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Speaker 1: in his football season. The Dolphins hit the field for
Speaker 1: training camp, the first practice available to the media and
Speaker 1: the first practice where the pads go on. That's right,
Speaker 1: we're doing some hitting today. We're gonna cover the action
Speaker 1: here from Coach Flores, Jerome Baker, Kyle Van Neuman, Ted Carris,
Speaker 1: all of that and more on this Monday, August sevent
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Speaker 1: join Noah Ignogamy in that backfield Jeremiah Dinson. He has
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Speaker 1: before practice gets started, we have Brian Flores, the Dolphin's
Speaker 1: head coach, and his Monday morning media availability. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and play the hits from coaches presser and up. First,
Speaker 1: of course, coach was asked what's he looking for in
Speaker 1: this first padded practice of training camp. Good communication, good execution,
Speaker 1: good fundamentals with their their at their specific position, just
Speaker 1: from a footwork a uh, you know, ball placement, accuracy,
Speaker 1: those types of things. So, um, they're still in that
Speaker 1: early stages just since a new offense execute you know,
Speaker 1: um at a at a good clip you know, early
Speaker 1: on and you hear a coach that referred to the
Speaker 1: ball placement and the footwork of those quarterbacks and how
Speaker 1: they communicate with their teammates. We heard that all last year, right,
Speaker 1: how do you guys communicate with the huddle and just
Speaker 1: really developing that huddle etiquette that coach talked about last
Speaker 1: year at length, same thing applies this year. Up next,
Speaker 1: coach was asked about the availability of rookie quarterback to
Speaker 1: ah Tongua Bloa. Well, we'll take it one day at
Speaker 1: a time. He'll be out there today, you know, along
Speaker 1: with the rest of the quarterbacks, and um, the majority
Speaker 1: of the players aren't on the team. UM, but yeah,
Speaker 1: he's been he's looked he's looked healthy and he's in
Speaker 1: uh in the O T A and the walk through
Speaker 1: type practices. This will be the first one in PAD.
Speaker 1: So he's looked healthy and we'll just you know, we
Speaker 1: we take these this we're taking this one day at
Speaker 1: a time, two as we all with with every player, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, hoping that he improves on a daily basis.
Speaker 1: But you know, like any rookie, he needs the snaps
Speaker 1: and he needs the reps too to improve and get
Speaker 1: better and give himself a chance. And then I was
Speaker 1: up next, and I wanted to ask coach about these
Speaker 1: roster moves they've made, primarily in the defensive backfill the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. And Coach talks about playing the
Speaker 1: hand you were dealt, dealing with the circumtan answers that
Speaker 1: you have in front of you, and just controlling what
Speaker 1: you can control. So I was curious to get his
Speaker 1: take if this time of year, in the strange season
Speaker 1: provide an advantage from bringing in multiple players to get
Speaker 1: a better look at Hey, coach, good morning. I wanted
Speaker 1: to ask you about something you've talked about a few
Speaker 1: times with playing the hand you've been dealt, as well
Speaker 1: as mentioning your personal activity when it comes to scouting
Speaker 1: what's available out there. My question is, does this new
Speaker 1: season with expanded rosters and practice squad provide you any
Speaker 1: sort of maybe advantage for you to get more guys
Speaker 1: in to take a look at. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it provides us an opportunity to look at more guys,
Speaker 1: I would say, if anything, you know, it's it's harder
Speaker 1: to look at uh, you know, to get workouts in.
Speaker 1: I mean there's there's protocols in place to to to
Speaker 1: do them, but um, it's not as seamless and easy
Speaker 1: as a I want to plan and get here there.
Speaker 1: There's a process that I go that that that players
Speaker 1: have to go through the workout now. So, um, you know,
Speaker 1: look we have limited time. Um so, UM, as far
Speaker 1: as you know, we have gotten some guys in and
Speaker 1: you know we'll continue to do that. Uh but quite
Speaker 1: quite honestly, Chris and Brandon and Marvin, those guys handled
Speaker 1: uh you know, the lines share those things. Obviously I
Speaker 1: play a role in that as well. But um, you know, logistically, UM,
Speaker 1: it's not easy to to to to put together workouts
Speaker 1: as it were a year ago. Um. So from that standpoint,
Speaker 1: there is a little bit more difficult. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: I think you know, up to this point, we've we've
Speaker 1: we've made some some roster moves and uh, I think
Speaker 1: we'll continue to do that. And you know, again, like
Speaker 1: you said, and I've said, you know, we're going to
Speaker 1: play the hand that we've been dealting. You know, I
Speaker 1: think we're just trying to proceed on the day to
Speaker 1: day basis as best we can given the circumstances. And
Speaker 1: if you ask me, we get a more jovial version
Speaker 1: of Coach Flores on these days where we have actual
Speaker 1: football because this dude just loves football. We learned that
Speaker 1: last year. We know about that and his character and
Speaker 1: his background, what he wants and his players. And here
Speaker 1: you're gonna hear him talk about the offensive line, the
Speaker 1: importance of getting together and building that chemistry and jelling.
Speaker 1: Listen to coach talk about some football here on padded
Speaker 1: practice Monday. Well, obviously we've got a lot of young
Speaker 1: guys in that group, um, with a couple of with
Speaker 1: some veteran players sprinkled in, you know, like Ted Carras,
Speaker 1: like Eric Flowers who just got back, like Jesse Davis.
Speaker 1: You know, Deter was here a year ago. We've got
Speaker 1: the you know, a few of the young guys as well. Um,
Speaker 1: so look, I mean it's there's a lot of chemistry
Speaker 1: that has to be built there. I think that's coming along,
Speaker 1: could be better. You know, we're working on a few
Speaker 1: different combinations. Uh. Well look at the only old line.
