Speaker 1: Practice are alps Paford part touchdown. What a win for
Speaker 1: this Miami Dolphin team? Wow? What is up? Dolphins? And
Speaker 1: welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins official podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: each and every day. How's it going everybody? It is Wednesday.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I am here
Speaker 1: to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football.
Speaker 1: And on today's show, we are on top of the
Speaker 1: hump hump day of the week and hump day of
Speaker 1: training camp. Seven practices down, seven more to go, and
Speaker 1: we've got you covered on number eight. Today we're gonna
Speaker 1: hear from coach here in just one second, Nick Needham,
Speaker 1: Cavon Fraser, and Durham Smith plus all the news and
Speaker 1: notes from the day on the field. All of that
Speaker 1: and more on this Wednesday, Training Camp August edition of
Speaker 1: the Drivetime Podcast Miami Dolphins. And it kind of goes
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Speaker 1: news to come out. The news last night after the
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Speaker 1: pick from this last April, was in fact claimed by
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns after being waves slash injured on Monday.
Speaker 1: On Tuesday, the Browns put the claim in, so Curtis
Speaker 1: Weaver goes north up to Cleveland. We're gonna go ahead
Speaker 1: and get to coaches media here in just one second,
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Speaker 1: gonna have the second Drive Time Training Camp Special. It
Speaker 1: is a video show recapping all the day's events out
Speaker 1: here in Davy on the Dolphins training camp practice field.
Speaker 1: Hopefully the weather will be a little bit more cooperative
Speaker 1: this time around. Last week we had to go in
Speaker 1: the studio. Hopefully this time we can get outside, shoot
Speaker 1: that thing outside, give you guys plenty of good b roll,
Speaker 1: some interviews. We're gonna have Isaiah Ford on the interview
Speaker 1: for that particular episode, so do not forget to check
Speaker 1: that episode out. Also go back and check out the
Speaker 1: first episode from last Thursday to get you caught up
Speaker 1: on all the latest and greatest here from Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: training camp. And on that note, let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: turn to Wednesday, Brian Flores's media availability. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and kick it off here. Having officials on the football
Speaker 1: field for the first time on Tuesday's practice and how
Speaker 1: beneficial it is to have more of a game like
Speaker 1: atmosphere on the practice field. Yeah, I thought it was
Speaker 1: great to have the officials out there and get more
Speaker 1: of a live or a real look at game atmosphere.
Speaker 1: Would would would be like as you would imagine in
Speaker 1: the training camp setting. There's a lot of chatter about
Speaker 1: that would have been a foul, this would have been holding,
Speaker 1: or this would have been passing inference or it was
Speaker 1: good to get him out there. We tried, you know,
Speaker 1: and I tried to talk to the players about not
Speaker 1: worrying about the official moving on to the next play.
Speaker 1: So it was nice to let them call it, let
Speaker 1: them handle it, and whether you agree disagree, you know,
Speaker 1: we just have to move on. There were also just
Speaker 1: some things that we could have done better. We had
Speaker 1: a couple of delayed games yesterday. Um. You know, there's
Speaker 1: a potential a close to old men in a huddle, um,
Speaker 1: and those are those are penalties. We can take care
Speaker 1: of ourselves as as long as we're paying attention to
Speaker 1: detail and we're you know, as a coaching staff and
Speaker 1: as players where we're on top of things. So it
Speaker 1: was it's it's always great to have the officials and
Speaker 1: you know, to have a game like atmospheres, you know,
Speaker 1: if it really felt like football watching Hard Knocks on
Speaker 1: Tuesday night and they talked about going to a live drill.
Speaker 1: Live just means tackling is game situation. You can take
Speaker 1: guys to the ground, tackle and pretty much just play
Speaker 1: football all the way. That's obviously not what most teams
Speaker 1: do in training camp. For for the most part, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be more hold guys up, don't take them to
Speaker 1: the ground, protect yourself. So I asked coach how he
Speaker 1: evaluates the running backs without having live periods and how
Speaker 1: he feels the running back room is doing so far
Speaker 1: here in training camp. Good More and coach Um, I'm
Speaker 1: curious about your evaluation of the running game and the
Speaker 1: running backs in particular. How do you evaluate backs in
Speaker 1: a situation where maybe the tackling isn't necessarily live and
Speaker 1: how would you evaluate your running back room so far
Speaker 1: through seven days of camp if there's a lot of
Speaker 1: competition in that room, Um, with Jordan's, with Brita, with Gasking,
Speaker 1: with a large layer. You know, each had their own
Speaker 1: unique skill set. It's been a physical camp. You know,
Speaker 1: obviously we're not taking them to the ground, but there
Speaker 1: is contact defensively on offensive defensive line, so get a
Speaker 1: pretty good feel for who's getting yards what what. You know,
Speaker 1: who would break what tackle. But you know, at the
Speaker 1: running back position, it's are they making the right cut?
