Speaker 1: That's your looking down, Fail cuts Down, Miami Quaker Drawn,
Speaker 1: What is up? Dolphans And Welcome to the Drive Time Podcast,
Speaker 1: part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team,
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, and I am here to bring you your
Speaker 1: daily dose of Miami Dolphins football, even on a Saturday.
Speaker 1: On today's show, we are back after a walk through day.
Speaker 1: So if you don't see day eight on your podcast app,
Speaker 1: that's because we punted on the podcast for that day.
Speaker 1: But that means we have a loaded show for you
Speaker 1: today as the pads came back on. We have a
Speaker 1: ton of media to cover and a physical practice where
Speaker 1: to a Tonga bloa and the offense shined once again.
Speaker 1: We have standout performers, the matchup of the day, and
Speaker 1: the most encouraging thing of the entire day from the
Speaker 1: Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This
Speaker 1: is the Drive Time Podcast. So Xavier Howard was out
Speaker 1: there on the practice field today. He got some reps
Speaker 1: in the seven on seven periods. He was coaching guys up.
Speaker 1: He also ran gassers after practice. I want to go
Speaker 1: back to Friday with Brian Flores media availability and play
Speaker 1: some sound from that media availability. Here's coach talking about
Speaker 1: xaviing Howard so far in practice. I think Xavier has
Speaker 1: done done, done a nice job. He's dealing with an ankle. UM.
Speaker 1: I think he's been very supportive of his teammates. I
Speaker 1: think he's been a ten of the meetings. Uh. I
Speaker 1: think you see him on the field, coaching guys up,
Speaker 1: young guys. Um. I think he's dealing with an injury.
Speaker 1: Like um, you know, we have several other players dealing
Speaker 1: with injuries, and I think he's working on a daily
Speaker 1: basis to get back. Um. Obviously he's an important part
Speaker 1: of this team, and UM, you know he's taking things
Speaker 1: ay today and when he gets back, UM, we'll get
Speaker 1: him in there and and and get him working with
Speaker 1: his teammates. And UM. Yeah, I think he's doing a
Speaker 1: nice job, you know, considering his situation. And it was
Speaker 1: good to see x back onto the field dressed in
Speaker 1: full pads at Saturday's practice, going through some press drills,
Speaker 1: going through individual drills, getting some involvement there in the
Speaker 1: seven on seven periods as well. And the big quote
Speaker 1: you probably saw over the weekend was Brian Flores saying
Speaker 1: this about Xavier Howard, we don't want to trade x
Speaker 1: write that down. So, uh, he's a very good player.
Speaker 1: He's a big part of the team. You know, we
Speaker 1: don't want to trade him. And other roster news on
Speaker 1: this Saturday here from the Baptist Health Training Complex is
Speaker 1: it was great to see savan Akhmed back in there
Speaker 1: free of the non contact red jersey. He was back
Speaker 1: in his white jersey and he had a good practice too,
Speaker 1: so it looks like he's up to full steam ahead.
Speaker 1: No fuller and no Phillips day. Brandon Jones was shaking
Speaker 1: up at one point mid practice as well. We'll get
Speaker 1: more about him for you guys on a later podcast
Speaker 1: down the Line. Davante Parker was a full goal as well,
Speaker 1: and Andrew van Ginkl was also out there in practice
Speaker 1: for the Miami Dolphins. One thing we learned from Jesse
Speaker 1: Davis on Friday was that the Dolphins have structured out
Speaker 1: modified practice days for some of the veterans. Jesse said,
Speaker 1: unbeknownst to him that they had this plan for him
Speaker 1: coming into camp, and he said he didn't know he
Speaker 1: was getting these modified days where you play a few
Speaker 1: certain periods you go through some of the stuff like
Speaker 1: Xaving Howard for instance, where you go through seven on
Speaker 1: seven stretching individuals and that type of thing. What else
Speaker 1: we got here a couple of other things I wanted
Speaker 1: to cover before we get into the practice notes. First Saturday,
Speaker 1: coach touched on the joint practices in Chicago they're coming
Speaker 1: up this week and the importance or lack thereof, of
Speaker 1: first team, second team, third team distinctions this time of year.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna kind of mixmash those two ideas together here.
Speaker 1: As coach talks about the offensive line, he was asked
Speaker 1: a question about Solemn and Kinley and his progression and
Speaker 1: whether or not he's playing first, second, third team reps.
Speaker 1: Here's coach talking about what's important this time of year,
Speaker 1: and it ain't which team you're part of, because there
Speaker 1: are so many rotations involved in this time of year
Speaker 1: with practice and the evaluation. I think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of competition in that room. Um, I think you've seen
Speaker 1: guys work with the ones with the twos, with the
Speaker 1: three Solomon's. You know, actually want a guy who's worked
Speaker 1: with the ones with the twos with the threes. Um,
Speaker 1: but again, like I said, I've said, you know numerous times,
Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter where you're you're you know, what
Speaker 1: group you're with. It's you know, is your from alignment, assignment,
Speaker 1: responsibility and technique fundamental? Are you doing the right things? Um?
Speaker 1: And that's for each player. UM, And that's really what
Speaker 1: we're looking for and that supposed being evaluated. So doesn't
Speaker 1: matter what group you're in, UM, you know, are you
Speaker 1: are you taking care of business when you know with
Speaker 1: with the reps that you have as far as the
Speaker 1: team chemistry or chemistry along the offensive line, I think
Speaker 1: it's very important, very valid question, uh, something that we
Speaker 1: don't you know, take for granted at all. Um. At
Speaker 1: some point we'll we'll kind of narrow to sing down
Speaker 1: to let's call it five, six, seven guys, because we
Speaker 1: gotta have at least, you know, seven eight guys at
Speaker 1: the game and whatever five of that group, that group
Speaker 1: has to have, you know, the chemistry you need to
Speaker 1: be an effective offensive line. UM. So there'll always be
Speaker 1: some moving parts. I know. Uh, I think we all
Speaker 1: like to say, hey, it's just five guys and let
Speaker 1: them play and let them work. But again I think
Speaker 1: Barry asked us the other day. Um, we gotta get
Speaker 1: some other guys in there too, so that chemistry with
Speaker 1: the sixth line in the seventh lineman. Um, there's not
Speaker 1: a big drop off because inevitably that that's gonna happen. Um.
