Speaker 1: Looking down Miami wa spokes one at run. What is up,
Speaker 1: Dolphans And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: How's it going to everybody? I am your host, Travis
Speaker 1: Winfield and as always I am here to bring you
Speaker 1: your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show,
Speaker 1: we're into double digits and with the tenth practice comes
Speaker 1: some exciting news. Will cover the contract restructure of xaviing
Speaker 1: Howard here from coach and x himself, as well as
Speaker 1: some other players. You got to hear what John Jenkins said.
Speaker 1: Today we'll cover the top performers, the matchup of the day,
Speaker 1: and as always, go unit by unit and breakdown yet
Speaker 1: another practice from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast. Little
Speaker 1: moment upon arrival this morning to b HTC. The video
Speaker 1: team is gathering for their daily duties as they do
Speaker 1: every day, and I come into the podcast studio, which
Speaker 1: is adjacent to the video room, and there's a quiet
Speaker 1: buzz before somebody says, that's a great way to start
Speaker 1: the day, and they broke the news to me, the
Speaker 1: Xavier Howard and the Miami Dolphins agreed to a restructured contract.
Speaker 1: So that certainly gave me a pep to my step
Speaker 1: heading out to practice, and sure enough, a few moments
Speaker 1: later it was confirmed by Brian Flores. Let's start the
Speaker 1: podcast by going to coach talking about the restructure of
Speaker 1: Exavian Howard's contract. Well, we're excited and we look. I've
Speaker 1: been up here multiple times saying we've been making progress. Uh,
Speaker 1: we have, Barry. Barry was asking me a question that
Speaker 1: the question about progress. We're making progress, and then you
Speaker 1: guys probably felt like, uh, um, we were where I wasn't,
Speaker 1: you know, giving you all the information, which I wasn't,
Speaker 1: but we were working on it and I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: give you guys the details. But I're excited to um,
Speaker 1: I've gotten this done, um, and we are. I'm just
Speaker 1: looking forward to continually improving with Xum and really his
Speaker 1: teammates on a day to day basis. And uh, I'll
Speaker 1: just try to just build and get better offensively, defensively
Speaker 1: in the kicking game. And x did play a fair
Speaker 1: amount in practice today returning from the ankle injury. I
Speaker 1: had a couple of notes on him. First, a pair
Speaker 1: of coverage reps. The first one was a rep down
Speaker 1: around the goal line, something like the five ish to
Speaker 1: eight ish yard line in that range. It was on
Speaker 1: the opposite side of the fields. I couldn't quite see,
Speaker 1: but going into the end zone and the receiver runs
Speaker 1: across the end line back under the goal posts, and
Speaker 1: the offense was having a lot of success with this
Speaker 1: throughout the course of practice. And X takes a rep
Speaker 1: on mac Collins and pins him to the line and
Speaker 1: the throw goes by without really even the possibility or
Speaker 1: ability for Hollands to make a play on the football
Speaker 1: because of very rock solid coverage. Good to see that
Speaker 1: out there again from number twenty five. Then on a
Speaker 1: slant in the same area of the field, the ball
Speaker 1: gets into Isaiah Ford, into the belly or the bread
Speaker 1: basket rather, but X reaches in and strips that thing
Speaker 1: out for the completion. And we note his ball skills
Speaker 1: all the time, obviously ten picks and a forced fumble
Speaker 1: last year. He's all about the football. I saw him
Speaker 1: try to punch one out on Mac Collins on the
Speaker 1: very first rep of the team period, and he connected
Speaker 1: on the football, but Mac hung onto it. Then again
Speaker 1: on another play he connects on the ball with Myles Gascon,
Speaker 1: but he's not going to cough that thing up. Just
Speaker 1: great to see X out there getting some work, and
Speaker 1: after practice he met with the media. Now X is
Speaker 1: a man of few words, as he was with us
Speaker 1: post practice today, but I want to go ahead and
Speaker 1: play the audio for you. I asked X a question
Speaker 1: about how this team, how this defense and his teammates
Speaker 1: helped maximize his skill set and empower him to be
Speaker 1: the player we've come to know. Here's x um. I
Speaker 1: think we speaking out of each other. We've we've chaped
Speaker 1: each other. You know, we're gonna be there for you guys,
Speaker 1: no matter what. So you know you know they did
Speaker 1: they think we all did it together. And Coach spoke
Speaker 1: about the return of X at his morning press, reminding
Speaker 1: us that he kept saying things were going in the
Speaker 1: right direction as you heard, and we've reached the conclusion.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go ahead and get to the housekeeping. Today.
Speaker 1: It was great to see Andrew Van Ginkle back on
Speaker 1: the football field, dressed in full pads and working. Davante
Speaker 1: Parker was out there again today, but this time in
Speaker 1: the non contact Red Jersey, no Will Fuller, no Jalen Phillips,
Speaker 1: and no Albert Wilson. Wilson's absence was for undisclosed reasons.
Speaker 1: And before we turn to the practice notes here, I
Speaker 1: want to go back to the audio here of John Jenkins,
Speaker 1: Miami's defensive tackle, and his media after practicing day because
Speaker 1: he was a treat to talk to. He was asked
Speaker 1: in his post practice media about why he chose to
Speaker 1: come back to Miami after a stint with the Bears.
