August 6, 2024 • 37 mins
The first of two joint practices between Miami and Atlanta is in the books. Travis breaks it down position by position - stand out performers, big moments, things to improve upon - and some sound from Tyreek Hill and Calais Campbell.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Two on the Move, Glin Deep Speedways, Peace do Hell.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
He's got my advand's in the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
What is up Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
football against another team and gosh, it was fun as
hell out there. If Sergio dip we're here, he'd tell
you I was having the time of my life in
the stands, big plays, structurally sound defense, getting a challenge
from the Falcons front, a practice that started heavily in
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favor of one side before evening out. On the day,
we heard from the number one player in the NFL
and Tyreek Hill. We also heard from Kalais Campbell. All
of that and more from the Baptist Health Studios inside
the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
This is.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
The Drivetime Podcast, taking a slight detour from our usual
drive Today, we're going to be practice note heavy. I
think I've struggled to describe this in the past, but
now I know exactly how to paint this picture. You're
basically watching two football practices in the same amount of
time as one practice with both fields going in the
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exact same time at the exact same pace. Double the
reps the one on ones alone are like there's barely
enough room on the fields for them to get all
their work in. They had to move the tight ends
and backs versus the safeties and linebackers at one point
because it was overlapping with the receivers in dB. So
it's more condensed space, which I guess makes for a
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little bit more of an advantage for the defense since
they are covering so much space normally, So I guess
that's a positive. But what I'm trying to say is
there is an insane amount of football to try to
watch at one time. That's why I said, I think
it's silly to a sign winners and losers on Twitter
today to each session because you can lock in on.
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I mean, even when the Dolphins are out here by
themselves and I'm trying to do receivers and DBS and
O line, D line, you miss some reps because there's
overlap and there are now six of these sessions going
on at once on two fields, and if you're noting
it and trying to locate numbers on the far field
in a past rush situation where there is two walls
of humanity on either side of the drill, it can
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be really difficult to get quality notes and observations and
evaluations on this stuff, but we try our best. And
with that said, I got one of those notes today
that reaffirmed what I'm doing here in terms of how
I see the game and how I provide notes on
these practices. Somebody asked me, are you getting practice film?
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And I'm like, no, I would like that, but no,
I don't watch the practice film. And he said, you're
so thorough. I wasn't sure if you were watching practice
film or just your recall was that good? And I
was like, well, you know, McDaniel did one time compare
my recall to Sean McVeigh. I say that in Jess,
but he did one time. So I was kind of
feeling myself after that one, especially after the McVeigh comment.
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But you know, I've got plenty of misses in these practices,
no doubt about that. I think I've probably tweeted some
things incorrectly here and there, but I do feel pretty
good about these notes we're bringing you every single day,
and today, especially when there is a lot to take in,
and you would hope that that's where you shine that brightest.
So I want to go down the positions here and
mention my observations. I'll plug in audio where I find
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it appropriate. I've got two players today, Tyreek and Kalays Campbell.
If that sounds good to y'all, we'll go ahead and
kick it off, and we're going to do it anyway
because it's my show and there's nobody here to tell
me no. So the quarterbacks you surely seen by now,
the long ball from Tua to Tyreek, play the hits.
Let's go ahead and break down the biggest splash play
of the day off the top. And the first thing
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I want to point out is something I don't think
you'll get on any other podcast because Kyle's not here,
So that was the only choice for a podcast it
would possibly cover this. This is a fifty yard shot
and it was caught right around the goal line in stride,
just a picture perfect location from Tua to his star receiver,
Tyreek runs right through it, touchdown, celebration in the crowd,
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the whole thing. It's what you expect now from this
team that all of a sudden is fun and explosive
and can do stuff like this after twenty years of
not having that. But the thing that really stood out
to me was the throw was to the field. And
we know this by now right draft time listeners. The
field is the wide side, the boundary is the short side.
And if you go back over the course of Tua's career,
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and I don't harp on arm strength as much as
I think other folks do, because I don't view it
as more than like the sixth most important trait for
a quarterback, but there are moments when you can see
it show up right, and it's trying to throw vertical
shots down the field to the field to your number
one receiver. The receiver furthest out towards the perimeter, and
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that's not really where Tua threw his d balls. If
you go back over all the home runs we've seen
in the last couple of years to tyreegue to waddle or otherwise,
there's usually a more condensed nature to the throw. What
does that mean. It's typically the X receiver to the boundary,
so the short side of the field without safety help
or with safety help, but it is a shorter throw
because of the receiver is closer to the line scrimmage
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or to the formation, I should say, and to the quarterback,
or it is to the field the wide side, and
it's the slot fade the number two or three receiver,
which is closer again to the formation. It condenses the
distance between the quarterback and the receiver. But this throw
to the field, to the one vertical down the field
for a fifty yard touchdown, I don't think I've seen
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that before. I don't think I've seen him make that
throw successfully before, which to me showcases the improved arm
strength that I just don't think his previous motion or
mechanics or whatever you want to call it, I don't
think it provided this result that we got on what
day is it Tuesday? That setup or the setup for
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that play was really cool too, because you guys remember
last year. I do definitively because it bothered me so
much when Lamar Jackson had that long touchdown pass against US,
and I saw all these Ravens fans and even at
National reporters coming out and being like, look at that
reverse pivot drop he did where he made the defense
think he was going lefty, and then he flipped it
back to his natural side, his right side and lets
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it fly for the deep ball.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
And I'm just mad online saying like Tuo has been
doing that all year.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
He got that from Tua, and of course on this
play that's or rather I should say, you know, earlier
in the season, Tua did it multiple times. I forget
which plays exactly, but that was a Tua drop back,
a Mike McDaniel design dropped back for Tua, and we
saw Tua do it again on this play. So let's
go ahead and hear from Tyreek Hill, who gave us
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further analysis on that touchdown and Tua's growth as a
deep ball thrower.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
That was beautiful. Man.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
We've been trying to hit that all camp against defense,
and unfortunately our defense has been doing a great job of,
you know, not giving us the correct look.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
We came out here today, we.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Got the look that we wanted, and we obviously we
executed the play and to it through.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
A that was a I don't know what y'all call that, man.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
People can't no longer say that he can't throw the
ball deep, man, because that right there alone, man showed
like his improvement from when I first got here to now,
like's that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
That's light years man. So that's dope.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Man. I thought that part about the defense was really
instructive because that was something I sort of speculated about
from the previous practices in the corners and safeties and
just the overall structure of the defense has really limited
the Miami deep passing game from this offense, which again,
for like the fifth time in this training camp, I
said this on the podcast, was the deep the best
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deep passing team in the NFL in twenty twenty three,
And we get some confirmation there from Tyreek Hill himself.
But they hit it in this one beautiful throw, beautiful play,
and gosh, that sure makes it fun. So Tua, you know,
even outside of this throw was surgical, and I should
say he was surgical outside of one throw he made.
But I'm glad they got it on tape because it
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was actually really close to being kind of a sick
throw to be honest with you guys. The Falcons dialed
up this overload pressure on a third down, so we're
in it's like in the middle of the field too,
so there's not really you know, it's not Edi sack
and punt the ball away. It's like, well, try to
make a play because we're on the fringe of field
goal range and like fourth down, go for a territory,
but it's third long, so let this thing rip and
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the Falcons dial up this overload pressure and Tua saw
it and he alerted the offense. He was he was
prepared for before the snap with a quick check, and
they had more rushers than we could block, which means
you are hot. It means you do not have more
than two seconds to let that thing go, because if
they rush it accordingly, there's gonna be a guy that
goes unblocked, and you have to account for him as
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the quarterback. And so sometimes quarterbacks to account for this
will drift away from their throw. And it's not I guarantee.
I haven't even read the comments, but I guarantee there's
comments about throwing off the back foot, and you hear
that and there's typically negative connotations that come with that.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
It's not.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
It's common practice for quarterbacks that do this when they
know they're hot. It buys them an extra fraction of
a second. And Tu in the past very successfully and
he throws this ball to River Craycraft where it's an inbreaker,
you know, a pretty common route on our offense, and
I thought it was going to be a big play
because it was open and there was a compromised defensive
backfield that was short on bodies because of all the
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rushers they committed to the rush and River crak Craft
crossed his face on a cornerback and it would have
been one on one with the safety for a touchdown,
which that's not really his game, but that's what it was.
And the ball was on the outside shoulder and it
went right to the cornerback who kind of seemed like
he got flat footed and stuck in mud because of
this look and this route against the pressure, but the
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ball found him. So it's almost like a you know,
Merry Christmas to me, like when a third basement catches
a hop where he closes his eyes and short hops,
you know, the sharp ground ball, and it's like, oh,
look what I found.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
That's kind of what this reminded me of.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Here the same cornerback, Mike Hughes that got toasted on
the deep ball from two of the Tyreek.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
So he gets some revenge there. Good for him.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
So that was the peak and the valley, but everything
else in between was sharp, quick rhythm accurate finding his
outlets and checkdowns, a couple of touchdowns, and red zone
work like the way I've seen Tua get the ball
to backs and tight ends has been in like an
emphasis in camp, and I thought we saw more of
that today. But his next best throw was a freaking
laser to Kyrik McGowan, and it was between two Falcons defenders.
