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Speaker 1: today's show, another day of practice. We're hitting the field
Speaker 1: again this morning. First, we're gonna hear from coach Flora's
Speaker 1: get you all the practice news, notes and updates from
Speaker 1: the day. And we'll hear from a few Dolphins players
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones, Malcolm Perry, and Commu Gruge Hill. All of
Speaker 1: that and more on this Friday, training Camp August. That's
Speaker 1: twenty one edition of the Drive Time Podcast. Dophins, You've
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Speaker 1: off this Friday, August one edition of the Drivetime Podcast
Speaker 1: with the morning audio from Brian Flores ahead of practice.
Speaker 1: As he starts off before the Q and A session
Speaker 1: begins with some news on a couple of Dolphins veterans,
Speaker 1: Um and cab On Frasier. They won't be a practice today. Um,
Speaker 1: they're both out with you know, kind of personal for
Speaker 1: personal reasons. I'm not going to elaborate more that, um,
Speaker 1: but just so you guys know when you don't see
Speaker 1: him out there, UM, you know, personal reasons. They're both.
Speaker 1: They both I won't be a practice of it. And
Speaker 1: Coach would go on to say that he's not going
Speaker 1: to discuss those matters any further. They are personal matters
Speaker 1: with both Bryan Fitzpatrick and Cavan Fraser, so respect the
Speaker 1: fact that they are personal matters. He did feel a
Speaker 1: couple more questions about it, though, and he discussed it
Speaker 1: a little bit more at length, although telling us again
Speaker 1: not going to discuss them in too much detail. But
Speaker 1: he did respond to a question about Jake Ruddock, who
Speaker 1: came in for a workout earlier this week. But Jake,
Speaker 1: you know, government for a visit you. We'll just see
Speaker 1: where that goes. Having signed, you know, having signed him. So,
Speaker 1: but that's kind of, you know, just standard operating procedure. Um,
Speaker 1: say a look and see where guys are, just from
Speaker 1: a roster management standpoint, so from the offensive side over
Speaker 1: to the defensive side. Coach was asked about his evaluation
Speaker 1: so far early on in your number two for Dolphins
Speaker 1: outside linebacker slash eds slash linebacker plays a lot of
Speaker 1: possessions Andrew Van Ginkle, last year's fifth round pick out
Speaker 1: of Wisconsin. Here's coach on Andrew Van Ginkle. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, the first thing I'd say is,
Speaker 1: you know, he's tough, he's smart, he loves to play. Um,
Speaker 1: he's got some length, he's got some straight line speed.
Speaker 1: He's gotten stronger over the you know since we got him,
Speaker 1: So he's made a lot of improvement. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: he played, you know, at the end of the season
Speaker 1: last year. UM, so he's got some playing experience under
Speaker 1: his under his belt. Not a lot, but he understands
Speaker 1: the speed of the game and you know how strong
Speaker 1: the player's art in this league. And you know, he
Speaker 1: worked worked extremely hard in the offseason trying to make
Speaker 1: that you know, first to second year elite. Uh. He's
Speaker 1: had a good a few days so far. It's still early,
Speaker 1: but he's taking advantage of his opportunities and hopefully we
Speaker 1: continue to see that type of improvement up next. Coach
Speaker 1: was asked about the quarterback competition beyond Ryan Fitzpatrick since
Speaker 1: he won't be out there for practice on Friday. And
Speaker 1: if you ask coach a question like that, he's gonna
Speaker 1: bring it back and talk about the entire football team
Speaker 1: because it is a fifty three man or this season,
Speaker 1: fifty five man job. You have to get done on
Speaker 1: Sundays throughout the course of the week. So he's gonna
Speaker 1: talk about his entire football team. But he did go
Speaker 1: in depth a little bit on how the Dolphins brass,
Speaker 1: the coaching staff and the personnel people in the front
Speaker 1: office spends the day off trying to find ways to
Speaker 1: improve the football team. They obviously evaluate this stuff every
Speaker 1: single day, the strength the weaknesses. Here's coach Flora's talking
Speaker 1: about how they can try to get better every single day.
Speaker 1: We're just trying to take it one day at a time,
Speaker 1: get better, uh improve, see where we're Uh, you know
Speaker 1: what the strengths and weaknesses are on the team, and
Speaker 1: that's a lot of the conversation. We have one our
Speaker 1: days off and try to see what we can make
Speaker 1: improvements with each individual and obviously trying to improve each unit.
Speaker 1: You know, whether it's nickels to dime defensively to our
Speaker 1: base package, defensively to our eleven twelve, you know, personnel
Speaker 1: groups offensively, and punt team and kick off return really
Speaker 1: every phase. So uns where we're at. You know, everyone's
Speaker 1: trying to improve, get better, and I think those guys
Speaker 1: are doing a good job. Rosen is doing a good
Speaker 1: job too, is doing a good job. But I think
Speaker 1: a lot of guys that a lot of positions are
Speaker 1: are making some progress. And here's coach talking about his
Speaker 1: expectations for the quarterbacks every day, especially the young ones,
Speaker 1: as they try to improve and increase their level of
Speaker 1: knowledge and the offense and get closer to where the
Speaker 1: coaching staff wants them to be for the start of
Speaker 1: the season. Um, you know it's it's it's a new offense.
Speaker 1: So you know the area's improvement right now? Are you know,
Speaker 1: kind of honed in on on that? You know, so
Speaker 1: communication in and out of the huddle. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: two minutes obviously an important part of the game. You
Speaker 1: know a lot of what happens in two minutes. It's
Speaker 1: it's quarterback driven. So how many time outs do we have?
Speaker 1: How much times on the clock? Uh? Do we need
Speaker 1: to stay in bounds? We need to get out of bounds?
