Speaker 1: Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins.
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Speaker 1: What is up? Dolphins?
Speaker 3: And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the
Speaker 3: Miami Dolphins podcast network covering your team, your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 3: How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 3: And on today's show, Day one from Houston is complete
Speaker 3: and it was a good one. We got tons of
Speaker 3: football expertise from Mike McDaniel to a tongue of by lower,
Speaker 3: Jeff Wilson, Xavien Howard to Ron Armstead. Plus I'm gonna
Speaker 3: break down practice, mostly offense, and then I'm gonna get
Speaker 3: djb Enemy from ESPN Houston on here to talk about
Speaker 3: that Dolphins defense because didn't get a chance to watch
Speaker 3: much of that as he really locked in on that side.
Speaker 1: From Houston, this is the driver.
Speaker 3: Definitely forgot where I was there for a moment, so
Speaker 3: not from the Baptist Health Studios, but we got some
Speaker 3: more football philosophy from coach today and I want to
Speaker 3: start the podcast with that because I feel like he's
Speaker 3: done a good job every step of the way explaining
Speaker 3: to us the context behind these practices and the plays
Speaker 3: and how you should evaluate them, and I feel like
Speaker 3: we should listen to him more than anybody else, and
Speaker 3: I include myself in that anybody else category. But I
Speaker 3: just wanted to get this explanation of how these practices
Speaker 3: come together and the evaluation that they're looking at what
Speaker 3: should be the same thing we're looking at, and how
Speaker 3: it's not the same as what you look at in
Speaker 3: a football game the results. Right, let's go ahead and
Speaker 3: start here with coach mcdan.
Speaker 4: Because you can get lost, and I've been very clear
Speaker 4: with the team that this is such an opportunity for
Speaker 4: technique work with some very variants on both sides, specifically
Speaker 4: for the offense in terms of the defensive structure that
Speaker 4: you're going against, and it's about our technique and developing it.
Speaker 4: I think it's hugely important that we utilize the opportunity
Speaker 4: to work on our craft. And it's quite the opposite
Speaker 4: of the x's and those, because I don't think either.
Speaker 4: What's cool about this joint practice is both sides of
Speaker 4: the ball. The the best part of their functionality is
Speaker 4: their inherent technique obsession. So you know, I know that
Speaker 4: through uh working with Bobby Slowik, and I know that
Speaker 4: working you know right alongside Jamiico Ryans, and I know
Speaker 4: that to be the case on both sides of the
Speaker 4: ball for our team. So it is about players developing
Speaker 4: their technique and really at a critical juncture for the
Speaker 4: for the roster decisions that are that that come. How
Speaker 4: how do guys take failures or successes and move forward.
Speaker 5: This is gonna be a great opportunity to see that.
Speaker 4: With a fully digested playbook at their disposal.
Speaker 3: You're gonna get tons of audio from the players today.
Speaker 3: There was great media availabilities, lots of jobial time looking
Speaker 3: back and forth between us and the players. Let's go
Speaker 3: to t Ron Arpson on the exact same topic, the
Speaker 3: evaluation of training camp.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so for for us, and it's my perspective, I
Speaker 6: don't think the result is as isn't necessarily the goal
Speaker 6: of part It as much as the operation and the
Speaker 6: flow and the rhythm and how consistently can we get
Speaker 6: in and out of the huddle, everybody lining up where
Speaker 6: they supposed to be, get the motion, get the play started,
Speaker 6: and then everybody want be where they are where they're
Speaker 6: supposed to be at.
Speaker 2: The end of the play.
Speaker 6: So the result not so much but as long as
Speaker 6: we keep doing that, everybody working in details, being exactly
Speaker 6: where you need to be doing your job, we will
Speaker 6: we will have results, and a lot of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like we should listen to that guy
Speaker 3: when he talks to In fact, let's go right back
Speaker 3: to t staid, because we saw the same thing today,
Speaker 3: a really good showing from the offense.
Speaker 2: I like today. I like today. We've been having some challenges,
Speaker 2: some struggle, more so just.
Speaker 6: The the time and and the just the vibe of
Speaker 6: the offense trying to run the operation and make it
Speaker 6: run like a machine, and we haven't been able to
Speaker 6: do that the way that we have grown accustomed to.
Speaker 6: When we're rolling, today felt normal, it felt more normal.
Speaker 6: Still had some pickups, of course, but from an operation standpoint,
Speaker 6: it felt like.
Speaker 2: A real offense.
Speaker 1: Now. It didn't start that way.
Speaker 3: Two was picked off by former BAMA teammate Christian Harris,
Speaker 3: big fan of his coming out by the Way self promotion,
Speaker 3: but on that play, Harris fell into the hook zone
Speaker 3: and undercut a receiver and found the football and eventually
Speaker 3: the end zone, and Tua mentioned after practice that Harris
Speaker 3: did a good job of trusting his drop and going
Speaker 3: off of what he learned last year playing the Dolphins.
Speaker 3: I think this is a good chance for the Dolphins
Speaker 3: to learn from this and Tua to learn from this
Speaker 3: that he was able to adjust to what the Dolphins
Speaker 3: did to beat the Texans last year and beat them
Speaker 3: really badly in the first half that two had played in.
Speaker 3: But all the displacing that Tua does with his eye movement,
Speaker 3: his body position movement, the you know moving of defenders,
Speaker 3: and he didn't take the cheese, which is a great play.
Speaker 3: Like if you can do that and you can hold
Speaker 3: your zone and hold that that you know, part of
Speaker 3: the grass, it's a great play, especially when you find
Speaker 3: the football.
Speaker 1: That's why it all comes down to.
