Speaker 1: Practice are Al Fitzpatrick touchdown. What a win for this
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphin team. What is up, Dolphins? And welcome to
Speaker 1: the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins official
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Speaker 1: How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Winkfield.
Speaker 1: It is Monday, and we are here to bring you
Speaker 1: your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show,
Speaker 1: we are back. After a light day on Sunday, it's
Speaker 1: back to full padded practices today. It's a little bit
Speaker 1: windy and blustery out there, which is a very welcome
Speaker 1: thing down here in South Florida. Will have all the
Speaker 1: notes and details from practice, plus audio from coach Ryan Fitzpatrick,
Speaker 1: Preston Williams, and Andrew Van Ginkl. All of that and
Speaker 1: more on this Monday training Camp August edition of the
Speaker 1: Drivetime Podcast Miami Dolphins. And over the weekend, the Dolphins
Speaker 1: went back to a well that has been a quality
Speaker 1: resource for roster acquisitions over the course of this franchise's history.
Speaker 1: Last year it was Sam Oguavin and of course in
Speaker 1: the past number nine one Cameron Wake. Both those guys
Speaker 1: came to Miami by way of the CFL. And now
Speaker 1: we've got another and safety Nate Holly. Holly originally entered
Speaker 1: the NFL on June when he signed with the l
Speaker 1: A Rams. He spent training camp there before he was
Speaker 1: waived in September. He also spent some time with the
Speaker 1: Nebraska Danger of the Indoor Football League and then with
Speaker 1: the Calgary Stampeters of the Canadian Football League last year.
Speaker 1: He was named the CFL's most Outstanding Rookie following that
Speaker 1: season after he told seventy eight tackles, two on special teams,
Speaker 1: one sack had an interception, all of that coming in
Speaker 1: eighteen games. All rightlet's go ahead and get to coach
Speaker 1: Flores media, but first before we do that. As the
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Speaker 1: ahead and get to coach Flora's is Monday morning media
Speaker 1: availability and start with the question that was posed to
Speaker 1: coach about a specific play on Saturday that occurred, and
Speaker 1: the question asked him to kind of break down what happened,
Speaker 1: and Coach basically said, he's not going to get into
Speaker 1: the specifics, but here's a response he had that I
Speaker 1: thought was very interesting in the middle of his response
Speaker 1: in general to that question, there's a lot that goes
Speaker 1: into a specific play. Uh, you know, was it a
Speaker 1: blown coverage? Was it not a blown coverage? Was a
Speaker 1: mental error? What you guys say, see maybe a little
Speaker 1: deceiving at times? And then coach said, we're gonna just
Speaker 1: go ahead and even at that. So, yeah, football is
Speaker 1: a complex sport. Next question, Coach was asked about Andrew
Speaker 1: Van Ginkle in the progress he's made so far here
Speaker 1: in your number two. Well, you know, Andrew's a tough kid. Um,
Speaker 1: he's got length, he's got some speed. Um. I thought
Speaker 1: he did a solid jock for us in the kicking game.
Speaker 1: A year ago. Um, you know, the last six games
Speaker 1: of the season. Um, he's a smart kid. It's very
Speaker 1: important to him, and he's improving and getting better. Well,
Speaker 1: he'll get some opportunities definitely throughout training camp and we'll
Speaker 1: see what happens when we get to, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: the regular season. He's improving, he's getting better. I'm very
Speaker 1: I'm happy with where he is. And up next here
Speaker 1: here is coach talking about Dolphins second year wide receiver
Speaker 1: Preston Williams and how he's hungry to be on the
Speaker 1: field for every snap, whether it's in the kicking game
Speaker 1: on offense, he would never come off the field if
Speaker 1: it was up to him. Well, I mean, anyone who
Speaker 1: can return punts, you know, we're gonna we're gonna work
Speaker 1: him back there. Preston obviously with the with the injury
Speaker 1: a year ago, UM, let's see somebody. We we we've
Speaker 1: kind of you know, we're just trying to be uh.
Speaker 1: I want to say cautious. That's probably the wrong word,
Speaker 1: but we want to watch his reps and watch the
Speaker 1: amount of watch the amount of reps that we're putting
Speaker 1: on him. He's working hard, he wants to be out there.
Speaker 1: He wants to return every punt. He wants to go
Speaker 1: out there for every uh really every snap. If we didn't,
Speaker 1: you know, we didn't manage him, he would, you know,
Speaker 1: he'd be out there every place. So coming off a knee,
Speaker 1: we we've got to manage him, which we've done, uh
Speaker 1: in the punt return, you know. As part of that management,
Speaker 1: the team held a walkthrough at the stadium at hard
Speaker 1: Rock Stadium on Sunday, and here's coach talking about how
Speaker 1: important it was to get some of the new guys
Speaker 1: out there just to get familiar with the surroundings they're
Speaker 1: gonna see on Sunday's come the regular season. It's good.
