WEBVTT - Drive Time - Scrimmage Recap 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:07.840 Practice Dolphins fats touchdown. What a win for this Miami 0:00:07.920 --> 0:00:13.440 Dolphin team. Wow? What is up? Dolphans? And welcome to 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:17.440 the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins official 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:22.000 podcast network, covering your Miami Dolphins each and every day. 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:25.680 How's it going everybody? It is Saturday. I am your host, 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:28.520 Travis Wingfield, and I am here to bring you your 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:32.080 daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:35.400 we go out to hard Rock Stadium for the Dolphins 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:39.199 Saturday scrimmage. The venue is as beautiful as ever, as 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:42.800 we got premiere seating to watch this day of Dolphins football. 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:45.320 We'll play the hits from Coach Flores and all the 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:49.400 player media availability, and report on all the action on 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:52.520 the field. All of that and more on this Saturday, 0:00:52.560 --> 0:01:00.160 August twenty nine edition of the Drivetime PODCASTAMI Dolphins And 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:04.440 this podcast was set to take a very jovial tone 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:07.440 when I began putting the show notes together early this morning. 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:11.120 But sometimes life happens and things change. I'm sure you 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:14.240 all saw the tweets. We all saw Fits and Flow 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:17.480 leave the huddle of the entire Dolphins operation together just 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:21.720 before practice began, arms around one another. They disappeared into 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:25.759 the tunnel and then Flow emerged shortly thereafter, but Fitzpatrick 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:28.360 did not. The team gathered and all took a knee 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:32.120 in prayer as this all happened literally minutes before scrimmage. 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:36.720 The scrimmage began on Saturday morning. Ryan Fitzpatrick's mother, Laurie, 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:40.760 passed away this morning. And this November it'll be five years, 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:43.920 five years since I was at work also like Ryan 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:46.959 Fitzpatrick was, and received a phone call that would change 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:49.680 my life. My mother had passed away, and I drove 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.280 down to my brother's office and we cried, and we hugged, 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:55.360 and we began the grieving process, which seemed to take 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:59.160 weeks to properly digest. I don't know how sudden this 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:02.040 was for Fits, all of it going down. We know 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:04.400 he had that personal day a week ago. I don't 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.200 know what Lori was suffering from what her ailment was, 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:10.000 but nothing about it will make it any easier for 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.720 Fits and the Fitzpatrick family. I'm thinking of that guy 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:15.040 right now, man, And and getting to know these players 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.000 just a little bit, even for the last couple of months, 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:20.440 you really start to see the personal side of the 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:23.760 game more and to me that makes it This is 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:25.600 hard for me to get through. I do apologize it. 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:27.760 I didn't want to get into this too far, but 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:31.120 it's it hits home for me. So to be around 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:33.959 these players, it makes it even more fulfilling and more 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:35.880 rewarding to see the personal side of this, and they 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.040 get to know these guys and to see them as 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:41.000 more than just football players. I just hosted a specially 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.760 event with our season ticket members a couple of weeks ago, 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:46.640 and Fits was the guest of honor. He was laughing, 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:49.600 having a good time, joking about his chest hair poking 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:52.440 out from his button down shirt. We talked about his hair. 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:55.200 I gave him credit for having not just an incredible beard, 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.160 but an incredible flow on top, which he found to 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:01.880 be quite funny. And it's I am extremely doubtful that 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:04.320 you would ever listen to this podcast, or any football 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:06.639 podcast for that matter, because you live it every day. 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:09.000 Why would you listen to a podcast about your job? 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:11.720 But we're all thinking about you. Man. It's it's tough, 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:14.639 but tough people were made for tough times. And as 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:18.440 Isaiah Ford said at his player availability on Saturday afternoon, 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:20.880 we'll play the audio from that here in just a moment, 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:25.520 Laurie raised a special dude in Ryan Fitzpatrick. Okay, and 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:29.639 from that, we try our best here to transition to football. 