the offense, but
Speaker 1: I started off watching one on one simultaneously with that
Speaker 1: period with our receivers going against their dbs and their
Speaker 1: receivers going against r dbs, and man, it was all
Speaker 1: awkwa in that period. Xaviing Howard runs a rep and
Speaker 1: the quarterback doesn't even throw the football like, no separation,
Speaker 1: Just call it good call to rep, come back to
Speaker 1: the line, let's do it over again. I didn't watch
Speaker 1: a ton of X to day because you know what
Speaker 1: you're getting with him, but the times I did, and
Speaker 1: this was consistent, and the same with Byron Jones. He
Speaker 1: had a tremendous rep on Dad's knew somewhere the rookie
Speaker 1: just never left Byron's side. Back to X real quick.
Speaker 1: There was a deep ball that had where X was
Speaker 1: under it and completely ran the route for the receiver
Speaker 1: like it looked like twenty five and White was the
Speaker 1: receiver and the ball comes down looking like a surefire interception,
Speaker 1: but the receiver, to his credit, mugs X and gets
Speaker 1: flagged for offensive past interference. I thought Noah Ignogamy had
Speaker 1: a terrific day today. He was playing physical and aggressive
Speaker 1: and challenging everything, and that's a nice trade for him
Speaker 1: to pair with the athletic ability we know he has.
Speaker 1: And there was a rep in the one on one
Speaker 1: period where the receiver tried a secondary move after Noah
Speaker 1: was plastered to him and he slipped trying to make
Speaker 1: that move and the ball sales high. Just say, that's
Speaker 1: the kind of you love from a cornerback. The receiver
Speaker 1: goes down, he's right there on top of it. Good rep.
Speaker 1: He had another one in the team period in the
Speaker 1: red zone up against justin Fields where he play action
Speaker 1: boot the other way. I didn't see the receiver on
Speaker 1: the play, but Noah had to stay disciplined to the
Speaker 1: run fake and then kind of peel back to the
Speaker 1: passing game and he stayed stuck to his man and
Speaker 1: the pocket moved so there was like four or five
Speaker 1: seconds and he ran that route with him the whole
Speaker 1: way to the back pile onto the corner and the
Speaker 1: ball flew overhead nowhere to go with it. He was
Speaker 1: dapped up by the coaching staff afterwards for that one.
Speaker 1: Nick Needum took his reps and the one on one
Speaker 1: period as well, shutting things down. Also had a nice
Speaker 1: pass break up and the team period, and at one
Speaker 1: point I watched an offensive rep and then peecked my
Speaker 1: eyes up to the defensive field with the binoculars. I
Speaker 1: see the ball go over the middle of the field
Speaker 1: and there's twenty two to drive on it for a
Speaker 1: pass breakup in red zone, similar but not exactly to
Speaker 1: his pick yesterday where he drives on a pass over
Speaker 1: the middle of the field and Andy Dalton throws it
Speaker 1: right to that spot, gets hands on it. I thought
Speaker 1: maybe he was thinking about going for a hundred yards
Speaker 1: back the other way because he normally catches that pass.
Speaker 1: Didn't get this one, but his strong camp continued today.
Speaker 1: Justin Coleman had some more good today as well. He
Speaker 1: talked after a practice about his aggressive style, saying he
Speaker 1: likes to get his hands on guys and he thinks
Speaker 1: that suits his game well inside in the slot, and
Speaker 1: that was nice to hear because every day I know
Speaker 1: how aggressive but also savvy he is with the hands
Speaker 1: and the way he reroutes guys. Clayton Federlum had a
Speaker 1: nice PBu in the one on one period today, went
Speaker 1: way up high to get that. And speaking of one
Speaker 1: on ones, watching Jerome Baker and Duke Riley work in
Speaker 1: these roles as impressive man like if the receivers on
Speaker 1: DB's favors the offense, and the same as doubly true
Speaker 1: of running backs on linebackers, but neither was making it
Speaker 1: look that way. Jerome Baker's entire day was that way.
