Speaker 1: To us buyers touch style by waddle stuck into the
Speaker 1: end zone of Miami tight froll, tight window. They had
Speaker 1: to get that touchdown on that play. They get it.
Speaker 1: What is up? Dolphans And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast,
Speaker 1: part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team,
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield And on today's show, we're back on the
Speaker 1: practice field, back here at the Baptist Health Training Complex,
Speaker 1: back in the stands with a chance to get a
Speaker 1: better view at the entire practice field. Level is great,
Speaker 1: but the eye and the sky is undefeated. We'll hear
Speaker 1: from head coach Mike McDaniel, will get post practice player
Speaker 1: media availability and my favorite part of of course, the
Speaker 1: practice notes. Will also fill you on some roster moves
Speaker 1: and the PF numbers we omitted on the Monday show
Speaker 1: from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1: This is d quick update on the PF numbers that
Speaker 1: we did not get to on the Monday episode. The
Speaker 1: passing offense through Skylar Thompson seven point four yards per
Speaker 1: passed down the field with with air depth, I should say,
Speaker 1: two point seven nine seconds time to throw. It's a
Speaker 1: very good number, uh a lot higher than we saw
Speaker 1: last season, seventy six point nine percent adjusted accuracy. He
Speaker 1: was three for three on passes twenty plus yards down
Speaker 1: the field, with eighty four yards and a touchdown. Pass
Speaker 1: Some of those open plays schemed up down field for him,
Speaker 1: but this note right here, he was kept clean on
Speaker 1: twenty dropbacks and completed eighteen of those passes for a
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety seven yards nine point nine yards per
Speaker 1: pass and the touchdown. Compared to fourteen dropbacks where he's
Speaker 1: under pressure, he goes eight for four team, but I
Speaker 1: really want to point out that he had twenty dropbacks
Speaker 1: clean and fourteen under pressure, a good ratio. Here. In
Speaker 1: week one of the preseason, some receiver numbers Lynn Bowden
Speaker 1: average third teen point seven five yards per route ran.
Speaker 1: That is an absurd number. Anything over two is pretty good.
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson four point eight three, Trent Sherfield three point
Speaker 1: six seven, and Tanner Conner three point five seven. I
Speaker 1: should say anything over two for a whole season, for
Speaker 1: requisite workload is really good. These individual games, you can
Speaker 1: have these kind of blurs off the radar but I
Speaker 1: thought it was worth pointing out because of that. Solomon
Speaker 1: Kinley had a clean sheet no pressures allowed on twenty
Speaker 1: three pass protection reps, and Adam Panky had just one
Speaker 1: hurry allowed on pass pro reps. Before we get to
Speaker 1: coaches press conference, some roster moves. The Dolphins have waived
Speaker 1: Cole Bandward, Davante Deadman, and Jordan Williams. They've also wave
Speaker 1: slash injured, released Tino Ellis and Adam Shaheen. Or I
Speaker 1: should say to the I R for Shaheen. There. That's it.
Speaker 1: That's the rash and news. That's the PF numbers. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and go right back to our practice edition
Speaker 1: of the Draft Time Podcast, Day thirteen out here in
Speaker 1: South Florida in Miami Gardens. Let's go ahead and pick
Speaker 1: it up with coach and Mike McDaniel's media availability, and
Speaker 1: he first touched on an update on Byron Jones talking
Speaker 1: about how the process remains the same. They're very hopeful.
Speaker 1: The entire time, we've all known that things have to
Speaker 1: hit on all cylinders without having setbacks for that to
Speaker 1: be the case, and nothing has changed in that regard.