Speaker 1: So if you want to see all five every day
Speaker 1: for you know, days and weeks in a row, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: it's just not gonna happen. Uh, I don't. I just
Speaker 1: don't think that's the best thing for for the group overall.
Speaker 1: And um, but yeah, we're gonna now just down there,
Speaker 1: you know, you know it's called seven eight guys at
Speaker 1: some point. Um. So then coach was asked a follow
Speaker 1: up after that because he said, seven or eight guys
Speaker 1: about that number, seven or eight guys that you feel
Speaker 1: good about? How do you feel about those guys at
Speaker 1: this point of the season, at this point of training camp.
Speaker 1: Here's coach, you know early on, Yes, I mean we're
Speaker 1: we're we're I mean, look, there's some guys who were
Speaker 1: out of others. I mean, it's up to this point,
Speaker 1: but we still got you know, the practices against Chicago
Speaker 1: will tell us a lot. The game, the preseason games
Speaker 1: will tell us a lot. So um and told me,
Speaker 1: you guys are we're keeping score on this, but it's
Speaker 1: still early, you know, still very early. But you know
Speaker 1: the Chicago practices that that'll that'll go a long way.
Speaker 1: The preseason games that'll go a long way. And I
Speaker 1: just think, yeah, you know, we're not going to make
Speaker 1: a full on evaluation or or um declaration of who's
Speaker 1: who until we get through that. Still early, we're still early,
Speaker 1: still early, still early. A little fun from coach at
Speaker 1: the very end of that, And why wouldn't he have
Speaker 1: some fun with that good stuff there? From Brian Flores.
Speaker 1: Three more here before we get into the practice notes.
Speaker 1: And I wanted to share this because there was a
Speaker 1: tweet by a national publication that got a lot of
Speaker 1: run on Twitter, and I, like a lot of people,
Speaker 1: vehemently disagree with that particular take, basically calling the preseason
Speaker 1: glorified practices that are overblown this time of year. And
Speaker 1: as we heard coach say, the joint practices and the
Speaker 1: games are very important in this process. And I love
Speaker 1: the preseason, especially Dolphins games. Frankly, the emotion of the
Speaker 1: regular season games. That counting the standings is fun when
Speaker 1: you win, and that's the balance of life. Right, the
Speaker 1: yin and the yang. If something is going to be
Speaker 1: that good, it also has to have the equal possibility
Speaker 1: of something that bad on the opposite end. And I
Speaker 1: don't love the drama of that because well sometimes it hurts.
Speaker 1: But in preseason you don't have that emotional attachment. It's
Speaker 1: football for the sake of football. It's pure evaluation without
Speaker 1: a meaningful result as far as the school aboard goes
Speaker 1: and the standings at the end of the season. So
Speaker 1: that's why I love it. But if my words not
Speaker 1: enough to convince you for why the preseason is both
Speaker 1: valuable and entertaining for my money, why don't we hear
Speaker 1: from a player with regards to why it's important to them,
Speaker 1: like Dirtball Kira's netto a practice squad player from the
Speaker 1: International Pathway program who just picked up football not that
Speaker 1: long ago. Do you think these games married to him?
Speaker 1: Let's hear from Dirtball this is do everything I want,
Speaker 1: like science that came here every day at Bratt's, Bratt's Bratt's,
Speaker 1: And the last two years I've been like watching all
Speaker 1: my teammates and the weekends going for the game and
Speaker 1: I have to stay and then like that, every week
Speaker 1: every week, making me like more hanger hunger for that.
Speaker 1: I want that, I want. I want to be in
Speaker 1: a game. Nothing, nothing is more important for me than
Speaker 1: being a game and help my chain. Yeah. I will
Speaker 1: take preseason football every day, every year, every week, whatever
Speaker 1: you want to call it, I'll take preseason games. Next.
