Speaker 1: Practice Dolphins fats touchdown. What a win for this Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphin team. Wow? What is up? Dolphans? And welcome to
Speaker 1: the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins official
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Speaker 1: How's it going everybody? It is Saturday. I am your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, and I am here to bring you your
Speaker 1: daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show,
Speaker 1: we go out to hard Rock Stadium for the Dolphins
Speaker 1: Saturday scrimmage. The venue is as beautiful as ever, as
Speaker 1: we got premiere seating to watch this day of Dolphins football.
Speaker 1: We'll play the hits from Coach Flores and all the
Speaker 1: player media availability, and report on all the action on
Speaker 1: the field. All of that and more on this Saturday,
Speaker 1: August twenty nine edition of the Drivetime PODCASTAMI Dolphins And
Speaker 1: this podcast was set to take a very jovial tone
Speaker 1: when I began putting the show notes together early this morning.
Speaker 1: But sometimes life happens and things change. I'm sure you
Speaker 1: all saw the tweets. We all saw Fits and Flow
Speaker 1: leave the huddle of the entire Dolphins operation together just
Speaker 1: before practice began, arms around one another. They disappeared into
Speaker 1: the tunnel and then Flow emerged shortly thereafter, but Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: did not. The team gathered and all took a knee
Speaker 1: in prayer as this all happened literally minutes before scrimmage.
Speaker 1: The scrimmage began on Saturday morning. Ryan Fitzpatrick's mother, Laurie,
Speaker 1: passed away this morning. And this November it'll be five years,
Speaker 1: five years since I was at work also like Ryan
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick was, and received a phone call that would change
Speaker 1: my life. My mother had passed away, and I drove
Speaker 1: down to my brother's office and we cried, and we hugged,
Speaker 1: and we began the grieving process, which seemed to take
Speaker 1: weeks to properly digest. I don't know how sudden this
Speaker 1: was for Fits, all of it going down. We know
Speaker 1: he had that personal day a week ago. I don't
Speaker 1: know what Lori was suffering from what her ailment was,
Speaker 1: but nothing about it will make it any easier for
Speaker 1: Fits and the Fitzpatrick family. I'm thinking of that guy
Speaker 1: right now, man, And and getting to know these players
Speaker 1: just a little bit, even for the last couple of months,
Speaker 1: you really start to see the personal side of the
Speaker 1: game more and to me that makes it This is
Speaker 1: hard for me to get through. I do apologize it.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to get into this too far, but
Speaker 1: it's it hits home for me. So to be around
Speaker 1: these players, it makes it even more fulfilling and more
Speaker 1: rewarding to see the personal side of this, and they
Speaker 1: get to know these guys and to see them as
Speaker 1: more than just football players. I just hosted a specially
Speaker 1: event with our season ticket members a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and Fits was the guest of honor. He was laughing,
Speaker 1: having a good time, joking about his chest hair poking
Speaker 1: out from his button down shirt. We talked about his hair.
Speaker 1: I gave him credit for having not just an incredible beard,
Speaker 1: but an incredible flow on top, which he found to
Speaker 1: be quite funny. And it's I am extremely doubtful that
Speaker 1: you would ever listen to this podcast, or any football
Speaker 1: podcast for that matter, because you live it every day.
Speaker 1: Why would you listen to a podcast about your job?
Speaker 1: But we're all thinking about you. Man. It's it's tough,
Speaker 1: but tough people were made for tough times. And as
Speaker 1: Isaiah Ford said at his player availability on Saturday afternoon,
Speaker 1: we'll play the audio from that here in just a moment,
Speaker 1: Laurie raised a special dude in Ryan Fitzpatrick. Okay, and
Speaker 1: from that, we try our best here to transition to football.
Speaker 1: And reports came out just before practice started on Saturday
Speaker 1: that the Dolphins were sending linebacker ray Kwon McMillan to
Speaker 1: the Las Vegas Raiders, and Brian Flores later confirmed that
Speaker 1: in his post practice press conference say that five times fast,
Speaker 1: citing that there are things that go on behind the
Speaker 1: scenes that we just don't know about, not just the fans,
Speaker 1: but those in the media. And out of that quote, now,
Speaker 1: you never expect a coach or a player or a
Speaker 1: GM to really kind of completely pull the curtain back, right.
Speaker 1: We keep things in house. You hear that all the time.
Speaker 1: That's just what you do and rightfully so. But as
Speaker 1: far as that trade, I can just say this, and
Speaker 1: you guys have heard it on this podcast for two
Speaker 1: weeks now. The land and Roberts and COMMU grug Hill
Speaker 1: have had excellent camps. So again, if there is a
Speaker 1: move made, there are things to go into it, as
Speaker 1: Brian Flores said, and that pretty much is all you
Speaker 1: need to know. These guys are gonna make the best
Speaker 1: decisions for the Miami Dolphins, as they repeatedly say over
Speaker 1: and over again, and they felt this wasn't the best
Speaker 1: interests of the team to move on and get that
Speaker 1: draft pick for ray Kawa. McMillan, all right, to the
Speaker 1: scrimmage now. And I've been to hard Rock Stadium twice
Speaker 1: each of the last two years, so four times total.
Speaker 1: And man, I don't know what it is, but this
Speaker 1: place just gets prettier every single time I go back,
Speaker 1: especially arriving at nine am. It wasn't too hot yet.
Speaker 1: The sun was hitting the building just right for a
Speaker 1: nice little glow. And then you get inside and my goodness,
Speaker 1: what a palace that place that Steven Ross put together.
