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Speaker 5: How's it going to everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 5: And on today's show, practice at the Stadium is a
Speaker 5: rap first time back there since we downed the Jets
Speaker 5: to make the playoffs, and the last time will be
Speaker 5: there before Friday's game against the Falcons. We are recapping
Speaker 5: the day's work, including commentary from head coach Mike McDaniel,
Speaker 5: Christian Wilkins, Rob Jones, Noah Igbinoghany and so much more
Speaker 5: from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 5: This is the drive Miamis. Kenny Walker gets us into
Speaker 5: the podcast today, and I don't remember getting this much
Speaker 5: back and forth in a training camp about how practices
Speaker 5: should be viewed and evaluated. But I'm really enjoying it
Speaker 5: because we are getting a PhD level explanation opposed to
Speaker 5: the alternative chirping in the stands, and that's why I
Speaker 5: wanted to start this podcast with it. So I'm sure
Speaker 5: that anyone listening to this probably didn't miss the updates
Speaker 5: at practice on Twitter from myself and the million other
Speaker 5: people covering this stuff. So the defense really got after
Speaker 5: it today, and the offense had some spurts, but the
Speaker 5: defense consistently bounced back and put its best foot forward,
Speaker 5: a bunch of bunch of pressure on the quarterbacks, had
Speaker 5: some good plays against the running game, a few picks
Speaker 5: in the back end as well. Here is Coach McDaniel
Speaker 5: and how they view the battle of offense and defense
Speaker 5: and the idea that one side wins a practice versus
Speaker 5: the other.
Speaker 4: See here's the thing in the journey of like, especially
Speaker 4: when you're trying to be a good team.
Speaker 2: You know they're.
Speaker 4: Offense has its days, defense has a days. What you
Speaker 4: want is a team that takes advantage of any inch
Speaker 4: that the other side gives you. So we've had that
Speaker 4: those ebbs and flows on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 4: Today it seemed without watching the tape, that was clearly
Speaker 4: advantage defense. But that's not really how we look at like, Okay,
Speaker 4: they won, No, it's what and why and how we
Speaker 4: can progress.
Speaker 2: I felt, you know, that was one of the cool things.
Speaker 4: Is pretty locked in with two during the day, and
Speaker 4: I could feel that he could feel that guys were.
Speaker 2: A little a little.
Speaker 4: Too geeked up and thinking and and sometimes you can
Speaker 4: get over competitive and then you jump off sides. Then
Speaker 4: then you start pressing and stop stop thinking about your
Speaker 4: technique and start thinking. You end up focusing on trying
Speaker 4: to make a play, and then the inverse happens. So
Speaker 4: that was I know, he could feel it. Uh, there
Speaker 4: there were some guys that weren't their normal selves. That
Speaker 4: happens in practice every day, and you know, I think
Speaker 4: the the journey is is just beginning for the for
Speaker 4: the team, and.
Speaker 2: That's the way both sides of the ball, have to
Speaker 2: look at it.
Speaker 4: They'll there'll be plays too that the defense will learn from.
Speaker 4: But overall it's a very productive day when people put
Speaker 4: themselves out there and are able to learn from it.
Speaker 4: And sometimes those are hard lessons.
Speaker 5: And after practice we did see two of giving a
Speaker 5: spirited speech to the offense after a day that you know,
Speaker 5: I'm not trying to sit here and tell you guys
Speaker 5: that the offense can be crappy.
Speaker 3: On a day and it's like totally okay.
Speaker 5: You want to acknowledge the fact that you want to
Speaker 5: be better as long as you bounce back from it.
Speaker 5: Who cares? It's all, it's all good. This this stuff
Speaker 5: does not going to the standings. It does not go
Speaker 5: into the stat book in the box score, like coach
Speaker 5: mentioned there, So who cares until you should care? And
Speaker 5: it wasn't a good day, and so it's incumbent upon
Speaker 5: a leader like your quarterback, like to a tongue of
Speaker 5: I looa to make sure the offense knows that it's
Speaker 5: not okay. And Rob Jones was asked about that after practice.
Speaker 5: A two parter here from Rob Jones, one on the
Speaker 5: speech at then of practice and then how he has
Speaker 5: seen too a gross leader because Rob Jones has been
Speaker 5: here for three years now, three of the four years
Speaker 5: for two a tongue of I looa who would know
Speaker 5: better than him?
Speaker 6: Oh, you know, it's like you know him's been a
Speaker 6: leader like he is every day. He just told us,
Speaker 6: you know, we just got keyworking on the lit things.
Speaker 6: You know, keep being competitive, no matter you know when
Speaker 6: the first we hit, just keep grinding and keep going.
Speaker 6: That was basically all.
Speaker 3: And on the growth from QB one.
Speaker 6: Oh, you know, like you know, last year is a
Speaker 6: great leader and this year is just you know, you
Speaker 6: can just see the confidence keep growing, keep growing. He's
Speaker 6: just you know, he's just taking control of the whole office,
Speaker 6: as the whole team and just making sure you know,
Speaker 6: gods respect him as we've been respecting him, and you
Speaker 6: know we're just following as he can go.