Speaker 1: He also touched on what Byron has to do in
Speaker 1: order to get himself ready to play. And he was
Speaker 1: very transparent about the fact that if this is a
Speaker 1: guy with maybe one accrued season or you know, eight
Speaker 1: ten games played, you might want to get them more
Speaker 1: football time in terms of seeing live reps. And while
Speaker 1: he won't throw Byron Jones onto the field week one
Speaker 1: without having any football reps, he does say that the
Speaker 1: experience and resume of Byron Jones certainly affords him the
Speaker 1: opportunity to get out there faster because you can trust
Speaker 1: a guy that has played that well and knows the
Speaker 1: game that well and has seen so many reps in
Speaker 1: his career. The Dolphins picked up cornerback Mackenzie Alexander, a
Speaker 1: former second round draft picks had a very nice career
Speaker 1: both inside, outside and on special teams. Coach was asked
Speaker 1: about McKenzie Alexander, and that is where we'll pick up
Speaker 1: this press conference about new Dolphins cornerback Mackenzie Alexander. Initially,
Speaker 1: you know what a guy has played, um there. There
Speaker 1: is a portion of the process, especially um with a
Speaker 1: player like that, where you want them to earn um
Speaker 1: their ability within your exact scheme, you know, So the
Speaker 1: versatility of inside and outside. UM, I think is is
Speaker 1: is nice for us. UM. Everybody knows uh where where
Speaker 1: he's had his production from. But I try not to say, uh,
Speaker 1: you know everybody. Every defensive scheme has their specific techniques
Speaker 1: sometimes like for instance, UM, we we just played a
Speaker 1: team Tampa Bay where if you watch one of ones,
Speaker 1: UM whatever their man demand coverage, they don't necessarily reroute
Speaker 1: UM as much as our our guys do. So the
Speaker 1: reason why I say that is, UM, I'm not I'll
Speaker 1: never be con committed to Okay, this guy is only this,
Speaker 1: always leaving the options open fully knowing UM that he
Speaker 1: has UH experience, And we watched the tape two, but
Speaker 1: we would rather especially with that with that particular player, UM,
Speaker 1: let him earn his keep. And I wouldn't want to say, hey,
Speaker 1: you can't do something. UM. We were just going for
Speaker 1: the best player inside or outside UH available and let
Speaker 1: the chips fall with that in his hands. Are you
Speaker 1: guys fans of the HBO Mike Judge vehicle Silicon Valley,
Speaker 1: when Danish and Gilfoyle are upset about the way Richard
Speaker 1: has handled a certain element of the business and they
Speaker 1: have nothing but great things to say about Richard, but
Speaker 1: they want to complain about this one thing, and they
Speaker 1: come up with a shorthand to say, Richard is great,
Speaker 1: But you know, I need to come up with a
Speaker 1: shorthand for Mike McDaniels perfect answers and press conferences, because
Speaker 1: I just want to keep going back to that. And
Speaker 1: when you get a question about whether or not Mackenzie
Speaker 1: Alexander's gonna play inside or outside, and he winds up
Speaker 1: giving you this tidbit about within a certain ski and
Speaker 1: the skills that he can offer at one position might
Speaker 1: not be what it was for another team in another spot,
Speaker 1: and you just get these very in depth, unique glances
Speaker 1: at the way his brain works, in the way this
Speaker 1: sport kind of you know, is so difficult to describe,
Speaker 1: can be really boiled down to something so simple because
Speaker 1: of the way he communicates and articulates it. Like that's
Speaker 1: why those eight thousand video cut ups are such a
Speaker 1: big story, right. He's found a way to streamline processes
Speaker 1: and communicate something within his own mind that is so
Speaker 1: complex and it comes out on the other end like
Speaker 1: well packaged. It just blows my mind. So we need
Speaker 1: a Rigby shorthand for coach McDaniel's press conferences are my
Speaker 1: favorite thing I've ever covered. And next he was asked
Speaker 1: about did you feel like there was a need for
Speaker 1: an inside guy? Talking about a potential guy behind Nick
Speaker 1: need Um who has a stranglehold on that slot position.
Speaker 1: Here's coach talking about the need of the cornerback position
Speaker 1: and what they were looking for, not inside or outside,
Speaker 1: but a competitive defensive back. Really, I felt like there
Speaker 1: was just a need for UM, a competitive NFL UM
Speaker 1: defensive back. You know, I I'm not particularly worried about
Speaker 1: inside or outside. We we like Nick need UM's UM versatility. UM. Luckily,
Speaker 1: we we have a group of UM athletic, UH diverse
Speaker 1: UM players on the back end that can really that
Speaker 1: versatility is a huge strength UM. So to me, the
Speaker 1: only way, you know, we were afforded an opportunity. It's
Speaker 1: hard to get competition that has a chance to make
Speaker 1: the team in the middle of camp. So when you
Speaker 1: when you have a good player out there that you
Speaker 1: work out that you has already been on your radar
Speaker 1: before you had any injuries. UM. I I wasn't really
Speaker 1: concerned with Hey, we're light on inside players or were
Speaker 1: light on outside. I wanted someone that would legitimately have
Speaker 1: a chance to compete for a roster spot, which I
Speaker 1: think he does. So yeah, there you go, Mackenzie Alexander
Speaker 1: added to the roster. And he's got a bunch of
Speaker 1: pelts in the wall in terms of NFL experienced success
Speaker 1: and a good resume on defensive or in the defensive
Speaker 1: backfield and on special teams. Next, coach was asked about
Speaker 1: Noah igbonogamy and something that he's been impressed by and
Speaker 1: something he feels that Noah can work on. Here's coach
Speaker 1: a bit of a continuation from what he talked about
Speaker 1: at a Sunday press conference with Noah seeing it, trusting
Speaker 1: it and playing not not playing not to get beat. Um.