Speaker 1: I think we need to. You know, a lot of guys,
Speaker 1: we had a lot of new players, they've never been there.
Speaker 1: They've never seen our locker room, they've um they don't
Speaker 1: know what the training room is, or where the equipment
Speaker 1: room is, or you know where the showers are or um,
Speaker 1: you know how we walk out to the tunnel. You know,
Speaker 1: I think it's it's good to get out there. You know,
Speaker 1: it's our home stadium. So where's the where's the game clock?
Speaker 1: Where's the for the second clock? I think those things
Speaker 1: you know as a coaching staff to check the headsets
Speaker 1: and you know, do a dry run from that standpoint.
Speaker 1: But we got a lot out of it. You know,
Speaker 1: It's it's always good to go to the stadium and
Speaker 1: get on the grass there and get a feelful where
Speaker 1: we're gonna actually, you know, play the games that we're preparing. Um,
Speaker 1: you know so much for it, and we're putting all
Speaker 1: this hard work and energy into these practices. It's good
Speaker 1: to get out there and you know, even in a
Speaker 1: walk through setting to to kind of feel the atmosphere
Speaker 1: of being at the stadium. So I think we got
Speaker 1: a lot out of it. We talked a little bit
Speaker 1: about the accolades of Nate Holly, new Dolphins safety coming
Speaker 1: over from the Canadian Football League. Here's coach Flora's talking
Speaker 1: about that signing and what Nate Holly brings to the
Speaker 1: Dolphins defense and special teams. You know, Nate's a good
Speaker 1: year in the CFL a year ago. Um, he's fast,
Speaker 1: he's tough, you know, as far as positions, you know,
Speaker 1: right now, we're just gonna get him out there, probably
Speaker 1: more in the safety role safety by as special team,
Speaker 1: but he's played some linebackers, so you know, look, his
Speaker 1: role is gonna be what he makes it. Like we
Speaker 1: tell all all the all the players on the team, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't. I don't consider myself. I'm not
Speaker 1: a really good recruiter. I mean that's that's that's no,
Speaker 1: that wasn't my role in this. Uh but you know
Speaker 1: it came in. He worked out and did a good job.
Speaker 1: I want to work out, but I think you know,
Speaker 1: an opportunity to play on any NFL teams is a
Speaker 1: is a it's a privilege. So m he took the opportunity,
Speaker 1: and you know, we're happy to have him. He says
Speaker 1: it all the time, but I love that phrasing. Your
Speaker 1: role is gonna be what you make it on this
Speaker 1: football team. Next, coach was asked about how often he
Speaker 1: feels like Ryan Fitzpatrick makes him forget that he's actually
Speaker 1: thirty seven years old. I talked about his touchdown run
Speaker 1: during Saturday's practice and how much it looks like he
Speaker 1: still just enjoys being out here. Here's coach Floress talking
Speaker 1: about Ryan Fitzpatrick at thirty seven, showing his youthful side.
Speaker 1: You know, probably every day, you know, I'm thirty nine
Speaker 1: and it's hard to think that I could go out
Speaker 1: there and you know, getting a huddle and run around
Speaker 1: with these guys, you know, as much as he does.
Speaker 1: So look, it's a testament to the way he works
Speaker 1: in the off season and his work ethic and his
Speaker 1: town and ability. So he's a good player. He's a
Speaker 1: competitive guy, he's smart, and he just has you know,
Speaker 1: good feel for you know, the quarterback position. He's got
Speaker 1: good leadership. So probably every day and that will do it.
Speaker 1: If you want to go see Coach Floors his entire
Speaker 1: press conference, you can check that out on Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: dot com, on our YouTube page, basically wherever the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins are you can find that content. We'll go ahead
Speaker 1: and now and turn it over to the practice notes
Speaker 1: for the day on this Monday, Augus edition, the sixth
Speaker 1: day of padded practices, and we start as we do
Speaker 1: every day, with a few notes here. Jerome Baker was
Speaker 1: back out on the practice field, so that was good
Speaker 1: to see. A few players did not finish practice, however,
Speaker 1: linebacker Kyle van Noy, running back Patrick Laired, and cornerback
Speaker 1: Noah ig Bitogamy. We're not out there at the end
Speaker 1: of practice. We'll go ahead and get you guys an
Speaker 1: update on them just as soon as we have it.
