Speaker 1: To us fires touch style by waddle stuck into the
Speaker 1: end zone of Miami Boy tight froll tip window. They
Speaker 1: had to get that touchdown on that play. They get it.
Speaker 1: What is up Dolphins And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast,
Speaker 1: part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team,
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield And on today's show, we are back at
Speaker 1: it for another day of Miami Dolphins football. And what
Speaker 1: a fun one it was. The long ball was out
Speaker 1: in full force. We had another new orange jersey wearer.
Speaker 1: Is that a word? We have some dominant performances to
Speaker 1: get to. We'll hear from coach McDaniel and to a
Speaker 1: tungue of bloa. Two excellent press conferences. All of that
Speaker 1: in the heck of a bunch more from the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is
Speaker 1: the Drivetime Podcast. Miamis practice on June the second, Thursday
Speaker 1: was our second straight day on the field and got
Speaker 1: a chance to see who won the orange jersey from
Speaker 1: the previous day, which was Javon Holland. We'll get to
Speaker 1: that here in just one second, but I want to
Speaker 1: give you guys the image of how I got to
Speaker 1: watch practice on this particular day. One of these things
Speaker 1: is not like the other. Across the top row of
Speaker 1: the bleachers at the Baptist Health Training Complex, Joe Rose,
Speaker 1: you all know Joe Rose legend down here, Mike west Off,
Speaker 1: an NFL coaching legend, and another South Florida legend, O
Speaker 1: j McDuffie, and then me. So I'm just chilling. They're
Speaker 1: getting notes and tips from true experts of the craft
Speaker 1: while taking in a very spirited, exciting practice literally my
Speaker 1: happy Gilmore happy place. And we have lots of notes
Speaker 1: to get to and some pressers. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: kick it off here first with the practice notes. Then
Speaker 1: we'll hear from quarterback to a toungo Byloa and head
Speaker 1: coach Mike McDaniel. And we started yesterday on the d
Speaker 1: offensive side of the football, so today let's go with
Speaker 1: the offense. And I'll provide further context here at the
Speaker 1: quarterback position in the next segments, since we heard from
Speaker 1: two of today, but strictly from my notes. I noted
Speaker 1: early in practice that I thought TOA was really seeing
Speaker 1: it well. The ball was coming out quickly, on time
Speaker 1: and on target, and I think that was kind of
Speaker 1: the theme of the day. As we'll hear from coach McDaniels,
Speaker 1: he explains it really well and I think as well
Speaker 1: as anybody in the world possibly could. During his Thursday
Speaker 1: media availability. The three things that I saw from two
Speaker 1: of that I liked on Thursday was the anticipation to
Speaker 1: get the football out to the spot and get it
Speaker 1: out quickly. And we saw that play out on the
Speaker 1: two long passes, a fifty five yard touchdown and a
Speaker 1: sixty nine yard touchdown. Both of those Tyreek Hill, I
Speaker 1: think they were touchdowns to us said at the end
Speaker 1: of practice that they might not have. The second sixty
Speaker 1: nine yard one might not have been, but they scored
Speaker 1: two plays later, so he was happy with it. But
Speaker 1: both the Tyreek Hill and just man, how quickly he
Speaker 1: gets on top of the defense, it's it's jarring, and frankly,
Speaker 1: I think that jives with to a strength of anticipation
Speaker 1: and getting the ball up and out early. Again. Coach
Speaker 1: will discuss that here in just a minute, and you think, well,
Speaker 1: that seems like a great idea to have that skill
Speaker 1: set with the quarterback to go out and get a
Speaker 1: guy like Tyreek Hill who can get there early. As
Speaker 1: coach talks about one hitch timing to get the ball
Speaker 1: out quickly and to be able to put the ball
Speaker 1: fifty sixty yards downfield, and Tyreek is already there because
Speaker 1: of that great speed. I also thought for two of
Speaker 1: the ball placement was on the money, and too will
Speaker 1: discuss this as well, how he was not pleased with
Speaker 1: his ball placement on Wednesday, but I think he really
Speaker 1: bounced back in that department on Thursday on air. Early
Speaker 1: in practice, the ball was just I mean, it looked
Speaker 1: like you would place it was. The ball was where
Speaker 1: you would place it if you went up to the
Speaker 1: receivers and handed it off. Something we talked about with
Speaker 1: two was Bama tape right like fifty yard handoffs over
Speaker 1: and over again. And finally there was one play where
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker came clean on a rush and to a
Speaker 1: through the back leg out. What I mean by that
Speaker 1: is the back leg kind of whips out to put
Speaker 1: himself in position to escape and to move, because when
Speaker 1: you're on the balls at your feet and you're kind
Speaker 1: of surveying things, you're not as ready to move. So
Speaker 1: get that back leg out and get yourself from a
Speaker 1: position to get off the spot, and he did just that,
Speaker 1: got off the spot and escaped the rush, and he
Speaker 1: rolled and found Jalen Waddle on the move into a
Speaker 1: tight window and just really really good example of all
Speaker 1: the skills that I think that he he offers in
Speaker 1: spades in that regard. He also had another play later
Speaker 1: where he managed a muddy pocket and stepped up into
Speaker 1: the clearing into the avenue within that you know, crowded
Speaker 1: pocket and delivered a strike for a first down. So
Speaker 1: good anticipation, light feet, and accuracy. Those are a few
Speaker 1: of the hallmarks I think in his game and to
Speaker 1: see him have all of those working for him on
Speaker 1: this day here in early June, that was pretty awesome.
