Speaker 1: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2: What is up, dollphans, and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 2: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
Speaker 2: another day of many can't practice in the books. We'll
Speaker 2: take you through the practice notes and all the quotes
Speaker 2: from all the guys, including Coach McDaniel, Storm, Doug, Isaiah Johnson,
Speaker 2: Bradley Chubb, Jalen Phillips. We'll see if I have enough
Speaker 2: time for a couple additional sound bites as well. I
Speaker 2: don't want to promise it, but we'll see when we
Speaker 2: get there. From the Baptist Hell Studios inside the Baptist
Speaker 2: Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time Podcast day.
Speaker 2: So yesterday's show was one of those ones where all
Speaker 2: the stars kind of aligned for me. And what I
Speaker 2: mean by that is the narratives that I was tracking
Speaker 2: throughout the day and getting quotes from also played out
Speaker 2: on the field and it just kind of aim together
Speaker 2: into this perfect goulage, if you will. Today is not
Speaker 2: the same, and there's a decent amount of residual content
Speaker 2: that kind of carries over from yesterday. And I queue
Speaker 2: it up this way because I want to start to
Speaker 2: talk about Storm Duck and Isaiah Johnson, who we talked
Speaker 2: about on the podcast yesterday, as well as cater Coho
Speaker 2: and bj Adams and Already Burns, these cornerbacks that are
Speaker 2: taking this aggressive play style and getting production from it
Speaker 2: on the back end. And with every practice I just
Speaker 2: continue to see more of the same from that group.
Speaker 2: They're showing this aptitude for aggression and being very productive
Speaker 2: with what they're doing at the line of scrimmage in disruption,
Speaker 2: whether it's a dummy press or an actual press. But
Speaker 2: then they can carry that physicality down the stem and
Speaker 2: challenge the catch point on a pretty damn good group
Speaker 2: of wide receivers, right Like I talked about Storm matching
Speaker 2: up on Tanner Connor and winning a rep against him yesterday,
Speaker 2: and that's a guy that he has a size mismatch
Speaker 2: or disadvantage against. And then today I saw him win
Speaker 2: an outbreaker where he was able to get underneath Jalen Waddle,
Speaker 2: who has torched just about anybody that's come across him
Speaker 2: in this entire you know, spring portion and drive on
Speaker 2: that throw to get a breakup on the coveted Tua
Speaker 2: to Wattle connections so far this spring. Isaiah Johnson will
Speaker 2: play a sound clip from him on this in just
Speaker 2: one second. He talked about the coaches that challenged him
Speaker 2: to take a step after a productive spring, and that
Speaker 2: was meant to say to go make a play, go
Speaker 2: go get a turnover because and you know, I'll admit
Speaker 2: this to kind of take it back before I go
Speaker 2: forward again. I think cornerback is one of the toughest
Speaker 2: positions to evaluate, especially in a live setting, because oftentimes
Speaker 2: the best corners they don't have the stats or even
Speaker 2: the tangible reps in terms of the ones where they
Speaker 2: give their best stuff. Like I think about Richard Sherman.
Speaker 2: For years after he got a bunch of picks, early
Speaker 2: teams were they wised up and they're like, we're not
Speaker 2: going to go after that guy anymore because he's going
Speaker 2: to take away more balls and he's going to allow receptions.
Speaker 1: NOMINDI awesome.
Speaker 2: Wall was that way for a long time with the
Speaker 2: Las Vegas for the Oakland Raiders way back in the day.
Speaker 2: I think about Sauce Gardner, who doesn't have a bunch
Speaker 2: of picks to his name, but he's one of the
Speaker 2: best cover corners in the entire NFL. Teams just don't
Speaker 2: want to try the guys that can get their hands
Speaker 2: on footballs and take it away because you know, typically
Speaker 2: a great rep from a cornerback means there's no target,
Speaker 2: right like, if they pick off the pass, they've either
Speaker 2: done a great job of baiting the quarterback into a
Speaker 2: bad throw or they gave the quarterbacks some indication, some
Speaker 2: semblance that that was the best place to go with
Speaker 2: the football. And when they completely dominate a rep, a
Speaker 2: quarterback's going to say, yeah, I'm good. I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: I'm not going to go that way because there is number,
Speaker 2: you know whatever, the cornerback's number thirty seven for Isia Johnson.
Speaker 2: He's all over him, So why am I going to
Speaker 2: test him that way? And I think, you know, unless
Speaker 2: you're watching that individual matchup, when they have those dominant reps,
Speaker 2: it's kind of tough to see. So it's difficult to
Speaker 2: absorb a bunch of reps from guys that way because
Speaker 2: I'd have to basically take my attention off the rest
Speaker 2: of practice. And I've made no secret about this fact
Speaker 2: that cornerback. Among all the years of doing you know,
Speaker 2: draft preview and giving you my thoughts on prospects what
Speaker 2: they could be the next level. I think the lowest
Speaker 2: batting average I have in terms of a position group
Speaker 2: is cornerbacks. And I say all of that because once
Speaker 2: the playmaking comes in, that's when guys tend to get noticed.
Speaker 2: But I can't help but really glom onto this idea
Speaker 2: of a second year within the defense, a defense that
Speaker 2: really showed case. It's stuff from a zone coverage perspective,
Speaker 2: and you take those clues in those data points to
Speaker 2: extrapolate what it might be the next season. Right, And
Speaker 2: we have numbers on coverage splits in terms of you know,
Speaker 2: shell structure man versus zone press versus off.
