WEBVTT - Drive Time: Houston Joint Practice Day 1 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:04.080 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:06.400 Now let me check your pulse if you're not. 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:10.000 What is up? Dolphins? 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:12.880 And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:17.560 Miami Dolphins podcast network covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:20.400 How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield. 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:23.560 And on today's show, Day one from Houston is complete 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:25.119 and it was a good one. We got tons of 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:28.080 football expertise from Mike McDaniel to a tongue of by lower, 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:31.639 Jeff Wilson, Xavien Howard to Ron Armstead. Plus I'm gonna 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:34.479 break down practice, mostly offense, and then I'm gonna get 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:37.560 djb Enemy from ESPN Houston on here to talk about 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:39.880 that Dolphins defense because didn't get a chance to watch 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:42.520 much of that as he really locked in on that side. 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:47.320 From Houston, this is the driver. 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:52.839 Definitely forgot where I was there for a moment, so 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:56.280 not from the Baptist Health Studios, but we got some 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:58.640 more football philosophy from coach today and I want to 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:00.520 start the podcast with that because I feel like he's 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:02.800 done a good job every step of the way explaining 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:05.480 to us the context behind these practices and the plays 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:08.000 and how you should evaluate them, and I feel like 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:10.040 we should listen to him more than anybody else, and 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:13.000 I include myself in that anybody else category. But I 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:15.119 just wanted to get this explanation of how these practices 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:17.880 come together and the evaluation that they're looking at what 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:19.959 should be the same thing we're looking at, and how 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:21.440 it's not the same as what you look at in 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:24.120 a football game the results. Right, let's go ahead and 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:25.440 start here with coach mcdan. 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:29.160 Because you can get lost, and I've been very clear 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:35.440 with the team that this is such an opportunity for 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:41.760 technique work with some very variants on both sides, specifically 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:45.680 for the offense in terms of the defensive structure that 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:49.480 you're going against, and it's about our technique and developing it. 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:56.080 I think it's hugely important that we utilize the opportunity 0:01:56.480 --> 0:02:00.960 to work on our craft. And it's quite the opposite 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:04.960 of the x's and those, because I don't think either. 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:08.600 What's cool about this joint practice is both sides of 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:14.840 the ball. The the best part of their functionality is 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:19.040 their inherent technique obsession. So you know, I know that 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:22.960 through uh working with Bobby Slowik, and I know that 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:27.720 working you know right alongside Jamiico Ryans, and I know 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:29.320 that to be the case on both sides of the 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:33.639 ball for our team. So it is about players developing 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:38.679 their technique and really at a critical juncture for the 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:43.399 for the roster decisions that are that that come. How 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:48.240 how do guys take failures or successes and move forward. 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:50.000 This is gonna be a great opportunity to see that. 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:55.760 With a fully digested playbook at their disposal. 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:57.720 You're gonna get tons of audio from the players today. 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.240 There was great media availabilities, lots of jobial time looking 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:02.480 back and forth between us and the players. Let's go 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:04.480 to t Ron Arpson on the exact same topic, the 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:05.840 evaluation of training camp. 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.000 Yeah, so for for us, and it's my perspective, I 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:15.720 don't think the result is as isn't necessarily the goal 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.359 of part It as much as the operation and the 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:21.880 flow and the rhythm and how consistently can we get 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:23.600 in and out of the huddle, everybody lining up where 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:25.480 they supposed to be, get the motion, get the play started, 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:27.799 and then everybody want be where they are where they're 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:28.520 supposed to be at. 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:29.000 The end of the play. 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:31.040 So the result not so much but as long as 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:33.799 we keep doing that, everybody working in details, being exactly 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:36.440 where you need to be doing your job, we will 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:38.360 we will have results, and a lot of them. 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:39.920 Yeah, I feel like we should listen to that guy 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:41.920 when he talks to In fact, let's go right back 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.080 to t staid, because we saw the same thing today, 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:45.920 a really good showing from the offense. 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.840 I like today. I like today. We've been having some challenges, 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.440 some struggle, more so just. 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:55.600 The the time and and the just the vibe of 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:57.480 the offense trying to run the operation and make it 0:03:57.520 --> 0:03:59.280 run like a machine, and we haven't been able to 0:03:59.880 --> 0:04:03.120 do that the way that we have grown accustomed to. 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:06.880 When we're rolling, today felt normal, it felt more normal. 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:10.560 Still had some pickups, of course, but from an operation standpoint, 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:11.640 it felt like. 