Speaker 1: It looks gorgeous in there. Man, I think this was
Speaker 1: when it really hit me. The upball is almost here,
Speaker 1: just two weeks away, and that this job, that what
Speaker 1: I do for a living, really isn't a job at all,
Speaker 1: just an absolute mecca of a building and a great
Speaker 1: product to watch on the field. So then the practice
Speaker 1: broke out. It wasn't live tackling, but it was a
Speaker 1: great opportunity for us to see about sixty or seventy
Speaker 1: plays or so, give or take and get some evaluations
Speaker 1: on these guys and more of a live game like situation. First,
Speaker 1: Kyle van Noy and Patrick Laird, they were suited up
Speaker 1: in their full pads and worked out before the practice,
Speaker 1: but did not participate. They were down there fore months,
Speaker 1: but did not play in the actual scrimmage. Xavien Howard
Speaker 1: did not suit up. He was working out in jim
Speaker 1: shorts and a T shirt, going through some of his
Speaker 1: individual work, but he did not play on the scrimmage
Speaker 1: portion of practice. And the same was true of Kirk
Speaker 1: Merritt and DeVante Parker not participating in Saturdays scrimmage. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if Parker was out there or not. I
Speaker 1: didn't see him. I did see Kirk Merritt. I saw
Speaker 1: the rest of the guys getting some conditioning in and
Speaker 1: for that matter, I saw Jordan Howard and Matt Brita
Speaker 1: and Patrick Laird after practice while we're doing our zoom
Speaker 1: calls with coach and the players getting a lot of
Speaker 1: conditioning in post practice. So as for the practice itself,
Speaker 1: there were a few penalties and I'm sure that something
Speaker 1: Floras wants to clean up. He even said after the
Speaker 1: practice that it was good to get that feel of
Speaker 1: a game situation to feel the importance of how penalties
Speaker 1: can extend drives and keep the defense on the field
Speaker 1: or back the offense up and take them out of
Speaker 1: field goal range. He noted that specifically, but I'm also
Speaker 1: sure he was very pleased with how well his defense performed,
Speaker 1: because it was dominant on that side of the ball
Speaker 1: pretty much from the word go. We saw one touchdown
Speaker 1: and three field goals. Jason Sanders hit from fifty eight,
Speaker 1: forty eight, and forty one. He also had enough leg
Speaker 1: on a sixty one yarder, but it went wide left
Speaker 1: after a false start pushed the field goal team back.
Speaker 1: This was after Tuah took his team down into field
Speaker 1: goal range in a two minute situation at the end
Speaker 1: of the first half. The teams were actually listed as
Speaker 1: two and rosen on the scoreboard. Kind of cool to
Speaker 1: see that, but he took him to own the field
Speaker 1: goal range. They get backed up for a sixty one
Speaker 1: yard or and that was Sanders was only miss of
Speaker 1: the day. He had the three long field goals and
Speaker 1: a p a T. Matt Hawk was also skying some
Speaker 1: gorgeous kicks boomers for days. These two specialist Danny Crossman
Speaker 1: talked about them the other day on his press availability
Speaker 1: that they just felt good about those guys. Talked about
Speaker 1: maybe getting some people in camp to deal with leg fatigue,
Speaker 1: but outside of that, they are comfortable with both those guys.
Speaker 1: He said, this is a production business, and both those
Speaker 1: guys have produced, and we saw it on Saturday Kicker Talk, Baby,
Speaker 1: that's how you know your boys charged up for this podcast.
Speaker 1: So both quarterbacks had seven possessions. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: just talk about some of the standout performers. I kind
Speaker 1: of charted the yardage and drive success, but not to
Speaker 1: an exact science, so I'm not gonna tell you how
Speaker 1: many yards were gaining in that type of thing. There
Speaker 1: were thirteen possessions in total, Rosen and to a split
Speaker 1: the last possession. There was one touchdown, three field goals,
Speaker 1: one missed field goal, too interceptions, there was a fumble.
Speaker 1: But as you'll hear Josh Rosen say a little it
Speaker 1: later on on the podcast, they decided to maintain possession
Speaker 1: for the offense as a way to kind of manufacture
Speaker 1: circumstances within that practice. It makes sense, right, You control
Speaker 1: the environment you're playing in, give the players the situations
Speaker 1: you want to see how they react to because you
Speaker 1: can control the down and distance, the time on the clock,
Speaker 1: the situations, the entire environment. I only had two three
Speaker 1: an ounce on the day, so it wasn't like it
Speaker 1: was a totally stagnant performance from the offense. But again,
Speaker 1: the defense got the better of the offense in total
Speaker 1: overall on the day. And first things first, it is
Speaker 1: pretty challenging to evaluate eleven players on one play with
Speaker 1: no replay and a sideline view, a sideline angle that
Speaker 1: really doesn't allow you to see how the trenches unfold
Speaker 1: or even the blocking scheme or plan there. But man,
Speaker 1: you add on the other side of the ball and
Speaker 1: call it twenty two players, it's pretty tough as well.
Speaker 1: So here's what I saw, without the benefit of a
Speaker 1: tape to reach to rewatch to go back on, and
Speaker 1: with a sideline angle of the entire action quarterbacks. I
Speaker 1: didn't put either of these two guys in my standout
Speaker 1: performers category to a tongue of Valoa had an interception
Speaker 1: and his unit did not get into the end zone.
Speaker 1: As coach said, there were some throws and decisions you like.
Speaker 1: I like the way that he's able to sense pressure
Speaker 1: coming from either edge, sometimes both edges, and works his
Speaker 1: way up into the pocket while keeping his eyes down
Speaker 1: the field to get through his progressions, to get through
Speaker 1: his reads. He made some plays that way on Saturday.
Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from Eric Rowe here in just a
Speaker 1: little bit, who had the interception onto trying to shoot
Speaker 1: one up the sideline to Mike Gasicki, and that play
Speaker 1: had really good pass protection, but it also had really
Speaker 1: good past coverage as well, And that was something of
Speaker 1: a theme you're gonna hear on this podcast that the
Speaker 1: secondary rather wasn't tight coverage all day back there really
Speaker 1: playing well together, communicating and getting those things locked up
Speaker 1: on the backside. And Roe said that he was surprised
Speaker 1: the ball came to him because of how well how
Speaker 1: perfect his positioning was on that particular play too. I
Speaker 1: had some chunk gains. He operated well on some hurry
Speaker 1: up situations and continues to get the ball out so
Speaker 1: smoothly in the quick game on slants, screens, hitches, curls,
Speaker 1: those sort of things. We're gonna hear from two here
Speaker 1: in just one moment. We're also gonna hear from quarterback
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen, who had some mistakes as he'll tell you,
Speaker 1: but he also had some big time throws on Saturday.
Speaker 1: I asked him to break down the touchdown throw to
Speaker 1: Ricardo Lewis, the only touchdown of the day for the
Speaker 1: Dolphins offense, which I thought was his best throw of
Speaker 1: the day, the best play of the day from the
Speaker 1: offense in general. But I'll let him do that later on.
Speaker 1: He also had a very long strike down the field
Speaker 1: to Malcolm Perry, and that was another play where coverage
Speaker 1: and pass pro we're both good, so the play kind
Speaker 1: of gets extended out a little bit, and Perry was
Speaker 1: so far downfield when the ball left Josh's hand because
Speaker 1: we know Rosen has a hand cannon, and Perry did
Speaker 1: well to kind of decelerate to almost fool the defensive
Speaker 1: back into decelerating himself. Then he sped up, ran under it,
Speaker 1: and caught it at the last moment. I think it
Speaker 1: was good for about fifty five or sixty yards total,
Speaker 1: a deep strike from Rosen to Perry at running back.