Speaker 1: And I think each guy's UH had some good moments,
Speaker 1: had some not so good moments. We're all kind of
Speaker 1: getting better after each rep. UM. The blocking from a
Speaker 1: protection standpoint has been good, UH for the most part,
Speaker 1: as at least as far as knowing who to who
Speaker 1: to block and where to go. You know, in the
Speaker 1: past game. You know they're you know, I think they're
Speaker 1: doing a good job in the pass game as well.
Speaker 1: So a good group out of competition, and we just
Speaker 1: stood that, you know, uh, seven training camp or I
Speaker 1: don't know what day it is, seven or eight training
Speaker 1: camp had a days left in Uh, they'll keep competing.
Speaker 1: On the topic of competing, no matchup, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: has been more competitive than Devonte Parker and Byron Jones,
Speaker 1: or Preston Williams on Byron Jones. Pretty much any receiver
Speaker 1: going up against Byron Jones has been a great battle
Speaker 1: all training camp long. Here is coach talking about Byron
Speaker 1: Jones getting acclimated here to the South Florida heat and
Speaker 1: improving every single day and just an overall evaluation of
Speaker 1: Miami's new cornerback and Byron Jones. I think it's I
Speaker 1: think he's done a good job. But you know, as
Speaker 1: you you put it, I mean he's he's getting acclimated. Um.
Speaker 1: I think you know, the heat down here for a
Speaker 1: lot of players is um it's something you gotta get
Speaker 1: acclimated to. I know when I when I and I
Speaker 1: showed up here something I had to get accommitted to
Speaker 1: as well. Practice has been competitive between you know, he DeVante,
Speaker 1: Preston King, Um really that receiver dB UM competition that's
Speaker 1: that's going on on there has been has been good
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, Byron is a good player. UM.
Speaker 1: I think he's improving every day. He'll continue to improve.
Speaker 1: So he puts the work in UM. He's very diligent.
Speaker 1: Obviously the new system, he's still still learning UM some
Speaker 1: of the nuances you know within the system. But I
Speaker 1: think he's progressing well. And those guys that Byron Jones
Speaker 1: goes up against every day and practice the wide receivers.
Speaker 1: Here's coach talking about the wide receiver room and in
Speaker 1: particular the slot position. You know, as far as you
Speaker 1: know slot, we've had a few guys working in there.
Speaker 1: We've had somebody outside receivers working there as well. Kamat
Speaker 1: has been there a little bit, President be there, a
Speaker 1: little bit uh cheme like you mentioned I said four.
Speaker 1: I think he's done a good job in there. You
Speaker 1: know Chim as well. But I think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of a lot of competition that at
Speaker 1: that position. We're going to bring the you know, let's
Speaker 1: call it five or six seven best guys that we
Speaker 1: feel it and help us win, and we'll be productive
Speaker 1: and block, do things in the kicking game, and do
Speaker 1: things in the slot. And I think that that whole
Speaker 1: group's done well. Jachem's part of that, and you mentioned
Speaker 1: specifically he's part of that as well. I think they're
Speaker 1: all working on all compete. So and so then we
Speaker 1: dive into the practice notes by letting you know that
Speaker 1: it was a pretty light day on Wednesday, nothing really
Speaker 1: to report on a team period session standpoint, and we
Speaker 1: did have some guys returned to practice and some good
Speaker 1: one on one actions. We can go ahead and detail
Speaker 1: that on the podcast. Let's go ahead and do that
Speaker 1: right now. First, Jachem Grant was back out there. Preston
Speaker 1: Williams was also back on the field after his day
Speaker 1: off on Tuesday. Kyle Van Noy's out there working again
Speaker 1: for the second straight day after leaving Monday's practice with
Speaker 1: an undisclosed injury. I saw Mike get SICKI out there
Speaker 1: getting more work on Wednesday after on Tuesday, he kind
Speaker 1: of sat out some of the later portions of practice,
Speaker 1: but he was back out there working on Wednesday as well.