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And I'm going to try to describe this for you guys,
but I didn't write it down very clearly.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
So let's see how this goes.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
But have you seen those quarterback drills where you know
they'll in passing camps or high school whatever, they'll essentially
get two large items what do you call them targets
that block out the quarterback's vision beyond them, like it
might as well be bed sheets strung up between like
a massive square of PVC pipe, And you leave a
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small window in between these two squares, and the quarterback
is supposed to throw the football to meet the receiver
in that window between those two squares. That was the
throw that Tua made to McGowan, where he splits these
two defenders, he goes up and plucks it in traffic
for about twenty yards. That was impressive. Similar footwork and
drop back pattern with the reverse pivot step that I
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talked about on the deep shot. He also had a
nice turkey hole shot to open up practice. Turkey hole.
I know that sounds kind of strange, but it's a
commonly used frame or commonly used phrase. I should say
for the vacancy between cover two, it's the underneath curl
flat corner and the half field safety. There's a room
between that spot there on the sideline, and that's what
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Tua found to River cray Craft for about twenty yards.
Also hit cray Craft for a crossing route for about
twenty five yards.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
He also had an eight yard.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Touchdown pass to River Craycraft, I mean go Koog's. He
also threw a five yard touchdown pass to Raheem down
on red zone work and his unit, you know, Dolphins
or Falcons or either side of the field had by
far the most red zone touchdowns. I think they had
a couple more touchdowns than anybody else. Cousins, Pennix, Thompson, White,
whoever it might have been.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
They had the one.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Explosive or one of two explosives on the day. Penex
also hit a deep ball and to me there was
a clear line of who the best quarterback on the
field was the entire practice today. And I say that
after watching Kirk Cousins do what makes him the best
in the game. But it was tough sledding for him
and the Falcons early on. More on that in a moment.
Tua also drove the first team offense and a field
goal range during a two minute period at the end
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of practice and they made a fifty yard kick from
Jason Sanders to quote unquote win the game. It was basically,
we have to get into field goal range, have to
get about forty yards to put ourselves in that spot
down by two one time out. They succeeded in doing so,
and on that drive to it made a nice little
improv play where he found Raheem Moster on a third
and long play and Raheem was able to kind of
find some space in the defense because Tua shifted around
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the pocket, got off the spot and successfully evaded the
pressure to throw the ball to Raheem Moster, who converts
this third and ten, third and ten plus.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I'm not sure how many yards it was, but it
was more than ten yards. I thought.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
He moved off the spot and created like we've seen
him do all camp long. I thought we saw the
work he put in from a mechanic and you know,
pop slash, easy gash, throwing on that deep shot down
the field. I thought we saw a pretty good command
because the run game was very effective too. And to
kind of go into that a little bit on the
offensive line, I heard this scuttle but about the offensive
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line and after practice, and I don't know, man, I
just wish that we would learn from history a little bit,
you know, the Royal Wi as it were. Because the
Falcons had their entire team, I don't know if anybody
was down for them. And forgive me if I am
speaking out a class on that, but I didn't know anybody,
you know, that would be on the marquee, so to speak,
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who wasn't practicing for the Falcons today. And we didn't
have our entire left side of the offensive line right
to Ron Armstead Isaiah when not practicing out there. We
also didn't have Jalen Waddle, not to mention on defense,
no Jordan Brooks, no Jaln Phillips, no Bradley Chubb, no
Jordan Poyer. We're down like eight or nine, big time guys,
and they weren't, and they still caught this work dog.
But back to the original point, like the one whose
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name shall not be spoken, I'm just kidding, it's Omar, Like,
I get it, I know the stick, I know what
you're doing.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
It's you know, it's a stephen a stick.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
The Jalen Ramsey wearing a compression sleeve like selling panic Again,
I get it, I understand what you're doing. But he
says to me like this O line, ain't it? And
I'm like, they'll be fine, man, just chill, they'll be fine.
No game plan around it. And he looks at me
like I'm speaking Mandarin, and I'm like, bro, have you
not seen this before? Like what are we doing? Have
you not seen it?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Here?
Speaker 4 (14:40):
For two years, we've heard the exact same complaints we saw.
What did everybody say going into the Charger game last
year when toront arms I was down for that game?
They can't block Bosa and Khalil Mack. Those guys got
shut out the entire game. We scored thirty six points. Like,
I don't understand how we still have these viewpoints when
they've been time and time again disproven. I don't get it.
You see it every in San Francisco. I know that
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because I tracked every game we had their first round
pick for a couple of years.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
When I'm like, offs have Lodge got some holes?
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Didn't frigging matter, dude, there was just that's part of
the design of the offense. You see it every year
in Green Bay with Matt Lafleur. In that offense, they
get injured beyond belief and they still are productive. Like,
it drives me nuts. So if the line was so bad,
how come we had five explosive plays from the quarterback
and a constant surge in the running game. It reminds
me of the ESPN you know, GM whatever personnel department
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survey where it's like, well, the Dolphins have Tyreek Hill,
but nobody else in their offense is top ten, And
how the hell were I number one in the NFL?
And everything doesn't math, dude, Like the sacks did pile
up late and they.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Kind of did.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Yeah, but my god, man, the way I'm seeing the discourse,
you'd think this was a two thousand and nine offense.
They won the day comfortably, and this is the top
offense in the NFL. Like, I don't get what we're
doing and why we concern ourselves with the panic. I
get it from a, you know, selling papers perspective, but
otherwise I do not. I thought this was one of
Mike White's better practices of all training camp. He was
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ripping some of those intermediate shots that makes this offense go.
But I thought Skylar Thompson really struggled in this practice,
missed some layups, and I thought reverted back to a
little bit of what we saw in the past of
getting stuck and just not moving the offense. I'm really
curious to see how tomorrow and the game both play
out for Skyler and Mike. Today kind of told me
battle back on after I thought Skyler had creism space
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between he.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
And Mike White.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Let's go ahead and take a break right there and
come back on the other side and get to the
rest of the position groups on the entire roster. We'll
do them all. That's next Draft Time podcast. Your host
Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation, mention the
running game in the opening segment and the best running
back duo in the NFL, that's what I'm calling them,
had themselves a day. Raheem and eh Chan had explosives,
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they cut passes, they scored touchdowns. I mentioned the scorers
through the air in the two a portion where he
made some really nifty moves at the point of attack
and had some big lanes to run through early in practice.
Every rep the Dolphins ran offensively early was successful one
like they have. Success rate was probably like ninety percent
through the first couple of two periods that he was
out there. Raheem was super shifty at the point of
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attack and just kept putting himself in position to find
the gap, which again, we're there all day. I thought
we saw a mid season heame today, especially on that
catch to convert the third and long play I talked
about in the two minute. He and Devon had some
really impressive lanes to run through early in practice, and
I gotta say, I get why, but the refs are
very tight with the whistle on tagoffs, because there was
a few of those where I'm like, I've seen this
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guy run in games, and that is not a tackle
that will get him to the ground. And Hn also
had some runs in the kickoff return game that might
have gotten the distance. Malik Washington also looked pretty good
back their returning kicks. I don't think I put in
the notes, but Malik Washington had a crackback block on
Arnold Ebiqite. That was me and John jenmm are like,
oh shit, rook, that's a good block right there. So
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Malik is as tough as nails man. They both Chan
and Raheem had runs around the corner where alec Ingold,
let's just say he was excited.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
You might see a bowl in a rodeo or is
that what it is? Rodeo's bullfighting.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
I don't know, but basically the red jersey was, you know,
the bullfighter for alec Ingold. He was dishing out punishment,
giving guys extra time in the ice baths tonight with
the way he was popping pads. In fact, a few
of our explosive plays off the edge were basically just
Alec and Julian Hill. You know what, this is a
good meme opportunity for you very talented photoshoppers out there.
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Basically Alec and Julian started their own moving company today,
only instead of moving furniture, they're moving NFL.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Defenders off the ball.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Fun to watch those two guys dip into their contact
and run through people. Julian also caught some balls on team.
His strong camp continues. I also saw Alec during one
on ones get a stop on a linebacker, a step
on a linebacker, sorry, and stretch out his arms and
pluck a full speed catch with his hands on an
absolute fastball. He never ceases to amaze me because in
fullbacks just did not do that, and they really don't still.
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It's pretty much just him and use check in Sam
for Cisco. Let's go ahead and get some more audio
here from Tyreek Hill, who touched on how he felt
the offense took a step forward on Tuesday.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Offensively, I feel like we took a step forward today.