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:12.280 A real offense. 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:14.720 Now. It didn't start that way. 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:17.960 Two was picked off by former BAMA teammate Christian Harris, 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.400 big fan of his coming out by the Way self promotion, 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:22.479 but on that play, Harris fell into the hook zone 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.360 and undercut a receiver and found the football and eventually 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:28.080 the end zone, and Tua mentioned after practice that Harris 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:30.600 did a good job of trusting his drop and going 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:32.640 off of what he learned last year playing the Dolphins. 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:33.960 I think this is a good chance for the Dolphins 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:35.760 to learn from this and Tua to learn from this 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:38.160 that he was able to adjust to what the Dolphins 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:40.320 did to beat the Texans last year and beat them 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:42.359 really badly in the first half that two had played in. 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:45.640 But all the displacing that Tua does with his eye movement, 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:48.760 his body position movement, the you know moving of defenders, 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.160 and he didn't take the cheese, which is a great play. 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:52.599 Like if you can do that and you can hold 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:54.560 your zone and hold that that you know, part of 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:56.760 the grass, it's a great play, especially when you find 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:57.239 the football. 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:58.400 That's why it all comes down to. 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:01.760 Here's Tua talking about that interception as well as the 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.760 pick by Jalen Petrie on the first interception. 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:11.040 I think it's what I've done done best is looking 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:14.080 guys off and no looking throws into holes like that. 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:22.760 I talked to Christian Harris buddy Alabama and told me that, dude, 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:25.120 you did that so much to us last year that 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:27.480 like I was like, okay, just trust my drop in 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:30.440 in this area and he's like, I'm not falling for it. 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:32.640 And that's that's basically what happened. 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:36.279 So it's good play for him and that too, you 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:38.200 know the mind game of that, it's like, wow, I 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:40.880 never never thought that you'd figure that out, that piece 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:44.000 of the game out, So that kudos to him. 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:47.400 And then on that that last one that man, I 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:48.840 wish I could have had it that went back. 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:52.360 But then when I was trying to trying to trying 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:57.360 to maneuver someone and it didn't work out with one 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:00.480 of the receivers and that's that was the only place 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:01.200 to ditch the ball. 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:03.479 Probably should have just sailed it to the ground. But 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:04.520 it's a good play. 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:06.960 Hear him say. There the no look past he's been 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:10.279 talking about. I've been theorizing that from practice from that 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:12.880 perch high above the practice field, Like pretty sure two 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:14.600 was popping these things into the no look where he's 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:17.120 trying to hold the defender by looking elsewhere, then going 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:19.000 right and behind them. There you go a little bit 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:21.280 of confirmation there and he again got caught in that 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:23.680 last play by Jalen Petrie. And I if I liked 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:26.520 Harris Gosh, I love Jalen Petrie coming out of Baylor. 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:28.080 He's going to be an all pro someday. But he 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:30.200 did a good job of playing the route combination, and 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:32.280 somebody posted the video on Twitter. You can see him 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:35.400 playing that short side of the field the passing weakness, 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:37.400 not the strength of the passing game, but the weakness, 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:39.039 and to it worked the strength and came back to 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:41.680 the weak side, and Petrie just read the route combination, 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:43.560 like you can look at him and he's not even 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:45.720 queuing the quarterback. He's just looking at the route combination 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:48.039 and just kind of knew the defense, like that's a 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.320 great player making a great play, and to a mention 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:52.120 that there's only one place that ball can go and 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:54.320 it can't be there. He probably should have grounded it 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:55.760 or seld it over the top of the head there 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:57.400 so said he wanted it back. I thought that was 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.800 a pretty good, you know, admission there, Tua, and just 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.200 you can see that even on the mistakes, he's processing 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:05.240 the game right now at a pretty high level. But 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:07.560 it was just other than those two plays, it was 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:10.440 really really damn good, like Tistad said, And Tua was, 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:12.960 you know, absolutely jovial at the end of practice, which 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:14.320 tells me that he felt it was a good day. 