Speaker 1: Practice are alps Packard touchdown? What a win for this
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphin team. Wow? What is up? Dolphins? And welcome
Speaker 1: to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: official podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins, each
Speaker 1: and every day. How's it going, Everybody? Happy Friday? I
Speaker 1: am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I am here to
Speaker 1: bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And
Speaker 1: on today show, you know it feels good to be
Speaker 1: back on the football field. Two more hours of Dolphins
Speaker 1: practice coming your way as we hear from Coach Flores
Speaker 1: and of course all of the news and notes from
Speaker 1: the practice field. All of that and more on this
Speaker 1: training camp August edition of the Drive Time Podcastphins. So
Speaker 1: we get some big news on Thursday evening, the Dolphins
Speaker 1: announced the cornerback xaviing Howard has been removed or activated
Speaker 1: rather from both the COVID nineteen slash reserve list as
Speaker 1: well as the physically unable to perform list. And I
Speaker 1: went back on Thursday night and watched a couple of
Speaker 1: my own breakdown clips, little self promotion there, and man,
Speaker 1: you sort of forget how good he was, how dominant
Speaker 1: Xavian Howard can be at his best, that powerful inside
Speaker 1: hand jam, disrupting receivers at the line of scrimmage, at
Speaker 1: the top of the stem of the route at the catchpoint,
Speaker 1: running routes for receivers, and those ridiculous ball skills that
Speaker 1: brought back seven picks. Just a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: in his last full season, which was even a full season,
Speaker 1: he played thirteen games and brought down seven picks to
Speaker 1: lead the NFL. And just a reminder that last year,
Speaker 1: at this time he was the story of training camp.
Speaker 1: I seriously think he picked off more passes than completions
Speaker 1: allowed on targets in his direction, getting him into this
Speaker 1: secondary that honestly, I already felt good about watching it
Speaker 1: on that practice field without Exavian Howard out there. Now
Speaker 1: you get a pro bowler back on the team. Let's
Speaker 1: go man. So x is back. Some more roster changes.
Speaker 1: Avery Moss is also back. The Dolphins resigned Moss after
Speaker 1: releasing him last month, so both Moss and Trent Harris,
Speaker 1: who were released on the same day, boomerang back and
Speaker 1: are back on the Dolphins roster. The Dolphins also say
Speaker 1: goodbye to undrafted free agent rookie from South Carolina. Don L. Stanley,
Speaker 1: He's been waved and they make room for Xavien in
Speaker 1: the DB's room by also waving Picasso Nelson Jr. The cornerback.
Speaker 1: Other roster news. Busy day today. On this Friday, Caitlin
Speaker 1: Blage was traded to the New York Jets in Division.
Speaker 1: He joins back up with Adam Gaze in New York
Speaker 1: for a conditional seventh round draft pick. Alright, some more
Speaker 1: housekeeping to be done here, just real quick before we
Speaker 1: get to coach floress Media as the official wellness provider
Speaker 1: and sports medicine provider of the Miami Dolphins. Baptist Health
Speaker 1: is ready and committed to continue caring for you safely.
Speaker 1: This pandemic has reminded us the crisis doesn't build character,
Speaker 1: it reveals character. It's also taught us that our health
Speaker 1: is truly what matters most. We have the power to
Speaker 1: protect each other by wearing a mask. So who do
Speaker 1: you wear a mask for? Mask up South Florida, Keep caring,
Speaker 1: live healthy, stay strong, and learn more at Baptist Health
Speaker 1: dot net. Slash coronavirus and we kick off Brian flores
Speaker 1: Is Friday morning media availability with a question not about football,
Speaker 1: but importantly about the climate of the world right now,
Speaker 1: the Jacob Blake situation. How he addressed the team over
Speaker 1: the situation and how they're pursuing change right now above anything.
Speaker 1: Here's coach, Well, you know we we we talked about
Speaker 1: this the other day. I addressed that the Jacob Blake
Speaker 1: situation with you guys and talk to you about you know,
Speaker 1: up setting it was how frustrating, Um it is when
Speaker 1: these situations occurred time at the time, at the time,
Speaker 1: how we need more unity. Um, So we spoke as
Speaker 1: a team. Look, we understand there's a lot of things.
Speaker 1: They're not where they need to be right now. It
Speaker 1: pains us. So we decided to practice. We all know
Speaker 1: understand that things aren't where they need to be right now.