You know, whether it's catching the ball, whether it's throwing
the ball, whether it's blocking. We all took a step
forward today. And you know, we held our self accountable
in moments when you know, whenever whenever we failed the
offense like going dry.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
You know. So that's one thing like we really want
to hone in on this year.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Man, Like, even if we have stale moments, we got
to find a way to you know, dig ourself out
out of that.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
And today we've done a great zout of it.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Sorry, it was tough to get a beat on the
wide receivers today because no Waddle, no Obj, no Brax
and Barrios, And that could be three of your five,
three of your five or six guys you keep on
the roster. But Tyreek and River did what they do.
Could be the other two guys along with like Malik Washington.
But Reek had a bunch of plays, including the one
we covered. But damn it, River Craycraft just continues to
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make plays.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Go so kooks.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
It's also gotten to the point that the crew I
usually sit with can Jemmy, Goldie Cuno, those guys all
look at me with the biggest grins when River Creaycraft
makes a play, and I just have to give them.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
That's another Washington State cougars. First all, everyone uses everyone
that has a cat, a big cat mascot uses that
grow after first downs, and that happened a whole bunch today.
I mentioned the chunk plays we heard two of the
other day talk about adapting to new pass catchers and
if he changes his location based upon the guy and
what's best for him, and he said, like Na, Son,
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that's not what he said, but that's what I say.
He's throwing it to where it needs to be and
that includes timing and leverage the route. It's it's tenfold, right.
But a guy that is going to earn his trust
on those, a guy that has earned his trust on those.
The first touchdown maker of twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three,
rather River craycraft Man.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
He caught a ball in one on ones. And here's
something else.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
I hope people were paying attention to the flags on
the field because the refs let them things rain. On
the Atlanta Falcons, they were grabbing and holding all throughout
one on ones and in a team period, there was
a rep where I think if you asked River, you
know it wasn't his best release, but he kind of
got pinned to the perimeter on a move that just
didn't really get him separation. But he went up over
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the defensive back who just mugged him and made the catch.
Now they ruled him down with a foot out of bounds,
but I didn't care because I still learned what I
needed to learn from the rep that if I put
eighty five, if I put the football on eighty five vicinity,
he gonna make the catch.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
He is so dependable.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Willie Snead continues to get open. I saw there was
a comment about some drops. But there were some bad
throws to him too from Skyler. That's kind of where
I put the blame on those. But he gets open
to me, he's been about as good as he could
be with the time he's been here, like a week
and a half, whatever it's been. He did get a step,
he did get a step in space on one play,
but Skyler skipped it to him like he was skipping
rocks across across Lake Okuchobee.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
That's a Florida lake.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Right. Do people go in lakes in Florida or do
you just avoid them because gators all over the place. Like,
I haven't been to a lake in Florida ever. I've
been to the ocean. Kicked him manatee once. That was terrifying.
But he skips this thing across the water. And he
was very frustrated with himself after the throw because it
was a pretty big miss on what could have been
a big play. You know who else is making some
plays as Anthony Schwartz. I thought he was impressive once
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again today. All right, onto the offensive line here. My
first note is on Patrick Paul, who continues to really
catch my eye man like he had a rep the
rep of the day where Lorenzo Carter, a very good player,
tried to cross face on him and his first step
was like a get width step out to the left,
but then he threw the punch and it put Carter
on the ground and he finishes the pancake on top
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of him with a punishing block that had me like ooh.
I was cheering up in the stands, like you can't
see that on a football field. Not get geeked if
you're a football nut.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
He was a wall in the one.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
On one portions of practice. In fact, I thought the
entire team did some work in those one on ones.
Rob Jones, a stonewall, Kendall Lamb looked awesome. And here's
a cool thing about Kendall Lamb. He was out on
the kickoff team right in the middle of the field
and he was talking about how when I came into
the league, it was I was on the wedge and
now here I am, at the end of my career
doing it again in like full circle. And I was like,
you know, I saw you do that and you basically
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were picking up stunts out there, and he was like, exactly,
So he thinks that getting guys like him out there
can spring some big plays, but also that it kind
of helps him see the field from those stunt perspectives,
which I think can help at the tackle position. But
the Falcons did get their pressures. Let's not get that twisted.
I'm not here to tell you a fib on the podcast.
They got their pressures, and my notes tell me it
was a lot of their best interior guys. It was
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Eddie Goldman, Grady Jarrett, Kntavia Street, David Anyamada condensed inside.
I think that collectively that's kind of how you have
to view it to get better. But the rough days
to me were Leah Miikenberg I thought got the best
of him a lot. I don't think Aaron Brewer had
his best ding we've seen him have in the past.
I'm really curious see how he bounces back tomorrow. I
thought Rob Jones was up and down. I didn't like
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to work from Keyon Smith, Ryan Hayes, Jack Driscoll, who's
I think had a pretty rough camp, and Chase and
Hines pulled over a couple of times. So those are
the guys that were really struggling. I thought Austin Jackson
was really good especially in the running game and the
tight ends. We're at the point of attack on some
pretty good runs off that side. Durham as well, he
deserves to shout off for his blocking and also had
a few receptions. Let's go ahead and take our second
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break rate there and come back on the other side
and do the defense. We'll kick it off with a
SoundBite from Kalais Campbell. That's next Draft Time podcast, your
host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Autoation.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Let's go ahead and kick off.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Segment two with a SoundBite here from Kalais Campbell on
did you think you guys won the practice or do
you think you lost it? Would you be honest with
that assessment? Here's Kalais Campbell.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
I think honesty is real. You know, if you want
to get better, you gotta be honest with yourself, you know.
I think there's always good plays and bad plays and
plays you can learn from. Nobody just dominates completely all
the way. It's a lot more good than bad. But yeah,
I've always been honest, you know, and keeping the real like, hey,
you know, fin that look good? You know, I'm gonna
say it to the media, but definitely answer to my teammates,
you know, but today I feel like we did a
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really good job.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
You know.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
Of course they make some players because you know, they
got playmakers on the squad, but overall, like you know,
resons made hard on them. They made it really hard
on them. Now we always say, like if they beat
this more to them sitting. If they make players want
they make plays doing at their best, you know, we
can't just give them. They players, they gotta earn every
yard they get. But of course the infilt they're gonna
arre some yards.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
And just like the offense started off hot, it was
a run stuff and incompletion party early on, in practice,
playing inspired, playing chippy, Jalen Ramsey was at the focal
point of all of that. Again, I saw him play
press man, transition to a speed turn to get vertical,
hit the brakes on a comeback, flip the hips and
get back down the stem and break up a pass.
I mean that is true to form of the old
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Dion Sanders poster that my Cowboys fan friends, you know,
growing up in the nineties had a lot of Cowboys
fan friends. They had this poster on their wall that
said seventy five percent of the planet is covered by
water at the other twenty five percent is covered by
prime time and when you can play the deep ball
without the safety help and you can get back to
the curl flat, do you understand the numbers advantage that
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gives you elsewhere on the field. It's like when the
wildcat was popping off the added hat in the run
game equation that had defensive coordinators relearning how to drop
their run fits. Ramsey gives you that and you can
dictate terms of moving him around, which Anthony Weavers doing
a post of last year when he was pigeonholed into
one position. But he also gives you more flexibility than
any other defensive back in the entire game. That's what's
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so crazy about him to me. Even if he loses
a step in two or three years down the line,
I don't I think that he would have a very
smooth transition into flipping to like a Kyle Hamilton roll
in Baltimore. But that's years away if that's what he
wants to do later on, But for now, he's doing
that stuff on top of freak of the nature stuff.
I even saw him move into the box and rush
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inside and swat a pass down like a freaking edge
rusher right in Kirk Cousins face. He's an unreal talent.
He also tagged off on some plays in the running
game and the short passing game. He was out there
mixing it up. I think his presence alone, not just
the talent, but the unmatched tenacity, I think will be
big a big deal for us from week one on
because we didn't have that early. I thought we really
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earlier in the season last year. My other standout was
a rookie rusher. Let's go ahead and stay in order here.
With the defensive backs, Kendall Fuller was outstanding. I saw
him draw Kyle Pitts on a one on one deep
shot and he out physicaled the big tight end. Pits
couldn't open up down the stem because he just he
didn't have the space to get his top end speed.
He couldn't elevate because Kendall wasn't phase at the jumping
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or the point of attack I guess, and the ball
was nowhere close. As a result, he did the exact
same thing in one on ones. He even broke up
a pass that should have been picked off by Jevon
Holland down in red zone work where he again pins
the receiver to the perimeter and gets his head back
to the play to play the football and didn't see
Javon angling over for the room service pick and he
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punched it away and costs Javon a pick. But good on,
good there. Speaking of Javon, you know, he was an enforcer.
