Speaker 1: To us fires touch style waddle stuck into the end
Speaker 1: zone of Miami Boy, tight all, tight window. They had
Speaker 1: to get that touchdown on that play. They get it.
Speaker 1: What is up, Dolphins 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 on today's show, if you can't hear
Speaker 1: it in my voice, you better check your pulse. We've
Speaker 1: got Miami Dolphins football talk about and I am stoked
Speaker 1: it is May, but we have practice from organized team activities.
Speaker 1: We've also got audio from head coach Mike McDaniel a
Speaker 1: handful of players, and my favorite thing to do on
Speaker 1: this podcast a practice report for all of you. Again,
Speaker 1: if you can't tell my voice, I am very very
Speaker 1: fired up, and me check that pulse. Yeah that's going.
Speaker 1: Let's get going from the Baptist Health Studios inside the
Speaker 1: Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime pod cast.
Speaker 1: That is another Miami Dolphins first down. We saw plenty
Speaker 1: of those on the field on Wednesday. Before we get
Speaker 1: to that, let's go ahead and start with coach McDaniels Wednesday,
Speaker 1: May the seventeenth media availability, and he kicked it off
Speaker 1: by walking in and saying, almost surprised about how many
Speaker 1: of us were in the media room for this press conference,
Speaker 1: for this first a day of media access to O
Speaker 1: T A. S. And he said, you know, your priorities
Speaker 1: might be a little bit out of whack considering the
Speaker 1: fact that there are two playoff games tonight the Florida
Speaker 1: Panthers and Miami Heat in the second round of the
Speaker 1: NHL Stanley Cup playoffs and the Eastern Conference Finals for
Speaker 1: the Miami Heat. Talking about those two games, and so
Speaker 1: you love hearing him already aware of the other sports
Speaker 1: in the region and how well those teams are doing,
Speaker 1: like knowing to that off the top, You love to
Speaker 1: hear that. And speaking of local ties, Sony Michelle now
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. Here's coach McDaniel on what intrigued Miami to
Speaker 1: the dolphins new running back and Sony Michelle, Um, Sony
Speaker 1: the the you haven't you have an opportunity in the
Speaker 1: off season to add a player of his caliber, of
Speaker 1: his pedigree, just him as a human being and um
Speaker 1: a multiple Super Bowl winner. Um that we jumped at
Speaker 1: the opportunity and you know his interests that our interests
Speaker 1: and UM, you know, competition for the for the Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: UM is is only a good thing. And I think,
Speaker 1: UM one thing that's unique about that particular room is
Speaker 1: no one shies away from competition, and everybody in there's
Speaker 1: UM excited UH for the offense, for the opportunities, and
Speaker 1: wants to be UH, wants the best man to win,
Speaker 1: UM and aren't backing away from that. We'll have a
Speaker 1: chance to get to know Sony Michelle on the next
Speaker 1: edition of the Drivetime podcast. He'll be joining me here
Speaker 1: on Drivetime, so you don't want to miss that great
Speaker 1: signing as well. Obviously I did that competition that running
Speaker 1: back room, not just in that running back room, but
Speaker 1: across the entire football team. Here in that competition is
Speaker 1: something he talks about there or something they're not going
Speaker 1: to shy away from. And I love this next answer
Speaker 1: here about he was asked, what's something you want to
Speaker 1: establish here in your first O t A with the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. They talked about the process of the off season,
Speaker 1: and it's a length the answer toming go ahead and
Speaker 1: just let coach do the talking for you right here.
Speaker 1: I think we've we've begun that process. You know, there's
Speaker 1: three phases in the NFL off season UM. Phase one
Speaker 1: is meeting room exclusive UH and and guys UM, you know,
Speaker 1: and we're currently in phase three, where we're actually able
Speaker 1: to practice for the second time. And Phase two you
Speaker 1: getta you get to do some UH drill work and
Speaker 1: coach them on the field, not in team settings. But
Speaker 1: UM and all three phases are are really cool to me,
Speaker 1: UM for the specific reason that you get to coach
Speaker 1: and not prepare for an opponent. So the the you know,
Speaker 1: we're learning toerent language UM on one side of the ball,
Speaker 1: and we're refining a language on the other side of
Speaker 1: the ball. But UH, realistically, you want guys committed to
Speaker 1: UM getting better and you want to really establish UM
Speaker 1: how you're gonna go about business. You know, we we
Speaker 1: had a bunch of time to prepare for you know,
Speaker 1: we had to we had to UM voluntary mini camps
Speaker 1: and now we're UH UM this afternoon, you guys will
Speaker 1: see our second O t a UM. And what was
Speaker 1: important to me is UM. You don't skip steps in
Speaker 1: this business. So if we want UM, if we want
Speaker 1: to make strides and and progress as an organization, as
Speaker 1: a football team, we have to position ourselves so that
Speaker 1: when we come back for training camp, UM, that we're
Speaker 1: able to practice and operate at a high caliber level
Speaker 1: that fits you know, our goals and UM, there's no
Speaker 1: easy way to do that. You just don't wish things
Speaker 1: to happen. You take matters into your hands in the
Speaker 1: game of football. And guys, I am very proud of
Speaker 1: the way they've approached everything. UM. From that standpoint, just
Speaker 1: the details of the process along the way really stand
Speaker 1: out when listening to coach McDaniel speak watching this Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins team practice, Like, for instance, there's a there was
Speaker 1: a a drill and individuals where every single position group
Speaker 1: goes through their drills and it was the handoff and
Speaker 1: then after the handoff, the quarterback would catch a ball
Speaker 1: from an assistant coach and then finish the rep and
Speaker 1: throw the football. And I was talking to John Conjemmy
Speaker 1: about it. You know, you guys don't know who John
Speaker 1: Conjemmi is, and he was saying, yeah, it gives you
Speaker 1: an extra rep. You're just doubling your reps that way.