Speaker 1: All of that.
Speaker 2: You can find that data the Monday after the game
Speaker 2: every game you play, and obviously the cumulative you know,
Speaker 2: whole season stats and we see stuff in camp. It's
Speaker 2: not something you report on though. That's a rule across
Speaker 2: the league. Don't talk about formation and motions and route
Speaker 2: concepts like that's reporters know better than to do that.
Speaker 2: But even if you did that, it's tough to project
Speaker 2: the exact balance of what it's going to be come
Speaker 2: September and the games when you have actual data tracking
Speaker 2: all of that. Because I'll tell you what if a
Speaker 2: reporter came out here and watched practice and was able
Speaker 2: to give me man versus zone splits. I would say
Speaker 2: you're the Hall of Fame of training camp watchers, because
Speaker 2: that would be quite impressive. And you guys know how
Speaker 2: I feel about taking stats like quarterback stats in practice.
Speaker 2: I don't see the value in that, but this would
Speaker 2: have quite a lot of value. But I'm not saying
Speaker 2: we're doing that. I'm just I'm communicating how tough it
Speaker 2: is to evaluate those players in those positions because of
Speaker 2: all these variables. And I say all this because I
Speaker 2: felt last year's calling card on the defense was the
Speaker 2: string of zone coverages that really played off each other.
Speaker 2: When you design plays in football, you have to every
Speaker 2: single rule or assignment has to have a description as
Speaker 2: to why or how the offense or defense might react
Speaker 2: to that particular move or rule or player. And you
Speaker 2: have to be able to unfurl a you know what
Speaker 2: happens if ABC occurs, and you structure your plays in
Speaker 2: a way that it all makes sense and tethers together.
Speaker 2: That's that's what play scripting and play calling is all about.
Speaker 2: It's not just like hey call the Madden four verts
Speaker 2: versus a you know, half back slam, whatever the hell
Speaker 2: the Madden plays are, it's it's a lot more than
Speaker 2: that simplicity of a Madden game. And for the defense,
Speaker 2: it was this creative you know structure in terms of
Speaker 2: how those structures aligned and presented rules in a very
Speaker 2: easily digestible way to the defensive backs and the entire defense.
Speaker 1: All eleven guys.
Speaker 2: So last year the split was twenty three percent man
Speaker 2: coverage seventy seven percent zone coverage. That was the twenty
Speaker 2: third highest man coverage rate in all of football. And again,
Speaker 2: as I've told you guys all summer, in all spring
Speaker 2: or all winter and spring, I guess that the highest
Speaker 2: man average rate in football is typically like right on
Speaker 2: the precipice of fifty percent. So even if you're gonna
Speaker 2: play more man coverage, it doesn't even mean more than
Speaker 2: half the time. But that structure last year, the kind
Speaker 2: of you know, three quarters of the time zone one
Speaker 2: quarter of the time man coverage was effective and it
Speaker 2: worked really well with our rush games, our sim pressure
Speaker 2: package for sure, and our blitzes in the entire package
Speaker 2: of that year one of the defense. But now in
Speaker 2: year two, as we've discussed at length, at this point
Speaker 2: of June, you expand that menu becomes more expansive, and
Speaker 2: we've been over that, and I think we're seeing that
Speaker 2: play out here in the month of June on the
Speaker 2: practice field. And when I look at it, I think
Speaker 2: about it twofold number one, the pass rush personnel, it's
Speaker 2: just flat out better. I mean, you return Jalen Phillips
Speaker 2: and Bradley Chubb. That alone takes care of that for me.
Speaker 2: And you think about Chop Robinson coming into year two.
Speaker 2: I asked James Daniels today about the Dolphins front and unprompted,
Speaker 2: the first thing he said was something to the effect
Speaker 2: of like forty four or is really good. He's been impressive.
Speaker 2: Then you add, you know Kenneth Grant and what I've
Speaker 2: talked about with him, We heard from coach McDaniel on
Speaker 2: him earlier today.
Speaker 1: What will play some sound on that later on the
Speaker 1: show for you guys.
Speaker 2: Jordan Phillips and watching him throw those like five hundred
Speaker 2: pound sleds like they are one hundred and fifty pound
Speaker 2: podcasters out of the club. You toss Willie Gay and
Speaker 2: if Emela fan will in there and all they've done
Speaker 2: with their rush profiles, over their careers. So if the
Speaker 2: personnel is better and the menu is deeper, then you
Speaker 2: can probably count on more pressure, more one on one wins,
Speaker 2: absence the need to blitz right, and that creates more
Speaker 2: seven man coverage plays, and then you get into these
Speaker 2: cool mixes of hybrid zone versus man coverage where we
Speaker 2: can play that press aggressive style with everybody on one rep,
Speaker 2: we can even zero you and bring everybody down into
Speaker 2: the fit and go man across the board, and then
Speaker 2: on another play we can show that same presentation. And
Speaker 2: now you've got a half field hybrid coverage with a
Speaker 2: manager where he goes concept like you can get so
Speaker 2: deep into the menu, into the weeds, and the opposing
Speaker 2: quarterback better match that in the way he prepares the
Speaker 2: entire week. If I've lost you, let's boil it down
Speaker 2: to this, the second aspect of my two fold here.