Speaker 1: It's tough to gauge without live tackling how these guys
Speaker 1: are doing. But Brita looked as fast as anybody I've
Speaker 1: seen all camp long in this practice. He had some
Speaker 1: nice runs. He gets from that first level to the
Speaker 1: second level in a flash, and then from there he
Speaker 1: can hit you home runs. And I think we'll see
Speaker 1: that at some point this year for the Dolphins. Jordan
Speaker 1: Howard got dinged up a little bit early on and
Speaker 1: I tackle for loss where he slipped right in front
Speaker 1: of Shack Lawson, who, by the way, another big day
Speaker 1: for Shack Lawson. More on that soon. But Howard did
Speaker 1: return and had some more carries. It was the same
Speaker 1: story for Howard you've heard about all along. He's gonna
Speaker 1: find those small creases and small lanes and get you
Speaker 1: into better situations on third and second down. He's always
Speaker 1: gonna get positive yards, put his head down, burrow into
Speaker 1: that line, and create positive yards that way. I love
Speaker 1: his running style, I love his vision, I love his power.
Speaker 1: Very valuable piece of the offense there with Jordan Howard.
Speaker 1: I mentioned Malcolm Perry's long catch that was the play
Speaker 1: of the day for the offense in terms of total yardage.
Speaker 1: He also caught one over the middle in practice, but
Speaker 1: fumbled when Nick Needum punched it out. We'll talk more
Speaker 1: about need Him here in just a moment as well.
Speaker 1: At receiver Isaiah Ford uncovered pretty regularly throughout the course
Speaker 1: of practice. He caught three or four balls and typically
Speaker 1: had really good separation on those catches. There was one
Speaker 1: comeback route up against Byron Jones again we'll talk about
Speaker 1: Byron Jones in a moment as well, where Ford did
Speaker 1: an awesome job of stacking Jones, getting on top of
Speaker 1: him and got Jones to kind of commit the hips.
Speaker 1: You'll hear coaches talk about cornerbacks or receivers rather get
Speaker 1: them to commit their hips, show you which direction they
Speaker 1: want to flip the hips, then you can work their
Speaker 1: blind spot from there. He did very well to get
Speaker 1: Jones to commit the hips upfield and then throttled that
Speaker 1: thing down and came back down the stem for a
Speaker 1: nice fifteen or so yard gain on a comeback route
Speaker 1: that balls from Tah and a really good timing and
Speaker 1: chemistry look there on that play from Tah to Isaiah Ford.
Speaker 1: Ricardo Lewis had a big day, including the Loan touchdown.
Speaker 1: His concentration was on point throughout practice, not just on
Speaker 1: the touchdown catch, but a couple of others where he
Speaker 1: caught the football and traffic was super impressed there with
Speaker 1: eighty nine catching balls and traffic. One guy we've become
Speaker 1: accustomed to watching catch passes either in traffic or with
Speaker 1: separation is Preston Williams. And he had a couple of
Speaker 1: catches on this day, but nothing like we're used to
Speaker 1: seeing where he blows your mind with a one handed
Speaker 1: catch or a deep shot downfield diving. He just had
Speaker 1: a couple of catches routine stuff on the day and
Speaker 1: produce a little bit that way at receiver. The tight
Speaker 1: ends didn't factor much into the passing game. If they
Speaker 1: even did at all, it was probably underneath stuff throwing
Speaker 1: in the short flats to those guys. And we'll talk
Speaker 1: about the safeties here in just a moment, because they
Speaker 1: were locking up those tight ends. Adam Shaheen had a catch.
Speaker 1: I know that Mike Asiki caught went out to the flat.
Speaker 1: I think for a short gain, and Durham Smith always
Speaker 1: has a block or two that springs a chunk gain
Speaker 1: in the ground game. He did that again on Saturday
Speaker 1: as well. On the offensive line. I saw Solomon Kindley
Speaker 1: get himself a pancake and then create push a few
Speaker 1: other times in this practice. Liked his game a lot.
Speaker 1: I liked what I saw out of Robert Hunt, same
Speaker 1: story there. He's so good at kind of digging guys
Speaker 1: out of their spot and turning them and using that
Speaker 1: power and length and size to win that leverage, and
Speaker 1: then using that leverage to create a lane for his
Speaker 1: running back. I thought Adam Pinky had a really good day,
Speaker 1: especially in past protection. A couple of times. I noted
Speaker 1: seventy eight out there on a one on one situation,
Speaker 1: including the deep past to Perry where he locked it
Speaker 1: down and created a good quarter or a good pocket
Speaker 1: rather for his quarterback. Again, really tough to evaluate from
Speaker 1: that angle with no replay, but I did note that Flowers, Carriss, Davis,
Speaker 1: and Deeter all had key blocks on good gains in
Speaker 1: the running game. Now on the other side, that's where
Speaker 1: the notes really fill up here on the defensive side,
Speaker 1: we start on the defensive line and where to begin here?
Speaker 1: Because Shack Lawson finished off what honestly might have been
Speaker 1: a week where I might give him like an m
Speaker 1: v P of the week of training camp. He was
Speaker 1: just great again. On Saturday. I mentioned his tackle for
Speaker 1: loss that was one of two that he had. He
Speaker 1: got back in there for a would be sack and
Speaker 1: some additional pressures as a pass rusher as well. On
Speaker 1: one play one of his TFLs, they tried to bring
Speaker 1: a tight end across the formation to block him and
Speaker 1: create that lane off the outside part of the formation.
Speaker 1: He stood that thing up, shed the block and made
Speaker 1: a stop. A dominant day for number ninety out there
Speaker 1: now number ninety one on the other side, the story
Speaker 1: has been the same old camp. Immanuel Ogba has been
Speaker 1: a beast all training camp long. They met in the
Speaker 1: backfield Aga and laws in a couple of times with
Speaker 1: some nice pass rush, pass rush tandems off either edge
Speaker 1: on the inside. I noted that Zach Seiler with another
Speaker 1: huge day. He's getting plenty of mention on the podcast here. Now.