Speaker 1: And so that's a cool way to kind of give
Speaker 1: yourself as much work in the a little time as
Speaker 1: you possibly can get out of it and just maximize
Speaker 1: your opportunity. You heard coach talk about that learning a
Speaker 1: language on one side of the football, refining a language
Speaker 1: on the other side of the ball. They're going to
Speaker 1: be detailed in the processing, get things down and and
Speaker 1: build towards this thing and not skip steps. You heard
Speaker 1: him talk about that. I thought it was a really
Speaker 1: cool answer. He also then talked a little bit about
Speaker 1: Lynn Bowden was that was the subject of the question,
Speaker 1: But he was asked about how attracted he or he
Speaker 1: rather he talked about how he was attracted to players
Speaker 1: who had multiple position experience, and specifically the quarterback position
Speaker 1: because of the way they see the game. I thought
Speaker 1: that was an interesting perspective there, and just in terms
Speaker 1: of maximizing your knowledge base, maximizing the guys on the
Speaker 1: field that can communicate that knowledge base. And he's talked
Speaker 1: about what makes him Iami Dolphin for a long time
Speaker 1: now in the course of this process, since being hired,
Speaker 1: and it sounds like intelligence is really high up on
Speaker 1: that list. He was also then asked about the difficult
Speaker 1: the position that's the most difficult to his offense, within
Speaker 1: and he just gives it, gives a really good long answer. Here,
Speaker 1: let's go to coach. The most drastic disparity from you know,
Speaker 1: whatever you'd call quote traditional. You enter it when you're
Speaker 1: coaching players. You were very aware of their past coaching.
Speaker 1: You make yourself aware of that so that you can
Speaker 1: best articulate, Hey, this is like this or this is
Speaker 1: not like this. The biggest disparity from a traditional standpoint
Speaker 1: is the offensive line, without a doubt, UM that and
Speaker 1: and it and it is a full scale commitment to
Speaker 1: UM certain principles and ownership of fundamentals that we ask
Speaker 1: them to do in a major in UH and that.
Speaker 1: So as far as the off season program is concerned,
Speaker 1: it's it's almost built for our offensive alignment in terms
Speaker 1: of how to approach things, because you need about two
Speaker 1: weeks of you know, an hour and half or hour
Speaker 1: forty five minute meetings, which is what Phase one allows
Speaker 1: you to digest. Hey, we're asking you to UM, run
Speaker 1: off the ball, We're asking you to have these landmarks.
Speaker 1: We're asking you not to hesitate UM. And then phase
Speaker 1: two you and kind of drill it um that I
Speaker 1: think in terms of UH, you know, Johnny don't know
Speaker 1: his name coming on the team and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden being thrown into the mix. I think that
Speaker 1: it's the hardest position, UM, because we are so committed
Speaker 1: UM to to our fundamentals and technique and UM you know,
Speaker 1: offensive alignement are like uh oh or like officials. I
Speaker 1: would say, we're like, you're not talking about them and
Speaker 1: that's a good thing. And they have scars from when
Speaker 1: they are talked about. So to get them to just
Speaker 1: let go and let all that stuff, UM, let the
Speaker 1: past be the past and move forward. Is is the
Speaker 1: most deliberate and intentional thing that as a coaching staff
Speaker 1: we have to do. UM. One of the reasons that
Speaker 1: kind of shaped my whole vision for UM hiring a
Speaker 1: coaching staff, I wanted to make sure that the guys
Speaker 1: that were touching those players ars, we would be able
Speaker 1: to see the results of the of the scheme and
Speaker 1: people really UM dive in and invest, understand where they're
Speaker 1: coming from, some of the stuff that they have in
Speaker 1: their past and let that go and move forward. UM.
