WEBVTT - Dolphins Training Camp 2021 Day 9 Recap 0:00:01.400 --> 0:00:09.280 That's your looking down, Fail cuts Down, Miami Quaker Drawn, 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:19.240 What is up? Dolphans And Welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:23.360 part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:27.880 your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host, 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:30.520 Travis Wingfield, and I am here to bring you your 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:34.680 daily dose of Miami Dolphins football, even on a Saturday. 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:37.960 On today's show, we are back after a walk through day. 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:41.000 So if you don't see day eight on your podcast app, 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:43.640 that's because we punted on the podcast for that day. 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:46.040 But that means we have a loaded show for you 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:48.800 today as the pads came back on. We have a 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:52.040 ton of media to cover and a physical practice where 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:55.040 to a Tonga bloa and the offense shined once again. 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:58.360 We have standout performers, the matchup of the day, and 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:02.440 the most encouraging thing of the entire day from the 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:06.880 Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:13.800 is the Drive Time Podcast. So Xavier Howard was out 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:16.360 there on the practice field today. He got some reps 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:19.520 in the seven on seven periods. He was coaching guys up. 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.280 He also ran gassers after practice. I want to go 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:25.559 back to Friday with Brian Flores media availability and play 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:28.640 some sound from that media availability. Here's coach talking about 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:32.520 xaviing Howard so far in practice. I think Xavier has 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:36.480 done done, done a nice job. He's dealing with an ankle. UM. 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:39.360 I think he's been very supportive of his teammates. I 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.080 think he's been a ten of the meetings. Uh. I 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:44.840 think you see him on the field, coaching guys up, 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:48.320 young guys. Um. I think he's dealing with an injury. 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.559 Like um, you know, we have several other players dealing 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:54.160 with injuries, and I think he's working on a daily 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:58.200 basis to get back. Um. Obviously he's an important part 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:03.280 of this team, and UM, you know he's taking things 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:06.240 ay today and when he gets back, UM, we'll get 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:08.000 him in there and and and get him working with 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:12.160 his teammates. And UM. Yeah, I think he's doing a 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:15.800 nice job, you know, considering his situation. And it was 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:17.960 good to see x back onto the field dressed in 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:22.200 full pads at Saturday's practice, going through some press drills, 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:25.160 going through individual drills, getting some involvement there in the 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:28.320 seven on seven periods as well. And the big quote 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:31.160 you probably saw over the weekend was Brian Flores saying 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.800 this about Xavier Howard, we don't want to trade x 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:38.919 write that down. So, uh, he's a very good player. 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:41.079 He's a big part of the team. You know, we 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:44.320 don't want to trade him. And other roster news on 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:47.800 this Saturday here from the Baptist Health Training Complex is 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.919 it was great to see savan Akhmed back in there 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:53.560 free of the non contact red jersey. He was back 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:55.840 in his white jersey and he had a good practice too, 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:58.440 so it looks like he's up to full steam ahead. 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.480 No fuller and no Phillips day. Brandon Jones was shaking 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:03.839 up at one point mid practice as well. We'll get 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.440 more about him for you guys on a later podcast 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:09.519 down the Line. Davante Parker was a full goal as well, 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:12.600 and Andrew van Ginkl was also out there in practice 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:15.800 for the Miami Dolphins. One thing we learned from Jesse 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:19.280 Davis on Friday was that the Dolphins have structured out 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:22.600 modified practice days for some of the veterans. Jesse said, 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.679 unbeknownst to him that they had this plan for him 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:27.600 coming into camp, and he said he didn't know he 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.160 was getting these modified days where you play a few 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:31.960 certain periods you go through some of the stuff like 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:34.360 Xaving Howard for instance, where you go through seven on 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:37.840 seven stretching individuals and that type of thing. What else 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:39.360 we got here a couple of other things I wanted 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:42.640 to cover before we get into the practice notes. First Saturday, 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:46.400 coach touched on the joint practices in Chicago they're coming 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:49.560 up this week and the importance or lack thereof, of 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.720 first team, second team, third team distinctions this time of year. 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:56.000 And we're gonna kind of mixmash those two ideas together here. 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.480 As coach talks about the offensive line, he was asked 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:01.880 a question about Solemn and Kinley and his progression and 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:04.480 whether or not he's playing first, second, third team reps. 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:07.040 Here's coach talking about what's important this time of year, 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:09.440 and it ain't which team you're part of, because there 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.000 are so many rotations involved in this time of year 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:14.760 with practice and the evaluation. I think there's a lot 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:18.479 of competition in that room. Um, I think you've seen 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:20.120 guys work with the ones with the twos, with the 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.920 three Solomon's. You know, actually want a guy who's worked 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:26.400 with the ones with the twos with the threes. Um, 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:29.359 but again, like I said, I've said, you know numerous times, 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:32.960 it doesn't really matter where you're you're you know, what 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:37.919 group you're with. It's you know, is your from alignment, assignment, 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:43.280 responsibility and technique fundamental? Are you doing the right things? Um? 