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:16.000 I don't think you're gonna come to the podium and 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:17.760 have a great time talking about movies. If you didn't 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:19.880 feel like you kind of diced up the Houston Texas 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.640 for the most part. But it was constant, tons of completions, 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:24.520 spread the wealth. I love the rip he had the 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:26.800 durham smythe down the middle of the field, which was 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:30.440 before the Peatri pick in that final period where Tua 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:32.160 got to the backside and it must have been a 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:34.240 third or fourth read in the progression there because he 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:37.080 worked the front side check check, didn't see it, got 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:38.840 back to that backside and made the catch. And I 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:41.640 was talking to Durham about this at lunch. I said, like, 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:44.760 looked like Tua got through your third or fourth progression. 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:46.240 He's like, yeah, it was cool to see. Cool get 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:48.040 that pass there wasn't That's not a play. Ridersually get 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:48.320 the ball. 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:50.360 So Tua did a good job finding all that stuff 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:52.560 and getting back there and ripping that big shot. Let's 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:54.600 go ahead and hear from Tua on the big play 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:56.200 down the field to Durham's side. 0:07:56.240 --> 0:08:00.640 Yeah, that's that's exactly what happened. On that side. 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:04.400 They showed inside leverage on Tyreek, then they jumped outside leverage, 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.080 got Tyreek a little stuck, just had to progress. 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:09.960 Always nice when you asked two of a play happened 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.080 a certain way, since that's exactly what happened. So my 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:14.320 more self promotion here on my own podcast. On the 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:16.480 very next play too, I had a forty yard touchdown 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:18.400 the Tyreek hill. And I don't think anybody else reporting this, 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:20.160 but I'm gonna call it that way and call me 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:21.200 a Dolphins home if you like. 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:22.400 But I know what I saw. 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:25.560 I'm overrolling the officials on this one here, because Tyreek 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:28.040 catches a pass and stride and turns it up much 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:29.520 in the way you saw in the video the other 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:31.320 day when he's in the Orange Jersey and he scored 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:34.959 that sixty five yard touchdown. The defender scraped his fingernail 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.520 on Tyreek's hip like there's zero percent chance he makes 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:40.000 that tackle, and Tyreek finished it and put his hands up, 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:41.880 So again that tells me all need to know. But 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:44.000 that's a touchdown. They spot him down after a game 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:46.079 of twenty or so. Then it was a run stuff 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.240 and then the pick budget than Petrie, but my count, 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:51.960 it was a two play drive eighty yards down the field, 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:53.640 six points in a game winning drive. 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:55.000 Scenario. That's a big time there. 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:57.959 And again multiple you know, stops through the progression from 0:08:57.960 --> 0:08:59.720 the quarterback to be a defense in a high stress, 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.320 high lever situation. That throw to smythe one of the 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:04.560 best I've seen from him. He was under pressure and 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:06.760 just got through it quick, quick, quick, boom boom boom, 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:09.360 like under three seconds. Front side one, front side two. 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:11.680 No good get to the backside for Durham in the 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.600 three position, let it rip, big time game. He was open, 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:16.120 put it up high over the top of him like 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.000 a line drive. He goes up and gets it and 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:19.920 takes off for a bigger run. Let's go ahead and 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:23.040 go back to Toron Armstead, who I talk to about 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:26.440 how the offense benefits not just in the run game, 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:29.080 in the pass game, but in the quick game because 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:31.719 Dolphins have been really executing the screen and short and 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.000 quick game to mitigate some of these blitz looks, and 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:36.319 again I think offset what team said to them last 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:37.839 year to kind of throw them out of their rhythm 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:39.959 there late in the season. Let's go back to Tarron 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.160 arms At about how valuable that is for this offense 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:43.720 to be able to get the game out the ball 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:45.559 out quick in the offensive line to use the d 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.160 in the running game and extend that as an extension 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.480 of the running game out wide on those screens. 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:52.920 Yeah, that's the foundation. That's the foundation. 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:55.920 So we'd flying off the ball, putting that stress on 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.600 the ages, putting that stress on the linebackers, and then 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:00.640 we make it look the same and as a play 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:04.000 action with Tyreek or Jalen or chosen River somebody else 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:06.680 coming across the field, and you're more reactive for close 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:07.440 to being a position. 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:11.640 You know that that flying off the ball. 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:13.440 That's the foundation of everything we're trying to do, So 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:15.079 nothing else works if. 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:15.480 We don't do that. 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:18.520 And throughout the day, Houston just brought tons of pressure. 