Speaker 1: He was plugging up the run game, closing on short passes,
Speaker 1: carrying routes downfield, passing off, applying pressure up the middle,
Speaker 1: off the edge. He was everywhere. Then with Duke, the
Speaker 1: loose hips and fluid movement skills were fun to watch
Speaker 1: in the one on one periods. He then carried that
Speaker 1: over into the team period when he skied for a
Speaker 1: pass breakup playing underneath his man, the ball tipped up
Speaker 1: and Jamal Perry almost pulled it down. And he had
Speaker 1: a good day in his own right. But Riley speed
Speaker 1: pops on tape daily, on practice field daily. Let's get
Speaker 1: back to the front because stop me if you've heard
Speaker 1: this before. But they were absolutely dominant. I didn't see
Speaker 1: the Bears gain a single yard on the ground in
Speaker 1: the opening period. They completed one ball for twenty or
Speaker 1: so yards, but that was about it. And it started
Speaker 1: off with ray Kwon Davis. He had a rep where
Speaker 1: he carried a blocker and threw him into the back
Speaker 1: for a tackle in the backfield. That's the kind of
Speaker 1: camp he's had right there, perfect example. Christian Wilkins had
Speaker 1: a filthy pass rush move with an arm over where
Speaker 1: he just slapped the guy and ran right by him
Speaker 1: to get it. Would be sacked instantly on Andy Dalton.
Speaker 1: The first team defense put the clamps down these two days.
Speaker 1: Just about every time I look up and a run play,
Speaker 1: it's stacked up in the backfield. You see number number
Speaker 1: number and the number seventy. He was almost always getting
Speaker 1: peeled off the pile. On top of being a nuisance
Speaker 1: as a pass rusher, those front four guys in the
Speaker 1: middle have been stout all camp long, and Zach Seeler
Speaker 1: mentioned him he made more plays there was a fun
Speaker 1: play where he Bernardic McKinney and Javon Holland defensive lineman,
Speaker 1: linebacker and safety came in and combined for a TfL.
Speaker 1: Andrew Van Giegel got in on the phone with the
Speaker 1: TfL of his own. He was in there immediately. He
Speaker 1: had some nice work against the run the last couple
Speaker 1: of days, and then last, but definitely not least, Emmanuel
Speaker 1: Agma had himself a trip to the Windy City. I
Speaker 1: had him with two more sacks today, a constant presence
Speaker 1: in that Bears backfield. We talked about the opportunities for
Speaker 1: guys to have good work against an underman Bears line
Speaker 1: at tackle spots with the injuries they have there, and
Speaker 1: Emmanuel took full advantage. I think he must have had
Speaker 1: four or five sacks and even more pressures in two
Speaker 1: days of practice. And with that, you know what time
Speaker 1: it is, the matchup, matchup, match up, matchup of the day.
Speaker 1: Let's take a little departure on this because I had
Speaker 1: a front row seat for those one on one periods
Speaker 1: between the Dolphins receivers and Bears defensive backs. And before
Speaker 1: I get into this, I want to make it perfectly
Speaker 1: clear that This is in fact a drill that favors
Speaker 1: the offense. As we talked about before, the more space
Speaker 1: there is to work with, whether it's three on three
Speaker 1: on one side of the field, even seven on seven
Speaker 1: the full field work, the more the offense has the
Speaker 1: opportunity to sell fakes and create separation, it benefits them.
Speaker 1: Now having said that, having said that, having said the
Speaker 1: suddenness of Jalen Waddle and Jachim Grant is never more
Speaker 1: evident than on these drills, on these periods. And you
Speaker 1: probably saw the one clip where Jalen sold the route
Speaker 1: outside and then went back upfield inside and snapped that
Speaker 1: thing off in front of Eddie Jackson, the bear safety
Speaker 1: and put him in the absolute spin cycle where he
Speaker 1: turns all the way around. That was pretty common throughout
Speaker 1: the drill and quite frankly common throughout training camp so far.
Speaker 1: On one deep route, Jalen got by the man so
Speaker 1: fast that the only option was to grab the jersey
Speaker 1: and it was like the little giants and the kid
Speaker 1: grabs on and just kind of pulls our whole thing
Speaker 1: back like the flag came out. Immediately we all saw
Speaker 1: what happened. As for the rest of Jalen's day. The
Speaker 1: story is the same. I don't I don't know what
Speaker 1: to tell you guys, Like he's catching a ton of passes,
Speaker 1: he's making guys miss, chewing up yards, scoring touchdowns. Daniel
Speaker 1: Jeremiah said, don't take victory or defeat on guys from
Speaker 1: training camp, and I won't, but he's been super impressive.
Speaker 1: He caught one ball from two it today that I
Speaker 1: thought really showed their connection in chemistry. On a deep
Speaker 1: out route where the corner tries to undercut the route
Speaker 1: but to a rove on it and it went right
Speaker 1: past the outretched arm of the defensive back who gambled.