Speaker 1: And then Tyreek, we talked about him a little bit,
Speaker 1: but man, the release package, the ability to quickly threaten
Speaker 1: the safety and and kind of widened the defense and
Speaker 1: just change the way they have to play things. We
Speaker 1: saw it all day on Thursday. He also caught two
Speaker 1: balls one handed on quick hitters, including a touchdown that
Speaker 1: eventually he dunked over the goal post separation. In the shallow,
Speaker 1: intermediate deep portions of the field. It really doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: At running back, Chase Edmonds had a very nice catch
Speaker 1: where the ball was up a little bit and he
Speaker 1: had to elevate to go get it. He reaches up,
Speaker 1: pulls it down, then comes back to the grass and
Speaker 1: just looks like he didn't lose any speed. Just ridiculous
Speaker 1: athletic ability, balance, acceleration, all that stuff. I thought John Lovett,
Speaker 1: the fullback, had some nice blocks in the Running Game
Speaker 1: on Thursday, And speaking of the running game, up front,
Speaker 1: Connor Williams was getting some really good push of his
Speaker 1: own in the Running Game. Some pin and seal work
Speaker 1: from him was really nice. Created some gaps in the
Speaker 1: Running game that way. And same for Liam Eichenberg, who
Speaker 1: I've noted a few days of practice now getting that
Speaker 1: good push in the Running game, coming off the ball
Speaker 1: and hitting his blocks. And then finally, I thought Kelln Diash,
Speaker 1: the U d F A from Arizona State, has some
Speaker 1: of the same Curious to get a better look at
Speaker 1: him as we go along here Finally the tight end
Speaker 1: room Mike get Sick. He made his typical nice stabs
Speaker 1: that he makes, just a reliable target and plus his
Speaker 1: coach talked about yesterday, he really works his butt off
Speaker 1: in the run game as a blocker. I thought we
Speaker 1: saw some of that as well on Thursday. Onto the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the football, and you know, the offense
Speaker 1: got things going late, but I thought the defense had
Speaker 1: it going early. And it starts up front with number
Speaker 1: nine number Christian Wilkins and Zach Seler. Both of these
Speaker 1: guys like I could note them on just about any
Speaker 1: series that they're playing in, and just about every day
Speaker 1: there it's pressure against the passing game, stack and shed
Speaker 1: against the running game, penetration against the running game as well.
Speaker 1: In fact, one play, Christian Wilkins blew through the line
Speaker 1: and the play had to get blown dead almost immediately
Speaker 1: because he was back there ready to greet the running
Speaker 1: back at the same time as the handoff. And O. J. McDuffie,
Speaker 1: who I watched practice with, just says man Wilkins is special.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I agree, and we know what he
Speaker 1: does in those departments, but I continue to also be
Speaker 1: so impressed with his just effort and willingness to play
Speaker 1: with his hair on fire. He was chasing a play
Speaker 1: one way and the ball winds up coming back out
Speaker 1: the other way and just gets on his horse and
Speaker 1: chain pass it down until the whistle blows at that effort.
Speaker 1: It's contagious and it shows up every single day. And
Speaker 1: then Zach Seeler, just immovable for much of the day,
Speaker 1: consistently gets the job done by whether he has to
Speaker 1: plant himself there and help take on blocks or go
Speaker 1: get the football, whatever he needs to do, he typically
Speaker 1: does it and does it well. I thought Benito Jones
Speaker 1: had his second nice day of practice in a well,
Speaker 1: a few play in a row, a few plays against
Speaker 1: the run where I noticed him coming out of the
Speaker 1: middle of the stack and after getting penetration early on,
Speaker 1: or at the very least, not allowing any knock back
Speaker 1: from the offensive line, which you know you want to
Speaker 1: that's kind of the neutral zone. You want to knock
Speaker 1: them back, they want to knock you back. Go get
Speaker 1: it done, and Benito Jones was getting done today. The linebackers,
Speaker 1: I thought, also had some really good work. Jalen Phillips
Speaker 1: had a would be sack early on. You know, it's
Speaker 1: tough to gauge sacks because they don't actually finish the
Speaker 1: play that you're not gonna get guys hurt and go
Speaker 1: tackle people out there. Andrew Van Ginkl was all over
Speaker 1: the field playing his side, pursuing the backside like there
Speaker 1: was a player where they it was ran away from
Speaker 1: him and there was a strong edge set. I think
Speaker 1: it was Zach Seeler. I'd have to check on that,
Speaker 1: but wouldn't surprise me. And he basically strung the play
Speaker 1: out and so that Van Geiko could run from the
Speaker 1: backside and get over there to make the play to
Speaker 1: get the whistle blow behind the line of scrimmage. So
Speaker 1: straight up, going backwards, going forward. Andrew Van Ginkle looks
Speaker 1: like he's in mid season form. Jerome Baker had some
Speaker 1: pressures Darius Hodge for the second day in a row,
Speaker 1: had they would be sack. I had a note about
Speaker 1: Cameron Good with some nice pass rush moves and one
Speaker 1: in particular where he got Teddy Bridgewater off the spot.