Speaker 1: You know, those are things that we're saying in Uh
Speaker 1: that chance is gonna be saying to him in the helmet,
Speaker 1: but you know, quarterback needs to know that, um and
Speaker 1: kind of have a feel for all those things, you know,
Speaker 1: without being told. You know, so essentially they end up
Speaker 1: becoming the coach on the field. So, um, you know,
Speaker 1: improvement in that area for all quarterbacks, you know, frozen,
Speaker 1: I mean there young so Rosen's Rosen jump. You know,
Speaker 1: you could say, you know, he's got two three years
Speaker 1: on but he's still a young player. Uh, the same
Speaker 1: as to us. So, um, you know two minutes, you know,
Speaker 1: red area, when the when to make to try to
Speaker 1: you know, make the big throw versus uh, you know,
Speaker 1: take the check down. And you know we talked about
Speaker 1: that this morning. Just your decision making, you know, is
Speaker 1: it is it based on your read? Is it based
Speaker 1: on matchup? Is it based on the situation. You know,
Speaker 1: we may just need to feel going, may just need
Speaker 1: five yards and your guys wide open down the field
Speaker 1: on the sideline. I mean, you know, those are decisions
Speaker 1: quarterbacks got to make. So those are kind of there's
Speaker 1: a lot there and I probably went an overboarder on
Speaker 1: the question, but I'm looking for a lot. I think
Speaker 1: every every coach and you know, at every level is
Speaker 1: looking for the same things. And that's what we're looking
Speaker 1: for leadership. We're looking for communication, looking for someone's making
Speaker 1: good decisions, h consistent, consistently making good decisions. I think
Speaker 1: one of the things we can expect from a coach
Speaker 1: flora has lead team and a coach Flora's staff is
Speaker 1: that they're gonna find ways to put guys into uncomfortable
Speaker 1: situations and prepare for really the unexpected. And so when
Speaker 1: a situation occurs where maybe you know, a quick turnover,
Speaker 1: something quickly happens in the game, or you have to
Speaker 1: get back up there, get back on the field and
Speaker 1: get ready to go back in there, you're ready for it,
Speaker 1: and you're you're comfortable with the uncomfortable. And I talked
Speaker 1: about this on the podcast the other day. I practice
Speaker 1: when they broke down from the team period into a
Speaker 1: field goal period, and after the before the first play
Speaker 1: of the field goal period, they sounded the horn once
Speaker 1: again and had the team rush back over to team
Speaker 1: period again. And just a good opportunity to see how
Speaker 1: guys respond to situations that they didn't know We're coming
Speaker 1: ahead of them, so surprised the guys put them in
Speaker 1: situations where they have to think critically and always be
Speaker 1: on top of your toes with the quizes and that
Speaker 1: type of thing a Brian Flora's staple. And here's coach
Speaker 1: talking about the evaluation of players without the benefit of
Speaker 1: having preseason games this August. I mean practice, so you know,
Speaker 1: we we we you know, we evaluate practice, but at
Speaker 1: the same time, you know, you just never know when
Speaker 1: the lightbulb goes off for for you know, coaches, players, writers,
Speaker 1: you know, you just I mean, I think it's you know,
Speaker 1: different for everyone. UM. And he's had some a lot
Speaker 1: of good moments so far, so you know, we'll just
Speaker 1: kind of see how it goes and keep continue to
Speaker 1: get better and experience helps for sure. UM. But like
Speaker 1: you said, we don't have the preseason games, and but
Speaker 1: we'll try to you know, uh, create situations to see
Speaker 1: whether or not you know that decision making processing, UM
Speaker 1: is where we needed to be, where he wants it
Speaker 1: to be, and you know he's putting the work in
Speaker 1: to do that. So are all the quarterbacks. And I
Speaker 1: know we've spent a lot of time on the quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: but it's really you know, each player in each position.
Speaker 1: UM that he their coach is referring to was Josh
Speaker 1: Rosen Here he is talking about the rest of the
Speaker 1: positions outside of the quarterbacks. From a situational standpoint and
Speaker 1: decision making standpoint, everyone's got to make good decisions on
Speaker 1: the field, communicate and and uh, you know, try to
Speaker 1: put this team in the best position to string good
Speaker 1: places together. Stay and kind of on that theme. And
Speaker 1: on that topic, here's coach talking about trying to simulate
Speaker 1: game situations with a scrimmage atmosphere and his team portion
Speaker 1: of practice and whether or not the Dolphins will have
Speaker 1: scrimmage is going forward from here up until the start
Speaker 1: of the season. I mean something we talked a lot about. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I try to use every team period as
Speaker 1: a scrimmage. I think when you I don't know if
Speaker 1: you're alluding to like live tackling on things of that nature. Um,
Speaker 1: that's something we talked about. You know, we may or
Speaker 1: may not do something like that, but I think there's
Speaker 1: a lot of that goes into it. Health of the team.
Speaker 1: Whether or not we we feel like we need to
Speaker 1: do that, we probably do. Um, but you know, what's
Speaker 1: the right setting, what's the right time, and they get
Speaker 1: all that done. So it's it's an ongoing conversation. It's
Speaker 1: when we've had what we're ready to do that right
Speaker 1: now today you know we'll see you guys will be
Speaker 1: out there and we were out there for practice. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead now and turn it over to the practice notes.
Speaker 1: As you can find up on Miami Dolphins dot com.
Speaker 1: The top news of the day as well here on
Speaker 1: the podcast, and we dive back into the first day
Speaker 1: back after a player day off, and the defense was
Speaker 1: hungry and got after it on Friday's practice. The takeaway
Speaker 1: board that we heard Eric Roe reference earlier in the
Speaker 1: week is definitely gonna have some added points after this practice. Interceptions, sacks,
Speaker 1: plenty of big plays for the defense before we get
Speaker 1: into the team period of the practice though, watching some
Speaker 1: of the work down on the field during the pre
Speaker 1: practice portion, I was trying to get an eye on
Speaker 1: the far field and take a look at the defensive
Speaker 1: backs go through their warm ups, and I really noticed
Speaker 1: what Nick Needham was doing. I've talked about him a
Speaker 1: lot in the past with the smooth feet. We heard
Speaker 1: that comment about Flores and boy, you're talking about him
Speaker 1: last year. You know quote this kid from U TEP
Speaker 1: might be pretty decent, which actually means he's pretty good
Speaker 1: to end that quote. And I think he's continued to
Speaker 1: have a solid camp so far, and he definitely works
Speaker 1: hard at it. Not money balls coming his way. He
Speaker 1: was doing some good work and mirroring and pressed and
Speaker 1: kind of getting his hands and feet aligned. He definitely
Speaker 1: puts a lot of time in an effort into this thing,
Speaker 1: and I think it showed up a little bit so far.
Speaker 1: The first week in training camp, Matt Brito was working
Speaker 1: at law on downing punts inside the five yard line,
Speaker 1: and later in practice Brita nil one dead right at
Speaker 1: the one yard line. So I really enjoy watching the
Speaker 1: way these events unfold. You see the guy's drill a
Speaker 1: technique in the pre practice or in the individual drills,
Speaker 1: then it pays off later, just like we talked about
Speaker 1: earlier this week with Bobby McCain in that pedal transition
Speaker 1: role on the special show that debut on YouTube last night,
Speaker 1: the Training Camp Special. Little shameless plug for you guys there,
Speaker 1: go check that out on YouTube or Miami Dolphins dot com.