Speaker 5: So there were two interceptions of Tua during the eleven
Speaker 5: on eleven portion of practice, his first two so far
Speaker 5: in team periods all camp long, and both excellent plays
Speaker 5: from the cornerbacks and not great throws either. First, Noah
Speaker 5: Eggbinoghany and coach will tell you about this here in
Speaker 5: just a moment, and I can tell you as well,
Speaker 5: since I saw a play out and UH Coach's explanation
Speaker 5: allows us to get into the nitty griddy of it.
Speaker 5: I thought the exact same thing that he talked about,
Speaker 5: just textbook text back, textbook zone coverage from Noah Eggbinogany.
Speaker 5: He's working against Tyreek. He contacts him in the five
Speaker 5: yard press window, peels back with his butt to the sideline,
Speaker 5: which is always the tele for zone coverage. Zone verse
Speaker 5: man man's to be facing the man zone is gonna
Speaker 5: have button the sideline eyes, and the quarterback gets the
Speaker 5: eyes back to the quarterback. Tyreek and Tua might have
Speaker 5: been on different pages on this throw because the ball
Speaker 5: goes up the sideline and Tyreek shuts it down, maybe
Speaker 5: expecting the ball to come short. But Igbinogany because he's
Speaker 5: playing the quarterback, which you know, to me, that's a
Speaker 5: better feel for him opposed to just trying to get
Speaker 5: to a spot and locate the ball late because that
Speaker 5: has not been his game. But he sees it and
Speaker 5: gets more depth and follows the football up the sideline
Speaker 5: and he lays out, not lays out, but lunges all
Speaker 5: the way out outstretched plucks it for the pick, great catch,
Speaker 5: great play, Just textbook zone coverage from him from snap
Speaker 5: to finish, except maybe the return, which no one's gonna
Speaker 5: tell us about here in this minute. But first, here's
Speaker 5: no what Igbinoghany on the interceptions.
Speaker 7: It was good man. I was just running down the
Speaker 7: sideline and saw the ball and the air went up
Speaker 7: and got it. And I need to work on my
Speaker 7: return skills, so I think I went the opposite way,
Speaker 7: and so I'll work in the next time. Yeah, I
Speaker 7: did went to the opposite way, though again I got
Speaker 7: to work on the I think there was on the
Speaker 7: on my sideline when I got the pick. I think
Speaker 7: there was some room, but I was just happy with that.
Speaker 7: So I was just running whatever whoever space was open.
Speaker 5: So why do we go ahead and hear from coach McDaniel,
Speaker 5: who broke the play down better than I can. Here's
Speaker 5: McDaniel on Egnogany's I n T in practice.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 4: That's why, Okay, don't underestimate the journey that is going
Speaker 4: from system to system in a defense, and specifically, you know,
Speaker 4: you guys all know we played a ton of man
Speaker 4: coverage and now we played a ton of really everything.
Speaker 4: So that process and being able to identify eligibles, and
Speaker 4: you know, this defense does require a good understanding of
Speaker 4: what everyone's doing to be great, and he's he's continued
Speaker 4: to progress and make more plays he had. He had
Speaker 4: you know, one of my favorite cloud reps that he's
Speaker 4: had all camp and really since he been here, he
Speaker 4: got his hands up on a turnover.
Speaker 2: You know, these these are things that you like to
Speaker 2: see and then you like to watch what players do
Speaker 2: with it.
Speaker 4: How do that how does that confidence materialize moving forward?
Speaker 4: Is he is he thirsty enough to say I want more?
Speaker 4: Or do you get comfortable? You know, these are That's
Speaker 4: why I like the preseason. I like the players journey
Speaker 4: and I like to watch them develop, trying trying to
Speaker 4: do or really fulfill their dreams.
Speaker 5: The other I n t that I thought was a
Speaker 5: pretty similar rep from Eli Apple that what Noah egmon
Speaker 5: Aghni did, he really made a habit out of this
Speaker 5: back in Cincinnati, and I think it's a big reason
Speaker 5: why lou and Aroumo refused to replace Eli with their
Speaker 5: high draft picks in the secondary last year, because of
Speaker 5: his veteran acumen and playing to the rules of his position,
Speaker 5: particularly in zone coverages, which you know, in this defense,
Speaker 5: you're gonna get a little bit of everything, like we
Speaker 5: heard coach talk about, but some man zone, some hybrid coverages.
Speaker 5: I like the idea of if Ex is playing man
Speaker 5: one sided and Eli Apple can be playing zone on
Speaker 5: the other side. But on this play, Tua has just
Speaker 5: taken the offense down the field, bang bang, bang, like
Speaker 5: eight completions in a row to get down into the
Speaker 5: red zone, and he gets durham Smyth on this route
Speaker 5: to the front pylon. That reminded me of the interception
Speaker 5: that Tua threw going after drham Smyth at the exact
Speaker 5: same pilon at hard Rock Stadium against the Atlanta Falcons
Speaker 5: back in twenty twenty one, where Smith kind of rounded
Speaker 5: the route off at the back end and didn't really run.
Speaker 3: You know, it wasn't really like a comeback. It wasn't
Speaker 3: really a curl, It wasn't really an out.
Speaker 5: It was kind of a banana drifting route that didn't
Speaker 5: really put him in a threatening position. And I think
Speaker 5: because of that it allowed Eli to get under the route.