Speaker 1: It was a bit of a lighter practice on Monday,
Speaker 1: lots of special teams work, and as you know, coach
Speaker 1: will harp on the importance of the kicking game as
Speaker 1: much as he possibly can, so no surprise there. They
Speaker 1: opened up practice with some kid cutting on the music,
Speaker 1: so that was a plus, especially since it was the
Speaker 1: first time I've heard a song that I recognized so
Speaker 1: far in training camp. The bad news was the cherry
Speaker 1: pickers were setting up on the far field, which makes
Speaker 1: it a lot more difficult to get you real insight
Speaker 1: and analysis on the plays as they happen, particularly on
Speaker 1: the offensive and defensive line up front. And boy was
Speaker 1: it windy out there. The roster cards we all get
Speaker 1: every day, we're blowing all over the place. At one
Speaker 1: point my sunglasses on the table, even those as heavy
Speaker 1: as they are, shifted off the platform. But we welcome
Speaker 1: that weather here on these hot summer days. I only
Speaker 1: broke a mild sweat today, so that was a big plus.
Speaker 1: Up on the media press row, my first note from
Speaker 1: the individual drills is that Christian Wilkins, we talked about
Speaker 1: this just looks so much slimmer and is moving around
Speaker 1: like he is too. I saw him drop into the
Speaker 1: hook zone during the individual drills and snatch a one
Speaker 1: handed interception up over his head. He is so athletic
Speaker 1: for a guy that wighs three hundred and fifteen pounds.
Speaker 1: I saw Xavian Howard down on the field doing some
Speaker 1: conditioning drills. He was bouncing around pretty good, so that
Speaker 1: was nice to see from the Dolphin's cornerback. Got my
Speaker 1: eyes over in the linebackers and watched Kyle van Noy
Speaker 1: for a couple of drills. He was working on his
Speaker 1: hand drills in the individuals and the rush moves, and
Speaker 1: you see all that stuff come together with lateral agility
Speaker 1: to run all those stunts and twists and games up front.
Speaker 1: We love to see it's clockwork for this guy. He
Speaker 1: really stands out among the rest in that way. Gary
Speaker 1: Jennings touchdown at the end of practice a bonus red
Speaker 1: zone period from two a tongue of violoa. More on
Speaker 1: that here in just one moment, but he really caught
Speaker 1: my eye throughout the course of the day. In the
Speaker 1: individual drills. He just looks bigger than the sixth one
Speaker 1: that he's listed at. In my opinion, I find his
Speaker 1: release game very interesting as well. He had one where
Speaker 1: he didn't even contact the dummy the coach was holding
Speaker 1: up across from him. In those individual drills working on
Speaker 1: the release off the line of scrimmage, he just worked
Speaker 1: around it with some shifty moves. Shows you some of
Speaker 1: the short area bursts that really made him so productive
Speaker 1: in college. On the other side, the cornerbacks were working
Speaker 1: on playing the inside shoulder and trying to run that
Speaker 1: inside shoulder to the sideline to really help pin the
Speaker 1: receiver up against the perimeter. I've seen Noah Ignogamy drill
Speaker 1: this and then rerap it and practice during those team
Speaker 1: periods and really make it effective when you're going live
Speaker 1: against the receivers on the other side of the ball.
Speaker 1: Seeing that several times there from Noah watched the cornerbacks
Speaker 1: do it all day in the pre practice portion. Then
Speaker 1: I gotta look at Malcolm Perry just watching him do everything.
Speaker 1: It's all just so fast. He's so springy in the
Speaker 1: way he can get to a spot and then explode
Speaker 1: off that plant foot and just move around as a receiver,
Speaker 1: as a running back, whatever you want him to do.
Speaker 1: He just looks explosive in all aspects of the game.
Speaker 1: And Preston Williams is similar, which is crazy because he's
Speaker 1: six ft five. He's not as shifty obviously, but man,
Speaker 1: he is so smooth and has such quick feet for
Speaker 1: a guy that size. We'll hear from Preston here in
Speaker 1: just one minute, and we'll also hear from Ryan Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: on both of his receivers, and Williams and Parker and
Speaker 1: back on the topic of the wind here, each of
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks, I thought through the ball exceptionally well through
Speaker 1: that wind and can really push the ball through the wind,
Speaker 1: but fits into a we're just layering the ball all
Speaker 1: over the place, showing some really good zip as well.
Speaker 1: Good work out there by all three of those guys.
Speaker 1: On Monday, Flowers and Wilkins had a bit of a
Speaker 1: chip chat after a rep, if you want to call
Speaker 1: it that. Wilkins tried to bull rush Eric Flowers and
Speaker 1: he just walled it off and completely dropped the anchor there.
Speaker 1: They stayed engaged for a little bit, gut each other's faces,
Speaker 1: and then it ended with a quick shove and they
Speaker 1: were back to being buddies again, but a little bit
Speaker 1: hippy there in camp as it can be. And then
Speaker 1: during the one on one portion of practice, I had
Speaker 1: a couple of wins here in that portion. Shack Lawson
Speaker 1: had a nice win on Austin Jackson, Danny Isadora had
Speaker 1: a nice win on Zach Seeler, Andrew Van Ginkle put
Speaker 1: Julian Davenport on his back on one pass rush move.