Speaker 1: And I feel very very comfortable and confident and happy
Speaker 1: with what UM. You know, start with Matt Applebaum and
Speaker 1: UM and and and Lamb has been doing an outstanding
Speaker 1: job understanding everything that we're trying to do. UM, Mike
Speaker 1: person and then uh Frank Smith obviously the offensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: So UM, that position is probably I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: if you're do you have any interest in the offensive
Speaker 1: line position? UM, am I boring you? UM, but that
Speaker 1: it's it's exciting too because you, UM, you get to
Speaker 1: see guys at that position. UM. I feel like we're
Speaker 1: kind of it's liberating to a degree because they're Uh,
Speaker 1: listen the guys that UM if I were to tell
Speaker 1: you that, UM on this team and this is my
Speaker 1: seventh team, UM been in a lot of different places,
Speaker 1: but this is the uh as athletic and capable of
Speaker 1: any group that might you might be like, huh are
Speaker 1: you great? Um? But they they really are, and they're
Speaker 1: hungry and committed, and it's been really really UM rewarding
Speaker 1: to watch them works, see the benefits. And then more
Speaker 1: than that, UM, you know what's gonna happen with your
Speaker 1: first adversity because this just in offensive linemen have adversity.
Speaker 1: They live in adversity, UM, and they how are they
Speaker 1: going to respond to a run play where they're short
Speaker 1: on their aiming? Point and Christian makes you pay in
Speaker 1: the backfield or um uh sailor whoever um And and
Speaker 1: that's the fun part of this part of the year
Speaker 1: is you get to uh focus on them and not
Speaker 1: not an opponent. I just love that, especially apart talking
Speaker 1: about the athletic ability and the capability of these guys
Speaker 1: on the offensive line, consistent with the message we've heard
Speaker 1: from Mike McDaniel, from Chris Career, from Frank Smith, from
Speaker 1: Matt Apple, mom John Embrey, the assistant head coach, as
Speaker 1: well this offensive staff and the belief of the players
Speaker 1: they have on the offensive line to get him coached up,
Speaker 1: to get them playing, and to get this offense really humming. There.
Speaker 1: So importance of the offensive line not lost on this
Speaker 1: coaching staff, not lost on Coach McDaniel. And I can't
Speaker 1: wait to watch those guys get out there against somebody else.
Speaker 1: Long way away from that, but I can't wait for that.
Speaker 1: But before we do that, go ahead and keep covering
Speaker 1: O T A S. Here. Next, coach was asked about
Speaker 1: what he's seen so far from the rookies and new
Speaker 1: d f A S. And again, coach goes beyond the
Speaker 1: question and gives you a more insightful answer here talking
Speaker 1: about the process of building us group up and everybody
Speaker 1: in the organization being involved in acquiring them, and also
Speaker 1: the value of U d F as overall as a group.
Speaker 1: I feel I feel that our all all the parties
Speaker 1: involved and acquiring them. You know, I hold undrafted UH
Speaker 1: free agents with high esteem, like they aren't just like throwings. UM.
Speaker 1: They're important to me. We've had UM a multitude of
Speaker 1: success over the years. Having UM undrafted free agents really
Speaker 1: impact your team. And what I will say is as
Speaker 1: a group UM we have it's a testament to the
Speaker 1: organization's scouting department and Chris career and the collection of
Speaker 1: people because we have the right types of people. This
Speaker 1: is overwhelming. You have to understand that rookies, UM people
Speaker 1: don't really view it this way. But I was just
Speaker 1: talking to the guys yesterday, is they are coming in
Speaker 1: trying to make a living at something amongst people that
Speaker 1: have been doing it professionally for years. So and then
Speaker 1: you're doing that in a language that you're like, what
Speaker 1: you know, you just got introduced to stuff, so you're
Speaker 1: tripled behind the eight ball. You get to find out
Speaker 1: fast if if guys are tough, minded enough, and I
Speaker 1: will say they are made of the right stuff. Um,
Speaker 1: so far having one weekend with him and then uh,
Speaker 1: this is being the second O t A. We're gonna
Speaker 1: hear from one U d f A turned starter last
Speaker 1: year with Nick Needham here at the cornerback position, and
Speaker 1: another U d f A who made a big play
Speaker 1: in practice today that's coming up here in just a second.
Speaker 1: Coach also told us about joint practices this preseason with
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Tampa Bay on
Speaker 1: the road the first week of the preseason Philadelphia week
Speaker 1: three towards the end of August there with the Raiders
Speaker 1: sandwich between that. So some good work against other teams
Speaker 1: coming your way this offseason, and you know we love
Speaker 1: those training camp joint practices. Up next, I asked coach about,
Speaker 1: how does this dream job of yours you've talked about,
Speaker 1: you've been working towards us for twenty years. How does
Speaker 1: this compare in reality to the expectation you had for
Speaker 1: the job here? How has your experience live up to
Speaker 1: the expectation of your dream job surpassed it? Now? It's um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just it's just really fun, UM to
Speaker 1: express a lot of the things that you you didn't
Speaker 1: know if you ever have the opportunity to do UM.