Speaker 5: But also what allowed Eli to get under the route
Speaker 5: was really good recognition to come off that you know,
Speaker 5: curl flat area in the short part of the field
Speaker 5: and sync back into the kind of honey hole portion
Speaker 5: of a zone coverage concept where you have the safety
Speaker 5: up top, the corner below, and that kind of ten
Speaker 5: to eighteen yard range. You have a window you have
Speaker 5: to hit there, and Tua shot at for that. But
Speaker 5: Apple got depth and found the football and picked it
Speaker 5: off right at the end of practice to put an
Speaker 5: end to it. And so really good play from those
Speaker 5: two guys that might be counted on this year, you know,
Speaker 5: to play some decent snaps given the Jaalen Ramsey injury.
Speaker 5: Apple also had a really good rep. And it's funny
Speaker 5: hearing the commentary, you know, around the press box. I
Speaker 5: heard it was a bad ball, but no, it was
Speaker 5: a great rep where he pins chosen to the sideline.
Speaker 5: If your receiver is running your route on the hash
Speaker 5: marks along the sideline, quarterback has no chance. There's no
Speaker 5: where to throw the football too, so he put him
Speaker 5: up against the sideline and the ball goes over the
Speaker 5: top of that because you're trained to throw the ball over.
Speaker 5: So the dbacon or the receiver can kind of stack
Speaker 5: the dB on the inside and use the outside part
Speaker 5: of the field to make the play. But really good
Speaker 5: job there on that rep. He's getting better every day
Speaker 5: at practice so far and taking to the system here.
Speaker 5: And the offense had their big plays too, including what
Speaker 5: everyone came out to see, a fifty eight yard touchdown
Speaker 5: pass from two to Tyreek. And I wanted to touch
Speaker 5: on Tyreek and Jalen's route running because you know, they
Speaker 5: both had a handful of catches. Like they do every
Speaker 5: single day. It's just rinse and repeat with the explosive plays,
Speaker 5: the chunky yards, the space they create in the offense.
Speaker 5: And by the way, I had my best notes today
Speaker 5: because the stadium feed was on the TV above us
Speaker 5: in the press box on like a ten second delay.
Speaker 5: And let me tell you guys this right now, if
Speaker 5: I had that every day at practice, you would get
Speaker 5: the best notebook possible. I do bring you what I
Speaker 5: think is a pretty good notebook in terms of my
Speaker 5: breakdowns of practice. But having that quick replay, I can
Speaker 5: watch the run say, oh, I know it's going off
Speaker 5: the right side. Let me go ahead and peek at
Speaker 5: Austin Jackson here, Rob Hunt like whatever it might be.
Speaker 5: And that was just really really cool for you know,
Speaker 5: football junkie like me to have just so much easier
Speaker 5: to evaluate. But it gave me this opportunity on Tyreek's
Speaker 5: deep shot because I wouldn't have seen this otherwise. But
Speaker 5: you see him attack the off coverage and really threaten
Speaker 5: as though he's going to basically cross the post safety's face,
Speaker 5: which you've seen him do plenty of times in this offense.
Speaker 5: Him and Waddle run all kinds of those crossing routes.
Speaker 5: But he presses the toes of Kedrin Smith, who's lineup
Speaker 5: in the post in this particular play, and you see
Speaker 5: him kind of do a head nod and a step
Speaker 5: that widens his gait that would institute you know his
Speaker 5: next step is going to be a crossover to go
Speaker 5: across the field. And the minute he does this, Kedron
Speaker 5: Smith reacts and starts to flip his hips to run
Speaker 5: to that pylon to the other side of the field,
Speaker 5: And the minute Tyreek sees that reaction, he changes directions,
Speaker 5: puts the foot in the ground and breaks it off
Speaker 5: back the other way and runs to the other corner.
Speaker 5: And like Tua couldn't miss this throw because he was
Speaker 5: wide the f open. And by the way, quit talking
Speaker 5: about underthrows man, Like the guy's a freaking track star.
Speaker 5: So he's not going to throw the ball seventy five
Speaker 5: yards in the air. It's never going to happen. Quick
Speaker 5: complaining about sixty yard touchdowns, please, stupid flawless route to
Speaker 5: a put it in the bucket touchdown. Fun play to watch.
Speaker 5: I do want to give Kedron Smith a lot of
Speaker 5: props because he stay with the play and actually poked
Speaker 5: it out at the goal line, which, by the way,
Speaker 5: Tyreek finished the play into the end zone.
Speaker 3: Please.
Speaker 5: I know in a regular season game, I'm sure the
Speaker 5: peace sign goes up and all that, but great hustle
Speaker 5: from Kedron Smith. That's something you want to see there.
Speaker 5: He also ran down a deep ball attempt that I
Speaker 5: think this time Tyreek did go across the face of
Speaker 5: the post safety and Kedrin Smith was getting death on
Speaker 5: the other side, and I think he reacted quick enough
Speaker 5: to get himself in position to help Miles Dorn on
Speaker 5: a pass breakup down the field, because I think that
Speaker 5: if he didn't get the depth on that play, we're
Speaker 5: talking about two bombs from two to Tyreek. So Kedrin Smith,
Speaker 5: I'm not going to fault you for getting beat by
Speaker 5: Tyreek Hill one time in practice.
Speaker 3: It's going to happen.