Speaker 1: I've been impressed by his his internal fortitude. Okay, this
Speaker 1: is It's not lost on me at all. Um, the
Speaker 1: pressures that come um in the National Football League, especially
Speaker 1: when you're an athlete of his skill set. So he's
Speaker 1: he's done an outstanding job. You have to have a
Speaker 1: short memory at the cornerback positions. He's really had some
Speaker 1: maturation growth um this year. Uh from you know the
Speaker 1: stories that have that I heard coming in where he's
Speaker 1: he's moving on to the next play and UM competing
Speaker 1: and not letting himself get down on himself where he
Speaker 1: needs to UM improve. I would say it's kind of
Speaker 1: what I was alluding to UM when I talked to
Speaker 1: him during the game, is I don't want him to
Speaker 1: ever lose his aggressiveness and and feel like he's playing
Speaker 1: not to get beat. I want him to tow always compete,
Speaker 1: have no memory UM in that regard, and just be
Speaker 1: kind of cutthroat with with the game of football to
Speaker 1: just trust all this training and so in times that
Speaker 1: that I think he's being a hair passive, I'll jump
Speaker 1: on that and be like, Hey, that's not you. This
Speaker 1: is this is not where where you're at in your development,
Speaker 1: which I think he agreed UM, which is again why
Speaker 1: he's he's taking some steps forward as a professional. And
Speaker 1: as we'll get to in the notes here today, I
Speaker 1: know Egnogamy a big day of practice here for the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins on this Tuesday. Next, coach was asked about
Speaker 1: is this week set up to put two in position
Speaker 1: to start the game on Saturday against the Raiders. Here's
Speaker 1: coach McDaniel with another fantastic quip. This week, UM is
Speaker 1: set up to to not know what I'm gonna do. No,
Speaker 1: it is and I know you. I get where you're
Speaker 1: coming from. You're just trying to trying to get an idea. Um,
Speaker 1: And so I'm sensitive to that fact. But I and
Speaker 1: whether I mean it is not coach speak at all.
Speaker 1: It is direct, like I really truly believe in the
Speaker 1: process and and taking in all pieces of information to
Speaker 1: do what's best for the team. Um. I what I
Speaker 1: do expect is I expect there to be some players
Speaker 1: that didn't play in the in this last game to
Speaker 1: play this this game coming forward. UM, when I see
Speaker 1: exactly where we're at. Um. And it doesn't necessarily mean
Speaker 1: if he has a good week of practice then I'm good. Um,
Speaker 1: it's more of where the whole offense is at, what
Speaker 1: he needs on the field, but also other players that
Speaker 1: have to play, and does that necessitate him playing, you know,
Speaker 1: like it is such a to do it the right way.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, there's so many compounding variables that I
Speaker 1: would hesitate to say yes he is or no he's not,
Speaker 1: because I haven't made totally that decision. So that you
Speaker 1: have another fun Coach mcdowe annual press conference. You want
Speaker 1: to find the entire thing. Check out the team YouTube
Speaker 1: channel Miami Dolphins YouTube coming up next here. That's right,
Speaker 1: it's practice notes time. We'll go ahead and take a
Speaker 1: short break and come back with the practice notes for Tuesday,
Speaker 1: August sixteenth, here on the Drivetime Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: brought to you by Auto Nation. It's a Tuesday. We
Speaker 1: are back in Miami Gardens for Dolphins practice. A nice
Speaker 1: week in Tampa Bay, but it's always good to be home.
Speaker 1: A field view, field level view is always nice, but
Speaker 1: nothing beats the eagle eye and the sky has it
Speaker 1: got a chance to return back to the top of
Speaker 1: the grandstands here at the Baptist Health Training Complex to
Speaker 1: watch Dolphins practice on this Tuesday. We're just three weeks
Speaker 1: away from Patriots Week. It's coming up fast. We have
Speaker 1: two more games, a bunch more practices in between then
Speaker 1: and now. And we had Day thirteen, which was a
Speaker 1: little back and forth and I would say not the
Speaker 1: best practice the team had this training camps so far.
Speaker 1: On balance, but I want to go ahead and do
Speaker 1: this thing a little bit differently because I don't feel
Speaker 1: like going through this position by position is going to
Speaker 1: cover this practice the way that I want to and
Speaker 1: I want to start with some observations from just hanging
Speaker 1: out and watching the pre practice stuff. First, Trent sheffields
Speaker 1: in the Orange jersey today and what a huge day
Speaker 1: he had in the Orange might have been the best
Speaker 1: performance by somebody who was wearing the orange jersey so
Speaker 1: far in training camp. My first note was that it
Speaker 1: was hot, like miserably hot today, microwave hot. And maybe
Speaker 1: it was just the kind of weak in Tampa with weather,
Speaker 1: but I was somewhat blown away by the fact that
Speaker 1: Central Florida, again at least the three days that I
Speaker 1: was there, did not have anywhere near the mugginess and
Speaker 1: the humidity and just the overall this is terrible summer
Speaker 1: heat of South Florida. I'll defer to the long time
Speaker 1: South Floridians out there, but we came back home when
Speaker 1: it was hot. Today they drilled indies and fundies for
Speaker 1: a long time, like forty five minutes of just getting
Speaker 1: things put back together from an individual and fundamental standpoint,
Speaker 1: real emphasis on positional work, technique and some good hard coaching.