Speaker 2: If I can count on more one on one rush wins,
Speaker 2: or I just have a deeper compliment to rush the
Speaker 2: way I did last year, which was through rush games, right,
Speaker 2: that's slants and twists and pick stunts and things like that.
Speaker 2: It can just be more effective of what I already did.
Speaker 2: And from all that then I can gamble more, And
Speaker 2: by gamble that might be the wrong word, because that
Speaker 2: insinuates that you're like trying to, you know, trade off
Speaker 2: big plays for big plays. But when you play aggressive,
Speaker 2: you're the one forcing the issue, You're dictating the terms.
Speaker 2: It's like being a strike thrower in baseball. I'm coming
Speaker 2: after you. And maybe that increases your odds of me
Speaker 2: leaving one fat over the plate and squaring up off
Speaker 2: the barrel for a four hundred and fifty foot home run.
Speaker 2: And you know that's the worst case scenario, but it
Speaker 2: also increases my chances of getting swings and misses or
Speaker 2: perhaps even more apt week contact and you put the
Speaker 2: ball on the ground to the shortstop for a tailor
Speaker 2: made six, four to three, and we're out of the
Speaker 2: inning when it looked like we were in trouble with
Speaker 2: runners on the base pass. So if I'm confident in
Speaker 2: the rush getting home fast, I have a quarterback on
Speaker 2: the opposite side that just saw three different zone presentations.
Speaker 2: He gets what he thinks is that same presentation once again,
Speaker 2: but then it becomes this reroute man call with safety
Speaker 2: spamming the hot outlets within that blitz package, and they're
Speaker 2: jumping stuff because we have confidence that we're going to
Speaker 2: get home in two two and a half seconds. That's
Speaker 2: a lot for the quarterback to contend with, and more
Speaker 2: than what they had last year. And I go back
Speaker 2: to that Rams game, like, Matthew Stafford is a borderline
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame quarterback, and maybe if he wins in
Speaker 2: their championship he is one.
Speaker 1: Maybe he already is one. I don't know.
Speaker 2: He's really damn good, right, he was swimming in that
Speaker 2: game against a defense that was absent, those edge defenders
Speaker 2: I talked about, We've were nicked up throughout the course
Speaker 2: of the season, and that defense got after a really
Speaker 2: good quarterback. It's kind of the blueprint for how I
Speaker 2: think this entire operation wants to work, and kind of
Speaker 2: the jumping off point for where you can get to
Speaker 2: next against these good level quarterbacks. The Texans game was
Speaker 2: the same way the Niners game down late in the
Speaker 2: year was the same way.
Speaker 1: You know, C. J.
Speaker 2: Stroud and Brock Purty looked like middling quarterbacks, and those
Speaker 2: are guys that have produced top ten numbers for you know,
Speaker 2: a couple of years now. So I think back to
Speaker 2: Anthony Weaver discussing playing connected in his last media availability
Speaker 2: with US playing team football and how it will be
Speaker 2: good defense, Like it's going to be good defense if
Speaker 2: we do those things. And I think there's no mistake
Speaker 2: or coincidence about how it was built from the front
Speaker 2: seven perspective, with your first round pick being a defensive
Speaker 2: tackle with three additions alongside Jordan Brooks and Willie Gay,
Speaker 2: Tyrel Dodson and kJ Britt, with the return of those
Speaker 2: guys off the edge, adding a first round pick last
Speaker 2: year off the edge when the expectation was at some
Speaker 2: point you would have fifteen and two back in the fold.
Speaker 2: They've really gone after those position groups, I mean beyond
Speaker 2: KG Jordan Phillips and Zeke Biggers, and they go get
Speaker 2: Malcolm Butler as well. But my goodness, man, those are
Speaker 2: a lot of guys to contend with. And I think
Speaker 2: what I see, I think is a front seven that
Speaker 2: you expect to be really good, and then a defensive
Speaker 2: backfield that the way it's called and coached, with the
Speaker 2: skills of the personnel matches what you expect to have
Speaker 2: in that front seven. Perhaps I'm wrong, and I'm just
Speaker 2: speculating out my backside here, and I'm completely wrong. But
Speaker 2: that's that's what I think it think it is and
Speaker 2: what it could look like. So with all that in mind,
Speaker 2: after another really good practice from Storm Duck and Isaiah Johnson,
Speaker 2: and it's kind of the same name for me here
Speaker 2: multiple days in a row.
Speaker 1: Cater Co who fits this bill as well.
Speaker 2: Bja Adams, a guy that gets in the notes a
Speaker 2: lot already Burns I've been impressed with so far through camp,
Speaker 2: Like there's a play style there, right, And I think
Speaker 2: back to the draft even look with Jade Barron, a
Speaker 2: guy that I was talking about at length. If you
Speaker 2: want to talk about his shortcoming, it was at Texas.
Speaker 2: It was the ability to come up and press and
Speaker 2: play that man coverage. So to me, there's breadcrumbs there
Speaker 2: that track that this all fits together. And with the
Speaker 2: way I've seen Storm and Isaiah take to the scheme
Speaker 2: and the guys I talked about, it just kind of
Speaker 2: clicks for me. So I wanted to ask those two
Speaker 2: guys about some of that stuff. And I don't really
Speaker 2: even have a particular tie in here. I just kind
Speaker 2: of wanted to play some Isaiah Johnson's sound bites because
Speaker 2: listen to the way this guy talks about outside perspective
Speaker 2: and motivation and social media, which he told us he
Speaker 2: doesn't even have social media, and for him at that age, like,
Speaker 2: I'm already impressed by that by itself. Let's hear about
Speaker 2: Isaiah Johnson on the outside noise with this cornerback group
Speaker 2: and how he contends with that.