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:33.800 And reports came out just before practice started on Saturday 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:36.800 that the Dolphins were sending linebacker ray Kwon McMillan to 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:40.160 the Las Vegas Raiders, and Brian Flores later confirmed that 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:43.920 in his post practice press conference say that five times fast, 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:46.400 citing that there are things that go on behind the 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:49.280 scenes that we just don't know about, not just the fans, 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:52.680 but those in the media. And out of that quote, now, 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.320 you never expect a coach or a player or a 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:58.400 GM to really kind of completely pull the curtain back, right. 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:00.560 We keep things in house. You hear that all the time. 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:03.440 That's just what you do and rightfully so. But as 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:05.520 far as that trade, I can just say this, and 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:07.600 you guys have heard it on this podcast for two 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:10.600 weeks now. The land and Roberts and COMMU grug Hill 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:14.280 have had excellent camps. So again, if there is a 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:16.440 move made, there are things to go into it, as 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:19.880 Brian Flores said, and that pretty much is all you 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:21.680 need to know. These guys are gonna make the best 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:24.960 decisions for the Miami Dolphins, as they repeatedly say over 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:27.000 and over again, and they felt this wasn't the best 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:29.240 interests of the team to move on and get that 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:32.680 draft pick for ray Kawa. McMillan, all right, to the 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.600 scrimmage now. And I've been to hard Rock Stadium twice 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.360 each of the last two years, so four times total. 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:40.360 And man, I don't know what it is, but this 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.440 place just gets prettier every single time I go back, 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:47.039 especially arriving at nine am. It wasn't too hot yet. 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:49.720 The sun was hitting the building just right for a 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:53.000 nice little glow. And then you get inside and my goodness, 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:56.080 what a palace that place that Steven Ross put together. 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:58.520 It looks gorgeous in there. Man, I think this was 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.440 when it really hit me. The upball is almost here, 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:04.080 just two weeks away, and that this job, that what 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:06.760 I do for a living, really isn't a job at all, 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:10.080 just an absolute mecca of a building and a great 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:12.520 product to watch on the field. So then the practice 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:15.359 broke out. It wasn't live tackling, but it was a 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:18.320 great opportunity for us to see about sixty or seventy 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:21.159 plays or so, give or take and get some evaluations 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:24.960 on these guys and more of a live game like situation. First, 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:27.920 Kyle van Noy and Patrick Laird, they were suited up 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.560 in their full pads and worked out before the practice, 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:33.440 but did not participate. They were down there fore months, 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:36.040 but did not play in the actual scrimmage. Xavien Howard 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:38.400 did not suit up. He was working out in jim 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:40.520 shorts and a T shirt, going through some of his 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:43.800 individual work, but he did not play on the scrimmage 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:46.039 portion of practice. And the same was true of Kirk 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:50.520 Merritt and DeVante Parker not participating in Saturdays scrimmage. I'm 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:52.279 not sure if Parker was out there or not. I 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:54.680 didn't see him. I did see Kirk Merritt. I saw 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:56.960 the rest of the guys getting some conditioning in and 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.920 for that matter, I saw Jordan Howard and Matt Brita 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:03.440 and Patrick Laird after practice while we're doing our zoom 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.719 calls with coach and the players getting a lot of 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:09.680 conditioning in post practice. So as for the practice itself, 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.040 there were a few penalties and I'm sure that something 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:14.120 Floras wants to clean up. He even said after the 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:16.960 practice that it was good to get that feel of 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:20.120 a game situation to feel the importance of how penalties 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.800 can extend drives and keep the defense on the field 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:24.800 or back the offense up and take them out of 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.680 field goal range. He noted that specifically, but I'm also 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:30.760 sure he was very pleased with how well his defense performed, 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:33.359 because it was dominant on that side of the ball 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:36.280 pretty much from the word go. We saw one touchdown 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:39.600 and three field goals. Jason Sanders hit from fifty eight, 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:42.960 forty eight, and forty one. He also had enough leg 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:45.719 on a sixty one yarder, but it went wide left 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.159 after a false start pushed the field goal team back. 