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Speaker 4: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
Speaker 4: we're gonna hear from the coordinators and assistant coaches of
Speaker 4: your Miami Dolphins. We're gonna pick the week three games
Speaker 4: across the National Football League. And welcome in my guest
Speaker 4: today from the Denver Beat from ESPN Jeff Legwald to
Speaker 4: break down Dolphins and Broncos on Sunday, all of that
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Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and welcome in my guest today from
Speaker 4: ESPN Jeff Legwald and joining us today from the visiting
Speaker 4: sideline is ESPN senior writer covering the Denver Broncos, Jeff Legwold. Jeff,
Speaker 4: welcome in, my friend, happy to be here. We're happy
Speaker 4: to have you in. And I always like to ask
Speaker 4: this question ahead of time from teams coming from either Denver, Seattle,
Speaker 4: San Francisco places with I would call it limited humidity.
Speaker 4: How did the Broncos do you think approached preparations for
Speaker 4: playing in a game in a climate they're not used
Speaker 4: to This week.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you guys get more humidity by Sunday afternoon than
Speaker 5: we get in a year. So you know, Sean Payton
Speaker 5: has actually taken a different approach. Now, you know, it's
Speaker 5: been a while, a few years. I believe twenty nineteen
Speaker 5: is the last time they've they've played a game down there,
Speaker 5: but they Sean Payton is bringing the team in on
Speaker 5: Friday evening and then they're gonna have their walkthrough I believe,
Speaker 5: at the stadium on Saturday, and then and then play Sunday.
Speaker 5: So he's and some of that is the kickoff time.
Speaker 5: That's the other issue when they go east in the
Speaker 5: early time slot. So I think his tact is to
Speaker 5: just do the traditional you know, any place it's hot,
Speaker 5: just you know, make sure they're hydrating through the week,
Speaker 5: and then he's going to go a day early to
Speaker 5: deal with the time issue.
Speaker 4: I just got off the practice field about ten minutes ago,
Speaker 4: and it's uncharacteristically kind of I wouldn't say cool, because
Speaker 4: it never is cool downe here until the winter months.
Speaker 4: But it's a little less hot than usual, so maybe
Speaker 4: the weather going to play some favor here for the
Speaker 4: visiting Broncos. But I did want to ask you about Obviously,
Speaker 4: the quarterback position will usually start with any football team,
Speaker 4: and Russell Wilson get back this year to a little
Speaker 4: bit more scrambling and a lot more long ball, especially
Speaker 4: in that game against Washington. How have you seen Russell
Speaker 4: Wilson taking to like you mentioned Sean Payton, the new
Speaker 4: head coach there, how is he taking to that new offense?
Speaker 4: Two games in.
Speaker 6: Well, you know, so far, so good.
Speaker 5: They don't have the results, obviously, they're going two and
Speaker 5: the issue spent in the second half of games they've
Speaker 5: they've been almost two different teams and Russell's been almost
Speaker 5: two different players comparing the first half of their two
Speaker 5: games to the second.
Speaker 6: Half of the two games.
Speaker 5: So that's the issue they're dealing with right now, is
Speaker 5: how to maintain some of that momentum they've had, you know,
Speaker 5: in the first and second quarters after halftime. But overall,
Speaker 5: he's looked much better than he did for most of
Speaker 5: last year, and there's been a big emphasis on tempo,
Speaker 5: getting to the line of scrimmage more quickly, you know,
Speaker 5: getting the ball out of.
Speaker 6: His hand more efficiently.
Speaker 5: You know, don't put him in a position where he's
Speaker 5: you know, deep in the down and he's still holding
Speaker 5: onto the ball. So they've been better about that when
Speaker 5: they have had difficulty. It's some of the problems that
Speaker 5: cropped up last year. When the protection goes bad, then
Speaker 5: his footwork of roads and then when his footwork of roads,
Speaker 5: he tends to hang onto the ball and try to escape,
Speaker 5: and that's when when bad things happen. So the emphasis
Speaker 5: has really been on maintaining ten, moving quicker and you know,
Speaker 5: making that snap the throw number. It's still not what
Speaker 5: they want, but it's better than it was last year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 4: That's a good point you bring up there with the
Speaker 4: footwork and kind of how he can you know, do
Speaker 4: his part to minimize the sacks, because you go back
Speaker 4: to his days in Seattle, even when the Seahawks offense
Speaker 4: was rolling, they would have you know, moments or multiple
Speaker 4: drives where they wouldn't get much done and typically was
Speaker 4: because of negative yardage via the result of a sack
Speaker 4: and I've always thought it was kind of a quarterback stat,
Speaker 4: but it's it's been, you know, off to a shaky
Speaker 4: start this year with the nine sacks they've allowed. I'm
Speaker 4: curious how much you think that Wilson can clean that up,
Speaker 4: how much you think the offensive line can clean it up.