Speaker 1: DeAndre Johnson the U d F A from Miami, the
Speaker 1: you got in the notes with a nice run stuff.
Speaker 1: And then Sam Ego Van and Duke Riley were both
Speaker 1: in there a couple of times, playing fast and aggressive,
Speaker 1: and they made their fair share of plays, and they
Speaker 1: celebrated a lot together like you see a play get made,
Speaker 1: and they would tap each other up and come over
Speaker 1: to the sideline find each other. They seem like they're
Speaker 1: getting along pretty well. And then finally the rookie. I
Speaker 1: thought Channing Tendall was very smooth on this particular practice,
Speaker 1: Like you know, if a young guy is gonna struggle,
Speaker 1: you would expect like false steps, wasted movements, but I
Speaker 1: didn't see that stuff. Like he seems to really be
Speaker 1: flowing downhill and just knowing where he's supposed to go,
Speaker 1: and that speed obviously shows up on a down by
Speaker 1: down basis. In the defensive backfield, I think second straight
Speaker 1: day with the defensive backfield might have might have kind
Speaker 1: of won the positional unit of the day. Javon Holland
Speaker 1: was in the orange jersey, and frankly he might be
Speaker 1: in it again for the next practice. Him and Brandon Jones.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna keep referring to Juice here because
Speaker 1: he made a note during practice about how dialed in
Speaker 1: those two guys are. And you see it in the
Speaker 1: individual drill portion of practice, like they lead their position
Speaker 1: group and the first guys up to get up there
Speaker 1: and go do their reps, and you see their typewriter feet,
Speaker 1: their quick reaction skills, they secure the football and catch
Speaker 1: it and put it away, the way they communicate with
Speaker 1: each other, how they move and react to the offense,
Speaker 1: how they fly around in team period pre and post snapped.
Speaker 1: Their interchangeability we know about and you know individual team period.
Speaker 1: It just they appear to be dialed in in all aspects.
Speaker 1: And that's in line with what we've heard from them,
Speaker 1: you know, from the coaching staff, from their teammates and
Speaker 1: guys that have been around them last couple of years.
Speaker 1: Just the ultimate consummate pros. And now that they're in
Speaker 1: year two and year three, I'm excited to see them
Speaker 1: go and take it another level. Javon's playlist, I heard
Speaker 1: some Drake. I think there was some r Kelly in there,
Speaker 1: some Tears for Fears. It was a pretty good mix,
Speaker 1: A nice mix of new school, old school and everything
Speaker 1: in between. If there was some Kanye at one point,
Speaker 1: maybe some Little Wayne, A good mix from Javon Hallen.
Speaker 1: I like the playlist. Um So, the offense did a
Speaker 1: lot of that damage later on in practice, but early
Speaker 1: it was the defense with a lot of wins, and honestly,
Speaker 1: I thought it was you know, more coverage sacks than
Speaker 1: UH protection breakdowns. I mean, you get your fair share
Speaker 1: of everything out there a practice, but the quarterbacks had
Speaker 1: some times and guys were just covered up down field
Speaker 1: a lot. I think a lot of that has to
Speaker 1: do with, you know, the dbs getting it done. And
Speaker 1: one thing that's cool to see is how the offense
Speaker 1: and coach McDaniel mentioned this the other day in practice
Speaker 1: about the different combinations they want to roll through in
Speaker 1: terms of, you know, certain guys playing with with other
Speaker 1: guys on the offensive side of the football and vice versa,
Speaker 1: and so that you get like a variety of matchups
Speaker 1: that makes, you know, intriguing to keep an eye on,
Speaker 1: but also just obviously benefits. You know, the more looks
Speaker 1: you get, the more the more you can kind of
Speaker 1: learn your football team. But between Holland Jones, needhum Ignogamy,
Speaker 1: Trill Williams, Ronan McKinley, Elijah Hamilton's D'Angelo Ross and Quincy Wilson,
Speaker 1: all those guys got in the notes today. And Quincy
Speaker 1: Wilson had a really nice breakup where he drove on
Speaker 1: a pass to River Craigcraft and batted that thing up
Speaker 1: into the air. And here comes Trull Williams for the
Speaker 1: interception for Ron McKinley had his hands on a ball
Speaker 1: on a diving attempt on a pass that was intended
Speaker 1: for I think it was Cedric Wilson, and he dove
Speaker 1: for that thing and couldn't quite squeeze it in. But
Speaker 1: and Javon Holland reacted big time when he saw that, like,
Speaker 1: I want my boy to get that one. He didn't
Speaker 1: quite pull it in. But all those guys made plays
Speaker 1: and found their way into the notes. And finally I
Speaker 1: tweeted about this. But Mike Westoff, we know who Mike
Speaker 1: Westoff is, right. He was a longtime special teams coordinator
Speaker 1: here thirty two years in the NFL. And more Stead
Speaker 1: was was punting, and we talked about him on the
Speaker 1: Wednesday podcast about the way he was pinning the ball
Speaker 1: inside the five yard line from right around midfield or
Speaker 1: so they had him. He was punting while both fields
Speaker 1: were being used, from one sideline to the other sideline,
Speaker 1: and so like a fifty three and a half yard
Speaker 1: punt right he was putting the thing right on the
Speaker 1: other sideline like every damn time. It was so impressive.