Speaker 1: You can't really you don't know what you have until
Speaker 1: you put the pads on. And um, you know you
Speaker 1: you're you're literally fighting pressure with pressure against another another
Speaker 1: body and working at double teams, working the combinations. Um
Speaker 1: in the run game, Uh, feeling the speed and speed
Speaker 1: rush and power rush and bull rushes, be the power
Speaker 1: and you know, converting the power feeling those things. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you don't you don't know what you're having
Speaker 1: to you. You're they're putting that that setting which starts today. Um,
Speaker 1: but you know from a walkthrough and non padded standpoint, Um,
Speaker 1: I think they're coming along. Uh but obviously these No.
Speaker 1: Fourteen padded practices. We'll tell us a lot about that group.
Speaker 1: I'm really the entire to you. It just here's good
Speaker 1: to hear Brian Flora is talking about actual football terms,
Speaker 1: offensive line technique, different pass rushes that sort of thing up. Next,
Speaker 1: coach was asked about the preparation for this team and
Speaker 1: if they are ready to head into camp right now
Speaker 1: in this abbreviated offseason. Um, I mean, Ruth, we were
Speaker 1: have no choice but to be ready. So we're going
Speaker 1: out there today. They're not ready, then there's gonna be
Speaker 1: some problems. But I think we are. I think the
Speaker 1: guys are there raring to go, they're excited. But you know,
Speaker 1: I think you put the pads on. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: the one thing I tried to stretch to them as
Speaker 1: to focus on the technique and the fundamentals, because once
Speaker 1: you put pads on, you know, the adrenaline gets going,
Speaker 1: and Uh, in some instances, guys forget about those techniques
Speaker 1: and fundamentals that we've been trying to build into them
Speaker 1: for the last how many days it's been, but you
Speaker 1: know it's called twenty days. So UM, that's kind of
Speaker 1: the focus. That's where I want them to put their focus.
Speaker 1: Let's let's focus on the technique and the fundamentals, the
Speaker 1: same techniques that we've been talking about, except we're in pads. Um,
Speaker 1: they have more protection and we're gonna let him go
Speaker 1: a little bit more today. Hearing him say they're going
Speaker 1: let the players go a little bit more today. That
Speaker 1: gets the juices flowing for sure. Up next to question
Speaker 1: about Mica Sicky and his continued growth and building off
Speaker 1: last year's success at the end of the year and
Speaker 1: bringing it in to your number three for tight end,
Speaker 1: Mike Sick, I'm just you know, my goal for Mike
Speaker 1: is to is to improve today. Um, he's looked, he's
Speaker 1: looked good, you know, in this early part of training camp.
Speaker 1: Once we put the path it's on, you know, blocking
Speaker 1: path protection, obviously getting into this route, route techniques, dealing
Speaker 1: with dbs who UM trying to work in his releases
Speaker 1: against dbs who are trying to get their hands on them. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know all those things. You know, when you haven't
Speaker 1: done them for how long has they've been? Eight mine
Speaker 1: months and you're out of that practice, you need to
Speaker 1: get back into it, you know, just jump back in
Speaker 1: and you know your where you were a year ago.
Speaker 1: That doesn't you know, that's that doesn't that doesn't happen
Speaker 1: for any of US coaches players. So we all need
Speaker 1: to to get out there and practice. Like I've said
Speaker 1: to these guys last year, was last year and nobody
Speaker 1: released worried about it. Um, let's just focus on you
Speaker 1: know right now, and uh, you know, to think that
Speaker 1: you're gonna be right where you were at the end
Speaker 1: of last year, I think that's just not the case, um,
Speaker 1: especially you know, not happening with this being the first
Speaker 1: day and pad, so you gotta work to get back
Speaker 1: to that point. Um. It doesn't just happen overnight. We've
Speaker 1: gotta work for it. Um. And that's kind of been
Speaker 1: my message stand and we have heard at length now
Speaker 1: about the relationship between Ryan Fitzpatrick and to a tongue
Speaker 1: of Byloa as well as Josh Rosen in that quarterback room,
Speaker 1: how things have developed there. The next question posed to
Speaker 1: coach Flora's was about that relationship between two and Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: and if that kind of permeates in the locker room
Speaker 1: with the rest of the guys, and how that creates
Speaker 1: competition and an environment here at Dolphins camp. Well, I
Speaker 1: mean that dynamic. I'm seeing it across all positions. We've
Speaker 1: got a lot of good guys on this team, and UM,
Speaker 1: I can see the kind of some friendships and bonds
Speaker 1: building and that only helps on the field. From a
Speaker 1: communication standpoint, from even on asking for help standpoint. You know,
Speaker 1: there's some instances and where you can sit and you know,
Speaker 1: offense comes out and something that you're uncertain about it,
Speaker 1: you can ask the guy next to you, Hey, what
Speaker 1: do you what do you what do you think? And
Speaker 1: you help each other get it get lined up, samething offensively.