He was a middle of the field presence. He gave
some receivers like footsteps today where he forced some incompletions
because of that presence. He also sparked that big brawl
we saw in practice, so you know, take care of
the other guys too out there. I thought Patrick mcmare
rris was really good today. He was excellent in the
one on ones and made a bunch of tackles coming
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downhill in the many chuckdowns we saw. And to that point,
it was a slog for the Falcons early on in
this practice.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Man.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Then they started getting some footing mid practice and moved
the ball well in one period, and then Cousins did
a good job driving them in the two minute period
at the end of the practice. But I thought the
count went pretty heavily in the defense as favor man
like Michael Penix got hot there for a minute and
had some nice had a nice deep shot over saran Neil.
I thought Isaiah Johnson and saran Neil had the toughest
days outside. But if that's all from the cornerback spot,
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you can live with that any day of the week.
We keep talking about Jason Matrie because he keeps making plays.
He had more PBUs today and that indicates or that
includes one on one and team. He's the like from
nowhere guy right to the Julius Warmsley, if you guys
remember that from twenty sixteen, I didn't know anything about him.
He was signed later than all the other udfas, and
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he just keeps on making You put him in the
notes because he keeps making plays. Cater Coo, who made
employees today, had some good reps from what I saw,
including a pass breakup.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
And Ethan bonner Man.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
You know what, if it hasn't been Tyreek or Waddle,
he's pretty much won every rep outside of those two guys,
and no one really stops those guys. And I think
today we didn't see those two guys. He had his
best day of camp. He's competitive man, he's he wants
to mix it up. He doesn't really say a whole lot,
just kind of keeps to himself. He's always involved in
run plays to his side, and he's usually in phase
in pretty good shape and coverage. We're a little bit
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thin at linebacker right now with Brooks and Walker not practicing,
but love seeing the depth there because Duke Riley gets
the orange jersey for his work on Monday's practice and
I saw him make a couple of plays, including one
big free run tackle for loss. Let's go ahead and
hear from kalay As Campbell once again on how this
linebacking corps helps this or check that rather, how this
defense emphasizes the run defense that we saw really excel
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on Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Keep getting with data.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
Is you know it's built on stop on the run
and then you know, you know, creating pressure through different
blisters of different things. And then you know, I think,
you know, we've been a D line, you know, hard
playing D line from office square un Let's us rush
for a little bit so we can get a a
little more opportunity hit the quarterback. But you know, this
defense is I think a special we got you know,
Zach Zeller leading the way. You know up front, he
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just sets the toe and we all kind of follow.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Suit and we go out there and we ball, but
man off the edge, you know the rook had himself
yet another day, Chop Robinson. I saw him win with
speed around the edge, flatten and then get greeted by
the running backs tipping up in passbro and when he
converted his speed to power, he ran him over and
pressured Cousins and forced a dead play. I mean, if
he does that in a game when we have JP
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or Beach Hub or both of them out there, that
means you're blocking one of those guys or both of
those guys one on one and maybe pulling in eligibles
to be part of your protection scheme. Because that's the
definition of how you can impact a game.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
And Chop does it every damn day out here.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
And if you account for him off the edge, well,
I saw him kick inside and just bowl over the
center and then pop the back behind the lad scrimmage
for a big loss.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
He looks really good.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
I'll say the Falcons offensive line, like ours, did show
really good on one on ones, but Chop got the
best of them. Man Quintin Bell was the best in
those one on ones, but I thought the Falcons did
a good job on him during team I did see
Emmanuel Ogba get back there and make a couple of plays,
including one would be sack, and then also up front,
Tier Tart played with his hair on fire today. He
was in the backfield all damn day and cost plenty
of issues. His quickness next to the power of Sealer
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and Campbell, It's gonna be tough for teams to sort
through that Sealer consistently reset the line of scrimmage. But
you probably could have guessed that. I thought DeShawn Hand
and Jonathan Harris had really impactful days. Both were able
to make splash plays and impact the point of attack frequently.
I think the biggest thing we saw today though, was
the idea was this defense is sort of solidify coagulate.
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Is that a term we can use. Coagulate is when
a liquid turns to solid. So that's not really it,
because it would be foolish to say this is the
finished product.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
It's not.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
But I really thought we rushed well as a team
and just found ways to free up different guys in
that mix with solid covers in the back end. Let's
go back to Klay as Campbell one more time on
what gives him confidence this defense can come together quickly
in a new scheme.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
We got really good linebackers, you know, really good you know,
and shutters, sided ogbable shoots, you know. He's just a
force in a run game in past game, you know.
And I think up front, you know, we got just
a bunch of big, strong guys who who take pride
to stop and run. I think we make a pledge
all the time, like they will not run the ball.
That is a pledge you have to make. And uh,
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but it's also a combination. I think the scheme the
way we you know, I mean, you know, we put
us olfs a position to do better gets the run,
you know, early downs, and I think that that's a
you know, combination of a little bit of everything. But
I think we're building something here, you know. Obviously, you know,
I think this defense has had a lot of really
good success to stopping a run because of the way
we play things and you know, make it hold on teams.
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But at the same time, it's players that you have
to go out there and make the plays. I think
we have a combination of both.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
All right, that's pretty much it. A couple more things.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
So let's let's go ahead and give out some jerseys
and play some more audio from Tyreek, and I will
also grade each position group. If I had to give
out the orange jersey, I would say Tua earned it today,
or maybe River creak Craft those are my top choices.
Then I'll go Amz Chop and alec Ingold, And how
about let's do this as well.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Let's go ahead and.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Grade each unit because we're not gonna get an orange jersey.
I don't think tomorrow. Quarterbacks, I gave him an A.
I just thought Tool was really good. The one pick
was the one mistake. I thought Mike White had a
really good practice, but Skyler struggled.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
So maybe A A minus. Yeah, we'll go A. It
was pretty good.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Running backs B plus most An and h Chan hit explosives,
didn't get much from the rest Ingold was awesome. That
goes from A B to A B plus. Receivers C plus.
There were down so many guys outside of Reek, River
and Schwartz. There wasn't a whole lot there today. I
gave the tight ends a B because Jeweling was great.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Once again.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
I thought Durham was solid and didn't get much elsewhere
across the offensive line C minus some really good, some
really bad a little below the media in there. For me,
the worst grade I gave out here. Interior defensive line
got an A minus good healthy rotation, constant impact at
the point of attack off the edge B plus. Chop
kind of raised that grade himself, but there was minor
contributions elsewhere. Mohammed Kamara was also down, so really deep
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into the depth Charte B minus. David Long and Duke
were solid, but again they're thin there at cornerback A plus.
Elite stuff from those top two guys Bonner maytre Co,
who all made good plays as well against a good
skill group no less, and a B plus for the
safeties because a nice day from Javon Holland, Patrick mc
morris and Marcus may have made some plays as well.
If I were to score the battle, let's say there's
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ten points available, I would say the offense won six
and a half to four and a half and the
defense won seven and a half to two and a half.
Let's go ahead and play two audio soundbites here to
close the podcast from Tyreek Hill. He first talks about
the locker room and accountability, and then he talks about
what he wants to accomplish here. This year with Miami
Dolphins back to back. Here's Tyreek Hill, Like, we got.
Speaker 6 (34:41):
Two competitive of a team and two you know, great
of guys on this team to not win games. And
we all know that, man, because at the end of
the day, we all know the money gonna come, the
money gonna come whenever. Like what we focused on right
now is winning games because we got a great group
of guys, tremendous leaders on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
And you see it each and every day, man like,
and it's fun to be a part of.
Speaker 6 (35:01):
Like the energy out at practice is great, man, Like
you hear guys chirping back and forth.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
It's fun.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
That what makes football fun, Like when like brothers are
able to like chirp in between the lines and then
go into the locker room and then have a genuine
conversation like me and so I love it, man, I'm
absolutely loving it. But as a team go and what
I want, like for this whole team, man, is just
the winner. It just win a playoff game. That's step
one for all of us.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Man.
Speaker 6 (35:24):
I think that's something that you know, we all can
build on, you know, moving forward, you know, going deeper
into the playoffs and that's something that we can live
with forever because it hasn't been done in what twenty three,
twenty four years, and for us to be able to,
you know, do something special like that with this team,
we can look back on it fifty years from now
when we all come back and say, Man, we had
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a great team. Man back in twenty twenty four. Man,
I remember those practice. So that's what I want for
this team. Like, that's what I want for myself, man,
to have moments like that with with my brothers. Man,
because a lot of these guys I came in the
league with, you know what I'm saying. So we got
a lot of veterans on this team. The years, the
prior years I've been here is a real young team.
But the years now, we got guys that I came
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into the league with, Guys that I played with, you know,
played with or against.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
And it's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
Man.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
So I got a real good relationship with a lot
of guys.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
So I would want that, and that will do it
for us.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Kind of come back tomorrow and do the exact same thing.