Speaker 1: I kept an eye on Michael Dieter and Keaton Sutherland
Speaker 1: getting some work in before practice, as they were very animated,
Speaker 1: lots of hand gestures and simulated reps out there getting
Speaker 1: into past sets. One of our camera crew guys told
Speaker 1: me it's pretty common with this team in general that
Speaker 1: guys are engaged down there talking about different things like techniques,
Speaker 1: how to deal with certain looks of the opposition might
Speaker 1: throw at them throughout the course of practice. Communication things
Speaker 1: like that. It goes back to what coach Flora said
Speaker 1: about finding guys who want to be here, guys who
Speaker 1: think that football is very important to them, and it
Speaker 1: shows in the practice field. They were working on the
Speaker 1: pedal and transition drill once again we talked about that
Speaker 1: with the defensive backs. They have to get dept then
Speaker 1: sprint to the sideline, and my goodness, Brandon Jones has
Speaker 1: some closing speed in that area. I saw him flag
Speaker 1: one down from the far hash, coming all the way
Speaker 1: over to the near sideline, and it looked like he
Speaker 1: was just absolutely moving out there to get to that football.
Speaker 1: Watching the quarterbacks a little bit in the individual drills too,
Speaker 1: was throwing the ball really well, and that drill I thought,
Speaker 1: very smooth delivery, very accurate, very on time. But we'll
Speaker 1: get into the team period here in just one moment
Speaker 1: and one thing I liked. I saw that he was
Speaker 1: throwing some passes down around the goal line on air
Speaker 1: and Shan Gailey comes over and asks him to work
Speaker 1: on a different arm angle on a particular plays basically
Speaker 1: like a slip screen where you want to get the
Speaker 1: ball out right away, anticipate a rush coming up the
Speaker 1: middle and just throw it out to the receiver right away,
Speaker 1: basically a blitz beater, and he had to kind of
Speaker 1: drop the arm angle down around the hip and just
Speaker 1: throw it out quickly fading away from the defense. It's
Speaker 1: a quick set up, a quick side arm sling as
Speaker 1: he fades back, and he did it no problem, no
Speaker 1: questions asked. That was cool to see. Then I avert
Speaker 1: my eyes back over to the wide receivers who are
Speaker 1: working on releases up against the defensive backs. A little
Speaker 1: bit of one on one situation there always fun to watch,
Speaker 1: and Isaiah four really caught my eye once more. He's
Speaker 1: just good in all these areas of his game right now,
Speaker 1: I think playing some really good football. Some of his
Speaker 1: releases at the line were just so smooth. You really
Speaker 1: watch him work the leverage and fight hard to get
Speaker 1: to the defensive back stacked on the route. That's where
Speaker 1: you get on top of the dB, so there's no
Speaker 1: leverage either direction. It really sets up well for the
Speaker 1: break or makes it difficult to go through the receiver
Speaker 1: if the ball is deep. He does that very very well.
Speaker 1: One thing you also want to see, and we talked
Speaker 1: with the Vanta Parker in that week's seventeen game last
Speaker 1: year is to chase the blind spot. The cornerback can't
Speaker 1: cover what he can't see, and if you can get
Speaker 1: them into a position where their back is turned to you,
Speaker 1: their head is turned around, and you work that break
Speaker 1: and go to the blind spot, it's just gonna be
Speaker 1: bad news for the defensive back. And Ford was also
Speaker 1: doing that very well in these one on one drills.
Speaker 1: Another player that did well in the drills and in
Speaker 1: the practice in general was rookie cornerback Noah Igbnogamy. We
Speaker 1: talked about him not having not a bad day last Wednesday,
Speaker 1: but just some guys making plays over the top of him.
Speaker 1: Preston Williams Vante Parker, two guys that have proven they
Speaker 1: can make plays in this league. Well, he bounced back
Speaker 1: in a big way on Friday, I thought. And it
Speaker 1: started off and the one on one drills, he chucked
Speaker 1: the receiver so bad on one rep they had to
Speaker 1: restart the rep and do it all over again because
Speaker 1: he was so physical, basically ruined the entire rep from
Speaker 1: the start. That's a good thing. Parker and Jones then
Speaker 1: matched up, and man, this continues to be the heavyweight
Speaker 1: fight of training camp. So far from me. Every step,
Speaker 1: every arm bar, they challenge each other for every inch
Speaker 1: and every blade of grass out there. It's just fun
Speaker 1: to watch those two guys go out there and compete.
Speaker 1: Going back to the drill where Nediham was working on mirroring,
Speaker 1: it paid off for him and the one on one drills.
Speaker 1: A receiver tried to put several moves on him at
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, but he never flinched, just stayed
Speaker 1: true to his technique, stayed in line, and really won
Speaker 1: that rep verywell. I thought that was good to see
Speaker 1: him apply again the drills to the portion where you're
Speaker 1: going up against players in competition. Then I get my
Speaker 1: eyes back over to the offensive line and defensive line
Speaker 1: in the pit, still my favorite drill and all of football.
Speaker 1: And they were working a lot on the two on
Speaker 1: two action, executing some games up front. We've heard Flores's
Speaker 1: talk about that. We've broken down the film on that
Speaker 1: with some stunts, pick stunts, slants, twist that sort of thing,
Speaker 1: and up first was the and of the day for
Speaker 1: my money. Probably the man of practice so far off
Speaker 1: training camp, Emmanuel Ogba. He's winning pass rush reps at
Speaker 1: an alarming rate. So far, and he's getting them on
Speaker 1: anyone and everyone that goes up against him, including some
Speaker 1: guys that are having a lot of success against pretty
Speaker 1: much everybody else they see except lines up across from them.
Speaker 1: We've seen that down here before, pass rusher who just
Speaker 1: gets after it. The great part about that first rep
Speaker 1: I saw him was he worked inside where he dipped
Speaker 1: the upfield shoulder and used the weight of the offensive
Speaker 1: lineman to help balance him and carry him to the quarterback,
Speaker 1: and he just rode that into the backfield with a
Speaker 1: ton of strength and quickness. Next rep, I saw Solomon
Speaker 1: Kinley just stop a mack truck right in its tracks.