Speaker 1: I think I had one tweet from Friday's walk through
Speaker 1: and it was Michael Pollardi doing something I have frankly
Speaker 1: never seen before, and he was taking the football at
Speaker 1: midfield and punting it on a line drive, like not
Speaker 1: into the air, like not a hang time punt, but
Speaker 1: line drives down to Jason Sanders who was at the
Speaker 1: ten yard line, and he was hitting these perfect spirals
Speaker 1: that were getting down there on a line and he
Speaker 1: was just putting it right on Jason Sanders chest. So
Speaker 1: I asked Mike about this after practice on Saturday, and
Speaker 1: his face lit up. And apparently, even though it's uncommon,
Speaker 1: as you'll hear him say, he doesn't every day. And
Speaker 1: I guess I'm just so inundated with the rest of
Speaker 1: practice that I haven't seen it yet. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and hear from Mike. I don't think it's common, at
Speaker 1: least from what I've seen. UM, For me, it's it's
Speaker 1: mentally getting myself prepared to kind of experience the elements
Speaker 1: that are around me. UM. My train of thought is
Speaker 1: if I can put the ball on a rope um
Speaker 1: at a specific spot of specific yard line when I
Speaker 1: go out into the open field and I have this
Speaker 1: this ton of space, UM, it allows me to be
Speaker 1: a little bit more comfortable with hitting directionally painting the
Speaker 1: sideline if I want to put it outside the red
Speaker 1: line here on the fields, UM, you know, trying to
Speaker 1: hit the ball so that the returner can't catch it,
Speaker 1: hit out of bounds, you know, those are the those
Speaker 1: are the best returns and the best punts, the ones
Speaker 1: I can't catch. Right. So that's kind of my train
Speaker 1: of thought. It kind of mentally gets me prepared. But
Speaker 1: it's part of my warm up weather, um before practice
Speaker 1: or before a game. So you'll always see that. That's
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Yeah. I really enjoyed that last part
Speaker 1: there because I was I was really kind of showing
Speaker 1: my impressed, I suppose opinion of that particular kick as
Speaker 1: I was nodding along with him and smiling because I
Speaker 1: just found it so interesting, so good sport there from
Speaker 1: Mike to tell me about that, but also, I mean,
Speaker 1: you can see how impactful it has been for him
Speaker 1: because he's been putting the football in the air on
Speaker 1: a line to the sideline pretty much do whatever the
Speaker 1: hell he wants with that thing when he punts it
Speaker 1: out here. And the last sound I wanted to play
Speaker 1: for him was this because he spoke about a connection
Speaker 1: between he and the coaching staff and why he's a
Speaker 1: good fit here in Miami with the special teams. Here's
Speaker 1: Mike talking about coach Flora's and Coach Crossman and their
Speaker 1: intensity on the special team side of the football and
Speaker 1: how that clicks with his personality and play style. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it manifests itself in so many different ways. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: Coach Croftsman, Coach Flores expect a lot out of their
Speaker 1: specialist and I expect a lot out of myself. So
Speaker 1: they challenged me. I challenged me. My teammates challenged me,
Speaker 1: and I want them to uh. Sometimes it's verbally. Sometimes
Speaker 1: they don't even need to say anything, and I kind
Speaker 1: of know what what I need to do to execute
Speaker 1: my role, my job, whatever the play is, and if
Speaker 1: it's not met, I'm upset of myself. You know, I've
Speaker 1: let my teammates down, I've let my coaches down. But
Speaker 1: and I think that's I think that's what I need.
Speaker 1: And uh, I'm happy that I'm here to be able
Speaker 1: to witness it. And of course, Miami Special Teams was
Speaker 1: a top the Football Outsiders d v o A metric
Speaker 1: for nearly half the season last year. It changed in
Speaker 1: December when they finished number six and d v o A.
Speaker 1: So yeah, details definitely matter, and the punter is a
Speaker 1: big part of that. Finally, Lynn Bowden spoke to us
Speaker 1: after practice on Saturday, and I really liked what he
Speaker 1: had to say, albeit briefly, about working with coach Studentsville
Speaker 1: and coach Godzi in the new offense. Also quick aside,
Speaker 1: Lynn did say that he would play center if they
Speaker 1: asked him to, said he wants to just play ball,
Speaker 1: but here he is talking about the new offense here
Speaker 1: in Miami. To me, I think the offense is magnificent.
Speaker 1: You know, the coaches, they they took their time with it,
Speaker 1: you know, they just they made it for us. And
Speaker 1: like I said, short and sweet, there all right, We've
Speaker 1: got more audio for you guys, but we'll work into
Speaker 1: the story of the day here as we go along,
Speaker 1: and we actually start with this one. More audio from
Speaker 1: Dolphins quarterback Read Senet, the second year QB who spent
Speaker 1: last year on the practice squad until a week sevent
Speaker 1: team promotion up in Buffalo where he serves as the
Speaker 1: backup to two O Donga Biloa. He's here working again
Speaker 1: and I think he's looked pretty sharp. Here's what he
Speaker 1: had to say Friday after the walkthrough about what you
Speaker 1: can gain from the walkthrough. There's so much to talk about.
Speaker 1: You know. We we got a lot of cover zero looks,
Speaker 1: so we talked about how we're gonna protect it and
Speaker 1: how we're gonna you know, attack certain defenses. And so
Speaker 1: it's really great to do it at a learning tempo
Speaker 1: where we're all able to kind of talk it through
Speaker 1: and get get the reps without you know, the contact
Speaker 1: and obviously the physical nature that the game is. So
Speaker 1: it's great for the wide receivers and then we can
Speaker 1: go in and watch the film and say, you know,
Speaker 1: here's what we can improve on now when we're in
Speaker 1: a live setting, hopefully we don't have to coach it up,
Speaker 1: you know, a second time. And so for the quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: These learning and the walkthroughs are huge. And the reason
Speaker 1: I play this is because, well, the defense turned up
Speaker 1: the heat at Saturday's practice on Dolphins quarterbacks and I
Speaker 1: thought QB one really handled it. L I didn't get
Speaker 1: as good of a look at Jacoby Brissette today because
Speaker 1: they were on the far field simultaneously as two and
Speaker 1: his crew were working on the near field. But I
Speaker 1: didn't see another bomb from Jacoby to Isaiah Ford, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, Isaiah is making big plays and tough
Speaker 1: catches off his frame down the field, whatever you want
Speaker 1: to call it, every single day out here at practice.