Speaker 1: And Mike Westoff said, in my thirty two years in
Speaker 1: the National Football League. I never saw a better punter
Speaker 1: than Tom Moore Stead. I was like, that's pretty high
Speaker 1: praise coach. He also said he's a great holder. And
Speaker 1: speaking of field goals, Jason Sanders, for the first time
Speaker 1: that we got a chance to watch him kick live,
Speaker 1: was seven for seven going from p a T range
Speaker 1: back to fifty three yards and Mike was a big
Speaker 1: fan of his technique to He said, there's there's you know,
Speaker 1: there's no excessive movement, short steps. He's got a short stride.
Speaker 1: He compared to a golf swing where he says, you
Speaker 1: don't want to see a lot of movement in there,
Speaker 1: and that's what he saw with Jason Sanders. He was
Speaker 1: very impressed and also mentioned again that Morstead was a
Speaker 1: tremendous holder and of course Blake Ferguson putting those snaps
Speaker 1: on the money to get those things down. So another
Speaker 1: fun day of practice. We have one more next week
Speaker 1: to cover. We're gonna go a little more media coverage
Speaker 1: as far as the things we have not gotten to
Speaker 1: the last two days because a lot of players talked
Speaker 1: and I couldn't get it on the podcast. But I
Speaker 1: want to cover that and some more of your mail
Speaker 1: bad questions as well on the Monday edition of Drive Time.
Speaker 1: But for now, let's go ahead and take our first
Speaker 1: break and get to the media. Just to today because
Speaker 1: they're long Mike McDaniel and quarterback to a Tongue by Loa.
Speaker 1: Next here on the Drivetime Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: brought to you by Auto Nation. Segment number two here
Speaker 1: of the Thursday edition of the Drivetime Podcast, your host
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield covering another day of the off season program
Speaker 1: of O T A s out here in the month
Speaker 1: of June, getting closer and closer to the start of
Speaker 1: training camp. But in the meantime, we heard from QB
Speaker 1: one two a Toungo by Loa on this Thursday, and
Speaker 1: he addressed the two practices here back to back in
Speaker 1: a bit of a I suppose a bounce back day,
Speaker 1: and he discussed how he assessed his performance over those
Speaker 1: two days and just how critical and how hard on
Speaker 1: himself he can be of himself. Well, yesterday's practice wasn't
Speaker 1: up to the standard that I know offense can compete
Speaker 1: at UH and it obviously starts with me in particularly
Speaker 1: there there was some ball placement deals that I didn't
Speaker 1: particularly like yesterday. I think yesterday was a lot better.
Speaker 1: There's still some things that you know, weren't up to
Speaker 1: part to our standard, but I think it was a
Speaker 1: lot better from an offensive standpoint, So they're from the
Speaker 1: horse's mouth. I mean, we talked about the ball placement
Speaker 1: and just how good it looked on Thursday and really
Speaker 1: something that has stood out through to his college in
Speaker 1: pro career as a strength of his and you've heard
Speaker 1: coach McDaniel and players talk about the accuracy. Was nice
Speaker 1: to see him get that calibrated back in here. Hear
Speaker 1: him talk about how much he felt he improved in
Speaker 1: that area and how it wasn't up to his standard
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. How about how hard he isn't on himself
Speaker 1: and just where he got that from to be critical
Speaker 1: of his own game. I'm pretty hard on myself every time. Um,
Speaker 1: whether it's throwing a ball where it needs to be
Speaker 1: or pre snap operation. You know, guys aren't set guys
Speaker 1: on where they're supposed to be because in order with
Speaker 1: the offense to function, we all got to be on
Speaker 1: the same page. And in order for us to execute
Speaker 1: at a high level, you know, we gotta do things
Speaker 1: at a high level. So, Um, I gotta be hard
Speaker 1: on myself. Um, you know, Mike's Mike's a little different,
Speaker 1: you know, Mike. Mike is Mike is always trying to
Speaker 1: encourage you and trying to you know, keep you, keep
Speaker 1: you going. So for me, it's it's a little backwards
Speaker 1: where I'm I'm used to myself, you know, getting hard
Speaker 1: on myself and the coach getting hard on me too,
Speaker 1: Whereas I'm getting hard on myself and you know, he's
Speaker 1: trying to tell me, Hey, you know it's gonna be okay.