Speaker 1: I always enjoy those periods just to see the interactions,
Speaker 1: coaching points, effort, those sort of things. And I thought
Speaker 1: it was really cool to see the Dolphins defensive line
Speaker 1: of working on a drill where you hit the tackling
Speaker 1: sled and then you get your hands up and coach
Speaker 1: with throw the ball behind your ear hole and you
Speaker 1: actual try to get your hands up and swat that
Speaker 1: thing down once your rush has been stymied, especially when
Speaker 1: on the first playoff team Christian Wilkins, who during the
Speaker 1: individual portion was getting Coach Clark absolutely fired up by
Speaker 1: rejecting passes left and right. And there was a evolution
Speaker 1: for Coach Clark out there today with Emmanuel Ogba doing
Speaker 1: a one on one drill by himself where he had
Speaker 1: to bend the edge, chopped the arms of the tackling
Speaker 1: dummy to get to the quarterback, and Coach was fired
Speaker 1: up by a rep just like fist pumping the way
Speaker 1: you and I would if to have found Tyreek for
Speaker 1: seventy five yards in the first play of the season.
Speaker 1: Same exactly energy level I feel like. And then he
Speaker 1: carried that over into Christian Wilkins batting down passes and individuals,
Speaker 1: and it was kind of that Vince McMahon McMahon, Vince
Speaker 1: McMahon evolution of well what's over. They're interesting too. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's that looks pretty good to like absolutely on fire
Speaker 1: to falling over backwards in the chair. And when he
Speaker 1: fell over backwards in the chair was when Christian Wilkins
Speaker 1: swatted the first passive practice in the team period right
Speaker 1: back into the quarterback's face. It was cool to see
Speaker 1: them apply something they learned in that period of practice
Speaker 1: and took it over to the team portion of practice. Remember,
Speaker 1: last year the Dolphins had passes defense that was most
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. The defensive line also had
Speaker 1: more than any other defensive line, and Emmanuel Ogba had
Speaker 1: more than any other defensive line player with twelve last year.
Speaker 1: So it's an emphasis. They work on it, they do
Speaker 1: a good job of it. And then in that team period,
Speaker 1: right after the bad it passes, we got a huge
Speaker 1: run from quarterback one. He got out wide, stretched the
Speaker 1: legs and I'm not sure if he would a score
Speaker 1: from forty five yards out, but he might have. It
Speaker 1: kind of reminded me of that run he had against
Speaker 1: l s U as a sophomore when both teams were
Speaker 1: unbeaten and he chased by Devin White rumbled in for
Speaker 1: the Crimson touchdown. It was a really impressive run from two.
Speaker 1: A tongue Byla showed some of those wheels today. Then
Speaker 1: the Dolphins opened up some space for Chase Edmonds and
Speaker 1: it's copy and paste. At this point he presses it,
Speaker 1: things converge and with one foot in the ground, one cut,
Speaker 1: He's accelerating off that cut and into the second level
Speaker 1: in an absolute flash. A little bit tougher to see
Speaker 1: the offensive line today on the far field, but that
Speaker 1: hole was opened up by Liam Eichenberg and Connor Williams
Speaker 1: with a really nice seal by Rob Hunt on the
Speaker 1: backside as well. Then excuse me that we're back to
Speaker 1: back to a rips that had me excited and in fact,
Speaker 1: my good buddy soft At Dan you guys know who
Speaker 1: he is. We were sitting by each other today where
Speaker 1: he was laughing and saying, the season's got to start now,
Speaker 1: dog the way to us playing, I want to see
Speaker 1: it today, And I'm like, yeah, I I can't remember
Speaker 1: being this excited for the season at this point of
Speaker 1: training camp. Usually I'm still pretty fired up by the
Speaker 1: practices by the preseason games to come. You guys know,
Speaker 1: I love preseason football. But man, we're like three and
Speaker 1: a half weeks away from the Patriots. I can't wait.