Speaker 1: But watching to and the offense work through the pressure
Speaker 1: was quite a treat on Saturday. Real quick, before we
Speaker 1: get right back to that, you probably saw my sand
Speaker 1: Lot tweet my reference and I'm really getting into the
Speaker 1: references these days. It seems. I noted that Parker ran
Speaker 1: a route and the fundamental drills portion of practice and
Speaker 1: the ball didn't change a thing about his route or
Speaker 1: the routes of the other receivers, and that was the
Speaker 1: whole drill. You just run your route, put your hands up,
Speaker 1: and the ball doesn't change anything about the rep And
Speaker 1: thanks to the great community of Dolphins fans we have
Speaker 1: on Twitter at Bushwood Underscore. C C shared this with
Speaker 1: me and I was able to kind of confirm it
Speaker 1: and vet it through an article I found on the
Speaker 1: New York Times simple Google, so it's not that tough
Speaker 1: that I also shared on my timeline if you want
Speaker 1: to go see it for yourself. There are some great
Speaker 1: quotes from Calvin Ridley and other players from the Crimson
Speaker 1: Tide back in those days as well. But Brian day Ball,
Speaker 1: current Buffalo Bill's offensive coordinator former o C with a
Speaker 1: Crimson Tide there with Towa and here's the excerpt from
Speaker 1: that article. The Alabama offensive coordinator Brian Dayball has a
Speaker 1: certain way of looking at the throwing accuracy of quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: All of them can drop back seven steps and hit
Speaker 1: a house with the ball, he said. Some of them
Speaker 1: can hit the door. A few of them can even
Speaker 1: hit the door knob to a dave. Ball said can
Speaker 1: hit the keyhole. And I wanted to bring that up
Speaker 1: for you guys because of the ball placement. It has
Speaker 1: been my favorite thing to watch through nine days of
Speaker 1: camp so far. Then today we got another look at
Speaker 1: something good and this jives with TWA's numbers against pressure
Speaker 1: as a rookie from Pro Football Focus to I had
Speaker 1: a sixty completion rate last year with six seventy four
Speaker 1: passing yards against the Blitz, seven touchdowns and one I
Speaker 1: n T against the Blitz for a total passer rating
Speaker 1: against extra pressure against a fifth rusher or more of
Speaker 1: one oh two point two. And my first note was
Speaker 1: watching them go through a drill while stretching was going on,
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks working off to the side. They set up
Speaker 1: some bags to kind of simulate an offensive line in
Speaker 1: front of them, and then a coach would toss a
Speaker 1: specific bag at the quarterback's face as they went to
Speaker 1: throw the football. And that would obviously be a theme
Speaker 1: of the day on Saturday. And one of those themes
Speaker 1: was throwing the football like I mentioned on Wednesday, like
Speaker 1: he discussed on Wednesday and covered it in the podcast,
Speaker 1: And if you haven't listened to it already, go do that.
Speaker 1: If you have listen again, there's no rules against that.
Speaker 1: But the idea was throwing the football to a spot.
Speaker 1: And there were two instances where I really noticed that
Speaker 1: today at practice. One was a crossing pattern to Jalen
Speaker 1: Waddle where two just almost like you would on a
Speaker 1: screen pass, faded away from the pressure and lobbed it
Speaker 1: into the vacated space and that's when the fund starts
Speaker 1: for Wattle, I mean the speed, the athletic ability, the
Speaker 1: agility that he shows out there. It really shows up
Speaker 1: when the ball is in his his hands. Another was
Speaker 1: DeVante Parker one on one against Byron Jones. Parker took
Speaker 1: off and to a cot rock through, got that thing
Speaker 1: out quickly down the field and the ball was in
Speaker 1: great shape. I thought DeVante was gonna make a play.
Speaker 1: He did, went up and got the football, but then
Speaker 1: Byron Jones flies in from seemingly nowhere to get the
Speaker 1: pass breakup, and our social team posted that to Twitter,
Speaker 1: so you can find that play online. So it's the accuracy,
Speaker 1: the poison under pressure, the touch passes, the recognition of
Speaker 1: soft spots and coverage and how to get the ball
Speaker 1: to those spots for his guys to make plays. And
Speaker 1: then the last thing I want to touch on regarding
Speaker 1: two a here in this podcast, the running man. He
Speaker 1: looks fast out there. He had a rushing touchdown and
Speaker 1: goal line work today, But the one where I really
Speaker 1: saw the jets that made him the top dual threat
Speaker 1: quarterback in high school when he was coming out of St.
Speaker 1: Louis High School in Hawaii. Emmanuel Ogbad gets immediate pressure
Speaker 1: off the blind side of the quarterback and to have
Speaker 1: felt it and took off right away from the pressure,
Speaker 1: and he outran every buddy. He gets up the sideline
Speaker 1: and then reaches the football out like across the sticks
Speaker 1: as you go out of bounce, like you see some
Speaker 1: quarterbacks do these days, like Russell Wilson does every time
Speaker 1: he carries the ball up the sideline. It was close
Speaker 1: to ten yards, might have been nine, might have been eleven,
Speaker 1: but either way, it was a very fast looking quarterback
Speaker 1: back there for Miami. And actually I mentioned I was
Speaker 1: gonna finish up. We'll do one more here on to
Speaker 1: We heard from Mac Hollands after practice, who is having
Speaker 1: himself a very nice camp as well. But after practice
Speaker 1: on Saturday, he touched on what he's seen as the
Speaker 1: biggest jump for the Dolphins quarterback in your number two
Speaker 1: here's Mac. Yeah, I think that's the biggest transition, especially
Speaker 1: really for the whole NFL, but for quarterbacks, especially that
Speaker 1: year one to year two where you understand how a
Speaker 1: season works. You know, you get out of college and
Speaker 1: it's like, all right, combined training a million interview preps,
Speaker 1: and it's you're so stressed you don't even know how
Speaker 1: to play football anymore a lot of time. So now
Speaker 1: he's been able to take a deep breath and take
Speaker 1: control of an offense, understand the offense, and really shine
Speaker 1: out there. I mean you. And that's a great way
Speaker 1: to segue into the receiver position because mac I also
Speaker 1: had possibly the quote of camp. He caught a long
Speaker 1: ball from to during the team period and scored from
Speaker 1: about fifty yards away or so. Plenty more of that today.