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
He's got my advand's in the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
What is up Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
football against another team and gosh, it was fun as
hell out there. If Sergio dip we're here, he'd tell
you I was having the time of my life in
the stands, big plays, structurally sound defense, getting a challenge
from the Falcons front, a practice that started heavily in
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favor of one side before evening out. On the day,
we heard from the number one player in the NFL
and Tyreek Hill. We also heard from Kalais Campbell. All
of that and more from the Baptist Health Studios inside
the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
This is.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
The Drivetime Podcast, taking a slight detour from our usual
drive Today, we're going to be practice note heavy. I
think I've struggled to describe this in the past, but
now I know exactly how to paint this picture. You're
basically watching two football practices in the same amount of
time as one practice with both fields going in the
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exact same time at the exact same pace. Double the
reps the one on ones alone are like there's barely
enough room on the fields for them to get all
their work in. They had to move the tight ends
and backs versus the safeties and linebackers at one point
because it was overlapping with the receivers in dB. So
it's more condensed space, which I guess makes for a
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little bit more of an advantage for the defense since
they are covering so much space normally, So I guess
that's a positive. But what I'm trying to say is
there is an insane amount of football to try to
watch at one time. That's why I said, I think
it's silly to a sign winners and losers on Twitter
today to each session because you can lock in on.
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I mean, even when the Dolphins are out here by
themselves and I'm trying to do receivers and DBS and
O line, D line, you miss some reps because there's
overlap and there are now six of these sessions going
on at once on two fields, and if you're noting
it and trying to locate numbers on the far field
in a past rush situation where there is two walls
of humanity on either side of the drill, it can
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be really difficult to get quality notes and observations and
evaluations on this stuff, but we try our best. And
with that said, I got one of those notes today
that reaffirmed what I'm doing here in terms of how
I see the game and how I provide notes on
these practices. Somebody asked me, are you getting practice film?
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And I'm like, no, I would like that, but no,
I don't watch the practice film. And he said, you're
so thorough. I wasn't sure if you were watching practice
film or just your recall was that good? And I
was like, well, you know, McDaniel did one time compare
my recall to Sean McVeigh. I say that in Jess,
but he did one time. So I was kind of
feeling myself after that one, especially after the McVeigh comment.
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But you know, I've got plenty of misses in these practices,
no doubt about that. I think I've probably tweeted some
things incorrectly here and there, but I do feel pretty
good about these notes we're bringing you every single day,
and today, especially when there is a lot to take in,
and you would hope that that's where you shine that brightest.
So I want to go down the positions here and
mention my observations. I'll plug in audio where I find
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it appropriate. I've got two players today, Tyreek and Kalays Campbell.
If that sounds good to y'all, we'll go ahead and
kick it off, and we're going to do it anyway
because it's my show and there's nobody here to tell
me no. So the quarterbacks you surely seen by now,
the long ball from Tua to Tyreek, play the hits.
Let's go ahead and break down the biggest splash play
of the day off the top. And the first thing
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I want to point out is something I don't think
you'll get on any other podcast because Kyle's not here,
So that was the only choice for a podcast it
would possibly cover this. This is a fifty yard shot
and it was caught right around the goal line in stride,
just a picture perfect location from Tua to his star receiver,
Tyreek runs right through it, touchdown, celebration in the crowd,
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the whole thing. It's what you expect now from this
team that all of a sudden is fun and explosive
and can do stuff like this after twenty years of
not having that. But the thing that really stood out
to me was the throw was to the field. And
we know this by now right draft time listeners. The
field is the wide side, the boundary is the short side.
And if you go back over the course of Tua's career,
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and I don't harp on arm strength as much as
I think other folks do, because I don't view it
as more than like the sixth most important trait for
a quarterback, but there are moments when you can see
it show up right, and it's trying to throw vertical
shots down the field to the field to your number
one receiver. The receiver furthest out towards the perimeter, and
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that's not really where Tua threw his d balls. If
you go back over all the home runs we've seen
in the last couple of years to tyreegue to waddle or otherwise,
there's usually a more condensed nature to the throw. What
does that mean. It's typically the X receiver to the boundary,
so the short side of the field without safety help
or with safety help, but it is a shorter throw
because of the receiver is closer to the line scrimmage
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or to the formation, I should say, and to the quarterback,
or it is to the field the wide side, and
it's the slot fade the number two or three receiver,
which is closer again to the formation. It condenses the
distance between the quarterback and the receiver. But this throw
to the field, to the one vertical down the field
for a fifty yard touchdown, I don't think I've seen
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that before. I don't think I've seen him make that
throw successfully before, which to me showcases the improved arm
strength that I just don't think his previous motion or
mechanics or whatever you want to call it, I don't
think it provided this result that we got on what
day is it Tuesday? That setup or the setup for
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that play was really cool too, because you guys remember
last year. I do definitively because it bothered me so
much when Lamar Jackson had that long touchdown pass against US,
and I saw all these Ravens fans and even at
National reporters coming out and being like, look at that
reverse pivot drop he did where he made the defense
think he was going lefty, and then he flipped it
back to his natural side, his right side and lets
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it fly for the deep ball.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
And I'm just mad online saying like Tuo has been
doing that all year.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
He got that from Tua, and of course on this
play that's or rather I should say, you know, earlier
in the season, Tua did it multiple times. I forget
which plays exactly, but that was a Tua drop back,
a Mike McDaniel design dropped back for Tua, and we
saw Tua do it again on this play. So let's
go ahead and hear from Tyreek Hill, who gave us
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further analysis on that touchdown and Tua's growth as a
deep ball thrower.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
That was beautiful. Man.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
We've been trying to hit that all camp against defense,
and unfortunately our defense has been doing a great job of,
you know, not giving us the correct look.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
We came out here today, we.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Got the look that we wanted, and we obviously we
executed the play and to it through.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
A that was a I don't know what y'all call that, man.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
People can't no longer say that he can't throw the
ball deep, man, because that right there alone, man showed
like his improvement from when I first got here to now,
like's that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
That's light years man. So that's dope.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Man. I thought that part about the defense was really
instructive because that was something I sort of speculated about
from the previous practices in the corners and safeties and
just the overall structure of the defense has really limited
the Miami deep passing game from this offense, which again,
for like the fifth time in this training camp, I
said this on the podcast, was the deep the best
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deep passing team in the NFL in twenty twenty three,
And we get some confirmation there from Tyreek Hill himself.
But they hit it in this one beautiful throw, beautiful play,
and gosh, that sure makes it fun. So Tua, you know,
even outside of this throw was surgical, and I should
say he was surgical outside of one throw he made.
But I'm glad they got it on tape because it
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was actually really close to being kind of a sick
throw to be honest with you guys. The Falcons dialed
up this overload pressure on a third down, so we're
in it's like in the middle of the field too,
so there's not really you know, it's not Edi sack
and punt the ball away. It's like, well, try to
make a play because we're on the fringe of field
goal range and like fourth down, go for a territory,
but it's third long, so let this thing rip and
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the Falcons dial up this overload pressure and Tua saw
it and he alerted the offense. He was he was
prepared for before the snap with a quick check, and
they had more rushers than we could block, which means
you are hot. It means you do not have more
than two seconds to let that thing go, because if
they rush it accordingly, there's gonna be a guy that
goes unblocked, and you have to account for him as
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the quarterback. And so sometimes quarterbacks to account for this
will drift away from their throw. And it's not I guarantee.
I haven't even read the comments, but I guarantee there's
comments about throwing off the back foot, and you hear
that and there's typically negative connotations that come with that.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
It's not.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
It's common practice for quarterbacks that do this when they
know they're hot. It buys them an extra fraction of
a second. And Tu in the past very successfully and
he throws this ball to River Craycraft where it's an inbreaker,
you know, a pretty common route on our offense, and
I thought it was going to be a big play
because it was open and there was a compromised defensive
backfield that was short on bodies because of all the
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rushers they committed to the rush and River crak Craft
crossed his face on a cornerback and it would have
been one on one with the safety for a touchdown,
which that's not really his game, but that's what it was.
And the ball was on the outside shoulder and it
went right to the cornerback who kind of seemed like
he got flat footed and stuck in mud because of
this look and this route against the pressure, but the
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ball found him. So it's almost like a you know,
Merry Christmas to me, like when a third basement catches
a hop where he closes his eyes and short hops,
you know, the sharp ground ball, and it's like, oh,
look what I found.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
That's kind of what this reminded me of.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Here the same cornerback, Mike Hughes that got toasted on
the deep ball from two of the Tyreek.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
So he gets some revenge there. Good for him.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
So that was the peak and the valley, but everything
else in between was sharp, quick rhythm accurate finding his
outlets and checkdowns, a couple of touchdowns, and red zone
work like the way I've seen Tua get the ball
to backs and tight ends has been in like an
emphasis in camp, and I thought we saw more of
that today. But his next best throw was a freaking
laser to Kyrik McGowan, and it was between two Falcons defenders.