Speaker 1: That pancake I mentioned from Kinley was on zach Seler,
Speaker 1: but that was the only rep I saw where he
Speaker 1: didn't really just get after it. He was constantly collapsing
Speaker 1: the interior and it's so difficult to move him against
Speaker 1: the run with that length and power. I'm a big
Speaker 1: fan of his game, as I was at the end
Speaker 1: of last year as well. Devon Gotcha had a really
Speaker 1: good week of practice and it continued on Saturday just
Speaker 1: that tree stump on the inside against the run. We
Speaker 1: saw plenty of that from fifty six. I noted ray
Speaker 1: Kwon Davis with a bowl rush surge that ruined one
Speaker 1: pass play and Christian Wilkins with some nice work on
Speaker 1: the inside to clog things up and create space for
Speaker 1: guys to make plays behind him. And those guys are
Speaker 1: lineback is the land and Roberts Cammu Gruja Hill, Calvin Munson.
Speaker 1: We haven't talked a lot about Munson, but I find
Speaker 1: his game to be pretty intriguing. Between the b gaps,
Speaker 1: he flows downhill and hits guys. Man, he wants to
Speaker 1: get out there and bang his head into a wall.
Speaker 1: He gets his face and the fan and really gets
Speaker 1: after it with the contact and the physicality of the game.
Speaker 1: He matches that level of a land and Roberts that
Speaker 1: way with the physicality of the game. And speaking of Roberts,
Speaker 1: just consistently, day in day out, Downhill smart as all
Speaker 1: get out, and Ted Carriss told me on the postgame
Speaker 1: presser that at land And Roberts is probably the hardest
Speaker 1: hitting football player he's ever gone up against. The other
Speaker 1: guy on this list here, Cambu Gruja Hill he starts
Speaker 1: off practice with a tackle for loss and just rolled
Speaker 1: onto a good day from there. I mentioned the safetyes
Speaker 1: on tight ends, but Gruge Hill was also all over
Speaker 1: the field and coverage on tight ends, covering guys and
Speaker 1: that hook zone over the middle of the field. He's
Speaker 1: a high energy guy and someone who I'm really excited
Speaker 1: to see get his first real shot in a defense.
Speaker 1: He was supposed to play a bunch last year for
Speaker 1: the Eagles. That's what reports said out of camp from
Speaker 1: Jim Schwartz, a bunch of the players there at practice.
Speaker 1: Then he had an injury pre camp and came back
Speaker 1: mid season and played a good chunk of snaps, but
Speaker 1: he was supposed to play a lot more. I think
Speaker 1: he has a chance to really shine here in this
Speaker 1: Dolphins defense. Finally, on the back end, I mentioned a
Speaker 1: somewhat quiet day for the otherwise explosive Preston Williams, and
Speaker 1: a lot of that had to do with the fact
Speaker 1: that he drew number twenty four Byron Jones over and
Speaker 1: over and over again, and Jones was just not giving
Speaker 1: anything up. Man sticky coverage, good jobs, staying on top,
Speaker 1: transitioning inside or outside off those breaks, playing the football,
Speaker 1: big big day for twenty four and one of those
Speaker 1: days that doesn't get enough credit because if you're not,
Speaker 1: like if you just follow the football, you're not gonna
Speaker 1: see him with fifteen or twenty good reps where he
Speaker 1: doesn't get targeted because you're not watching a cornerback on
Speaker 1: receiver and the ball doesn't go that direction. If you're
Speaker 1: not gonna get targeted, that probably means you're in pretty
Speaker 1: good coverage for the most part, at least on a
Speaker 1: high enough sample size, and that was the case with
Speaker 1: Byron Jones. So smooth and the way he punches and
Speaker 1: has an initial jam and man coverage and zone coverage.
Speaker 1: He just as a good looking football player out there
Speaker 1: and he had a big day on Saturday. Another big
Speaker 1: day came from Brion Borders, who had a hell of
Speaker 1: a pick on Josh Rosen's first series, but he was
Speaker 1: flagged for defensive pass interference, so you don't get the
Speaker 1: credit for it, but it showed good ball skills and
Speaker 1: ball awareness and he does get his hands on the
Speaker 1: football a heck of a lot. Nick need Um also
Speaker 1: had a thievery on a Rosen pass, but it was
Speaker 1: also negated on d P I I thought that one
Speaker 1: was much more clear of a penalty. Need Him kind
Speaker 1: of pulled the guy to the ground that made a
Speaker 1: play on the football, but he didn't agree with it
Speaker 1: after he ran it back for six and a touchdown.
Speaker 1: But he would get his takeaway later in the game
Speaker 1: or in the scrimmage, I should say, by punching a
Speaker 1: football out and forcing a fumble with a good strike
Speaker 1: to the ball on a completed pass over the middle
Speaker 1: and on the first drive of Josh Rosen's I found
Speaker 1: this to be super impressive work from Nick need him
Speaker 1: here because he got I think it was back to
Speaker 1: back times against Ricardo Lewis on comeback routes with need
Speaker 1: Him and coverage. They completed it underneath, picked up ten
Speaker 1: or twelve yards, moved the chains. But they tried it
Speaker 1: again a third time, and Nita made an adjustment to
Speaker 1: play a little bit more underneath of the receiver and
Speaker 1: challenge the route, asking them, hey, go up top if
Speaker 1: you want to beat me, because you're not gonna beat
Speaker 1: me on the comeback again. They tried to come back.
Speaker 1: He gets himself in there for a pass breakup. He
Speaker 1: also broke on another ball earlier that he almost picked
Speaker 1: off as well, so two p bus and a forced
Speaker 1: fumble for Nick need Hum on the day Noah Bonogamy
Speaker 1: kind of Byron Jones and the way that he wasn't
Speaker 1: targeted a whole lot, didn't get to see a whole
Speaker 1: lot out of him, but he continues to show you
Speaker 1: that athletic ability and strength and press the things you
Speaker 1: like at the position. Know had a good day in
Speaker 1: that regard. Ken Webster was on coverage on the deep
Speaker 1: ball for Malcolm Perry, but he also responded with back
Speaker 1: to back pass breakups after that play, So three consecutive
Speaker 1: plays going after him. You love to see a player
Speaker 1: respond like that. And then then there were the safeties
Speaker 1: and they had a day. Eric Row had the pick.