Speaker 1: In there after his stint with Miami, here's John Jenkins.
Speaker 1: And when I got the call from him after I
Speaker 1: got released from the Giants, I heard it in his voice,
Speaker 1: you know. And I've been with some great defense throughout
Speaker 1: my years, you know, and to hear a tone of
Speaker 1: voice like close flow during that time, you know, and
Speaker 1: even now, it makes me want to just you know,
Speaker 1: do everything and anything possible to complete my job and
Speaker 1: do my job at the best of my ability. I mean,
Speaker 1: how good is that? So I had to follow up
Speaker 1: with John to ask him, since you know, you were
Speaker 1: here for flows first year, not year two, but now
Speaker 1: you're back for year three and with coach always talking
Speaker 1: about the growth of players in the development. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and turn tables here, turn the tables and asked
Speaker 1: him how has coach grown in his third year from
Speaker 1: what you saw in your number one? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: he believe in us, you know, he he allowed us,
Speaker 1: He allowed us to be players. He allowed uh the
Speaker 1: leaders to step up in and he allowed the groups
Speaker 1: to form and identity. So I know, you gotta head.
Speaker 1: Is that a lot of players to be players in Hey?
Speaker 1: That's so again, fun practice on Sunday, really good weekend
Speaker 1: of work in general. Really And I took down two
Speaker 1: notes from the Indies slash Fundy period individual fundamental periods.
Speaker 1: First two or through a corner route to Jalen Waddle
Speaker 1: and it's on air, so I mean, take it for
Speaker 1: what you want, But man, he just explodes off the
Speaker 1: top of the stem. Your stem is going to be
Speaker 1: the part of the route where you're going vertical towards
Speaker 1: the end line and then you make your move and
Speaker 1: out up or back whatever it might be. And the
Speaker 1: way he accelerates to the corner, I just it looks
Speaker 1: like a very tough cover. And you can see the
Speaker 1: chemistry there with tow a developing and building on these
Speaker 1: types of throws is he really seems to have the
Speaker 1: calibration down to gauge for the speed and where the
Speaker 1: target is going to be with regards to where the
Speaker 1: football has to be and where it has to to
Speaker 1: send for Wattle to run under it after he's created
Speaker 1: maximum separation, not turning back for the football or too
Speaker 1: far out in front. That calibration looks pretty good to
Speaker 1: me early on and to contin knew this point on,
Speaker 1: Wattle just another really good day of making tough catches.
Speaker 1: You know, the slant in the end zone where the
Speaker 1: quarterback will throw it low so it's either a catch
Speaker 1: or an incompletion. He got his arms under one of
Speaker 1: those today. He caught one on a little hookup or
Speaker 1: a curl route between a couple of defenders and hangs
Speaker 1: onto that thing for dear life. He caught another one
Speaker 1: of those quick rips up the scene that we've kind
Speaker 1: of seen become a trend in practice between he and
Speaker 1: tow Ah. He caught one work in the perimeter, catching
Speaker 1: it out in front of off of his frame, using
Speaker 1: the hands to make that catch. And later in the
Speaker 1: team period the pressure arrived quickly and to a got
Speaker 1: it out quickly and Waddle had to win quickly, and
Speaker 1: he did for the completion. He's been a treat to
Speaker 1: watch through the first ten days in practice, and I
Speaker 1: cannot wait to watch him go up against someone else
Speaker 1: in a different jersey, whether it's practice against the Bears
Speaker 1: next week or the game's coming up here in the preseason,
Speaker 1: coach was also asked about the gate the limp of
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle, and he said he would attribute that to
Speaker 1: camp sore nous, as guys are kind of dealing with
Speaker 1: getting through these first ten days practice and just generally
Speaker 1: the soreness and fatigue that happens this time of year
Speaker 1: at training camp. My other note in this pre practice
Speaker 1: period watching the individual drills was getting a good look
Speaker 1: at Austin Jackson, but also his live reps later on
Speaker 1: in practice. You can see the natural movement ability when
Speaker 1: maybe we talked about Austin Jackson's ability to just athletically
Speaker 1: move and slide in the natural smooth feet, the light feet,
Speaker 1: and they'll overall natural skills that he comes with. The
Speaker 1: knee bend, for instance, he can you know you hear
Speaker 1: the terms knee bender and wastebender if you're a waste
Speaker 1: spender not good, but if you can be flexible with
Speaker 1: the knees, it allows you to sink into the contact
Speaker 1: and absorb it and use the ground as kind of
Speaker 1: your friend or your help. There he plays load to
Speaker 1: the ground. He's dropping that anchor, which again is part
Speaker 1: of the knee bend and past protection with the ability
Speaker 1: to not get his feet stuck in the ground so
Speaker 1: he can anchor and readjust and reposition. He's also getting
Speaker 1: under his man frequently in the run game and creating
Speaker 1: push that way, I mean, from my eyes, he's shown
Speaker 1: very very good signs of increm donal growth throughout camp
Speaker 1: so far through ten days. And that takes us back
Speaker 1: into the notes, starting with the quarterbacks again like we
Speaker 1: do every day, and we covered some of the work
Speaker 1: with Wattle, both and indies and the team periods. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins offense was having a great day in those three
Speaker 1: on three drills down around the goal line and into
Speaker 1: seven on seven also later in practice. I have no
Speaker 1: idea how many total touchdowns there were today, but there
Speaker 1: were a lot of them, and again lots of red
Speaker 1: zone and goal line works. That's to be expected. But
Speaker 1: the fans also got treated to a ton of reps
Speaker 1: from tah and the quote unquote ones today at practice,
Speaker 1: so to A opened up that period, the three on
Speaker 1: three period with three of four scores on the four reps.