Speaker 1: I didn't see the rusher. I think it might have
Speaker 1: been Benito Jones, it could have been Devon Gatcha On
Speaker 1: not on certain but it was an impressive drop of
Speaker 1: the anchor there for Solomon Kinley, who we know is
Speaker 1: a big dude and can pass protect because of that
Speaker 1: size and also his agility. And then back to the
Speaker 1: two man game, I saw a really good rep where
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson and Eric Flowers passed off a stunt optionally. Well,
Speaker 1: it's good to see them have that communication. That's early
Speaker 1: on in campus early on in the way they communicate
Speaker 1: games up front on the offensive line up. Next had
Speaker 1: Kyle van Noy really flattened nicely on a rap up
Speaker 1: against Robert Hunt where he pushed up field and flattened
Speaker 1: that corner for where I thought would have been a
Speaker 1: sack if there was a quarterback in a real drill situation. There.
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Ogba once again gets back in there, this time
Speaker 1: working inside on Shaq Calhoun. He gets the best of
Speaker 1: that rep with a good powerful move inside. Zack Seiler
Speaker 1: had an awesome rap where he stabbed outside then crossed
Speaker 1: over the face of Solomon Kinley. I think Zack Seiler
Speaker 1: has been a consistently good performer so far in training camp.
Speaker 1: The next driel went to Ogba and last in lined
Speaker 1: up against Jackson and Flowers once again, and it was
Speaker 1: kind of a cool looking rush move where they condensed
Speaker 1: down together and worked up field, and then Ogba ripped
Speaker 1: off the edge and flattened. An interesting looking game up front,
Speaker 1: and once again ogbad lost and working so well together
Speaker 1: and Ogba getting in the backfield with regularity. Then we
Speaker 1: had Rae Kwon Davis, who just is impossible to get
Speaker 1: locked up. He works around that shock the initial punch
Speaker 1: of the offensive line and draws out of guys. Be
Speaker 1: because he does have that length, and he looks really
Speaker 1: really good out there executing the kind of stack them
Speaker 1: up and then shed and work around them en route
Speaker 1: to the quarterback. Saw him do that a few times
Speaker 1: in this drill. Thought, Danny Isadora, a name we haven't
Speaker 1: talked about a whole lot here on the podcast throughout
Speaker 1: the course of training camp so far. Thought he did
Speaker 1: really well on the drill, had a couple of big
Speaker 1: wins inside as well. Then I peeked by eyes back
Speaker 1: over to the receiver and defensive backs matchup and these
Speaker 1: guys once again are getting after it. Preston Williams had
Speaker 1: an awesome grab on a back shoulder throw in tight
Speaker 1: coverage from two h These receivers, man, they're always giving
Speaker 1: their quarterback a chance, even though the window is not open,
Speaker 1: They're gonna give you a chance to make a play.
Speaker 1: Tay Hayes got a note on him here. He competes
Speaker 1: his butt off. He does not back down at all
Speaker 1: going up against these guys like Devonte Parker, like Preston Williams,
Speaker 1: guys that are much much bigger than him, and we
Speaker 1: saw it last year at the end of the season,
Speaker 1: allowed just three out of sixteen passes to go complete
Speaker 1: when he got into the game those last two games
Speaker 1: of the season. Byron Jones, this guy stays in phase
Speaker 1: so well he does not take the cheese and he
Speaker 1: also has the recovery speed if he does take the
Speaker 1: cheese and gets faked out a little bit. We saw
Speaker 1: the video up of Byron Jones and Jachem Grant a
Speaker 1: juke moved from Jachem and Byron recovers and gets back
Speaker 1: into shape. Just pure athletic ability. And you see that
Speaker 1: in the on the field on practice as well in competition.
Speaker 1: These quarterbacks again, they really were testing that back shoulder
Speaker 1: throw and they hit a lot of them, but the
Speaker 1: defensive backs would come back and get some revenge later on.
Speaker 1: In practice, I saw one play where two a shot
Speaker 1: a slant at the goal line down around the kneecaps
Speaker 1: of the receiver, and that's a purposely located ball down there.
Speaker 1: A tough catch to make, but you have to put
Speaker 1: it there because if you go behind or high, the
Speaker 1: defensive back can get in there and make a play
Speaker 1: on it. So you want the receiver to slide down
Speaker 1: to the goal line and make the catch, and he
Speaker 1: did just that with Matt Cole for a very nice
Speaker 1: touchdown in the one on one drills. On the next play,
Speaker 1: it was a fade to Chester Rogers, and we saw
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks working on this drill with coach Brown in
Speaker 1: the middle of practice where he gives these guys so
Speaker 1: much individual instruction every throw, every rep. He's drilling these
Speaker 1: guys and really just taking advantage of every opportunity to
Speaker 1: teach these guys something new on every play. And on
Speaker 1: this particular drill, they were set level throws where Brown
Speaker 1: would get himself into the hook zone, which were the
Speaker 1: linebackers typically line up and try to prevent in crossing
Speaker 1: routes from the receiver's out wide and he would make
Speaker 1: himself big, so the quarterbacks would have to layer the
Speaker 1: ball over that linebacker and underneath the safety and it
Speaker 1: looked really good doing that. Now, this throw to Chester
Speaker 1: Rogers was not the same as that throw, but it's
Speaker 1: the same idea where you have to kind of layer
Speaker 1: the football over the coverage. He layers a backpile on
Speaker 1: throw that just goes over the cornerback's arm and Chester
Speaker 1: Rogers makes a fantastic catch for a touchdown in that period,
Speaker 1: and then finally we get into the team period. The
Speaker 1: very first play, Preston Williams gets Byron on a hitch
Speaker 1: route Byron Jones, that is and just one off the
Speaker 1: line instantly, so patient in his release with explosion out
Speaker 1: of the back end. It was about seven yards pre
Speaker 1: catch and thirteen yards after the catch. He had a
Speaker 1: big day as well, Preston Williams. He landed Roberts. This
Speaker 1: guy continues to have a huge camp. He ripped through
Speaker 1: his gap for what would have been a huge collision
Speaker 1: in the backfield, but he lightens up because he's a
Speaker 1: good teammate. He knows how to practice proper practice etiquette.