Speaker 1: And I feel uh and I'm surrounded um with so
Speaker 1: many people that uh, that are supporting and helped driving
Speaker 1: the force that UM. It really, it truly feels like
Speaker 1: a team that um, we're working together for a common goal,
Speaker 1: which that is what football is all about. Two last
Speaker 1: things I want to touch on here before we get
Speaker 1: to the Wednesday May set a practice report here live
Speaker 1: for the Baptist Health Studios. Well I'm live now, but
Speaker 1: the podcast is alive. You guys get it. But Coach
Speaker 1: talked about, you know, particular veterans who are not participating
Speaker 1: in this time of year. And he talked about, you know,
Speaker 1: there are certain guys that have earned the ability to
Speaker 1: stand off to the side, but not just that the
Speaker 1: science backs the fact that maybe that's best served they're
Speaker 1: not out there. I thought that was really cool talking
Speaker 1: about the use of science. He also talked about the
Speaker 1: use of GPS or I guess mile prior tracking, I
Speaker 1: should say, because he was asked about, you know, the
Speaker 1: topic we all love to hear about, right, the guys
Speaker 1: that want to race in a foot race, whether it's
Speaker 1: Tyreek Kill Jalen Waddle where heem moster. The list goes
Speaker 1: on and on of guys on this team who are
Speaker 1: absolute burners and speed merchants, and he talked about, well,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna stop them, but I'm not gonna make
Speaker 1: them do it, so it's pretty much up to them.
Speaker 1: And then he also mentioned that I'm more curious about
Speaker 1: who can run the route the right way, who can
Speaker 1: cover a go ball, and talking about how that speed
Speaker 1: is tracked by their the mile prior tracking they do have,
Speaker 1: and he did mention we have a few guys out
Speaker 1: here run in twenty twenty one miles per hour, which
Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys can guess who they are. So
Speaker 1: great stuff there from Coach. You can find the entirety
Speaker 1: of that up on the team YouTube channel. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and pause for our first break and come back
Speaker 1: with our first practice report of the Mike McDaniel era,
Speaker 1: our first practice report of can you tell them fired
Speaker 1: up yet? Let's go ahead and do that. Next Draftime podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 1: Back here on this Wednesday edition of the Drivetime podcast
Speaker 1: covering the first day of O t a S as
Speaker 1: far as our coverage goes here on the Drive Time podcast,
Speaker 1: and I want to go ahead and just start off
Speaker 1: here talking about one of my favorite things to observe
Speaker 1: every single time we're out there on the practice field.
Speaker 1: Energy and in particular this time around the coaching energy
Speaker 1: as the effort you see guys put in on game
Speaker 1: day right like you'll see it. You'll see screens retraced,
Speaker 1: or defensive lineman chasing down plays on the opposite side
Speaker 1: of the field, getting back into the second level and
Speaker 1: retracing that way, and just getting all the effort maximized
Speaker 1: out of and every guy you possibly can, and those
Speaker 1: are things that they take only are accomplished through effort
Speaker 1: and will. Right, there's no skill to really help you
Speaker 1: on hustle, but you can train those things and that's
Speaker 1: what we so frequently see out here with these guys,
Speaker 1: and in particular I'm talking about defensive line coach Austin Clark.
Speaker 1: And I always tell Christian when I see him, like, dude,
Speaker 1: your tape, the way you retrace those screens, it's my
Speaker 1: favorite thing to watch on Sundays. And he's always really
Speaker 1: appreciative of that, but you see it on the practice field.
Speaker 1: They work on those things. They're not just showing up
Speaker 1: and expecting to hustle on game day. It happens out
Speaker 1: here on the practice field. First, uh, special teams portion.
Speaker 1: The thing I really put down on my notes here
Speaker 1: was the Trent sherfield and key on crossing to me
Speaker 1: stood out and that should be no surprise, as both
Speaker 1: those guys are really lauded for their fight and their
Speaker 1: effort and their work in the third phase of the game.
Speaker 1: Both guys have been productive in that area of their career.
Speaker 1: Now we get to some team notes here, just kind
Speaker 1: of go through my list of notes that I jowned
Speaker 1: down here and give me some comprehensive thoughts. Towards the end,
Speaker 1: Jalen Philip showed up on back to back plays. And
Speaker 1: one cool thing about Phillips we'll hear from Nick need
Speaker 1: Um on this in a second. He was wearing an
Speaker 1: orange jersey out there and he was going through every
Speaker 1: drill and everything. I thought, that's usually you know, maybe
Speaker 1: that's a medical shirt. I'm not really sure what that is. Like.
Speaker 1: You know the quarterbacks where the red shirts too, you know,
Speaker 1: keep your hands off, keep your hands off. This guy
Speaker 1: in practice, but it's not what it was. The orange
Speaker 1: jersey was for the practice player of the day the
Speaker 1: previous day, and so Phillips won that and he got
Speaker 1: to wear it. And we later found out from Nick
Speaker 1: Needum that means you gotta choose the music as well
Speaker 1: as where that jersey. So it's a big deal now
Speaker 1: on practice to see who's wearing the orange jersey. And
Speaker 1: sure enough, the guy in the orange jersey jail and
Speaker 1: Phillips blows up two plays within his first couple of opportunities.