Speaker 1: Like you know, we're only in May, We're only in June.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot more time to grow. But
Speaker 1: and of course the follow up to that is how
Speaker 1: has it been for you to have a coach like
Speaker 1: that that you're playing for. It's been cool, It's been different.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I've never been around a coach like
Speaker 1: this who's just extremely positive. Um. Growing up, you know,
Speaker 1: my dad's always been hard on me. Uh, my high
Speaker 1: school coach has been hard on me. Coach Saban has
Speaker 1: been hard on me. Um, and all the coaches that
Speaker 1: I've had prior, you know, they've all been hard on me.
Speaker 1: So he's hard, but he takes another alleyway if if
Speaker 1: you will on kind of teaching and helping. And we
Speaker 1: saw the two long balls to Tyreek Hill. Here's two
Speaker 1: are talking about the timing with Tyreek Hill, and if
Speaker 1: there's a play outside of the long balls, it's stuck
Speaker 1: out in terms of how it shows off their timing
Speaker 1: together and how far along it's come. You know, it's
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool having a guy like Tyreek, but you
Speaker 1: have other guys that are you know, extremely talented, very
Speaker 1: fast as well. You know, that kind of help out
Speaker 1: with with Tyreek being open. You have Wattle, you have Um,
Speaker 1: you know, GASICKI. So everyone has to cover every part
Speaker 1: of the field, and I mean it, you know, it
Speaker 1: should be a lot easier to to get these guys
Speaker 1: the ball, although you know, playing against our defense, it's
Speaker 1: still get stuff. We'll talk to two it here in
Speaker 1: just a minute about playing against that tough defense. But
Speaker 1: there's a few questions where I want to go head
Speaker 1: and skip over and just cover real quick. Talking a
Speaker 1: little bit about how coach has encouraged him to come
Speaker 1: out of his shell and how he feels like he
Speaker 1: has shown glimpses of coming out of his shell here
Speaker 1: and there, talked about his playlist about some Hawaiian music,
Speaker 1: some Aili Brothers, some Return of the mac Uh, some
Speaker 1: Casey and the Sunshine Band, some country music, some Shaggy
Speaker 1: on his playlist. Also talked a little bit about having
Speaker 1: coaches or people in his past who were hard on
Speaker 1: him or the encouraging aspect of those coaching Are the
Speaker 1: coaching approaches I should say, and which he thinks, he responds,
Speaker 1: But are two great question I thought, and a really
Speaker 1: good answer here from QB. One two a tongue of volta. Well,
Speaker 1: I think I've been playing football for so long to
Speaker 1: where the standard has been set for me at such
Speaker 1: a young age with the way my dad, um, you know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of coached me. And then even at the
Speaker 1: college setting, you know, I was more afraid of what
Speaker 1: my dad would have to tell me after the game
Speaker 1: than uh coach Saban. And it still is a little
Speaker 1: like that, uh you know, in the NFL. But for
Speaker 1: for me, it's just I haven't embedded in my in
Speaker 1: my mind that regardless of how another coach feels about
Speaker 1: the way I I practice or or I play, you know,
Speaker 1: I know what what I'm capable of doing. And two
Speaker 1: was also asked about playing in different offenses, I mean Alabama.
Speaker 1: Every year there was a new o C he worked
Speaker 1: with and now heading into his third year in his
Speaker 1: third o C here at the Miami Dolphins, he was
Speaker 1: asked about going up or I should say rather about
Speaker 1: the playbook and learning the third offensive system as many seasons,
Speaker 1: and he talked a little bit about the study habits
Speaker 1: are things that he has kind of worked on to
Speaker 1: get himself ready for those particular offenses in particular seasons.
Speaker 1: He talks a little bit here about how he goes
Speaker 1: through his process. Really cool stuff here from QB one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would say, uh, the study habits. I got a
Speaker 1: whiteboard at home that I just right right down all
Speaker 1: the formations. I write down all the motions, and I
Speaker 1: have my brother or family member or someone that's have
Speaker 1: my house, you know, kind of tell me the formation,
Speaker 1: tell me the motions, and then, uh, I guess what
Speaker 1: I'll also do is I invite the guys over to
Speaker 1: my house and we we walked through plays, we walked
Speaker 1: through formations, and we barbecue. Uh food. Yeah, the snacks
Speaker 1: don't work with him. I love the white board in
Speaker 1: the house. Same thing for me as a kid keeping
Speaker 1: track of NFL and MLB standings and also nowadays covering
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins with my white board. So you and
Speaker 1: me too, are you and me speaking of me? And
Speaker 1: to a? Here is my question for two about the
Speaker 1: defense that he talked about earlier and how going up
Speaker 1: against this defense can help improve his game. It's really good.
Speaker 1: It's tough because they know what to expect a lot
Speaker 1: of the times with what we're running, whether it's a
Speaker 1: play pass, a run play uh gap scheme, run plays, um,
Speaker 1: you know, down the field passing. So you know, third
Speaker 1: down has been tough for us against them just because
Speaker 1: of the variations of zero that our defense has and runs.