Speaker 1: The incomplete was damn good coverage and the flat from
Speaker 1: the ever quick and ever speed Jerome Baker who raced
Speaker 1: out there to the flat to disrupt a passing window
Speaker 1: on a pass to the back, and one of twos
Speaker 1: throws was a nice lobb to the corner and another
Speaker 1: one was a quick fastball in between a pair of
Speaker 1: defenders to Boat and he had a nice throw to
Speaker 1: the corner later on a pass to Kirk Merritt who
Speaker 1: went up and pulled that down. So you see a
Speaker 1: nice of them on two on a couple of those throws,
Speaker 1: but also the ability for him to mix up the
Speaker 1: arsenal of pitches that he has the law of the
Speaker 1: quick pass, whatever it might be, he can go to
Speaker 1: different pitches in his bag. And then Jacoby Brissette comes
Speaker 1: in and completes all three of his reps to Foster
Speaker 1: Carter and I did not get a number on the third,
Speaker 1: that's my bad. But it wasn't just offense. I mean
Speaker 1: there was a no throw because of coverage at one
Speaker 1: point from LeBlanc, mccordy and Ellis on the rep and
Speaker 1: speaking of mccordy, he continues to have a really strong camp.
Speaker 1: He was in the territory of a lot of incomplete passes.
Speaker 1: Today he's just smooth in the entire operation. For as
Speaker 1: much as we harp on fundamentals and technique down here,
Speaker 1: he's a great example for the young guys to follow,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure that's the case in the film room.
Speaker 1: Just watch the way thirty does things. He does it
Speaker 1: the right way. Nick need Hum and Eric Rowe, speaking
Speaker 1: of coverage, had a great bracket on jakeem Ground for
Speaker 1: Jachem Grant for an incomplete pass from Jacoby Brissette, and
Speaker 1: we hear plenty more from Row throughout the course of
Speaker 1: the day. And Jamal Harry got his seemingly daily pass
Speaker 1: break up on that flat route to the front pylon.
Speaker 1: It looked to me like he had a chance to
Speaker 1: pick it off, but the angle that we showed on
Speaker 1: social shows you that he had to reach out there
Speaker 1: with one hand to tip it away for the PBu.
Speaker 1: And finally Malcolm Brown caught the last pass of the
Speaker 1: drill just short of the goal line from Brissette and
Speaker 1: Calvin Munson showed you the physicality he offers to drive
Speaker 1: on that play and keep him out of the end zone.
Speaker 1: Munson has gotten some reps on defense and special teams
Speaker 1: in his time here in Miami. He plays physical brand
Speaker 1: of football. Let's finish up with the quarterbacks, and I
Speaker 1: really want to talk about running backs today. A lot
Speaker 1: too was sharp all practice long with the variation of
Speaker 1: throws I mentioned, but one thing I noted in my
Speaker 1: tweeting at practice was how quickly he gets the ball
Speaker 1: to the backs and receivers on the short throws, like,
Speaker 1: for instance, if you throw to the flat, he gets
Speaker 1: it out quickly, and you might see that route open
Speaker 1: up as a quarterback and tell yourself, okay, I've got
Speaker 1: that in my back pocket. Let's take another peek downfield
Speaker 1: and see what we have down there. Then by the
Speaker 1: time you come back, you've limited the options of that
Speaker 1: short pass. You've limited his options because you put him
Speaker 1: in a box. But when you see a guy getting
Speaker 1: to a spot with a favorable matchup, and really they're
Speaker 1: all gonna be favorable matchups when you're in space, because
Speaker 1: tackling is hard enough, but doing it in space on
Speaker 1: all the athletes NFL has to offer these days. It's
Speaker 1: just really difficult. But he just flips that thing out there.
Speaker 1: And I tweeted at O J mcduffee to get some
Speaker 1: confirmation and he said absolutely. I mean, why not use
Speaker 1: O J McDuffie a dolphin's legend when you have him
Speaker 1: in your back pocket? There? Late throws lead to headaches,
Speaker 1: he said. And so he gets this route out to
Speaker 1: Miles Gascon for instance, and think of it this way.