Speaker 1: Caitlin Blage did leave practice with a trainer on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: and I saw Jesse Davis on the exercise bike at
Speaker 1: the end of practice. A couple of notes. I saw
Speaker 1: here during the initial individual period and Ray Kuan Davis,
Speaker 1: some of the defensive linemen were working on some pad
Speaker 1: drills and some footwork and hand placement, kind of synchronizing
Speaker 1: those two things together. You want to be aligne with
Speaker 1: your hand and your feet because it all works in
Speaker 1: one unison together. And he was doing this against a
Speaker 1: coach working on the hand placement, and it just I
Speaker 1: wrote down it didn't look fun for the coach. He
Speaker 1: was getting thrown back there by big Rake Juan Davis
Speaker 1: as pretty much anybody in the universe would have that
Speaker 1: happened to them as well. I took a note about
Speaker 1: a Byron Jones catch on the individual drills where he
Speaker 1: went up one handed and palmed it. Honestly looked to
Speaker 1: me like jump man Jordans. My goodness, that guy's athletic
Speaker 1: traits are unbelieving. A bowl. Solomon Kinley back to the
Speaker 1: ra Kwon Davis thing. He had a block on Robert
Speaker 1: Hunt holding a bag in the individual portions and he
Speaker 1: knocked him back pretty noticeably, and Robert Hunt ways three
Speaker 1: and thirty pounds. Then he did the exact same thing
Speaker 1: to shout Calhoun, and Calhoun had to gather himself as
Speaker 1: he fell backwards over the block. So Solomon Kinley showing
Speaker 1: off the power in those individual drills. Then we had
Speaker 1: some one on ones. Let's go ahead and just ripped
Speaker 1: through those here and we'll get to the interviews from
Speaker 1: Durham Smith, Cavon Fraser, and Nick need Him. I was
Speaker 1: watching the defensive line versus offensive line to first, and
Speaker 1: Devon Gotcha had himself a good day out there again,
Speaker 1: throwing some pass rush at the Dolphins offensive line. I
Speaker 1: saw the first rep he had he won inside but
Speaker 1: also forced a hold. Again we have officials out there
Speaker 1: on the offensive lineman across from him. And then Ted
Speaker 1: Carress had a really good rep against Christian Wilkins who
Speaker 1: tried to throw power at him and Ted Carress his
Speaker 1: past protection really is something you note from last season
Speaker 1: and coming into camp so far this year, he's really
Speaker 1: holding up on the interior as a pass blocker. And
Speaker 1: last year, over the final six games of the season
Speaker 1: for the Patriots, he was PFF's second grade past blocking
Speaker 1: center in the NFL, So big step forward there for
Speaker 1: Ted Carriss. On the interior of this Dolphins offensive line,
Speaker 1: and speaking of good looking past protectors, Eric Flowers has
Speaker 1: some really really good work. There was a rep where
Speaker 1: he went up against Zack Seeler, who continues to get
Speaker 1: wins and just have absolute awesome pass rush moves. He
Speaker 1: had a good rep against Shaq Calhoun where he went
Speaker 1: arm over and kind of caused an OOO out of
Speaker 1: the rest of the team standing there watching off to
Speaker 1: the side. But back to Eric Flowers. He went up
Speaker 1: against Zack Seeler and Steeler with those active long arms,
Speaker 1: very heavy hands. We saw that last year. He throws
Speaker 1: a punch that forces Flowers to have to reposition his
Speaker 1: hands and get himself back in in good shape to
Speaker 1: try to win the rep. And he did just that
Speaker 1: and locked it down, dropped the anchor. Really really sturdy
Speaker 1: guy there again on the interior of that Dolphins offensive line.
Speaker 1: I took a look at Shack lost in for a
Speaker 1: nice win as a pass rush off the right side
Speaker 1: of the defensive line, left side of the Dolphins offensive line,
Speaker 1: and he really One thing I noticed about his game
Speaker 1: is he can really lean into the to the past
Speaker 1: blocker and kind of use his balance and leverage to
Speaker 1: reposition that blocker, which of course throws off the entire
Speaker 1: past protection idea of the offensive line. But he has
Speaker 1: really good balance as he plays through that leverage. Emmanuel
Speaker 1: Augba out there just doing what he does. He is
Speaker 1: just too long, it seems for most of the offensive
Speaker 1: lineman he goes up against. He is constantly getting pressure
Speaker 1: in the backfield. I had Adam Panky with a really
Speaker 1: good anchor against Rae Kwon Davis. I had Von Godcha
Speaker 1: this time going up against Ted Carriss, and that was
Speaker 1: kind of a premier battle here because both those guys
Speaker 1: have been doing so well in these drills, and Godshaw
Speaker 1: got inside for a nice pass rush win. Again again,
Speaker 1: Devon had a very nice drill in the one on
Speaker 1: one pass rushing drills. Jason Strowbridge gets himself a nice rep.