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:52.080 This was after Tuah took his team down into field 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:54.240 goal range in a two minute situation at the end 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.560 of the first half. The teams were actually listed as 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:58.800 two and rosen on the scoreboard. Kind of cool to 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:00.479 see that, but he took him to own the field 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:02.640 goal range. They get backed up for a sixty one 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:04.839 yard or and that was Sanders was only miss of 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:07.120 the day. He had the three long field goals and 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.080 a p a T. Matt Hawk was also skying some 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:14.480 gorgeous kicks boomers for days. These two specialist Danny Crossman 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.280 talked about them the other day on his press availability 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:19.960 that they just felt good about those guys. Talked about 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:23.240 maybe getting some people in camp to deal with leg fatigue, 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:25.880 but outside of that, they are comfortable with both those guys. 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.480 He said, this is a production business, and both those 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:32.119 guys have produced, and we saw it on Saturday Kicker Talk, Baby, 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:34.680 that's how you know your boys charged up for this podcast. 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.560 So both quarterbacks had seven possessions. Let's go ahead and 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:40.840 just talk about some of the standout performers. I kind 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:43.640 of charted the yardage and drive success, but not to 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:45.720 an exact science, so I'm not gonna tell you how 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:47.640 many yards were gaining in that type of thing. There 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:51.200 were thirteen possessions in total, Rosen and to a split 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.559 the last possession. There was one touchdown, three field goals, 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:57.800 one missed field goal, too interceptions, there was a fumble. 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:00.080 But as you'll hear Josh Rosen say a little it 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:03.160 later on on the podcast, they decided to maintain possession 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:05.680 for the offense as a way to kind of manufacture 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:09.320 circumstances within that practice. It makes sense, right, You control 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:12.320 the environment you're playing in, give the players the situations 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:14.320 you want to see how they react to because you 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:17.119 can control the down and distance, the time on the clock, 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:20.480 the situations, the entire environment. I only had two three 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:22.480 an ounce on the day, so it wasn't like it 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:25.320 was a totally stagnant performance from the offense. But again, 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:28.200 the defense got the better of the offense in total 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:31.000 overall on the day. And first things first, it is 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:35.240 pretty challenging to evaluate eleven players on one play with 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:38.640 no replay and a sideline view, a sideline angle that 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:41.400 really doesn't allow you to see how the trenches unfold 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:44.280 or even the blocking scheme or plan there. But man, 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:46.080 you add on the other side of the ball and 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:49.160 call it twenty two players, it's pretty tough as well. 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:51.720 So here's what I saw, without the benefit of a 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:54.440 tape to reach to rewatch to go back on, and 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.840 with a sideline angle of the entire action quarterbacks. I 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:00.480 didn't put either of these two guys in my standout 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:03.600 performers category to a tongue of Valoa had an interception 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:05.679 and his unit did not get into the end zone. 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.400 As coach said, there were some throws and decisions you like. 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:11.120 I like the way that he's able to sense pressure 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:14.760 coming from either edge, sometimes both edges, and works his 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:17.800 way up into the pocket while keeping his eyes down 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:19.920 the field to get through his progressions, to get through 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:23.000 his reads. He made some plays that way on Saturday. 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:24.800 We're gonna hear from Eric Rowe here in just a 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:27.960 little bit, who had the interception onto trying to shoot 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:30.520 one up the sideline to Mike Gasicki, and that play 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:33.400 had really good pass protection, but it also had really 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:36.040 good past coverage as well, And that was something of 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:38.800 a theme you're gonna hear on this podcast that the 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:42.720 secondary rather wasn't tight coverage all day back there really 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.800 playing well together, communicating and getting those things locked up 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.240 on the backside. And Roe said that he was surprised 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:51.000 the ball came to him because of how well how 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:54.200 perfect his positioning was on that particular play too. I 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.640 had some chunk gains. He operated well on some hurry 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.160 up situations and continues to get the ball out so 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:03.200 smoothly in the quick game on slants, screens, hitches, curls, 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.000 those sort of things. We're gonna hear from two here 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.080 in just one moment. We're also gonna hear from quarterback 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.760 Josh Rosen, who had some mistakes as he'll tell you, 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.560 but he also had some big time throws on Saturday. 