Speaker 1: But you know that's what you want, you want to challenge,
Speaker 1: all right, There you go. You can see the entire
Speaker 1: interview or media availability with two A Tongue by Loa
Speaker 1: up on the Miami Dolphins YouTube channel. We have daily
Speaker 1: content for you guys there, so check that out and
Speaker 1: subscribe once you are. They're gonna take our last break
Speaker 1: and come back here on the other side with head
Speaker 1: coach Mike McDaniel. Back here on the Thursday edition of
Speaker 1: the Drive Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield wrapping up
Speaker 1: another day of June practices here of mini camp on
Speaker 1: June the twod this Thursday. Let's go ahead and turn
Speaker 1: now to head coach Mike McDaniel's media availability, and he
Speaker 1: started off being asked by the jacket he was wearing,
Speaker 1: the zip up hoodie type jacket he had, and he
Speaker 1: talked about the reason he does that is so he
Speaker 1: can help keep in tune with what the players are
Speaker 1: going through, because well, he's not the one running around
Speaker 1: out there and trying to get an idea for just
Speaker 1: how hot it is. Otherwise you could lose sight of
Speaker 1: that and maybe due too many reps, cause some soft
Speaker 1: tissue issues, all that crazy stuff or nonsense, as he
Speaker 1: put it. So interesting perspective there from coach. Now, he
Speaker 1: was asked, and I love these questions because you know,
Speaker 1: we're all passionate about football, right like we we love
Speaker 1: this game, we love being fans of this team. That's
Speaker 1: why you're listening to this podcast here on the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins podcast Network. We all feel that way. But there's
Speaker 1: a different level of that with when it comes to
Speaker 1: your profession. And I love when coach talks about like
Speaker 1: his love for the game and getting to this position
Speaker 1: and a professional dream, as you'll hear him describe it
Speaker 1: here in just one second. How much do you enjoy
Speaker 1: walking out on that field, the reporter asked, You've got
Speaker 1: a nice little hop on there when you get out
Speaker 1: those doors, don't you. You talk about a professional dream,
Speaker 1: you know. I think one of the things that um
Speaker 1: is a competitive advantage just in life is perspective. So
Speaker 1: you know, for I made a lot longer walk to
Speaker 1: to go watch Denver Bronco's training camp and wrote on
Speaker 1: the inside of helmets. So yeah, it's enjoyable. Um. The
Speaker 1: responsibility is real and great. UM. So I have to
Speaker 1: be deliberate in reminding myself that because you can get
Speaker 1: swallowed up and um all the things that you have
Speaker 1: to do. UM. But yeah, it's a lot of fun,
Speaker 1: especially and it's a credit to the to the organization,
Speaker 1: the coaches, the players. It's a fun place to go
Speaker 1: to work. Absolutely love that common about a longer walk
Speaker 1: to go to Denver Bronchis training camp and wrote on
Speaker 1: the inside of helmets, you know, for fun. And now
Speaker 1: this is his job and it's a shorter walk to
Speaker 1: the practice field. Next, he was asked about his perspective
Speaker 1: on Two, a tuggle by Lowa, and his performance the
Speaker 1: last couple of days here at Dolphins practice. He's practicing.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm really excited about the reps that Two is
Speaker 1: getting in this offense. I'm excited about where he's at.
Speaker 1: UM today was like I talked to him, I talked
Speaker 1: to the team, and I talked to him today specifically
Speaker 1: specifically about UM. You know, I've just been waiting for
Speaker 1: those moments where you have a slight obstacle and Two
Speaker 1: is very very critical on his ball play smitten. He's
Speaker 1: a very accurate quarterback. As a result, yesterday he had
Speaker 1: some throws that he he demands better of himself. But
Speaker 1: like I told everybody else that today was the first
Speaker 1: day I got to really evaluate to it, because that's
Speaker 1: that is professional quarterback in the National Football League. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have things that you don't execute to perfection. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have people UM talking about how you're not performing,
Speaker 1: and guess what, no one cares. It's about leading UM.
Speaker 1: And he had a ton of energy and I was
Speaker 1: very very happy with his effort today because it was
Speaker 1: UM one of the million reps you need at that
Speaker 1: position to handle um, you know, the scrutiny, the pressure,
Speaker 1: all that stuff, and I think his teammates have really
Speaker 1: noticed a difference, UM in him. He's opening up, he's
Speaker 1: kind of coming to his own in that regard, and
Speaker 1: he had he he's been unbelievably coachable. He's let his
Speaker 1: guard down, UM, and we've been able to keep his
Speaker 1: confidence high, which it should be right now for sure, UM,
Speaker 1: while correcting him and getting this game better, which is
Speaker 1: the ultimate goal for everyone. I mean, you guys know
Speaker 1: my favorite part there obviously, right. The discussion about the
Speaker 1: playing the position of quarterback in the NFL is about
Speaker 1: how you respond because it's not always going to go well.