Speaker 1: But anyway, they ran these two passes that to me
Speaker 1: showed the processing ability of QB one two A Tungo
Speaker 1: by loa first catch the snap and fire one quickly
Speaker 1: to tyreek. One of those glanced routes. Just catch it,
Speaker 1: get it out between the one and the zero, and
Speaker 1: there he goes. It's not live, so you never know,
Speaker 1: but I think he had a pretty big game after
Speaker 1: the catch. Then a similar route where that first window
Speaker 1: is taken away so to a pumps and kind of
Speaker 1: double clutches, and you see that hook defender take that
Speaker 1: cheese and slide to the side and that opens up
Speaker 1: the second window. Or two week and then lady that
Speaker 1: thing in the river craik Craft and he continues right
Speaker 1: into that window, catches up for a big chunk game
Speaker 1: and some rack as well. Then Gus Porter Gustin and
Speaker 1: Darius Hodge made back to back plays on Chase Edmonds
Speaker 1: and Sony Michelle runs with really strong edges to set
Speaker 1: and finishes coming off those blocks. Both of those guys
Speaker 1: have really made a good case for making this football team.
Speaker 1: A few plays later, Channing Tendall came clean against the run.
Speaker 1: At least once in practice we see him flash this
Speaker 1: pier speed and suddenness. Did it again today later in
Speaker 1: the practice, you wind up getting these three incompletions in
Speaker 1: the end zone around one Trent shuretfield touchdown pass from
Speaker 1: tah an absolute rip between a trio of defenders. And
Speaker 1: I wrote my notes like that was kind of a
Speaker 1: weird sequence because in the three incompletions there was two
Speaker 1: throwaways and you had good pockets, but it was better coverage.
Speaker 1: And I can't sit here and tell you this guy
Speaker 1: had the hook, this guy had the flat, this guy
Speaker 1: had the post. I don't know. I can't process twenty
Speaker 1: two guys at once. I wish I could, But I
Speaker 1: did have a chance to kind of keep my eyes
Speaker 1: in the end zone. And I noticed on the three
Speaker 1: plays that went in complete, Javon Holland, Xavian Howard and
Speaker 1: Keion Crossing each had one on one matchups and situations
Speaker 1: where those receivers made a move at some point where
Speaker 1: they had to break down a change direction and they
Speaker 1: stayed plastered to those guys on those reps. You know,
Speaker 1: like we cover offense, it seems like in these practices,
Speaker 1: but the defense gets paid. To man, it's a pretty
Speaker 1: damn good defense, and they showed their stuff today. So
Speaker 1: incomes Teddy Bridgewater and he's got a touchdown to Lyndbode
Speaker 1: the traffic and he tries to fit another one in
Speaker 1: a Noah Igbanogamy undercuts this route and takes it back
Speaker 1: one yards the other way for a touchdown and fires
Speaker 1: that thing into the practice kicking net behind the field
Speaker 1: goal post, and here comes Darius Hodge and ray Kuan
Speaker 1: Davis to celebrate with him. A very nice play there
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins third year cornerback. Then we get a
Speaker 1: couple of Mike Gatsick. He catches one for a touchdown
Speaker 1: where he put on a really nice move the top
Speaker 1: of his route to clear himself to that front pylon
Speaker 1: in the corner of the end zone at a Braylon
Speaker 1: Sanders touchdown, and then later in the practice session to
Speaker 1: have found Cedric Wilson up the sideline with an absolutely
Speaker 1: perfect dot and Cedric took off with a nice move
Speaker 1: back inside and potentially a massive gain. We had instances
Speaker 1: in this practice of guys open, but also some nice
Speaker 1: traffic needled throws by the quarterback on the next play
Speaker 1: to a drives one right down the middle of Tyreek
Speaker 1: and there's a defender over the top of him and
Speaker 1: one right on his back, and he just sells this
Speaker 1: throw into a pocket where only Tyreek can get it.
Speaker 1: He goes to the ground, scoops it up and makes
Speaker 1: that play like saying, scooping it up makes it sound
Speaker 1: like it was a low throw, but it was intentional
Speaker 1: to set him down. Uh. Really good throw. Between that coverage,
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker and Land and Roberts had some interesting work today. Baker,
Speaker 1: you know, his multifaceted role which really helps this Dolphins
Speaker 1: defense day multiple against the quarterback like Lamar Jackson, like
Speaker 1: we saw last year, he had some good work in
Speaker 1: tandem with a Land and Roberts to stop some running downs.
Speaker 1: And John Jenkins continues to get some work done just
Speaker 1: knocking guys back holding the point of attack there against
Speaker 1: the running game. We also got a pair of chunk
Speaker 1: gains that featured key blocks from both Trent Sherfield and
Speaker 1: Mohammed Sanu. I just love how those guys, you know,
Speaker 1: on top of their work is pass catchers, and to me,
Speaker 1: they both look very very good out here as pass catchers.
Speaker 1: Find ways to find advantages in the fine margins, blocking
Speaker 1: special team, giving your full effort on clear out routes,
Speaker 1: that type of thing, it shows up. And this is
Speaker 1: where the interception barrage really began. Good situational football opportunities.