Speaker 3: Here's Tua talking about that interception as well as the
Speaker 3: pick by Jalen Petrie on the first interception.
Speaker 7: I think it's what I've done done best is looking
Speaker 7: guys off and no looking throws into holes like that.
Speaker 7: I talked to Christian Harris buddy Alabama and told me that, dude,
Speaker 7: you did that so much to us last year that
Speaker 7: like I was like, okay, just trust my drop in
Speaker 7: in this area and he's like, I'm not falling for it.
Speaker 8: And that's that's basically what happened.
Speaker 7: So it's good play for him and that too, you
Speaker 7: know the mind game of that, it's like, wow, I
Speaker 7: never never thought that you'd figure that out, that piece
Speaker 7: of the game out, So that kudos to him.
Speaker 8: And then on that that last one that man, I
Speaker 8: wish I could have had it that went back.
Speaker 7: But then when I was trying to trying to trying
Speaker 7: to maneuver someone and it didn't work out with one
Speaker 7: of the receivers and that's that was the only place
Speaker 7: to ditch the ball.
Speaker 8: Probably should have just sailed it to the ground. But
Speaker 8: it's a good play.
Speaker 3: Hear him say. There the no look past he's been
Speaker 3: talking about. I've been theorizing that from practice from that
Speaker 3: perch high above the practice field, Like pretty sure two
Speaker 3: was popping these things into the no look where he's
Speaker 3: trying to hold the defender by looking elsewhere, then going
Speaker 3: right and behind them. There you go a little bit
Speaker 3: of confirmation there and he again got caught in that
Speaker 3: last play by Jalen Petrie. And I if I liked
Speaker 3: Harris Gosh, I love Jalen Petrie coming out of Baylor.
Speaker 3: He's going to be an all pro someday. But he
Speaker 3: did a good job of playing the route combination, and
Speaker 3: somebody posted the video on Twitter. You can see him
Speaker 3: playing that short side of the field the passing weakness,
Speaker 3: not the strength of the passing game, but the weakness,
Speaker 3: and to it worked the strength and came back to
Speaker 3: the weak side, and Petrie just read the route combination,
Speaker 3: like you can look at him and he's not even
Speaker 3: queuing the quarterback. He's just looking at the route combination
Speaker 3: and just kind of knew the defense, like that's a
Speaker 3: great player making a great play, and to a mention
Speaker 3: that there's only one place that ball can go and
Speaker 3: it can't be there. He probably should have grounded it
Speaker 3: or seld it over the top of the head there
Speaker 3: so said he wanted it back. I thought that was
Speaker 3: a pretty good, you know, admission there, Tua, and just
Speaker 3: you can see that even on the mistakes, he's processing
Speaker 3: the game right now at a pretty high level. But
Speaker 3: it was just other than those two plays, it was
Speaker 3: really really damn good, like Tistad said, And Tua was,
Speaker 3: you know, absolutely jovial at the end of practice, which
Speaker 3: tells me that he felt it was a good day.
Speaker 3: I don't think you're gonna come to the podium and
Speaker 3: have a great time talking about movies. If you didn't
Speaker 3: feel like you kind of diced up the Houston Texas
Speaker 3: for the most part. But it was constant, tons of completions,
Speaker 3: spread the wealth. I love the rip he had the
Speaker 3: durham smythe down the middle of the field, which was
Speaker 3: before the Peatri pick in that final period where Tua
Speaker 3: got to the backside and it must have been a
Speaker 3: third or fourth read in the progression there because he
Speaker 3: worked the front side check check, didn't see it, got
Speaker 3: back to that backside and made the catch. And I
Speaker 3: was talking to Durham about this at lunch. I said, like,
Speaker 3: looked like Tua got through your third or fourth progression.
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, it was cool to see. Cool get
Speaker 1: that pass there wasn't That's not a play. Ridersually get
Speaker 1: the ball.
Speaker 3: So Tua did a good job finding all that stuff
Speaker 3: and getting back there and ripping that big shot. Let's
Speaker 3: go ahead and hear from Tua on the big play
Speaker 3: down the field to Durham's side.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's that's exactly what happened. On that side.
Speaker 7: They showed inside leverage on Tyreek, then they jumped outside leverage,
Speaker 7: got Tyreek a little stuck, just had to progress.
Speaker 3: Always nice when you asked two of a play happened
Speaker 3: a certain way, since that's exactly what happened. So my
Speaker 3: more self promotion here on my own podcast. On the
Speaker 3: very next play too, I had a forty yard touchdown
Speaker 3: the Tyreek hill. And I don't think anybody else reporting this,
Speaker 3: but I'm gonna call it that way and call me
Speaker 3: a Dolphins home if you like.
Speaker 1: But I know what I saw.
Speaker 3: I'm overrolling the officials on this one here, because Tyreek
Speaker 3: catches a pass and stride and turns it up much
Speaker 3: in the way you saw in the video the other
Speaker 3: day when he's in the Orange Jersey and he scored
Speaker 3: that sixty five yard touchdown. The defender scraped his fingernail
Speaker 3: on Tyreek's hip like there's zero percent chance he makes
Speaker 3: that tackle, and Tyreek finished it and put his hands up,
Speaker 3: So again that tells me all need to know. But
Speaker 3: that's a touchdown. They spot him down after a game
Speaker 3: of twenty or so. Then it was a run stuff
Speaker 3: and then the pick budget than Petrie, but my count,
Speaker 3: it was a two play drive eighty yards down the field,
Speaker 3: six points in a game winning drive.
Speaker 1: Scenario. That's a big time there.