Speaker 4: Maybe the coaching staff give him some more I guess
Speaker 4: quick throwing game, Like where do you think the Broncos
Speaker 4: can clean up the fact that they've given up four
Speaker 4: and a half sacks a game so far?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean they probably all have a little dirt
Speaker 5: under their fingernails with that one. I mean, it's their
Speaker 5: line play has been spotty because they have two new
Speaker 5: you know, they signed a guard Ben Powers and reagency
Speaker 5: and a tackle Mike mcglinchy in free agency. So and
Speaker 5: McGlinchey didn't play at all in the preseason. So they're
Speaker 5: still mixing and matching there and trying to get everybody comfortable.
Speaker 5: You know, when do you pass a guy when you
Speaker 5: you know, how do how do you come out of
Speaker 5: the double teams?
Speaker 6: All of those timing things.
Speaker 5: They're still getting together up front, and they've you know,
Speaker 5: they've been sort of compromised on the edges from time
Speaker 5: to time in the by the opposing pass rush. And
Speaker 5: you know, they've played two pretty good fronts. You know,
Speaker 5: Washington's got four former number ones in the front, and
Speaker 5: they looked like it for a lot of the game.
Speaker 6: And then, uh, you know the Raiders.
Speaker 5: Max Crosby has always been a big thorn to this
Speaker 5: team no matter who they've had at quarterback.
Speaker 6: Or in the offensive line.
Speaker 5: So they you know, some of it was a bad
Speaker 5: draw for them right away, but you know, again they've
Speaker 5: they've they haven't always played with the the timing and
Speaker 5: the you know and some of the combination blocks they
Speaker 5: need to and Russell needs to be more cognizant when
Speaker 5: the play's gone bad that just to take the down
Speaker 5: and get on with it instead of trying to save
Speaker 5: a play that can't be saved.
Speaker 4: I always enjoy these crossover here, these crossover episodes. Here
Speaker 4: having a guest from the other beat on the podcast,
Speaker 4: gaving us some inside information on the Dolphins opponent this week,
Speaker 4: the Denver Broncos obviously in town to face the two
Speaker 4: and O Miami Dolphins. And let's talk about the weapons
Speaker 4: at Wilson's disposal here. I know Jerry Judy came back
Speaker 4: last week. Obviously, Tim Patrick down for the season, and
Speaker 4: Greg Dolson's gonna miss this game. I'm curious if you
Speaker 4: can give us some insight on who the kind of
Speaker 4: top pass catchers are, because as well as Judy's availability
Speaker 4: and kind of coming back off the hamstring, because going
Speaker 4: into the air look like a pretty strength of a position,
Speaker 4: but now after injuries kind of depleted a little bit.
Speaker 5: A little bit, you know, I think that you know,
Speaker 5: a lot of the angst locally is, you know, folks
Speaker 5: just want to see the rookie Marvin Mims more. I mean,
Speaker 5: the guy had two recent on two targets last week
Speaker 5: for one hundred and thirteen yards and a touchdown, and
Speaker 5: then he doesn't he doesn't get a third target for
Speaker 5: the rest of the game. You know, they had a
Speaker 5: rookie running back, Juliel McLoughlin is their fastest running, most
Speaker 5: explosive running back.
Speaker 6: He had one carry in the game for a touchdown.
Speaker 5: So a lot of the angst locally is, you know, hey,
Speaker 5: why don't you get these rookies on the field more.
Speaker 5: But Mims is potentially the most explosive receiver they have,
Speaker 5: and the more he plays, I think the more that
Speaker 5: will show. You know, Courtland Sutton is the guy Russell
Speaker 5: really trusts when he's in trouble. You know, if he's
Speaker 5: on the move and has to escape a lot of
Speaker 5: the time, he's going to be looking Courtland Sutton's way.
Speaker 5: And Judy had you know, an injury early on, a
Speaker 5: hamstring problem to close out camp, so he's still not
Speaker 5: all the way back in, you know, and that it
Speaker 5: would help if they could get Nim's and Judy and
Speaker 5: Sutton in the formation more often together. And I think
Speaker 5: their I think their plan is to do that, but
Speaker 5: we just haven't seen it enough yet. And moving forward,
Speaker 5: Mims has to play more or they're just going to
Speaker 5: be leaving potential big plays on the bench, you know.
Speaker 6: Standing next to the coaches.
Speaker 4: It seems like every team, not every team, but a
Speaker 4: few teams have like these positions where health is just
Speaker 4: an issue every single year. And I feel like the
Speaker 4: Broncos have had some of the worst luck at the
Speaker 4: receiver position in terms of their health annually.
Speaker 3: Going over to the other side of the ball here.
Speaker 4: Jeff, it looks like Justin Simmons the stats for the
Speaker 4: game on Sunday, we'll find out what that is tomorrow
Speaker 4: when the gamestas has come out, but he missed Wednesday's
Speaker 4: practice curious about his availability. And then just on top
Speaker 4: of that, the depth in the defensive backfield beyond he
Speaker 4: and Patrick Surtan, how is that kind of shaped out
Speaker 4: through two games? And who are some names to keep
Speaker 4: an eye on in the defensive backfield.
Speaker 5: Well, the injuries have been pretty tough on him there too.