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:20.400 They were getting into his face a lot, but I 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:23.560 thought he was exceptional staying calm, staying with his reeds 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:26.440 and process and just finding the solution for that given look, 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:29.040 which on a day like today, you have no earthly 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:31.680 idea what you're walking into in day one, I expect 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:33.640 Miami to be even sharper, and those picks have not 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.559 happen tomorrow because you're going into a game without a 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.120 game plan. Essentially, in these joint practices, you have no 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:40.440 idea what they're going to do, and so you can't 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:42.319 really you know, prepare for certain things. And I just 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:44.160 thought that he was really on top of it. The 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:46.480 backs caught a million balls once again that's been a 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:49.679 theme all camp. Tight ends were heavily involved and when 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:51.560 you when the look called for it, you know, he 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:54.000 got it out to Tyreek quickly on like little flat 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:56.959 routes or Braxen or eric Azukama on now routes or 0:10:57.040 --> 0:10:59.200 chosen or set or river, you name it. The ball 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:01.080 was going all over the field today. Two of his 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:03.920 best balls were a little back pile on touch throws 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:06.240 like little wheel routes where he got one to most 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:08.480 or to the back pilon and another river craycraft go 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:12.400 Koog's for both touchdowns in the mid red zone absolute dimes. 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:14.760 They both kind of reminded me of the Trent Sherfield 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:17.000 touchdown catch in the back corn last year against Cleveland. 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:19.600 I asked too about facing the Dolphins defense, which has 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:22.840 given so far Miami's offense. It's given the Falcons offense 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:24.920 and now today the Texans offense a lot of trouble. 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:27.560 I asked too about facing them. Didn't really answer the 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:28.960 question the way I asked it, But I still like 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.240 what he talks about here with the idea of facing 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:33.440 a new defense and how difficult it can be in 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:34.440 these joint practices. 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.199 Yeah, it makes it tough going into. 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:43.640 Playing other teams because you're you've been practicing against the OTAs, 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:47.360 You've been practicing a good amount of with against them 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:50.800 in camp, and it's things that they do that sort 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:55.400 of mitigate you to second guests yourself on certain throws. 0:11:55.040 --> 0:12:00.760 And you know, the timing of things. Every team's different, 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:04.000 and it's like clean slate. 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.360 You gotta figure out what this team does, they don't 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.800 do necessarily what like our team does. 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:12.400 Maybe sometimes situationally they could. 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.960 But it's just the mind game of that, and so 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:16.080 that's all it was. 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:19.200 Other QBS, Skyler Thompson found Brax and Barrios for a 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:22.800 long touchdown, an absolute coverage bust. Barrio smoked his man. 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.559 I didn't see who it was, but you know, Skyler 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:27.280 could not miss him. He did not the ball was 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:29.520 I like throwing the ball short when you got a 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:31.679 guy wide open, which we've seen it happen millions of 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:33.880 times before, and Skyler did a good job of making 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:35.800 sure it was a big game here at Braxson Burrios 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:37.160 and not just a big game. It goes them for 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:39.600 six and a touchdown. I thought Mike White played really 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:41.840 well in rhythm. Had one throat of chosen on a 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:43.800 curl route coming back down the stem where the ball 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.200 was out before he broke down and throttled down to 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:48.040 come back to the football, and right when he got 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:49.800 his eyes back to the ball there it was let's 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:51.679 go ahead and hear from Jeff Wilson here before our 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:54.440 first break, because I think all this coincides together with 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.120 how quickly two was playing the position. Right now, let's 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:59.360 go to Jeff Wilson about the backs involvement in the 0:12:59.400 --> 0:12:59.960 passing game. 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:02.600 It's very dynamic, you know what I mean. You got 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:04.680 guys that can play first, second, and third down. So 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:06.720 when you have that, you know, it makes it a 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.360 tough room to make competition tough, and it brings like 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:12.200 tough competition. So when you have all that keep going 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:14.240 and you got guys that can roll like that, you know, 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:16.960 it's really really makes the playbook easier. It'll call plays 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:18.840 for you and it makes it bigger for you. So 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.040 we just try to keep on doing everything. We can't 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:23.559 catch pass run and never limit our game. That way, 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:25.400 we can always be prepared and ready for anything to. 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:26.000 Throw it on with. 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:28.840 I freaking love hafe Man. He is such a character. 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:30.839 Let's go ahead and take our first break right there 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:32.880 and come back on the other side and get some 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:34.880 more offensive No, it's here for more of the guys. 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:37.600 Will also welcome in Djbenemy from ESPN Houston on. 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:38.240 The third segment. 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:41.400 All of that's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:45.520 brought to you by I Don't Nation. Let's go ahead 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:47.320 and keep it with Jeff Wilson here out of the break. 