Speaker 1: Same thing in the kidney game. Uh so I think,
Speaker 1: uh to and fits and you know Rosen as well. Um,
Speaker 1: I think they're there, you know, those relationships that are building. Um,
Speaker 1: it's just one example of you know, hopefully, uh, you
Speaker 1: know what we're getting from. Uh the majority of the
Speaker 1: of the guys in the locker room. Up next, coach
Speaker 1: addresses the Adrian cold but released from over the weekend
Speaker 1: and talks about the difficulties of letting go players and
Speaker 1: how it's never easy in this business, you know, Adam,
Speaker 1: I mean, those are tough decisions. Uh. You know, Chris, myself,
Speaker 1: Marvin Brandon, we we have I hadn't had long conversations
Speaker 1: about every player that will release. They're not easy, Um,
Speaker 1: but we we you know, at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: we always try to do what we feel is best
Speaker 1: for the team. Obviously those those conversations are internal. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna go into specifics of it is that or
Speaker 1: the other thing, but we're just at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, we just felt it was the best the
Speaker 1: best move for us UM going forward. And one more
Speaker 1: question here will end up with Arrest talking about new
Speaker 1: Dolphins linebacker addition over the offseason, Kyle van Noy, his
Speaker 1: relationship with Kyle and Kyle blending into the rest of
Speaker 1: the locker room and the defense there and developing those
Speaker 1: relationships with the guys that we're here previously and all
Speaker 1: the newcomers here as well. Well. Um, you know Kyle
Speaker 1: obviously I coached him, Um, you know in New England. UM.
Speaker 1: I think he's he's very smart. Um, you can play
Speaker 1: multiple positions. He's got leadership ability. UM. I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna help us in a in a variety of ways.
Speaker 1: You know. To me, the one thing from a communications standpoint,
Speaker 1: the leadership standpoint, UM, I see him uh Ash just
Speaker 1: kind of similar to kind of what Cam said about
Speaker 1: two and fits. You know, his relationship with Bobby and
Speaker 1: Gotcha and Baker. You can see that starting to grow.
Speaker 1: So UM, you know, if we can get you know,
Speaker 1: as much of that on the team as possible. Um,
Speaker 1: that's what we're looking for. You know. Obviously he and
Speaker 1: I have a good relationship up and down at times,
Speaker 1: and he'll tell you, but you know, I think the
Speaker 1: world of Kyle and I had a great family and UM,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm I looking I'm looking forward to to
Speaker 1: work with him this year. And so there you have
Speaker 1: a coach on the morning of practice, the first day
Speaker 1: of practice in the books, and we just got done
Speaker 1: talking to coach as well as the players that were
Speaker 1: available for media. Let's go ahead and talk about these
Speaker 1: practice notes here though, because it did happen in a flurry.
Speaker 1: It was physical, it was fast, it was aggressive. They
Speaker 1: got a lot of work done. They bounced around from
Speaker 1: drill to drill so quickly. They get in and out
Speaker 1: of everything super fast. And that was the same story
Speaker 1: last year. So probably a Brian floor drive an idea there.
Speaker 1: They bounced from these individuals, fundamental drills, team periods, get
Speaker 1: tons of work done in that ninety year so minute
Speaker 1: session they had. I've been debating on how to do
Speaker 1: this podcast for my format standpoint, and we'll adjust as
Speaker 1: we need to as the days go along. Here on
Speaker 1: the Drivetime podcast. Let's go ahead and just knock this
Speaker 1: thing out in bullet points. Does that sound good? And
Speaker 1: it always start with a specialists doing their thing, and
Speaker 1: Matt Hawk was out there automatic on dropping punts on
Speaker 1: the five yard line. It was like watching Phil Nicholson
Speaker 1: with his irons out there just putting the football wherever
Speaker 1: he wanted to. Ryan Fitzpatrick comes out onto the field first.
Speaker 1: That was a fun theme to track last year, and
Speaker 1: the story was the same on Monday. The quarterbacks come
Speaker 1: out and work on some quarterbacks center exchange stuff. It's
Speaker 1: all pretty common and pretty boiler play. Special teams punt covering,
Speaker 1: so a lot of the dbs out there getting work
Speaker 1: on that. Both Cavon Fraser and Brandon Jones both had
Speaker 1: really nice work down around the goal line, stopping punch
Speaker 1: before they did cross over the goal line. And if
Speaker 1: you didn't stop the ball from going over the goal line.
Speaker 1: Danny Crossman, the Dolphins special teams coach, he would certainly
Speaker 1: let you know. The Dolphins then broke into stretching lines
Speaker 1: some fundamentals. You had some typical Dolphins dancing involved in
Speaker 1: that portion. Davante and Jachim grant Man those guys need
Speaker 1: a buddy cop movie. They are fun to watch with
Speaker 1: how they interact with one another. It's also fun to
Speaker 1: watch how coordinated all this stuff is. Everyone breaks in
Speaker 1: and out of those fundamentals and individual drills. It's all quick.
Speaker 1: Everything is done on hop, very organized, very regimented. Again
Speaker 1: a Brian Flores theme there. They did the ball security
Speaker 1: stuff for the skill guys, trail and ball drills for
Speaker 1: the defensive backs. The front seven guys work on stripping
Speaker 1: the football out, offensive line working on firing off collectively
Speaker 1: as a unit. Saw one cool drill with the defensive
Speaker 1: lineman who would get into the passing lanes and get
Speaker 1: their hands up. Christian Wilkins had a pass breakup on
Speaker 1: a play last year in the Philadelphia game. Similar deal
Speaker 1: there where he kind of falls back and makes a
Speaker 1: play on the football. On the far field, you have
Speaker 1: the defensive backs working on their trail technique offensive line
Speaker 1: down in the corner. Kind of tough to see those
Speaker 1: guys work down there, but they were doing a lot
Speaker 1: of drive blocking drills. They kind of reminded me of
Speaker 1: if you played basketball when you do the crossover drill
Speaker 1: and you're getting your defensive stance and try to stay
Speaker 1: square up to your man. Same thing. They're trying to
Speaker 1: drive those guys down the football field, staying engaged on
Speaker 1: their shoulder pads. The backs were catching short passes from
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks, receivers working on the releases, linebackers tackling defensive
Speaker 1: lineman on the sled. It's just the sights and sounds
Speaker 1: of football. They give me life, man. I love that stuff.