Speaker 5: I mean they're big plans of the preseason have already
Speaker 5: been dented.
Speaker 6: The you know, not a.
Speaker 5: Lot of people talk about the injury, but it's one
Speaker 5: of the biggest the team have has. The Kiwan Williams
Speaker 5: was their nickel corner and he's one of the best
Speaker 5: nickel corners in the league. You know, he can play
Speaker 5: the run with physicality and he can play the deep
Speaker 5: you know, the deep middle. You know, he has that
Speaker 5: kind of athleticism to do both. And he's he had
Speaker 5: ankle surgery, so he hasn't played at all. And the
Speaker 5: minute they took him out of the secondary, the dominoes
Speaker 5: start to fall because now you're moving, you're bumping a
Speaker 5: lot of people up who might not be ready for
Speaker 5: what they need to do. So that's impacted what they
Speaker 5: can do. And a lot of people don't like throwing
Speaker 5: at Pats or Tan, so they throw it to Maury
Speaker 5: Mathis instead the other corner, or they throw at the
Speaker 5: nickel who's playing in Kaiwan Williams's spot, and that's that's
Speaker 5: a sang Bassie who Bassie was kind of a Vic
Speaker 5: Fangio find when when Vic coached here. So Vic is
Speaker 5: familiar with the saying but and he's a good player,
Speaker 5: but you know he's not at Kaiwan Williams's level in
Speaker 5: the nickel. So those have been the two issues that
Speaker 5: have impacted them the most. People are going at the
Speaker 5: other defensive backs because you know, Pat Sertan is a
Speaker 5: big headache if you're a quarterback.
Speaker 3: He absolutely is.
Speaker 4: And we've seen our own share of attrition in the
Speaker 4: defensive backfield a season ago and throughout this training camp
Speaker 4: really but hopefully Miami's getting healthy as long as as
Speaker 4: well as Denver on the back end. There a couple
Speaker 4: more here for you, Jeff, I was curious to ask
Speaker 4: you about Vance Joseph's I guess in corporation into the
Speaker 4: defensive system there and kind of how he's put his
Speaker 4: fingerprints on the Denver defense We know he loves to blitz,
Speaker 4: but this quarterback down here beats the blitz pretty well.
Speaker 4: What do you think we see on Sunday in terms
Speaker 4: of how they want a pressure to a tongue bailoa.
Speaker 5: Well, that's been a struggle for them so far because
Speaker 5: they you know, they haven't gotten a lot of production
Speaker 5: from their edge guys and because of that, you know,
Speaker 5: Vance is always walking the line between how many risks
Speaker 5: do you take in the pass rush, how many how
Speaker 5: many times do you add the extra rusher and then
Speaker 5: you put a secondary that's had some injuries you know,
Speaker 5: under the microscope a little bit when you do that.
Speaker 5: So that that's been their difficulty. It's it's hard to
Speaker 5: sort of find the balance of getting more pressure when
Speaker 5: you need it, but not leaving some defensive backs in
Speaker 5: trouble spots because you don't have the guys in the
Speaker 5: lineup that you were planning to.
Speaker 6: So that's been their biggest trouble.
Speaker 5: And you know it will be their difficulty against the
Speaker 5: Dolphins because they you know, you're obviously not gonna want
Speaker 5: it to just standing there surveying things, and I think
Speaker 5: they will try a lot of what New England did,
Speaker 5: which is to play a lot of his own, keep
Speaker 5: as much in front of them as they can, and
Speaker 5: then just take their chances in the red zone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 4: I don't really know how you best defend this Dolphins
Speaker 4: offense because they've been pretty lethal with two different completely
Speaker 4: game plans from the Chargers in Patriots in Week one
Speaker 4: and Week two. One more question here for you, Jeff.
Speaker 4: We end these episodes the same way every single time.
Speaker 4: I like to ask you, the Broncos win this game
Speaker 4: if and then you fill in the blank.
Speaker 5: They win this game if they play offense with a
Speaker 5: more consistency than they have so far. I mean even
Speaker 5: last week they scored a bunch of points, but the
Speaker 5: second half was a slog.
Speaker 6: You know, they weren't really themselves. So they win this
Speaker 6: they if they play a full game.
Speaker 5: On offense and Marvin Mims is involved a lot more
Speaker 5: than he has been.
Speaker 6: Very good.
Speaker 4: You can find him on Twitter at Jeff Underscore Legwold
Speaker 4: and his coverage of the Broncos on ESPN dot com. Jeff,
Speaker 4: appreciate your time today and make sure you try that
Speaker 4: key line pie up in the press box on Sunday.
Speaker 6: I'll do whatever I can to you know, to dent
Speaker 6: that that supply.
Speaker 3: It goes by pretty quick, so get there early. Appreciate it. Jeff,
Speaker 3: thank you man, Thank you, And there he goes.
Speaker 4: Always a fun chat to get perspective from the opposing team,
Speaker 4: as Jeff gave us there from the Denver Broncos. Let's
Speaker 4: go ahead and take our first break right here and
Speaker 4: come back on the other side and talk to the
Speaker 4: assistant coaches. That's next Drive Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
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Speaker 3: Let's kick off.