Speaker 5: The rest of stuff, I do take notice of that.
Speaker 5: Then Waddle, who you guys know how I feel about
Speaker 5: his game, his approach, his professionalism, talking to him in
Speaker 5: the cafeteria, one of my favorite human beings on planet Earth.
Speaker 5: There was a catch he made on about a twenty
Speaker 5: twenty five yard throw from Tua that was just aces
Speaker 5: because X does a good job to sink into his
Speaker 5: part of the coverage to get under Waddle on this play,
Speaker 5: and Wattle's coming across the field and Tua throws it.
Speaker 5: And this is why I love Tua and the receivers here.
Speaker 5: The trust he has and these guys to go win
Speaker 5: even when they haven't won. The route yet is is premiums.
Speaker 5: It's supreme chef's kiss. I don't know what the hell
Speaker 5: for me to say, but he angles this route back
Speaker 5: down towards the quarterback to cut off X in a
Speaker 5: way we've seen X du to receivers year after year.
Speaker 3: Down here.
Speaker 5: He cuts them off, gets in front of it and
Speaker 5: makes a tough catch.
Speaker 3: Going to the ground. These guys are so freaking good.
Speaker 5: The speed is what everyone sees with those two, but
Speaker 5: it's the attention to detailing their craft is the number
Speaker 5: one thing that makes them great players. Before we go
Speaker 5: back to Tua here, there was a brief lightning delay,
Speaker 5: and fittingly enough, right during Zach Thomas's speech to me,
Speaker 5: that was the football God's way of saying, hey, go
Speaker 5: watch Zach. Practice is going to come back on here
Speaker 5: in a few minutes. Here's coach on the opportunity to
Speaker 5: get reps with a game delay. As we know, that
Speaker 5: happens very often down here in the South Florida webs.
Speaker 4: Apparently you guys would know more than I would, but
Speaker 4: that happens from time to time here.
Speaker 2: Okay, last year was an exception to the I believe so.
Speaker 4: And we even have a coaching staff that's it's happened
Speaker 4: to a suit where you have to you have to
Speaker 4: go inside and then restart. So the biggest fear that
Speaker 4: I had, you know, I didn't want the the defense
Speaker 4: was starting to feel some momentum, and I didn't want
Speaker 4: them to all of a sudden have a lull.
Speaker 2: You know, That's what I was looking for.
Speaker 4: And then I wanted the offense to to kind of
Speaker 4: get their stuff together and and and try to sustain
Speaker 4: some stuff. It happened a little bit and then self
Speaker 4: inflicted wounds. So these are all things that the lightning
Speaker 4: is no exception. You're you're just happy to get stuff.
Speaker 2: Out of the way because you don't want.
Speaker 4: These lessons to be learned when the score is final
Speaker 4: and the.
Speaker 2: Box score is real.
Speaker 5: Not crazy about how the audio sounds, but I digress.
Speaker 5: Let's go ahead and take our first break right there
Speaker 5: and come back on the other side. Get back to
Speaker 5: the quarterbacks and the rest of the offense. We'll talk
Speaker 5: about defense as well. They certainly earned that right. All
Speaker 5: that ahead on the Draft Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
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Speaker 5: here segment number two on this special Saturday edition of
Speaker 5: the Draft Time Podcast, and back to the quarterbacks, because
Speaker 5: Tua really showed the accuracy during the field goal upright
Speaker 5: passing drill in between the lightning delay when they came
Speaker 5: back out in the field and all the quarterbacks were
Speaker 5: trying to hit the upright from the corner of the
Speaker 5: end zone, so just the skinny pole from about I
Speaker 5: would say it was that twenty five yards out and
Speaker 5: he went three for three, and the other quarterbacks White
Speaker 5: and Thompson hit it once. Blackman failed to hit a
Speaker 5: single time. But on the third throw, they tried to
Speaker 5: purposefully hit the intersection of the crossbar and upright the
Speaker 5: little circle on the end of that crossbar post and
Speaker 5: Tua dotted up and runs off and it's pretty excited
Speaker 5: about it. You guys probably saw it on social on Twitter.
Speaker 5: If you have not, go check it out. But the
Speaker 5: dude has keyhole accuracy.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 5: I thought Mike White had some good throws again to
Speaker 5: brack some barrios. He did have a touchdown to Chose it,
Speaker 5: but it was actually a pass breakup by who else
Speaker 5: but Noah Iguanoghany just got unlucky, ball got tipped into
Speaker 5: the air, Chosen pulls it down and runs for forty
Speaker 5: extra extra yards for a fifty yard touchdown. I thought, Skyler,
Speaker 5: you know, I get on him for the ball placement
Speaker 5: and the timing issue, which it's still there. But had
Speaker 5: one of his best timing throws I've seen of him
Speaker 5: in practice, game or otherwise on a shot down the
Speaker 5: middle to River Craycraft, who really ran some sharp routes
Speaker 5: to they go Koogs by the way River Solidarity in
Speaker 5: the Pac twelve Man, it's dying, but Koog's spirit never dies.
