August 1, 2025 • 37 mins
Weekends are for football and we were back on the grass for practice No. 8 today. Travis breaks down a physical practice and how the Dolphins can change their stripes this season. Plus, we’ll discuss the corners, hear from Coach and Tyreek, and rattle off all the notes from a hot, tough practice.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. What is up, dollphans
and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am your host,
Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, practice number eight is
in the books. We're talking about the physicality of this
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football team. Have they or will they shed the label
of a finesse team this year? We'll talk about that
in a heck of a lot more on that topic. Plus,
the cornerback room got a heavy look from the old
tea Dog, the old t bone big dog, Travis T
dub took a look at the cornerbacks.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Today.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
We're going to talk about that in depth. We'll go
through all the practice notes. We'll hear from coach Mike McDaniel,
We'll hear from Tyreek Hill. We'll also hear from kJ
Britt and Pharaoh Brown and Ollie Gordon from the Baptist
Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is
the Draft Time Podcast brings us into the show here
and just heads up, I might be hallucinating this entire
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episode because I'm working on about three hours of sleep
from last night. My son is not feeling well, and
I'm just basically running right now on iced coffee so
trying to get through the day, get through the show
with that. And forgive me, if you will, for doing
some things on the show. They're not related directly to
what happened on the practice field. And one of my
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best friends in the world, one of my I would
consider him a professional mentor, told me that I should
do the practice notes on the podcast first, and I've
been doing that, I think since he told me that,
taking his advice. Seth Levitt is the guy Fish Tank host,
by the way, but I am finding some value in
the show being more complete with some added commentary on
top of other topics. I've kind of worked to weave
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the practice notes into these pontifications, if you will.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
And I wanted to come to this and how do
I say this?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
From from my position, there's a decent chunk of the
listener that will say, like, no, thanks to this idea.
And that's fine with me because this is just the
facts to me. But the cornerback position, hysteria has reached
some pretty truly insane levels from what I've read on
social media. And again, Twitter is seventy six percent bots,
so who gives a damn Travis. But that's all I
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have to go off of and I saw somebody apply
to a tweet from Chris Coffin C. K. Perrott that
this might be the worst cornerback room in the history
of the NFL. And again, I know, like social media,
and that's just kind of how we operate these days.
It's like either the best or the worst of whatever.
It is, like that statement, like can we get a grip?
That's kind of how I want to say that nicely.
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And again, you guys are relying on the reports of
the guys out here, and you can't trust me because
I only fluff things up to tell a story that
I want to. So you're left to read tweets from
guys that don't realize that Mike Hilton has been one
of the five best lot cornerbacks in the league for
the last half decade or more, which prompted my tweet
about Mike Hilton trying to basically provide you with information
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to discredit the misinformation that was being put out there
by other reporters. And it's that this Mike Hilton has
been the most prominent slot player over the last eight
years because he's got the longevity of his career in
doing so, and so excuse me, I tweeted about you
know what his I guess metrics from the last few
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years are, and I've found this since twenty twenty he
has a passer rating against of ninety two point four
on two hundred and ninety targets, which is the most
target So nobody's played more slot football slot nickel quarterback
over the last five years than Mike Hilton. So why
did he keep asking who the hell the slot's going
to be? It's probably Mike Hilton. That's the fourth lowest
passer rating allowed on qualifying slot quarnerbacks. He also has
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one hundred and sixty six stops. Those are tackles that
signify defensive wins, which, again if you're new to the show,
is basically, did you get a certain percentage of the
down and distance to go or did you not offensive
win if you did, defensive win if you did not.
One hundred and sixty six stops for defensive win, forty
three quarterback pressures. Those are both tops among slots over
that span as well, And I didn't include the twenty
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twenty four stats. They were a bit of a regression,
which probably tells you that's kind of how the Bengals
viewed his game as a possibly declining player, But in
twenty twenty three, he had the fifth most targets in
the slot and he did not allow a touchdown and
had a passer rating of eighty one point nine against.
That's the lowest of any slot who was targeted fifty times,
and those stats can fluctuate. So maybe he has a resurgence.
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Maybe he's in a better scheme this year. Lu An
Arumo and that defensive backfield got a lot worse last year.