Speaker 1: Miles catches it on the move at the numbers, which
Speaker 1: you know, give you a solid fifteen yards or so
Speaker 1: to the sideline. Now the defender has to account for
Speaker 1: him to accelerate to the perimeter. He has to worry
Speaker 1: about him dropping the shoulder and getting vertical, He has
Speaker 1: to worry about the cutback, and he also has to
Speaker 1: worry about Miles pressing his toes and going straight at
Speaker 1: him and then forcing him onto his heels and making
Speaker 1: a move in any of those three directions. So he
Speaker 1: has to break down his you know, come to come
Speaker 1: to balance and come to control, break it down and
Speaker 1: then be able to match miles acceleration as well, which
Speaker 1: is just not easy to do. So give your guys
Speaker 1: the options. I'll never forget watching hard knocks with the
Speaker 1: Bengals and Chad Johnson was complaining about the exact same thing.
Speaker 1: Get me the football early. He kept screaming to his
Speaker 1: young quarterback Andy Dalton on this little route where they
Speaker 1: would motion him across the formation and have him run
Speaker 1: parallel to the line. Otherwise the defender can get out
Speaker 1: to the perimeter, funnel that thing back in and then
Speaker 1: come up and help from the edge closing and as
Speaker 1: he sets the edge and helps off the edge as
Speaker 1: well as kind of putting that thing back to the
Speaker 1: teeth of the defense. I hope that all made sense,
Speaker 1: and a quick aside here, real quick. I like coaches
Speaker 1: message in the pressure this morning, referring to the one
Speaker 1: thing players can do to help themselves is to know
Speaker 1: where the help is and know how to use that help.
Speaker 1: Very important stuff on a football field. I thought Jacoby
Speaker 1: Brissette was decisive and accurate today, especially in the two
Speaker 1: minute period. He had a really nice completion to Heathan
Speaker 1: Carter on a corner route where he stepped up and
Speaker 1: got away from some exterior pressure, reset his mechanics and
Speaker 1: delivered a strike right and stride in the two minute
Speaker 1: period to get himself get that offensive drive going to
Speaker 1: uh in the day. Generally was accurate. Once again, he
Speaker 1: threw from different angles, but he had the two I
Speaker 1: N T s in the two minute period. One was
Speaker 1: a clear miscommunication as he threw the ball to a
Speaker 1: spot where I think he was probably expecting Shaheen to
Speaker 1: set the route down and he carried it up the
Speaker 1: seam instead and it goes right into the lap of
Speaker 1: Eric row Ta goes up to Shaheen to talk to
Speaker 1: him after that, and he gave him a pat on
Speaker 1: the helmet, which again speaks to the leadership in command
Speaker 1: that mac Hollins talked about we covered on the podcast yesterday.
Speaker 1: And then the second one, well, we're gonna cover that
Speaker 1: here in just a minute. I want to finish up
Speaker 1: with this note on the quarterbacks. I like the way
Speaker 1: this receiver room has balance of size and speed, built
Speaker 1: like a basketball lineup, and how the quarterbacks are really
Speaker 1: developing a sense of how each player operates at their
Speaker 1: best at their peak, like which routes and which throws
Speaker 1: are are suited for each guy. I think seeing the
Speaker 1: evolution of each practice gives you kind of a linear
Speaker 1: trajectory that is going in the right direction. For how
Speaker 1: that chemistry has developed between mac Hollins versus a Jalen
Speaker 1: Waddle with two with Jacoby Brisette with Read Senet, and
Speaker 1: just the different skill sets those guys have and how
Speaker 1: they've matched up. Let's go ahead and get to the
Speaker 1: running backs now, and the play of the day was
Speaker 1: a run by Savon Akhmed. From myimony, his first run
Speaker 1: set the tone for what kind of day he was
Speaker 1: going to have. In my opinion, he runs up the
Speaker 1: middle and sees it, you know, kind of bunch up,
Speaker 1: kind of clog up. Then he bounces it outside and
Speaker 1: wins the corner with a foot race, and rather than
Speaker 1: just taking the thing right out of balance for five
Speaker 1: or six yards, he sticks his foot in the ground
Speaker 1: and runs through contact upfield for an extra few yards
Speaker 1: to gain about eight or nine on that play. Then
Speaker 1: a few runs later was the run of the day
Speaker 1: and maybe the play of the day. He's got the jets,
Speaker 1: I wrote on Twitter. Takes a toss, gets to the
Speaker 1: perimeter and turns it on and Javarus Davis came from
Speaker 1: the other side of the play, the other side of
Speaker 1: the formation to possibly stop him at about the twenty
Speaker 1: yard line, but I think it was probably gonna be
Speaker 1: a seventy five or eighty yard touchdown, and I didn't
Speaker 1: see where it started twenty five or twenty yard line.
Speaker 1: There was good blocks on the outside by Merit and
Speaker 1: Hunter Long, adding explosive plays like that in the run
Speaker 1: game to what this receiver group has shown you throughout camp.
Speaker 1: If you can get both those things cranking, men, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be a fun show to watch. But Savon on
Speaker 1: that particular run the juice to press outside, which forces
Speaker 1: the kind of the overflow of the linebackers and second
Speaker 1: level defenders to come over the top. Then he can
Speaker 1: bang that thing back up inside and use the speed
Speaker 1: to accelerate and leave everybody in the dust at that point.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to ask Myles Gaskon after practice, since
Speaker 1: he's so close to Savon, their best buddies. I asked
Speaker 1: Savan to evaluate where Savan is from now compared to
Speaker 1: where he was when he got here right at the
Speaker 1: end of camp last season. Just confidence, um, I think,
Speaker 1: I mean with me being with him at U dub
Speaker 1: is kind of the same jump from his freshman year
Speaker 1: to sophomore year, and con said the same thing the league.