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:48.760 I want to pick it right back up with him 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:51.800 because I think Raheem Mostert's having a really, really good camp, 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:53.840 which tracks with what he did towards the end of 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.440 the season with those big numbers last year. I asked 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.760 Jeff Wilson what he thinks about Raheem Moster two four 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:01.880 years remove from his knee injury. Here's hefe on Raheema. 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:04.319 Oh yeah, no doubt, no doubt. He's at a high 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:06.079 level right now, and I love that for him, and 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.440 he bringing our whole room up to him. So to 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:10.480 see him keep going, to see him keep moving, everybody 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:11.880 try to calm home and kick that dame. 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:13.160 To see you moving the way you moving. 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.040 You know, I'm sure they have it for him because 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:16.240 I know what he can do, just like we know 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:17.480 everybody and not room can do. 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.400 So see those guys keep on executing, Man, this beautiful thing. 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:21.920 Let's go ahead and finish up here. 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:24.320 Who Jeff talked about the development of the running back 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:26.200 room and you'll hear from Coach McDaniel in a moment 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:28.520 on just that. As I thought there was some key 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:32.040 kind of chosen words there from McDaniel regard the Dalvin 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:33.880 Cook signing and the fact that we liked von A 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:36.080 Chain a lot. Let's go ahead and ask Jeff Wilson 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:37.800 how he feels about the backs where they've come from 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:39.440 day one to now in Houston. 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:42.920 Oh man, it's in our offense. Is a lot of details, 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:43.400 and you know. 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:45.640 Even not even for us, for our younger guys in 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:47.800 the room with people that we just driving Devine, Chris, 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:50.320 all those guys man, all those coming in and all 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:52.200 those little things you see that they was messing up 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:54.760 in a are trying to get down the OTA's and 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:56.280 now the season and here you can see that they're 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:58.280 clamped down on it and now they're making new improvements 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:00.400 or they trying to improve on new things. That's the 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:02.400 that's the whole thing, or what he possibly means. So 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:04.360 we're not making the same mistakes and we improve in 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:06.400 every day. So I feel like if we keep doing that, 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:07.640 we're gonna be a tough move to stop. 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:09.880 Let's keep it on that same topic here and go 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.520 to head coach Mike McDaniel, who talked about the development 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:14.280 of the running back so far through training camp. 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:18.560 I'm I'm very happy with our running back group. 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:23.280 There's been a ton of development since camp started for 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:28.480 already talented guys that I very much believe in. So overall, 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:30.840 I'm really pumped with the running back group as far 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:35.440 as other teams transactions, and. 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:38.320 Really I haven't even. 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:42.480 Paid that much attention other than to what what is today. 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:49.640 Today's practice was the sixteenth of August, and I'm very 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.680 happy with the crew that we're gonna I'm gonna compete 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:55.960 with and I pumped to compete against. 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:58.080 This unit too, And that's something I've been feeling really 0:15:58.240 --> 0:15:59.800 all throughout camp so far. As I think you have 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:01.840 a little bit of everything in that running back room, 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:03.960 I think there's tons of speed and depth that really 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:06.400 allows you to get through, you know, an eighteen game 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:08.840 grind of an NFL season where attrition really stacks up, 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:11.640 especially at running back. And Rahiem had some good pops 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.000 in this practice like he's had all camp long. Savon 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.520 had a really crafty run picking his way through traffic 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:18.760 and a Chang kind of quick throw up the sideline 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:20.960 that took off for a big gainer. Just all three 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.480 of those guys, really, I should include Jeff Wilson as well. 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:25.520 All four of those guys have been alternating big plays 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.400 both in the run in pass game all camp long. 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:30.120 I thought where the Texans defense looked the best was 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:31.880 on the line, and I really don't think. 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:32.480 The offensive line. 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:35.400 Defensive line pass rush driels are a fair fight and 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:37.560 they typically get the majority of the wins, and their 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:39.360 D line did on this day. It was it was 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:41.880 a rough go for Miami's offensive line in the one 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:44.040 on one drills, but Miami's D line gave it to 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:46.240 Houston's offensive line as well. But you can you can 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:48.680 see where the added space allows the defensive line to 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:51.280 use their length to separate. But you just don't get 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.360 that in team like I heard one comment from the 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:55.280 you know, the beat reporters there about a rep where 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:57.680