Speaker 5: I don't know, oh Man, there just wasn't a lot
Speaker 5: there for the offense. I thought Savon Ackman had some
Speaker 5: really nice runs in this practice. Raheem always does, but
Speaker 5: he had a really nice gallop where he kind of
Speaker 5: got to that second level and had this wicked lateral cut,
Speaker 5: which I don't think he could do last year coming
Speaker 5: off the knee and trying to trust that knee. But
Speaker 5: he looks just faster and quicker this season. Chris Brooks
Speaker 5: continues to get some touches and get some good yardage. Today,
Speaker 5: I thought that was the case again, No Devon Achang
Speaker 5: coach did tell us he's just day to day though,
Speaker 5: so that's good to hear. And then I mentioned Barrios,
Speaker 5: cray Craft and Chosen at the receiver position. I thought
Speaker 5: the three of them showed you a little bit of
Speaker 5: what makes them intriguing players. Burrios that short area of quickness,
Speaker 5: cray Craft being where he's always supposed to be, and
Speaker 5: then Chosen the long speed. Each of those guys offer
Speaker 5: something different. Just been a fun battle to watch so far.
Speaker 5: At tight end. I am really buying into Elijah Higgins.
Speaker 5: I think that he's got a lot of chance to
Speaker 5: be something here. I think he's gotten better every day
Speaker 5: in the running game. Even had a rep where he
Speaker 5: stood up a manual Ogba coming back across the formation
Speaker 5: and that split flow action that everyone runs in the
Speaker 5: zone running scheme. And this was a few plays after
Speaker 5: I tweeted about Ogba getting the best of rookie Julian
Speaker 5: Hill and how every damn time somebody lines up a
Speaker 5: tight end on Ogba, it goes very very poorly for them,
Speaker 5: but not when Elijah Higgins is in the game. Apparently
Speaker 5: he had a good rep against Ogba. Also caught a
Speaker 5: pass for I would say it was about thirty yards
Speaker 5: where he again jumps, catches twirles, comes down, lands and
Speaker 5: takes off with acceleration and it was basically one on
Speaker 5: one with you know, the corner that was going to
Speaker 5: be bringing him down was going to have to take
Speaker 5: a side angle his legs and I just think that
Speaker 5: Elijah would have ran through that tackle. So I think
Speaker 5: it was good for about thirty thirty five yards there.
Speaker 5: I like Tyler Croft's work in the run game today.
Speaker 5: I haven't talked about him much in the podcast, but
Speaker 5: there was a rap where he came across the formation
Speaker 5: on a kickout block and sprunk Savon for a good run.
Speaker 5: That's going to be his route to the roster. Phillips
Speaker 5: tough draw for any offensive lineman, for Austin Jackson off
Speaker 5: that side of the line, and he got him a
Speaker 5: couple of times. There was a sack immediately in practice
Speaker 5: on Austin Jackson. I thought, come on, Austin, let's go
Speaker 5: pick it up man, and he did. There was a
Speaker 5: rep where he really showed me something today. He got
Speaker 5: into his pass set with a really good fluid kickslide
Speaker 5: to get depth and put himself in good shape to
Speaker 5: kind of assess from there. And I'm assuming that JP
Speaker 5: kind of reacted to that because his reaction was to
Speaker 5: knife inside and grab that inside post when Aliston flashed it.
Speaker 5: But I love this rep from an offensive lineman, flash
Speaker 5: something for the pass rusher to say, I can exploit
Speaker 5: that as long as you can get back there and
Speaker 5: shut it down.
Speaker 3: And he did that.
Speaker 5: He transferred his weight back inside, which to me, has
Speaker 5: been an issue in his career so far, didn't get
Speaker 5: himself to and then dropped the anchor, which has also
Speaker 5: been an issue, especially with active feet to get to
Speaker 5: that spot and then drop the anchor on the quick
Speaker 5: inside move from Phillips. I don't think I've seen him
Speaker 5: do it better than on that one rep. So progress,
Speaker 5: I think I thought Cedric a boy. He had some
Speaker 5: good work in the running game. He sprung a big
Speaker 5: run at one point from where heem moster. I'm impressed
Speaker 5: by Rob Jones's work. And Isaiah Winn had some good
Speaker 5: reps today too, in particular one blitz pick up where
Speaker 5: the linebacker came and he saw it and put that
Speaker 5: thing down right away. Let's go ahead and get to
Speaker 5: the stars of the defense here, because they were the
Speaker 5: stars of the day. We talked about the two dbs,
Speaker 5: and before we go up to the front line with
Speaker 5: Christian Wilkins and Jalen Twyeman, let's hear from head coach
Speaker 5: Mike McDaniel on the value of coach fanju and I
Speaker 5: love this answer about how different they are and how
Speaker 5: Fangio brings so much to the table. Here's McDaniel on
Speaker 5: the Dolphins new DC.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's then huge, you know, you don't.
Speaker 4: You kind of find out in trial by fire certain
Speaker 4: things that could be advantageous.
Speaker 2: You know, you can project as much as you want,
Speaker 2: but you.
Speaker 4: Don't know how things are going to exactly play out
Speaker 4: until you're in it. And I think having the opportunity
Speaker 4: to get some some very you know, well seasoned we'll
Speaker 4: call them, and experienced, and you know guys that would
Speaker 4: really have a true passion for coaching, because it's the.
Speaker 2: One thing I did identify.
Speaker 4: I knew we had a large amount of young talent
Speaker 4: that had never been there before. So those those types
Speaker 4: of things were monumental for me and just knowing my
Speaker 4: own strengths and weaknesses, how to balance myself out so that.