Speaker 3: And again multiple you know, stops through the progression from
Speaker 3: the quarterback to be a defense in a high stress,
Speaker 3: high lever situation. That throw to smythe one of the
Speaker 3: best I've seen from him. He was under pressure and
Speaker 3: just got through it quick, quick, quick, boom boom boom,
Speaker 3: like under three seconds. Front side one, front side two.
Speaker 3: No good get to the backside for Durham in the
Speaker 3: three position, let it rip, big time game. He was open,
Speaker 3: put it up high over the top of him like
Speaker 3: a line drive. He goes up and gets it and
Speaker 3: takes off for a bigger run. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 3: go back to Toron Armstead, who I talk to about
Speaker 3: how the offense benefits not just in the run game,
Speaker 3: in the pass game, but in the quick game because
Speaker 3: Dolphins have been really executing the screen and short and
Speaker 3: quick game to mitigate some of these blitz looks, and
Speaker 3: again I think offset what team said to them last
Speaker 3: year to kind of throw them out of their rhythm
Speaker 3: there late in the season. Let's go back to Tarron
Speaker 3: arms At about how valuable that is for this offense
Speaker 3: to be able to get the game out the ball
Speaker 3: out quick in the offensive line to use the d
Speaker 3: in the running game and extend that as an extension
Speaker 3: of the running game out wide on those screens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the foundation. That's the foundation.
Speaker 6: So we'd flying off the ball, putting that stress on
Speaker 6: the ages, putting that stress on the linebackers, and then
Speaker 6: we make it look the same and as a play
Speaker 6: action with Tyreek or Jalen or chosen River somebody else
Speaker 6: coming across the field, and you're more reactive for close
Speaker 6: to being a position.
Speaker 2: You know that that flying off the ball.
Speaker 6: That's the foundation of everything we're trying to do, So
Speaker 6: nothing else works if.
Speaker 2: We don't do that.
Speaker 3: And throughout the day, Houston just brought tons of pressure.
Speaker 3: They were getting into his face a lot, but I
Speaker 3: thought he was exceptional staying calm, staying with his reeds
Speaker 3: and process and just finding the solution for that given look,
Speaker 3: which on a day like today, you have no earthly
Speaker 3: idea what you're walking into in day one, I expect
Speaker 3: Miami to be even sharper, and those picks have not
Speaker 3: happen tomorrow because you're going into a game without a
Speaker 3: game plan. Essentially, in these joint practices, you have no
Speaker 3: idea what they're going to do, and so you can't
Speaker 3: really you know, prepare for certain things. And I just
Speaker 3: thought that he was really on top of it. The
Speaker 3: backs caught a million balls once again that's been a
Speaker 3: theme all camp. Tight ends were heavily involved and when
Speaker 3: you when the look called for it, you know, he
Speaker 3: got it out to Tyreek quickly on like little flat
Speaker 3: routes or Braxen or eric Azukama on now routes or
Speaker 3: chosen or set or river, you name it. The ball
Speaker 3: was going all over the field today. Two of his
Speaker 3: best balls were a little back pile on touch throws
Speaker 3: like little wheel routes where he got one to most
Speaker 3: or to the back pilon and another river craycraft go
Speaker 3: Koog's for both touchdowns in the mid red zone absolute dimes.
Speaker 3: They both kind of reminded me of the Trent Sherfield
Speaker 3: touchdown catch in the back corn last year against Cleveland.
Speaker 3: I asked too about facing the Dolphins defense, which has
Speaker 3: given so far Miami's offense. It's given the Falcons offense
Speaker 3: and now today the Texans offense a lot of trouble.
Speaker 3: I asked too about facing them. Didn't really answer the
Speaker 3: question the way I asked it, But I still like
Speaker 3: what he talks about here with the idea of facing
Speaker 3: a new defense and how difficult it can be in
Speaker 3: these joint practices.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it makes it tough going into.
Speaker 7: Playing other teams because you're you've been practicing against the OTAs,
Speaker 7: You've been practicing a good amount of with against them
Speaker 7: in camp, and it's things that they do that sort
Speaker 7: of mitigate you to second guests yourself on certain throws.
Speaker 8: And you know, the timing of things. Every team's different,
Speaker 8: and it's like clean slate.
Speaker 7: You gotta figure out what this team does, they don't
Speaker 7: do necessarily what like our team does.
Speaker 8: Maybe sometimes situationally they could.
Speaker 7: But it's just the mind game of that, and so
Speaker 7: that's all it was.
Speaker 3: Other QBS, Skyler Thompson found Brax and Barrios for a
Speaker 3: long touchdown, an absolute coverage bust. Barrio smoked his man.
Speaker 3: I didn't see who it was, but you know, Skyler
Speaker 3: could not miss him. He did not the ball was
Speaker 3: I like throwing the ball short when you got a
Speaker 3: guy wide open, which we've seen it happen millions of
Speaker 3: times before, and Skyler did a good job of making
Speaker 3: sure it was a big game here at Braxson Burrios
Speaker 3: and not just a big game. It goes them for
Speaker 3: six and a touchdown. I thought Mike White played really
Speaker 3: well in rhythm. Had one throat of chosen on a
Speaker 3: curl route coming back down the stem where the ball
Speaker 3: was out before he broke down and throttled down to
Speaker 3: come back to the football, and right when he got
Speaker 3: his eyes back to the ball there it was let's
Speaker 3: go ahead and hear from Jeff Wilson here before our
Speaker 3: first break, because I think all this coincides together with
Speaker 3: how quickly two was playing the position. Right now, let's
Speaker 3: go to Jeff Wilson about the backs involvement in the
Speaker 3: passing game.