Speaker 4: Assistant coach Audio here with Vic Fangio first, who was asked,
Speaker 4: how did you guys improve the run game? What was
Speaker 4: different on Sunday night versus Week one against the Chargers?
Speaker 7: We played better, Number one. I think we had the
Speaker 7: mindset to stop the run. We took on blocks a
Speaker 7: little better, just had that little more edge that you
Speaker 7: need to have to play the run better, and we
Speaker 7: played the run good.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 7: It was by my account, you know, twenty for sixty
Speaker 7: three yards. They got some quarterbacks scramble runs, which I
Speaker 7: don't I know statistically are rushing yards, but they're not
Speaker 7: in my mind.
Speaker 4: I'm very glad He mentioned that about the quarterback rushing
Speaker 4: statistics because I think that kind of can skew the
Speaker 4: way your run defense plays in general, because those are
Speaker 4: kind of passing numbers. If you think about it, you
Speaker 4: drop back to pass, you're in coverage, you have pass rush,
Speaker 4: and the quarterback runs not really indicative of how your
Speaker 4: run defense plays. Speaking of run defense, the safety is
Speaker 4: often involved in bringing down players into the box and
Speaker 4: adding fits into the run count. Here's coach Fangio talking
Speaker 4: about Deshaun Elliott's production so far and where Brandon Jones
Speaker 4: is in his rehab. And there's a great stat on Twitter.
Speaker 4: I put it out on Thursday afternoon about how the
Speaker 4: Dolphins currently have the most lost war. That is wins
Speaker 4: above replacement, a former baseball stat that carried over to
Speaker 4: football and tracks pretty well how effective players are. Nobody
Speaker 4: has more lost war this year than the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 4: With players missing time due to injury, sands the quarterback position,
Speaker 4: and a big part of that someone Brandon Jones, and
Speaker 4: I keep thinking about Ramsey, Brandon Jones, Nick Needham eventually
Speaker 4: to Ron Armstead, all these names the Dolphins will get
Speaker 4: back to add to what, in my opinion, is already
Speaker 4: the best team in the NFL. Here's coach on Elliot's
Speaker 4: performance so far and Brandon Jones's progress he's making.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we'd like to get Brandon going. And the big
Speaker 7: thing with Brandon is he missed the entire offseason. He
Speaker 7: missed not all of training camp, but most of training camp,
Speaker 7: did not play in any preseason games, and he just
Speaker 7: needs to catch up. And you know, when you're back there,
Speaker 7: if you're not honed up, they're not just six yard games,
Speaker 7: they're big ones. So we're giving him more and more
Speaker 7: practice reps every week and I'm confident he'll be ready
Speaker 7: to play soon.
Speaker 6: Here, let's go.
Speaker 4: Ahead and stay on that train of thought. And here
Speaker 4: from Rinaldo Hill on Dolphins safety Deshaun Elliott.
Speaker 8: You know, for the most part, he's been consistent. You know,
Speaker 8: we've been looking for that partner opposite and someone who
Speaker 8: can give Javon, you know, something to his game. So
Speaker 8: Sean's been the one out there has been communicating very well.
Speaker 8: I think their partnership has been going good. So these
Speaker 8: first two games, obviously we still have you know, Brandon
Speaker 8: getting him caught up to speed, but right now, Sean
Speaker 8: has been doing a really good job for US.
Speaker 4: I mentioned Ramsey one question to Goo. There was a
Speaker 4: question posed to Rinaldo about Cam Smith's progress and his
Speaker 4: ability to kind of absorb the NFL lifestyle and playbook
Speaker 4: and all that stuff, and the name Jalen Ramsey came up.
Speaker 4: That Cam was sitting next to Ramsey and meetings and
Speaker 4: asking great questions all meeting long, and we kind of
Speaker 4: found that interesting in the room as a media contingency
Speaker 4: and got a few questions about Ramsey to Ronaldo Hill,
Speaker 4: let's go ahead and start here with Ramsey's involvement, despite
Speaker 4: the fact that he's down, he's rehaben trying to get
Speaker 4: back from the injury, still as locked in as anybody
Speaker 4: else in the roster.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he's a leader, and I don't think you know,
Speaker 8: regardless of the injury, you never stopped doing that. Obviously,
Speaker 8: he had a lot of experience going against Russ during
Speaker 8: his time, so he's able to give that that feedback
Speaker 8: of just being in those shoes, playing in those situations
Speaker 8: and what Russ balls look like to like help those
Speaker 8: guys look look for when they're out there playing. So
Speaker 8: he's given all his tip bits of his experiences and
Speaker 8: it's really helping our guys. Those guys are receptive to it.
Speaker 8: They're asking good questions on the back end, and he's
Speaker 8: just he's just been dialed in. He wants to be
Speaker 8: out there. If you see him near the sideline, you
Speaker 8: could tell he's all in. But he's he's just a
Speaker 8: true leader, true leader in the room, and he's showcasing
Speaker 8: that to our guys on it.