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.839 And that's for each player. UM, And that's really what 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:48.880 we're looking for and that supposed being evaluated. So doesn't 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:51.400 matter what group you're in, UM, you know, are you 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:53.320 are you taking care of business when you know with 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:55.400 with the reps that you have as far as the 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:57.600 team chemistry or chemistry along the offensive line, I think 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.800 it's very important, very valid question, uh, something that we 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.880 don't you know, take for granted at all. Um. At 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:06.040 some point we'll we'll kind of narrow to sing down 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:09.040 to let's call it five, six, seven guys, because we 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:10.800 gotta have at least, you know, seven eight guys at 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:14.880 the game and whatever five of that group, that group 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:18.440 has to have, you know, the chemistry you need to 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:22.240 be an effective offensive line. UM. So there'll always be 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:26.080 some moving parts. I know. Uh, I think we all 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:27.600 like to say, hey, it's just five guys and let 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:30.720 them play and let them work. But again I think 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:34.240 Barry asked us the other day. Um, we gotta get 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:37.280 some other guys in there too, so that chemistry with 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:40.720 the sixth line in the seventh lineman. Um, there's not 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:46.080 a big drop off because inevitably that that's gonna happen. Um. 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.040 So if you want to see all five every day 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:50.520 for you know, days and weeks in a row, I'm sorry, 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:53.840 it's just not gonna happen. Uh, I don't. I just 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.120 don't think that's the best thing for for the group overall. 0:05:56.160 --> 0:06:00.560 And um, but yeah, we're gonna now just down there, 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:05.120 you know, you know it's called seven eight guys at 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.559 some point. Um. So then coach was asked a follow 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:09.920 up after that because he said, seven or eight guys 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:13.400 about that number, seven or eight guys that you feel 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:15.160 good about? How do you feel about those guys at 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:17.000 this point of the season, at this point of training camp. 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:20.120 Here's coach, you know early on, Yes, I mean we're 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:21.760 we're we're I mean, look, there's some guys who were 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:24.159 out of others. I mean, it's up to this point, 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.880 but we still got you know, the practices against Chicago 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:28.719 will tell us a lot. The game, the preseason games 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:33.719 will tell us a lot. So um and told me, 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:35.800 you guys are we're keeping score on this, but it's 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:39.599 still early, you know, still very early. But you know 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:42.200 the Chicago practices that that'll that'll go a long way. 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.359 The preseason games that'll go a long way. And I 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.560 just think, yeah, you know, we're not going to make 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:52.920 a full on evaluation or or um declaration of who's 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:57.479 who until we get through that. Still early, we're still early, 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.760 still early, still early. A little fun from coach at 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:02.279 the very end of that, And why wouldn't he have 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:04.680 some fun with that good stuff there? From Brian Flores. 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:07.120 Three more here before we get into the practice notes. 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:09.160 And I wanted to share this because there was a 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:12.040 tweet by a national publication that got a lot of 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:15.080 run on Twitter, and I, like a lot of people, 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:19.800 vehemently disagree with that particular take, basically calling the preseason 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:23.080 glorified practices that are overblown this time of year. And 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:25.840 as we heard coach say, the joint practices and the 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.560 games are very important in this process. And I love 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:33.200 the preseason, especially Dolphins games. Frankly, the emotion of the 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:36.520 regular season games. That counting the standings is fun when 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.160 you win, and that's the balance of life. Right, the 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.520 yin and the yang. If something is going to be 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:44.960 that good, it also has to have the equal possibility 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.520 of something that bad on the opposite end. And I 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.840 don't love the drama of that because well sometimes it hurts. 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:54.520 But in preseason you don't have that emotional attachment. It's 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:58.280 football for the sake of football. It's pure evaluation without 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:00.560 a meaningful result as far as the school aboard goes 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.800 and the standings at the end of the season. So 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:05.560 that's why I love it. But if my words not 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.480 enough to convince you for why the preseason is both 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:11.920 valuable and entertaining for my money, why don't we hear 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.760 from a player with regards to why it's important to them, 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:18.160 like Dirtball Kira's netto a practice squad player from the 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:20.880 International Pathway program who just picked up football not that 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:22.800 long ago. Do you think these games married to him? 