Speaker 1: And I just loved that we go back to last
Speaker 1: year with you know, not just the numbers in the
Speaker 1: data we have from uh C. K Parrott on Twitter
Speaker 1: has a great couple of charts that he posted about too,
Speaker 1: was completion percentage, touchdown passes per attempt, first downs per attempt,
Speaker 1: and NFL passer rating one on nine point seven and
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter was among the tops going back to
Speaker 1: and so too was the first down percentage at thirty
Speaker 1: nine point six three percent. His eight point five percent
Speaker 1: touchdown right was also tops, and his seventy six point
Speaker 1: three fourth completion percentage was also tops in fourth quarter
Speaker 1: among all quarterbacks. Since that time, we saw the Jets
Speaker 1: game the interception come right back with a touchdown drive
Speaker 1: after that, pretty good stuff. Saw more that today. Coach
Speaker 1: also discussed there a little bit to a kind of
Speaker 1: coming out of a shell and being less guarded. He
Speaker 1: was asked about is that something that he noticed or
Speaker 1: something he was told initially when he got here. Here's
Speaker 1: coach mcdowelly talking about to their relationship and just how
Speaker 1: to acts around his teammates. It's projection from It's what
Speaker 1: I've been told from a lot of people. And then
Speaker 1: I've noticed since he's been in the building a difference
Speaker 1: from then and now, since since we first got here
Speaker 1: and since April four started. Um, you know, there's I've
Speaker 1: noticed that directly, and then people a lot of people
Speaker 1: have spoken it that we're seeing a different side of him. Um,
Speaker 1: and he's kind of coming into his own as a
Speaker 1: young man in terms of his personality, and um, you
Speaker 1: know it's it's again, I can't state it enough. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't think people give give that position. It's due
Speaker 1: for how hard it is. You know. UM, Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a out of acclaim. You get a lot, you get
Speaker 1: a lot of free dinners when you go out to
Speaker 1: eat and things like that. But everyone has an opinion,
Speaker 1: and you're in charge of delivering the responsibility and executing
Speaker 1: from the snap the football to every player on on
Speaker 1: the offense, UM, and and doing it with you know,
Speaker 1: defenses these days are so multiple and they present so
Speaker 1: many problems. And oh, by the way, you're doing all
Speaker 1: this and if you are indecisive, you are going to
Speaker 1: have your helmet hit off your shoulders because you know
Speaker 1: it's a physical part too. So UM, that's why, that's
Speaker 1: why I'm so pumped. I know all he's UM gained
Speaker 1: all of the new players on our offense, UM new
Speaker 1: to the Miami dolphinsive organization. They're new to to it
Speaker 1: like me. I know he's gained their respect. UM that
Speaker 1: you can feel it. UM. Players know when they're around
Speaker 1: good players. And and it's been very cool to watch
Speaker 1: UM him and the rest of the rest of the
Speaker 1: team really UM grow together because we've gotten a lot
Speaker 1: closer UM in these six o t a too mini
Speaker 1: camp um and to voluntary mini camps. UM that it
Speaker 1: feels like light years ago when we first started next,
Speaker 1: I thought Barry Jackson had a really cool question about
Speaker 1: the process of play design and creativity and how most
Speaker 1: plays in the NFL have been seen before, but trying
Speaker 1: to find something new that hasn't been done before. And
Speaker 1: he also followed up asking you give a right place
Speaker 1: down on a napkin, Coach McDonald talks about his iPhone
Speaker 1: notes app, which that's where I live myself. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and just here from coach right here on that
Speaker 1: great question from Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald. Because
Speaker 1: of my specific background and the court coaches that was
Speaker 1: fortunate enough to be around. UM, the being created, creative
Speaker 1: and innovative UM is something that I think is part
Speaker 1: of the job. That it's it's natural for my brain
Speaker 1: to look at things that way. UM to the point
Speaker 1: that I actually you don't have to be mindful of
Speaker 1: pulling back that I don't get bored. UM. You know
Speaker 1: something that my my previous boss always gave me a
Speaker 1: hard time with because I'd always be trying to do
Speaker 1: the next and they haven't mastered that yet. So I've
Speaker 1: been UM. When you're trying to install a new system,
Speaker 1: UM to a group of guys you want. The bottom
Speaker 1: line is you could have the coolest plays ever existed,
Speaker 1: but if the players don't execute them, your plays are
Speaker 1: not cool. UM. So systematically been trying to really UM
Speaker 1: push forward. UH. Having a core basis, make sure all
Speaker 1: that stuff is uh, you know, you have a working
Speaker 1: basis from what which you can grow UM. And outside
Speaker 1: of that, I'm not really looking to innovate UM any
Speaker 1: time until you're getting through your core portion of the
Speaker 1: training camp. UM. But it it doesn't ever leave. You're
Speaker 1: always my um ipet or my iPhone note app is
Speaker 1: my go to and so I get swept my eyes
Speaker 1: the so my so right down. UM whatever play I'm
Speaker 1: referring to. And if it's that abstract and there's no
Speaker 1: word for it, UM, I usually just put some symbols
Speaker 1: and uh that that that's my note taking maybe one
Speaker 1: or two in the morning, UM in bed when my
Speaker 1: wife is being annoyed that my my screen is too bright.