Speaker 1: And then Jalen shows the concentration to haul that thing
Speaker 1: and hit the brakes before going out of bounds and
Speaker 1: then turns it up to make him pay for that
Speaker 1: big gamble, big camp, so far for a wattle. And
Speaker 1: then Jachem stacked the defensive back and I love the
Speaker 1: way he sold this takeoff route slash comeback where he
Speaker 1: got on top of him, stacked him and looked back
Speaker 1: like he was going to look for the deep ball
Speaker 1: over the shoulder, and the dB did the exact same thing.
Speaker 1: And once Jachim saw that slammed on the brakes, came
Speaker 1: back down the stem and created an easy five, six, seven,
Speaker 1: maybe even eight yards of separation. Jachim, these little short
Speaker 1: stunner moves he does right at the line puts guys
Speaker 1: in immediate conflict and you can see the way they
Speaker 1: panic immediately when he does this. Such a treat to
Speaker 1: watch him out there. So those two guys also, Joachim
Speaker 1: put a great block on a guy in a quick
Speaker 1: pass to wattle out in space. I love seeing that.
Speaker 1: I also wanted to add Solomon Kiley on a Chem
Speaker 1: Hicks for the matchup of the day. It was a
Speaker 1: great battle all day long when a chem matched up
Speaker 1: with a big fish, and I thought Solomon really handled
Speaker 1: his business, not just on a Chem but all day long,
Speaker 1: which takes us in to our top performers and Solomon
Speaker 1: Kiley his first good job in the running game. He
Speaker 1: talked about getting better with his hand placement and the
Speaker 1: past protection could come along as well, but in the
Speaker 1: running game, he was getting the job done. Malcolm Brown
Speaker 1: scored a billion touchdowns, had some nice nifty runs, ran
Speaker 1: through contact. Big day for him. Javon Holland, more ball production,
Speaker 1: more production against the running game. He's been everywhere. Looks
Speaker 1: sensational to a tongue of volas. I thought today was
Speaker 1: a top performer as well. With the accuracy the throws
Speaker 1: into the end zone, the work against pressure, the ability
Speaker 1: to scan the field under non darrest and make good
Speaker 1: decisions that way as well. I thought he got better today.
Speaker 1: Adam Sheheen had a big day catching balls for touchdowns
Speaker 1: along the back part of the end zone. Some good
Speaker 1: blocks as well. In the running game. Jachem Grant, even
Speaker 1: though we talked about the drops, he had a bunch
Speaker 1: of just routes where he created so much separation you
Speaker 1: have to put him in there. Noah Ignogamy very competitive
Speaker 1: day today cutting things down. I mentioned not watching Xavian
Speaker 1: Howard for a whole lot, but when I did, he
Speaker 1: was dominant. So he gets in the list today for
Speaker 1: top performers. Ray Kwon Davis just was putting pressure on
Speaker 1: the running game on the quarterback, throwing blockers in the
Speaker 1: run backs. He gets in the list. Mike Sicky scored
Speaker 1: a couple of touchdowns, had a bunch of catches as well,
Speaker 1: so he looks back to his old ways. Jerome Baker
Speaker 1: all over the field past blitz coverage, whatever you want,
Speaker 1: he was doing it. Emmanuel Agma a billion pressures and sacks,
Speaker 1: and Andrew Van Ginkl some good work in the run games.
Speaker 1: So all things told, we have a game coming up
Speaker 1: on Saturday. I thought offensive line showed great growth from
Speaker 1: Day one to Day two. Wasn't great. Day one got
Speaker 1: a lot better on day two. The interception and fumble
Speaker 1: work from the quarterbacks in exchange with the receivers and
Speaker 1: all that stuff that can get better as well. Second
Speaker 1: team defense had a rough go against justin fields in
Speaker 1: a few periods. We'll see how that kind of shakes
Speaker 1: out in the game on Saturday. But all things told,
Speaker 1: Dolphins receivers I thought looked good. Running backs looked good.
Speaker 1: Offensive line showed improvement on day two. Defensive line was dominant,
Speaker 1: and just defense in general was the name of the
Speaker 1: game really for for both clubs for large portions. But
Speaker 1: I thought Miami's offense was better in general throughout the
Speaker 1: course of the two practices. All right, that is gonna
Speaker 1: be my time for the training camp coverage practices here
Speaker 1: from Chicago. We're gonna have a game recap for you
Speaker 1: guys on Saturday night, and then we'll get right back
Speaker 1: to it next week again with the Atlanta Falcons. Probably
Speaker 1: have another mail bag podcast coming up as well, so
Speaker 1: keep an eye out for that as we continue to
Speaker 1: bridge the gap here between all these fun practices and
Speaker 1: the coverage of Miami Dolphins training Camp one. In the meantime,
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