Speaker 1: I don't recall seeing a pass caught on him. If
Speaker 1: there was one, it was something in the flat where
Speaker 1: he closed down quickly and made a stop. He also
Speaker 1: got his face in there against the running game and
Speaker 1: really clawed up some run fits that way, like he's
Speaker 1: talked about in the past on this podcast. Clayton Federlum
Speaker 1: had an outstanding interception where he came all the way
Speaker 1: from center field to the sideline, elevated, picked that thing
Speaker 1: off high pointed it and then had a big runback
Speaker 1: afterwards as well. That range and ball skills to get
Speaker 1: over the top on that throw. Impressive work there from
Speaker 1: number forty two. And then Brandon Jones the broken record
Speaker 1: alert here. He's so instinctive, so quick with the trigger,
Speaker 1: and he closed his ground fast man. He made a
Speaker 1: few plays in this scrimmage as well, and that has
Speaker 1: been the case all training camp long for number twenty nine,
Speaker 1: and Bobby McCain had such has had such a steady
Speaker 1: training camp so far. In my opinion, he gets his
Speaker 1: hands on balls for past breakups. But you just watch
Speaker 1: the way he interacts with his cornerbacks and the way
Speaker 1: he communicates the defense. To me, it seems like he's
Speaker 1: playing very comfortable and very fast in year two at
Speaker 1: the safety position. I'll ask him about that later on
Speaker 1: on this podcast. But to wrap up the notes here,
Speaker 1: the defense again, they won the day. I thought the
Speaker 1: offense had some good moments plenty to work on, plenty
Speaker 1: of tape and digesting, make improvements going forward, get things corrected.
Speaker 1: And with that, let's go ahead and start off with
Speaker 1: Brian Flores as well as a gaggle or perhaps a
Speaker 1: pod of Dolphins players who met with the media after
Speaker 1: the scrimmage. Let's go ahead and start here with Coach
Speaker 1: Flora's and I would encourage everybody to go and watch
Speaker 1: this on Miami Dolphins dot com because there is some
Speaker 1: real emotion and a very somber mood from Brian Flores
Speaker 1: as he informs us all about what happened if Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: this morning. This is how we all learned on this
Speaker 1: conference call with Brian Flores. Here he is talking about
Speaker 1: why Fits left the field and that situation. It's that
Speaker 1: you know, we've talked about him having a personal situation.
Speaker 1: So his mom passed away this morning. UM, so yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no quarterback controversy, there's no Um, he's not opting out,
Speaker 1: he's not retiring. You know that. There's a lot written
Speaker 1: in the last time. He had a little some personal situations,
Speaker 1: but his mom passed away. UM. You know, Fits has
Speaker 1: tried to work through this. You know, he always wanted
Speaker 1: to practice. Um, he tried to go out there today.
Speaker 1: But you know, and I've had multiple conversations with him
Speaker 1: having dealt with this also, and it's a tough situation
Speaker 1: and we you know, our hearts go out to him.
Speaker 1: As a team, as an organization, and uh, this is
Speaker 1: a competitive guy. You tried to go out there, um,
Speaker 1: but something is a more important football, So he went.
Speaker 1: He left to be with his family. So yeah, there's
Speaker 1: no quarterback controversy. There's no he's not retiring, he's not
Speaker 1: opting out. You know, I know it's and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I just went to you know, just say, you guys
Speaker 1: do that's man. It's tough to it's tough to watch
Speaker 1: man Flora's lost his mother a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: I talked about my experience earlier on the podcast here today,
Speaker 1: It's just yeah, a lot of things are bigger than football,
Speaker 1: and this is definitely one of them. So I just
Speaker 1: I don't have any comment. It just it breaks my
Speaker 1: heart to watch that, to hear that, and to feel
Speaker 1: for Ryan Fitzpatrick. The next question here for Coach was
Speaker 1: again about Ryan Fitzpatrick and that moment they had walking
Speaker 1: off the field and if he believes, if coach believes
Speaker 1: that what he had to say to Ryan maybe helped
Speaker 1: him out in that moment. You know, as a you know,
Speaker 1: as a coach, as a friend, as a man, is
Speaker 1: a I mean, you know, they're all kind of intertwined
Speaker 1: in this game. So you know, obviously our conversations are
Speaker 1: going to stay this you know, private, but I went
Speaker 1: through this year ago. My mom's about the same age.
Speaker 1: We're about the same age, so you know, we're both
Speaker 1: I'm a former athlete, he's an athlete. But about competitive
Speaker 1: guys and leaders, and you know, you want to you
Speaker 1: want to be strong, but you know their their moments
Speaker 1: where you know you can't you're not able to be him,
Speaker 1: So I understand that it's it's I just try to
Speaker 1: support him. You know on his team you know is
Speaker 1: supporting him, and that's that's uh, that was you know, essentially,
Speaker 1: that was my message to him. Normally, I go back
Speaker 1: through and I edit the audio so that it kind
Speaker 1: of doesn't have those lapses and those moments of kind
Speaker 1: of thinking there for the coach and for the players
Speaker 1: that do these audio availabilities for us. But I thought
Speaker 1: it was important to play that out and its entirety
Speaker 1: because you can see the kind of pain that Flora's
Speaker 1: feels as he processes that for his friend and for
Speaker 1: his you know, his player, and it's it's cool support
Speaker 1: these guys have for each other. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: move on to this next question here for Coach about
Speaker 1: the length of Fitzpatrick's potential absence as he grieves the
Speaker 1: unfortunate passing of his mother. He's gonna take as much
Speaker 1: time and as he needs off it. And you know,
Speaker 1: I think as a as a you know, me, as
Speaker 1: an organization, we're gonna give this, give him this time
Speaker 1: to grieve. My thought on this is he's gonna try
Speaker 1: to get back as quickly as he can because that's
Speaker 1: that's the competitive nature in him. And you know, like
Speaker 1: a lot of us, footballs are sanctuary and it's our
Speaker 1: place to get away from the tough times, the pain,
Speaker 1: the english in our lives. So I know he'll try,
Speaker 1: probably try to get back as soon as he can,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna give as much time as he wants,
Speaker 1: any or needs. And credit to Josh Tolentino here of
Speaker 1: The Athletic for making the difficult, difficult transition from that
Speaker 1: topic to ask coach about the performance on the football field.
Speaker 1: I thought he handled that question very well. Here is
Speaker 1: Coach's response to Josh about how he felt a competitive
Speaker 1: atmosphere and what the scrimmage was like on the field
Speaker 1: on Saturday. You know, I think there's a lot you
Speaker 1: know about preseason games. That's our first you know, real
Speaker 1: look you know, in the stadium, sideline, operation, headsets, officials,
Speaker 1: So there's a lot to clean up. You know, I
Speaker 1: would just say, just from a coaching standpoint, UM, so
Speaker 1: we got a little bit of that cleaned up, you know,
Speaker 1: from first half the second half. Make an adjustments on
Speaker 1: the sideline with the tablets, you know, that's something we have,
Speaker 1: you know, we having been able to do so to
Speaker 1: incorporate that, you know, going from series to series, that
Speaker 1: was that was good. You know. On the field, I
Speaker 1: think we've had some penalties out there and it's it's
Speaker 1: good to feel that. UM Defensively, offensively how they you know,
Speaker 1: extend drives or killed drives in some instances, So the
Speaker 1: imports to plan and trying to play penalty free, but
Speaker 1: also being aggressive and playing with good fundamentals, technique and discipline.