Speaker 1: Bobby McCain came down and the coverage drills and covered
Speaker 1: up Isaiah Ford and man, he really stays in that
Speaker 1: hip pocket. Really good coverage there. I just haven't seen
Speaker 1: any mistakes from Bobby or a bad plays from Bobby
Speaker 1: all camp long. He had a very strong camp so far.
Speaker 1: We'll touch more on him and just one second. Dietrich
Speaker 1: Nichols had a really good rep on Preston Williams. He
Speaker 1: did very well to not get stacked. Then Preston tried
Speaker 1: to come back down on a comeback route and he
Speaker 1: played through the player very well, but it's not make
Speaker 1: contact and got his hands on the football. Very impressive
Speaker 1: rep there from Dietrich Nichols. Lawson again getting after in
Speaker 1: the one on one, did a little dance move after
Speaker 1: a second pass rush win. Then I got my eyes
Speaker 1: on Nathan Holly for the first rep of the day,
Speaker 1: and I saw him put a tight end on the
Speaker 1: ground in that five yard window where you can press
Speaker 1: the receiver and the ball sailed in complete. Very aggressive
Speaker 1: but in control. With that first rep I saw, I
Speaker 1: saw Jennings contested goal line route. He pulled down a
Speaker 1: fade over Tay Hayes. After that, he had a really
Speaker 1: good day on this Monday practice. And then Bobby wants
Speaker 1: again another good job in coverage running a route for
Speaker 1: the receiver. I couldn't see who it was, but Bobby
Speaker 1: ran inside and snagged himself an interception in that one
Speaker 1: on one period. All right, let's go ahead and get
Speaker 1: to the teeth of it all here the team period
Speaker 1: of practice, and I'm just gonna start here again with
Speaker 1: Devanta Parker. He continues to make big plays, and he's
Speaker 1: doing it in a variety of ways. We know about
Speaker 1: the vertical, down filled ability of Davanta Parker, where he
Speaker 1: can high point the ball and outrebound everybody on the field,
Speaker 1: but we also heard him talk about working on other
Speaker 1: routes like the comeback we talked on I think it
Speaker 1: was Saturday's show about him catching a comeback to kick
Speaker 1: off practice. Well, today he caught one in the middle
Speaker 1: of the field, working through traffic on an inbreaking route,
Speaker 1: really rounding out his game and just looking like a
Speaker 1: complete receiver at this point. And you'll hear Fitzpatrick talk
Speaker 1: about this a little bit later on. He had another
Speaker 1: touchdown catch where Byron Jones actually breaks up the past
Speaker 1: but Davante, as he is wont to do, he stays
Speaker 1: with it as he's falling to the ground and snatches
Speaker 1: the ball for a touchdown. He caught another pass later
Speaker 1: on in team period that was a bit low, but
Speaker 1: he went down and dug it out of the turf
Speaker 1: for another chunk game. Just a big time playmaker so
Speaker 1: far here through six days of padded practices. Very impressive
Speaker 1: for Davanta Parker. Now. I mentioned Byron Jones and there
Speaker 1: he's been on Parker and Williams now for six practices
Speaker 1: and it's just been a heavy weight, all out match
Speaker 1: up every single time. He had a rep where I
Speaker 1: really appreciated where it was third down an eight or so,
Speaker 1: and he played it patient to let Preston Williams catch
Speaker 1: the ball underneath, but closed down quickly for it would
Speaker 1: be tackle short of the sticks. Then again later in
Speaker 1: red zone when Williams got on top of him, Fits
Speaker 1: tried to throw the ball flat where you don't arc
Speaker 1: the ball so much, you just throw a straight line,
Speaker 1: and Jones was able to poke his hand in there
Speaker 1: at the last minute and force an incompletion on that pass.
Speaker 1: The other Jones Brandon Jones, Man, this guy moved so well.
Speaker 1: You're gonna hear Andrew Van Geekl later on talk about
Speaker 1: the manipulation of the offense for the how the defense
Speaker 1: wants to change the way the offense perceives things, and
Speaker 1: then hit him with another look on the defensive side.
Speaker 1: That's why I see a lot of Brandon Jones is
Speaker 1: a game because he closes ground in such a hurry.
Speaker 1: He's active both pre and post nap every single play
Speaker 1: out there. Another guy who was getting after every snap,
Speaker 1: it seemed on Monday, was Davon Gotcha with a big practice.