Speaker 1: Fun to watch there. Ter backs were throwing on air,
Speaker 1: looked very crisp, very few balls on the ground. Timing
Speaker 1: were sharp and on point for those guys. And Matt Rita. Man,
Speaker 1: this guy, this new Dolphin's running back has some wiggle
Speaker 1: even on air. You watch the explosive dest with each
Speaker 1: step he takes. He can get flexed out as a
Speaker 1: receiver as we saw last year with the forty nine
Speaker 1: and do some damage that way. A couple of drops
Speaker 1: in the period, but again, the quarterbacks location was primo.
Speaker 1: I love watching the way these guys work in their
Speaker 1: lower half, and you can really see it's been a
Speaker 1: point of emphasis for all three quarterbacks. Thought to look
Speaker 1: sharp there Rosen and Fitzpatrick. But to his footwork is
Speaker 1: always something that I thought was a big plus in
Speaker 1: his game. And we'll have more on the quarterbacks here
Speaker 1: in just a minute, but I like the way he
Speaker 1: locates the ball up high as well the balls in
Speaker 1: the face mask for the receiver, so you can often
Speaker 1: see those guys just plucking the football right there and
Speaker 1: catch it and stride and go. Preston Williams, he looks
Speaker 1: really good out there. He was setting up his underneath
Speaker 1: routs getting vertical. He's so physical at the release, and
Speaker 1: that's true for Davante Parker to Preston made a one
Speaker 1: handed catch on a deep shot in the one on
Speaker 1: one drills. That pass came from Ryan Fitzpatrick back to Parker.
Speaker 1: I mentioned it last year and got a lot of
Speaker 1: pop on Twitter for my comment complementing his physique and
Speaker 1: just how he looks strong. Well this year, he looks
Speaker 1: even stronger than me. Good muscle definition, good physicality, firing
Speaker 1: out of breaks. Uncle came to play on Monday. I
Speaker 1: had a bunch of notes on the one on one
Speaker 1: portion between the receivers and the defensive backs, and boy
Speaker 1: did we get that heavyweight fight immediately. I talked about
Speaker 1: on the podcast last week, the very first rep of
Speaker 1: the drill and then two more editions of Byron Jones
Speaker 1: on Devonte Parker. Parker got him on one. All three
Speaker 1: were contested, and it kind of reminded me of that
Speaker 1: boat race game they put up on the jumbo tron
Speaker 1: at baseball games. Maybe it's just the marriage games. I
Speaker 1: don't know, you guys can tell me. But one boat
Speaker 1: gets out to a lead, the next boat takes it back.
Speaker 1: The third boat comes up and takes his lead, and
Speaker 1: they I A'll go back and forth until the very end.
Speaker 1: That was Jones on Parker iron sharpening iron between those
Speaker 1: two studs out there. And I put this note in
Speaker 1: there just in general and bold and capitalized. It said,
Speaker 1: this is getting physical. These guys are competing in these
Speaker 1: one on one drills. Ken Webster was a beast in
Speaker 1: that drill. He forced all in completions on his reps.
Speaker 1: He had two pass breakups and one rep in particular.
Speaker 1: I love the way he played an outside release and
Speaker 1: the receiver tried to cross face on him. He pops
Speaker 1: his hips, snaps back inside and makes a play. When
Speaker 1: mac Hollands tried to cross face and gets one of
Speaker 1: those p b U s I talked about. Need him
Speaker 1: had a great rap on Jachem Grant going deep, staying
Speaker 1: in phase with that speedy receiver the corners one. This
Speaker 1: won this drill early on, and I thought that was
Speaker 1: kind of the physical approach. Remember now, these are Brian
Speaker 1: Flores and Josh Boyer and Jerald Alexander cornerbacks. They're gonna
Speaker 1: play physical. They're not gonna take any ship from these guys.
Speaker 1: And Preston was one of the guys that responded to that.
Speaker 1: He had a great looking rep where he asserted his
Speaker 1: dominance and caught it pass underneath, and then things kind
Speaker 1: of got going for the receiver's Isaiah Ford had some
Speaker 1: really crisp looking routes, creating some separation there that was
Speaker 1: consistent in his game. Jachem, after losing that first rap
Speaker 1: to Nick need Hum, got one over on him for
Speaker 1: a long touchdown. That one came from Tah. The next play,
Speaker 1: Jamal Perry undercut an under thrown ball, also from Tah
Speaker 1: and made a really nice play on that football. So
Speaker 1: some back and forth there. Noah ig Bonogamy, the rookie
Speaker 1: out of Auburn. This dude is rocked up. He was
Speaker 1: matching the physicality. It was fun to watch him and
Speaker 1: and Preston Williams compete and go at it on the
Speaker 1: football field out there, Malcolm Perry has some wiggle to
Speaker 1: his game as a route runner, thought he looked good
Speaker 1: in that area. The one wind Parker had on Jones
Speaker 1: was a beautifully thrown corner route from Ryan Fitzpatrick. The
Speaker 1: window was not big, but he laid it right in there.