Speaker 1: And he's a guy that played all across the North
Speaker 1: Carolina defensive line last year in college, and you kind
Speaker 1: of see some of the inside outside ability that the
Speaker 1: coach Flores has talked about, not just in positions he plays,
Speaker 1: but the ability to kind of set a move up
Speaker 1: with an outside stab and then he jabs back across
Speaker 1: the face of the blocker in front of him, and
Speaker 1: he can win that way both with power and some quickness.
Speaker 1: I think the fifth round pick out of you UNC
Speaker 1: has had a very nice camp so far. Keaton Sutherland,
Speaker 1: a guy we don't talk about a whole lot. I
Speaker 1: saw him get a very nice pass rush rep win
Speaker 1: on Bonito Jones just really widened his stance and dropped
Speaker 1: that anchor and held the point there real quick. And
Speaker 1: then I finished up here by mentioning a great rep
Speaker 1: by Jonathan Hubbard on Andrew Van Ginkl. He did a
Speaker 1: good job getting depth and then working back inside his
Speaker 1: Van Ginkle tried to cross face on that pass rush movie.
Speaker 1: That's one of Van Ginkle's go to move, so good
Speaker 1: work there from Jonathan Hubbard. I finally wrapped it up
Speaker 1: here by saying ray Kwon Davis gets a nice pass
Speaker 1: rush win before the team went into some stunts and
Speaker 1: picks and games up front, and I noticed a nice
Speaker 1: chemistry brewing there between Christian Wilkins and Shack Lawson, which
Speaker 1: is funny because they went to Clemson, but not at
Speaker 1: the same time. Obviously, some real nice chemistry there to
Speaker 1: work together and find a way to come off those
Speaker 1: blocks and get to the quarterback. I had Julian Davenport
Speaker 1: and Danny Isidora with a great stunt pick up on
Speaker 1: a particular pass rush. Didn't see who they were going
Speaker 1: up again. And then I had Robert Hunt with a
Speaker 1: very good rap against Emmanuel og Ball. So a good
Speaker 1: win there for the rookie going up against who has
Speaker 1: been probably the most impressive pass rusher so far at
Speaker 1: Dolphins camp. And then I took another note of ray
Speaker 1: Kuan Davis showing some nice wiggle to come off a
Speaker 1: block and kind of loop around and get to the
Speaker 1: backfield that way. So power and athletic agility. Ray Kuan
Speaker 1: Davis looks the part. Took a look over at the
Speaker 1: receivers and tight ends going up against the defensive backs.
Speaker 1: I had it two back to back reps of Adam
Speaker 1: Shaheen on Cavon Frasier. He got clean on the first
Speaker 1: one and got open and made a big catch. The
Speaker 1: second one he pushed off pretty badly and Frasier was
Speaker 1: just looking at him like, hey, come on, dude, you
Speaker 1: can't do that, And the reft did for the flag
Speaker 1: there in the middle of the field, so some fun
Speaker 1: banter back and forth. I wrote down the Isaiah four
Speaker 1: just looks so silky smooth as a receiver or route
Speaker 1: runner rather, and he catches the football so consistently in traffic.
Speaker 1: You have to have that reliability in this league to
Speaker 1: play on those tough third downs. We saw four convert
Speaker 1: a bunch of third downs late in the year last season.
Speaker 1: I just like the way that all of his routes
Speaker 1: look the exact same, whether it's a take off or
Speaker 1: a comeback or working inside outside. He just consistent and
Speaker 1: everything he does. We're gonna talk to Isaiah Ford on
Speaker 1: tomorrow's edition of the Drive Time podcast. I wrote down,
Speaker 1: Preston Williams is a beast. I mean that's not news
Speaker 1: to you guys, but he ran a really interesting hook
Speaker 1: up route with an inside release and he got the
Speaker 1: defensive back to fall down. That was just really pure,
Speaker 1: smooth route running from Preston Williams. I had Durham Smith
Speaker 1: getting vertical on Jerome Baker, and Derha has been doing
Speaker 1: that a lot lately in practice, getting vertical down the
Speaker 1: football field, kind of showing some of the athletic traits
Speaker 1: that he does feature. We haven't seen a whole lot
Speaker 1: of him because he does do a lot of blocking
Speaker 1: as he did at Notre Dame. But this training camp
Speaker 1: he's getting down the field a lot in the passing game.