Speaker 1: He started off the team period with a big tackle
Speaker 1: for loss where he broke through, wrapped up the back
Speaker 1: and kind of chucked him, but like in the safe
Speaker 1: and smart way, a good teammate way, and he was
Speaker 1: in the backfield a lot on Monday. My favorite thing
Speaker 1: about Devon is watching the surge he gets with the
Speaker 1: initial contract contact, always resetting the line of scrimmage across
Speaker 1: from him. The defense in general was getting good kind
Speaker 1: of trade early in this practice, I thought Shack Lawson
Speaker 1: had a good day both as a pass rusher and
Speaker 1: against the run. He had a sack and then he
Speaker 1: came off the edge with a really impressive rundown rep
Speaker 1: in the red zone period, and that's where his game
Speaker 1: really shines on tape. Consistently playing that strong edge in
Speaker 1: the running game, and he showed the power to knock
Speaker 1: his man back and then worked off the block for
Speaker 1: a tackle for loss. I had stopped in the first
Speaker 1: period for God shop for Jack Lawson, Rae Kwon Davis,
Speaker 1: Jason Strowbridge, Zach Seiler, and Christian Wilkins all getting in
Speaker 1: there and getting active against the running game. And speaking
Speaker 1: of Zack Seeler, he continues to have a very strong
Speaker 1: training camp. He shocks with that power and that length,
Speaker 1: but I've also seen him doing a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: or the first step is working sideways, showing you some
Speaker 1: lateral agility. Big news for a guy that big. It's
Speaker 1: very impressive the way he moves at that size. The
Speaker 1: first period ends with a long touchdown past seventy yards
Speaker 1: coming off the arm of rookie quarterback to a tonga Byloa.
Speaker 1: And he had himself quite a day on Monday. He
Speaker 1: started off early, and I talked with John con Jemmy
Speaker 1: on our platform a solid fifteen feet apart up there
Speaker 1: on press Row about how the ball comes out quick.
Speaker 1: A lot of the same things you see on the
Speaker 1: Bama tape, you see it out here at Dolphins practice.
Speaker 1: His first rip was on a slant pass to mac
Speaker 1: Hollins to set the touchdown play up. Then, of course
Speaker 1: a long touchdown to Malcolm Perry. Coverage was tight underneath,
Speaker 1: but Perry did well to stack it and the ball
Speaker 1: could not have been handed there any better than it was.
Speaker 1: Really a perfect deep pass for a guy who broke
Speaker 1: records in college throwing the football vertically down the football field.
Speaker 1: He had a really nice throw on the move to
Speaker 1: mac Hollins later on again, on a first and tent
Speaker 1: from the fifteen yard line, working on red zone. Hollins
Speaker 1: was moving towards the perimeter and to a stepped up
Speaker 1: and moved and put the ball right on the money
Speaker 1: for a nice toe drag. He then ended practice with
Speaker 1: another impressive touchdown throw, this one to Ricardo Lewis where
Speaker 1: he stepped up and out of pressure off the edge
Speaker 1: from Tishan render more on him and just one second
Speaker 1: and as to a kind of approached the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: he throws a deep in breaking route to Ricardo Lewis,
Speaker 1: who turned and the ball was just right on the
Speaker 1: bread basket, never broke stride went in for six for
Speaker 1: another touchdown. Past there another touchdown, this one coming on
Speaker 1: the ground from a guy who has a big run
Speaker 1: every single it seemed so far, in Jordan Howard from
Speaker 1: fifteen yards out. Both Eric Flowers and Austin Jackson took
Speaker 1: out the edge in the running game and Howard escaped
Speaker 1: off that side and ran for a touchdown. He also
Speaker 1: caught a big block on the outside from Preston Williams,
Speaker 1: something coach loves talking about his receivers those big guys
Speaker 1: blocking on the perimeter. I also noted how well Jerome
Speaker 1: Baker has been at fitting gaps so far in camp.
Speaker 1: We talked about the defensive lineman getting there for the
Speaker 1: running game, but he came down for a big run
Speaker 1: stop in red zone and hasn't a good job without
Speaker 1: the course of six practices. I think you're gonna see
Speaker 1: a very fast player play even faster now in year
Speaker 1: two of the system. Back to Tyshan Render, he had
Speaker 1: himself a day a lot of two US throws that
Speaker 1: he was stepping up from pressure. A lot of that
Speaker 1: was coming from number sixty four. I also noted one
Speaker 1: play that was perhaps my favorite of camp so far.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of weird. I'll take an effort play over
Speaker 1: a seventy yard touchdown just about any single day of
Speaker 1: the week. On an outside run, Render throws his initial
Speaker 1: punch at the offensive line, saw the play get outside
Speaker 1: and chased it down to the sideline and finish it
Speaker 1: off with a nice push out of bounds. He wonted
Speaker 1: a award at Middle Tennessee for hustling, a hustle type
Speaker 1: of award they award every single year there, and earned
Speaker 1: all kinds of praise from his coaches down there at
Speaker 1: Middle Tennessee. You saw it right there on that play.