Speaker 1: But afterwards, after the play, he knew what he did,
Speaker 1: so he went over to the offensive players and where
Speaker 1: they kind of stand behind the line of scrimmage, and
Speaker 1: he let them know about it. He let them know
Speaker 1: that he was there, and I just think again that
Speaker 1: fight is coming. Eventually with number defense, Shack Lawson gets
Speaker 1: in for a sack on the left tackle. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure who it was, but the play was extended after
Speaker 1: the sack, and once again Preston Williams makes a great
Speaker 1: catch in a crowded area. He and Parker make a
Speaker 1: habit out of that right, saving their quarterback when maybe
Speaker 1: there's not an open window, the cover just tight, they
Speaker 1: make a catch. Accordingly, it's always nice when you can
Speaker 1: get a win on defense and then come back and
Speaker 1: still see something positive out of the offense. That's exactly
Speaker 1: what happened here. Both Lawson and Preston Williams both made
Speaker 1: plays on that particular rep, and on the next rep,
Speaker 1: both de Van got Shaw and ray Kwon Davis formed
Speaker 1: a wall in the middle to completely stifle a run
Speaker 1: play for no gain whatsoever. I've talked about this a
Speaker 1: lot on offense, and the same is true on defense.
Speaker 1: I just think it's going to be so much better
Speaker 1: on both lines, on the offensive line and in the
Speaker 1: defensive front seven. So many resources and draft picks put
Speaker 1: into that spot, both on offense and defense. And you
Speaker 1: see it play out so far in training camp through
Speaker 1: the first week. And as I say that, Miles Gaskin
Speaker 1: shows you the wiggle and Shakespeare for a big gain
Speaker 1: up against that defensive line up front. He's so smooth
Speaker 1: the way he presses it up in there and then
Speaker 1: can bounce in either direction. We saw it at you
Speaker 1: dub We saw it highlighted a little bit last year
Speaker 1: in that Bengals game, and now it's showing up again
Speaker 1: here in training camp every day so far. I've got
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson with another really solid day. He did really
Speaker 1: well in the one on ones and from where I
Speaker 1: could see, his side wasn't surrendering any pressure in the
Speaker 1: team period. He also had a great seal block on
Speaker 1: that big gas can run to the outside. And we'll
Speaker 1: have one more note on Jackson here in just one moment.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to kind of go through the course of
Speaker 1: practice and go in order how things happened rather than
Speaker 1: by position. I think it's easier to kind of keep
Speaker 1: track of that way, So just bear with me. We're
Speaker 1: gonna come back to some of these players and touch
Speaker 1: on them later. The next player had to it with
Speaker 1: a conversion on third down and five. Pressure arrived, but
Speaker 1: he kind of double clutched the football. They made a
Speaker 1: perfect throw into a tight window right at the sticks
Speaker 1: for a first down. But then the next play, a
Speaker 1: big six Brian Borders has an interception on what looked
Speaker 1: like might have been a miscommunication between two and the receiver,
Speaker 1: but borders intercepts and takes it back the other way
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. On the next play, Commu grug A
Speaker 1: Hill blows up a screenplay for a loss. He was
Speaker 1: right in the backfield. It looked very well set up,
Speaker 1: but he knifed through there and got himself into the
Speaker 1: backfield for a tackle. We haven't heard his name a
Speaker 1: Ton yet on the podcast here in training camp, but
Speaker 1: we will hear from him later. Hear from him later
Speaker 1: in this podcast. Noah Igbnogeny had a curl route on
Speaker 1: Preston Williams where he was really physical at the top
Speaker 1: of the route and one at the top of the
Speaker 1: route and he comes down and has a pick off
Speaker 1: the hand of Josh Rosen, but he couldn't squeeze it.
Speaker 1: It falls the turf. He has his hands on a
Speaker 1: lot of football, is very very competitive, always in good
Speaker 1: position there for the Dolphins first round draft pick there
Speaker 1: at cornerback Shack Lawson. Once again big day for him.
Speaker 1: He had to play where he resets the line screenage
Speaker 1: and forces Matt Breed it to bubble as a running
Speaker 1: back in the backfield. He impacted the game both as
Speaker 1: a rusher and run defender all day. On Friday, Jordan
Speaker 1: Howard has had a big run every single day of
Speaker 1: practice so far and that can hinued on Friday where
Speaker 1: he pressed inside and then kicked one out between a
Speaker 1: huge gap opened up by Solomon Kinley and doesn't get
Speaker 1: contact until fifteen yards downfield. It was about to be
Speaker 1: him on Bobby McCain in the open field. I wish
Speaker 1: we could have seen that live, but of course we're
Speaker 1: not going to hit each other in practice like that
Speaker 1: for no reason, but just an excellent jump cut. You
Speaker 1: see the vision and that lateral side to side agility,
Speaker 1: something coach students Phil talked about and the Thursday press
Speaker 1: availability with the Dolphin's running back coach, they're talking about
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard's vision and side to side agility. Next play,
Speaker 1: once again, it was Noah ig Banogamy up against Preston
Speaker 1: Williams and the ball was maybe a little bit on
Speaker 1: the back shoulder of Preston on a slant route. But
Speaker 1: Igbo gets in there and makes a play on the
Speaker 1: football and broke it up again. He was all over
Speaker 1: the field getting his hands on plenty of balls. Then
Speaker 1: a big play alert to a big pass downfield. It
Speaker 1: was a slow developing play to Jachim Grant who was
Speaker 1: already pretty far downfield and behind the defender, and so
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure if the timing of it was off,
Speaker 1: but he had the cornerback really well beat. Then two
Speaker 1: us under threw it, probably intentionally at least I assume
Speaker 1: it was because it was about fifty yards down the field.
Speaker 1: But team comes back and makes a play on it
Speaker 1: for a huge gainer for the Dolphins offense. Then the
Speaker 1: Dolphins have another miscommunication on the offense and the next
Speaker 1: play to tries to throw a fade, but Matt Cole
Speaker 1: runs a stop route and the ball just goes selling
Speaker 1: out of bounds over the top of both of them.