Speaker 1: And then Max spiked the football at the end of
Speaker 1: the end zone and someone asked him or maybe he
Speaker 1: was a dunk over the goal post. I forget. He's
Speaker 1: always doing one of the two. Somebody asked him why
Speaker 1: he's always having so much fun out there, and he said,
Speaker 1: you know, one day I'll be in a box in
Speaker 1: the dirt. I'm gonna have fun while I'm here. And
Speaker 1: I love that. What a great life mentality. Mac is
Speaker 1: just he's the best. He's the best out there. I
Speaker 1: also really liked him talking about studying Matthew Slater, the
Speaker 1: great long time special teamer of the Patriots. Just insightful
Speaker 1: stuff from Mac, and we'll hear more from him here
Speaker 1: later in this podcast as well. But how about Jalen
Speaker 1: wattle Man. I dropped an outcast reference on Twitter today
Speaker 1: with him, because he just moves at a different speed
Speaker 1: than everybody else, compression sleeve or not. And like I've
Speaker 1: mentioned so many times, it's not just the speed that
Speaker 1: makes his game go. In a two minute period today,
Speaker 1: he got free access up the middle and to hit
Speaker 1: the back foot and fired that thing out and he
Speaker 1: went completely stretched out and hauled that thing in on
Speaker 1: a great diving catch. He's been making catches like that
Speaker 1: all camp long, solid hands to go with the speed,
Speaker 1: an incredible catch on this one. He also caught one,
Speaker 1: and this was against pressure onto a on a little
Speaker 1: pass out into the flat where the past kind of
Speaker 1: sailed a little bit in the face of pressure. But
Speaker 1: Jalen leaps, grabs it, spins and hits the ground like
Speaker 1: he's one of those wind up cars that you have
Speaker 1: to crank up and pull back on the ground that
Speaker 1: you put it down and it takes off because you've
Speaker 1: wrapped up the tire so much. Just impressive acceleration and
Speaker 1: he's just eating up catches and yards and touchdowns and
Speaker 1: team periods every day out here. A really good camp
Speaker 1: from the rookie, and to me, that's the story. Nothing else.
Speaker 1: The way he's producing out there, and he's been available
Speaker 1: every day at practice, that is the story. And real
Speaker 1: quick here, that was a nice thing to see today
Speaker 1: with a couple of passes that weren't exactly perfect at times.
Speaker 1: A lot of the time it was either a really
Speaker 1: good pass right on location, but there were two three
Speaker 1: or four instances where it wasn't and two US guys
Speaker 1: made place for him anyway. Like matc. Hollins also had
Speaker 1: a really nice one handed catch in two minute that
Speaker 1: put Miami in position for Sanders to air quote win
Speaker 1: the game. The scoreboard read thirteen Sanders connects from fifty yards.
Speaker 1: He also did the exact same thing with the two's
Speaker 1: also a fifty yard field goal, and he also went
Speaker 1: five for five in the field goal periods, so seven
Speaker 1: for seven, two game winners for Jason Sanders. On Saturday,
Speaker 1: back to Waddle for a moment in a seven on
Speaker 1: seven period, Waddle ran this little jerk route where you
Speaker 1: stick your foot in the ground and change direction and
Speaker 1: basically play off the leverage of the defensive back, Like
Speaker 1: if he's inside, you stick your foot in the ground
Speaker 1: the inside and you break back to the outside. You
Speaker 1: get your leverage that way because you're moving in the
Speaker 1: DBS stationary and the dB was right there on top
Speaker 1: of it, and with him being on the left of Wattle,
Speaker 1: two throws it off to the right of Waddle and
Speaker 1: his first step out of the break was all the
Speaker 1: separation that they needed. So it's not just speed separation
Speaker 1: from that speed, but a real understanding of routes, leverage,
Speaker 1: and the chemistry with his quarterback and former teammate and
Speaker 1: current teammate here in Miami, Jachem Grant continues to have
Speaker 1: one hell of a camp. He caught so many slants today,
Speaker 1: two of them in a row during team period, and
Speaker 1: the second one was just pure beauty. He gets inside
Speaker 1: and the ball, like we've mentioned, doesn't slow him down
Speaker 1: one step, and so even with the corner right on
Speaker 1: his back, he's able to unleash that speed and just
Speaker 1: takes off and runs away from everybody. Because we know
Speaker 1: how fast Chachim can run. Eighty eight yard punt return
Speaker 1: touchdown last season, he obliterates the angle of the nearest
Speaker 1: defender and then Javon Holland gets over the top to
Speaker 1: usher him out of bounds after about fifty or so yards.