Speaker 1: And finally I have Jacheem on a jaw dropping comeback
Speaker 1: route where he sold the takeoff and then came back
Speaker 1: and won the play with five yards of separation in
Speaker 1: such a short area. He is so explosive in these drills. Now,
Speaker 1: finally we get to the eleven on eleven, the first
Speaker 1: one of training camp, and my first note was the
Speaker 1: overall play of the second level of the defense. That
Speaker 1: linebacker corps is just so deep and so physical, lots
Speaker 1: of good pod pad popping out there on Monday. I
Speaker 1: saw each of them really just destroy a block at
Speaker 1: one point or another. The note that I had here
Speaker 1: was that e Land and Roberts blew up a play
Speaker 1: and then Eric Roe forced to fumble in behind that
Speaker 1: as a result. So those two guys coming down making
Speaker 1: an impact in the box, and those backers I had
Speaker 1: with the block defeats where Roberts, van Noy, McMillan, van Ginkel,
Speaker 1: and Baker. The big highlight on the day came courtesy
Speaker 1: of Jechem Grant on a ball from Josh Rosen. Perfect
Speaker 1: anticipation on a deep ball. We know the saying if
Speaker 1: he's even he's leaving. He was just crossing Ken Webster
Speaker 1: and Rose and sees it, lets it fly with perfect
Speaker 1: arc and trajectory, and Jachem ran right under it for
Speaker 1: a eight yard touchdown. Pass. On that play, Miles Gaskin
Speaker 1: ripped off a big run where he showed some of
Speaker 1: the patients and vision we saw at the end of
Speaker 1: last year. Throws a little stutter step in there, let's
Speaker 1: a block develop before hitting it up in there, and
Speaker 1: he bounces from one gap to another and made a
Speaker 1: big run on the offensive side there. Then they got
Speaker 1: in some open field tackling drills and Josh Boyler let
Speaker 1: somebody up in that one for tagging off in the drill.
Speaker 1: Always loved when coaches get vocal like that. Back to
Speaker 1: some special teams work and then right back at it
Speaker 1: again with eleven on eleven, DeVante Parker had his name
Speaker 1: called on a deep pass we put a double move
Speaker 1: on Noah Egnogamy. Then he made that typical DeVante Parker
Speaker 1: big play down the field, rising over everybody. Eric Rowe
Speaker 1: closed in, but he could not make a play on
Speaker 1: the ball as Parker snatched up and brought that thing down.
Speaker 1: And you can see why Solomon Kindley upfront, some of
Speaker 1: that size and just overall girth he has, he has
Speaker 1: some absolute push. He and Eric Flowers were pushing guys
Speaker 1: around inside. The battle between the trenches was kind of
Speaker 1: give and take a little bit. We said, some some
Speaker 1: penetration from the offensive line, penetration from the defensive line.
Speaker 1: One win here, one win. They're just a really physical,
Speaker 1: hard hitting practice up in that trenches. On the Dolphins front,
Speaker 1: Vince Bagels had a very hard edge and worked back
Speaker 1: over the top for a big stop on a tackle
Speaker 1: for loss. That's kind of business as usual for him.
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones came down and made a tackle for loss
Speaker 1: in the team portion of practice. He's very active. You
Speaker 1: can see him getting himself getting his nose in the
Speaker 1: football a lot down there. And Josh Rose and I
Speaker 1: thought looked really good in this day. Quick decisions, really
Speaker 1: good anticipation getting the ball out to his guys quicker
Speaker 1: at the quarterback spot, saying with Ryan Fitzpatrick, but we
Speaker 1: know that's kind of who he is. They go back
Speaker 1: to special teams, then back to eleven on eleven once
Speaker 1: more and Christian Wilkins I had him with a pocket
Speaker 1: collapse looks like could have been a sack. And again
Speaker 1: that battle between the trenches was just on all day long.
Speaker 1: There was one snap with the defense would get pushed
Speaker 1: offense will come back and when the next rep they
Speaker 1: sprung a big run for Jordan Howard as Durham Smith
Speaker 1: celebrated his big block kind of at the point there
Speaker 1: for a big first down run. Shack Lawson was causing
Speaker 1: problems upfront as well. He got in for what looked
Speaker 1: like it would be sacked to me. Then another play
Speaker 1: just a couple of snaps later where he resets line scrimmage,
Speaker 1: forces the back to bubble and did one of those
Speaker 1: hulk flexes because he knew he made a big play
Speaker 1: on the point of Jordan Howard. He reads his blocks
Speaker 1: so damn well and is so patient that vision at
Speaker 1: that size. That is the answer when you ask yourself,
Speaker 1: how has Jordan Howard produced so much at this point?
Speaker 1: In his career. He just gets it done with that
Speaker 1: vision and that size. I referred to Matt Breeda's shiftingus earlier.
Speaker 1: He was cutting it up out there and had this
Speaker 1: one big run with sidelock our patients to the sideline
Speaker 1: rather a slow developing play, and then he ripped it
Speaker 1: and let it go and he was off like the
Speaker 1: ferrari that he is. Kyle van Noi had a very
Speaker 1: nice tackle for loss working on Chandler Cox in the backfield.
Speaker 1: You can to see his length straight away as he
Speaker 1: can kind of long arm guys at both as a
Speaker 1: pass rusher and as he diagnoses the run. That was
Speaker 1: pretty much it man. It went buying a flash. They
Speaker 1: got a lot accomplished on this day. And speaking of
Speaker 1: Kyle van Noy and getting a lot done, let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and here form the new Dolphins linebacker and his
Speaker 1: evaluation on the first day of padded practices here in
Speaker 1: training camp and on the heat down here in Miami
Speaker 1: in August. It's hard as ship, um, but we're working
Speaker 1: through it. I'm working through it, getting used to it.