Speaker 1: And um, we're gonna meet later today and just talk
Speaker 1: about some things we can you know, uh, put in
Speaker 1: the action so that we can you know, try to
Speaker 1: create some you know, make a difference, to create some change. So, um,
Speaker 1: but we're going to practice. I mean this is you
Speaker 1: guys know this. I've lived this, you know, I grew
Speaker 1: up in this era. I've had guns pointed at me
Speaker 1: by police officers. This is not something I take lightly,
Speaker 1: This team takes lightly. I've had multiple conversations. They've spoken
Speaker 1: to you, Cavan, talk to you about his situation. There's
Speaker 1: other other experiences that guys on our team have had
Speaker 1: that you know, are unfortunate and we need change. And
Speaker 1: that's that's where I'm at on on that, on on
Speaker 1: this situation. Up next, coach addresses the activation and availability
Speaker 1: of cornerback Xavian Howard. Yeah, access, you know, ready to
Speaker 1: you know, get out on the Field's progressing with obviously
Speaker 1: you know the COVID of the knee. Uh so, um,
Speaker 1: you feel like he felt like he was ready to
Speaker 1: get out there and participate in practice. And again he's
Speaker 1: got He's got a long way to go as far
Speaker 1: as from a conditioning standpoint. Drill worked, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: communication with his teammates, so you know, this is the
Speaker 1: first step. Up next, coach was asked about bringing back
Speaker 1: Avery Moss, who followed Trent Harris who made the return
Speaker 1: trip back to Miami. As we discussed earlier in the show,
Speaker 1: there's been some shakeups at the edge position so far
Speaker 1: in training camp. We lost Spence Bagle earlier obviously Curtis
Speaker 1: we were no longer here the Dolphins go back and
Speaker 1: get Trent Harris and Avery Moss. Here's coach talking about
Speaker 1: familiarity with those players and if that helps make the
Speaker 1: decision easier to bring them back into the building after
Speaker 1: they had been released last month. No, not necessarily. Um,
Speaker 1: I think need was played played a big part in that.
Speaker 1: I had a couple of guys banged up. And yeah,
Speaker 1: we know Trent, we know Avery, um, but we we
Speaker 1: all we also worked out a few other players. Uh
Speaker 1: So again, we're always going to try to bring in
Speaker 1: guys who we think. It helped this team from a
Speaker 1: practice standpoint and from a playing standpoint, it does hurt.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that, you know, Uh, it doesn't hurt
Speaker 1: at all. That we know the player, we know what
Speaker 1: type of people they are, we know and how important
Speaker 1: the game is. It doesn't hurt them at all. But
Speaker 1: we're always going to try to bring in players who
Speaker 1: we think can help us. One of my favorite things
Speaker 1: about coaches that while he has the intense demeanor around
Speaker 1: the building here and he's pretty much always serious and
Speaker 1: always on point, there is a joking side to coach
Speaker 1: and you're gonna hear it right here. The other day,
Speaker 1: soft A Dean and him how a comical exchange, I
Speaker 1: suppose about the bald head and taking the bit to
Speaker 1: the bald head. Well soft fit came back with a
Speaker 1: question to coach about coach Gerald Alexander in the defensive
Speaker 1: backs room. Here is coach's initial response about keeping that
Speaker 1: fresh baldhead, but then talking of course, more about the
Speaker 1: quality of coach he believes he has in Gerald Alexander. Well,
Speaker 1: it keeps a fresh bald head softed. So I know
Speaker 1: you like him, but yeah, g A is a good,
Speaker 1: good young coach obviously played in the league. Smart uh,
Speaker 1: Energetic for sure. I think he does a great job
Speaker 1: of communication. He's a good teacher, good young cod uh.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm excited to work with him. You know,
Speaker 1: I've had a lot of conversations. You know, he's coaching
Speaker 1: the secondary, so we have a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: safety was the first position I coached, so we have
Speaker 1: a lot of conversations about about that group and somebody adjustments,
Speaker 1: some of the improvements they need to make. So but
Speaker 1: you know, my conversations are with g A and then
Speaker 1: all the other coaches that we gotta good young staff
Speaker 1: with camp A Nounston and I being Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Charles Burns is coming along, so the same thing offensively
Speaker 1: and in they taking the game. So m I'm excited
Speaker 1: about all those guys, and I'll try to keep my
Speaker 1: head shaved like he does. And you do so. I
Speaker 1: mean as a writer, that's story structure, one on one
Speaker 1: right there. You start with a lead and you come
Speaker 1: back to at the very end of your story. Coach
Speaker 1: nails it right there, talking about g A, his energy level,
Speaker 1: his coaching ability, but also getting his jokes about the
Speaker 1: clean shave, bald head of himself, Softa Dean and Gerald Alexander.