Speaker 1: Rookie year to the second year. You make that jump
Speaker 1: so confident, making a lot of making a lot of
Speaker 1: good cuts, asking a lot of good questions in the room.
Speaker 1: Um definitely putting in or having a good input on
Speaker 1: what other guys are doing, or hey, did you see
Speaker 1: it over here? I saw it like this and this
Speaker 1: out in the third So I just kind of seeing
Speaker 1: him grow into it. So NFL running back is always exciting.
Speaker 1: But I mean that's I mean, that's what we're gonna
Speaker 1: happen regardless. I got a lot of fathing that do.
Speaker 1: And Miles in his own right is having a damn
Speaker 1: good camp as well, and particularly in the passing game. Man,
Speaker 1: he is making a lot of people miss in space
Speaker 1: and frequently, and he's got such steady hands, whether it's
Speaker 1: running the flat or the flare, which is a tough
Speaker 1: angle to catch the football running away from the quarterback
Speaker 1: with your kind of back parallel to the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: You have to turn your hands over and make that
Speaker 1: play while also being blind to the pursuit behind you.
Speaker 1: He catches wheel routes down the field, angles over the middle.
Speaker 1: He can really do it all. And that extra Pep
Speaker 1: and his step. I think that's noticeable, especially when he
Speaker 1: puts the foot in the ground takes off. He also
Speaker 1: talked about leadership today, as you heard him mention the
Speaker 1: jump from SAVANMD from freshman year to sophomore year at
Speaker 1: U dub We heard my always talk about this in
Speaker 1: an earlier podcast that his last press availability, but here
Speaker 1: he is talking about his leadership and being a conduit
Speaker 1: from the coaching staff to the players on the football
Speaker 1: field very important. Uh. I've been here for three years.
Speaker 1: I've been with Flow for all of them. Um, so
Speaker 1: I've been able to see what he wants to see
Speaker 1: out of his players, how he wants to see this
Speaker 1: organization ran as a team, and being able to relay
Speaker 1: that message to to the other players as like a
Speaker 1: player that's been there myself, especially to the young guys.
Speaker 1: And uh, I mean, I feel like that's my role
Speaker 1: at this point. And I thought the run game as
Speaker 1: a whole really had one of their best days. Malcolm
Speaker 1: Brown had a really nice jump cut to stretch the
Speaker 1: defense and then get vertical. Jared Oakes looks the part
Speaker 1: in the short yardage and goal line game. There was
Speaker 1: a couple of times this camp. It's looked like he's
Speaker 1: been stacked up right away at the line and then
Speaker 1: he's surged us through the arm tackles for an extra
Speaker 1: yard or two. He had one touchdown run working behind
Speaker 1: blocks of Adam Pinky Durball, Kiras Netto and Chris Myrick today.
Speaker 1: Then that takes us to the offensive line, and Miles
Speaker 1: talked about how he loves watching the way those guys
Speaker 1: compete every single day. They bring the juice, they bring
Speaker 1: the energy. And one of my favorite blocks came from
Speaker 1: rookie Lee and Eichenberg on a pole where he has
Speaker 1: to square up a block in space and man, he
Speaker 1: nailed that thing. And there was Emmanuel Ogba two, So
Speaker 1: not a not an easy task for Eichenberg and he
Speaker 1: got some good push and sealed some lane today. Thought
Speaker 1: he and Austin Jackson were good that way today. Laurnel
Speaker 1: Coleman has been impressive the last few days. He had
Speaker 1: a really nice rep on Shaq Griffin where he didn't
Speaker 1: panic on the speed upfield pass rush move that Shack
Speaker 1: likes to throw, and then he redirected Shakim's spin back
Speaker 1: to the inside. Good work there from Coleman. He talked
Speaker 1: in the past about playing basketball and defense and staying
Speaker 1: in front of your man. Saw some of those traits today,
Speaker 1: the way he can kind of transition that weight from
Speaker 1: side to side. Now, the goal line work went to
Speaker 1: the offense today, which is a nice response to the
Speaker 1: last time they really ran that drill and the defense
Speaker 1: was stout. The offense scored on three of the four plays,
Speaker 1: including one throw from two of a smile where to
Speaker 1: really sold the play fake, extending the football all the
Speaker 1: way out there. You get the fall steps out of
Speaker 1: the linebackers. Those details really matter in the run game
Speaker 1: and the play action game. Then they hammered it on
Speaker 1: the ground twice, one with Doakes and one with Miles.