Speaker 1: Then another safety on tight end matchup, Eric Rowe had
Speaker 1: airtight coverage on Chris Myrick who went up and almost
Speaker 1: pulled down a one handed catch, but Row was able
Speaker 1: to poke that thing out. Really good battle there between
Speaker 1: those two guys. I wrote down that Matt Brida is
Speaker 1: just tough on the linebackers because he's so freaking quick,
Speaker 1: keeps those hips parallel to line of scrimmage and can
Speaker 1: really get off that choice route going inside or outside
Speaker 1: very smoothly. He's a dynamic pass receiving threat out of
Speaker 1: the backfield. Noah Ignagny had some good reps in this drill.
Speaker 1: He can hit the brakes on takeoff routes and drive
Speaker 1: back down the stem on like a comeback or a
Speaker 1: hitch or a curl, something where the receiver wants to
Speaker 1: sell that takeoff to go deep and then come back
Speaker 1: to the quarterback. He can transition out of that position
Speaker 1: so well. I put a great clip of him playing
Speaker 1: against Florida last year up against Kyle Pitts, presumably tight
Speaker 1: end number one coming into next year's draft, and there's
Speaker 1: a great rap where he really transitions out of a
Speaker 1: back pedal and smoothly drives that thing upfield. Just a
Speaker 1: pure athlete there for Noahgnogamy. I also wrote that he
Speaker 1: undercut a route and trail technique. He just looks so
Speaker 1: good in playing close combat with those receivers and tight
Speaker 1: ends out there. Very athletic, very strong. I also went
Speaker 1: back to Chris Myrick, who got a nice route with
Speaker 1: a stack and shake off off the top of the
Speaker 1: route for a catch on Jeremiah Denson. And then Caylen
Speaker 1: Balogh made a nice little move on an angle route
Speaker 1: going up against Jerome Baker for a catch. But again
Speaker 1: Kylen Blosh did leave the practice, so we'll see and
Speaker 1: get an update on his status later on this week.
Speaker 1: I had Chester Rogers with a nice catch on ta Hayes,
Speaker 1: and then Chris Myrick a catch working on Clayton Federlin.
Speaker 1: Both those were in tight coverage with the receivers able
Speaker 1: to squeeze the football there. Then they ended the practice
Speaker 1: with a bunch of conditioning, getting these dudes spent up
Speaker 1: before the players day off on Thursday tomorrow, and on
Speaker 1: that note, we will have the Drivetime Training Camp Special
Speaker 1: Episode number two tomorrow for you guys both on YouTube
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins dot com. We'll have the interview with Isaiah
Speaker 1: Ford on the podcast and on the video show. We
Speaker 1: also will hear from the defensive assistance and continue to
Speaker 1: bring you coverage from Dolphins training camp each and every
Speaker 1: day here on the podcast. Let's go ahead and turn
Speaker 1: this thing over now to the players that met with
Speaker 1: the media on Wednesday after practice, and we start with
Speaker 1: cornerback Nick need Um on what change for him between
Speaker 1: year one and year two now in a second training
Speaker 1: camp with the Miami Dolphins. Um Dice is, uh, just
Speaker 1: I think for me coming into my second year, just
Speaker 1: the game kind of slowing down a lot, not a lot,
Speaker 1: but a little bit for me, Um, And just in
Speaker 1: training camp, we've had the same guys out here, all competitive,
Speaker 1: all will in the work, all trying to get their hardest.
Speaker 1: So it's just been a real competitive camp this year
Speaker 1: for sure. Up next, my question for hey, Nick, coach
Speaker 1: talked a little bit last year about recognizing some talent
Speaker 1: and you pretty early on during camp, but mentioned some
Speaker 1: things you had to work on to get off the
Speaker 1: practice squad. Then you get called up and have that
Speaker 1: immediate impact right away. I'm curious, what are some of
Speaker 1: those things that you worked on and is there anything
Speaker 1: in particular this off season you worked on the same way. Um,
Speaker 1: well this this off season last at the same things. UM,
Speaker 1: just getting in shape. Um. Last year, I came into
Speaker 1: camp at two or five like um, like I said
Speaker 1: last year, UM, and just I wasn't able to run
Speaker 1: at my full potential and finished like a whole practice
Speaker 1: through that heat. So um, definitely this this comes this offseason.
Speaker 1: I just came out right now. I was more focused
Speaker 1: on that and do want to let that happen again.
Speaker 1: So UM, I came in and had like one of
Speaker 1: my best overall body composition, So I was good, uh
Speaker 1: body weight and body fat. So I was That was
Speaker 1: what I was focused on, just eating right and really
Speaker 1: taking it more professionally. And up next, Nick was asked
Speaker 1: to evaluate the game of rook cornerback Dolphins first round
Speaker 1: draft pick number thirty overall out of Auburn Know what, Benogeny.