Speaker 1: We finish up here with a question about the secondary,
Speaker 1: the two safeties Eric Row and Bobby mc cane by
Speaker 1: Kyle Crabs, the host of the Lockdown Dolphins podcast. Here
Speaker 1: is Coach talking about the value of those safeties having
Speaker 1: cornerback experience. Uh. Yeah, I mean it's it's it's important.
Speaker 1: So you know, when guys have played multiple positions, and
Speaker 1: they especially at the safety position, to be able to
Speaker 1: relive some of their corner days and some of the
Speaker 1: issues they may have had um at that position and
Speaker 1: then communicate it and understand it from that perspective. I
Speaker 1: think that that goes a long way. Um, it's one
Speaker 1: thing to try to put yourself in those shoes, it's
Speaker 1: another thing to have actually been in them. But the
Speaker 1: flip side of that is not a lot of corners
Speaker 1: have gone down in the box and played had to
Speaker 1: fit the run game either. So there's there's a learning
Speaker 1: curve and a learning process for UM guys who move
Speaker 1: from corner safety or safety the linebacker or linebacker D
Speaker 1: Line's always a little bit of a learning curve. I
Speaker 1: think both guys accepted the challenge to to to to
Speaker 1: to move positions. UM. I think it helps the communication
Speaker 1: to have been UH and those other spots going from
Speaker 1: corner safety, But there's some challenges as well. You know,
Speaker 1: I would say fit in Iran and dealing with UH.
Speaker 1: You know run fits is a little bit different for
Speaker 1: both guys. Obviously Roll more than Bobby, But at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, I think both guys are working
Speaker 1: to improve that we're going to get better and please
Speaker 1: go guys. So there's coach some powerful stuff and that
Speaker 1: powerful stuff continued onto the practice field on Friday. As
Speaker 1: one thing you'll learn quickly in the NFL is that
Speaker 1: everything is regimented and scheduled very carefully. We're out here
Speaker 1: for practice at ten oh six on the dot, and
Speaker 1: that stuff starts right on the nose every single day,
Speaker 1: and normally the team, after doing some special teams work
Speaker 1: or doing some individual stuff getting their technique down, will
Speaker 1: break for stretching. But they gathered everyone together before the
Speaker 1: stretching portion of practice when practice officially begins, and had
Speaker 1: some players step forward to talk. We obviously don't know
Speaker 1: the content of that conversation, but we did here Coach
Speaker 1: Flora's talk in his media availability on Friday morning that
Speaker 1: he would address the team later today and allow some
Speaker 1: of the players to expres us themselves to their teammates
Speaker 1: and just kind of have an open forum. And so
Speaker 1: we saw Coach Flora's start the conversation off. Then Bobby
Speaker 1: McCain got in there, Jesse Davis, jakeem Grant, Byron Jones,
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick, Brandon Bryant, Cavan Fraser, Mary and Hobby Gerald,
Speaker 1: Alexander Devon god Shaw, Ted Carriss, Ray Kawadacmillan, and then
Speaker 1: Coach Flora's closed out before practice officially began right around
Speaker 1: ten twenty six or so, twenty minutes after the team
Speaker 1: gathered for that discussion, So powerful stuff there from coach.
Speaker 1: You heard him earlier this morning talk about his experience
Speaker 1: with social injustice. Is very very forward thinking team here
Speaker 1: with the Miami Dolphins, and important stuff to get out
Speaker 1: there and talk about and give these guys, these players
Speaker 1: a platform. So that was some of the pre practice stuff.