Speaker 1: I thought Cameron Tom had some good work upfront as
Speaker 1: well at center. Also mentioned Adam Panky earlier. I thought
Speaker 1: he too had himself a good day. So some good
Speaker 1: work from the offensive line, and as a whole, the
Speaker 1: old line really well worked well in protection today. I
Speaker 1: thought to slide pick up stunts and games communicate passing
Speaker 1: off certain rushers. There were a few instances where to
Speaker 1: A was legitimately allowed to stand back there for three
Speaker 1: or four seconds and survey the action survey of the field,
Speaker 1: and if you give this receiving corps that kind of time,
Speaker 1: big things can happen at tight end. The bummer of
Speaker 1: the day was Hunter Long leaving the field on the
Speaker 1: practice on the cart. He left practice on the cart
Speaker 1: and did not return. Obviously, I hope he's okay. We'll
Speaker 1: get you an update when we have that. Shaheen and
Speaker 1: Smythe made some plays in the passing game. Smythe had
Speaker 1: a number of solid blocks in the run game too,
Speaker 1: and then the receivers we touched one out a little bit.
Speaker 1: Jachem Grant made a bunch of plays again today. His
Speaker 1: moves to create separations sure are fun to watch at
Speaker 1: the top of the route. Holland's size is something defenses
Speaker 1: have to deal with, both as a blocker and the
Speaker 1: way he catches passes and tight quarters, especially in the
Speaker 1: red zone. He made a bunch of plays again today,
Speaker 1: both on offense and working his butt off on special teams.
Speaker 1: Will touch more on the receivers here and just a
Speaker 1: little bit. Let's go ahead and get over to the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the football. And Zach Seeler was a
Speaker 1: wrecking crew today. He was in there against both the
Speaker 1: past and the run game. You see that grip strength
Speaker 1: that allows him to control reps and really attack the
Speaker 1: gap he needs to is he has to work off
Speaker 1: either the left or the right side. Because of that
Speaker 1: strength in that reach, he can sure do that. He's
Speaker 1: a smart player that gets himself in position a lot too.
Speaker 1: And Christian Wilkins was also a beast today. He had
Speaker 1: a couple of run stops even a TfL or two
Speaker 1: in the practice. He's making plays every day where he
Speaker 1: stays on his block and then disengages at decision time
Speaker 1: like it's time to go time, like right when the
Speaker 1: back is about to get to the gap, he comes
Speaker 1: off that block because if you come off the block
Speaker 1: too soon, then the offensive lineman can climb to a linebacker.
Speaker 1: But Christian does well to stack it up and then
Speaker 1: make plays off of that. And then Adam Butler had
Speaker 1: a would be sacked in the team period. So he
Speaker 1: continues to get pass rush up front for the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: And then Jerome Johnson caused a nice pile up in
Speaker 1: the one stop of the defense they had in the
Speaker 1: goal line drills. He is the U d f A
Speaker 1: from Indiana number sixty seven. To keep an eye on
Speaker 1: him on Saturday in Chicago. Emmanuel Ogba had a sack
Speaker 1: today that was blown dead by the refs. He's adding
Speaker 1: some more pressures throughout practices to go along here. Stacked
Speaker 1: up the running a couple of times a day as well.
Speaker 1: He's consistently setting a strong edge in the running game.
Speaker 1: Also off the edge shakeem Griffin and Tyshon Render teamed
Speaker 1: up for a very nice run stop on a Patrick
Speaker 1: Laird run today. Really nice move by Render to get
Speaker 1: off a block of Robert Jones on that play, and
Speaker 1: then Jonathan Ledbetter had a nice play in the run
Speaker 1: period also to get off a block and make a
Speaker 1: play on the ball. Care good to see ninety three
Speaker 1: out there making plays throughout camp so far. I love
Speaker 1: the way Andrew Van Ginkle has a variety of block
Speaker 1: defeating moves in his arsenal and kind of like he
Speaker 1: does with a pass rush as well. And it coincides
Speaker 1: with the ability to flatten the edge because he can
Speaker 1: really get under blocks and stay on balance as he
Speaker 1: gets load to the ground to make the tackle on
Speaker 1: the ball carrier or the quarterback. We saw that a
Speaker 1: couple of times a day. Sam egg Von Strong camp continues.
Speaker 1: He is flying all over the place and doing it
Speaker 1: all phases, run past rush game and Jerome Baker showed
Speaker 1: you the speed we talked about in the coverage drill,
Speaker 1: but also on a sack where to A stepped up
Speaker 1: and out of pressure, and then Baker was there with
Speaker 1: a quick trigger to close the space and forced two
Speaker 1: a laterally to the line of scrimmage and the reps
Speaker 1: blew that play dead. If I had to guess based
Speaker 1: on past Mike Depps, I've seen he was definitely yelling sack, sack,
Speaker 1: sack the entire time. Bernardrick McKinney made some play scraping
Speaker 1: off stacked up blocks of the guys in front of
Speaker 1: him too, So that relationship with a D line and
Speaker 1: linebackers seems to be clicking well here ten days into camp.
Speaker 1: Let's then go to the secondary here where A and
Speaker 1: Jason mccordy was just having a hell of a day
Speaker 1: in the area where the offense was having so much
Speaker 1: success down around the goal line, so many of the incompleations.