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:14.800 I asked him to break down the touchdown throw to 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.360 Ricardo Lewis, the only touchdown of the day for the 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:20.080 Dolphins offense, which I thought was his best throw of 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:21.880 the day, the best play of the day from the 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:24.480 offense in general. But I'll let him do that later on. 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:27.920 He also had a very long strike down the field 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:30.640 to Malcolm Perry, and that was another play where coverage 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:33.079 and pass pro we're both good, so the play kind 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.360 of gets extended out a little bit, and Perry was 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:38.400 so far downfield when the ball left Josh's hand because 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:41.600 we know Rosen has a hand cannon, and Perry did 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:45.120 well to kind of decelerate to almost fool the defensive 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:48.839 back into decelerating himself. Then he sped up, ran under it, 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:50.720 and caught it at the last moment. I think it 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:53.360 was good for about fifty five or sixty yards total, 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.640 a deep strike from Rosen to Perry at running back. 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:59.240 It's tough to gauge without live tackling how these guys 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:02.680 are doing. But Brita looked as fast as anybody I've 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.280 seen all camp long in this practice. He had some 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:07.880 nice runs. He gets from that first level to the 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:10.320 second level in a flash, and then from there he 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.280 can hit you home runs. And I think we'll see 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:14.839 that at some point this year for the Dolphins. Jordan 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:17.120 Howard got dinged up a little bit early on and 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:19.240 I tackle for loss where he slipped right in front 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:21.920 of Shack Lawson, who, by the way, another big day 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.920 for Shack Lawson. More on that soon. But Howard did 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:27.360 return and had some more carries. It was the same 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:29.760 story for Howard you've heard about all along. He's gonna 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.400 find those small creases and small lanes and get you 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:35.760 into better situations on third and second down. He's always 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:38.360 gonna get positive yards, put his head down, burrow into 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:41.080 that line, and create positive yards that way. I love 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:43.559 his running style, I love his vision, I love his power. 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:46.559 Very valuable piece of the offense there with Jordan Howard. 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:48.960 I mentioned Malcolm Perry's long catch that was the play 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.880 of the day for the offense in terms of total yardage. 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.400 He also caught one over the middle in practice, but 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:56.880 fumbled when Nick Needum punched it out. We'll talk more 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:58.959 about need Him here in just a moment as well. 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:03.800 At receiver Isaiah Ford uncovered pretty regularly throughout the course 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:06.400 of practice. He caught three or four balls and typically 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:09.240 had really good separation on those catches. There was one 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:12.000 comeback route up against Byron Jones again we'll talk about 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:15.600 Byron Jones in a moment as well, where Ford did 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:18.040 an awesome job of stacking Jones, getting on top of 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:20.240 him and got Jones to kind of commit the hips. 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:23.480 You'll hear coaches talk about cornerbacks or receivers rather get 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:25.640 them to commit their hips, show you which direction they 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:27.520 want to flip the hips, then you can work their 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:29.800 blind spot from there. He did very well to get 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:32.360 Jones to commit the hips upfield and then throttled that 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:34.559 thing down and came back down the stem for a 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:37.280 nice fifteen or so yard gain on a comeback route 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:39.839 that balls from Tah and a really good timing and 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:43.240 chemistry look there on that play from Tah to Isaiah Ford. 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:46.400 Ricardo Lewis had a big day, including the Loan touchdown. 