Speaker 1: One was a running play where he has a very
Speaker 1: nice stack in shed, gets off of his block and
Speaker 1: cuts down and run play right at the lion of
Speaker 1: scrimmage and comes up with a little fist pump celebration.
Speaker 1: Always easy to tell who makes the play when you
Speaker 1: see who celebrates afterwards. He then wins with a would
Speaker 1: be sack that of course does not go as a
Speaker 1: sack because you're not gonna hit your quarterback. But back
Speaker 1: to back big plays there for Phillips and a couple
Speaker 1: of reps. We had a couple of nice really runs
Speaker 1: throughout the course of this practice. Savon Akman had a
Speaker 1: big rip through the offensive line, with a big hole
Speaker 1: created by Solomon Kinley and Michael Dieter untouched into that
Speaker 1: second level and from his from there, you know what
Speaker 1: his speed can do. I thought, it's a quandarie right, White,
Speaker 1: I should say, had some nice looking runs finding those
Speaker 1: those cut lanes, those cut back lanes, and his ability
Speaker 1: to get square to the line of scrimmage quickly after
Speaker 1: pressing and finding out where his gap is. Then you
Speaker 1: get square and you hit that thing quickly. I saw
Speaker 1: that on tape at South Carolina, saw it in this
Speaker 1: practice out here the first time I got a chance
Speaker 1: to watch him play, and that was kind of the
Speaker 1: entire running back room throughout most of the there was
Speaker 1: a very short team period, but through most of that practice,
Speaker 1: seeing the running backs find those find those lanes, find
Speaker 1: those cutbacks, and you hit it and you go see
Speaker 1: it and go and hit with speed. That's gonna be
Speaker 1: a big factor as far as creating a big explosive place,
Speaker 1: and we saw that with Savan Akhmed's a quandary right
Speaker 1: Miles Gaston had a nice rip as well, So the
Speaker 1: running game got some things cranking after some early reps
Speaker 1: from the interior defensive line where they were just doing
Speaker 1: what they wanted to do. So I Zach Seeler had
Speaker 1: a play where he got in there immediately and blew
Speaker 1: things up. He blew up a screenplay with a wicked
Speaker 1: arm over move that he put on an offensive lineman
Speaker 1: and he's at the quarterback before the fake even occurred,
Speaker 1: like a potential, you know, in a game day situation
Speaker 1: could have been a real big game changing play if
Speaker 1: he can put the hit on the quarterback before the
Speaker 1: ball gets to the running back. And he was doing
Speaker 1: that for the course of the day. Christian Wilkins found
Speaker 1: found his way into the backfield and ran clean at
Speaker 1: the quarterback and he finished the celebration about thirty yards
Speaker 1: down the field doing the arms swing and all kinds
Speaker 1: of fun stuff. He was high step and having a
Speaker 1: good time with it. And on defense also, I thought
Speaker 1: Noah Ibnagny really showed some of his stuff. Had a
Speaker 1: really nice pass breakup working against Jalen Waddle on one
Speaker 1: particular rep that kind of showed what he can do
Speaker 1: the physicality of his game and kind of learning into
Speaker 1: year three now and processing all those things and making
Speaker 1: his whole game to come together. We'll talk to him
Speaker 1: in just one second. About that, but him on the
Speaker 1: on the edges. Nick Needon was out there and competing
Speaker 1: all day, Javon holland Brandon Jones, all these guys I
Speaker 1: thought kind of stood out as guys that move fast
Speaker 1: and played fast and and looks pretty good out there
Speaker 1: among others. Of course, with those are the guys that
Speaker 1: made it into my notes. And then up front, you
Speaker 1: know Zack Seeler, Christian Wilkins, Ray Kwon Davis just getting
Speaker 1: after it, Jalen Phillips, the linebacker Corps doing some stuff
Speaker 1: as well. So a fun practice on the defensive side.
Speaker 1: As far as the offense goes, boy, there was a
Speaker 1: lot of fun passing to be seen on this particular
Speaker 1: day of Miami Dolphins O T s. And we started
Speaker 1: off with Tyreek Hill who just was creating separation really
Speaker 1: from the onset on multiple different routes, multiple different looks. Gosh,
Speaker 1: he he is something else to watch out there. He
Speaker 1: came clear where he created like five or six yards
Speaker 1: of separation. Good pocket for Teddy Bridgewater and his shake
Speaker 1: at the top of the route, it just it left
Speaker 1: his defensive back. You know, which way is this guy
Speaker 1: gonna go? And he breaks it off of course and
Speaker 1: he finds five or six yards of separation, a good
Speaker 1: solid fifteen twenty yards through the Eric completion. Then who
Speaker 1: knows what the heck it would have been after that.