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And I'm going to try to describe this for you guys,
but I didn't write it down very clearly.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
So let's see how this goes.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
But have you seen those quarterback drills where you know
they'll in passing camps or high school whatever, they'll essentially
get two large items what do you call them targets
that block out the quarterback's vision beyond them, like it
might as well be bed sheets strung up between like
a massive square of PVC pipe, And you leave a
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small window in between these two squares, and the quarterback
is supposed to throw the football to meet the receiver
in that window between those two squares. That was the
throw that Tua made to McGowan, where he splits these
two defenders, he goes up and plucks it in traffic
for about twenty yards. That was impressive. Similar footwork and
drop back pattern with the reverse pivot step that I
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talked about on the deep shot. He also had a
nice turkey hole shot to open up practice. Turkey hole.
I know that sounds kind of strange, but it's a
commonly used frame or commonly used phrase. I should say
for the vacancy between cover two, it's the underneath curl
flat corner and the half field safety. There's a room
between that spot there on the sideline, and that's what
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Tua found to River cray Craft for about twenty yards.
Also hit cray Craft for a crossing route for about
twenty five yards.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
He also had an eight yard.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Touchdown pass to River Craycraft, I mean go Koog's. He
also threw a five yard touchdown pass to Raheem down
on red zone work and his unit, you know, Dolphins
or Falcons or either side of the field had by
far the most red zone touchdowns. I think they had
a couple more touchdowns than anybody else. Cousins, Pennix, Thompson, White,
whoever it might have been.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
They had the one.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Explosive or one of two explosives on the day. Penex
also hit a deep ball and to me there was
a clear line of who the best quarterback on the
field was the entire practice today. And I say that
after watching Kirk Cousins do what makes him the best
in the game. But it was tough sledding for him
and the Falcons early on. More on that in a moment.
Tua also drove the first team offense and a field
goal range during a two minute period at the end
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of practice and they made a fifty yard kick from
Jason Sanders to quote unquote win the game. It was basically,
we have to get into field goal range, have to
get about forty yards to put ourselves in that spot
down by two one time out. They succeeded in doing so,
and on that drive to it made a nice little
improv play where he found Raheem Moster on a third
and long play and Raheem was able to kind of
find some space in the defense because Tua shifted around
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the pocket, got off the spot and successfully evaded the
pressure to throw the ball to Raheem Moster, who converts
this third and ten, third and ten plus.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I'm not sure how many yards it was, but it
was more than ten yards. I thought.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
He moved off the spot and created like we've seen
him do all camp long. I thought we saw the
work he put in from a mechanic and you know,
pop slash, easy gash, throwing on that deep shot down
the field. I thought we saw a pretty good command
because the run game was very effective too. And to
kind of go into that a little bit on the
offensive line, I heard this scuttle but about the offensive
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line and after practice, and I don't know, man, I
just wish that we would learn from history a little bit,
you know, the Royal Wi as it were. Because the
Falcons had their entire team, I don't know if anybody
was down for them. And forgive me if I am
speaking out a class on that, but I didn't know anybody,
you know, that would be on the marquee, so to speak,
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who wasn't practicing for the Falcons today. And we didn't
have our entire left side of the offensive line right
to Ron Armstead Isaiah when not practicing out there. We
also didn't have Jalen Waddle, not to mention on defense,
no Jordan Brooks, no Jaln Phillips, no Bradley Chubb, no
Jordan Poyer. We're down like eight or nine, big time guys,
and they weren't, and they still caught this work dog.
But back to the original point, like the one whose
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name shall not be spoken, I'm just kidding, it's Omar, Like,
I get it, I know the stick, I know what
you're doing.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
It's you know, it's a stephen a stick.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
The Jalen Ramsey wearing a compression sleeve like selling panic Again,
I get it, I understand what you're doing. But he
says to me like this O line, ain't it? And
I'm like, they'll be fine, man, just chill, they'll be fine.
No game plan around it. And he looks at me
like I'm speaking Mandarin, and I'm like, bro, have you
not seen this before? Like what are we doing? Have
you not seen it?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Here?
Speaker 4 (14:40):
For two years, we've heard the exact same complaints we saw.
What did everybody say going into the Charger game last
year when toront arms I was down for that game?
They can't block Bosa and Khalil Mack. Those guys got
shut out the entire game. We scored thirty six points. Like,
I don't understand how we still have these viewpoints when
they've been time and time again disproven. I don't get it.
You see it every in San Francisco. I know that
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because I tracked every game we had their first round
pick for a couple of years.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
When I'm like, offs have Lodge got some holes?
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Didn't frigging matter, dude, there was just that's part of
the design of the offense. You see it every year
in Green Bay with Matt Lafleur. In that offense, they
get injured beyond belief and they still are productive. Like,
it drives me nuts. So if the line was so bad,
how come we had five explosive plays from the quarterback
and a constant surge in the running game. It reminds
me of the ESPN you know, GM whatever personnel department
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survey where it's like, well, the Dolphins have Tyreek Hill,
but nobody else in their offense is top ten, And
how the hell were I number one in the NFL?
And everything doesn't math, dude, Like the sacks did pile
up late and they.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Kind of did.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Yeah, but my god, man, the way I'm seeing the discourse,
you'd think this was a two thousand and nine offense.
They won the day comfortably, and this is the top
offense in the NFL. Like, I don't get what we're
doing and why we concern ourselves with the panic. I
get it from a, you know, selling papers perspective, but
otherwise I do not. I thought this was one of
Mike White's better practices of all training camp. He was
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ripping some of those intermediate shots that makes this offense go.
But I thought Skylar Thompson really struggled in this practice,
missed some layups, and I thought reverted back to a
little bit of what we saw in the past of
getting stuck and just not moving the offense. I'm really
curious to see how tomorrow and the game both play
out for Skyler and Mike. Today kind of told me
battle back on after I thought Skyler had creism space
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between he.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
And Mike White.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Let's go ahead and take a break right there and
come back on the other side and get to the
rest of the position groups on the entire roster. We'll
do them all. That's next Draft Time podcast. Your host
Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation, mention the
running game in the opening segment and the best running
back duo in the NFL, that's what I'm calling them,
had themselves a day. Raheem and eh Chan had explosives,
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they cut passes, they scored touchdowns. I mentioned the scorers
through the air in the two a portion where he
made some really nifty moves at the point of attack
and had some big lanes to run through early in practice.
Every rep the Dolphins ran offensively early was successful one
like they have. Success rate was probably like ninety percent
through the first couple of two periods that he was
out there. Raheem was super shifty at the point of
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attack and just kept putting himself in position to find
the gap, which again, we're there all day. I thought
we saw a mid season heame today, especially on that
catch to convert the third and long play I talked
about in the two minute. He and Devon had some
really impressive lanes to run through early in practice, and
I gotta say, I get why, but the refs are
very tight with the whistle on tagoffs, because there was
a few of those where I'm like, I've seen this
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guy run in games, and that is not a tackle
that will get him to the ground. And Hn also
had some runs in the kickoff return game that might
have gotten the distance. Malik Washington also looked pretty good
back their returning kicks. I don't think I put in
the notes, but Malik Washington had a crackback block on
Arnold Ebiqite. That was me and John jenmm are like,
oh shit, rook, that's a good block right there. So
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Malik is as tough as nails man. They both Chan
and Raheem had runs around the corner where alec Ingold,
let's just say he was excited.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
You might see a bowl in a rodeo or is
that what it is? Rodeo's bullfighting.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
I don't know, but basically the red jersey was, you know,
the bullfighter for alec Ingold. He was dishing out punishment,
giving guys extra time in the ice baths tonight with
the way he was popping pads. In fact, a few
of our explosive plays off the edge were basically just
Alec and Julian Hill. You know what, this is a
good meme opportunity for you very talented photoshoppers out there.
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Basically Alec and Julian started their own moving company today,
only instead of moving furniture, they're moving NFL.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Defenders off the ball.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Fun to watch those two guys dip into their contact
and run through people. Julian also caught some balls on team.
His strong camp continues. I also saw Alec during one
on ones get a stop on a linebacker, a step
on a linebacker, sorry, and stretch out his arms and
pluck a full speed catch with his hands on an
absolute fastball. He never ceases to amaze me because in
fullbacks just did not do that, and they really don't still.
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It's pretty much just him and use check in Sam
for Cisco. Let's go ahead and get some more audio
here from Tyreek Hill, who touched on how he felt
the offense took a step forward on Tuesday.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Offensively, I feel like we took a step forward today.
You know, whether it's catching the ball, whether it's throwing
the ball, whether it's blocking. We all took a step
forward today. And you know, we held our self accountable
in moments when you know, whenever whenever we failed the
offense like going dry.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
You know. So that's one thing like we really want
to hone in on this year.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Man, Like, even if we have stale moments, we got
to find a way to you know, dig ourself out
out of that.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
And today we've done a great zout of it.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Sorry, it was tough to get a beat on the
wide receivers today because no Waddle, no Obj, no Brax
and Barrios, And that could be three of your five,
three of your five or six guys you keep on
the roster. But Tyreek and River did what they do.