Speaker 1: So whether it's air yards yack yards, they're finding ways
Speaker 1: to get big plays in multiple ways. Nice rhyme. Jachim
Speaker 1: also got free in the seven on seven period for
Speaker 1: a pair of touchdowns from the twenty five yard line
Speaker 1: going in. He caught the slants, deep balls, passes, in traffic,
Speaker 1: all of it. Big day for number nineteen. And then
Speaker 1: today was our best look at DeVante Parker. He caught
Speaker 1: a touchdown in seven on seven where I thought he
Speaker 1: did an awesome job getting off press coverage Byron Jones
Speaker 1: came at him and attacked him with a jam, but
Speaker 1: DeVante got outside of it and then to have puts
Speaker 1: it right at the front pylon before the safety could
Speaker 1: get over the top. And of course this comes after
Speaker 1: I tweetd at Miami defensive backs were preventing everything deep
Speaker 1: in that drill. I was just watching downfield to see
Speaker 1: how they kind of passed off coverage and whatnot, and
Speaker 1: guys were blanketing and two was taken the short stuff
Speaker 1: as the result. Another day of back and forth wins
Speaker 1: for the offense and defense. Also, Albert Wilson had a
Speaker 1: deep catch where it looked like maybe someone busted I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. I don't have the call, but the post
Speaker 1: was vacated and to have found him in the middle
Speaker 1: of the field for a big gain. And the last
Speaker 1: note here on the receiver's Kirk Merritt, he makes plays
Speaker 1: every day out there. Man. In the two minute period
Speaker 1: he ran a curl route or he fell down to
Speaker 1: his knees but caught the ball from his knees, and
Speaker 1: he had a few more plays from Jacoby Brissette in
Speaker 1: this practice as well. Merritts have a very drawn camp
Speaker 1: At the tight end position. Durham, Smith and Seeth and
Speaker 1: Carter had nice days. I was a big fan of
Speaker 1: their blocking in the initial run game period. The first
Speaker 1: eleven and eleven was exclusively run plays, and this was
Speaker 1: the most pad popping I've heard all camp long. Both
Speaker 1: of those guys were really good at selling the backside
Speaker 1: edge and proficient with their technique in that way. Durham
Speaker 1: also had himself a diving catch and goal line work
Speaker 1: similar to the Wattle play where he threw away from leverage,
Speaker 1: but this one was a bit outside, but Smith went
Speaker 1: out and got it for his quarterbacks. So again more stuff,
Speaker 1: more good stuff, I should say from the past catchers
Speaker 1: and quarterback, and how about the tailbacks. Man Jared Oakes
Speaker 1: is a load. The majority of collisions out there come
Speaker 1: from his reps and he presses the hole with real
Speaker 1: urgency and he just keeps that downhill head of steam rolling.
Speaker 1: He believes in north and south running. Arm tackles on
Speaker 1: him are largely futile and a nice kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: compliment to that style. As Miles Gaskin in the run
Speaker 1: game in general, I thought had their best day, but
Speaker 1: he sprung. Miles did the first playoff practice out the
Speaker 1: shoot for a big game. He's moving very very well,
Speaker 1: looks a step faster than me. He's cutting sharply, making
Speaker 1: quick decisions, and with all the backs, I'm excited to
Speaker 1: see a game when you can get a better feel
Speaker 1: for how they're actually running with true live tackling against
Speaker 1: somebody else. But Miles caught a pass in space early on,
Speaker 1: and Byron Jones and Jerome Baker had a shot in
Speaker 1: open space and the sideline there as well, so basically
Speaker 1: only had one direction to go and we know these
Speaker 1: are two of the best athletes on the team Byron
Speaker 1: and Bake and Miles made both of them miss and
Speaker 1: I know that's very rare with these guys, so to
Speaker 1: see Myles do it, I like that. I can't remember
Speaker 1: if I dropped my Formula one reference on Jalen Waddle
Speaker 1: or not, but I used it on Savon Akhmed in
Speaker 1: the notes too. Because he is very quick. He forces
Speaker 1: defenders to get it right and get it right quick
Speaker 1: because he's coming at you with that speed. And the
Speaker 1: run game can't function without an offensive line. So today
Speaker 1: Rob Hunt was moving bodies. More on that in a moment.
Speaker 1: We'll come back to that. Jesse Davis had himself a
Speaker 1: strong day too, I thought, especially in the ground game.
Speaker 1: He was clearing out some lanes for guys. And I
Speaker 1: thought Deeter and Eikenberg did well in this department as well.
Speaker 1: I can have worked as a good job of staying
Speaker 1: on blocks, and I like the way Deeter comes off
Speaker 1: the ball. He's quick off the snap at a low
Speaker 1: pad level and seems to have really found his groove
Speaker 1: for playing in control as he climbs to that second level,
Speaker 1: very difficult task to get onto the linebackers at the
Speaker 1: second level and square him up. He's been doing good
Speaker 1: in that area. I thought Austin Jackson did a great
Speaker 1: job and pass pro today, particularly against the pressure looks
Speaker 1: coming off the edge from that defense. He was passing
Speaker 1: off and sliding and showing you the athletic ability to
Speaker 1: quickly get to his landmark and then drop the anchor
Speaker 1: and stay square over his pads to make his pass
Speaker 1: blocks that way too. Other offensive line notes, Adam Panky
Speaker 1: had one of my favorite blocks of camp where he
Speaker 1: just carried a block all the way down the line
Speaker 1: and stayed on that thing for the entirety of the
Speaker 1: ref Stay on blocks, that's the goal for the offense,
Speaker 1: get off blocks, that's the goal for the defense. Solomon
Speaker 1: Kinley had two reps that I loved. First, he and
Speaker 1: Scura hit a double team that cleared a big lane,
Speaker 1: and then Kinley came off and got another block on
Speaker 1: the second level. Later, I'm watching just the offensive line
Speaker 1: as the ball is about to come out, and I
Speaker 1: take a look at big Solomon out there, who comes
Speaker 1: off his man who was originally stone walled, and then
Speaker 1: put a hit on the man next to him, his man,
Speaker 1: and he got the pancake for that. He is the
Speaker 1: type of dude that you hate playing against because he
Speaker 1: always finds work. I remember asking him last offseason or
Speaker 1: this offseason, i should say, and he said that his
Speaker 1: mindset was, I'm never gonna put a rep on tape
Speaker 1: where the coaches can ask me about my effort, and
Speaker 1: we saw it on this particular play. Finally, Robert Jones
Speaker 1: and Jonathan Hubbard cleared what I thought was the biggest
Speaker 1: lane of the entire day, this one for Patrick Laird.
Speaker 1: He went twenty five yards into the defense before he
Speaker 1: was touched and man sixty five. Jones is a huge man.