Speaker 1: A couple of cornerbacks I thought had a very good
Speaker 1: day are having a really strong camp, and Nick need
Speaker 1: Hum and Ta Hayes. Needham had a couple of pass breakups,
Speaker 1: one on Preston Williams. Good on good there and just
Speaker 1: continues to limit completions when they throw at him, which
Speaker 1: is not very often either, by the way. And Ta
Speaker 1: Hayes had a really nice pass rep where he squats
Speaker 1: on the route to tries to throw it at the
Speaker 1: sticks and he forces a throwaway just squatting on the
Speaker 1: route and being involved in where the receiver was and
Speaker 1: reading the quarterback's eyes to that particular spot. There was
Speaker 1: a break in the action where the quarterbacks were throwing
Speaker 1: to a net just after Josh Rosen completes a nice
Speaker 1: pass to move the chains on third and five to
Speaker 1: finish up the team period, the first team period rather
Speaker 1: of practice, and the quarterbacks threw the football into this net,
Speaker 1: the same one you saw the Chargers throwing to the
Speaker 1: stationary net at practice on Hard Knocks. I think it
Speaker 1: was the first episode, but the quarterbacks were doing this
Speaker 1: throwing to the net, and it was located on the
Speaker 1: end line of the back of the zone. The quarterbacks
Speaker 1: were out on the fifteen yard line, so a twenty
Speaker 1: five yard throw on one hash mark, they would line
Speaker 1: the net up on the other side of the field.
Speaker 1: By the numbers, and a lot of these throws hit
Speaker 1: the rim the outside of that net, but I counted
Speaker 1: those because it was very windy and twenty five yards
Speaker 1: to the other side of the field, it's not an
Speaker 1: easy throw to get that accurate. So I had both
Speaker 1: Fits and to at six of ten throws and Josh
Speaker 1: Rosen with five of ten on that particular drill. Pretty
Speaker 1: good work there from the quarterbacks once again. Then to
Speaker 1: close it out in the two minute portion, Fits has
Speaker 1: himself a hell of a drive after the first play
Speaker 1: goes incomplete and the incompletion was caused by e Landed Roberts.
Speaker 1: I've talked about him a lot in the running game,
Speaker 1: but I saw some really good stuff from him in
Speaker 1: the passing game, including a lockdown rep on the tight
Speaker 1: end where he just carried the route all the way
Speaker 1: through and broke up the past. Devon Godcha also had
Speaker 1: good pressure on that play, by the way, helping to
Speaker 1: cause the incompletion, but Fits picked him up and took
Speaker 1: him down the field, including a really nice throw down
Speaker 1: the middle of the field to Durham Smith who caught
Speaker 1: up between a pair of defenders and ripped off a
Speaker 1: nice run for about forty or so yards. The defense
Speaker 1: then forces three straight incomplete and capped it off with
Speaker 1: a Bobby McCain interception on a fourth down play. The
Speaker 1: balls tipped up in tight coverage and McCain comes out
Speaker 1: of nowhere and made a diving catch on the field.
Speaker 1: He's been everywhere in camp playing super fast and again
Speaker 1: something you're gonna hear from Andrew Van Ginkle talking about
Speaker 1: here on the podcast and just one second about how
Speaker 1: they can play with so much more speed and your
Speaker 1: number two for a rookie like Van Ginkle, I think
Speaker 1: you might see the same thing for guys like Bobby
Speaker 1: McCain who have the second year experience in this defense.
Speaker 1: So there you go. Really nice day from the quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Tough to get a great evaluation on the offensive line
Speaker 1: from that vantage point. Some excellent battles between Jones versus
Speaker 1: Parker and Williams. Big days for god shall lost on
Speaker 1: off the edge. And with that, let's now go ahead
Speaker 1: and turn things over to the media availability starting with
Speaker 1: quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick, and I wanted to ask him about
Speaker 1: what he's seen so far in the growth and your
Speaker 1: number two of receiver, Preston Williams. If it's how you doing,
Speaker 1: man um. I wanted to ask you about the growth
Speaker 1: you've seen so far from Preston Williams and year two
Speaker 1: here coming into the early stages of the second season.
Speaker 1: He produced a lot last year before his injury, obviously,
Speaker 1: but what do you see here in the first week
Speaker 1: or two of practice that tells you that he can
Speaker 1: get right back to that level and beyond. Well, Preston
Speaker 1: has a great guy to watch first of all, in
Speaker 1: DeVante Parker and the way that he works and goes
Speaker 1: about his business. Uh, Preston is very unique just in
Speaker 1: terms of his physical qualities. Um, you know, the height
Speaker 1: to weight, the speed, the how nimble is all that stuff,
Speaker 1: his ability to track the ball and he you know,
Speaker 1: and having to sit out, he always kind of looked
Speaker 1: for the silver lining or maybe the positives in a
Speaker 1: situation that isn't so positive. So him getting hurt last year,
Speaker 1: he was also just able to take a step back
Speaker 1: and watch a little bit and learn the game a
Speaker 1: little bit more. And I know he worked his butt
Speaker 1: off all offseason and that was really apparent as we
Speaker 1: came back, uh, just in seeing him and all the
Speaker 1: work that he put in. And he's done a great job.