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:27.680 Let's hear from Dirtball this is do everything I want, 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:32.319 like science that came here every day at Bratt's, Bratt's Bratt's, 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:35.000 And the last two years I've been like watching all 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:38.000 my teammates and the weekends going for the game and 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:40.960 I have to stay and then like that, every week 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:44.240 every week, making me like more hanger hunger for that. 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:46.120 I want that, I want. I want to be in 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:49.280 a game. Nothing, nothing is more important for me than 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:51.880 being a game and help my chain. Yeah. I will 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:55.600 take preseason football every day, every year, every week, whatever 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:58.720 you want to call it, I'll take preseason games. Next. 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:02.080 I think I had one tweet from Friday's walk through 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:05.240 and it was Michael Pollardi doing something I have frankly 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:09.040 never seen before, and he was taking the football at 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:11.840 midfield and punting it on a line drive, like not 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:13.920 into the air, like not a hang time punt, but 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:16.720 line drives down to Jason Sanders who was at the 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:19.560 ten yard line, and he was hitting these perfect spirals 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:21.839 that were getting down there on a line and he 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.959 was just putting it right on Jason Sanders chest. So 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:28.400 I asked Mike about this after practice on Saturday, and 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:32.320 his face lit up. And apparently, even though it's uncommon, 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:34.920 as you'll hear him say, he doesn't every day. And 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:38.040 I guess I'm just so inundated with the rest of 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.560 practice that I haven't seen it yet. Let's go ahead 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:43.600 and hear from Mike. I don't think it's common, at 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:47.080 least from what I've seen. UM, For me, it's it's 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:51.559 mentally getting myself prepared to kind of experience the elements 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:54.199 that are around me. UM. My train of thought is 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:58.200 if I can put the ball on a rope um 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:01.320 at a specific spot of specific yard line when I 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:03.240 go out into the open field and I have this 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:07.360 this ton of space, UM, it allows me to be 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:11.760 a little bit more comfortable with hitting directionally painting the 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:13.839 sideline if I want to put it outside the red 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:18.280 line here on the fields, UM, you know, trying to 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:20.200 hit the ball so that the returner can't catch it, 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:22.040 hit out of bounds, you know, those are the those 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:23.920 are the best returns and the best punts, the ones 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:26.640 I can't catch. Right. So that's kind of my train 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.080 of thought. It kind of mentally gets me prepared. But 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:33.200 it's part of my warm up weather, um before practice 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.680 or before a game. So you'll always see that. That's 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:41.199 I appreciate it. Yeah. I really enjoyed that last part 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:43.720 there because I was I was really kind of showing 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:48.880 my impressed, I suppose opinion of that particular kick as 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:50.880 I was nodding along with him and smiling because I 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:53.520 just found it so interesting, so good sport there from 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:55.480 Mike to tell me about that, but also, I mean, 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:57.920 you can see how impactful it has been for him 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.120 because he's been putting the football in the air on 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:02.480 a line to the sideline pretty much do whatever the 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:04.520 hell he wants with that thing when he punts it 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:06.800 out here. And the last sound I wanted to play 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:09.520 for him was this because he spoke about a connection 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:11.920 between he and the coaching staff and why he's a 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:15.160 good fit here in Miami with the special teams. Here's 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:18.640 Mike talking about coach Flora's and Coach Crossman and their 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.800 intensity on the special team side of the football and 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:26.160 how that clicks with his personality and play style. Yeah, 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:30.160 it manifests itself in so many different ways. Um, you know, 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:32.920 Coach Croftsman, Coach Flores expect a lot out of their 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:38.000 specialist and I expect a lot out of myself. So 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:42.360 they challenged me. I challenged me. My teammates challenged me, 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:46.120 and I want them to uh. Sometimes it's verbally. Sometimes 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:47.760 they don't even need to say anything, and I kind 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:51.079 of know what what I need to do to execute 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:57.120 my role, my job, whatever the play is, and if 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:00.000 it's not met, I'm upset of myself. You know, I've 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.280 let my teammates down, I've let my coaches down. But 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:05.040 and I think that's I think that's what I need. 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:07.640 And uh, I'm happy that I'm here to be able 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:11.320 to witness it. And of course, Miami Special Teams was 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.440 a top the Football Outsiders d v o A metric 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.360 for nearly half the season last year. It changed in 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:19.520 December when they finished number six and d v o A. 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.880 So yeah, details definitely matter, and the punter is a 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.719 big part of that. Finally, Lynn Bowden spoke to us 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:28.600 after practice on Saturday, and I really liked what he 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:32.160 had to say, albeit briefly, about working with coach Studentsville 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:35.560 and coach Godzi in the new offense. Also quick aside, 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:38.480 Lynn did say that he would play center if they 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:40.600 asked him to, said he wants to just play ball, 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:42.400 but here he is talking about the new offense here 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:44.920 in Miami. To me, I think the offense is magnificent. 