Speaker 1: He also did it on again a variety of routes,
Speaker 1: just finding ways to create separation, sell the takeoff, go
Speaker 1: a different direction, sell this route going. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just it was consistent with him and the urgency that
Speaker 1: he creates among those defensive backs, and the urgency in
Speaker 1: general that he and Waddle together create. It just it
Speaker 1: shows up. It's as advertised, and it also kind of
Speaker 1: can influence the flow of the defense as well. There
Speaker 1: was one play where he he went one direction and
Speaker 1: you kind of see the defense flow that way and
Speaker 1: the ball goes back the other direction. I'm sure that
Speaker 1: was intended for the Miami Dolphins here in this acquisition.
Speaker 1: But he can do things with the football, and he
Speaker 1: can do things away from the football that I think
Speaker 1: really really help you. And then Jalen Waddle, I mean,
Speaker 1: I you guys knew that I loved his game out
Speaker 1: of college into O T A S. But where he
Speaker 1: really sold me last year was in training camp, just
Speaker 1: catching everything, the hands on balls off the frame, plucking
Speaker 1: that thing, pulling it into his body, and just kind
Speaker 1: of having a natural ability to get out there, expose
Speaker 1: yourself for as long as you have to catch the football,
Speaker 1: corral that thing back in, protect yourself, and then stay
Speaker 1: clean from there. And he just whether it's tight coverage
Speaker 1: and making those tough catches where he goes to the
Speaker 1: ground survives, the ground survives, you know, the contact on
Speaker 1: the football all or catching it and stride and taken
Speaker 1: off it all just showed up today. I thought it
Speaker 1: was a good example of how he and Wattle, or
Speaker 1: he and Hill rather can work together, creating separation, creating
Speaker 1: this urgency, and the way they both plucked the ball
Speaker 1: clean up their frame can certainly create some opportunities for
Speaker 1: Tah to put the ball like a little bit out
Speaker 1: in front, snag that thing with your hands and don't
Speaker 1: slow down and stride and keep that thing ripping, and
Speaker 1: you could hit some big plays that way too. So
Speaker 1: I thought we saw that from both Tyreek and Jalen
Speaker 1: in this practice. Some might get sicky catch a ball, uh.
Speaker 1: That I thought was a good example of that. Him
Speaker 1: kind of having some space in the field to work
Speaker 1: with because of the presence of Waddle and Hill, and
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna show up a lot as we
Speaker 1: go along here. Let's talk some quarterback play, shall we.
Speaker 1: I thought toa was sharp throughout the course of this
Speaker 1: practice Bridgewater as well, and to you know, in the
Speaker 1: individual drills watching him a little bit man talking about
Speaker 1: those those routes, you know, off the frame, putting the
Speaker 1: ball in trajectory to run towards the end zone. We
Speaker 1: saw that consistently, and the ball was out quick and
Speaker 1: it was on time, on target. Just looks really good there,
Speaker 1: I thought. And that showed up pretty early in the
Speaker 1: team period when he hit Preston Williams right over the
Speaker 1: outstretched fingertips of Nick Needham, who was in a really
Speaker 1: good position for the coverage. But Preston gets in behind
Speaker 1: him and to just kind of lobs this thing up
Speaker 1: over the top of him. He can't quite get the
Speaker 1: fingernail on it. It comes down right into the bucket
Speaker 1: an absolute dime. Preston catches it and takes off. I
Speaker 1: put it was a sixty eight yard touchdown. I thought
Speaker 1: it was ran from the thirty two. I saw some
Speaker 1: other beat guys say seventy yards seventy five, so I'll
Speaker 1: be more clear on that next time. I thought it
Speaker 1: was a sixty eight yard touchdown. But well, we'll see
Speaker 1: next time. And just real quick again on a to
Speaker 1: a point, you know, I really appreciate the ability to
Speaker 1: get the football into tough locations, not just with one
Speaker 1: trade but multiple traits. Like for instance, there was a
Speaker 1: throw he made that he had to he really had
Speaker 1: to get it out there quick and with a quick
Speaker 1: set up, the quick delivery, but also just the location
Speaker 1: of the football to put it away for more. The
Speaker 1: defender can drive. We saw a lot in this practice.
Speaker 1: We've seen it in the history of to his career.
Speaker 1: I thought it really showed up today in this particular
Speaker 1: practice as well. Um So Giziki, Preston Williams. We had
Speaker 1: waddle and hill. What else do we get the Quandrie
Speaker 1: White wanted to cover him, Savon Akman. That's pretty much it.
Speaker 1: Um Yeah, that that was pretty much the notes from
Speaker 1: practice day. A lot of good stuff out there, a
Speaker 1: little back and forth, some offensive wins, some defensive wins.