Speaker 1: We then got into stretching. Here are some notes. Patrick
Speaker 1: Lair was back on the field, but in a red jersey,
Speaker 1: so he is back and working. Receivers. Davante Parker and
Speaker 1: Kirk Merritt were not on the field however, missing practice
Speaker 1: on Friday. Exhabing Howard back out there working on individual drills,
Speaker 1: doing some stuff with Byron Jones working on the press
Speaker 1: and footwork. We talked a lot about how the hands
Speaker 1: and the feet and the eyes all go together, and
Speaker 1: Coach mentioned this. Brian Flores did that he has to
Speaker 1: get some drill work done, some conditioning work done. Still
Speaker 1: has a long way to go. We didn't see X
Speaker 1: in the team period of practice, but he was out
Speaker 1: there getting some work and moving around, and I did
Speaker 1: want to keep a focus in an emphasis on watching
Speaker 1: how how X moved on the practice field, and it
Speaker 1: just looked really good to me. He was firing out
Speaker 1: of his back pedal, he was cutting laterally. You wouldn't
Speaker 1: even know he was coming off a knee surgery, knee injury,
Speaker 1: or being on the pup with that knee issue he
Speaker 1: had coming into camp. They did some shuttle work and
Speaker 1: the individual drills. I thought he looked like one of
Speaker 1: the smoothest guys out there and being totally honest, and
Speaker 1: obviously we have to monitor the conditioning, but he was
Speaker 1: out there running sprints earlier this week as well, so
Speaker 1: he's probably not. You know, it's not a situation where
Speaker 1: he's starting from square one, as coach said, we have
Speaker 1: a long way to go. With the fact that he's
Speaker 1: out there with a start date for working out and
Speaker 1: getting back involved in practice in August is super encouraging
Speaker 1: on that front. And to make a quick pivot here
Speaker 1: on the topic of versation, I want to take a
Speaker 1: quick note about a mystery man on the field. I
Speaker 1: can probably do some research and find out who he is,
Speaker 1: but he's a big dude, solidly built. On the coaching staff.
Speaker 1: He throws balls to the receivers and the individual drills
Speaker 1: and catches passes from the quarterbacks. He's like a full
Speaker 1: workout out there every single day, running around. But the
Speaker 1: thing that makes me want to mention him is the
Speaker 1: impressive effort he shows every day to flash the gams. Man.
Speaker 1: Those aren't thigh high shorts we're talking out there. Those
Speaker 1: things are getting up close to hip high, and he's
Speaker 1: out there flaunting it every day. And he also throws
Speaker 1: a very impressive ball, if we're being honest. So a
Speaker 1: note to that coach, I'm gonna find out who he is.
Speaker 1: Then we go into the team period. Both offense and
Speaker 1: defense find their respective sidelines more game like situations and simulations.
Speaker 1: They're having penalty flags thrown, keeping track of the clock
Speaker 1: down in distance. They go to their opposite sidelines and
Speaker 1: communicate things into the quarterback, and accordingly, it's offense backed
Speaker 1: up to its own two yard line and working on
Speaker 1: getting out of the end zone out of the shadow
Speaker 1: of your own goal post. The first snap is a
Speaker 1: hard count and got someone to jump on the offense
Speaker 1: to false start, which is pretty common. Obviously, you've got
Speaker 1: nothing to lose down there when you're backed up inside
Speaker 1: your own two or one yard line, and obviously you
Speaker 1: can get hit with a half the distance to the goal,
Speaker 1: but that's gonna cost you what at most one yard
Speaker 1: if you're on the two yard line, even less the
Speaker 1: further year backed up. So a pretty common idea there
Speaker 1: to try to throw the hard count, try to get
Speaker 1: the defense to give you a free five yards and
Speaker 1: get you off the goal line. This time at backfires,
Speaker 1: but again it's pretty much no risk, high reward there.
Speaker 1: The first play came from Brandon Jones, and I would
Speaker 1: go on to make or he would go on. Rather
Speaker 1: I didn't make any plays on Friday. He would go
Speaker 1: on to make several plays on this day. He is
Speaker 1: active as hell. Man. He draws the back in coverage
Speaker 1: and angles down on that thing for a really good
Speaker 1: stop after two or three yards on a pass out
Speaker 1: to the flats. He also almost got himself an interception
Speaker 1: on a play down around the goal line when Isaiah
Speaker 1: Ford crossed face on the cornerback and Jones read it
Speaker 1: and read the quarterback's eyes over to the football. A
Speaker 1: bit of a collision there with he Isaiah Ford and
Speaker 1: Noah Ignogamy the cornerback in coverage, but everybody was just fine.
Speaker 1: But Brandon Jones looks really good out there so far.
Speaker 1: But the offense would strike back quickly with the best
Speaker 1: throw of the day from Ryan Fitzpatrick, who drops an
Speaker 1: absolute dime that goes for thirty six thirty seven yards
Speaker 1: up the sideline to Preston Williams. It reminded me of
Speaker 1: last camp all over again, Preston getting vertical on on
Speaker 1: cornerbacks and Fits finding him down the field or Josh
Speaker 1: Rosen finding him down the field. It was a tight
Speaker 1: window because he was going up against Byron Jones, who
Speaker 1: continues I talked about this all the time, continues to
Speaker 1: be in great position and the ball was just perfectly
Speaker 1: located right over the shoulder. It kind of reminded me
Speaker 1: of that pass in the Buffalo game last year at Buffalo,
Speaker 1: when Fits found Preston up the sideline for a big game.