Speaker 2: You know, the.
Speaker 4: Each Dolphins player can get what I think they truly deserve.
Speaker 5: Who's also asked this in regard to the depth beyond
Speaker 5: Christian Wilkins, Zach Seeler, and Rayquan Davis on the interior,
Speaker 5: and we also got some from sound from coach about
Speaker 5: that group, but also more about the journey of training
Speaker 5: camp and kind of how letting things play out and
Speaker 5: not being so decisive early on, which you heard Vic
Speaker 5: Fangio talk about in his latest media availability about how
Speaker 5: we're trying to find certain aspects and we know certain
Speaker 5: things in certain spots, but the journey of this month
Speaker 5: of practice is about finding the rest of those spots
Speaker 5: in the team. Here's coach on the idea of that
Speaker 5: interior reserve part of the roster, but also the journey
Speaker 5: of training camp.
Speaker 2: It's funny how some guys progress.
Speaker 4: That's why I have such a hard time and you
Speaker 4: guys get so frustrated with like, all right, where's this
Speaker 4: guy at? It's because I've seen too many things play
Speaker 4: out with different timings.
Speaker 2: So you have an opportunity and maybe.
Speaker 4: A certain thing clicks, and all of a sudden you
Speaker 4: find a niche in your game that Okay, I'm a
Speaker 4: three technique for instance, and wow, when I shoot the
Speaker 4: gap and get skinny, guys really struggle And it can
Speaker 4: just be one play and then what happens after that play.
Speaker 4: Is that a part of your game or is that
Speaker 4: a flash in the pan. All these things are super
Speaker 4: interesting and you can't figure them truly out until you
Speaker 4: have competitive situations that you try to create.
Speaker 2: Practice is the first step. A scrimmage is the next step.
Speaker 4: You get to go against other other players, and then
Speaker 4: you're in a preseason game.
Speaker 2: You know, these are human beings that.
Speaker 4: Are affected by minor things, and they're they're putting their
Speaker 4: best foot forward, and you really have to wait to
Speaker 4: judge the full complexity of the situation until they've had
Speaker 4: all the opportunities. Otherwise you're pretty vulnerable to being completely
Speaker 4: flat out wrong.
Speaker 2: And I try my best to not do that best
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 5: And the one guy who seems to show up as
Speaker 5: consistently as anybody else's Christian Wilkins. We heard from him
Speaker 5: after practice. We'll go to him here in just one second,
Speaker 5: but first let's hear what coach McDaniel has to say
Speaker 5: about Christian Wilkins.
Speaker 2: Christian is.
Speaker 4: You know, he since I've been here, he's been one
Speaker 4: way and I truly believe he you know, in that way,
Speaker 4: he embodies what I expect for our team, each individual
Speaker 4: to be on a day to day basis for you
Speaker 4: to have success. So how do you categorize that's that's
Speaker 4: an important part of the team that you know. I
Speaker 4: promise you this, if Christian Wilkins came out to practice
Speaker 4: and was like, we'd have problems.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: So as teammates, you end up depending on each other
Speaker 4: for certain things that you know you can that you
Speaker 4: can count on, and energy, strain, relentlessness, these are a
Speaker 4: whole things that if you're trying to be a good.
Speaker 2: Team, you want to embody.
Speaker 5: So as promise, we'll go ahead and hear from Christian
Speaker 5: Wilkins now, who talked about and I love the way
Speaker 5: Sophid Dean asked these questions about do you know who
Speaker 5: you're yelling at? Do you know why you're yelling at
Speaker 5: people when you make plays and come off the pile
Speaker 5: yelling like you do. And here's Christian talking about why
Speaker 5: he does that and kind of where it comes from.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just I don't know. I'm I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm a sick, twisted individual. I just
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just again, that's just passion, that's
Speaker 1: just love, because there's nothing like making a big play
Speaker 1: because they're so hard to come by. And I don't know,
Speaker 1: I just let this game a lot. And when you
Speaker 1: think about just all the work you put in, that's
Speaker 1: what you know, that's a great reward.
Speaker 5: Wilkins also discussed his routine and the pressure he puts
Speaker 5: on himself to be the fire star of the defense
Speaker 5: and the team. I want to go ahead and play that,
Speaker 5: and also him discussing his routine because it's so monotonous
Speaker 5: and so regimented.
Speaker 3: It's big part of why he is who he is.
Speaker 1: I put a lot of pressure on myself and you
Speaker 1: know when it comes to this game, and I kind
Speaker 1: of like that, like it that way because I just
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, if if who is it gonna
Speaker 1: be if it's not me and uh and my teammates
Speaker 1: are counting on that, and that's what this organization is
Speaker 1: counting on. So I try to just bring the bring
Speaker 1: the energy every day, set the tone and kind of
Speaker 1: just be that spark and be that light for the
Speaker 1: guys in this in this building.