Speaker 1: Thought the physicality was good, some good mix of running pass,
Speaker 1: some chunk plays, some defensive wins, some sacks, some run stuffs,
Speaker 1: some chunk gains on offense, the long touchdown, pretty much
Speaker 1: everything you want to see from a practice, especially day
Speaker 1: number one here in O T A. S. And that's
Speaker 1: gonna do it. We'll come back on the other side
Speaker 1: here and get to the post practice media. I talked
Speaker 1: to Nick Needham, I talked to Noah Igbanogeny and Liam
Speaker 1: Eichenberg and River Craig Craft Gokugs Baby. Next Drivetime podcast
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Speaker 1: I really enjoyed my chance today on this Wednesday, May
Speaker 1: the seventeenth, to talk to Dolphins cornerback Noah Egmonogeny after practice,
Speaker 1: who had a really good practice, I thought, breaking up
Speaker 1: some passes, getting in the mix and coverage a few times.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and talk to him first now about
Speaker 1: how does it feel to be playing under Sam Madison
Speaker 1: and Patrick Curtan the defensive backfield. I love him especially.
Speaker 1: I feel like there's a lot of definitely a lot
Speaker 1: of experience now in the room now saying it was
Speaker 1: last year, but those guys played the position they played
Speaker 1: at a high level and to just be able to
Speaker 1: learn and um and they're great teachers as well, so
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm blessed be able to learn from them.
Speaker 1: Also the chance to learn from xaviing Howard and Byron Jones.
Speaker 1: And he had plenty of reps in this practice today.
Speaker 1: Didn't know what monogamy. How good was it for him
Speaker 1: to have a chance to run against guys like Tyree
Speaker 1: Hill and Jalen Waddle. Here's Noah, it's a big time
Speaker 1: because those are two really good receivers and just be
Speaker 1: able to go against them, and ain't lot of ain't
Speaker 1: a lot of guys like that in the league as well,
Speaker 1: So just be able again just to go against them
Speaker 1: in the season. Those are a lot of receivers are
Speaker 1: not as good as though, so so those are their
Speaker 1: speed and the way to catch the Boston. But I
Speaker 1: ad to just be able to go against us. It's
Speaker 1: a blessing that happening on the team. And what is
Speaker 1: the confidence of making a couple of plays in practice
Speaker 1: do for you out here at the stage of the
Speaker 1: season offseason, I mean, it's it's a lot of confidence. Black,
Speaker 1: I said, I gotta do I gotta come back and
Speaker 1: do it again and ex play and do it again
Speaker 1: the next play and do it again. So I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that play doesn't matter, but again, I gotta be
Speaker 1: able to move on. That's that's, that's what playing corner
Speaker 1: is when you gotta have a strong mentally just as
Speaker 1: well as because of its less strong mental strong physical.
Speaker 1: It's a good defensive backfield here and we stay in
Speaker 1: that defensive backfield with cornerback Nick Needham, who first was asked,
Speaker 1: how does it feel to get that second round tender
Speaker 1: and get back here to Miami. No, it was a blessing. Um,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't rather play anywhere else then Miami. This was
Speaker 1: my first scene. They gave me a side and kept
Speaker 1: it honest with me and brought me up from a bat.
Speaker 1: And you know what I'm saying, young dude out to say,
Speaker 1: you're right practice squad? Did you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1: Starting and playing with these guys? So, Um, I can't
Speaker 1: be more grateful for that opportunity, and I'm ready to
Speaker 1: just keep proving that what's saying that I could play
Speaker 1: and could beating this league at a high level and
Speaker 1: just keep going up from there. The first time for
Speaker 1: a lot of us seeing the speed of Hill and
Speaker 1: Wattle on the field together, but I wanted to ask
Speaker 1: Nick about how it compares to on the field versus
Speaker 1: on the tape. Here's Nick need Im talking about the
Speaker 1: speed of this dolphins receiving corps. It's passed on film,
Speaker 1: but and when you really get right in front of them, like,
Speaker 1: oh man, like it's definitely those two definitely have a
Speaker 1: different speed. And uh, it's gonna be great this year
Speaker 1: to just work versus out every day because it's like, man,
Speaker 1: nobody's gonna be fast the East. Know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: we win versus them, it's like we should, you know,
Speaker 1: saying we should win a lot competition on offense, competition
Speaker 1: on defense. Here is Nick, I'm telling us about the
Speaker 1: orange practice jersey that the other Phillips is wearing. And
Speaker 1: another project comes along with that, the music selection. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so yesterday he won practice player of the day, so
Speaker 1: they get to get an orange jersey and then they
Speaker 1: get to choose the music for the whole day. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you're feeling you're feeling it. Yeah, first, I mean being
Speaker 1: to practice played only he kept playing three songs over
Speaker 1: and over no blindo. But then he changed and it
Speaker 1: was good. So naturally had to ask Nick, does that
Speaker 1: kind of fire you up a little? Bit more give
Speaker 1: you a little more motivation to go out there and dominate.
Speaker 1: He said, not really, but maybe me because a certain
Speaker 1: type of music that no one else plays out here. Now,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that, maybe me because no one plays
Speaker 1: California music. Are definitely want to win and play only
Speaker 1: can music. Yeah, I think they just tell you after
Speaker 1: practice and then you get it right for the next day.
Speaker 1: So I spoke to those three guys, got audio on that,
Speaker 1: and I also talked to River Craycraft, Washington State Cougar alumni.