Speaker 3: I mean, at the end of the day, you got
Speaker 3: here because of your own motivation, not because of anybody else.
Speaker 3: Me personally, I know that for sure. He was never
Speaker 3: an outside motivation. It was always internal for me. And
Speaker 3: I know that's for everybody in the room, where it's
Speaker 3: one of those things where you can't make it this
Speaker 3: far unless you're pushing yourself to be the best. So
Speaker 3: if you want to look at it that way, you can.
Speaker 3: But I think for the room right now, it's just
Speaker 3: everybody's trying to earn their stripes and everybody's trying to
Speaker 3: get on that field and play ball.
Speaker 1: And then he was asked who teaches who in that room,
Speaker 1: and I just loved, loved this freak answer.
Speaker 3: We all teach each other. It's really fun that way.
Speaker 3: You know, we all go in there watching film together,
Speaker 3: we all are talking to each other, seeing what somebody
Speaker 3: does well. Asking them about it, because, like I said,
Speaker 3: nobody has a name, So everybody's just trying to learn.
Speaker 3: Everybody's just trying to get better than everybody's just trying
Speaker 3: to work.
Speaker 2: And here he is on the thing I just talked
Speaker 2: about for fifteen minutes about physicality, getting hands on receivers
Speaker 2: and gives us even some more here talking about the
Speaker 2: timing nature of today's passing offenses.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's important.
Speaker 3: I mean, you can always change change the time.
Speaker 1: And quarterbacks and schemes.
Speaker 3: It's a lot of time, and nowadays, especially because of
Speaker 3: the offensive trees that have taken over the league, and
Speaker 3: so being able to get hands on and mess up
Speaker 3: time and being able to be physical changes the game
Speaker 3: for a dB makes it a lot less reactive and
Speaker 3: coach coach ruge, they allow us to be like that.
Speaker 3: They want physical corners who get hands on. So it's
Speaker 3: one thing where we like again, we all learn from
Speaker 3: each other in the film room and then we all
Speaker 3: work on it every day out on the practice.
Speaker 2: One more here with Isaiah before we go ahead and
Speaker 2: take our first break. He was asked about the pick
Speaker 2: he had in Tuesday practice. Here's Isaiah Johnson.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was just one of those things where again
Speaker 3: the work's coming coming through fruition. We work on disguising
Speaker 3: a lot, We work on trying to make the quarterback
Speaker 3: see something that maybe might not be there, and then
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, it's about making the play.
Speaker 3: Coach had challenged me before practice, he said, you're doing
Speaker 3: real well. Now it's time to make a play. So
Speaker 3: when I have my chances, I'm thankful and I'm grateful
Speaker 3: that I was able to make the most of it. Really,
Speaker 3: that one was all about knowledge, knowing, knowing the formation,
Speaker 3: and being able to have some expectations of what the
Speaker 3: play is coming your way, and then at the end
Speaker 3: of the day, being physical and attacking at attacking the
Speaker 3: ball at the end of the play and go on
Speaker 3: and grab it.
Speaker 2: We're up against the breaks, We're gonna go ahead and
Speaker 2: take that right here. We'll come back on the other
Speaker 2: side and hear from Storm Duck and talk about the
Speaker 2: play of those two guys a little bit more. We'll
Speaker 2: get into some more practice notes, talk about Tua e
Speaker 2: Chan Wattle Chubb fill ups a bunch of notes for
Speaker 2: you guys from today's practice. That's next Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 2: Brought to you by Auto Nation. I got three soundbites
Speaker 2: here from Dolphins cornerback Storm Duck. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 2: kick it off with him answering a similar question for
Speaker 2: Isaiah Johnson about the value the impact of rerouting guys
Speaker 2: at the land of scrimmage getting hands on players.
Speaker 1: Here's Storm Duck.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, definitely. I mean all of us really like to,
Speaker 4: you know, get hands on and be physical because I
Speaker 4: mean at the corner position. And I mean, as you know,
Speaker 4: offenses they've allowed like Tom and a lot in a
Speaker 4: simple you know, kick slide or whatever the technique might
Speaker 4: be inch that can throw off the offense. So I
Speaker 4: mean it's fun, you know, just being able to compete,
Speaker 4: I mean with the receiver of room, like every single
Speaker 4: day to come out there, it's been fun. So they
Speaker 4: get us better, we get them better. So you know,
Speaker 4: it's a lot of back and forth. But in the
Speaker 4: day we're having fun with it.
Speaker 2: Back to Storm again here for a discussion about the
Speaker 2: versatility of this defense and how playing multiple positions, and
Speaker 2: this is really true of the front where we really
Speaker 2: learned this last year of the defense and the ability
Speaker 2: to get to all the different rush games. Playing every
Speaker 2: spot and having knowledge from all those spots, well, it
Speaker 2: pertains to the defensive backfield too.
Speaker 1: Here's Storm Duck.