Speaker 1: Trying to throw the ball into the end zone late,
Speaker 1: so you're gonna get like nine green jerseys in the
Speaker 1: end zone. Remember the situation is always on the score,
Speaker 1: But when you come to practice so you can see
Speaker 1: what they're working on, it's right there for you. I
Speaker 1: guess I was the only one looking at that today,
Speaker 1: but it's right there. You can see the situation they're
Speaker 1: working on. And with the coverage to you can also
Speaker 1: see like this is clear that they don't want anybody
Speaker 1: catching the ball in the end zone. If they catch
Speaker 1: it shore of the end zone, that's fine. So what
Speaker 1: that means you're gonna have to throw a contested ball.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to fit a tight window, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be really damn hard to complete that pass, especially
Speaker 1: on a defense that has Javon Holland who just ranges
Speaker 1: over in between traffic and plux this to a pass
Speaker 1: and takes it other way for forty yards. To me,
Speaker 1: this was just really good situational defense. Keep them out
Speaker 1: of the end zone. Clamp the tight windows. The quarterbacks
Speaker 1: gonna have to hit that tight window, and most time
Speaker 1: they're not gonna be will do it like if you
Speaker 1: go to win probability or you know, e p A
Speaker 1: that type of stuff that measures the odds of a
Speaker 1: particular play working. Like what's a third and sixteen conversion?
Speaker 1: Right in the NFL? Do you know what third and
Speaker 1: ten is? It's like, what do you think third and
Speaker 1: sixteen is? It's less than ten percent. It's supposed to
Speaker 1: go to the defense, and they made it so all
Speaker 1: day long. Then we get Brandon Jones batting down a
Speaker 1: fifty fifty ball for Tyreek Hill than an absolute shot
Speaker 1: up high for Mike Gasicki, who in this one motion
Speaker 1: elevates pivots, twirls, plucks it and comes back down in
Speaker 1: bounds for six. The full display of his size and
Speaker 1: athleticism on that one play. So we had a few
Speaker 1: different situations they ran through after that, and all these periods,
Speaker 1: you know, without going into the specifics of them, it
Speaker 1: requires the offense to be incredibly precise, with the defense
Speaker 1: really being able to defend one dimensionally in one area,
Speaker 1: because that's how it gets late in games. And we
Speaker 1: saw that you you have to push this thing hot right,
Speaker 1: so to agos to Tyreek Hill for fifteen yards clock
Speaker 1: to try sure field for fifteen yards clock. Then you're
Speaker 1: gonna throw away with a quick pressure from Manuel Ogbah
Speaker 1: and then Jason Sanders hits the crossbar from sixty two
Speaker 1: yards out and it came back out. Dang near hit
Speaker 1: that thing. Same situation for two of Porter Gustin has
Speaker 1: a would be sacked, but he does find Lindboden for
Speaker 1: fifteen yards clock. Preston Williams has a great contested catch
Speaker 1: for twenty yards clock throw away. Sanders goes wide from
Speaker 1: sixty but this one had plenty of leg would have
Speaker 1: been good from sixty five. Then we get the same
Speaker 1: situation for Skyler Thompson intercepted by Elijah Hamilton's Then they
Speaker 1: move the ball up to the thirty five to get
Speaker 1: that same spot back. Ben still has a would be sack,
Speaker 1: and that's pretty much it right there. Finally one oh
Speaker 1: three on the clock, from the minus thirty five, your
Speaker 1: own thirty five yard line, you need a touchdown to
Speaker 1: at the controls we go nine yards to Edmonds ten
Speaker 1: yards to get sicky time out balls at the plus
Speaker 1: forty six with forty two seconds left, no time outs.
Speaker 1: If you get the middle of the field on this play,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get down to under thirty seconds. You're gonna
Speaker 1: have to clock it again, so you have to go
Speaker 1: ultra ultra fast. They go incomplete the tie reek and
Speaker 1: then Brandon Jones gets a pick. So look, obviously you
Speaker 1: don't want to turn it over. But I do think
Speaker 1: there's context to be applied to that, and the context
Speaker 1: was that these are situations where it's a one dimensional situation.
Speaker 1: You can't run the football, no thront of the run game.