Speaker 9: It's very dynamic, you know what I mean. You got
Speaker 9: guys that can play first, second, and third down. So
Speaker 9: when you have that, you know, it makes it a
Speaker 9: tough room to make competition tough, and it brings like
Speaker 9: tough competition. So when you have all that keep going
Speaker 9: and you got guys that can roll like that, you know,
Speaker 9: it's really really makes the playbook easier. It'll call plays
Speaker 9: for you and it makes it bigger for you. So
Speaker 9: we just try to keep on doing everything. We can't
Speaker 9: catch pass run and never limit our game. That way,
Speaker 9: we can always be prepared and ready for anything to.
Speaker 10: Throw it on with.
Speaker 1: I freaking love hafe Man. He is such a character.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and take our first break right there
Speaker 3: and come back on the other side and get some
Speaker 3: more offensive No, it's here for more of the guys.
Speaker 3: Will also welcome in Djbenemy from ESPN Houston on.
Speaker 1: The third segment.
Speaker 3: All of that's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 3: brought to you by I Don't Nation. Let's go ahead
Speaker 3: and keep it with Jeff Wilson here out of the break.
Speaker 3: I want to pick it right back up with him
Speaker 3: because I think Raheem Mostert's having a really, really good camp,
Speaker 3: which tracks with what he did towards the end of
Speaker 3: the season with those big numbers last year. I asked
Speaker 3: Jeff Wilson what he thinks about Raheem Moster two four
Speaker 3: years remove from his knee injury. Here's hefe on Raheema.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, no doubt, no doubt. He's at a high
Speaker 9: level right now, and I love that for him, and
Speaker 9: he bringing our whole room up to him. So to
Speaker 9: see him keep going, to see him keep moving, everybody
Speaker 9: try to calm home and kick that dame.
Speaker 2: To see you moving the way you moving.
Speaker 9: You know, I'm sure they have it for him because
Speaker 9: I know what he can do, just like we know
Speaker 9: everybody and not room can do.
Speaker 2: So see those guys keep on executing, Man, this beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and finish up here.
Speaker 3: Who Jeff talked about the development of the running back
Speaker 3: room and you'll hear from Coach McDaniel in a moment
Speaker 3: on just that. As I thought there was some key
Speaker 3: kind of chosen words there from McDaniel regard the Dalvin
Speaker 3: Cook signing and the fact that we liked von A
Speaker 3: Chain a lot. Let's go ahead and ask Jeff Wilson
Speaker 3: how he feels about the backs where they've come from
Speaker 3: day one to now in Houston.
Speaker 2: Oh man, it's in our offense. Is a lot of details,
Speaker 2: and you know.
Speaker 9: Even not even for us, for our younger guys in
Speaker 9: the room with people that we just driving Devine, Chris,
Speaker 9: all those guys man, all those coming in and all
Speaker 9: those little things you see that they was messing up
Speaker 9: in a are trying to get down the OTA's and
Speaker 9: now the season and here you can see that they're
Speaker 9: clamped down on it and now they're making new improvements
Speaker 9: or they trying to improve on new things. That's the
Speaker 9: that's the whole thing, or what he possibly means. So
Speaker 9: we're not making the same mistakes and we improve in
Speaker 9: every day. So I feel like if we keep doing that,
Speaker 9: we're gonna be a tough move to stop.
Speaker 3: Let's keep it on that same topic here and go
Speaker 3: to head coach Mike McDaniel, who talked about the development
Speaker 3: of the running back so far through training camp.
Speaker 5: I'm I'm very happy with our running back group.
Speaker 4: There's been a ton of development since camp started for
Speaker 4: already talented guys that I very much believe in. So overall,
Speaker 4: I'm really pumped with the running back group as far
Speaker 4: as other teams transactions, and.
Speaker 5: Really I haven't even.
Speaker 4: Paid that much attention other than to what what is today.
Speaker 4: Today's practice was the sixteenth of August, and I'm very
Speaker 4: happy with the crew that we're gonna I'm gonna compete
Speaker 4: with and I pumped to compete against.
Speaker 3: This unit too, And that's something I've been feeling really
Speaker 3: all throughout camp so far. As I think you have
Speaker 3: a little bit of everything in that running back room,
Speaker 3: I think there's tons of speed and depth that really
Speaker 3: allows you to get through, you know, an eighteen game
Speaker 3: grind of an NFL season where attrition really stacks up,
Speaker 3: especially at running back. And Rahiem had some good pops
Speaker 3: in this practice like he's had all camp long. Savon
Speaker 3: had a really crafty run picking his way through traffic
Speaker 3: and a Chang kind of quick throw up the sideline
Speaker 3: that took off for a big gainer. Just all three
Speaker 3: of those guys, really, I should include Jeff Wilson as well.
Speaker 3: All four of those guys have been alternating big plays
Speaker 3: both in the run in pass game all camp long.
Speaker 3: I thought where the Texans defense looked the best was
Speaker 3: on the line, and I really don't think.
Speaker 1: The offensive line.
Speaker 3: Defensive line pass rush driels are a fair fight and
Speaker 3: they typically get the majority of the wins, and their
Speaker 3: D line did on this day. It was it was
Speaker 3: a rough go for Miami's offensive line in the one
Speaker 3: on one drills, but Miami's D line gave it to
Speaker 3: Houston's offensive line as well. But you can you can
Speaker 3: see where the added space allows the defensive line to
Speaker 3: use their length to separate. But you just don't get
Speaker 3: that in team like I heard one comment from the
Speaker 3: you know, the beat reporters there about a rep where
Speaker 3: someone got around Connor Williams, and I'm like, well, yeah,
Speaker 3: because he usually has someone leaning on him to help
Speaker 3: him in that particular look. And if that guy tries
Speaker 3: that move to create that much length and space between
Speaker 3: he and the center, he's going to catch a rack
Speaker 3: of ribs from the guard next to him, especially when
Speaker 3: it's Robert Hunt. So the center is always almost always
Speaker 3: getting help in a condensed space, and I just don't
Speaker 3: think that replicates.