Speaker 4: And of course we all saw him celebrate xaviing Howard's
Speaker 4: interception on Sunday night. How badly does Ramsy want to
Speaker 4: get back in the fold. Here's Dolphins passing game coordinator
Speaker 4: Ronaldo Hill on their star cornerback.
Speaker 8: I think you just see him just the excitement he
Speaker 8: has when guys are making plays. You know he wants
Speaker 8: to be out there. He's locked, he's calling out their concepts.
Speaker 8: It's just a he's just completely involved, regardless if he's
Speaker 8: not on the field physically, he's he's he's there mentally
Speaker 8: and he's there in his action. So we're seeing, we're
Speaker 8: seeing all that, and he's giving those guys juice when
Speaker 8: they're out there. He's encouraging when they come to the sideline,
Speaker 8: telling them what he's seeing from his lands. He's he's
Speaker 8: involved in the game plan. He's sitting there every day
Speaker 8: and he has his note cards and he's making notes
Speaker 8: and he's being able to apply it in his words
Speaker 8: to the players, which is which is really good. Sometimes
Speaker 8: players are the best coaches in those situations.
Speaker 4: Finally, I wanted to follow up on that point and
Speaker 4: just ask how rare is that for a player who's
Speaker 4: out injured to be so involved in everything you guys do.
Speaker 8: A lot of times you see those guys maybe in
Speaker 8: the rehab, you know, position, maybe they're not involved in much.
Speaker 8: But I think it's I think as coaches we encourage
Speaker 8: those guys to do it as much as possible. But
Speaker 8: just one of the ones where you don't have to
Speaker 8: say much. He's he's up front with it, and we
Speaker 8: like that as coaches because, like I said, it's letting them,
Speaker 8: letting him know that he's still involved in this thing.
Speaker 8: He know he will be back, and he's preparing himself
Speaker 8: for when he does come back so that he not
Speaker 8: missing the beat as far as the preparation goes.
Speaker 4: One last one here for the defense, and I'll go
Speaker 4: over to the offensive side of the football. Wanted to
Speaker 4: ask Ronaldo Hill the difficulty of defending a quarterback like
Speaker 4: Russell Wilson, who has one of the best trajectory, deep
Speaker 4: arcing footballs that we've ever seen in the National Football League,
Speaker 4: in addition to his ability to win with his legs
Speaker 4: on scrambles and design runs.
Speaker 3: Here's Hill.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, we've got to rely on our front seven,
Speaker 8: you know, to make sure that they're doing a good
Speaker 8: job of, you know, keeping a cup on rust in
Speaker 8: the pocket. We got to make sure that we're keeping
Speaker 8: the roof on the back end and making it difficult
Speaker 8: for those guys to find those shots down field. We
Speaker 8: know we try to do a good job of moving
Speaker 8: the coverage around, but at the same time, they're going
Speaker 8: to find these ops and we got to be ready
Speaker 8: to answer the bail for when we do get those
Speaker 8: singles up matchups. But you know, we're going to try
Speaker 8: to do our best to you know, move it down
Speaker 8: and help guys out. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 8: we've got to go out there and make plays when
Speaker 8: it's our one on once.
Speaker 4: Let's pivot now to the offensive side of the football
Speaker 4: and Frank Smith, who was asked about what is it
Speaker 4: that Coach Berry the offensive line coach Butch Berry. What
Speaker 4: stands out about his performance and what he brings to the.
Speaker 9: Table energy and passion for football, a line play. You know,
Speaker 9: there's his work ethic, I think, I mean, he has
Speaker 9: an unbelievable work ethic, energy towards what he does, a
Speaker 9: passion towards what he does, and I think, you know,
Speaker 9: like we talked about, when you can surround yourself with
Speaker 9: guys like that, I mean, good things tend to happen
Speaker 9: because they have that resolve to always make sure that
Speaker 9: we're trying to get the best out of each other.
Speaker 9: And I mean that's all you can ask for in
Speaker 9: a teammate and another coach.
Speaker 4: I've talked about this at length, how you can just
Speaker 4: see the commitment to technique and fundamentals on the pre
Speaker 4: this field, the way those guys catch and climb and
Speaker 4: hit the bag, and the intent they have in those practices.
Speaker 4: It's just a little bit different this year than you've
Speaker 4: seen in the past. We've seen that play out on
Speaker 4: game days on Sunday as well, in terms of how
Speaker 4: they pick up games and pass things off and find
Speaker 4: extra work.
Speaker 3: It's been fun to watch.
Speaker 4: What's not been so fun to watch is the quarterback
Speaker 4: center exchange stuff. But like Mike McDaniel mentioned, two snaps
Speaker 4: out of sixty in a game is not something you're
Speaker 4: going to be overly concerned about, especially when the other
Speaker 4: fifty eight are great, and that's what you get from
Speaker 4: Connor Williams. But of course something you have to iron out.
Speaker 4: But Frank Smith stays on that same line of thinking
Speaker 4: with it won't be an issue very soon. It's basically
Speaker 4: what he says here.