Speaker 1: A lot of guys that have been here are already
Speaker 1: used to it, so um, it's a learning curve for me,
Speaker 1: and I think I'm just taking one day at the
Speaker 1: time right now. And then Kyle was asked, of course,
Speaker 1: about the most common question players getting training camp. How
Speaker 1: do it feel to get out there and hit somebody
Speaker 1: for the first time? It felt good, It felt you know,
Speaker 1: good to get back at it. I've been able to
Speaker 1: hit somebody since December, January, whatever it was, and be
Speaker 1: out there competing with the guys. It's always good. There's
Speaker 1: a different type of field in the building all day
Speaker 1: to ramp up to get out there and hit. Guys
Speaker 1: were flying around, Guys were enjoying it, having a good time.
Speaker 1: It was. It was a good practice. I think it's
Speaker 1: something to build on. We want to be physical and
Speaker 1: fast and play at a high level. So what a
Speaker 1: great way to start to get on that path and
Speaker 1: get a cracking. And then this next question tells you
Speaker 1: all you need to know about why I love Kyle
Speaker 1: van Noy. Kyle, how's it going, man? Good to see
Speaker 1: you again. That was my man. How are you doing.
Speaker 1: I'm doing good. Good to see some football out there.
Speaker 1: So my question is about podcast right, Yeah, you're on
Speaker 1: it right now. Actually, Oh, let's go, let's go. So
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about some football actually,
Speaker 1: so I know it's early on here, but as someone
Speaker 1: that rushes from so many gaps like you do, how
Speaker 1: helpful is it to have the size of guys like
Speaker 1: Oddball and lost in off the edge to help create
Speaker 1: better rush lanes for you? Yeah? I think it's just
Speaker 1: as a whole. I want to just say those two
Speaker 1: guys just collectively, it takes the whole eleven guys covering, um,
Speaker 1: you know, have secondary like we have to have the
Speaker 1: linebackers that can cover like we have. It takes all
Speaker 1: eleven of us to be on the same page covering
Speaker 1: and Russian. I think if we just get it going
Speaker 1: on the same page out of consistent, consistently high standard,
Speaker 1: I think will be all right. But you know, those
Speaker 1: two guys are big dudes, and I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: get after the past. Are pretty good this year. And
Speaker 1: then some more commentary from Kyle van Noy about anything
Speaker 1: he might have learned from this team after day want
Speaker 1: to practice that he didn't know previously before the pads
Speaker 1: had come on. That's such a hard question, Ruth, every
Speaker 1: one I can't answer that. That's a sea phrase. I
Speaker 1: don't know we'll see I learned that. You know, I
Speaker 1: gotta get better. How about that? So then the reporter
Speaker 1: rephrases the question to ask Kyle how he felt about
Speaker 1: a comment which Flora has made earlier in the day
Speaker 1: about the team being ready for padded practices and coming
Speaker 1: out with that intensity. That's a good question. I think
Speaker 1: we were we were ready. I think guys were scratching.
Speaker 1: I think some guys obviously already day one, and some
Speaker 1: guys that might take them a little while. But I
Speaker 1: think collectively we're ready. As a group. We're hungry, we
Speaker 1: want to get better, we want to get up to
Speaker 1: speed with all the new guys, including myself, uh and
Speaker 1: older guys want to get back up to playing at
Speaker 1: a high level. So it's just coming together as a team.
Speaker 1: And you know, during these training campus grind period you
Speaker 1: get to see, you know, who people are all about.
Speaker 1: You got to see what type of team you have.
Speaker 1: Obviously that team is going to continue to grow during
Speaker 1: the season, but this is a time to lay that
Speaker 1: foundation and to do it with this young group of guys.
Speaker 1: It's fun. I'm excited, rejuvenate. Let's go and far be
Speaker 1: it for me to go ahead and try to confirm
Speaker 1: what Kyle van Noy says there. But I think that
Speaker 1: when you watch the Dolphins practice on Monday, you could
Speaker 1: see that intensity and that hunger and those young guys
Speaker 1: flying all of the field. It all happens so fast
Speaker 1: and so quick. Guys were playing loose and playing fast.
Speaker 1: And hear Kyle talk about they're so good to hear
Speaker 1: it confirm there from the veteran linebacker who was then
Speaker 1: asked about his reuniting with coach Flores in this Dolphins defense.
Speaker 1: You know, I want to be a leader on this team.
Speaker 1: You know who who You know. I'm not a rod
Speaker 1: type of guy, but I just hope to lead by
Speaker 1: example with the way I work every day, the way
Speaker 1: i'm as a professional, and I just want to be
Speaker 1: the best teammate I can be. Yes, I have familiarities
Speaker 1: with the defense. Yes, it's you know, it's different, you know,
Speaker 1: but at the same time, like I know, I know
Speaker 1: how Flow wants things done, and I know how Boyer
Speaker 1: wants things done. I'm gonna try to do my best
Speaker 1: to help out everybody, and you know they're gonna help
Speaker 1: me out as well. And another reason to love Kyle
Speaker 1: Van Noy here a question posed by Cam Wolf of
Speaker 1: ESPN about his perspective on the offensive side of the
Speaker 1: ball and the quarterbacks on this Dolphins team. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say, I'm not going to answer that one. You're
Speaker 1: not going to answer. No, you only get the has
Speaker 1: meet Kyle Mannois questions or defensive questions. And then we
Speaker 1: did get a Kyle van Nois question asking him about
Speaker 1: his multiple roles in the defense and playing three phases
Speaker 1: and coverage of the run game and as a pass rusher. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, I feel like I'm the last of a
Speaker 1: dying breed. I don't think you can um find players
Speaker 1: that can do all three skill sets. Usually there you know,
Speaker 1: either coverage or run to you know, one of those situations.
Speaker 1: Very rarely do you get all three. And I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to bring that energy to the team, trying to
Speaker 1: be a problem a mismatch and take advantage of that
Speaker 1: mismatch wherever I have lighting up. And then we finished
Speaker 1: with a question about his leadership role and mentoring the
Speaker 1: young players on this Dolphins defense. Yeah, it's a good question.