Speaker 1: That in that drill.
Speaker 3: I thought that the play that played out as we
Speaker 3: went a long throughout the day, Houston got their pressures
Speaker 3: from blitzes, but that was really it, and Tua had
Speaker 3: answers to that repeatedly over and over and over again.
Speaker 3: Then when it was coverage to us, sat back and
Speaker 3: went to work, like, really, damn good day for the
Speaker 3: offense really in all facets. However, the very first play
Speaker 3: of the day, Tyreek did welcome youngster Derek Stingley to
Speaker 3: the show with a wicked release and vertical route. He
Speaker 3: was gone quickly for what could have been a long touchdown,
Speaker 3: but the Texans did get in Ontua on this one
Speaker 3: and he had to eat the rock and just take
Speaker 3: the sack or the incompletion.
Speaker 1: I asked a Ron arms At about the slow building camps.
Speaker 3: He kind of will mention here, and we've heard the
Speaker 3: reports on it that it hasn't been as crisp, you know,
Speaker 3: in the early going for the offense. But he made
Speaker 3: a comment about how today they're starting to hit that click.
Speaker 3: Here's to Ron talking about his career in the league
Speaker 3: and how training camp progression typically works, although it wasn't
Speaker 3: quite the same in New Orleans when he had Drew
Speaker 3: Brees and Sean Payton for a million years.
Speaker 2: It's kind of hard to say.
Speaker 6: I was in the regime that had a lot of
Speaker 6: consistency with the quarterback and the head coach, and then
Speaker 6: you know, it wasn't many many changes to that offense,
Speaker 6: so we would kind of jump in and pick up
Speaker 6: where we left off.
Speaker 2: In a sense.
Speaker 6: In a sense this being a new scheme still still
Speaker 6: you know, pretty new to everybody, So it's a lot
Speaker 6: of details that you just have to practice and get
Speaker 6: them reps and experience in order to.
Speaker 2: Adjust them and learn how to operate. New guys on
Speaker 2: the edges.
Speaker 6: New guys up front all that it's all about the
Speaker 6: chemistry and cohesiveness.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and wrap up this segment here with
Speaker 3: a little theme I put together. Here's Tua, Tarn and
Speaker 3: McDaniel talking about the value of getting the team together
Speaker 3: outside of South Florida, being stuck in a hotel together
Speaker 3: all week, and the value of the bonding experience you
Speaker 3: get when you're away from home for a whole week.
Speaker 5: You know, that's an.
Speaker 4: Overlooked part of joint practices that I hold with high regarding,
Speaker 4: high high esteem, because you know, it's about a team
Speaker 4: coming together, and this offers an opportunity for for guys
Speaker 4: to you know, in the unique situation that we have
Speaker 4: in Miami Gardens is a lot of guys live all
Speaker 4: over the place, so you don't you know, people have
Speaker 4: lives and you want teams to come together and you
Speaker 4: want guys to spend time together. Well, here we are
Speaker 4: locked up in a hotel together, so there's nowhere to hide.
Speaker 4: Even if they don't want to see me, they have
Speaker 4: to run into me. But the we we specifically try
Speaker 4: to orchestrate the whole joint practice session and the travel
Speaker 4: times around that coming out here before the player day
Speaker 4: off so that guys can really invest into each other,
Speaker 4: and I think they really have between position, dinners and
Speaker 4: various things. I know rookies are preparing to skit for
Speaker 4: the veterans to be entertained with on Thursday night.
Speaker 5: So there's a lot of good things going on. And
Speaker 5: happy to be here in Houston.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think it's really really good.
Speaker 7: We had an off day yesterday coming here, went to
Speaker 7: dinner with the guys on Monday, and then we also
Speaker 7: got to go watch a movie, you know, yesterday, so
Speaker 7: it was cool. It's like a movie fest yesterday, just
Speaker 7: movie happened and watched Oppenheimer.
Speaker 8: That was pretty good. Freaking long, that's a long movie.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 8: Sound of Freedom's good.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Sound of Freedom is definitely really good.
Speaker 7: You get should watch that, especially you guys are kids.
Speaker 8: That's thanks for dinner. Mike White paid for dinner. I
Speaker 8: know exactly what.
Speaker 7: Yeah exactly, Yeah, Mike White paid for dinner the vet.
Speaker 7: But yeah, thanks, guys, appreciate it.
Speaker 8: Thanks, you appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it's it's important.
Speaker 6: It's important get a chance to know some guys have
Speaker 6: some have some some unusual conversations that you just don't
Speaker 6: really have time to have uh in a normal setting,
Speaker 6: and then you come out and.
Speaker 2: Compete against another team. UH protect each other.
Speaker 6: That that energy that us against them, that vibe that
Speaker 6: you just won't necessarily get in training camp because we're
Speaker 6: all on the same team.
Speaker 2: Uh. So I enjoy it. I enjoy it for sure.
Speaker 2: I think it's I think the joint practices are great.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and take our second break right there
Speaker 3: and come back on the other side, and we're gonna
Speaker 3: hear more from Mike McDaniel from Xaviing Howard and my
Speaker 3: guest today from ESPN Houston, dj B Enemy breaking down
Speaker 3: all things Dolphins defense versus Texans offense. That's Next Draft
Speaker 3: Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by automation.