Speaker 9: I think everyone has stuff they're working on, and you know,
Speaker 9: a quarterback exchange thing just gets obviously magnified. But he
Speaker 9: had at the same time. I mean, it's just something
Speaker 9: that you know is working through. It's the second game
Speaker 9: of the season, you know, I would imagine by week
Speaker 9: seventeen hopefully we're not talking about that. But it obviously
Speaker 9: gives us something to work on because there's so many
Speaker 9: other good things that he's doing and obviously two is
Speaker 9: doing so yeah, and then they're very professional about it,
Speaker 9: so they're making sure they work through just anything that
Speaker 9: maybe was off at the time.
Speaker 4: Coach finishes up here, touching on the anticipation from the
Speaker 4: quarterback position, but not just how it's an inherent trait
Speaker 4: from Tua. How it's something that he and the entire
Speaker 4: offense developed over the course of an off season's worth
Speaker 4: of work.
Speaker 9: It's just the way that you know, he goes about
Speaker 9: his business's anticipation and understanding, and I think ultimately it
Speaker 9: goes in Like all plays, you can't say just necessarily
Speaker 9: it's one guy, you know, doing it on his own.
Speaker 9: It's a collection of the way you teach things, the
Speaker 9: way that you execute, the way that you run the route,
Speaker 9: the way that you do things. So I think ultimately
Speaker 9: it's a collection. And that's a way that they've trained
Speaker 9: all off season. Is that working together to make sure
Speaker 9: they can play with anticipation and intent together.
Speaker 4: Earlier I mentioned coach Barry and what stands out about him.
Speaker 4: I wanted to ask Eric Stewisville about the involvement that
Speaker 4: he has with Coach Barry when it comes to get
Speaker 4: in the running backs lined up in pass pro. It's
Speaker 4: been so good this year. Here's a great answer from
Speaker 4: coach Studentsville and how he and Butch Berry put together
Speaker 4: pass protection plans every single Tuesday.
Speaker 10: On Tuesdays, Butch and I spend probably probably a good
Speaker 10: hour and a half to two hours going through every
Speaker 10: pressure that we can find, talking through our rules, what
Speaker 10: we want to do, why, what the adjustments would be,
Speaker 10: how the offensive line is affected by certain things, how
Speaker 10: the back is affected by certain things. And then we
Speaker 10: come together and kind of sort out our rules for
Speaker 10: the week based on that meeting, and that's how we'd
Speaker 10: get on the same page, join it, and then we
Speaker 10: obviously we walk through things as a group on the
Speaker 10: field and then we practice them and we give the
Speaker 10: backs reps in the line. But we have to do those.
Speaker 6: You have to.
Speaker 10: It's it's part to the whole, you know, you take
Speaker 10: parts of it and then you put it together a
Speaker 10: little bit more at a time, and then we got
Speaker 10: to get it executed.
Speaker 3: And finishing up here with coach Studentsville.
Speaker 4: One of the most exciting guys to watch in that
Speaker 4: full back room, or that running backroom, i should say,
Speaker 4: is full back Alec Ingold. Here's coach on just how
Speaker 4: valuable Ingold is to the offense.
Speaker 6: Well, it's just what you said.
Speaker 10: He has a unique skill set. I mean, Alec is
Speaker 10: first of all, he's incredibly intelligent, He's passionate about the game.
Speaker 10: He wants to be utilized in as many ways as
Speaker 10: we'll try to utilize him.
Speaker 6: He'll try everything, and.
Speaker 10: We put him in a lot of different places and
Speaker 10: we're still sorting out, you know, what those.
Speaker 6: Things are that he can do.
Speaker 10: And he's done more and more things. That just gives
Speaker 10: us a huge advantage too, because the defense has to
Speaker 10: prepare for all those things.
Speaker 3: All Right, there we go.
Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and finish up this podcast on the
Speaker 4: other side with my NFL game picks for week number three.
Speaker 4: That's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield.
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Speaker 4: Let's pick the games for Week three in the twenty
Speaker 4: twenty three NFL season. Good year so far for you,
Speaker 4: boy a twelve and four week. Last week had a
Speaker 4: couple of changes late under the wire because of some
Speaker 4: injury news, but wind up going twelve and four. That's
Speaker 4: twenty three and nine on the season. I believe that's
Speaker 4: the best two weeks start since I began doing these
Speaker 4: on the podcast here two years ago.
Speaker 7: Go.
Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and pick this week's game starting with
Speaker 4: Thursday Night Football. What a snoozer Giants and Niners. Give
Speaker 4: me the San Francisco forty nine ers and a.
Speaker 3: Big, big victory there Give me.
Speaker 4: Miami over Denver on Sunday. Titans and Browns, I think
Speaker 4: is a close one, but I think the Browns offense
Speaker 4: has been a kneemic really since that certain quarterback took
Speaker 4: over last year. Give me the Titans to keep on
Speaker 4: rolling after a big win over the Chargers and their
Speaker 4: home opener on Sunday. Give me the Lions over the Falcons.