Speaker 1: His legs are so thick, and I think that's the
Speaker 1: second or third mention of that on the podcast. We
Speaker 1: look for bodies out here. That's a big part of
Speaker 1: football scudding, look at body types, and he's got a big,
Speaker 1: massive trunkload and legload. How about some defense ray Kwon Davis,
Speaker 1: We'll get to him in a moment. His cohorts made
Speaker 1: some noise to though. Christian Wilkins, he made a play
Speaker 1: in the backfield, made another play where he stacked in shed.
Speaker 1: But my favorite of the day was an effort play,
Speaker 1: which is kind of a daily thing. For he recognizes
Speaker 1: a quick screen, gets in the passing lane and Jacoby
Speaker 1: Brissette has to tuck it and look the other way,
Speaker 1: and he runs away and nine four days in pursuit
Speaker 1: on his tail the entire way. Man, He's fun to
Speaker 1: watch play. And Adam Butler stopped me. If you've heard
Speaker 1: this a few times now. He works himself down the line,
Speaker 1: comes off a block to get to the ball carrier
Speaker 1: for a stop at the line. Two gapping, one gapping
Speaker 1: penetrator inside outside. Guy can do it all. Speaking of
Speaker 1: guys that can do it all, Zach Seiler blue through
Speaker 1: the line for what would have been a four or
Speaker 1: five yard lost TfL. And he does that, it seems
Speaker 1: every day. He puts guys in such conflict with that
Speaker 1: combo of reach and power and quickness. Just a rock
Speaker 1: stead solid, solid football player, chevy like a rock. Jonathan
Speaker 1: Ledbetter had a great stack in shed rep in the
Speaker 1: run period. He teamed up with Noah Egnogamy on a
Speaker 1: tackle at the line and since that play has made
Speaker 1: off the edge, just go ahead and stay out there
Speaker 1: on the edge. Another strong day from Emmanuel Ogba. He
Speaker 1: had the pressure on two I mentioned where two escaped
Speaker 1: and ran for the first down. He had another would
Speaker 1: be sack in the two minute period on the hallands
Speaker 1: one handed catch, and got some more strong work in
Speaker 1: the run game as well. Shakeem Griffin had another play
Speaker 1: with pressure. He got in and forced a throwaway from
Speaker 1: Brissette into the team period and the linebackers had some
Speaker 1: kind of day Baker McKinney, and then I thought Sam
Speaker 1: Ego Van had the best day of all. He was
Speaker 1: my defender of the entire day for that matter. He
Speaker 1: had fills in the run game where he's there before
Speaker 1: the back and just drops the shoulder and wraps up
Speaker 1: and makes the play. He came clean on a couple
Speaker 1: of blitzes, including one really nice pass rush move working
Speaker 1: on Solomon Kinley. He also pulled down a pick on
Speaker 1: Reid Senet when Benito Jones batted a pass up into
Speaker 1: the air, and on one instance it looked like the
Speaker 1: gap was open and then eg Van came in smacked
Speaker 1: the blocker and the contact knocked the blocker back into
Speaker 1: the gap and stacked that thing up. Man. He was
Speaker 1: filling rushing coverage. He was scraping. We talked about that
Speaker 1: in a podcast earlier scraping as when your d line
Speaker 1: stacks it up and you work right off their butt,
Speaker 1: right off their outside shoulder and fill that gap. An
Speaker 1: alack heart kind of day for Sam eg Von. On Saturday,
Speaker 1: Bernardic McKinney and Jerome Baker, Man, they play nicely in
Speaker 1: tandem together, don't they. They are often first on the
Speaker 1: scene when the run game is stacked up. McKinney had
Speaker 1: a tackle for loss in the run period. Baker made
Speaker 1: some tackles close to the line of scrimmage as well,
Speaker 1: and he made up for the play against Gascon later
Speaker 1: in the pursuit drill where he didn't take the cheese
Speaker 1: on a move made by Miles and stayed square and
Speaker 1: got the would be tackle. On that period, Calvin Munson
Speaker 1: had an awesome fill on a Jared Oakes run and
Speaker 1: that was the biggest pop of the day. You could
Speaker 1: hear the page from up in the seats. Also, Duke Riley,
Speaker 1: his speed, man, It does not slump. In fact, the
Speaker 1: team's speed in general is so obvious that every position
Speaker 1: on this football team. But I noticed his speed and
Speaker 1: that down up drill again where he's just flying around.
Speaker 1: Then later in team he covers Savon Akman on a
Speaker 1: wheel route and he matches Savan step for step up
Speaker 1: the sideline. Brossette tries to go back shore ball because
Speaker 1: Riley's on top of the route, but the ball is
Speaker 1: a little bit under thrown off target, and then Riley
Speaker 1: stands up and signals incomplete emphatically. He had a great rep.
Speaker 1: So go ahead and celebrate it. And we finished up
Speaker 1: here with the secondary. And we start here with some
Speaker 1: audio from coach on Javon Holland and Coach was asked
Speaker 1: about Javan and his progression so far here in camp.
Speaker 1: Coach talked about alignment, communication, the keys for a safety,
Speaker 1: playing multiple spots. Let's just go ahead and here from coach,
Speaker 1: we're asking a lot of them, you know, multiple positions. UM.
Speaker 1: I think he's doing a nice job, but it's it's
Speaker 1: it's it's it's not necessarily the interception and that's a
Speaker 1: good play and when everyone kind of sees, but it's
Speaker 1: getting guys lined up, get himself lined up, being in
Speaker 1: the right position, and um being a good position to
Speaker 1: make you know, a last line of defense tackle UM
Speaker 1: communication with the corners, with the linebackers, UM down a
Speaker 1: distant situation, I mean there's there's a lot that goes
Speaker 1: into that that that position. UM. I think he's taken
Speaker 1: on that responsibility um and been very uh um let's
Speaker 1: call it forth right and and and try to you know,
Speaker 1: do a good job as far as uh taken on
Speaker 1: that leadership or signal caller spot. Um, which is it's
Speaker 1: hard for a rookie. You know, I would say to
Speaker 1: step in there and tell you know, somebody else say
Speaker 1: what to do. But that's what the that's what the
Speaker 1: position calls for. So UM, he's growing. Um, he's getting better.