Speaker 1: I said to myself, Oh wow, what the throw that
Speaker 1: was when it happened, so big time play there, And
Speaker 1: speaking of that, Jones would get his revenge later on
Speaker 1: in practice. But again, to go back to this point,
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure I would call it revenge because
Speaker 1: he's in perfect position on that throw. You just got
Speaker 1: two studs making plays down the field and a stud
Speaker 1: quarterback dropping in the dime. The old saying goes right,
Speaker 1: there's no defending a perfect pass. Well, that was a
Speaker 1: perfect pass from Fitzpatrick. So good on, good on good.
Speaker 1: You love seeing that. Those are the kind of players
Speaker 1: that come back with all positives and training camp because
Speaker 1: usually you have one player wins the rep, one player
Speaker 1: loses the rep. But these are the ones you want
Speaker 1: to see everybody wins. It's just good football all the
Speaker 1: way around. Now, as for the revenge itself, he drew
Speaker 1: Preston later down in the red zone and got isolated
Speaker 1: in a one on one position and did so well
Speaker 1: to stay composed, because that's that's a really tough spot
Speaker 1: to be in one on one with not really any
Speaker 1: help inside or outside against a receiver like Preston Williams.
Speaker 1: So he gets himself in that position, and really a
Speaker 1: Preston can break either direction inside outside, he can go
Speaker 1: over the top. He has that size, the movement ability,
Speaker 1: the ability to sink his hips and get in and
Speaker 1: out of those breaks, and the overall skill that he
Speaker 1: flashes down there, and one on one, it's sure as
Speaker 1: health frees up the rest of your defense to get creative,
Speaker 1: as Byron Jones can drive on that pass and break
Speaker 1: it up in the end zone for a huge and completion.
Speaker 1: As Sam Madison used to say, courtesy of the Fish
Speaker 1: Tank podcast ten on ten, ten on ten, you put
Speaker 1: ten guys in there, you have the cornerback, lock up
Speaker 1: receiver and call it good. From there, it creates way
Speaker 1: more creativity for your defense. Little fish Tank reference for
Speaker 1: you guys there. Check them out on the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: podcast network. From there, the defense kind of took things over.
Speaker 1: Shack Lawson had a number of big plays as he
Speaker 1: continued to disrupt a lot of the action, both as
Speaker 1: a pass rusher and as a run defender. Even on
Speaker 1: the big pass from Fitzpatrick to Preston Williams, he was
Speaker 1: back in the backfield and it looks like maybe he
Speaker 1: could have finished it off, but the ball might have
Speaker 1: come out before he got there. I leaned towards it
Speaker 1: being a good completed pass, but he was close getting
Speaker 1: pressure on the quarterback. I did have him with two
Speaker 1: for sure sacks on the day and possibly that third,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna go ahead and call it too because
Speaker 1: I do think Fitzpatrick got the ball out before he
Speaker 1: got home for that sack. Two other common things that
Speaker 1: themes this week that continued on Friday was the work
Speaker 1: against the run from both Jerome Baker and Eric Rowe,
Speaker 1: a linebacker and a safety. Baker has done so well
Speaker 1: I've talked about it all week, to get down in
Speaker 1: the muck, work through the trash. Normally, you want to
Speaker 1: keep that guy clean and have him making plays on
Speaker 1: ball carriers and not have to get off blocks, which
Speaker 1: he does that exceptionally well. We know he can do that.
Speaker 1: He's got the speed, the tackling, the shirt tackling, and
Speaker 1: just the overall physicality to make that happen. But even
Speaker 1: working down in the trash and getting off those blocks,
Speaker 1: he was doing that all day again on Friday, to
Speaker 1: put some hits on the ball carrier, to really square
Speaker 1: those guys up and make a good sound hit to
Speaker 1: stop their progress. Very impressed with Jerome Baker that way.
Speaker 1: The story is the same with Eric Rowe, a face
Speaker 1: in the fan type of guy. He's not afraid to
Speaker 1: go down there and put a lick on somebody. He
Speaker 1: even did it in the passing game on a short
Speaker 1: completion to Mike Gasicki out in the flat on a
Speaker 1: past that was located a little bit off the back
Speaker 1: of Mike Kaski's body, so he had to kind of
Speaker 1: make a contorting spinning catch and Row was right there
Speaker 1: to square him up. The safeties on this team in
Speaker 1: general have been so active. We talked about Roe and
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones, but also Bobby McCain and Cavon Frasier. Different
Speaker 1: roles and different players, but they've all been involved. Talking
Speaker 1: about Clayton Federlum out there as well, plenty of these
Speaker 1: guys getting involved in the action. I think you feel
Speaker 1: really good about that position and the depth there as well.