Speaker 4: Big fan of what the Falcons are doing, but I
Speaker 4: do not believe in the sustainability to beat top level teams.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure Detroit qualifies as that.
Speaker 4: But as far as their offense goes and the ability
Speaker 4: to quick strike and put up a lot of points,
Speaker 4: I'd like them to do that. I don't trust the
Speaker 4: Falcons to keep pace, even though I love that defense,
Speaker 4: love the running game, love weapons quarterback, and the fact
Speaker 4: that we're not getting the ball to Kyle Pitts ever
Speaker 4: really drives me crazy. But so give me the Lions
Speaker 4: and that one. Give me the Packers to bounce back
Speaker 4: over the Saints. I believe that game is in the Dome,
Speaker 4: but I think Jordan Love is playing pretty well.
Speaker 3: That Packers team is pretty good.
Speaker 4: They were banged up in the game against the Falcons
Speaker 4: on Sunday. But give me a chance, give them a
Speaker 4: chance to get back to two and one here with
Speaker 4: the win over the Saints, Chargers and Vikings is the
Speaker 4: ultimate cornered animal game. The loser comes out of this
Speaker 4: zero to three feeling terrible about their season. I'm not
Speaker 4: sure who to pick, quite frankly, because I think the
Speaker 4: Chargers are a little bit the same story as always right,
Speaker 4: and that quarterback kind of feeds into that. But I
Speaker 4: like them to be to win this game because they
Speaker 4: are more talented in the minister with Vikings. Will Give
Speaker 4: me the Chargers over the Vikings. Give me the Patriots
Speaker 4: over the Jets. I do not think that quarterback can
Speaker 4: score any touchdowns on that defense.
Speaker 3: It's been proven time and time again.
Speaker 4: I think the Jets turned for a long year. Give
Speaker 4: me the Patriots to get their first win. Jacksonville over Houston.
Speaker 4: Not much needs to be said there.
Speaker 3: Buffalo over Washington.
Speaker 4: I think Washington's off to a great start, and I
Speaker 4: still think they're going to go to the playoffs like
Speaker 4: I picked, but I don't think that they have a
Speaker 4: chance to be the roster like the Buffalo Bills. Baltimore
Speaker 4: over Indy, give me the Seahawks over the Panthers. Gosh,
Speaker 4: how lifeless do the Panthers look so far through two weeks?
Speaker 4: And that quarterback took a number one overall?
Speaker 3: Is not look great so far?
Speaker 4: Chiefs over the Bears and a laugher. Give me the
Speaker 4: Cowboys over the Cardinals. In the same situation in the
Speaker 4: primetime games, I'll take the Raiders over the Steelers.
Speaker 3: All the hype about the Steelers in.
Speaker 4: The preseason was so funny to me because people were
Speaker 4: trying to find this off the wall quarterback to pick
Speaker 4: and elevate, and it's like, hey, the Dolphins have a
Speaker 4: pretty quarterback if you choose that guy, but we took
Speaker 4: Kenny Pickett instead. Give me the Raiders over a lifeless
Speaker 4: Steelers offense. The Eagles over the Bucks on Monday Night Football.
Speaker 4: Feel pretty good about that one, And then this one.
Speaker 4: I feel liable to change or taking the Rams over
Speaker 4: the Bengals. If Burrow does not play, if he goes
Speaker 4: out there on that banged up CAF, give me the Bengals.
Speaker 4: But if it's Jake Browning, I'm taking the Rams in
Speaker 4: that one. Those are your Week three picks. Let's go
Speaker 4: ahead and finish up the podcast today with something I'm
Speaker 4: gonna call Dolphins in the Community, and I had a
Speaker 4: chance to talk to Alec Ingold and Skylar Thompson about
Speaker 4: their recent trip to a local middle school. I think
Speaker 4: I said at elementary school in more of than the interviews,
Speaker 4: where they went hung out with the kids in the
Speaker 4: STEM program working on mathematics and robotics and all kinds
Speaker 4: of crazy stuff. Let's go ahead and start with the
Speaker 4: Miami fullback here with Alec Engle Dolphins locker room, and Alec,
Speaker 4: I just told you before I jumped on on the
Speaker 4: interview here. I saw you on my on my TV
Speaker 4: last night watching the news.
Speaker 3: You went to a local school for a STEM program,
Speaker 3: Is that correct?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 11: So this SEEK program is like after school deal out
Speaker 11: in Miami gardens and yeah, these kids right after school,
Speaker 11: they hop on for a couple hours and they work
Speaker 11: on STEM projects, gardening without soil. Like these kids were
Speaker 11: teaching us all like super high level stuff.
Speaker 6: It was.
Speaker 11: It was really cool to see and just like be
Speaker 11: around those kids because yeah, it was unreal to see
Speaker 11: what they were doing on those computers.
Speaker 3: Things have changed a little bit since you and I
Speaker 3: were in school.
Speaker 11: Huh. Yeah, I mean, I was like Extra Recess was
Speaker 11: like my after school program.
Speaker 1: So no, they're they're way advanced. It was it was
Speaker 1: really cool to see.