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:47.839 You know, the coaches, they they took their time with it, 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:51.000 you know, they just they made it for us. And 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.679 like I said, short and sweet, there all right, We've 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:56.640 got more audio for you guys, but we'll work into 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:58.240 the story of the day here as we go along, 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:01.040 and we actually start with this one. More audio from 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:04.480 Dolphins quarterback Read Senet, the second year QB who spent 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:07.319 last year on the practice squad until a week sevent 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.880 team promotion up in Buffalo where he serves as the 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.839 backup to two O Donga Biloa. He's here working again 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:15.960 and I think he's looked pretty sharp. Here's what he 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:18.559 had to say Friday after the walkthrough about what you 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:22.320 can gain from the walkthrough. There's so much to talk about. 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:24.560 You know. We we got a lot of cover zero looks, 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:26.320 so we talked about how we're gonna protect it and 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:28.920 how we're gonna you know, attack certain defenses. And so 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:30.920 it's really great to do it at a learning tempo 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:33.080 where we're all able to kind of talk it through 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.800 and get get the reps without you know, the contact 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.520 and obviously the physical nature that the game is. So 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:40.240 it's great for the wide receivers and then we can 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:42.280 go in and watch the film and say, you know, 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:44.079 here's what we can improve on now when we're in 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:46.160 a live setting, hopefully we don't have to coach it up, 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:48.080 you know, a second time. And so for the quarterbacks. 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:51.040 These learning and the walkthroughs are huge. And the reason 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:54.280 I play this is because, well, the defense turned up 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.960 the heat at Saturday's practice on Dolphins quarterbacks and I 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.840 thought QB one really handled it. L I didn't get 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:03.400 as good of a look at Jacoby Brissette today because 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:06.640 they were on the far field simultaneously as two and 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:09.240 his crew were working on the near field. But I 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:12.240 didn't see another bomb from Jacoby to Isaiah Ford, which, 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:14.720 by the way, Isaiah is making big plays and tough 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:17.079 catches off his frame down the field, whatever you want 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.360 to call it, every single day out here at practice. 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:22.920 But watching to and the offense work through the pressure 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:26.280 was quite a treat on Saturday. Real quick, before we 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:29.280 get right back to that, you probably saw my sand 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:31.720 Lot tweet my reference and I'm really getting into the 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:34.400 references these days. It seems. I noted that Parker ran 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:37.360 a route and the fundamental drills portion of practice and 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:40.400 the ball didn't change a thing about his route or 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:42.520 the routes of the other receivers, and that was the 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:45.040 whole drill. You just run your route, put your hands up, 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.240 and the ball doesn't change anything about the rep And 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:49.800 thanks to the great community of Dolphins fans we have 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:54.320 on Twitter at Bushwood Underscore. C C shared this with 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:56.600 me and I was able to kind of confirm it 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:58.440 and vet it through an article I found on the 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:00.760 New York Times simple Google, so it's not that tough 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:03.560 that I also shared on my timeline if you want 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:05.480 to go see it for yourself. There are some great 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:08.840 quotes from Calvin Ridley and other players from the Crimson 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.560 Tide back in those days as well. But Brian day Ball, 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:16.040 current Buffalo Bill's offensive coordinator former o C with a 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:19.200 Crimson Tide there with Towa and here's the excerpt from 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:23.200 that article. The Alabama offensive coordinator Brian Dayball has a 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:26.800 certain way of looking at the throwing accuracy of quarterbacks. 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.080 All of them can drop back seven steps and hit 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:31.200 a house with the ball, he said. Some of them 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:33.040 can hit the door. A few of them can even 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:35.560 hit the door knob to a dave. Ball said can 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:37.800 hit the keyhole. And I wanted to bring that up 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.480 for you guys because of the ball placement. It has 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:42.800 been my favorite thing to watch through nine days of 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:46.760 camp so far. Then today we got another look at 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:50.520 something good and this jives with TWA's numbers against pressure 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:53.400 as a rookie from Pro Football Focus to I had 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:57.320 a sixty completion rate last year with six seventy four 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:00.520 passing yards against the Blitz, seven touchdowns and one I 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:03.480 n T against the Blitz for a total passer rating 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:07.200 against extra pressure against a fifth rusher or more of 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:10.000 one oh two point two. And my first note was 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:12.840 watching them go through a drill while stretching was going on, 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.080 the quarterbacks working off to the side. They set up 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:17.440 some bags to kind of simulate an offensive line in 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:19.360 front of them, and then a coach would toss a 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.080 specific bag at the quarterback's face as they went to 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:24.720 throw the football. And that would obviously be a theme 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.480 of the day on Saturday. And one of those themes 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:30.200 was throwing the football like I mentioned on Wednesday, like 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:32.840 he discussed on Wednesday and covered it in the podcast, 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.080 And if you haven't listened to it already, go do that. 