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:49.880 His concentration was on point throughout practice, not just on 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.079 the touchdown catch, but a couple of others where he 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:54.680 caught the football and traffic was super impressed there with 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:58.280 eighty nine catching balls and traffic. One guy we've become 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.640 accustomed to watching catch passes either in traffic or with 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.680 separation is Preston Williams. And he had a couple of 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:06.880 catches on this day, but nothing like we're used to 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:09.280 seeing where he blows your mind with a one handed 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.920 catch or a deep shot downfield diving. He just had 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.040 a couple of catches routine stuff on the day and 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:16.760 produce a little bit that way at receiver. The tight 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:19.679 ends didn't factor much into the passing game. If they 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.640 even did at all, it was probably underneath stuff throwing 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:25.079 in the short flats to those guys. And we'll talk 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:27.160 about the safeties here in just a moment, because they 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.800 were locking up those tight ends. Adam Shaheen had a catch. 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:32.280 I know that Mike Asiki caught went out to the flat. 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:35.080 I think for a short gain, and Durham Smith always 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:37.400 has a block or two that springs a chunk gain 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:40.080 in the ground game. He did that again on Saturday 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.880 as well. On the offensive line. I saw Solomon Kindley 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:46.080 get himself a pancake and then create push a few 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.720 other times in this practice. Liked his game a lot. 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:50.960 I liked what I saw out of Robert Hunt, same 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.319 story there. He's so good at kind of digging guys 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:55.560 out of their spot and turning them and using that 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:58.319 power and length and size to win that leverage, and 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:00.800 then using that leverage to create a lane for his 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:03.400 running back. I thought Adam Pinky had a really good day, 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.360 especially in past protection. A couple of times. I noted 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:08.920 seventy eight out there on a one on one situation, 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:11.480 including the deep past to Perry where he locked it 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:13.360 down and created a good quarter or a good pocket 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:16.800 rather for his quarterback. Again, really tough to evaluate from 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:20.760 that angle with no replay, but I did note that Flowers, Carriss, Davis, 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:23.360 and Deeter all had key blocks on good gains in 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.280 the running game. Now on the other side, that's where 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:28.320 the notes really fill up here on the defensive side, 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:31.160 we start on the defensive line and where to begin here? 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:34.200 Because Shack Lawson finished off what honestly might have been 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:36.400 a week where I might give him like an m 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:38.640 v P of the week of training camp. He was 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.520 just great again. On Saturday. I mentioned his tackle for 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:43.560 loss that was one of two that he had. He 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:45.440 got back in there for a would be sack and 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.480 some additional pressures as a pass rusher as well. On 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:51.040 one play one of his TFLs, they tried to bring 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.480 a tight end across the formation to block him and 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:55.960 create that lane off the outside part of the formation. 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:58.520 He stood that thing up, shed the block and made 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:01.480 a stop. A dominant day for number ninety out there 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:04.520 now number ninety one on the other side, the story 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:06.840 has been the same old camp. Immanuel Ogba has been 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:09.560 a beast all training camp long. They met in the 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:12.880 backfield Aga and laws in a couple of times with 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:16.400 some nice pass rush, pass rush tandems off either edge 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:19.360 on the inside. I noted that Zach Seiler with another 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:23.040 huge day. He's getting plenty of mention on the podcast here. Now. 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:26.320 That pancake I mentioned from Kinley was on zach Seler, 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:28.160 but that was the only rep I saw where he 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:31.240 didn't really just get after it. He was constantly collapsing 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:33.960 the interior and it's so difficult to move him against 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.480 the run with that length and power. I'm a big 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:38.480 fan of his game, as I was at the end 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:40.920 of last year as well. Devon Gotcha had a really 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:43.640 good week of practice and it continued on Saturday just 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:46.080 that tree stump on the inside against the run. We 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.600 saw plenty of that from fifty six. I noted ray 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:51.560 Kwon Davis with a bowl rush surge that ruined one 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.480 pass play and Christian Wilkins with some nice work on 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:56.800 the inside to clog things up and create space for 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:59.440 guys to make plays behind him. And those guys are 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:03.080 lineback is the land and Roberts Cammu Gruja Hill, Calvin Munson. 