Speaker 2: I'm playing multiple positions and how it gives you a
Speaker 2: better understanding for the entire defense and allows you to
Speaker 2: play fast. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think the more you know, the more or the
Speaker 4: faster you can play.
Speaker 5: Like at dB.
Speaker 4: So obviously know what you know, where the safety is,
Speaker 4: what the linebackers are, nickel corners.
Speaker 2: Knowing where you know.
Speaker 4: Your help is, where your help isn't I think all
Speaker 4: that goes into you know, playing fast and you know,
Speaker 4: being smoothed.
Speaker 1: Last one here for Storm.
Speaker 2: And we've talked about the competitive nature of these practices
Speaker 2: and the young roster and how it breeds competition naturally
Speaker 2: that way, and I think you think about that in
Speaker 2: terms of the on field play. But one thing that
Speaker 2: maybe you don't think about for me or anybody is
Speaker 2: the idea of how you prepare because you have to
Speaker 2: be on your stuff because if you're not and somebody
Speaker 2: else is and you get surpassed in the depth chart
Speaker 2: that way, shame on you, right. So it generates this
Speaker 2: this urgency to be on top of the playbook, and
Speaker 2: you get that sense from talking to these players.
Speaker 1: Here's Storm duck on just that now I think.
Speaker 4: So, I mean it comes down to the you know
Speaker 4: how much and you know, look at the playbook and
Speaker 4: you know how how you apply it because I mean
Speaker 4: and the coaches give it to us, you know, in
Speaker 4: great ways. You know, whether it's visually going out in
Speaker 4: the field, like every type of learning you are is
Speaker 4: the way it's taught here. So there's no way for
Speaker 4: you not to you know, know what you're supposed to do,
Speaker 4: not to say like you know, I mean, with any profession,
Speaker 4: you will make a mistake at Tom's. But what we're
Speaker 4: taught here is like every.
Speaker 3: Learning can learn it.
Speaker 4: It could probably be broken down to like a little
Speaker 4: kid or you know, you know, an older person. So
Speaker 4: interview it is a great job, and I'm just glad
Speaker 4: to have opportunity to play man.
Speaker 2: That was my first time talking to Storm at length,
Speaker 2: and I really really sharp dude. All right, let's go
Speaker 2: ahead and continue on here. And you know, I try
Speaker 2: my best to not root for certain things in practice,
Speaker 2: but I got to give you guys a little bit
Speaker 2: of inside baseball on what happened today. I was leaning
Speaker 2: towards Willie Gay as my Player of the day after
Speaker 2: he made two plays in coverage and one against the run,
Speaker 2: and I was like, this guy's all over the field
Speaker 2: showing those chops in coverage, and this is something I have,
Speaker 2: you know, long wondered and perhaps can ask down the road.
Speaker 2: But we look, you know, we know in these camps
Speaker 2: that you can sometimes get guys that cheat the play, right,
Speaker 2: they know the offense, the offense knows the defense and
Speaker 2: what you want to do. I used to ask Oj
Speaker 2: McDuffie all the time about this, and Oj would every
Speaker 2: single time, Man, they cheat every play. He thought, every
Speaker 2: dB cheats every rep. And I'm sure a cornerback would
Speaker 2: say the same thing about a receiver across the ball.
Speaker 2: But anyway, Willie, he had this rep and you know,
Speaker 2: football boiled down to its core element.
Speaker 1: Is this right?
Speaker 2: It's how can we create space by manipulating where you
Speaker 2: think you need to go? So if the player knows
Speaker 2: what the offense is going to do to manipulate him,
Speaker 2: then you can just cheat your way right into the
Speaker 2: correct position. Now I don't think that's the case here,
Speaker 2: but Willy was just all over the place and coverage
Speaker 2: and it started on a rep where they tried to
Speaker 2: move Willy to the flat where Tua pumps that way
Speaker 2: and then attacks the window that gets created from his
Speaker 2: vacancy there. But Willy is able to put his foot
Speaker 2: in the ground, flip his hip, get back vertical into
Speaker 2: the passing lane and prevent another to a Chan completion
Speaker 2: early in practice. Quick aside here h Chan and Wattle
Speaker 2: eight again today a Chan. If you removed the number
Speaker 2: off his jersey and the name on the back, I
Speaker 2: would say, who's that receiver oute there that's looking like
Speaker 2: the best player on the damn team. He looks that
Speaker 2: good as a receiver, like running routes and just smooth
Speaker 2: out of breaks, the way he catches the ball and
Speaker 2: doesn't fight it with his hands. I've just been loving
Speaker 2: what I'm seeing from him every single day. And we
Speaker 2: talked about the elevation on the touchdown catch yesterday, the
Speaker 2: way I saw him snatch throws directly over the ball
Speaker 2: in traffic over the middle of the field. Today, I
Speaker 2: think twenty eight is the biggest problem for defenses that
Speaker 2: we've seen, you know, in three years from his own perspective,
Speaker 2: and this is a guy that has twenty five hundred
Speaker 2: scrimmage yards in twenty eight career games like it's rare production,
Speaker 2: and to me, what I'm seeing right now in June
Speaker 2: looks like the best version of himself. And then with Wattle,
Speaker 2: cut and paste it from every other day. There are
Speaker 2: so many plays where the other nine guys on the
Speaker 2: field it just doesn't matter. And what I mean by
Speaker 2: that is that Tua and Waddle are so on the
Speaker 2: same page, and the ball is out so fast the
Speaker 2: other routes the pass protection, it's irrelevant because even if
Speaker 2: you beat your guy, the ball's already gone, doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: That's trust from Tua that Waddle is going to be
Speaker 2: exactly where he's supposed to be, and it's Waddle knowing
Speaker 2: where Tua likes him to be and getting there on
Speaker 2: time every single time. I saw a completion today where
Speaker 2: waddal did the exact same thing I talked about for
Speaker 2: months now. The outside leverage cornerback who's designed to take
Speaker 2: away the outbreaking route and he can take that inside
Speaker 2: release and get back outside for the completion. It's all
Speaker 2: over his tape. Saw it again today in practice. It's
Speaker 2: so impressive and such an underrated aspect of Wattle's game.