Speaker 1: Nick need Um wasn't really good coverage there. Again, more
Speaker 1: good work from Nick need Him on this day. This
Speaker 1: is kind of the day that it was. Every good
Speaker 1: play of the offense had the defense would come back
Speaker 1: and match it, and then some and they just really
Speaker 1: got after it all day long. The team then broke
Speaker 1: it down back into individual drills. I watched some loss
Speaker 1: in an og Ba together doing some hands and long
Speaker 1: arm work. They were really focusing on doing some positioning
Speaker 1: and placement drills and kind of trying to work their
Speaker 1: hands and arms as pass rushers. As far as a
Speaker 1: new position duo goes, these two might be my favorite
Speaker 1: right now. To the guys I'm most excited about. They've
Speaker 1: looked good all week long. On the interior of the
Speaker 1: defensive line, both Zach Seeler and ray Kuan Davis were
Speaker 1: working on the stack and shed drill, and again, this
Speaker 1: just looks so easy for Rake one. It kind of
Speaker 1: reminds me when you put a donut on a baseball bat,
Speaker 1: then you take it off and the bat just feels
Speaker 1: a pound lighter. Everything he does looks easy. Then we
Speaker 1: come back into the team portion and Parker dials up
Speaker 1: twenty yards from Josh Rosen a pivot route where Parker
Speaker 1: caught the football and turned it up for a nice
Speaker 1: run up the fard sideline. Again, Austin Jackson a great
Speaker 1: job to kind of draw out the force defender where
Speaker 1: he gets into a vertical set that's working straight back
Speaker 1: towards the quarterback in the backfield, and it forces the
Speaker 1: defender to come at him. He draws that bull rush
Speaker 1: and then just holds the point against that bull rush,
Speaker 1: and I think it was Shack Lawson there too, so
Speaker 1: impressive work on a veteran pass rusher to create a
Speaker 1: nice run there from Matt Brita in the run game.
Speaker 1: Preston Williams then gets open on Byron Jones for a
Speaker 1: chunk game fifteen yards or so. Jackson again another awesome
Speaker 1: rep where he gets to his spot so quickly and
Speaker 1: stays in control of the rep. I thought he had
Speaker 1: a great day. On Friday, a landing Roberts finds himself
Speaker 1: in the backfield for another tackle for loss, an absolute
Speaker 1: well of a camp there for forty four. Brandon Jones
Speaker 1: then comes over again to apply that drill we talked
Speaker 1: about earlier from the near hash and breaks up an
Speaker 1: attempt to Chandler Cox on a wheel route from Tua.
Speaker 1: So really nice work there from the rookie safety out
Speaker 1: of Texas. To of then finds Ricardo Lewis on what
Speaker 1: would have been a big game coming over on a
Speaker 1: cross roam, but the ball did not get squeezed, it
Speaker 1: hit the turf. He did so well, I thought too
Speaker 1: on that particular play to move suddenly in the pocket
Speaker 1: and create a platform to throw against pressure. And I
Speaker 1: think just in general, he's really moving pretty well out
Speaker 1: there so far, so that's a good sign. Ray Kwon
Speaker 1: Davis is a guy that doesn't get moved. A lot
Speaker 1: of these interior runs when he's out there are just
Speaker 1: futile attempts. He comes off the pile after a running
Speaker 1: play up the middle for no gain, celebrating big time,
Speaker 1: so getting himself involved. Miles Gaston has another big run,
Speaker 1: stretches it outside, cuts it back and it's off to
Speaker 1: the races. He finished the run into the end zone,
Speaker 1: so I think it was a legit touchdown from about
Speaker 1: seventy five yards away. And then we get a big
Speaker 1: play from Isaiah Ford who adjust really well to another
Speaker 1: or another intentional under thrown ball by Josh Rosen. A
Speaker 1: good throw from Rosen with Byron Jones and trail technique
Speaker 1: for about thirty thirty five yards. Jones popped up and
Speaker 1: showed some visible frustration after that play. Then we come
Speaker 1: back to Parker versus Iigbo battling for a deep shot,
Speaker 1: and Igbo did a really awesome job to locate the
Speaker 1: football and be the first one to play it. He
Speaker 1: kind of jumped back into Vante with his head turned around,
Speaker 1: so it's not p I, but it also prevents Davante
Speaker 1: from elevating, getting after that ball and making the play
Speaker 1: like he did all season last year. Very crafty work
Speaker 1: from the rookie there. Bobby McCain comes in clean for
Speaker 1: a sack. He blits off the offense his left side,
Speaker 1: gets himself into the backfield. He's done that before in
Speaker 1: his career, did it here again today on Friday's practice.
Speaker 1: And then we got our first red zone work of
Speaker 1: the week. And the first play was a screen pass
Speaker 1: that looked very well set up from Tua to Matt
Speaker 1: breed Up, but once again he land and Roberts beats
Speaker 1: all the offensive linement to the point and puts a
Speaker 1: shoulder on the back. He is absolutely everywhere. The next
Speaker 1: rap Byron Jones locked up Mike Kasicky very nicely on
Speaker 1: an end line throw. His ability against some of these
Speaker 1: bigger body guys Preston Parker and Gisicky has been fun
Speaker 1: to watch. Then we try a back pylon throw to
Speaker 1: Adam Shaheim, Brandon Jones in coverage very tightly. They're no dice.