Speaker 1: I like that one. That's a that's a good ending
Speaker 1: right there. I'll answer this one, all right, UM, I
Speaker 1: think the advice that I passed onto him that it's
Speaker 1: not it's not a sprint, it's a marathon, and you
Speaker 1: wanna inhale as much uh information as you can. You
Speaker 1: wanna work on your craft each and every day. You
Speaker 1: want to get better each and every day and don't
Speaker 1: make the same mistake. And I think you'll be all right.
Speaker 1: That's kind of the message I've passed to him. And
Speaker 1: up next, we stay in that linebacker room, and here
Speaker 1: from Dolphins third year linebacker out of Ohio State Jerome Baker,
Speaker 1: starting with a question about his vision for this Dolphins defense. Awesome,
Speaker 1: we just gotta build off what we did last year. Uh,
Speaker 1: And that's just kind of be our approach of UM.
Speaker 1: Today was our first day in pads. We're gonna watch
Speaker 1: your film, UM, and tomorrow is gonna get better, you
Speaker 1: know every day and awesomely, we really do that. You
Speaker 1: definitely be a good and so that's gonna be our
Speaker 1: personal now is just take every day as you know
Speaker 1: the day's coming. Awesome, We'll be all right. And how
Speaker 1: about the number one thing Jerome wanted to improve and
Speaker 1: work on this offseason? Here's his answer, UM, one thing
Speaker 1: I definitely work on is my pad level? Um? You
Speaker 1: know this all season. That's how I'm working on every practice,
Speaker 1: and I really be this conscious of, you know, my
Speaker 1: pad level. And yeah, that's just like the one thing
Speaker 1: I've been focusing on. But every day I try to
Speaker 1: work on something new and you just trying to awesome
Speaker 1: to get my game better as best as I can. So, Um,
Speaker 1: this afseason, I definitely say my pad level. And then
Speaker 1: I had a chance to ask Jerome about his experience
Speaker 1: playing with Kyle van Noy, as both those guys are
Speaker 1: kind of three phase linebackers. We talk about rush, cover,
Speaker 1: and play the run. Here's what Jerome said that Kyle
Speaker 1: van Noy is helping him with this offseason in this defense.
Speaker 1: What's going on, Jerome, I wanted to ask you about
Speaker 1: Kyle Van Noy's experience doing some of the same things
Speaker 1: you do. He just told us he was a bit
Speaker 1: of a dying breed in terms of a guy that
Speaker 1: do a little bit of everything and being one of
Speaker 1: those guys yourself, how much does his knowledge and experience
Speaker 1: in this defense help you in that regard? It helps
Speaker 1: me every yet, Uh, you know Kyle since the day
Speaker 1: you know he walked in. He kind of just been
Speaker 1: in my ear about anything and everything. Um, if it's
Speaker 1: on the field, it's off the field, whatever it was. Uh,
Speaker 1: he definitely been a great mentor just a you know,
Speaker 1: just an older vet. So I definitely appreciate that. I
Speaker 1: always make fun because he's I think he's like the
Speaker 1: second oldest player on the team. So uh, he's definitely.
Speaker 1: Uh he's unique, but he's a great person and also
Speaker 1: a great player. We talked about guys playing hard and
Speaker 1: playing fast. Here's Jerome Baker saying what he learned about
Speaker 1: this team on day number one with the pads on Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know yet. Uh, you know, he staydn't watching
Speaker 1: the film yet, but um, guys just went hard. I
Speaker 1: think that was like the unique thing. And we just
Speaker 1: went hard. We did everything. We did as hard as
Speaker 1: we possibly can and it might not be perfect, but
Speaker 1: we definitely got better to that. Up next, Jerome talked
Speaker 1: about the value of having so many diverse players and
Speaker 1: that in the linebacker room here with the Dolphins and
Speaker 1: how it helps his game grow and continue to get better.
Speaker 1: It's a great thing. Uh, you know, you can definitely
Speaker 1: mix it up as far as in our defense but awesome.
Speaker 1: We just it's just as to our overall depth in
Speaker 1: our linebacker Romanum. It definitely helps us and it's kind
Speaker 1: of cool that we all just kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: pick our each other game and help each other get better.
Speaker 1: So it's definitely fun and an aspect. So there he
Speaker 1: goes Dolphins linebacker Jerome Baker. We have one more player
Speaker 1: to hear from on this Monday, August seventeenth edition of
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Speaker 1: more player to hear from. Veterans Center first year Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphin Ted Carriss, First question posed to him, was about
Speaker 1: his view and his opinion of these Dolphins rookies up
Speaker 1: on the offensive line. I've been very impressed with you know,
Speaker 1: all the rookies that we brought in this year and
Speaker 1: and pretty much everyone, everyone on the old line is
Speaker 1: really working hard, and you know everyone's kind of you know,
Speaker 1: finding their fit and and earning their role. And and
Speaker 1: those young guys really have been, uh, really been fun
Speaker 1: to work with so far. I'm really excited for you know,
Speaker 1: not only this year, but you know, their careers moving forward.