Speaker 3: Let's open up this segment here with coach who touched
Speaker 3: on the status of Christian Wilkins. I think Dolphins fans
Speaker 3: are gonna want to hear this.
Speaker 4: You know, Christians, such a good player, such an important
Speaker 4: person in the locker room, who has made it clear
Speaker 4: that he feels that his plays deserving.
Speaker 5: Of a contract.
Speaker 4: We would agree as the Miami Dolphins organizations. Henceforth, we
Speaker 4: are in negotiations and us. As a result, he's hasn't
Speaker 4: been participating in the team and you know when he
Speaker 4: next participates.
Speaker 5: That he'll we have to.
Speaker 3: And then finally we also heard from Xavier and Howard
Speaker 3: who gave us unsolicited a practice player of the day.
Speaker 2: The defense is good.
Speaker 8: You know, he made a plays gang, especially in.
Speaker 9: A lot of players that you know, uh that dro
Speaker 9: the ball no matter where he haet on the field,
Speaker 9: so you know, makes some plays.
Speaker 2: You know, we have some stops and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Was overall, it was good. It was a good joint practice.
Speaker 3: And x is always going to stay humble about his
Speaker 3: production and the way his team plays. But I wanted
Speaker 3: to run this because I've been talking about it a
Speaker 3: lot on the podcast, and you'll hear it more from
Speaker 3: my guest here in just a second as well. How
Speaker 3: good the secondary has done at minimizing busted coverages, keeping
Speaker 3: the roof on top of the defense, communicating and making
Speaker 3: sure big plays are limited.
Speaker 8: It's going wrong.
Speaker 2: Will we got to words on it.
Speaker 9: You know, it's says some new scheme and you know,
Speaker 9: you pulling on on this gave better.
Speaker 8: You know, we all got to be on the same pace.
Speaker 1: So there you go.
Speaker 3: I only saw a small portion of the practice on
Speaker 3: the defensive side, including a two minute drill to end practice,
Speaker 3: and it went like this, Elijah Campbell in that big
Speaker 3: nickel role, which I think he is very well suited for,
Speaker 3: and if you want to go nickel or dime like,
Speaker 3: he is a.
Speaker 1: Good depth piece in the defensive backfield.
Speaker 3: But I was just talking about how surprised I was
Speaker 3: to see him out there with the ones, and all
Speaker 3: of a sudden he breaks on a ball for a
Speaker 3: pass breakup and nearly picks it off. He's had a
Speaker 3: great camp so far. Then Jerome Baker gets to the
Speaker 3: quarterback in like one point two seconds and I saw
Speaker 3: him getting some lunch downstairs after practicing, and I said,
Speaker 3: I don't think I've ever seen a quicker sack than
Speaker 3: the one you had today, and he laughed about it
Speaker 3: and said they still didn't give it to me though,
Speaker 3: So that kind of let the Texans extend to play
Speaker 3: and Stroud gets a completion on that play, but for
Speaker 3: me it was still second in a mile. And then
Speaker 3: on the very next play, which was first in ten technically,
Speaker 3: Jalen Phillips consented for a sack which I was told
Speaker 3: was one of many on the day. Speaking of that,
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and get to my guest today from
Speaker 3: ESPN Houston, Djbenemy, who broke it all down for us
Speaker 3: and joining us now here from Houston Dolphins and Texans
Speaker 3: joint practice Day number one in the books is Houston
Speaker 3: or ESPN Houston reporter, I should say, djb Enemy, DJ,
Speaker 3: how are you today?
Speaker 10: Man? I'm doing good. I'm glad to be inside.
Speaker 11: You know, it's kind of hot outside and you was
Speaker 11: out there, but it was hot, but I'm glad to
Speaker 11: be inside.
Speaker 10: It was a good day of practice though good competition overall.
Speaker 3: I was warned that it was going to be just
Speaker 3: as hot as it is down South Florida. But I
Speaker 3: gotta tell you today was I don't want to call
Speaker 3: it a walk in the park, but it was a
Speaker 3: lot better than what we're used to down down our
Speaker 3: neck of the woods.
Speaker 11: Really, It's so funny because like a lot of like
Speaker 11: Texan guys say, it's so high.
Speaker 10: Me, I'll be cooling because obviously I'm from South Florida.
Speaker 10: I'm from Miami. So yeah, like the weathers or whatever,
Speaker 10: you know, it's it's the thing to me.
Speaker 11: The only difference is Miami's a little more we're here, yeah,
Speaker 11: like a little more dry. So like when the wind's blowing,
Speaker 11: it's usually blowing with like just hot air with some
Speaker 11: times the winds blowing down at the crib. Some times
Speaker 11: that could be a little bit cooler because of degrees
Speaker 11: from the ocean.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought it was the humidity was the big difference,
Speaker 3: I thought for me, because you know, doesn't matter a
Speaker 3: time of day you walk outside in South Florida, it's
Speaker 3: just hits you like a freaking oven opening up. So
Speaker 3: I thought it was a little bit break That early
Speaker 3: morning practice was certainly appreciated there as well, but enough
Speaker 3: whether talk DJ. I wanted to get you on here
Speaker 3: because the Texans have a couple of practice fields that
Speaker 3: it's a hard angle to see both at the same time,
Speaker 3: and you were over there taking diligent notes. I saw
Speaker 3: you when I came over getting some notes in your
Speaker 3: notepad there on Texans offense versus Dolphins defense. I wanted
Speaker 3: to bring you on and ask you about that and
Speaker 3: just kind of start off here with your general takeaways
Speaker 3: from that session. When they were facing whether it was CJ. Stroud,
Speaker 3: Davis Mills, Ones, and twos, threes, whatever you got for us,
Speaker 3: Just curious your overall takeaway from the Dolphins defense in
Speaker 3: this day.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean there were a lot of players where
Speaker 11: CJ didn't restlarly know where to go to the ball
Speaker 11: and was holding it right. He'll look one way, look right,
Speaker 11: and look like and everything was basically covered. Obviously, There's
Speaker 11: some plays where you know he would still find a guy,
Speaker 11: but for the most part, there are a lot of plays,
Speaker 11: especially early on, where Vic you could tell Vick was
Speaker 11: confused in CJ, which is normal. Vicker is one of
Speaker 11: the best DC's we can go as far as say ever,
Speaker 11: like he's one of the.