Speaker 1: Here's what Nick had to say about his competition and
Speaker 1: position made there In Nick Banogeny. No, it's been cool.
Speaker 1: It's crazy that he's only twenty years old. Um, dudes
Speaker 1: physically physically gifted for sure, two or five from four
Speaker 1: or three. So I'm still I'm in Augam was well,
Speaker 1: I'm like damn, Like that's crazy. Um. But now he's
Speaker 1: a great player of physical always willing to learn, and
Speaker 1: a great teammate to have for sure. And on that
Speaker 1: topic of professionalism and talking about a player who developed
Speaker 1: like Nick Needham did in his rookie season, here's a
Speaker 1: really interesting response to a question about where he was
Speaker 1: at this time last year with his conditioning and some
Speaker 1: hard lessons he had to learn about being a professional
Speaker 1: and the dedication required to get yourself in shape and
Speaker 1: ready for game days on Sundays they had. Uh, I
Speaker 1: just been I failed my first conditioning tests, which was
Speaker 1: very embarrassing for me, um because I was one of
Speaker 1: the only ones and that was just being out of shape.
Speaker 1: So it was like a little team's up. Everybody's calling
Speaker 1: me like fad stuff. So I was at my mind
Speaker 1: as I can never have that again. So I was
Speaker 1: just always pushing my artist and never be that guy again.
Speaker 1: I can't be the only one like that I was
Speaker 1: talking about. I got a gut oft dving and stuff.
Speaker 1: So he used to make a little jokes like that,
Speaker 1: so I was like, never again, I can't have to happen.
Speaker 1: And on the topic of more professionalism, Nick was asked
Speaker 1: about the addition of veteran cornerback Byron Jones in the
Speaker 1: offseason and how Jones has helped set an example in
Speaker 1: the defensive back room for players like Nick and the
Speaker 1: other young guys on the roster. Um just how he
Speaker 1: approaches everything, like practice meetings, anything he does, he treats
Speaker 1: it just like the same thing, and he says a
Speaker 1: tax it um. He's very focused. He's very very focused
Speaker 1: um and he just has he's very uh intellectual. So
Speaker 1: he gives me a bunch of tips, smart tips that
Speaker 1: I can use on the field. And just from his
Speaker 1: experience and being out there. We play like games like
Speaker 1: that's a lot of experience out there. So anything on
Speaker 1: film he sees, he'll give me a little tips on
Speaker 1: with how he played something in the game or some
Speaker 1: of that nature. So I'll just use that all in
Speaker 1: my toolbox. Anytime you get a chad Ocho sequel reference
Speaker 1: on the podcast, you have to run with that, And
Speaker 1: here Nick met Um talks about his nutrition and how
Speaker 1: he learned what not to do by observing Chato Sinko. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta said last year, UM, just not as much
Speaker 1: fast food and uh really locking And I didn't think
Speaker 1: that eating a bunch of nonsense really affected me like that.
Speaker 1: And I would watch guys like chat out to us think, oh,
Speaker 1: he said, he he's McDonald's before every practice. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: I see, it doesn't even matter, but to me, it
Speaker 1: definitely matters. I've heard there's only a couple of people
Speaker 1: like that in the NFL that can do that. So
Speaker 1: UM definitely learned. It didn't work for me, so I
Speaker 1: had to figure that out the hardway. Last week we
Speaker 1: learned about the Dolphins point board on defense for getting
Speaker 1: their hands on football's. Here's Nick Needum explaining a little
Speaker 1: bit further in depth what exactly that board tracks and
Speaker 1: the thought process behind it. Well, yeah, pigs is the
Speaker 1: most the thing. It's like, I think it's five points
Speaker 1: for pigs um for a scoop if you get a
Speaker 1: scoop off and fumblus like three points and then pepus
Speaker 1: is one point. So obviously you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: we're trying to get to the pig. But h and
Speaker 1: also if you drop a pick, that's missed opportunity as
Speaker 1: minus I think that's minus five as well. So you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. We're calling everybody accountable. The box
Speaker 1: has in your hands and need to make can play
Speaker 1: on and we finish up here with Nick from yours truly,
Speaker 1: I was curious to ask him about competition level and
Speaker 1: going up against guys like Davanta Parker and Preston Williams
Speaker 1: every day in practice. Hey, Nick, I'm curious to ask
Speaker 1: you about some of the competition you've see, not just
Speaker 1: in the NFL in general, but this year in training
Speaker 1: camp coming out of U TEP obviously not gonna find
Speaker 1: Devanta Parker's and Preston Williams down there. Well, have you
Speaker 1: learned from those guys, but also your experience last year
Speaker 1: going up against some of the league's best as you
Speaker 1: played so many snaps at cornerback last season. I've definitely learned,
Speaker 1: definitely from Davanta and Preston that you can be draped
Speaker 1: all over them quarterbacks, still gonna trust trust them to
Speaker 1: make a play on the ball. He's gonna throw it
Speaker 1: up there. It's the only where they can reach it.