Speaker 1: And he was asked about the symbols or potential emojis
Speaker 1: he uses in those instances, and he talked a little
Speaker 1: bit about the old school symbols underscores, front slashes, backslashes,
Speaker 1: trying to create a triangle with a front slash and
Speaker 1: a backslash. To me, it's just all funny. I love
Speaker 1: hearing the stuff from Coach. Next, I asked Coach about
Speaker 1: the competition between he and the play callers on the
Speaker 1: field are single callers, I should say, the guys that
Speaker 1: communicate the call from Josh Boyer, which Coach clarified for me.
Speaker 1: Here's Coach talking about the competition between he and the
Speaker 1: defensive no callers. Well, this isn't it. There's no player coaches,
Speaker 1: so they are they are um passing along the play called,
Speaker 1: but Josh is still calling it. Uh. But yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a that's a fun part of the process. You try
Speaker 1: to approach it in a way that you can allow
Speaker 1: your players to play UM and and while challenge them
Speaker 1: to a degree. Um, it's impossible not to go through
Speaker 1: the process of what what you're expecting? UM, So it's
Speaker 1: always interesting to guess and check with no stakes and
Speaker 1: be like hmm, yeah, I totally thought this was coming.
Speaker 1: Here's why. UM. It can be a very valuable process.
Speaker 1: UM if you approach it that way. I think, UM,
Speaker 1: Josh and I work very well together, and we talked
Speaker 1: through that stuff. So you can kind of um see
Speaker 1: how people view things from the other side of the coin.
Speaker 1: Um and and it's fun to see how the players
Speaker 1: respond because every other place you see in practice when
Speaker 1: it's not um, when all the players aren't off the field,
Speaker 1: you know, guys have the night to prepare. They're they're
Speaker 1: sitting there and looking at what it is. Um. There,
Speaker 1: there's no preparation because up until that period, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm gonna call neither this Josh,
Speaker 1: you know, but that that's a fun that's a fun process.
Speaker 1: Um that just like everything else in football, you're almost
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't get that excited when stuff works,
Speaker 1: because then I'm like, Okay, there's gonna be a humbling
Speaker 1: experience coming here soon, which is the nature of our business.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and finish up here. When coach was
Speaker 1: asked about the confidence that he has into to accurately
Speaker 1: deliver the deep balls, like we saw on this practice
Speaker 1: a pair of them to Tyreek Hill. Here's coach, So
Speaker 1: you're saying, there was a good deep ball today. Were
Speaker 1: you pretty confident that it would be completed? There's a
Speaker 1: couple Um, yeah, I'm here's the thing about uh quarterback
Speaker 1: that I always think it's funny, um that like you
Speaker 1: can only design plays that you can the quarterback has
Speaker 1: time to throw and generally within the time of the play.
Speaker 1: From a historical perspective, you can't get a receiver down
Speaker 1: the field past I don't sixty yards when in what
Speaker 1: we call one hitch timing. So it's about you have
Speaker 1: to have a prerecord arm strength to be able to
Speaker 1: throw it sixty in my opinion, and then if you're
Speaker 1: not gonna be able to anticipate and you have to
Speaker 1: see something happened before you do it, you probably need
Speaker 1: to throw seventy because you have to wait to see
Speaker 1: it and then the receiver gets down further hopefully have
Speaker 1: the protection um the way the way we've always operated
Speaker 1: since two thousand and five when I got got in
Speaker 1: the league. If a quarterback can see the defense um
Speaker 1: and as accurate, then you just see if he can
Speaker 1: throw it sixty yards, I think he he might have
Speaker 1: had a fifty five yard or today. But Um, that's
Speaker 1: why you hear no cause for concern at all from
Speaker 1: the players because they know that too. Like he's he's
Speaker 1: plenty fast, and the great thing is he sees the field. Um,
Speaker 1: he has he's he's not throwing the ball eighty five yards.
Speaker 1: But UM, I don't see the practical application of an
Speaker 1: eighty five yard thrower unless you have the best offensive
Speaker 1: line in the history of football and the defense is
Speaker 1: poor to um poor to uh add on rushers when
Speaker 1: you're max protecting. Yeah, the one hitch timing discussion, they're
Speaker 1: talking about how to get the ball downfield and how
Speaker 1: you know. I think what makes the highlight clips a
Speaker 1: lot of the time is you know, guys breaking the pockets,
Speaker 1: scrambling around, flinging the thing, you know, fifty sixty yards downfield,
Speaker 1: and those big plays are what get on the Twitter
Speaker 1: or social media clips on the NFL highlight shows. But
Speaker 1: more often than not, it's a it's a snap, it's
Speaker 1: a drop, it's a quick step up in a fired downfield,
Speaker 1: and every see her winning the route pretty early on
Speaker 1: to get that ball vertical. Really cool to here coaches
Speaker 1: perspective on that. Alright, let's go ahead and wrap up
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