Speaker 3: And regarding his routine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've kind of always been like that, but it's
Speaker 1: a constant it's the constant work. It's constant grind just
Speaker 1: to kind of improve that routine and improve your process
Speaker 1: and looking for little things that always gives you an
Speaker 1: edge in that advantage. But it helps me to stay
Speaker 1: locked in and focused. I know what time I'm waking up,
Speaker 1: I know what time I'm meeting breakfast, I know what
Speaker 1: time I'm getting the facility. I know the time I'm
Speaker 1: doing everything at the facility. It's like clockwork, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, And you know, just trying to stay
Speaker 1: within that not straight too far. It allows me to
Speaker 1: just be locked in and stay focused and have a
Speaker 1: good routine and just you know, ultimately hopefully at least
Speaker 1: the more success.
Speaker 5: Well, I know who I'm projecting for the Orange Jersey
Speaker 5: on Tuesday, Jalen Twyman, who was just as good as
Speaker 5: Christian Wilkins was, who has been great all camp, hustle,
Speaker 5: run game, pass rush, just such a stud. But his
Speaker 5: answer here about the inquisitive youngsters and the way that
Speaker 5: they can pester you with questions can help you, not
Speaker 5: just in your leadership role, but how the mentor of
Speaker 5: the relationship can take from that because it forces them
Speaker 5: to be on top of their game. I thought this
Speaker 5: is a really great answer from Christian Wilkins talking about
Speaker 5: Jalen Twyman, who was on One today.
Speaker 1: Baby t Man, it's been it's been good to see
Speaker 1: you know, the things he's been doing. He he's like,
Speaker 1: you're annoying, little baby brother. Just ask every single question
Speaker 1: about football NonStop, like every single thing. Like he just
Speaker 1: NonStop for the questions. And I love that because he
Speaker 1: challenges me. Now you got me thinking like he'll hit
Speaker 1: me with something sometime. I'm like dang how you know,
Speaker 1: And now I got to find an answer for him.
Speaker 1: But I just love, you know, the strides he's made,
Speaker 1: and just you like to see that in a young guy,
Speaker 1: you know, who's struggled a little bit early in his career.
Speaker 1: They're trying to find his way and navigate, you know,
Speaker 1: because you know I was, I was watching the similar situation,
Speaker 1: so you know where I was struggling early, trying to
Speaker 1: farm away, trying to navigate, and that's all he's trying
Speaker 1: to do. And you know, all the young guys on
Speaker 1: Aaron Bronson just really just try to motivate them and
Speaker 1: you know, keep them on the right path.
Speaker 5: So Twyman gets my nod for Orange Jersey on Tuesday,
Speaker 5: multiple sacks, plays against the run, had exceptional effort and energy,
Speaker 5: celebrates a lot. Had a very nice camp so far
Speaker 5: for Jalen Twyeman. Zach Steeler got his wins. What's New
Speaker 5: bat had some balls at Land of Scrimmage, had some
Speaker 5: pass rush, had those plays where he throws his man
Speaker 5: into the ball carrier, and I thought ray Kwan Davis
Speaker 5: slipped blocks effectively all day. And Randy Charlton had himself
Speaker 5: a sack as well. I just continue to love the work,
Speaker 5: and I talk about us all the time of Bradley
Speaker 5: Chubb and Jilen Phillips off the edge, their ability to
Speaker 5: hold the edge and keep that outside arm free but
Speaker 5: also shed back inside when the cutbacks. You know, but
Speaker 5: when the back cuts back. I should say, you just
Speaker 5: see it every single day. The outside run defense this
Speaker 5: year to me and camp looks a lot better than
Speaker 5: it was a year.
Speaker 3: Go let's go ahead and.
Speaker 5: Take break number two right there and come back on
Speaker 5: the other side and finish this thing up with some
Speaker 5: more notes. We'll hear more from Coach McDaniel next Drive
Speaker 5: Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Autoonation.
Speaker 3: Just a little bit more to go here.
Speaker 5: I want to talk about the linebackers and finish up
Speaker 5: and the secondary before we get to some Coach McDaniel
Speaker 5: audio here. I continue to be so impressed by Andrew
Speaker 5: Van Ginkol and kind of taking on multiple roles in
Speaker 5: this defense. His feel for space was always something that
Speaker 5: I praised in terms of how he covered the curl
Speaker 5: flat as an outside linebacker and an edge defender. You know,
Speaker 5: go whack the tight end on the split flow action.
Speaker 5: Get depth, find the curl flat route and go plaster
Speaker 5: that running back, whoever it might be. And you see
Speaker 5: the way that he uses that same recognition, recognition and
Speaker 5: awareness of space for how he gets down into the
Speaker 5: B gap to B gap as a run defender because
Speaker 5: he gets right up to the formation, gets right behind
Speaker 5: a defender and the blockers cannot catch and climb and
Speaker 5: get to him and absorb him in the blocking game
Speaker 5: because of that position. And then he reads the back
Speaker 5: and is able to go left or right to the
Speaker 5: gap that he has to pick based upon how he
Speaker 5: reads the backs action and often gets in the correct
Speaker 5: gap to make a place. So I think Van Ginkel
Speaker 5: has a chance to really play some ball this year
Speaker 5: for US. I see similar skills from Aubrey Miller, the
Speaker 5: rookie who made a couple of plays inside and outside,
Speaker 5: you know, both in a mic and sam position today,
Speaker 5: So he's got some run game prowess as well. We
Speaker 5: talked about Noah and Eli in the back end. I
Speaker 5: thought cam Smith looked good once again, and coach mcdalel
Speaker 5: talked about his exit from Friday's practice that had everyone worried,
Speaker 5: including me.