Speaker 1: I think his confidence is high right now, and that's
Speaker 1: important for those guys, and and rightfully so, because he's
Speaker 1: playing really well. But we're excited to have him, uh
Speaker 1: you know, have him out there healthy and going, and
Speaker 1: he's doing a good job. You hear him mention. Both
Speaker 1: Parker and Williams there fitz are talked about having the
Speaker 1: two guys on the outside with that size and the
Speaker 1: advantages it brings, you know, having having two big guys
Speaker 1: on the outside with those qualities. They can go up
Speaker 1: and get the ball, They're good route runners, are smart players. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think that makes it difficult for a defense,
Speaker 1: not just being able to key in on one guy,
Speaker 1: and um, you know the way that we're working right now,
Speaker 1: the way that because those guys are showing up every day,
Speaker 1: it's given our offense. I think our team a lot
Speaker 1: of confidence going forward. Fits then talk about the unique
Speaker 1: nature of this offseason, how the offense can kind of
Speaker 1: start to build some of the confidence throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the season, but also how they might have to
Speaker 1: find their identity in the season and the absence of
Speaker 1: a preseason. We're gonna have to try to figure out
Speaker 1: early on in the season, what our identity is going
Speaker 1: to be and the strengths and weaknesses of the football
Speaker 1: team and what we can lean on. But we know that, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we've got two good guys on the outside.
Speaker 1: We've got a a competition going on, guys on the
Speaker 1: inside right now fighting for playing time. You know, our
Speaker 1: backs are doing a great job as well. So as
Speaker 1: the season goes on, we're going to figure out who
Speaker 1: we are and play to our strengths. And I think
Speaker 1: that's something that will be constantly evolving early on, just
Speaker 1: as we figure out where we're at as a team.
Speaker 1: And now we get an evaluation on rookie quarterback to
Speaker 1: a tongue of byaloa from perhaps the best person to
Speaker 1: give us an evaluation on that and quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick.
Speaker 1: Here he is talking about the rookies progress so far
Speaker 1: and how you view quarterback play at the stage of camp. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's doing a great job. And it's you know, I know,
Speaker 1: what's your guys job to look at and evaluate every
Speaker 1: single day and every throw, but uh, you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's something for us as quarterbacks and for me, I
Speaker 1: just like to see progress and sometimes it's not necessarily
Speaker 1: a completion, but it's the thought process and making sure
Speaker 1: the ball is going to the right spot at the
Speaker 1: right time. Um, you know, so there's not this Sometimes
Speaker 1: there's not gonna be some things are not gonna look pretty,
Speaker 1: but it's the right decision and that's for me to
Speaker 1: step in the right direction. Sometimes you're gonna see a
Speaker 1: long touchdown or something and it wasn't necessarily the right play,
Speaker 1: So you guys are gonna laud it, but maybe it
Speaker 1: wasn't you know what we're trying to get done. So
Speaker 1: there's a lot of different parts of the evaluation process.
Speaker 1: And for me, I just like to see, you know,
Speaker 1: first of all, confidence and and make a mistake, get
Speaker 1: out there, uh you know, put it behind you and
Speaker 1: go play the next play. And I like that a
Speaker 1: lot about them. And then secondly, just the progression of uh,
Speaker 1: is he going to the right place? Is he going
Speaker 1: on time? And we're making a lot of progress in
Speaker 1: that area too, And um, I think that's the offense
Speaker 1: in general, and everybody getting a better grasp of it
Speaker 1: as they're moving forward. Receivers are doing a good job
Speaker 1: beating in the right spot. A quarterbacks are doing a
Speaker 1: decent job and finding them as well. And now we
Speaker 1: get one of those targets Fitzpatrick talked about in a
Speaker 1: few of those questions with wide receiver Preston Williams, and
Speaker 1: the first question posed to about his rehab this offseason
Speaker 1: coming back from the a c L, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: hear press and talk about how hard he worked to
Speaker 1: get back onto the field my first row YO with
Speaker 1: the a c O the knee injury. So no, I
Speaker 1: just not needed to work as hard as I can
Speaker 1: to get beat in time for camp. Uh just came
Speaker 1: here every day, stay here the whole summer season, work
Speaker 1: my heaths off. Now get him my roots at practice.
Speaker 1: So to have you to be out there with the guys.
Speaker 1: And to conclude that rookie season, he was ultra productive
Speaker 1: in those first eight games. Here is Preston talking about
Speaker 1: his rookie year and how he can improve upon that
Speaker 1: going in to a second season as a professional. My
Speaker 1: last year was getting my feet with uh. You know,
Speaker 1: just approve you know as a player from last year,
Speaker 1: you know a lot of them buzz like pul the cup.