Speaker 2: He also caught a quick hitter over the middle where
Speaker 2: the ball was on top of his helmet, and he
Speaker 2: snatched that thing clean, got the ball back down to
Speaker 2: protect himself. Not going to take a hit in practice,
Speaker 2: but practice how you play right. Another great practice from him,
Speaker 2: and he and Tua connected a whole bunch today. Tua
Speaker 2: did have a pick today, the first one we've seen
Speaker 2: so far in spring ball. I think he must have
Speaker 2: expected the route depth to be further than it was
Speaker 2: because he overthrew the thing by a lot and we
Speaker 2: just never ever see that from QB one. I'm speculating there,
Speaker 2: But Dante Trader is the officiary of this. He reels
Speaker 2: this pick in and yeah, I'm telling you this because
Speaker 2: these dudes run to the football, it's non negotiable. And
Speaker 2: Trader is often the guy on the scene there back
Speaker 2: to the linebackers and Willie so he has that coverage,
Speaker 2: you know, feel and flip the hips and run down
Speaker 2: the field rep on a cham where I'm like, all right,
Speaker 2: that'll freaking play from a linebacker. Then they throw this
Speaker 2: quick hitter to Azukama and Willy at this point is
Speaker 2: just gliding along the tips of the blades of grass
Speaker 2: and he's there in Azu Kama's face the minute the
Speaker 2: ball is caught, and if we are live, it would
Speaker 2: have been a collision that would have made highlights.
Speaker 1: He caps it.
Speaker 2: Willy does by having a similar rep to the earlier
Speaker 2: coverage rep where he camped in the curl flat again,
Speaker 2: then flashes back inside to the hook zone and picks
Speaker 2: off as Zach Wilson pass and takes it back for six.
Speaker 2: I am a huge fan of Willy's game, and we
Speaker 2: saw that today. Jordan Brooks had a rep where he
Speaker 2: matched a thirty yard vertical route from tanner' connor and
Speaker 2: Tanner began to pull away because he's just a faster player.
Speaker 2: That's most you know, athletic tight ends are faster than linebackers.
Speaker 2: But the quarterback had to get off that read because
Speaker 2: Brooks was in good coverage for too long. So that's
Speaker 2: a big time win there for a linebacker who can
Speaker 2: also come downhill and impact your run game of blitz
Speaker 2: the quarterback. That's a three down player and a star
Speaker 2: linebacker that you have there. He also had a play
Speaker 2: where he came from the backside and then wrapped the
Speaker 2: playside edge for a run stuff. He looks ready to
Speaker 2: rock and roll right now. Tyrell Dotson had an excellent
Speaker 2: chase and tackle or a tag off we're not hitting
Speaker 2: in practice late in the day. And kJ Britt had
Speaker 2: one of those reps we saw on his Tampa tape
Speaker 2: where he read his keys, fired his gun and just
Speaker 2: beat everybody off the snap to get into the backfield
Speaker 2: for a tackle for lost. Those linebackers, man, they are impressive.
Speaker 2: And speaking of linebackers of the outside variety, we had
Speaker 2: Bradley Chubb and Jaln Phillips available for media and Bradley
Speaker 2: Chubb in the Orange Jersey, and I just want to
Speaker 2: play some soundbites from these guys because they're just so
Speaker 2: their introspective like knowledge of where they've been and I
Speaker 2: suppose outlook on life. You know, for one guy that's
Speaker 2: what eight years younger than me, however old Bradley is,
Speaker 2: or and Jalen who's like fifteen years younger than me,
Speaker 2: like I learned from these guys because they're wise beyond
Speaker 2: their years. I want to go ahead and just play
Speaker 2: some sound here from Jalen Phillips when I asked him,
Speaker 2: you know, you're so good at finding silver linings, and
Speaker 2: these last two years must have been so tough on you,
Speaker 2: Like what was the silver lining for you in these
Speaker 2: last two years? And I just love the way his
Speaker 2: brain works. Let's go ahead and throw it to JP.
Speaker 5: It's like helped me kind of like recenter myself as
Speaker 5: a person, spend more time developing certain relationships that normally
Speaker 5: I wouldn't have been able to if I was still
Speaker 5: playing during that time. And just in general, it's just
Speaker 5: like another good reminder that even when you think you've
Speaker 5: overcome adversity, something's always going to come. So if anything
Speaker 5: is just very humbling, very sobering, and so, you know,
Speaker 5: I think overall, I think with the Achilles, there's a
Speaker 5: lot other different silver linings. You know, I was able
Speaker 5: to graduate different things like that. I mean even with
Speaker 5: the ACL, I was able to do a fellowship for
Speaker 5: profit and community, was interning for real estate company, so
Speaker 5: doing some different things, allowing myself to kind of expare
Speaker 5: myself outside of the field. But yeah, I mean silver
Speaker 5: lining is in general, like I'm gonna be fine, Like
Speaker 5: it's not really anything long term that's gonna bother me.