Speaker 1: Gains of less than ten yards are actually more beneficial
Speaker 1: to the defense from the clock standpoint, and you have
Speaker 1: to hit big plays when the defense is defending big
Speaker 1: place first and foremost. Getting upset about this is like
Speaker 1: getting upset for not hitting a double in the gap
Speaker 1: when the defense in baseball is in a no doubles
Speaker 1: defense up against the wall. And remember, this is a
Speaker 1: defense that has just been stellar at closing out games
Speaker 1: the last two years. I remember mentioning this last year
Speaker 1: in the league, where it seems like even when a
Speaker 1: team is down by twenty points, they wind up throwing
Speaker 1: into the end zone with a chance to tie or
Speaker 1: win the game late, like all the time. Look at
Speaker 1: the playoffs. The Bengals in that Raiders game up by
Speaker 1: was it six team points? Raiders go bang, bang, and
Speaker 1: they're throwing into the end zone late trying to tie
Speaker 1: that game. The a f C Championship game, the Bengals
Speaker 1: are down by three scores. They come back and win
Speaker 1: that football game. But Dolphins defense consistently had thwarted those
Speaker 1: comeback attempts the last couple of years, and when they
Speaker 1: have those double digit leads, they typically held them. They
Speaker 1: got it done today, and in fact I asked around
Speaker 1: some of the guys about just that we'll play their
Speaker 1: sound and our player availabilities next. Actually, real quick, I
Speaker 1: forgot this note. Nick Needham had to pick and a
Speaker 1: pass breakup. He dropped the past breakup, went to the
Speaker 1: jugs machine, got extra work after practice. He was fantastic today.
Speaker 1: I forgot to put him in the notes. I want
Speaker 1: to get that in there. Let's take a short break
Speaker 1: here on the Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield coming
Speaker 1: back on the other side with player and media Availability
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Speaker 1: of good content for you guys today. You can find
Speaker 1: the player media Availabilities and coach McDaniel on the top
Speaker 1: of the toll the Dolphins YouTube channel. Go ahead and
Speaker 1: check that out for more of this. We'll go ahead
Speaker 1: and start here though, with Chase Edmonds, and he was
Speaker 1: asked a little bit about from myself about that situation
Speaker 1: and practice those situational situations and what the offense is
Speaker 1: trying to get done, and he actually gave crowd to
Speaker 1: the defense, saiting, I think they got this one today.
Speaker 1: Here's the Dolphins running back. Yeah, I learned it. Uh,
Speaker 1: I'll get the defense to credit. But we will say
Speaker 1: when you practice two minute um and practice as opposed
Speaker 1: to games, there's certain balls, are certain type windows of
Speaker 1: the quarterback might not throw in the game, but you
Speaker 1: know you want to you want to get that field,
Speaker 1: you want to see what you can get away with.
Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna give him all the credit this week.
Speaker 1: They did a great job of closing out for sure.
Speaker 1: And I want to go ahead and just play this
Speaker 1: quick audio from him because it backs up an assertion
Speaker 1: I've been making all training camp. Long about what makes
Speaker 1: Chase Chase and one of the most impressive players. Really,
Speaker 1: I've watched on tape and throughout the course of training camp.
Speaker 1: From my on evaluation standpoint, here's Chase Edmonds on applying
Speaker 1: something that happened earlier in camp and how it fit
Speaker 1: his skill set and what makes him a good fit
Speaker 1: for the system. Yeah, so I just like how An
Speaker 1: outside his own you know, you're stretching the defense latterly,
Speaker 1: and um, really, when you're displacing the defense and you're
Speaker 1: making him has to cover a lot more field, it
Speaker 1: opens up certain lanes and certain holes that I'm able
Speaker 1: to take advantage of. Like I remember seeing a play
Speaker 1: that we had. It was early on in training camp.
Speaker 1: We run the outside zone to the left and it
Speaker 1: was an unblocked man in the hole. But because you
Speaker 1: have everybody stretching loudly, it could be unblocked man in
Speaker 1: the hole and I still compressed the whole. Make him
Speaker 1: miss and get back to a to a backgap, you know,
Speaker 1: a gap one space behind it and still be able
Speaker 1: to make a positive run out of it. Um. Sometimes
Speaker 1: with inside zone, you know you're working more vertical, so
Speaker 1: the space is a little more tight. I just feel
Speaker 1: like here when we stretch people loudly, it's really what
Speaker 1: I do best, and that's pressing holes and bursting through
Speaker 1: the whole. Let's hear next from Dolphins receiver Trent Sherfield.
Speaker 1: I I love the students game man. I love his approach.
Speaker 1: I love the way he plays game everything. I went
Speaker 1: ahead and asked him the same question about end of
Speaker 1: game situations and how it might favor the defense if
Speaker 1: you can get some extra work, what you can learn
Speaker 1: from that stuff. Here's the Dolphins receiver on the exact
Speaker 1: same question post to Chase Edmonds. UM. I mean, honestly,
Speaker 1: it's it's iron, it's iron sharpened iron. Um. Every single day,
Speaker 1: you know, we we come out and we try our best,
Speaker 1: um to get each other better. You know, UM, I
Speaker 1: definitely would agree with Chase. I feel like the defense
Speaker 1: got the so US today. Um. You know, they came out,
Speaker 1: you know they executed their you know, they executed their
Speaker 1: plays will and you know we we have to. We
Speaker 1: had some trouble executing our plays. You know, all across
Speaker 1: up front, outside quarterback, running back, everybody had had trouble
Speaker 1: executing and so um, you know it's it's it's literally
Speaker 1: the iron Sharper artists. Tomorrow we'll come out, We're gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna try to get him again, you know. So, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, for me, I just think it's very very
Speaker 1: important that you know, there's days where defense wins and
Speaker 1: then there's days where offensive wins, and it just goes
Speaker 1: back and forth. It's just a constant battle. So then
Speaker 1: that way when we get out there on Sundays, you know,
Speaker 1: we're we're able to feed off of each other. Also
Speaker 1: heard a cool story about how he used to get
Speaker 1: to the facility every day early in his career at
Speaker 1: five thirty am, and why he doesn't do that anymore
Speaker 1: because good sleep is very important. Here's trying Schurfield. Um,
Speaker 1: actually no, I don't. I don't do that anymore. UM.