Speaker 1: I got to catch and make those plays. Just overall,
Speaker 1: be a better player. Gang slow down a little bit
Speaker 1: to me. So they gotta have a better year this year.
Speaker 1: Up next, here's Preston talking about his relationship with DeVante
Speaker 1: Parker and how they feed off one another on Sundays. Now,
Speaker 1: we just we just beat off each other. U Demante
Speaker 1: make a play. I want to make a play. Uh,
Speaker 1: I make a play once. They want to make a play.
Speaker 1: So you know, we do every we need to do.
Speaker 1: The healthy team. Hey Preston, good to see you, man.
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you how you're adapting to the
Speaker 1: new system and the new terminology here under chan Gailey
Speaker 1: and how this offense benefits your skill set. Um, I'm
Speaker 1: pretty pretty well, uh blinding more positions. Um, it's more simpler,
Speaker 1: I can said that. Uh. But like I think it's
Speaker 1: our friends pretty well, you know, just looking at the
Speaker 1: past Threek, what we had with Brandon Marshall and this
Speaker 1: same body frame and stuff. So I think this offense is,
Speaker 1: you know, really unique. And I like you. And we'll
Speaker 1: go ahead and close up here with the common theme
Speaker 1: among Jachem, Grant, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Chan Gailey. We've talked to
Speaker 1: all of them about the receiver's freedom in this offense
Speaker 1: to get open. Here's Preston Williams on the freedom he
Speaker 1: has in this offense to help himself get open and
Speaker 1: show the quarterback is numbers to make a big target
Speaker 1: and make plays in the passing game. Coach Chaine, I
Speaker 1: always say get open. That's a number one job. So
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of freedom, and you know you've
Speaker 1: got time. You said you got a lot of time
Speaker 1: to work, to work to DV and get open so
Speaker 1: open as I you know, as always trying to do.
Speaker 1: And we'll finish it up here with Andrew Van Ginkl,
Speaker 1: who first starts about a question talking about his play strength,
Speaker 1: how he's worked to improve that and how he can
Speaker 1: apply that to the field on Sundays. You know, I
Speaker 1: just spent most of this offseason with some strength coaches
Speaker 1: and really just worked on tone of minecraft and just
Speaker 1: getting stronger in all areas. Um, you know, that's something
Speaker 1: that I knew I needed to work on and focus on. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know, I went into the offseason dedicated and determined
Speaker 1: to get stronger. So I think it's just in all areas. Hey, Andrew,
Speaker 1: Joe kind of told my question there, but I kind
Speaker 1: of wanted to ask to go a little further on that, Um,
Speaker 1: what does that adage strength for a player at your
Speaker 1: position do for your game? Like that? Where what avenues
Speaker 1: can it really help you on the field just to
Speaker 1: get stronger and well, obviously I'm taking on big old
Speaker 1: alignment and then um tight ends, you know, so they
Speaker 1: got a lot of weight on me. So I need,
Speaker 1: you know, to be able to put up with that
Speaker 1: and um hold them. And you know, especially at the
Speaker 1: point of attack, I need to be able to set
Speaker 1: the edge and um, you know, take on tackles and
Speaker 1: tight ends or over the case. Maybe And as promised earlier,
Speaker 1: here is Andrew Van Giggle talking about the big jump
Speaker 1: from year one to year two and just being more
Speaker 1: comfortable in the NFL, not being a rookie and having
Speaker 1: the second year and the first year under your belt
Speaker 1: rather heading into your number two. Yeah, for sure, I think, Um,
Speaker 1: just where I'm at with the playbook, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't have to think about that or go out and
Speaker 1: study before practice. You know, I can more still work
Speaker 1: on my technique and not really have to focus on
Speaker 1: what I need to do where I need to be.
Speaker 1: You know. It's more how can I get better? How
Speaker 1: can I you know, be tackles are just work on
Speaker 1: my technique. I think that's been the biggest game in
Speaker 1: my second year right now. And speaking of veteran experience,
Speaker 1: here is Andrew van Gekle's response to a question posed
Speaker 1: to him about all the additions the Dolph has made
Speaker 1: in free agency, guys like Shack Lawson and Manu Agball,
Speaker 1: Kyle van Noy, and how they've helped him grow and
Speaker 1: learn his game so far. Entering your number two, I
Speaker 1: think it's big, just especially how they pass, rush and
Speaker 1: get after the quarterback. The different moves I've learned, um,
Speaker 1: you know, like you said, yeah, we brought in a
Speaker 1: lot of experience with you know, Kyle Vanoy and um
Speaker 1: like Shack and a bunch of those edge guys. So
Speaker 1: being able to get after the quarterback, the different moves
Speaker 1: and how they like to um, you know, play check
Speaker 1: or it's chest not checkers, right, So just being able
Speaker 1: to manipulate a linemen and get them to think one
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