Speaker 1: So you gotta be good at playing the hands. And
Speaker 1: sometimes you may not even be able to look back
Speaker 1: because you don't know exactly where that ball is gonna
Speaker 1: be placed because they have such a long reach and extension.
Speaker 1: And that's also I learned in the NFL. Just because
Speaker 1: all over a guy doesn't necessarily mean he's all the
Speaker 1: way covered. Um. They still there's the fire NFL receivers too,
Speaker 1: so they can make plays on the ball no matter what.
Speaker 1: And we'll go over to the offensive side of the
Speaker 1: ball now and tight end Durham Smith, third year tight
Speaker 1: end out of Notre Dame. The first question posed to
Speaker 1: him was about the unheralded role of of being that
Speaker 1: blocking tight end, special teams type of guy that can
Speaker 1: really help out in multiple phases of the game, but
Speaker 1: maybe not have as many receptions on the board. Here's
Speaker 1: Durham talking about his role with this Dolphins team. Yeah. Sure, well,
Speaker 1: I mean that's something that I've kind of a role
Speaker 1: that I've fulfilled for a while in my football career,
Speaker 1: dating back to UM, dating back to college UM and
Speaker 1: obviously through the last two years. So UM I think
Speaker 1: it's an important part of the game. Um. You know
Speaker 1: there's a lot of guys and a lot of other
Speaker 1: teams that do the same thing. UM, come in kind
Speaker 1: of fulfill multiple roles, UM, benefit the running game. Things
Speaker 1: like that. UM. And you know, you kind of figure
Speaker 1: yourself in the same boat in terms of not getting
Speaker 1: the recognition just the old line, because you know those
Speaker 1: guys always say you only get the recognition when something
Speaker 1: bad happens. So that's you kind of throw yourself in
Speaker 1: the same boat as that and just kind of appreciate
Speaker 1: what you what you bring to the table. And as
Speaker 1: we often do, we asked Durham Smith we evaluate one
Speaker 1: of the players in his room, some of his competition,
Speaker 1: New Dolphins tighten Adam Shaheen, who of course arrived last
Speaker 1: month via a trade. Here is Durham Smith talking about
Speaker 1: New Dolphins tight end Adam Shaheen. Yeah, Adams a great guy. Um,
Speaker 1: he fits well in our room. Uh, he's smart, He's
Speaker 1: caught the offense UM from mental standpoint very quickly. UM.
Speaker 1: He's one of the guys. Like I said, he kind
Speaker 1: of came in and just fit right in with us. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, like I said, he's he's taking the offense
Speaker 1: mentally very well. UM, and now he's just kind of
Speaker 1: one of us. So it's it's been a very smooth transition,
Speaker 1: I think for him. And here's one of my favorite
Speaker 1: answers of the day from Durham Smith or from anybody
Speaker 1: to talk to the media talking about the balance these
Speaker 1: guys have in their skill sets and maybe trying to
Speaker 1: erase tendencies by being more multiple in the roles, with
Speaker 1: Durham learning how to be more of a pass catcher,
Speaker 1: might Sicky learning how to be more of an inline blocker.
Speaker 1: Here's dream Smith on the versatility of that Dolphin's tight
Speaker 1: end room. You know, I think I kind of benefit
Speaker 1: from being in a room UM the last few years
Speaker 1: with guys that have uh, you know, I guess natural
Speaker 1: talent in different kind of different ways. UM. I think
Speaker 1: that with me and Mike going into our third year here, UM,
Speaker 1: we kind of took a step back after last year,
Speaker 1: UM and thought, you know, how can we benefit this offense, UM,
Speaker 1: buy something more than just what we're good at personally. UM.