Speaker 1: So I think overall, anytime you get a live look,
Speaker 1: you know, or as close to the game as possible,
Speaker 1: it's good. Up next, we hear from coach with regards
Speaker 1: to the decision to trade linebacker Ray Kwon McMillan. Here
Speaker 1: is coach on McMillan and the trade. Well, obviously, uh
Speaker 1: Rake worn is somebody. I have a lot of respect
Speaker 1: for this talented player. I think people are gonna say that,
Speaker 1: you know, people will say what they want to say.
Speaker 1: He's he's somebody respect a lot. He's he's a good
Speaker 1: football player. I think he's gonna have a long career.
Speaker 1: But you know, there's a lot of depth in that room. Again,
Speaker 1: you know, like a lot of decisions we make as
Speaker 1: a as a mooranization, there's there's a lot of things
Speaker 1: that go into it that you know, you guys aren't
Speaker 1: gonna you're not gonna know about um, We're not gonna
Speaker 1: tell you so. But in every decision we make, it's
Speaker 1: it's in the best interest of the Miami Dolphins. So
Speaker 1: I have a lot of respect from I wish him
Speaker 1: all the best and it's a good kid. And we
Speaker 1: finish up. Coach Flores Saturday post scrimmage press conference here
Speaker 1: with a question about his evaluation of the two quarterbacks
Speaker 1: on the field into a tongue of Valoa and Josh Rosen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's hard to really every game is a
Speaker 1: little bit different. So I think if you don't see
Speaker 1: a bunch of touchdown score, you feel like the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: not playing well. That's not necessarily the case. Not my
Speaker 1: my view as well, although I'm not in my uh
Speaker 1: not my opinion, I should say, Um, so I have
Speaker 1: to go back and look at the film. I saw
Speaker 1: some good throws. I saw some uh you know, good
Speaker 1: decisions to could have thrown in some title windows, didn't
Speaker 1: you know, potential turnovers that guys didn't make the throw.
Speaker 1: But I gotta go watch the film. To be honest
Speaker 1: with you, When you don't see a bunch of touchdown
Speaker 1: score or big passes, you start to think the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: not playing well, that's just not the case. And um, honestly,
Speaker 1: I thought those guys, I thought there was a good communication.
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, we're in and out of a huddle.
Speaker 1: Turnovers or down so you know, those are things are important.
Speaker 1: Give us a chance to you know, to keep the
Speaker 1: game tight. So go ahead and press on here with
Speaker 1: receiver isaih Afford his postgame press conference, and uh, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna try my best to keep my emotions, you know,
Speaker 1: and check press this podcast. But man, it's tough because
Speaker 1: here's for talking about his close friend Ryan Fitzpatrick, you know,
Speaker 1: it's tough anytime somebody's dealing with a loss, UM, specifically
Speaker 1: your mother, you know mother and his son's VN is
Speaker 1: something like no that I couldn't imagine UM if it
Speaker 1: was me. UM, you know, And I just want to
Speaker 1: want him to know that whatever UM, we can't do
Speaker 1: UM as an extended family, UM to support him and
Speaker 1: help him win his loss, UM, that will be here
Speaker 1: for him, UM, you know. And that just that. Next,
Speaker 1: Isaiah talks about his approach to the daily process and
Speaker 1: how he can get better every single day. Uh. Yes,
Speaker 1: each day, I'm just uh, you know, just kind of
Speaker 1: focus on the little things in the details, and it's
Speaker 1: trying to get a little bit better, you stay, you know, UM.
Speaker 1: And whether that's a that's kind of not um focusing
Speaker 1: on what I've done the day before or even two
Speaker 1: days or whatever that case may be. But it's focusing
Speaker 1: on the current day and I'm doing everything that I
Speaker 1: can to put one foot in front of other. We're
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and pivot over here quickly. Somebody's interviews
Speaker 1: happened very fast. Couple of questions two or so minutes long.
Speaker 1: Ted Karas spoke about the rookie offensive lineman and how
Speaker 1: much joy he finds and helping those guys, those guys
Speaker 1: grow and develop and watch those young hungry players work
Speaker 1: every day at practice. You know, I think he's just
Speaker 1: he's done a fantastic job. All these rookies Salmon and
Speaker 1: Rob and Anathan Hubbard and these guys are really come
Speaker 1: to work every day and it's been a pleasure to
Speaker 1: help them out and and see them grow. And you know,
Speaker 1: as I'm trying to continue to grow myself, it's uh,
Speaker 1: it's fun to be around these younger guys that are
Speaker 1: really working hard, and I'm really looking forward to going
Speaker 1: in a season with these guys. Travis and Ted wanted
Speaker 1: to ask you about a guy on the other side
Speaker 1: of the ball that kind of interact with the center
Speaker 1: position a lot, and it landed Roberts in the communication
Speaker 1: and physicality he brings. What's a light going up against
Speaker 1: him every day and practice and some of the challenges
Speaker 1: he provides you guys on the offensive line, Well, I've
Speaker 1: known he robbed for uh. This is our fifth season together, um,
Speaker 1: and he's just about the hardest hitter of ever played against.
Speaker 1: So that's the biggest challenge going with it. Very good
Speaker 1: player and someone I respect um as a friend, as
Speaker 1: a man. Uh and uh and I'm really really happy
Speaker 1: that we got to reunite and continue to uh you know,
Speaker 1: play football together. When Ted said his his word there,
Speaker 1: he kind of did the yeek face right there. Pretty
Speaker 1: funny pressor go check that out on Miami Dolphins dot com.
Speaker 1: Up next, let's go ahead and here real quickly from
Speaker 1: Eric row and here is the Dolphins safe. You're talking
Speaker 1: about his interception he had working against Mike Asiki off
Speaker 1: the hand of t A Tonga VLOA. Yeah, it would
Speaker 1: just you know, just straight up man, he ran. It
Speaker 1: was like an outing up. Honestly, didn't say they were
Speaker 1: gonna throw it to him because I was it's covered
Speaker 1: all on him. But once his eyes got big, I
Speaker 1: just turned my head and the quarterback through it inside.
Speaker 1: He gave me a chance and I made to play.