Could be the other two guys along with like Malik Washington.
But Reek had a bunch of plays, including the one
we covered. But damn it, River Craycraft just continues to
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make plays.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Go so kooks.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
It's also gotten to the point that the crew I
usually sit with can Jemmy, Goldie Cuno, those guys all
look at me with the biggest grins when River Creaycraft
makes a play, and I just have to give them.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
That's another Washington State cougars. First all, everyone uses everyone
that has a cat, a big cat mascot uses that
grow after first downs, and that happened a whole bunch today.
I mentioned the chunk plays we heard two of the
other day talk about adapting to new pass catchers and
if he changes his location based upon the guy and
what's best for him, and he said, like Na, Son,
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that's not what he said, but that's what I say.
He's throwing it to where it needs to be and
that includes timing and leverage the route. It's it's tenfold, right.
But a guy that is going to earn his trust
on those, a guy that has earned his trust on those.
The first touchdown maker of twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three,
rather River craycraft Man.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
He caught a ball in one on ones. And here's
something else.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
I hope people were paying attention to the flags on
the field because the refs let them things rain. On
the Atlanta Falcons, they were grabbing and holding all throughout
one on ones and in a team period, there was
a rep where I think if you asked River, you
know it wasn't his best release, but he kind of
got pinned to the perimeter on a move that just
didn't really get him separation. But he went up over
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the defensive back who just mugged him and made the catch.
Now they ruled him down with a foot out of bounds,
but I didn't care because I still learned what I
needed to learn from the rep that if I put
eighty five, if I put the football on eighty five vicinity,
he gonna make the catch.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
He is so dependable.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Willie Snead continues to get open. I saw there was
a comment about some drops. But there were some bad
throws to him too from Skyler. That's kind of where
I put the blame on those. But he gets open
to me, he's been about as good as he could
be with the time he's been here, like a week
and a half, whatever it's been. He did get a step,
he did get a step in space on one play,
but Skyler skipped it to him like he was skipping
rocks across across Lake Okuchobee.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
That's a Florida lake.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Right. Do people go in lakes in Florida or do
you just avoid them because gators all over the place. Like,
I haven't been to a lake in Florida ever. I've
been to the ocean. Kicked him manatee once. That was terrifying.
But he skips this thing across the water. And he
was very frustrated with himself after the throw because it
was a pretty big miss on what could have been
a big play. You know who else is making some
plays as Anthony Schwartz. I thought he was impressive once
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again today. All right, onto the offensive line here. My
first note is on Patrick Paul, who continues to really
catch my eye man like he had a rep the
rep of the day where Lorenzo Carter, a very good player,
tried to cross face on him and his first step
was like a get width step out to the left,
but then he threw the punch and it put Carter
on the ground and he finishes the pancake on top
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of him with a punishing block that had me like ooh.
I was cheering up in the stands, like you can't
see that on a football field. Not get geeked if
you're a football nut.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
He was a wall in the one.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
On one portions of practice. In fact, I thought the
entire team did some work in those one on ones.
Rob Jones, a stonewall, Kendall Lamb looked awesome. And here's
a cool thing about Kendall Lamb. He was out on
the kickoff team right in the middle of the field
and he was talking about how when I came into
the league, it was I was on the wedge and
now here I am, at the end of my career
doing it again in like full circle. And I was like,
you know, I saw you do that and you basically
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were picking up stunts out there, and he was like, exactly,
So he thinks that getting guys like him out there
can spring some big plays, but also that it kind
of helps him see the field from those stunt perspectives,
which I think can help at the tackle position. But
the Falcons did get their pressures. Let's not get that twisted.
I'm not here to tell you a fib on the podcast.
They got their pressures, and my notes tell me it
was a lot of their best interior guys. It was
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Eddie Goldman, Grady Jarrett, Kntavia Street, David Anyamada condensed inside.
I think that collectively that's kind of how you have
to view it to get better. But the rough days
to me were Leah Miikenberg I thought got the best
of him a lot. I don't think Aaron Brewer had
his best ding we've seen him have in the past.
I'm really curious see how he bounces back tomorrow. I
thought Rob Jones was up and down. I didn't like
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to work from Keyon Smith, Ryan Hayes, Jack Driscoll, who's
I think had a pretty rough camp, and Chase and
Hines pulled over a couple of times. So those are
the guys that were really struggling. I thought Austin Jackson
was really good especially in the running game and the
tight ends. We're at the point of attack on some
pretty good runs off that side. Durham as well, he
deserves to shout off for his blocking and also had
a few receptions. Let's go ahead and take our second
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break rate there and come back on the other side
and do the defense. We'll kick it off with a
SoundBite from Kalais Campbell. That's next Draft Time podcast, your
host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Autoation.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Let's go ahead and kick off.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Segment two with a SoundBite here from Kalais Campbell on
did you think you guys won the practice or do
you think you lost it? Would you be honest with
that assessment? Here's Kalais Campbell.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
I think honesty is real. You know, if you want
to get better, you gotta be honest with yourself, you know.
I think there's always good plays and bad plays and
plays you can learn from. Nobody just dominates completely all
the way. It's a lot more good than bad. But yeah,
I've always been honest, you know, and keeping the real like, hey,
you know, fin that look good? You know, I'm gonna
say it to the media, but definitely answer to my teammates,
you know, but today I feel like we did a
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really good job.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
You know.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
Of course they make some players because you know, they
got playmakers on the squad, but overall, like you know,
resons made hard on them. They made it really hard
on them. Now we always say, like if they beat
this more to them sitting. If they make players want
they make plays doing at their best, you know, we
can't just give them. They players, they gotta earn every
yard they get. But of course the infilt they're gonna
arre some yards.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
And just like the offense started off hot, it was
a run stuff and incompletion party early on, in practice,
playing inspired, playing chippy, Jalen Ramsey was at the focal
point of all of that. Again, I saw him play
press man, transition to a speed turn to get vertical,
hit the brakes on a comeback, flip the hips and
get back down the stem and break up a pass.
I mean that is true to form of the old
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Dion Sanders poster that my Cowboys fan friends, you know,
growing up in the nineties had a lot of Cowboys
fan friends. They had this poster on their wall that
said seventy five percent of the planet is covered by
water at the other twenty five percent is covered by
prime time and when you can play the deep ball
without the safety help and you can get back to
the curl flat, do you understand the numbers advantage that
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gives you elsewhere on the field. It's like when the
wildcat was popping off the added hat in the run
game equation that had defensive coordinators relearning how to drop
their run fits. Ramsey gives you that and you can
dictate terms of moving him around, which Anthony Weavers doing
a post of last year when he was pigeonholed into
one position. But he also gives you more flexibility than
any other defensive back in the entire game. That's what's
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so crazy about him to me. Even if he loses
a step in two or three years down the line,
I don't I think that he would have a very
smooth transition into flipping to like a Kyle Hamilton roll
in Baltimore. But that's years away if that's what he
wants to do later on, But for now, he's doing
that stuff on top of freak of the nature stuff.
I even saw him move into the box and rush
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inside and swat a pass down like a freaking edge
rusher right in Kirk Cousins face. He's an unreal talent.
He also tagged off on some plays in the running
game and the short passing game. He was out there
mixing it up. I think his presence alone, not just
the talent, but the unmatched tenacity, I think will be
big a big deal for us from week one on
because we didn't have that early. I thought we really
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earlier in the season last year. My other standout was
a rookie rusher. Let's go ahead and stay in order here.
With the defensive backs, Kendall Fuller was outstanding. I saw
him draw Kyle Pitts on a one on one deep
shot and he out physicaled the big tight end. Pits
couldn't open up down the stem because he just he
didn't have the space to get his top end speed.
He couldn't elevate because Kendall wasn't phase at the jumping
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or the point of attack I guess, and the ball
was nowhere close. As a result, he did the exact
same thing in one on ones. He even broke up
a pass that should have been picked off by Jevon
Holland down in red zone work where he again pins
the receiver to the perimeter and gets his head back
to the play to play the football and didn't see
Javon angling over for the room service pick and he
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punched it away and costs Javon a pick. But good on,
good there. Speaking of Javon, you know, he was an enforcer.
He was a middle of the field presence. He gave
some receivers like footsteps today where he forced some incompletions
because of that presence. He also sparked that big brawl
we saw in practice, so you know, take care of
the other guys too out there. I thought Patrick mcmare
rris was really good today. He was excellent in the
one on ones and made a bunch of tackles coming
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downhill in the many chuckdowns we saw. And to that point,
it was a slog for the Falcons early on in
this practice.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Man.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Then they started getting some footing mid practice and moved
the ball well in one period, and then Cousins did
a good job driving them in the two minute period
at the end of the practice. But I thought the
count went pretty heavily in the defense as favor man
like Michael Penix got hot there for a minute and
had some nice had a nice deep shot over saran Neil.