Speaker 1: You look up and you see thirty In coverage, we
Speaker 1: talked about X and his ball production. Byron Jones punched
Speaker 1: one out today in the ball security drill, I think
Speaker 1: he also had one in the team period that was
Speaker 1: recovered by Javon Holland. He had a really good day
Speaker 1: in general, wasn't really targeted a whole lot. He was
Speaker 1: competitive often in phase and just attached to his man
Speaker 1: and coverage. He even stayed square with Jalen Waddle on
Speaker 1: a play in open space, and we know how hard
Speaker 1: that is to do. Good work by Byron Jones. And
Speaker 1: then Eric Roeman, what a problem he was for the
Speaker 1: offense on Sunday. He had the pick on the first
Speaker 1: play of two minutes. He tipped another one that could
Speaker 1: have turned into a pick, but Jachem caught it one handed.
Speaker 1: He was flying in on run support, covering one on one,
Speaker 1: playing some zone and just getting in the right position
Speaker 1: all day long. Good day for Eric row and then
Speaker 1: Nick Needham scored himself a sac Cravon LeBlanc had a
Speaker 1: couple of p b U s and I want to
Speaker 1: finish up here with a player that takes us right
Speaker 1: into our matchup of the day. But before we do that,
Speaker 1: the player who was the unsung hero of the interception
Speaker 1: to end practiced by Javon Holland, who had the two
Speaker 1: picks in three days and the fumble recovery by the way,
Speaker 1: but Javaris Davis, the former Auburn cornerback and you d
Speaker 1: f a really helped him get that pick today because
Speaker 1: he had blanket coverage on Jachem Grant on a takeoff
Speaker 1: route where he really pinned him into the sideline to
Speaker 1: allow Javon to show the range and ability to high
Speaker 1: point the football for the takeaway to quote unquote win
Speaker 1: the game in the two minute scenario, get the pick,
Speaker 1: get down, let the clock right now as you take
Speaker 1: in the on offense on the other side. And with that,
Speaker 1: let's get to the matchup of the day, Javon Holland
Speaker 1: versus two A Tongue by Lowe. I'll never forget asking
Speaker 1: Xavier McKinney about practicing against TWA back at Alabama. I
Speaker 1: asked him this NFL combine and how their relationship blossom
Speaker 1: because of the talks they would have after practice, just
Speaker 1: kind of going over the day's work, certain plays, what
Speaker 1: each other each other saw on a play by play basis,
Speaker 1: and with the goal of the quarterback, you know so
Speaker 1: frequently to manipulate the post player. I tried my best
Speaker 1: to scan the relationship between these two players on a
Speaker 1: handful of reps and it sure was fun to watch,
Speaker 1: but just two extremely instinctive players who spend so much
Speaker 1: time with the excess and nose and trying to find
Speaker 1: advantages anyway they can before they even hit the practice field,
Speaker 1: and both had some wins against each other. And it
Speaker 1: was going into his favor early as he was really
Speaker 1: controlling the intermediate portion of the field, both down the
Speaker 1: middle and to the outside of the numbers. He had
Speaker 1: the quick rips to Waddle and Shaheen and Hollands and
Speaker 1: a couple of throws. But then Javon Holland really came
Speaker 1: to life in the two minute periods, showing more range
Speaker 1: and I've seen on the practice field from that position
Speaker 1: in a long time, and the way he got over
Speaker 1: the top on that rep high points the football. I
Speaker 1: think you can just see why he was top five
Speaker 1: in the country and interceptions between and with nine picks
Speaker 1: in those two years. And Oregon also not for nothing.
Speaker 1: The long completions have really tempered recently since the first
Speaker 1: week of camp, and I think with a rookie signal
Speaker 1: caller in that position, that shows you the growth. That's
Speaker 1: a great sign to see. So today's top performers are
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle, just a quickness and explosiveness that he continues
Speaker 1: to show. It pops every day. Savan Akhmed the big run.
Speaker 1: He looks really fast out there. Christian Wilkins spent a
Speaker 1: lot of time in the backfield today, so did Emmanuel
Speaker 1: Ogba with the pass rush in the run game, as
Speaker 1: did Zack Seiler. Those guys all get on. Top performers.
Speaker 1: Eric Rowe was a beast in coverage. Jerome Baker had
Speaker 1: some sacks or a sack rather and some coverage reps
Speaker 1: and wins. Jerome Johnson had a great rap on the
Speaker 1: goal line. Also some good reps with the third team there,
Speaker 1: Liam Eichenberg some good blocks along with Austin Jackson, and
Speaker 1: then Javon Holland. Two is a Waddle, Achmed, Wilkins, Ogba, Seiler, Rowe, Baker, Johnson, Eichenberg, Jackson,
Speaker 1: Holland Tongue by Low was in there until the very
Speaker 1: last period when of Hudant took him off there because
Speaker 1: you've given him a lot of praise on this podcast
Speaker 1: for a great camp so far. Let's get to two
Speaker 1: Twitter questions and start with this one. It's from Rob Hella.
Speaker 1: Brand he's at Dolphan rob One on Twitter, I was
Speaker 1: curious how coach Flores conducts himself at practice with the players.
Speaker 1: Is he an old school yeller or the strong silent
Speaker 1: type or an active explainer and teacher. It's a great question,
Speaker 1: Rob And I actually was taking a look at the
Speaker 1: coaches working today in the individuals and fundamental drills, because
Speaker 1: I mean, how many times can I possibly report on
Speaker 1: how big break Kwon Davis looks or how flexible Emmanuel
Speaker 1: Agbay is and the coaching staff to me is a
Speaker 1: reflection of coach Floras, and what I mean by that
Speaker 1: is they are very all, very much hands on teachers.