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:05.920 We haven't talked a lot about Munson, but I find 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:09.000 his game to be pretty intriguing. Between the b gaps, 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:11.560 he flows downhill and hits guys. Man, he wants to 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:13.520 get out there and bang his head into a wall. 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:15.720 He gets his face and the fan and really gets 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:17.840 after it with the contact and the physicality of the game. 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:20.160 He matches that level of a land and Roberts that 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.480 way with the physicality of the game. And speaking of Roberts, 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:27.040 just consistently, day in day out, Downhill smart as all 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.960 get out, and Ted Carriss told me on the postgame 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:32.800 presser that at land And Roberts is probably the hardest 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:35.600 hitting football player he's ever gone up against. The other 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.120 guy on this list here, Cambu Gruja Hill he starts 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:40.600 off practice with a tackle for loss and just rolled 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:43.080 onto a good day from there. I mentioned the safetyes 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:45.560 on tight ends, but Gruge Hill was also all over 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:48.320 the field and coverage on tight ends, covering guys and 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:50.400 that hook zone over the middle of the field. He's 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:53.280 a high energy guy and someone who I'm really excited 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:55.680 to see get his first real shot in a defense. 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:57.600 He was supposed to play a bunch last year for 0:16:57.640 --> 0:16:59.720 the Eagles. That's what reports said out of camp from 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:02.040 Jim Schwartz, a bunch of the players there at practice. 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:04.119 Then he had an injury pre camp and came back 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:06.879 mid season and played a good chunk of snaps, but 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:08.720 he was supposed to play a lot more. I think 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:10.600 he has a chance to really shine here in this 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:14.159 Dolphins defense. Finally, on the back end, I mentioned a 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:18.000 somewhat quiet day for the otherwise explosive Preston Williams, and 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:19.440 a lot of that had to do with the fact 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:22.359 that he drew number twenty four Byron Jones over and 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.600 over and over again, and Jones was just not giving 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:29.119 anything up. Man sticky coverage, good jobs, staying on top, 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:32.960 transitioning inside or outside off those breaks, playing the football, 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:35.480 big big day for twenty four and one of those 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:38.320 days that doesn't get enough credit because if you're not, 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:40.440 like if you just follow the football, you're not gonna 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:42.720 see him with fifteen or twenty good reps where he 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:45.560 doesn't get targeted because you're not watching a cornerback on 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:48.480 receiver and the ball doesn't go that direction. If you're 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:50.639 not gonna get targeted, that probably means you're in pretty 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:52.760 good coverage for the most part, at least on a 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:54.960 high enough sample size, and that was the case with 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:57.800 Byron Jones. So smooth and the way he punches and 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:00.720 has an initial jam and man coverage and zone coverage. 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:02.600 He just as a good looking football player out there 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:05.000 and he had a big day on Saturday. Another big 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:07.280 day came from Brion Borders, who had a hell of 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:10.040 a pick on Josh Rosen's first series, but he was 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:12.720 flagged for defensive pass interference, so you don't get the 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:15.320 credit for it, but it showed good ball skills and 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:17.600 ball awareness and he does get his hands on the 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:20.240 football a heck of a lot. Nick need Um also 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:22.480 had a thievery on a Rosen pass, but it was 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:25.240 also negated on d P I I thought that one 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:27.600 was much more clear of a penalty. Need Him kind 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:29.119 of pulled the guy to the ground that made a 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:31.000 play on the football, but he didn't agree with it 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:33.119 after he ran it back for six and a touchdown. 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:36.040 But he would get his takeaway later in the game 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:38.359 or in the scrimmage, I should say, by punching a 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:40.919 football out and forcing a fumble with a good strike 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:43.160 to the ball on a completed pass over the middle 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:46.760 and on the first drive of Josh Rosen's I found 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:48.920