Speaker 1: Still a long way to go. And again you know,
Speaker 1: I think you know, the next few practices you know
Speaker 1: for us these next two days and then or in
Speaker 1: the three days and then Chicago and in the preseason
Speaker 1: game and then we'll um trying to make you steady improvements.
Speaker 1: And then I talked to Javan after practice without his
Speaker 1: play speed and what it is that allows him to
Speaker 1: play so fast, is that the instincts is that the
Speaker 1: just general skill and speed you have here's Javon T
Speaker 1: and t s. You know that takes no takes no
Speaker 1: talent type thing. It's just about effort and won that ball.
Speaker 1: Coach can't went over. Um. You know, he talked to
Speaker 1: us about just feeling like the person with the ball
Speaker 1: is taking your livelihood and uh to attack the ball
Speaker 1: every play like that, and nobody has an answered for that,
Speaker 1: you know, that efforts to the ball every time. So UM,
Speaker 1: I think that's one of the one of the main
Speaker 1: things of you know, trying to play fast is make
Speaker 1: sure that you know what you're doing so you can
Speaker 1: react and just go running the ball. And he also
Speaker 1: talked a little bit about the value of having Gerald
Speaker 1: Alexander in the room and his playing experience. I thought
Speaker 1: Jason mccordy going back to the veteran was terrific today
Speaker 1: and that's just great news to me because of the
Speaker 1: depth he adds to literally every spot in the secondary.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's nice to have a guy so trustworthy
Speaker 1: that has played every position in the secondary for twelve
Speaker 1: years now. And his most notable rep came in two
Speaker 1: minutes when there's an in cut and he's on the
Speaker 1: back of Jachim Grant, who's tough to cover deep and
Speaker 1: then you have to be responsible for that deep pattern
Speaker 1: but also be ready to drive on an incut like
Speaker 1: he did right here. And this time he's on the
Speaker 1: back because again he's behind Jachim and he has to
Speaker 1: work around his back and he does it successfully to
Speaker 1: get his hand in there for a pass break up.
Speaker 1: Good work from Jason mccordy. And then Eric Rowe was
Speaker 1: also very good in my eyes today. I thought I
Speaker 1: mentioned rather the seven on seven checkdowns. I thought he
Speaker 1: was a big part of that because he was cutting
Speaker 1: off crossers, picking up steam rouch, just a little bit
Speaker 1: of everything back there and that defensive secondary. And then
Speaker 1: in the one on one situations he was also very good.
Speaker 1: On one rep he blanketed Adam Shaheen to of throws
Speaker 1: away from the leverage. The ball hit Shaheen away from
Speaker 1: the leverage on the money, but Rode gets his hand
Speaker 1: in there, separates the hands for the pass break up.
Speaker 1: Then his next rep he was all up in Shaheen's grill,
Speaker 1: forcing another incomplete pass, two in a row on that matchup.
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones had a forced fumble on practice today against
Speaker 1: Chachim Grant on one of those slants, but Jachim fell
Speaker 1: back on it, and this was before Brandon got nicked up. Obviously.
Speaker 1: Finallyly Tino Ellis had a pressure in the team period.
Speaker 1: And that is it for my notes. Let's get to
Speaker 1: the top performers and the matchup of the matchup of
Speaker 1: the march up of the day today. It was Rob
Speaker 1: Hunt and ray Kwon Davis, and there was a rep
Speaker 1: where ray Kuon initially, or rather Rob initially got pushed
Speaker 1: on ray Kuon and then had to while engage kind
Speaker 1: of flip his hips and seal off the backside of
Speaker 1: the formation. And I thought that the movement and athletic
Speaker 1: ability combined with the strength was on display on that
Speaker 1: particular rip and he just got pushed all day long,
Speaker 1: really creating space, creating lanes. Whether it was ray Kwon
Speaker 1: Davis or somebody else. But I noted these guys in
Speaker 1: this matchup because Davis got a few of his own
Speaker 1: and there was a player where he tossed the block
Speaker 1: aside and I don't think that was Davis or Rob
Speaker 1: Hunt rather, but Davis tossed a block aside and then
Speaker 1: met Savon Achmed immediately. Very impressive rep from the Big
Speaker 1: Fellows had a strong camp and the initial power is
Speaker 1: just evident when you watch these two guys scaring off.
Speaker 1: Then you see them work with the technique, and I
Speaker 1: think that's where the real year to grow. This is
Speaker 1: evident the way they work after the initial shock of
Speaker 1: the first punch, because in college you can maybe win
Speaker 1: a lot of the time with that pure power initially
Speaker 1: in the rep but the real pros can counter and redirect,
Speaker 1: and I saw both of them getting it done in
Speaker 1: that way. Today today's top performers, let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: run through this list. I had Rob Hunt on there.
Speaker 1: I had Ray Kuan Davis on there. Also had Michael Dieter,
Speaker 1: Liam Eichenberg I thought had some good work in the
Speaker 1: Running Game. Robert Jones. We talked about him to Sam Ego,
Speaker 1: Von Davante Parker, Joachim Grant, Jason mccordy, Eric Rowe, Miles Gaskin,
Speaker 1: and to a tongue Vyla. As your top performers. No
Speaker 1: Twitter questions today. We had a little bit of a
Speaker 1: long rundown, so we don't have time to get to it,
Speaker 1: but we'll do another one on tomorrow's podcast. So if
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