Speaker 10: Best ever, so like that was kind of expected. Obviously.
Speaker 11: There were also some plays where Jayler Phillips was able
Speaker 11: to beat George Parp and get pressure obviously, you know
Speaker 11: on the other side of Larry Tungsten was kind of
Speaker 11: holding it down. Like there wasn't really much pressure cover
Speaker 11: for Larabies aside because Laramie is one of the best
Speaker 11: tagles in the league. But I think what we saw
Speaker 11: today was Vic be you know, the front seven look
Speaker 11: good because there weren't that many plays where you saw
Speaker 11: even a run game get going, like there was a
Speaker 11: one play where I remember Damian Pierce got a big
Speaker 11: run and maybe Devin Singletary, But for the most part,
Speaker 11: when they were running the ball, the Texans all offensive
Speaker 11: line wasn't able to create the increases necessary for Damien
Speaker 11: or Singletary to get to the second level. So the front,
Speaker 11: the front seven stood out. Obviously the back end was
Speaker 11: was pretty good, but you know, I can't I expect that,
Speaker 11: especially going into the Texans wide receivers and Textan wide
Speaker 11: receivers and all. There's still questions there based on the
Speaker 11: production of twenty twenty two. So but overall though, I
Speaker 11: think there was if you're a Dolphins fan, this was
Speaker 11: a day where you could feel comfortable knowing that they
Speaker 11: had it on paper, they had the advantage, and they
Speaker 11: executed efficiently.
Speaker 3: It's it's been kind of a theme, and I almost
Speaker 3: feel like this is probably true for most teams when
Speaker 3: they hit those joint practices. Even watching the Hard Knocks
Speaker 3: episode the other night, you know, the Jets were not
Speaker 3: happy with the way they performed against the Panthers. The
Speaker 3: Jets offensively against the Panthers defense, and you know, I
Speaker 3: talked to two about this after a practice. How when
Speaker 3: you go up against your defense and it's the same
Speaker 3: coverage as their same looks and generally the same you
Speaker 3: know scheme every single day, then you get something different.
Speaker 3: It's a little bit of a shock to the system,
Speaker 3: you know, thirteen fourteen days into this, and I think
Speaker 3: we saw that both from the Atlanta practice last week
Speaker 3: and now here with the Texans. Sounds like on both
Speaker 3: sides of the ball a little bit at least early.
Speaker 1: For the Dolphins offense. They got going later on.
Speaker 3: But I wanted to go back to that what you
Speaker 3: mentioned with the you know, the coverage being so sound
Speaker 3: in the back end, because that's been really one of
Speaker 3: my themes so far off camp is how I think
Speaker 3: that the Dolphins have taken to Vic Fangio's defense and obviously,
Speaker 3: like you mentioned, one of, if not the greatest DC
Speaker 3: of all time and fatializes in just that right, like
Speaker 3: these these men match coverages where you get pressure four
Speaker 3: or five up front and drop a bunch into coverage
Speaker 3: and confused posing quarterbacks. I think that probably comes the
Speaker 3: territory with the guy like CJ. Stroud, who hasn't seen
Speaker 3: you know, a bunch. He's a rookie obviously, but I
Speaker 3: just your takeaway on the Dolphins second darying that back
Speaker 3: end and kind of how they were able to put
Speaker 3: the clamps. I know you mentioned the receivers versus a
Speaker 3: cornerback matchup, but what did you see in general from
Speaker 3: how the Dolphins just kind of operate as a whole
Speaker 3: back there.
Speaker 10: Yeah, there weren't that many booking plays at all. In honesty,
Speaker 10: the only plays where.
Speaker 11: Like see if they would have some success, especially down
Speaker 11: in that red zone, was when like he had to
Speaker 11: kind of like scramble around to try to create something.
Speaker 10: And to be honest, you can live with that if
Speaker 10: you're a DC.
Speaker 11: You can live with that, unless like the the scramblers
Speaker 11: like Lamar Jackson or Jalen Hurts or even Josh Allen.
Speaker 10: But for the most part though, you can live with that.
Speaker 11: If you got a young quarterback running around trying to
Speaker 11: make something happen. I'll let you know his first and
Speaker 11: second readason there and the pressures getting to him nice
Speaker 11: having to create something out of nothing, and that puts
Speaker 11: you in position to succeed every single time.
Speaker 10: And again, like there were a few plays. I know
Speaker 10: you probably saw it or maybe did.
Speaker 11: It, but we'll see you will try to go deep,
Speaker 11: because he went deep three times to Nico Collins twice
Speaker 11: and then went deep to Exaviorer Hutchinson, the rookie out
Speaker 11: of Iowa State, and both all three passes fell incomplete.