Speaker 1: And speaking of facing the fan here real quick, Nick
Speaker 1: need Um at cornerback also in that DB's room, had
Speaker 1: a really nice run stop working down in the muck
Speaker 1: where he popped the back, squared him up, popped him
Speaker 1: in the in the chess plate, then gave a pretty
Speaker 1: pronounced clap showing that he was very proud of himself
Speaker 1: for that play. He's had a very good camp so
Speaker 1: far in Nick need Um, back to the depth talking
Speaker 1: about safeties in fact, I think you just feel good
Speaker 1: about the depth at all three levels on this football team.
Speaker 1: On this defense right now, I should say you've got
Speaker 1: good front lines, solid quality depth behind those guys and
Speaker 1: you see that depth filter in in the first team,
Speaker 1: second team, third team guys playing good football out there.
Speaker 1: Just look at the depth up front. I mean, we
Speaker 1: talked about ray Kwon Davis just moving guys against their will.
Speaker 1: That was in my notes today. Even when the offensive
Speaker 1: line wants to move him off the spot, he just
Speaker 1: kind of stands it up, or he works down the
Speaker 1: line to get himself into the backfield, causing more and
Speaker 1: more penetration, forcing the offensive line to try to anchor
Speaker 1: and re anchor and re anchor again because he keeps
Speaker 1: pushing them off that spot. He can carry guys across
Speaker 1: multiple gaps if he needs to. He just has been
Speaker 1: very impressive so far in training camp. I know that
Speaker 1: Devon got Shaw had two more run stops on this practice.
Speaker 1: He's been frequently in the notes this week showing that power,
Speaker 1: showing that run defense, and flashed some pass rush there
Speaker 1: as well. We've talked about Christian Wilkins. He is super
Speaker 1: trimmed down and moving so very well out there, very
Speaker 1: quick off the snap, as he has been active and
Speaker 1: involved up on that defensive line. As we know, he
Speaker 1: has the ability to play multiple spots on the defensive line.
Speaker 1: Zach Seeler makes a play just about every single day
Speaker 1: out there. Today it was a bull rush that he
Speaker 1: converted to getting his hands up, create that separation that
Speaker 1: Mary and Hobby talked about on Thursday's podcast, create that
Speaker 1: separation with the offensive line, gets your hands up and
Speaker 1: knocked the ball down. He had one of those on Friday.
Speaker 1: I took another note on the land And Roberts here
Speaker 1: being a tough, physical, nasty dude, had a chance to
Speaker 1: ask a coach Camp and Ellie about that on Thursday
Speaker 1: and he tells us that, yeah, Landon has that mindset
Speaker 1: on the football field. He flips that switch. But he
Speaker 1: is one of the best guys, one of the nicest
Speaker 1: guys you can talk to away from the field. But
Speaker 1: there was a play where he greeted mac Hollins, who
Speaker 1: was working across the formation, comes under it, makes a
Speaker 1: catch and turns up field and as he turns up,
Speaker 1: he meets number forty four right there and Roberts just
Speaker 1: squared him up and it was like a brick wall man.
Speaker 1: Mac Hollins is running pretty much full speed, obviously doesn't
Speaker 1: have his head forward yet, but he turns it up
Speaker 1: and Roberts is just squatting on like a like a
Speaker 1: pass protector dropping into his pass set, and the pass
Speaker 1: rusher meets him and just hits that brick wall and stops.
Speaker 1: And at the conclusion of the play, Roberts throws like
Speaker 1: a dummy fake uppercut at Hollands trying to punch the
Speaker 1: football out, stripping the ball out. We know that's a
Speaker 1: big focus this year, as we heard from coach Alexander
Speaker 1: on yesterday's podcast as well as Josh Boyer on the podcast,
Speaker 1: to those two guys just competing, getting after it and
Speaker 1: showing some friendly you know, dapping each other up after
Speaker 1: the play as well, so competitive between the whistles afterwards.
Speaker 1: Your teammates Again, fun to see those guys work. I
Speaker 1: had Brian Borders with a really nice pass breakup down
Speaker 1: around the goal line. And I also took another note
Speaker 1: on how well again Noah Ignogny, the way he moves.
Speaker 1: I talked about it, I think it was yesterday on
Speaker 1: the podcast. A tweet that I sent out a while
Speaker 1: back during his draft run up, a video of him
Speaker 1: working on Florida tight end Kyle Pitts and the transition
Speaker 1: to get out of the back pedal and drive forward.