Speaker 1: He had a good day to day. The rookie, Brandon
Speaker 1: Jones will hear from him in just one moment. Emmanuel
Speaker 1: Ogba gets in there for another stop at the line
Speaker 1: on a draw play and Commu Gruge Hill comes in
Speaker 1: and defeats a block. After the fact, Combo and Ted
Speaker 1: Carriss kind of had some pushing and shoving, but they
Speaker 1: worked it out and sorted it out afterwards. Myles Gaskin
Speaker 1: scores a touchdown from the six yard line where he
Speaker 1: powers through a goal line tackle. Then the next play
Speaker 1: he comes back and catches a football that was off
Speaker 1: of his body on a flat route, turned it up,
Speaker 1: made a guy miss at the goal line and scored
Speaker 1: a touchdown. We get two back in the game, and
Speaker 1: the offensive personnel smite Shaheen, Cox and Howard in the
Speaker 1: game at once. That is a ton of cargo in
Speaker 1: the offensive skill spots there. And once again we have
Speaker 1: another big play from the Lands and Roberts who comes
Speaker 1: into the backfield and blows up a running back I
Speaker 1: just wrote down He's a flat out monster. He's been
Speaker 1: awesome in training camp so far. A bas speaking of monsters,
Speaker 1: wins again with another sack off the edge. You pair
Speaker 1: that length of that first step quickness, and he really
Speaker 1: challenges offensive linemen to both be urgent but then also
Speaker 1: be privy enough to not overset and get themselves too
Speaker 1: far outside. He's just a lot to handle Rose and
Speaker 1: checks him for the red zone and throws a touchdown
Speaker 1: pass to Jachim Grant for easy five yards. He was
Speaker 1: wide open on the play. And then we go back
Speaker 1: to the defensive side again and Kyle van Noy gets
Speaker 1: himself in there for a sack on what was a
Speaker 1: third down play to force a field goal. And that's
Speaker 1: just kind of how it was for the defense all
Speaker 1: day long. Domination on all three levels really had a
Speaker 1: big time day. We finished up with some two minute
Speaker 1: fireworks though two minute drill rather, and there were some
Speaker 1: fireworks involved in there. The very first play too, of
Speaker 1: finds Isaiah Ford for a huge game on a go
Speaker 1: pass down about thirty yards down the field. Then the
Speaker 1: next play he tries to chem Grant up the sideline
Speaker 1: and once again Noah Igbunagay getting right into phase, staying
Speaker 1: step for step, runs the route for Jachim, presses him
Speaker 1: to the sideline and gets an interception and spikes the
Speaker 1: ball down. He has been working for that all week
Speaker 1: long and he finally got one. Rosen comes in, Sam
Speaker 1: Maguavin jumps one and nearly gets his hands on a football,
Speaker 1: but he breaks it up instead. Now on the next play,
Speaker 1: it is an interception for Tay Hayes. An awesome play
Speaker 1: by Hayes who stayed in the hip pocket of the
Speaker 1: receiver up the seam and played it perfectly. Ball a
Speaker 1: little bit behind, but Hayes was in great position to
Speaker 1: make a play on the football. We finished up with
Speaker 1: some field goalwork and Jason Sanders is money. I don't
Speaker 1: think I've seen him miss all week. He hit the
Speaker 1: cherry picker from fifty four yards out, which is located
Speaker 1: directly between the middle of the goal post. There about
Speaker 1: the four players that had the best practice for Emmanuel Ogba,
Speaker 1: Miles Gascony, Landed Roberts, and Preston Williams real standouts. And
Speaker 1: now we're gonna hear from three guys that talk to
Speaker 1: the media after Dolphins practice on Friday. As we hear
Speaker 1: first from Dolphins rookie defensive back in safety Brandon Jones,
Speaker 1: who talks about his versatility and how he's willing to
Speaker 1: do whatever it takes to get himself on the field
Speaker 1: on Sundays. Open to whatever gets to me on the
Speaker 1: field as fast as possible. And whatever I could do
Speaker 1: to help the team, whether it's a slot at nicole line,
Speaker 1: at hot safety, strong safety. UM, I'm just hearing to
Speaker 1: do what I can to make the team better at
Speaker 1: the end of the day. And UM, I have been
Speaker 1: been been working, you know, kind of everywhere. You know,
Speaker 1: our coach wants us to be able to be multiple
Speaker 1: and be able to play different positions because you never
Speaker 1: know what can happen at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: So I'm definitely been working. Kind of kind of prayer.
Speaker 1: So I talked to Brandon Jones twice this offseason, once
Speaker 1: after the draft and once for the Meet the Rookie series.
Speaker 1: He talked a lot about his off season regiment, how
Speaker 1: hard he works lifting weight, staying in condition. Here he
Speaker 1: is talking more about what he did this offseason to
Speaker 1: get ready. I'm really big on routine, So I was
Speaker 1: back in Dallas in Frisco most of the off season
Speaker 1: and kind of just stuck to a routine, the same thing,
Speaker 1: getting as much work as possible. Um. It's kind of
Speaker 1: hard when you're by yourself, especially during the quarantine, to
Speaker 1: get around with people. You have to stay six ft
Speaker 1: apart from everybody. So my biggest thing was obviously is
Speaker 1: Conditioning was a huge importance. I know, you know, lifting,
Speaker 1: getting strong is gonna come with it, but being in
Speaker 1: you know, physical shape, conditioning wise, was super important. Especially
Speaker 1: with this heat. It's this humidity is a lot different.
Speaker 1: I'm not used to. I'm still kind of just into it.
Speaker 1: I lose hell await every single day, so it's definitely
Speaker 1: new for me. But yeah, the biggest thing was just
Speaker 1: conditioning wise, and I think I'm in pretty good shape
Speaker 1: for the most part. And now here's Brandon talking about
Speaker 1: playing inside the box, going up against pulling guards, guys
Speaker 1: that are much bigger than him to have him outweighed,
Speaker 1: and how he can bats that and uses what he
Speaker 1: can do best to help himself execute regardless of what
Speaker 1: job he's asked to do on this defense. You know,
Speaker 1: I really just kind of use my advantages and use
Speaker 1: my strengths and go get them obviously, you know strength,
Speaker 1: while as soon as I know in my head, as
Speaker 1: soon as they get me locked on, I'm done for.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna try to do as much wiggle room
Speaker 1: using my speed, you know, get down. I'm shorter, a
Speaker 1: lot shorter than a lot of them, so I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get down as low as I can, try to make
Speaker 1: them bend, but uh, you know those points, those times
Speaker 1: are gonna come, you know, and screen passes or anything
Speaker 1: like that. You got guards, tackles pulling to come get you.
Speaker 1: Biggest staying our coaches to just stay alive at the
Speaker 1: end of the day. You hear him talk about staying
Speaker 1: alive for any rookie. Part of staying alive is keeping
Speaker 1: your head above water with regards to the install of
Speaker 1: the defensive scheme what he's asked to do. Here's Brian
Speaker 1: John's talking about the first week so far, learning this
Speaker 1: playbook and getting this defense down, kind of getting comfortable
Speaker 1: in knowing knowing the next step. I think I'm really
Speaker 1: good at knowing once once we get a formation, what
Speaker 1: the call is and stuff like that, but kind of
Speaker 1: getting on the next level of knowing this gut motions,
Speaker 1: this is what we gotta go to, and just the
Speaker 1: overall important importance of fundamentals and techniques, uh that stuff
Speaker 1: you're planning a gets the best of the best each week,
Speaker 1: and you know, a bad step or anything like that
Speaker 1: can win or lose a game. So you've got to
Speaker 1: be very very critical of your fundamentals and techniques and
Speaker 1: just kind of knowing ahead of time what's next to happen,
Speaker 1: if if this may occur in the situation, and from
Speaker 1: one rookie to another talking about the acclamation of coming
Speaker 1: into the NFL and learning this league in a weird offseason.
Speaker 1: Here is Malcolm Perry talking about the challenges of his
Speaker 1: rookie season so far through one week of padded practices.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a different level than college, obviously, so
Speaker 1: the attention to detail is so much higher. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm trying to trying to catch on as
Speaker 1: fast as I can and seeing things after the ball snapped,
Speaker 1: getting in the right spot and making sure you know,
Speaker 1: I'm going I need to be to making play successful. Um,
Speaker 1: it's just the little things right now and trying to
Speaker 1: trying to learn every day and learn from my mistakes
Speaker 1: and get better the next day. Hey, what's called on, Malcolm?