Speaker 11: You know, all three passes, and I remember one to
Speaker 11: Nico down the right sideline whenever two Dolphin defenders right
Speaker 11: there right. It was going to basically take a perfect
Speaker 11: throw and a perfect touch from a.
Speaker 10: Top tier receiver to make that connection happen.
Speaker 11: And you just can't expect that from You just can't
Speaker 11: expect that from a rookie against a big vaguel defense,
Speaker 11: you know, year one trying to make those type of
Speaker 11: throat But that goes to show you that the coverage,
Speaker 11: as you mentioned, the communication sticky coverage everybody there's supposed
Speaker 11: to be. So yeah, no, the secondary on the back
Speaker 11: end was was a was was exceptional.
Speaker 3: That's why I'm excited to have your voice on the
Speaker 3: podcast here because people are gonna hire. I think that
Speaker 3: I coach you up because you basically just said what
Speaker 3: I've been talking about for fourteen days of Dolphins camp
Speaker 3: were last year. It was all these deep balls that
Speaker 3: the Dolphins were getting over and over again. It just
Speaker 3: doesn't happen this year. And they've been efficient in the
Speaker 3: intermediate and quick game, but the deep stuff has been
Speaker 3: really well covered by the Dolphins. D so good to
Speaker 3: hear that it's been a theme here in these joint practices.
Speaker 3: You know, it's funny you mentioned that one run that
Speaker 3: got loose.
Speaker 1: Was was it Singletary that had the big run?
Speaker 3: Because they have that video board out and like behind
Speaker 3: the both practice fields, and every once in a while
Speaker 3: they put up a player from the other field and
Speaker 3: you could see it and I saw, I forgot that
Speaker 3: Singletary signed here. Man, he had a really I think
Speaker 3: it was him based upon the speed that I saw,
Speaker 3: and I don't think anybody else can run like he
Speaker 3: does on that team. But the way he got to
Speaker 3: the backside that you know, the bounce lane outside was
Speaker 3: pretty impressive. So it sounds like the run defense that
Speaker 3: was pretty solid for the most part.
Speaker 11: Yeah, absolutely, the defense was that that kind of surprised
Speaker 11: me a little bit. Cat You know, I hold the
Speaker 11: text of office the line of high regard, and there
Speaker 11: wasn't that many creatures created. Now, granted, you know, with
Speaker 11: the run game, it's kind of tricky because you know,
Speaker 11: you just never know if Damian Pierce can break up
Speaker 11: few tackles and get that, you know, that five yard
Speaker 11: gain or tear a two yard gains on paper to
Speaker 11: like six yards and then bust one because he did
Speaker 11: that a bunch of last year.
Speaker 10: But again, like there's a lot of game tackling.
Speaker 11: There wasn't that many one on one tackling where Damien
Speaker 11: was able to break loosen and it's one on one.
Speaker 11: A lot of it was game tackling, you know, at
Speaker 11: the line of scrims for times a few yards pass
Speaker 11: the line of scrimmage. So Dolphins defensive front Someone asked
Speaker 11: me how the Dolphins overall looked and I said solid,
Speaker 11: And I said that the front seven might be something
Speaker 11: like you might have something there, like something legitimate to
Speaker 11: where the loss of Jalen Ramsey might not even be
Speaker 11: as noticeable because you're going to have a front that good.
Speaker 3: The way Phillips has been playing, it's good to hear
Speaker 3: that he continued going where he was going today because
Speaker 3: he's been like that all camp long, and he just
Speaker 3: seems to be on the trajectory that really speaks to
Speaker 3: his you know, his growth as a player in his
Speaker 3: third year and hopefully some of those press this year
Speaker 3: that happen last year turn into more sacks for him
Speaker 3: this season. Where were some areas the Texans you thought
Speaker 3: performed well on the offense side of the football. Where
Speaker 3: do they kind of give mind me some trouble?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 10: In the red zone? Yeah?
Speaker 11: In the red zone, Tank Dale had about I think
Speaker 11: two to three touchdowns, but some of them took a
Speaker 11: little bit. They're more long developing, and we all know
Speaker 11: just based on just that preseason game Week one, like
Speaker 11: you know, holding the ball that's gonna.
Speaker 10: Lead some issues.
Speaker 11: So again, like now if it was one, two, three
Speaker 11: boom touchdown, then that's a little different. Like when tull
Speaker 11: was down doing red zone. There's some plays where it
Speaker 11: was one through three throw touchdown, Like he had two
Speaker 11: touchdowns where it was like all you turn up to
Speaker 11: that was within the rhythm of the offense where some.
Speaker 10: Of the tank stuff was easy.
Speaker 11: The tank for touchdowns was a little bit touch that
Speaker 11: red area of in rhythm or outside of the rhythm.
Speaker 11: But again I would say the red zone is where
Speaker 11: the Texans offense had some success. CJ made some really
Speaker 11: good throws, some ubscribed, had a couple of nice scrambles.
Speaker 11: So I would say the red zones with the Texans
Speaker 11: offense had some more success, but in between the twenties
Speaker 11: they didn't have that much.
Speaker 1: DJ appreciate your time today.
Speaker 3: Man, know you're a busy guy, so DJ baname ESPN Houston,
Speaker 3: check you stuff out.
Speaker 1: Thank you again for your time today.
Speaker 10: Sir, no prob Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: All right, there you go.
Speaker 3: Day one from Houston is a rap. We'll come back
Speaker 3: tomorrow and do the exact same thing. I believe I'm
Speaker 3: gonna have another guest on to help out with the
Speaker 3: line of sight because offense and defense is tough to
Speaker 3: watch at the same time, also have Steve Golcie on
Speaker 3: the podcast on Friday here from Houston. Plenty to come
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