Speaker 4: What's something you learned from that whole thing, whether it's
Speaker 4: you know, something with robotics or from the kids themselves.
Speaker 1: I think the kids were really helpful for one another.
Speaker 1: It was competitive.
Speaker 11: They were broke out into teams, and my team fortunately
Speaker 11: came up with the win. We had the best, the
Speaker 11: fastest racing car, and some kids were worried about the programming.
Speaker 11: Some kids were worried about the friction of the car
Speaker 11: and how it was moving. So it was cool to
Speaker 11: kind of see them all come together and at the
Speaker 11: end just build something and then race and then be
Speaker 11: supportive of one another at the end. So just really
Speaker 11: well mannered group of kids, and the teachers and educators
Speaker 11: were awesome. So no, I was just really thankful to
Speaker 11: be a part of that.
Speaker 4: Was it like mechanically powered because like I'm thinking back
Speaker 4: to like Pinewood Derby and Scouts days, or like I
Speaker 4: remember making like the rubber band cars that you would
Speaker 4: like use to get rubber band for to push them forward.
Speaker 3: It was like mechanically powered though.
Speaker 11: Yeah, so they like Bluetooth connected a little motorized deal
Speaker 11: where they could spin wheels at a certain certain speed.
Speaker 11: They could count the amount of rotations the tires would
Speaker 11: do and they could stop it.
Speaker 1: It could turn, and it could move a different direction.
Speaker 11: And they coded that all out through like Lego robotics.
Speaker 11: So it was yeah, it was really high level.
Speaker 4: And it was it was cool to see them do
Speaker 4: their alek Ingold digs out three hundred twenty pound defensive tackles, catches,
Speaker 4: real routes and nose robotics.
Speaker 1: Uh, the last part is to be determined.
Speaker 3: Still appreciate you man, thank you and the way he goes.
Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and pick it up with Dolphins quarterbacks
Speaker 4: Skyler Thompson. I just talked to Alec about it. He
Speaker 4: was telling me he hung an l on you in
Speaker 4: terms of who won the race at the.
Speaker 3: End of the thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it teams got mine. But it was actually like
Speaker 2: really really cool. You know, I didn't really quite know
Speaker 2: what we were doing until we.
Speaker 1: Got there, and like the kids were explaining.
Speaker 2: To me like what they were doing and what this
Speaker 2: after school program like has taught them, and it honestly
Speaker 2: like it was like above my head like it was
Speaker 2: so cool to kind of see all the time that
Speaker 2: they put into the stuff that they do and how
Speaker 2: everything orchestrates to work together, because I mean they're building
Speaker 2: cars on their own, but also coding it to where
Speaker 2: like control the speed and the way it turned. Like
Speaker 2: there was a lot of stuff that went into it
Speaker 2: that was really cool to learn about through.
Speaker 4: Like Bluetooth, right, because I was telling you, Alex and
Speaker 4: I was like, I remember when I was that age,
Speaker 4: you know, it's a little bit ago now, we would
Speaker 4: do like rubber bands and like it was all about
Speaker 4: like creating your own force manually.
Speaker 3: But they had plugging the Bluetooth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, No, it was super cool.
Speaker 9: It was like a like a little.
Speaker 2: Like like a motor essentially that was like connected Bluetooth
Speaker 2: through the computer.
Speaker 1: So like that's how they type in all their number
Speaker 1: for the coding to.
Speaker 2: Like control like the revolution speed, the turn angles, all
Speaker 2: this stuff.
Speaker 1: Like it was super cool. That's wild.
Speaker 3: So what did you learn from from the kids in general?
Speaker 6: Just being there?
Speaker 4: Like it's obviously a cool experience, but I know you're
Speaker 4: pretty involved in the community. What do you take away
Speaker 4: from stuff like that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean this is super cool.
Speaker 12: To to see the like the joy in the kids,
Speaker 12: you know, like being able to like see them like
Speaker 12: put effort and time into something and like see it work,
Speaker 12: and like them being like engaged and.
Speaker 2: Like interested in learning about something like so unique. It
Speaker 2: is super cool, you know, and like seeing the kids
Speaker 2: work together and like everybody's working as a team, you know,
Speaker 2: so it's like it's really cool to see how each
Speaker 2: person on the team kind of orchestrated, like the communication
Speaker 2: aspect of like hey, I'm gonna go do this, you
Speaker 2: do this? Hey can you like you can tell everybody
Speaker 2: who's working together.
Speaker 1: Which is so cool to see and bureau man appreciate you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely define.
Speaker 4: And that is your week three, Thursday edition of the
Speaker 4: Draft Time Podcast. Tomorrow, fun episode for you guys. The
Speaker 4: great Kevin Harlan joins us. We'll get five minutes on
Speaker 4: the Dolphins Draft with Kyle Krabs and hears some sound
Speaker 4: from the locker room, including my narrative this week, bumping
Speaker 4: it back to Friday on defensive linemen retracing their steps
Speaker 4: and making hustle plays. All that to come your way
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