Speaker 1: Good to see you again, man. Um. Last time we talked,
Speaker 1: we went over your kind of daily schedule on daily
Speaker 1: routine there when you were at Navy. Now that you've
Speaker 1: been here at camp for a few weeks, I'm rious.
Speaker 1: How would you say that experience at college prepared you
Speaker 1: for the daily grind of the NFL. UM. I like
Speaker 1: to say it helped a little bit. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: I think my days are just as busy, but filled
Speaker 1: with football and not not any military stuff. So um,
Speaker 1: it prepared me in the aspect of, you know, having
Speaker 1: a big workload. Um, but it's all football, so um
Speaker 1: it's a little better in that, in that never go
Speaker 1: And the part of that you can't see on a
Speaker 1: podcast format obviously, is that Malcolm had a big smile
Speaker 1: on his face when he talked about the schedule being
Speaker 1: just as rigorous, but it's all football all the time,
Speaker 1: and he quite likes that. We'll finish up here with
Speaker 1: Malcolm talking about learning different positions across the league, across
Speaker 1: the offense, and how he is approaching that and taking
Speaker 1: all the advice he can get from the veteran guys
Speaker 1: here in camp. Um, I was extremely excited. You know,
Speaker 1: any opportunity to touch the field at any position, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm all for it. Um. So just getting out there, um,
Speaker 1: learning from the guys on the team that you know,
Speaker 1: play the same position. Um, you know, mirror in there.
Speaker 1: I'm seeing what they're doing, ask them questions and you know,
Speaker 1: trying to learn everything from them, their mistakes, what they
Speaker 1: do right and stuff like that, and try to music
Speaker 1: tone have been. And we finish up with our third
Speaker 1: newcomer to the Miami Dolphins this year, new linebacker Calmu
Speaker 1: grug A Hill. He's a veteran, he's been in this league,
Speaker 1: He's played under coach Flora's before. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: hear from Cammu on this first question about the video
Speaker 1: on two a tonguas. Was it Snapchat or Instagram? I
Speaker 1: don't know, but the two of them singing together. And
Speaker 1: then I had to follow up question about how the
Speaker 1: relationship with him and the rest of the guys are
Speaker 1: going so far in the building down here in Miami.
Speaker 1: I mean, I love it, man, I can't even lie
Speaker 1: to you. It's it's awesome, you know. Um, For for
Speaker 1: a long time, I've been the only guy, um being
Speaker 1: from home, being so far far away from home. So
Speaker 1: having someone you know here with me that that kind
Speaker 1: of grew up the same way as me, it's awesome,
Speaker 1: you know. And we get to talk and joke a
Speaker 1: lot about how we grew up. And you know, it's
Speaker 1: even funnier because our high school even though he's a
Speaker 1: lot younger than me, but our high school's arrival high schools,
Speaker 1: so you know, we get to joke about that a
Speaker 1: little bit. Um. It's it's awesome. I love it good.
Speaker 1: So that was my question too about the video with
Speaker 1: you and two. I won't comment on your guys vocal talents,
Speaker 1: but I am I am a little bit curious that
Speaker 1: you guys are getting along so well. Is that kind
Speaker 1: of the same vibe you have in the locker room
Speaker 1: in general? And if so, why do you think this
Speaker 1: team's personalities are meshing so well so early? Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: I think you know this, This locker room is a
Speaker 1: young team. Um, everyone's hungry, everyone's um coming in, you know,
Speaker 1: and and wanting to work. And you know, I think
Speaker 1: it's it's it's easy when everyone's so young and around
Speaker 1: the same age and stuff like that for for the
Speaker 1: team to kind of have a lot in common. And
Speaker 1: it's just a real friendly, family oriented locker room. And
Speaker 1: speaking of family, next, you're gonna hear common you say
Speaker 1: that no one in his family has left the islands
Speaker 1: of Hawaii since he did it, basically, and it makes
Speaker 1: me wonder, why would you ever leave Hawaii? If you
Speaker 1: didn't have to. Yeah, Um, it's well, so always out
Speaker 1: in Philly for the last four years, which is nothing
Speaker 1: like back home, So being here is is definitely u
Speaker 1: you know, very similar. And you know, I was even
Speaker 1: in um, you know, drive around and I'm just like
Speaker 1: that kind of looks a little bit like how back
Speaker 1: home looks, you know, in certain certain areas. Um, and
Speaker 1: I just you know, I just love the tropical weather,
Speaker 1: warm weather. It's hard to beat. So it's not home,
Speaker 1: but I mean it's pretty close. And we finish up
Speaker 1: with a question about playing in this defense compared to
Speaker 1: what he played in Philadelphia and that defense, which we
Speaker 1: know have a lot of differences because we were here
Speaker 1: with Matt Burke a few years back and now Brian
Speaker 1: Flora's in Miami. Here's Commo on his early impressions of
Speaker 1: the Dolphins defense under coach Flora's and coach Boyer. I
Speaker 1: think it's it's very different, but I love it and
Speaker 1: and it's a big reason why I'm even here. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, there's so many different things that we can
Speaker 1: do with with this defense, and it and it and
Speaker 1: it you know, it really keeps everyone very diverse and
Speaker 1: asks everyone to do multiple things. So UM, I mean
Speaker 1: that's that's exciting for me and and I'm it's very different,
Speaker 1: but I'm getting used to it and I'm loving it.
Speaker 1: And one more comment here from Comma about playing the
Speaker 1: past on defense has passed as a safety and moving
Speaker 1: up to linebacker later in his career. Just from my
Speaker 1: view of things is, you know, you go into a game, teams,
Speaker 1: teams are passed in the ball most times a game,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's um, I think there's a huge
Speaker 1: emphasis on unpassed and UM, you know, passing down so UM,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that it's more important, but I think
Speaker 1: guys are being asked to do more than you know,
Speaker 1: if you're not seeing the typical just you know, two
Speaker 1: hundred sixty pound backers anymore that are on the field
Speaker 1: for all three downs. So and our audio kind of
Speaker 1: faded out there towards the end, so I do apologize
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Speaker 1: Larry is Oh streaking up the Rolling Hills golf course.
Speaker 1: Cannot miss that and of course Miami Dolphins dot com.
Speaker 1: Until next time, fins up.