Speaker 1: I saw something very similar on a comeback route today
Speaker 1: where he has to honor the deep ball because without
Speaker 1: safety help over the top, you have to be sure
Speaker 1: you can turn and run and get down the field.
Speaker 1: But he stays right in that hit pocket and then
Speaker 1: from there to be able to accelerate full speed, hit
Speaker 1: the brakes out of that full acceleration and then turned
Speaker 1: back the other direction. That just takes an elite athlete.
Speaker 1: And we know based on his testing, based on his tape,
Speaker 1: based on what we see on this practice field so far,
Speaker 1: that's what Noah is. He's super athletic, of course, a
Speaker 1: very very prominent feature here among cornerbacks in this Brian
Speaker 1: Flores defense. Byron Jones once broke records at the scouting Combine,
Speaker 1: and now Noah Ignogny here as well at that cornerback
Speaker 1: spot and a king of depth. Man. That cornerback position
Speaker 1: is just nasty from top to bottom. We know about
Speaker 1: X Byron and Needham have had a good camp so far.
Speaker 1: The same is true of Noah Ignogeny. Tay Hayes continues
Speaker 1: to to show some flash and pop quite a bit.
Speaker 1: I like some of the work from Borders and Nickels.
Speaker 1: The stuff. They have done. Really good group out there
Speaker 1: in that defensive secondary and at that linebacker position. I'm
Speaker 1: a fan of the depth there as well. You've got
Speaker 1: lots of positions that are really two or three deep there,
Speaker 1: like for instance, with Roberts and McMillan, both guys you
Speaker 1: know can come in on a in a pinch and
Speaker 1: be legitimate thumpers and run stuffers. Kyle van Noy does
Speaker 1: virtually everything, so does Jerome Baker. Andrew Van Ginkl has
Speaker 1: shown flashes down the stretch last year and three phases
Speaker 1: of the game. He got in for a pressure on
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen today at one point as well in the
Speaker 1: team period with a really nice club move working up
Speaker 1: the field, showing some more pressure on the quarterback. Another
Speaker 1: player I note in this position group with a play
Speaker 1: on Friday is the undrafted rookie out of Middle Tennessee State,
Speaker 1: Tyshan Render. We talked about his build and his earlier
Speaker 1: this week on the podcast. I've been impressed with that
Speaker 1: strength at the point and his ability to work off blocks.
Speaker 1: The most important thing you can do upfront is get
Speaker 1: off blocks, and I've seen him do it several times.
Speaker 1: So the defense really was getting after earlier, but things
Speaker 1: would flip as the offense would not go quietly into
Speaker 1: the night to a tongue of volois. First two passes
Speaker 1: of the team period went for touchdowns. A really nice
Speaker 1: pass to the corner to Adam Shaheen. I mean not
Speaker 1: to sound like a broken record here or anything, but
Speaker 1: the way he just layers the football out there with
Speaker 1: that torque touch and spin on it. It's really fun
Speaker 1: to watch a supernatural thrower and I hate this term
Speaker 1: thrower of the football, but it's so natural for him
Speaker 1: from different platforms to layer that football out there with accuracy.
Speaker 1: The next was another touchdown from right around that same
Speaker 1: spot at the fifteen yard line or so, and this
Speaker 1: time it was a wide open receiver working the middle
Speaker 1: of the field for that touchdown. I talked about his
Speaker 1: intentional location of the football a lot on this podcast,
Speaker 1: and it's something pretty subtle that you've got a key
Speaker 1: on closely if you want to see it. Like, for instance,
Speaker 1: a quick hitter to Ricardo Lewis would a cornerback playing off,
Speaker 1: He throws it high and away so that Louis can
Speaker 1: turn away from not only the hit but catch it
Speaker 1: and work up field for a yards after catch opportunity.
Speaker 1: We saw it constantly Abama, so that shouldn't be a
Speaker 1: surprise here. That translates to the Miami Dolphins. On the
Speaker 1: offensive line, Eric Flowers has been a total wrecking ball
Speaker 1: so far through training camp. I credited him with a
Speaker 1: number of key blocks to spring runners. Ted Carriss also
Speaker 1: had a couple up there as well on Friday's practice,
Speaker 1: and speaking of backs springing big runs, I've mentioned a
Speaker 1: million times on this podcast how Miles Gaskin ran rough
Speaker 1: shot over my Washington State Cougars. Go Coug's in the
Speaker 1: Apple Cup for four straight years, something like seven hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy rushing yards and eight touchdowns in four games.