Speaker 5: So it hasn't been that bad, to be honest.
Speaker 2: Let's actually go ahead and go to McDaniel here, who
Speaker 2: spoke about this before practice, about you know, the injury
Speaker 2: rateing football is one hundred percent. How everyone's gonna have to,
Speaker 2: you know, face it at some point, but how the
Speaker 2: mental toughness to not think about something you can't control,
Speaker 2: right the uncontrollables. It's incumbent upon the player to be
Speaker 2: able to harness that mindset and execute it. And he
Speaker 2: was saying, Jalen Phillips is really the guy that you
Speaker 2: can do that the best. Let's go ahead and throw
Speaker 2: to coach McDaniel right here.
Speaker 6: If you can't control injuries, you have to be disciplined
Speaker 6: enough not to think about it and think about your
Speaker 6: technique and fundamentals. Very very adept, very we have the
Speaker 6: appropriate person for that challenge in Jalen Phillips.
Speaker 2: Jillen did discuss a little bit about some of his
Speaker 2: football training he's working on in trying to get a
Speaker 2: couple of things tightened up, but wasn't going to divulge
Speaker 2: too much of his secrets in that media available. Let's
Speaker 2: go ahead and finish up here on this side with
Speaker 2: Bradley Chubb, who spokes in the media, and I don't
Speaker 2: really have a lot I want to play from Bradley here.
Speaker 2: He was in the Orange Jersey today, so that kind
Speaker 2: of tells you about the spring he's had and how
Speaker 2: excited he's to get back on the field the team
Speaker 2: is to have him back. So I wanted to play
Speaker 2: this SoundBite because we heard coach talk about it on
Speaker 2: Tuesday morning about like the way he sets a tone
Speaker 2: and basically like, hey, if you're gonna come out here
Speaker 2: and be like, oh practice, Like look at Bradley Chubb
Speaker 2: who just had to miss a whole year worth of
Speaker 2: practice and he's itching to get back out there. Here's
Speaker 2: Bradley Chubb and how pumpedy is we back on the
Speaker 2: field and the meaning it is it has for him.
Speaker 7: Like going through OTA's and like being on side of
Speaker 7: during OTA's is two totally different things, you know what
Speaker 7: I mean? When you actually putting in their blood, sweat
Speaker 7: and tears with the guys, like that's how you bond,
Speaker 7: that's how you connect. So like sitting back last year,
Speaker 7: I could try to lead from the back, but it
Speaker 7: just wasn't It just wasn't the same. And you know,
Speaker 7: just being able to be out here running around and
Speaker 7: like physically getting up on guys, dapping them up like,
Speaker 7: good job. I'm about to go do the same thing
Speaker 7: like that. That just brings a different energy, a different tone.
Speaker 7: And that's what I try to do this year, man,
Speaker 7: this whole offseason. Just let guys know that this is
Speaker 7: not promised, you know what I mean, and each and
Speaker 7: every day you got to earn it. God is fortunate
Speaker 7: enough to put us in this position, man, so we
Speaker 7: just got to take advantage of it.
Speaker 2: Let's take a break rate there, come back on the
Speaker 2: other side of financial hope with some more practice notes,
Speaker 2: some more soundbites. That's all next Draft Time podcast, brought
Speaker 2: to you by Autnation. Let's start with some practice notes
Speaker 2: here to kind of string us through the end of
Speaker 2: the episode. Here, I had some more offensive line notes
Speaker 2: than I previously had.
Speaker 1: I thought.
Speaker 2: Jonah savit Naya was flat out awesome today. He was
Speaker 2: washing down the front side of the offense or the
Speaker 2: backside of the defensive line, getting some push in the
Speaker 2: front side. The quarterbacks had really clean pockets on some
Speaker 2: pass play stuff where they were able to survey deep
Speaker 2: and decide to either take those shots or not throw
Speaker 2: it and get to their checkdowns, which you have to
Speaker 2: have time to execute an offense that can work top
Speaker 2: down like that. But he also had a couple of
Speaker 2: runs where he where Jonah and or rather with the offense,
Speaker 2: had some runs where Jonah and Pat were driving the
Speaker 2: driving force of opening lanes and Jalen Wright continues to
Speaker 2: find those cutback lanes. I love when he runs to
Speaker 2: one direction and then presses the backside and has that
Speaker 2: jump cut that springs him through, like on this particular
Speaker 2: run with Jonah and Pat washed down that backside and
Speaker 2: puts Jalen in a one on one position against the
Speaker 2: safety twenty yards downfield to decide whether or not it's
Speaker 2: going to be a twenty yard run or a fifty
Speaker 2: yard touchdown.
Speaker 1: I thought, speaking of Patrick.
Speaker 2: Paul, he's been getting these battles against all these you know,
Speaker 2: edge guys we can throw at him every single day,
Speaker 2: and there's lots of wins, and there's some wins from
Speaker 2: the defensive guys there as well.
Speaker 1: I thought.
Speaker 2: He and Grays and Murphy had a really fun battle
Speaker 2: to watch. He and Chop Robinson had some good battles.