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.360 If you have listen again, there's no rules against that. 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:40.360 But the idea was throwing the football to a spot. 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:43.280 And there were two instances where I really noticed that 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:46.520 today at practice. One was a crossing pattern to Jalen 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:49.640 Waddle where two just almost like you would on a 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.760 screen pass, faded away from the pressure and lobbed it 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.520 into the vacated space and that's when the fund starts 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:58.680 for Wattle, I mean the speed, the athletic ability, the 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:01.480 agility that he shows out there. It really shows up 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.080 when the ball is in his his hands. Another was 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:07.920 DeVante Parker one on one against Byron Jones. Parker took 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:10.199 off and to a cot rock through, got that thing 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.760 out quickly down the field and the ball was in 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:15.640 great shape. I thought DeVante was gonna make a play. 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:17.560 He did, went up and got the football, but then 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:20.440 Byron Jones flies in from seemingly nowhere to get the 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:23.240 pass breakup, and our social team posted that to Twitter, 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:27.199 so you can find that play online. So it's the accuracy, 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.639 the poison under pressure, the touch passes, the recognition of 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:32.560 soft spots and coverage and how to get the ball 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:34.919 to those spots for his guys to make plays. And 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:36.479 then the last thing I want to touch on regarding 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:39.480 two a here in this podcast, the running man. He 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:41.879 looks fast out there. He had a rushing touchdown and 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:44.360 goal line work today, But the one where I really 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:47.879 saw the jets that made him the top dual threat 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:49.920 quarterback in high school when he was coming out of St. 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:53.920 Louis High School in Hawaii. Emmanuel Ogbad gets immediate pressure 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:56.320 off the blind side of the quarterback and to have 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:58.680 felt it and took off right away from the pressure, 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:01.800 and he outran every buddy. He gets up the sideline 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:04.159 and then reaches the football out like across the sticks 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:06.000 as you go out of bounce, like you see some 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:08.680 quarterbacks do these days, like Russell Wilson does every time 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.320 he carries the ball up the sideline. It was close 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:13.520 to ten yards, might have been nine, might have been eleven, 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:16.600 but either way, it was a very fast looking quarterback 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:19.159 back there for Miami. And actually I mentioned I was 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:20.760 gonna finish up. We'll do one more here on to 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:23.840 We heard from Mac Hollands after practice, who is having 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:27.480 himself a very nice camp as well. But after practice 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:30.600 on Saturday, he touched on what he's seen as the 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.480 biggest jump for the Dolphins quarterback in your number two 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:37.560 here's Mac. Yeah, I think that's the biggest transition, especially 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:40.760 really for the whole NFL, but for quarterbacks, especially that 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:44.040 year one to year two where you understand how a 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:46.639 season works. You know, you get out of college and 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:49.440 it's like, all right, combined training a million interview preps, 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:51.080 and it's you're so stressed you don't even know how 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:53.480 to play football anymore a lot of time. So now 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:56.160 he's been able to take a deep breath and take 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:59.359 control of an offense, understand the offense, and really shine 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:01.800 out there. I mean you. And that's a great way 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:05.560 to segue into the receiver position because mac I also 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.160 had possibly the quote of camp. He caught a long 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:11.080 ball from to during the team period and scored from 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:14.600 about fifty yards away or so. Plenty more of that today. 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:17.000 And then Max spiked the football at the end of 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:19.320 the end zone and someone asked him or maybe he 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:21.040 was a dunk over the goal post. I forget. He's 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:23.280 always doing one of the two. Somebody asked him why 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:26.240 he's always having so much fun out there, and he said, 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:28.280 you know, one day I'll be in a box in 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:30.680 the dirt. I'm gonna have fun while I'm here. And 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:33.040 I love that. What a great life mentality. Mac is 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:35.399 just he's the best. He's the best out there. I 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:39.240 also really liked him talking about studying Matthew Slater, the 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:42.639 great long time special teamer of the Patriots. Just insightful 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:44.639 stuff from Mac, and we'll hear more from him here 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:47.399 later in this podcast as well. But how about Jalen 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:51.080 wattle Man. I dropped an outcast reference on Twitter today 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:54.280 with him, because he just moves at a different speed 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:57.480