Speaker 1: And now we'll hear from Eric talking about his teammate,
Speaker 1: his quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick. It means a lot to it
Speaker 1: something that just has a teammate which just you know,
Speaker 1: as a guy in the locker room. Uh, he's brains, consistent, energy,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's funny, he's just a good guy to
Speaker 1: be around, and I mean we all feel for him.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, we all heard the news this morning,
Speaker 1: and you know, if that was any one of us,
Speaker 1: and we you know, we feel the same way, and
Speaker 1: he can't. It's hard to play when you know you
Speaker 1: got you know, your parents passed and your mom or dad.
Speaker 1: So I mean we all feel fun when you know,
Speaker 1: we all got our prayers going for him and hopeing
Speaker 1: when he comes back. You know, he didn't come back
Speaker 1: to a family. I love that last line there about
Speaker 1: coming back to a family. This Dolphins team is very
Speaker 1: very tight, very very close knit bunch, and they definitely
Speaker 1: support each other, as we've heard that the course of
Speaker 1: these press conferences. Let's go ahead and spen affward. Now
Speaker 1: to defensive tackle Devon Gartcha, who talked to the media
Speaker 1: after the scrimmage. I'm very excited, you know, big thanks
Speaker 1: to come, you know, starting that practice, working hard, um,
Speaker 1: getting things we need to do. I mean, she's excited.
Speaker 1: We got two guys on the edge. You know the
Speaker 1: rest of passing, you know, set the d stop the running.
Speaker 1: You know, guys up the middle like me, Christopher and
Speaker 1: other guys you know, Zack, you know I'm very excited.
Speaker 1: That's Devon talking about how excited he is about the
Speaker 1: Dolphins defensive line and the performances they've turned in so
Speaker 1: far in training camp and today's practice. And then there
Speaker 1: was a bit of a follow up question about that.
Speaker 1: But the defensive line for Devon to make it easier
Speaker 1: for me, you know, you got guys like that. You know,
Speaker 1: we can played running play the past, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. It makes it very He's just put the
Speaker 1: guys inside. And also when you have guys inside to
Speaker 1: can press the pocket, you know, beat on the lines,
Speaker 1: and you know, makes it makes it easier for them too.
Speaker 1: So like I said, it's gonna be able. You know,
Speaker 1: a two way times, you know, working hand to hand
Speaker 1: with those guys, they working hand to hand with us,
Speaker 1: you know. So I'm very excited for it. You know,
Speaker 1: I can't wait to the season. And now flipping it
Speaker 1: over on the other side of the script of Vans
Speaker 1: asked we evaluate the play of the offensive line up
Speaker 1: against him in Solomon Kinley and the rest of the
Speaker 1: Dolphins offensive line. First of all, you know, I like
Speaker 1: he's an SEC guy, so you know, I like him.
Speaker 1: He's a he's a big guy. He has a great
Speaker 1: feet for BI guy. You know, he's very aggressive, you know,
Speaker 1: so I like those tangibles about him, you know, but
Speaker 1: he just gotta keep working, you know, keeping in consistent,
Speaker 1: you know, keep listening to his coach. And I think
Speaker 1: the guy's a limit for him. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: go back to the defensive backfield now and here from
Speaker 1: Dolphins safety Bobby McCain, who talked a little bit about
Speaker 1: the competition in that locker room, in that defensive backs
Speaker 1: room to get hands on football's been kind of a
Speaker 1: theme of the week. We heard Joel alex Air and
Speaker 1: talk about it, Nick need Hum Byron Jones. Guys have
Speaker 1: talked about the compety, aition to get takeaways, to get picks,
Speaker 1: to get pass breakups, to scoop up incomplete passes and fumbles.
Speaker 1: Here's McCain on the emphasis on getting the football, just
Speaker 1: trying to just like you said, you get our hands
Speaker 1: on the football man and get the balled offense. That's
Speaker 1: our job as defenders, um working. We work on turnovers
Speaker 1: each and every day at private, so making sure we
Speaker 1: get a chance and opportunity every time scripting the ball.
Speaker 1: Go pick the ball at the highest point Um, that's
Speaker 1: really what we won't focus our game on and just
Speaker 1: being ball halls. And next, Bobby was asked to evaluate
Speaker 1: a couple of rookies on the Dolphins roster, Malcolm Perry
Speaker 1: and Brandon Jones. Want offense, one on defense. Obviously. Here's
Speaker 1: Bobby's answer about what he sees in Malcolm Perry and
Speaker 1: in Brandon Jones. He's just a football player. He makes plays. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I saying he's a tough kid. He's he's
Speaker 1: working on making tough catches. Um, as you saw today
Speaker 1: he had a big catch today. And Uh, Brandon Jones,
Speaker 1: you know he's a guy that that that he's going,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be good for us. He's a guy with
Speaker 1: high energy, he got a motor, He runs around, makes
Speaker 1: plays on the football, and that's what we need to
Speaker 1: back end. Just. Um, you know, we all just we're
Speaker 1: all coming together as a team and understanding that. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we we had we all have our roles
Speaker 1: to play and um, you know those two guys are
Speaker 1: gonna help us up. Next, Bobby was asked about his
Speaker 1: leadership role on this football team, and the question was asked,
Speaker 1: you go up to Isaiah Ford and talk to him
Speaker 1: after a catch gets made. You talked to Ryan Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: about the competition and practice. Here's Bobby McCain on his
Speaker 1: leadership role and how he communicates with his teammates. Um,
Speaker 1: just just being myself, man, just being myself. Anybody can
Speaker 1: be a leader. Anybody can step up at any time.
Speaker 1: And you know what I'm saying, to make people aware
Speaker 1: of of the things we need as a team. And
Speaker 1: that's what I try to do. Like you said, he's
Speaker 1: speaking with Fish, just trying to see what he's seeing
Speaker 1: on his side from me or anyone else on this
Speaker 1: on the defense and uh, you know, like we're all brothers,
Speaker 1: like helping my brother up. But after you catch the ball,
Speaker 1: that's not you know, that's that's nothing that hates, nothing
Speaker 1: to hate on. We We we got to compete and um,
Speaker 1: you know he's we're all getting better. Okay, Bobby, want
Speaker 1: to ask you about your number two now for you
Speaker 1: playing safety and deep off the football where you can
Speaker 1: kind of see everything kind of unfold in front of you.
Speaker 1: And I'm just curious, this is kind of the first
Speaker 1: game type of situation you had here in year number two.