Speaker 1: And with Opening Day less than four weeks away, Ted
Speaker 1: was asked what's it gonna take to get this Dolphins
Speaker 1: offensive line and fighting shape for that game in Foxboro
Speaker 1: just twenty seven days away. Days like today, you know,
Speaker 1: go out there and pads in the in the South
Speaker 1: Florida heat and and and working our craft. And I
Speaker 1: think today was a good start. Um, I'm gonna watch
Speaker 1: the film right after to talk to you guys. Obviously
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some things to clean up, but um,
Speaker 1: you know, I thought we were competing out there and
Speaker 1: everyone's you know, fighting hard to get ready to go,
Speaker 1: and it is still all about building that chemistry and
Speaker 1: the relationship and the rapport with his teammates. Ted Carriss
Speaker 1: was also asked how he's doing that with the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: so far at this portion of training camp. Well, I definitely, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, one of my favorite things is to go
Speaker 1: watch film with them after practice, and I like to
Speaker 1: see what they're what they're seeing. And it's kind of
Speaker 1: a low pressure situation getting to know these guys. You know,
Speaker 1: I've got to you know, uh see some pictures that
Speaker 1: fits his family. I've been hanging out with with two
Speaker 1: of just so you know, just here at the stadium
Speaker 1: and and watching film and kind of seeing you know,
Speaker 1: I like to know what they're seeing as well, so
Speaker 1: we can speak the same language and and be really
Speaker 1: crissed with communication wise. But you know, off the field stuff,
Speaker 1: there's not much. We can't really do anything. I'm not
Speaker 1: taking any chances, um with anything outside the building. So
Speaker 1: we're pretty much here and that's fun. A little training
Speaker 1: camp on the Novak campus. And then I is up next.
Speaker 1: I want to get a question across Ted about the
Speaker 1: physicality and the nature of this practice today in the trenches,
Speaker 1: playing right in the middle of it all at that
Speaker 1: center position. Hey, Ted, how's it going? Man? Good to
Speaker 1: see you again. Um, coming into your fifth year now,
Speaker 1: you've been in part of several training camps obviously, and
Speaker 1: and coach Flora has talked this morning a little bit
Speaker 1: about the physicality of practice and kind of letting you
Speaker 1: guys go, what's your overall take on how the physicality
Speaker 1: of today's practice was. I think it was great. Um.
Speaker 1: I think we have a really big team, uh, and
Speaker 1: big physical players all on the line of scrimmage, even
Speaker 1: off the ball, and UM, you know, it's a pleasure
Speaker 1: to go in there and cut my teeth with them
Speaker 1: and get better because now you know, this will be
Speaker 1: a fun camp and a good opportunity to get better
Speaker 1: as we go into you know, this long season, which
Speaker 1: is we're gonna play a lot of physical teams early
Speaker 1: and it's going to serve as well. We talked a
Speaker 1: lot about the juice around the building on a day
Speaker 1: like today when football is back in full force. Here's
Speaker 1: Ted talking about the pads coming on and what it
Speaker 1: means to him and the offensive line as a unit,
Speaker 1: getting their footwork, the communication, everything down pat before the season. Now,
Speaker 1: it's definitely time to get the pads on, especially especially
Speaker 1: like I just said with twenty seven days till we're
Speaker 1: kicking off. You know, we need to work and we
Speaker 1: need to get our timing right in our fits right
Speaker 1: on line is a repetition position, and um, you really
Speaker 1: can't get a true, true rep um without you know,
Speaker 1: having you know, full gear on. But it was a
Speaker 1: good start today and I'm excited that we did. I mean,
Speaker 1: it really is camp now and and that's exciting. It
Speaker 1: was nice to see some some people in the stands today,
Speaker 1: at least it was getting a little lonely out there.
Speaker 1: But um, you know, we're just gonna keep working every day.
Speaker 1: Ted was then asked about Dolphins fourth round draft pick
Speaker 1: and guard Solomon Kinley out of Georgia. Here's what Ted
Speaker 1: has to say about the way Kiley's worked this offseason. Well,
Speaker 1: it's been very fun to play next to him, and
Speaker 1: he works really hard and he's you know, always trying
Speaker 1: to do the right thing. Um, you know, it's a
Speaker 1: he's a he's a great guy to have in the room.
Speaker 1: He's a he's a cool dude, and you know, he
Speaker 1: really is working hard, and um, we're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 1: need him to work hard. He's a he's a he's
Speaker 1: a very very good football player, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm excited every time I get to go, you know,
Speaker 1: go into battle with him. So, um, obviously this is
Speaker 1: day one, you know, this is learning how to play
Speaker 1: in the NFL. I I have to work on my
Speaker 1: fundamentals just as hard. It's not harder. So everyone's working hard.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think we were on the right
Speaker 1: track and we'll go ahead and finish this thing up
Speaker 1: here With a question from Kyle Crabs, the host of
Speaker 1: Locked On Dolphins, he posed a question to Ted Carriss
Speaker 1: about the terminology and communication in an offense for the
Speaker 1: first time and Ted Carross's career switching from one system
Speaker 1: to another, coming from the Patriots down here to Miami
Speaker 1: and the terminology and the communication of that and how
Speaker 1: it's going so far for Ted, this offensive line and
Speaker 1: this Dolphins football team. I love the new termin knowledge.
Speaker 1: I think it's fascinating. I just to learn another language
Speaker 1: in football. I've relish that opportunity and feel pretty comfortable
Speaker 1: with it now. As far as technique, eyes and nuances,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm you know, I'm gonna, you know, do
Speaker 1: what our coach coach asks to do. There's a couple
Speaker 1: of differences, but you know they're putting us in positions
Speaker 1: to succeed. There's a couple of ways to work and
Speaker 1: I am I am excited to get to work every
Speaker 1: day with Coach Marshall, Coach Lamb and and and these
Speaker 1: guys in the old line room. So there you go.
Speaker 1: Lengthy edition of the Drivetime podcast today recapping the first
Speaker 1: day of Dolphins training camp here with padded practice available
Speaker 1: to the South Florida media. We're gonna come back tomorrow
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