Speaker 1: I was watching coach Campanelli work with the linebackers, for instance,
Speaker 1: and how they adjust to motion pre snap, and he
Speaker 1: was out there really showing them rather than just telling them,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, And the same with Austin Clark.
Speaker 1: He was literally working step by step with where the
Speaker 1: hands and the past rush moves go with a certain
Speaker 1: guys on the bags like Butler and Steeler and Wilkins
Speaker 1: and Davis, all those guys. And you heard me talk
Speaker 1: about g A. Alexander and Charles Burke's at length on
Speaker 1: this podcast, but today they were working on this communication
Speaker 1: of covering bunches and stacks in the natural rubbrowts. We've
Speaker 1: talked about down in the red zone and who goes
Speaker 1: where with who at what certain look are certain route.
Speaker 1: Just the crispness of it all was really cool to
Speaker 1: watch and really quite pretty Honestly, I love watching the
Speaker 1: animated look of both g A and Coach Burke's going
Speaker 1: through it all. And I tell you all of this
Speaker 1: to say that guys work with more than just their
Speaker 1: position groups, and that's true a flow as well. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's how he came up as a coach special Team's
Speaker 1: defense scout, all of it. And I had noticed that
Speaker 1: he spends a lot of time recently with the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: this training camp and to your point, your final point here,
Speaker 1: it's hard to get a read on. I've heard his
Speaker 1: voice get loud at times from the practice field, but
Speaker 1: I've also seen our social videos where he's out there
Speaker 1: messing around with the Rae Kwon Davas saying you know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna push your buttons as they kind of pokes
Speaker 1: with the mic under his chest play on those mike
Speaker 1: up days. So to summarize it's a collection of all
Speaker 1: of it. This stact does a great job of not
Speaker 1: pigeonholing itself in anyway. Next question here from Shorty at
Speaker 1: fins Or he wants a fifty three man projection at
Speaker 1: the receiver position. Uh, and Shorty, I'm entering this because
Speaker 1: I want you to know that everybody who says they
Speaker 1: know is kind of full of it. Frankly, it's so
Speaker 1: deep this year. Isaiah Ford signs late, He's come out
Speaker 1: here and just bald, which adds another factor to the equation.
Speaker 1: Jachim Grant has always been a really good practice player,
Speaker 1: and this has been, for me, the best camp he's
Speaker 1: had that I've seen the last three years. Robert Foster
Speaker 1: made a ton of plays early on. Mac Collins is
Speaker 1: having a tremendous camp. Alan Hearnes is making plays. Lynn
Speaker 1: Bowden has a unique skill set that we saw as
Speaker 1: a rookie. Malcolm Perry too, and Kirk Merritt has played
Speaker 1: as well as anybody regardless of position. Then you obviously
Speaker 1: know about Fuller, Wattle and Parker, and Albert Wilson looks
Speaker 1: like his old self to boot. This is all to
Speaker 1: say that it's kind of an impossible task to pick
Speaker 1: it it really is. I mean, just for fun. The
Speaker 1: other night, when I was off the clock, so to speak,
Speaker 1: I was kind of going through what I think it
Speaker 1: might look like right now across the roster, and I
Speaker 1: simply couldn't make a choice at receiver. Just couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: If I had to rank the camps from what I've seen,
Speaker 1: I'd say Waddle, Wilson, Merritt, Grant Ford, Hollins have made
Speaker 1: the most plays, I think. But you know what I'm
Speaker 1: I'll put it to you this way. I'd say, at
Speaker 1: least eleven guys on the roster, we'll take an NFL
Speaker 1: snap at some point this ye, whether it's here or
Speaker 1: catching on with somebody else. Like it's crazy to say
Speaker 1: that every day a handful of guys are just making plays.
Speaker 1: It's a great job from the front office and staff
Speaker 1: to go out and beef up this room after late
Speaker 1: in the year. Last year, injuries really took a toll
Speaker 1: in the position and challenged its depth. Alright, that's gonna
Speaker 1: be my time on this edition of the Drivetime podcast
Speaker 1: presented by Auto Nation. But first let's do some programming
Speaker 1: notes here real quick. We have some schedule changes next week.
Speaker 1: We'll be back with you again either tomorrow night or
Speaker 1: Tuesday morning for a new podcast. It will be ten
Speaker 1: takeaways from camp so far, the first ten days of practice.
Speaker 1: It will also feature more of your Twitter questions as
Speaker 1: well as the media from the assistant coaches we have
Speaker 1: scheduled for Monday. Then it's Wheels Up to Chicago. The
Speaker 1: next pod after this Assistant Coaches Takeaway slash mail Bag
Speaker 1: pod will be covering the Thnesday practice in Chicago. Then
Speaker 1: we'll do it again Thursday day off on Friday. Then
Speaker 1: we'll have the postgame recap from Chicago on Saturday night
Speaker 1: for you guys. Fun times ahead, but in the meantime,
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