Speaker 1: He gave me a go Cougs. I asked him about
Speaker 1: the difference between the Poulouse and down here in South
Speaker 1: Florida's had pretty hot, pretty hot, but also you know
Speaker 1: it was warm back in California, but you cannot replicate
Speaker 1: this humidity. He's a California guy that made his way
Speaker 1: up to Pullman to the police. Also gave me a gokug,
Speaker 1: which was a very cool moment for your boy here
Speaker 1: on the podcast. I also liked him talking about what
Speaker 1: this receiving room is together and what he thinks he
Speaker 1: could bring to the receiving room, saying it was the
Speaker 1: closest knit group he's been a part of so far
Speaker 1: in the National Football League, and also just you know,
Speaker 1: he mentioned the talent and the ability of guys like
Speaker 1: Hill and Waddle, but also the experience and knowledge and
Speaker 1: knowing your role and what you can bring to the room.
Speaker 1: And he said that his ability to kind of communicate
Speaker 1: the offense, the system, the checks, the calls, all that
Speaker 1: fun stuff that he believes he provides a lot of
Speaker 1: value in that way, which that gives you a really
Speaker 1: good balance in the receiver room, right, Guys that can
Speaker 1: that can know and can do, but can do both
Speaker 1: and can teach each other and depend upon each other.
Speaker 1: That knowledge across the room is only going to help
Speaker 1: everybody in there get better, especially when you have that
Speaker 1: willingness to help each other get better. And from River
Speaker 1: Craycrafts comments, it sounds like we have that here in
Speaker 1: this Dolphins wide receiver's room and really across the entire team.
Speaker 1: Go ahead and finish up here on the offensive lines,
Speaker 1: we heard from Dolphins offensive lineman Liam Eichenberg, and we
Speaker 1: start here with Liam discussing his buddy in San Francisco,
Speaker 1: former Notre Dame Fighting Irish offensive lineman as well Mike McGlinchey,
Speaker 1: and the benefits of this system, of this coaching staff
Speaker 1: on an offensive line. Here's Lie I'm talking about his
Speaker 1: conversations with Mike McGlinchey and what he thinks this offense
Speaker 1: can do for his game and his skill set. Yeah,
Speaker 1: feel good, feel good. Uh, you know, this offense does
Speaker 1: well for offensive lineman. You know, my buddy McGlinchey on
Speaker 1: San Fran loves it. And uh, you know, I'm just
Speaker 1: happy with what's happening here. You know, we've got a
Speaker 1: lot of guys that showed up for O T as
Speaker 1: we're working hard. You know, I think it. Uh, it's
Speaker 1: a lot about technique and you know, I probably myself
Speaker 1: on that. So I think it's good for us. And
Speaker 1: then a lot of guys are you know, getting the
Speaker 1: hang of it and they're improving him. So just one
Speaker 1: day at a time. So one thing we discussed in
Speaker 1: the podcast here a lot is the affirmation of Chris Career,
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel, Thest. Dolphin's offensive staff to really kind of
Speaker 1: go to bat for this offensive line group and how
Speaker 1: excited they are about the athletic ability the capability of them.
Speaker 1: I thought it was cool to hear Liam talk about
Speaker 1: this as press conference or media availability. When he was
Speaker 1: asked if they have communicated that type of you know,
Speaker 1: confidence from the coaching staff to the players, here's Liam.
Speaker 1: You know, all I know is he said that he
Speaker 1: believes in us, and I mean that's all I can
Speaker 1: ask for. So, you know, him giving us opportunity to
Speaker 1: compete and play and you know, believing in us is
Speaker 1: full support time. So yeah, it's good having a coach that,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, he's a good dude and he
Speaker 1: obviously believes in us, so it's nice. Let's get one
Speaker 1: more answer here from Liam Eichenberg. When I was we
Speaker 1: talked to him a little bit about what Matt apple
Speaker 1: Bomb said about going over the tape and watching last
Speaker 1: year and pointing out individual performances and evaluating that way.
Speaker 1: And here's Liam talking a little bit about that, but
Speaker 1: also what he's done to kind of help himself prepare
Speaker 1: for this new offense. You know, I go back now
Speaker 1: and I watch like Sampori, you know, because it's it's
Speaker 1: just different than obviously, you know, I know what I
Speaker 1: need to prove on from last year, but as of
Speaker 1: right now, it's more about you know, seeing guys, you know,
Speaker 1: guards tackles that have done well in this offense and
Speaker 1: understand the scheme and understand how to run it. So
Speaker 1: just kind of look at those guys and core experience.
Speaker 1: So there you go, Liam Eikenberg no Egnogamy as well
Speaker 1: as Nick Needham and talking a little bit there with
Speaker 1: River Craycraft. Good stuff. They're fun. First day of practice
Speaker 1: for us here, getting a chance to cover this and
Speaker 1: bring the podcast to you guys, but however, that is
Speaker 1: gonna be my time. We'll be back with you guys
Speaker 1: on Friday for another edition of the Drift Time Podcast
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