Speaker 2: Chop did get him for one sack, I had Grayson
Speaker 2: beating him for a run stuff, but otherwise Patrick got
Speaker 2: his wins, and especially in that run game, as well
Speaker 2: as setting those pockets for two in the quarterbacks on
Speaker 2: those deep shots they were taking in practice. But he's
Speaker 2: he's been you know, Chopping and Grayson have been winning
Speaker 2: every single day. So for him to go up against
Speaker 2: those guys and score his wins, I thought that was
Speaker 2: really impressive. I think Larry Boram had a really nice week.
Speaker 2: H Chan found some room off his side and he's
Speaker 2: able to seal that forced defender around the edge.
Speaker 1: And just a couple of quick pace notes here.
Speaker 2: Cam Good had a nice run stuff beating Jalen Conyers,
Speaker 2: the rookie tight end, going up against Alie Gordon the
Speaker 2: running back. Bj Adams had another great jam get back
Speaker 2: into phase, pin to the sideline. Can test the catch
Speaker 2: rep this one on theoise. Those guys have been going
Speaker 2: all camp long so far. Zeke Bigger had a swim
Speaker 2: move that got him into the backfield for a tag
Speaker 2: off on Alexander Madison. Artie Burns for the second straight
Speaker 2: day has a really impressive work rerouting. He got to
Speaker 2: this little flare on the outside to a running back
Speaker 2: and made out a tight window and the ball went
Speaker 2: incomplete as a result, Elijah Campbell, And this is kind
Speaker 2: of a general safety's note, but just watching the way
Speaker 2: these safeties can kind of creep down and get themselves
Speaker 2: into positions where I don't know if the quarterbacks aren't
Speaker 2: seeing them, and that's part of the design of the defense.
Speaker 2: But he just continues to find his way. All these
Speaker 2: guys mc morris, Campbell, ify Trader, these guys keep finding
Speaker 2: their ways to impact throws over the middle of the field.
Speaker 2: It kind of reminds me of how the Texans played
Speaker 2: us last year with bringing those safeties and you know,
Speaker 2: challenging some of those middle of the field throws and
Speaker 2: really forcing offenses to say, hey, if you don't have
Speaker 2: the time to get vertical on us, which we just
Speaker 2: had a whole segment about how the concept of this
Speaker 2: pass rush and aggressive band coverage can force the issue
Speaker 2: on that and utilize your safeties to come down and
Speaker 2: be the enforcers in that second level. And I saw
Speaker 2: Elijah Campbell do that for closing down on a swing
Speaker 2: route for nothing. These safeties have consistently been in position
Speaker 2: against those passes in the middle of the field, and
Speaker 2: it really encourages me for what's to come this season.
Speaker 2: What else we got here. Let's play some more audio
Speaker 2: to close things up here about thirty one minutes into
Speaker 2: the podcast so far, y'all, I want to play two
Speaker 2: sound bites here from coach McDaniel. One on Nick Westbrook Akine.
Speaker 2: But first let's go ahead and play this SoundBite on
Speaker 2: Kenneth Grant.
Speaker 1: Here's coach, but.
Speaker 6: Early on, I could tell he had the respect and
Speaker 6: regard of as of veteran teammates by the little things
Speaker 6: that he does, understanding the importance of his role on
Speaker 6: the team. He came in with a veteran like understanding
Speaker 6: of needing to be one hundred percent on what he's
Speaker 6: asked to do, his technique in fundamentals, and he works endlessly,
Speaker 6: So you're you're hitting a home run with the team
Speaker 6: when a first round draft pick comes in with that mindset,
Speaker 6: So we can work with that, and veterans know you
Speaker 6: can count on that.
Speaker 2: To conclude here, a bit of a carry over from
Speaker 2: the Tuesday podcast talking about Nick Westbrook, a KINE coach,
Speaker 2: was asked about NWY before practice on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Here's coach. One more time, I've seen a guy that.
Speaker 6: Has already found a really cool role within the team
Speaker 6: and that this is a dog competitor that brings it
Speaker 6: each and every day. You've also seen him express some
Speaker 6: mental fortitude as he's you know, working working with a
Speaker 6: new team and also managing some stuff that doesn't keep
Speaker 6: He was wasn't on the field every day, which ended
Speaker 6: up being something that was obvious to everybody around that
Speaker 6: this dude is locked in because he gains in his game,
Speaker 6: you know, while managing an injury and being on the
Speaker 6: field and then being off, and then somebody on the
Speaker 6: day he's off makes a mistake and he he uh
Speaker 6: utilizes their mistake and applies it to his game and
Speaker 6: does it correctly. So those types of things. His growth
Speaker 6: at his line of scrimmage game has been super encouraging
Speaker 6: from from our camp and uh, you know, just really
Speaker 6: uh finding a guy that I think the core of
Speaker 6: the room can depend on that is really going after
Speaker 6: it and the appropriate fashion invaluable to the team and
Speaker 6: to the young guys and how to be a professional
Speaker 6: football and make a living in this.
Speaker 2: Man, I'm sure I'm excited about the prospect of Nick Westbrook,
Speaker 2: a Kine and second year Malik Washington in that receiver's room,
Speaker 2: pushing Reek and waddle and just giving us a really deep,
Speaker 2: well rounded room of complimentary skills.
Speaker 5: There.
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