Speaker 1: I think, Um, as my career has has has a
Speaker 1: progressed and as I as I've evolved as a player, UM,
Speaker 1: I've haven't. I've had to take take some things out
Speaker 1: of my regiment and out of my routine. Um. For
Speaker 1: one of my my my quality, my first thing that
Speaker 1: I take is my sleep. And when I was doing that,
Speaker 1: I wasn't getting a lot of sleep. And you know
Speaker 1: there was times when I was in the facility, I
Speaker 1: wasn't really I was at the facility, but I wasn't
Speaker 1: at the facility, if that makes sense mentally, And so, um,
Speaker 1: you know, I've had to take some of those things
Speaker 1: out of my routine, showing enough first and everything like that,
Speaker 1: because my thing was I was showing enough first, and
Speaker 1: I was beating everybody to the facility, right I was
Speaker 1: in my head, I'm all my working this guy and
Speaker 1: I working this person or whatever it may be. It
Speaker 1: wasn't for the right intentions, and so I had to
Speaker 1: take that out of my routine to make sure that
Speaker 1: I was getting proper sleep, you know. So then that way,
Speaker 1: when I can come into the facility, I can be
Speaker 1: well arrested, you know, I can be locked in for practice,
Speaker 1: I can be locked in for meetings and everything like that.
Speaker 1: So I don't really take pride in that anymore, um,
Speaker 1: just because you know, I had to take a take
Speaker 1: a step back and look, you know, why was I
Speaker 1: doing that, And it was really all for the wrong reasons.
Speaker 1: And so now you know, I'm more focused on getting sleep,
Speaker 1: you know, getting the proper the proper you know, nutrition
Speaker 1: and everything like that. So finish up here with one
Speaker 1: more from Liam Eichenberg. I asked him about what coach
Speaker 1: mentioned with the three young offensive lineman but ween himself,
Speaker 1: Rob Hunt, and Austin Jackson in the thirteen snaps they
Speaker 1: had on Saturday in Tampa. How coach mentioned I thought
Speaker 1: there was, you know, ten good reps and maybe three
Speaker 1: that were I think we can correct but three things
Speaker 1: that we have correctly done previously in practice, and now
Speaker 1: it's about finding a way to get that carry over
Speaker 1: and make it consistent, where practice essentially is the game
Speaker 1: and vice versa. So I asked him about the approach,
Speaker 1: and here he is talking about that and this Dolphins
Speaker 1: defensive line that really helps him to use a trope
Speaker 1: iron sharp and iron. Yeah. I mean I come out
Speaker 1: here every day looking to improve, you know, looking looking
Speaker 1: to work on things and specifically what I need to
Speaker 1: improve on. Um. You know, I mean coming out here,
Speaker 1: I'm going against you know, some of the best defensive
Speaker 1: linemen in the league. So, um, you know, it's a
Speaker 1: great honor to me on this team to go against
Speaker 1: those guys. But yeah, like like like you're saying what
Speaker 1: coaches saying, you know, every single day, it's it's like
Speaker 1: you're playing a game, so I mean I look at
Speaker 1: it from that standpoint, and you know, I just try
Speaker 1: to improve and take what I'm doing at individual with
Speaker 1: two team So so there you go. Liam Eichenberg, we
Speaker 1: had Trent Sherfield and Chase Edmonds. We also had a
Speaker 1: land in Robert's Larnel Coleman and key On Crossing. To
Speaker 1: go find those, check out the YouTube channel. You can
Speaker 1: also find Mike McDaniel up there as well. We're back
Speaker 1: tomorrow with another practice update. We have coach McDaniel again
Speaker 1: tomorrow and then I believe Thursday, no coach. We will
Speaker 1: have the practice on Thursday, Friday off game on Saturday,
Speaker 1: and then next week we'll have you guys out at
Speaker 1: practice again for the Eagles. Will also have more media vails.
Speaker 1: I believe we can assistant coaches at some point as well,
Speaker 1: So plenty to come your way here Dolphins Training Camp two.
Speaker 1: It's about halfway over, almost home, almost to the season.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, that's gonna be my time you all.
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