I thought Isaiah Johnson and saran Neil had the toughest
days outside. But if that's all from the cornerback spot,
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you can live with that any day of the week.
We keep talking about Jason Matrie because he keeps making plays.
He had more PBUs today and that indicates or that
includes one on one and team. He's the like from
nowhere guy right to the Julius Warmsley, if you guys
remember that from twenty sixteen, I didn't know anything about him.
He was signed later than all the other udfas, and
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he just keeps on making You put him in the
notes because he keeps making plays. Cater Coo, who made
employees today, had some good reps from what I saw,
including a pass breakup.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
And Ethan bonner Man.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
You know what, if it hasn't been Tyreek or Waddle,
he's pretty much won every rep outside of those two guys,
and no one really stops those guys. And I think
today we didn't see those two guys. He had his
best day of camp. He's competitive man, he's he wants
to mix it up. He doesn't really say a whole lot,
just kind of keeps to himself. He's always involved in
run plays to his side, and he's usually in phase
in pretty good shape and coverage. We're a little bit
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thin at linebacker right now with Brooks and Walker not practicing,
but love seeing the depth there because Duke Riley gets
the orange jersey for his work on Monday's practice and
I saw him make a couple of plays, including one
big free run tackle for loss. Let's go ahead and
hear from kalay As Campbell once again on how this
linebacking corps helps this or check that rather, how this
defense emphasizes the run defense that we saw really excel
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on Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Keep getting with data.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
Is you know it's built on stop on the run
and then you know, you know, creating pressure through different
blisters of different things. And then you know, I think,
you know, we've been a D line, you know, hard
playing D line from office square un Let's us rush
for a little bit so we can get a a
little more opportunity hit the quarterback. But you know, this
defense is I think a special we got you know,
Zach Zeller leading the way. You know up front, he
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just sets the toe and we all kind of follow.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Suit and we go out there and we ball, but
man off the edge, you know the rook had himself
yet another day, Chop Robinson. I saw him win with
speed around the edge, flatten and then get greeted by
the running backs tipping up in passbro and when he
converted his speed to power, he ran him over and
pressured Cousins and forced a dead play. I mean, if
he does that in a game when we have JP
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or Beach Hub or both of them out there, that
means you're blocking one of those guys or both of
those guys one on one and maybe pulling in eligibles
to be part of your protection scheme. Because that's the
definition of how you can impact a game.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
And Chop does it every damn day out here.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
And if you account for him off the edge, well,
I saw him kick inside and just bowl over the
center and then pop the back behind the lad scrimmage
for a big loss.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
He looks really good.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
I'll say the Falcons offensive line, like ours, did show
really good on one on ones, but Chop got the
best of them. Man Quintin Bell was the best in
those one on ones, but I thought the Falcons did
a good job on him during team I did see
Emmanuel Ogba get back there and make a couple of plays,
including one would be sack, and then also up front,
Tier Tart played with his hair on fire today. He
was in the backfield all damn day and cost plenty
of issues. His quickness next to the power of Sealer
(31:17):
and Campbell, It's gonna be tough for teams to sort
through that Sealer consistently reset the line of scrimmage. But
you probably could have guessed that. I thought DeShawn Hand
and Jonathan Harris had really impactful days. Both were able
to make splash plays and impact the point of attack frequently.
I think the biggest thing we saw today though, was
the idea was this defense is sort of solidify coagulate.
(31:38):
Is that a term we can use. Coagulate is when
a liquid turns to solid. So that's not really it,
because it would be foolish to say this is the
finished product.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
It's not.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
But I really thought we rushed well as a team
and just found ways to free up different guys in
that mix with solid covers in the back end. Let's
go back to Klay as Campbell one more time on
what gives him confidence this defense can come together quickly
in a new scheme.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
We got really good linebackers, you know, really good you know,
and shutters, sided ogbable shoots, you know. He's just a
force in a run game in past game, you know.
And I think up front, you know, we got just
a bunch of big, strong guys who who take pride
to stop and run. I think we make a pledge
all the time, like they will not run the ball.
That is a pledge you have to make. And uh,
(32:19):
but it's also a combination. I think the scheme the
way we you know, I mean, you know, we put
us olfs a position to do better gets the run,
you know, early downs, and I think that that's a
you know, combination of a little bit of everything. But
I think we're building something here, you know. Obviously, you know,
I think this defense has had a lot of really
good success to stopping a run because of the way
we play things and you know, make it hold on teams.
(32:41):
But at the same time, it's players that you have
to go out there and make the plays. I think
we have a combination of both.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
All right, that's pretty much it. A couple more things.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
So let's let's go ahead and give out some jerseys
and play some more audio from Tyreek, and I will
also grade each position group. If I had to give
out the orange jersey, I would say Tua earned it today,
or maybe River creak Craft those are my top choices.
Then I'll go Amz Chop and alec Ingold, And how
about let's do this as well.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Let's go ahead and.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Grade each unit because we're not gonna get an orange jersey.
I don't think tomorrow. Quarterbacks, I gave him an A.
I just thought Tool was really good. The one pick
was the one mistake. I thought Mike White had a
really good practice, but Skyler struggled.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
So maybe A A minus. Yeah, we'll go A. It
was pretty good.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Running backs B plus most An and h Chan hit explosives,
didn't get much from the rest Ingold was awesome. That
goes from A B to A B plus. Receivers C plus.
There were down so many guys outside of Reek, River
and Schwartz. There wasn't a whole lot there today. I
gave the tight ends a B because Jeweling was great.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Once again.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
I thought Durham was solid and didn't get much elsewhere
across the offensive line C minus some really good, some
really bad a little below the media in there. For me,
the worst grade I gave out here. Interior defensive line
got an A minus good healthy rotation, constant impact at
the point of attack off the edge B plus. Chop
kind of raised that grade himself, but there was minor
contributions elsewhere. Mohammed Kamara was also down, so really deep
(33:58):
into the depth Charte B minus. David Long and Duke
were solid, but again they're thin there at cornerback A plus.
Elite stuff from those top two guys Bonner maytre Co,
who all made good plays as well against a good
skill group no less, and a B plus for the
safeties because a nice day from Javon Holland, Patrick mc
morris and Marcus may have made some plays as well.
If I were to score the battle, let's say there's
(34:20):
ten points available, I would say the offense won six
and a half to four and a half and the
defense won seven and a half to two and a half.
Let's go ahead and play two audio soundbites here to
close the podcast from Tyreek Hill. He first talks about
the locker room and accountability, and then he talks about
what he wants to accomplish here. This year with Miami
Dolphins back to back. Here's Tyreek Hill, Like, we got.
Speaker 6 (34:41):
Two competitive of a team and two you know, great
of guys on this team to not win games. And
we all know that, man, because at the end of
the day, we all know the money gonna come, the
money gonna come whenever. Like what we focused on right
now is winning games because we got a great group
of guys, tremendous leaders on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
And you see it each and every day, man like,
and it's fun to be a part of.
Speaker 6 (35:01):
Like the energy out at practice is great, man, Like
you hear guys chirping back and forth.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
It's fun.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
That what makes football fun, Like when like brothers are
able to like chirp in between the lines and then
go into the locker room and then have a genuine
conversation like me and so I love it, man, I'm
absolutely loving it. But as a team go and what
I want, like for this whole team, man, is just
the winner. It just win a playoff game. That's step
one for all of us.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Man.
Speaker 6 (35:24):
I think that's something that you know, we all can
build on, you know, moving forward, you know, going deeper
into the playoffs and that's something that we can live
with forever because it hasn't been done in what twenty three,
twenty four years, and for us to be able to,
you know, do something special like that with this team,
we can look back on it fifty years from now
when we all come back and say, Man, we had
(35:45):
a great team. Man back in twenty twenty four. Man,
I remember those practice. So that's what I want for
this team. Like, that's what I want for myself, man,
to have moments like that with with my brothers. Man,
because a lot of these guys I came in the
league with, you know what I'm saying. So we got
a lot of veterans on this team. The years, the
prior years I've been here is a real young team.
But the years now, we got guys that I came
(36:06):
into the league with, Guys that I played with, you know,
played with or against.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
And it's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
Man.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
So I got a real good relationship with a lot
of guys.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
So I would want that, and that will do it
for us.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Kind of come back tomorrow and do the exact same thing.
We will have coach McDaniel in the morning, so we'll
go ahead and provide some soundbites from coach at the
end of practice on the podcast. In the meantime, you
all please be sure to subscribe to the podcast on
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(36:36):
The episode with Jason.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Garret is up. It is great. You'll learn a lot
of football.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Check them out and the YouTube channel for media availabilities,
Dolphins Today, Drivetime content and so much more, and last
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