Speaker 4: I was aware of the slip on the concrete that
Speaker 4: that didn't have a factor in his Uh you know,
Speaker 4: he's just going through uh what what rookie?
Speaker 2: A lot of rookies go through.
Speaker 4: Really, when you think about it, it's it's very unique
Speaker 4: to the to their experience, especially if your first second
Speaker 4: third round draft pick, you spend an entire offseason training
Speaker 4: to run sprints and test times, none of that is
Speaker 4: playing football, and then you go someplace where everyone else
Speaker 4: has been training. Accordingly, you're trying to learn all this stuff.
Speaker 4: You have a different lifestyle change and all things that
Speaker 4: come with that. So it's very typical for guys to
Speaker 4: be working through stuff as they are, you know, really
Speaker 4: modifying their body and mind to what the NFL life.
Speaker 5: Is also mentioned, Kedrin Smith just impressed by his effort
Speaker 5: all day long. Elijah Campbell had to pick because he
Speaker 5: ran to the football and scooped up a deflection. He's
Speaker 5: been so good this camp Fun got to talk to Fun,
Speaker 5: got to get to know and just watch his kind
Speaker 5: of development. I suppose as a safety and a defensive
Speaker 5: back in this defense, he and Bryce Thompson both find
Speaker 5: ways to be around the football often. Thompson had a
Speaker 5: sack and a pass breakup in coverage on Jalen Waddle
Speaker 5: on back to back plays that'll pop out on the tape.
Speaker 5: And then finally, Javon Holland was excellent in this practice.
Speaker 5: He's been good all camplong. He had a one on
Speaker 5: one play where he tipped it up to himself over
Speaker 5: Eric Sober, just kind of Dennis Rodman to him in
Speaker 5: a way, got up top and tipped it up and
Speaker 5: then pulled it down for the pick. Also had some
Speaker 5: coverage to force a few incompletions during the team period.
Speaker 5: He's been super sharp. So fun day, fun week of
Speaker 5: practice here. I'm gonna take a few days off, although
Speaker 5: the podcast is back tomorrow with a special episode of
Speaker 5: the show recapping Zach Thomas's induction into Canton. We did it, guys,
Speaker 5: It's been a long time coming, Zach Thomas. Welcome to
Speaker 5: campon Man. Cool to watch that. Then we'll be off
Speaker 5: on Monday and back at it for joint practices Tuesday
Speaker 5: night and Wednesday night at five o'clock for the podcast,
Speaker 5: Let's play one more SoundBite here heading into those joint practices.
Speaker 5: Here is coach on the value of teaming up against
Speaker 5: somebody else for practice and when the player should take
Speaker 5: this opportunity.
Speaker 2: It's something that is very very beneficial. It's very finite.
Speaker 2: You have generally two opportunities. Last year.
Speaker 4: And against Billy when we had one, but you generally
Speaker 4: have two opportunities, and you know, guys are sick of
Speaker 4: going against each other, and what you don't want to
Speaker 4: do is show up without an edge. And then you know,
Speaker 4: both sides of the ball have their wins invariably. You know,
Speaker 4: the Dolphins defense versus the Atlanta's offense, and the Dolphins
Speaker 4: offense versus Atlanta's defense. One side's gonna.
Speaker 2: Feel the first day that they won the day, and generally.
Speaker 4: The second day things even out because you watch the
Speaker 4: tape and you're like, no, not again, Okay, you want
Speaker 4: some you.
Speaker 2: Know, one of those things. So I think all those
Speaker 2: lessons I'll try to pass along.
Speaker 4: But the main part is that we're there to work
Speaker 4: together to orchestrate a high octane football practice.
Speaker 2: And you it's a great chance too for a lot
Speaker 2: of guys to compete against.
Speaker 4: People that have different skill sets, sizes, and statures as
Speaker 4: well as you know, some young guys. You get to
Speaker 4: play in front of another organization.
Speaker 2: So you know, we have ninety.
Speaker 4: We have fifty three plus sixteen. There's math there that
Speaker 4: you know, and you don't know who it's going to be,
Speaker 4: you don't know what, but those opportunities are premiere really
Speaker 4: for a guy's career.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 5: In my career.
Speaker 4: I'll share with them that there's been several times that
Speaker 4: we've ended up signing players that we've gone against joint practices.
Speaker 2: Those type of things are invaluable.
Speaker 5: I think my favorite part of the day was seeing
Speaker 5: Coach come off the field at the end of practice
Speaker 5: with his daughter in his hands, and just seeing the
Speaker 5: way he interacts with her man like as someone that
Speaker 5: is absolutely in love with his daughter and his little
Speaker 5: baby girl. Seeing Coach in that same light very very
Speaker 5: cool to see. And yeah, he's a good family man.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 5: Really enjoy this guy. All right, let's go ahead and
Speaker 5: get the heck out of here. We'll be back again
Speaker 5: tomorrow for the Zach Thomas podcast. Seth and Juice gonna
Speaker 5: drop by and talk about their time up and Canton
Speaker 5: See and Zach go in the Hall of Fame, loss
Speaker 5: of plays, entire speech er on the podcast for you guys.
Speaker 5: Then come back on Tuesday for joint practices in the meantime,
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