Speaker 1: So I think we worked this offseason a lot on
Speaker 1: trying to become more versatile and more multiple, UM, which
Speaker 1: I think will eventually kind of eradicate some of our
Speaker 1: tendency based things within our offense. Um So, obviously I
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time talking to Mike about, you know,
Speaker 1: how he releases routes, stuff like that. Um I've spent
Speaker 1: some time with him about you know, the the you know,
Speaker 1: the nitty gritty and the run game. UM So I
Speaker 1: think hopefully if we can both you know and benefit
Speaker 1: in those areas, will be a lot less tendency based
Speaker 1: in this offense. And now as most players well on offense,
Speaker 1: we asked Durham to evaluate to a ton of Iloa
Speaker 1: Dolphins rookie quarterback. Yeah, well, for first of all, to uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he's got a great arm. That's you know,
Speaker 1: that's evident to everyone immediately. But he's a guy that
Speaker 1: obviously can make all the throws. And one more here
Speaker 1: for Dolphins tight end Durham Smith from me a little
Speaker 1: bit of a repetitive question, but I was curious to
Speaker 1: talk to him about the balance and twelve personnel when
Speaker 1: the Dolphins do go to tight ends between he and
Speaker 1: Mike Gasicky again, two guys with pretty different playing styles
Speaker 1: at the same position. Hey, Durham, you guys play a
Speaker 1: lot of twelve personnel? Are you playing a lot of
Speaker 1: twelve personnel rather with Mike Gasicky last year? And as
Speaker 1: you mentioned, part of that unheralded role, you guys do
Speaker 1: kind of play two different roles. Again, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: how do you think you guys balance each other in
Speaker 1: that package? Yeah? Well, you know, like I said, I
Speaker 1: think we have natural talents in different areas. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: I think mainly because of you know what what we
Speaker 1: have physically, whether it's size, speed, um, you know any
Speaker 1: uh get history with the run game, history of running routes, um.
Speaker 1: So I think that's where a lot of the narrative
Speaker 1: comes out. As you know, I'm the guy that's gonna
Speaker 1: come in and you know, be the inline blockering He's
Speaker 1: gonna come in and catch all the passes, which you know,
Speaker 1: to this point it has been. But like I said,
Speaker 1: I think this offseason, going into year three, I think
Speaker 1: we understand the game enough to like like I said,
Speaker 1: we kind of took a step back, um and thought
Speaker 1: about how we can both become a little bit more
Speaker 1: versatile um to benefit this offense as a whole. And
Speaker 1: I think that's something that hopefully you know, through this
Speaker 1: training camp um and through this season, we can, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we can bring it bring about And so
Speaker 1: there goes Durm smythe and up next, finishing out the
Speaker 1: day's media availability, we had new Dolphins safety cav On Frasier,
Speaker 1: who was first asked about playing down in the box
Speaker 1: and executing his run fits as a strong safety. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, run fits to me, that's one of my
Speaker 1: strong suits. Um, you know, it's just kind of come
Speaker 1: natural to me. Um, And that is you know, I
Speaker 1: don't want to speak too much about this about my
Speaker 1: time the deaths, but during my time to death is
Speaker 1: always you know, was doing the same thing. I was
Speaker 1: down in the box a lot, uh, you know, filling
Speaker 1: the holes and filling the gaps. So you know, this defense,
Speaker 1: it's just it's just it's just coming natural to me.
Speaker 1: Up next, my question for Cavan Frasier about playing both
Speaker 1: defense and special teams here in Miami. Hey, Cavan, kind
Speaker 1: of on that same tone there, you played a lot
Speaker 1: of special teams there with Dallas and now you come
Speaker 1: here to compete for work in the defensive backfield. How
Speaker 1: important is it to you to have a chance to
Speaker 1: really earn reps on defense and what's been your impression
Speaker 1: so far of the defensive back room for the first
Speaker 1: couple of weeks of training camp. You know, it's definitely important. Um.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I really don't want to go too
Speaker 1: much in my time at Davis because you know, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm I'm at a new chapter now, you know, Uh,
Speaker 1: and I'm just grateful to be here. But um, I
Speaker 1: didn't really get the opportunity that I wanted there, so here. UM,
Speaker 1: it's definitely important to me to to try to get
Speaker 1: on the field at DEE on defense. But with that
Speaker 1: being said, I'm willing to do whatever they want me
Speaker 1: to do. UM. You know I realized, Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm in my at the year, and you know we
Speaker 1: have a lot of other people also, so you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's a lot of competition going on. Um. And
Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure I'm just doing whatever they want
Speaker 1: me to do. If they want me to they strictly
Speaker 1: punt and just coverage units, I'm cool with that. If
Speaker 1: they need me in on defense, you know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be ready from our opportunity when it comes. Short and sweet.
Speaker 1: Therewith Cavon Frasier. If you guys want to go check
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Speaker 1: for our time on the podcast today, we have the
Speaker 1: written component up on Miami Dolphins dot com sometime this
Speaker 1: evening recapping day eight of Dolphins training camp. Tomorrow, we're
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