Speaker 1: Did you notice any sense of growth for you having
Speaker 1: that whole year of playing safety under your belt, experience
Speaker 1: and applying it on the field. Yeah, each and every
Speaker 1: day you try to get better at practice, and um,
Speaker 1: you know, being in the game setting today is definitely Uh,
Speaker 1: it's definitely exciting. But we got to watch the film
Speaker 1: and just make corrections and um, you know, each and
Speaker 1: every day I'm trying to get better. And you know,
Speaker 1: this is my second year play of safety. So each
Speaker 1: and every year, man, I mean each and every day
Speaker 1: he's never practice. I'm trying new things and I want
Speaker 1: to see, Like that's what practices for, is trying to
Speaker 1: things and see what you can be good at and
Speaker 1: what it was not good for you. And let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and finish this thing up with the quarterback, starting
Speaker 1: with Josh Rosen, who was first asked about Ryan Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: and the team coming together and the support they have
Speaker 1: for their quarterback. Um, it's a it's a brutal situation. Um,
Speaker 1: and I just tried to support him like anyway I
Speaker 1: could these last couple days, weeks, and months. Um. But
Speaker 1: I mean Ryan's mom race a hell of a kid,
Speaker 1: really strong, awesome, independent kind dude. And I've been fortunate
Speaker 1: enough to sort of be around him in these last
Speaker 1: couple left couple of months. Almost here now probably, and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, it's a tough situation, but kind of puts
Speaker 1: everything into perspective and reminds you that, like we all
Speaker 1: are still human. Human things happen. I wanted to ask
Speaker 1: you about that touchdown pass you had to Ricardo Lewis
Speaker 1: and just kind of have you walk us through that.
Speaker 1: It looked from our badge point like you had some
Speaker 1: tight coverage there. We're able to find that tight window
Speaker 1: if you tell us what you saw on that play.
Speaker 1: Um it was. It wasn't wide open. It was more
Speaker 1: of kind of an opportunity to ball. He's running a
Speaker 1: corner route in corner, kind of fell off into it
Speaker 1: a little bit underthrown and Ricardo made hell of the play. Um,
Speaker 1: So they're a little bit scrambling there. So I just
Speaker 1: kind of snapped it quick. It didn get like a
Speaker 1: crystal clear do the coverage, but I knew where I
Speaker 1: wanted to throw it and who I wanted to go
Speaker 1: to and recorded me all the play. So we get
Speaker 1: some breakdown there on the touchdown pass from Rose and
Speaker 1: to Ricardo Lewis. Here's Josh talking about the deep ball
Speaker 1: he had to Malcolm Perry. Um, so that's not really
Speaker 1: a part of our read. But the first two guys
Speaker 1: are going I was going to kind of got trapped
Speaker 1: inside on some out breaking routes, um, and uh like
Speaker 1: in my vision through them, I kind of see the
Speaker 1: go behind it and kind of just noticed that Malcolm
Speaker 1: might a step on it, and I just thought I
Speaker 1: chucked it. It's the only one safety in the field,
Speaker 1: so um, I didn't think he was gonna track it down.
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, it really wasn't kind of a plan
Speaker 1: as more of a reaction because my first couple of
Speaker 1: guys got stuck inside. Um. But uh yeah, and we
Speaker 1: finish up here with Dolphin's rookie quarterback to a tongle
Speaker 1: by Loa as he was first asked to talk about
Speaker 1: the situation pre practice with Ryan Fitzpatrick, to his relationship
Speaker 1: with Fitzpatrick and getting injected right into the lineup right
Speaker 1: before practice started because Fits came off so quickly before
Speaker 1: the scrimmage started. I'd say that was something pretty difficult,
Speaker 1: you know. I I kinda, I kind of you know,
Speaker 1: told Fits that I'm here for him, you know, but
Speaker 1: it was something more so emotional for me too, because
Speaker 1: I kind of thought of my own mom and just
Speaker 1: the thought of not having a family member, you know,
Speaker 1: losing a family member, it's hard. UM. So you know,
Speaker 1: being being given that circumstance, being told that, you know,
Speaker 1: I had to be ready to go go out with
Speaker 1: the first group today. I mean, it wasn't something that
Speaker 1: I was nervous to do, UM, but it was more
Speaker 1: so I I kind of I kind of felt what
Speaker 1: what you know, I would say, kind of what Fits
Speaker 1: was going through. I got emotional U when Fits ended
Speaker 1: up leaving to UM and while we were about to
Speaker 1: pray as a team. But that's that not something that's easy.
Speaker 1: And so I reached out to him to telling them
Speaker 1: that he was, you know, in my prayers and he's
Speaker 1: been on my mind, in my heart and if they
Speaker 1: needed anything, you know, they they can reach out to
Speaker 1: me that I'm here. And here is two of talking
Speaker 1: about his evaluation of his own performance on Saturday and
Speaker 1: how it failed to get back onto the football field
Speaker 1: for his first game like situation, his first simulated game
Speaker 1: so to speak, since the injury last year at Alabama. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think there was some good today. There were also
Speaker 1: some not so good. Um, but I think it was
Speaker 1: a it was a learning curve for for me and
Speaker 1: a lot of the rookies. There's some things we need
Speaker 1: to clean up offensively on my end, and you know,
Speaker 1: just things in general with communication, um, and then for
Speaker 1: me not not turning the ball over um in in situations,
Speaker 1: so being better with situational awareness you know, down in
Speaker 1: distance and then you know communication you know, and that's
Speaker 1: why we got a film too to be able to
Speaker 1: go over that. Um. So you know, after this interview,
Speaker 1: I'll probably go and look at at the film and
Speaker 1: then get ready before our our meeting tonight with what
Speaker 1: our coaches have to say. Let's go ahead and finish
Speaker 1: this thing up with one quote here from To about
Speaker 1: being a lion or being a gazelle, a message that
Speaker 1: To has put out there into social media, onto his documentary,
Speaker 1: all these things he was asked to kind of expand
Speaker 1: upon that. Here's too, we're talking about his philosophy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think that that's saying really relates to
Speaker 1: life in general. Um. For for me, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: you got the line in the Gazelle they both wake
Speaker 1: up in the morning and they both got to run.
Speaker 1: One is running to something one is running away from something,
Speaker 1: you know, and which one are you? Um? And so
Speaker 1: for for me, you take on the mindset of trying
Speaker 1: to wake up and become a lion every day. You know,
Speaker 1: you always want to go and chase, chase your goals
Speaker 1: for the day. You know, get better, do do something
Speaker 1: good for the community. Um And And I really think
Speaker 1: it's just something that I can take in life in
Speaker 1: general and not just training in camp. Now, I'm chasing
Speaker 1: to be the best too that I can be both
Speaker 1: on and off the field. And really that's that's it.
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