Speaker 1: Oh man, good times. But it's much nicer to watch
Speaker 1: him do that in aqua. He's so shifty, he gets
Speaker 1: to the whole at the right time and can really
Speaker 1: change the angle on tacklers and a beat. He's had
Speaker 1: a very nice camp so far. A bunch of big
Speaker 1: runs for Miles gas Kim on a quick aside a
Speaker 1: side note here, I really like watching this from practice
Speaker 1: was the level of instruction that occurs between each play.
Speaker 1: I saw a player come off the field go over
Speaker 1: to coach Flora's then goes over to chan Gailey, then
Speaker 1: to his possession coach teachers, Man, we hear about it
Speaker 1: all the time. We see it firsthand here every day
Speaker 1: on the practice field. I mentioned the gorgeous throat from
Speaker 1: fits to Preston earlier in the day. The two would
Speaker 1: hook up again for a touchdown later on a nice
Speaker 1: little shake at the top of the route from Preston
Speaker 1: and then a rip an anticipation rip from Fitzpatrick with
Speaker 1: coverage and very close quarters for the score. Back to
Speaker 1: the offensive line. Adam Panky is a guy we haven't
Speaker 1: talked about much, but he's been consistently solid. I noted
Speaker 1: him with another nice block on one of Gaskin's good
Speaker 1: looking runs down in the red zone area. There was
Speaker 1: a quick break in the action and for some more
Speaker 1: special teams work. I wrote this note down even on
Speaker 1: three quarter speed kickoffs, I feel like Jachem Grant is
Speaker 1: moving so fast and about to break one every single time. Man,
Speaker 1: that guy can flat out go. During the break, I
Speaker 1: went to the bathroom, but then I came back and
Speaker 1: saw the quarterbacks throwing into those stationary nets we talked
Speaker 1: out earlier this week from about twenty five yards out.
Speaker 1: You put the football in the left hash. You put
Speaker 1: the net on the left side of the numbers, on
Speaker 1: the back of the end zone, right about yards or
Speaker 1: so away. I only saw three throws. They were all
Speaker 1: from tah but he hit the net on all of them.
Speaker 1: So progress from the quarterbacks on the stationary net throwing.
Speaker 1: Then there was some more goal line work, some wins
Speaker 1: for the offense, some wins with the defense. All in all,
Speaker 1: a good practice, a good primer for tomorrow's scrimmage at
Speaker 1: hard Rock Stadium. As always, will have you covered on
Speaker 1: that practice here from the Drivetime podcast and before we
Speaker 1: wrap up on this abbreviated version of the show, no
Speaker 1: media availability from players today. As the official wellness provider
Speaker 1: and sports medicine provider of the Miami Dolphins, Baptist Health
Speaker 1: is ready and committed to continue caring for you safely.
Speaker 1: This pandemic has reminded us the crisis doesn't build character,
Speaker 1: it reveals it. It's also taught us that our health
Speaker 1: is truly what matters most. We have the power to
Speaker 1: protect each other by wearing a mask. So who do
Speaker 1: you wear a mask for? Mask Up, South Florida, Keep
Speaker 1: caring live healthy, stay strong, and learn more at Baptist
Speaker 1: Health dot net slash coronavirus. Okay, we have a written
Speaker 1: piece to accompany this podcast up on Miami Dolphins dot com.
Speaker 1: We have the daily morning piece, the Blitz, the primer
Speaker 1: for the entire day, and Saturday we're gonna have all
Speaker 1: that stuff for you weekend special content. It is the weekend,
Speaker 1: but we are in fact working in the meantime. You
Speaker 1: all please be sure to do me a favor and
Speaker 1: subscribe to the podcast on Apple, podcast, Spotify, wherever you
Speaker 1: get your podcast from. Leave us a rating, leave us
Speaker 1: a review, Follow me on Twitter at Wingfield, NFL. Follow
Speaker 1: the Dolphins at Miami Dolphins. Of course, the fish Tank
Speaker 1: and the Audible podcast we mentioned them earlier in the show.
Speaker 1: Check those out, and of course Miami Dolphins dot com.
Speaker 1: We also have the YouTube show up right now, the
Speaker 1: Drivetime Training Camp Special starring yours Truly, it was a
Speaker 1: fun time film in that episode out on the practice field.
Speaker 1: Check that out for us. Subscribe to the Dolphins YouTube
Speaker 1: channel as well. But that's gonna do it for my
Speaker 1: time here and until next time, the fans up