It's not crazy to think that he was in a
bad situation and could come back this year and bounce
back and play like Mike Hilton has the seven years
previous in his career. So I wanted to put that
out there because I thought you were getting bad information
about what the slot position looks like. Even with Cohu here,
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Mike Hilton was probably going to be the slot because
co who's played more on the outside lately than he
has on the inside.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
But since we are just you know, I guess name watching.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Has anybody else bothered to check out some of the
other team's cornerback rooms right now? I used to talk
about the dearth of the offensive line in the NFL
because all the big body guys that can play in
the trenches were signing up to play defensive line because
pass rush is sexy and there's bigger money there. And
we went through a shortage for a couple of years
in the draft where it was basically due too at
that position for entire draft classes for like two or
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three years running, and that's bounced back since then. I
think we've seen something similar happen right now though at
the cornerback position, because you can't sit here and say
we get fifteen productive receivers every single draft class and
not have an impact on the cornerback spot. We still
did get Patrick Startan, we got Derek Stingley, we got
Trent McDuffie. Those are the unicorns of the crop. But
there's also been a ton of misses at that cornerback position.
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And when fifteen of the guys that come out of
the draft every year are stud receivers, that's the same
body type for guys that play cornerback. And Daniel Jeremiah
would talk about all the time, like five six years
ago on the Move the Sticks podcast, if you have
a young football player who is fast and long and
can do the things that we receivers can do. Go
play cornerback because teams need that right now. And he's right.
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And the reason I give you this information is because
does anybody bother or check the other cornerback rooms across
the National Football League When you make these statements, when
you say the Dolphins have the worst cornerback room of
all time or more, you know, I think aptly put
of the entire NFL. How about just the teams that
are considered playoff contenders and like deep playoff contenders. San
Francisco is Diamadre Lenore is a good player. Their second
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cornerback is Upton Stout.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
He's a rookie.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
He was drafted in the third round this year. Trey
Brown was said was told bye bye by the Seahawks.
He's their current third cornerback. Who the hell's Darryl Looter?
Do you guys know who that is? He's the fourth
corner in Saran Neil, who was here as the sixth
cornerback last year, is their fifth. And then Jason Pennock
and Richie Grant are the safeties. Is that a better
secondary than what Miami has? Because if you include the safeties,
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I would say Minka Fitzpatrick tops Lenore and then the
depth from there is, if not comparable, better for Miami.
How about Green Bay, who I have not seen predicted
for anything fewer than eleven wins this year. And I'm
in that boat too, because I don't think one position
group can kill you, especially in an era where it's
all about shells and team defense and it's kind of
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become like, can you just be a solid, communicating back end?
And maybe the teams that have the stars are the
more lucky ones and it's maybe almost a luxury.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Couldn't think of that word. That's what I'm talking about with.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
The coffees right now, because the Green Bay Packers have
Keyshawn Nixon as their top cornerback.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Do you guys know who Keyshawan Nixon is?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
He was a return specialist who plays corner as a
moonlight profession. Nate Hobbs was a guy that I liked
in free agency, but he's a slot cornerback. He's like
the second best corner on the roster, and then Javon
Bullard and Carrington Valentine are the three in the four.
The Buffalo Bills have the great Christian Benford, who's a
stud Maxwell Harriston's gonna play on the outside as a
rookie with an injured knee and a checkered history. Taron
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Johnson's their great slot cornerback. But Dan Jackson and Trey
White were guys they said Austin lawago to two.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Years ago, and now they're back.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Minnesota has Isaiah Rogers and Byron Murphy and McKai Beckton,
Jeff Akuda.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
That's decent.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I guess the Raiders are gonna line up with Eric Stokes,
Jacory and Bennett, Darnay Holmes and Darien Porter.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Do you guys know who those players are?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Eric Stokes was said goodbye to by the Green Bay Packers,
who we just talked about is not having any quarterbacks.
Got the Rods are? The Bengals have Cam Taylor britt
He's a good player. DJ Turner, you've seen his tape.
Dax Hill, you're seeing his tape. Do you know who
Josh Newton is? Those are their top four cornerbacks. I'm
not saying that cornerback rooms aren't a problem for these teams,
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but I've seen each of these teams picked as playoff
teams by the same folks. To say the Dolphins cannot
win games because of their cornerback position. I've seen half
those teams talked about as Super Bowl contenders.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
So what is it?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Do you have to have good cornerbacks or can you
survive without it? And I will go ahead and put
this out there before you yell back at me. I
understand that Buffalo has Josh Allen and Cincinnati has Joe Burrow.
Cincinnati had Joe Burrow last year playing an MVP level
and they couldn't win half their games. Well, they won
half of their games, but they couldn't win more than
that because they couldn't get a stop on defense.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
So is it important? Is it not? Can't we make
up our mind on that?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
And I think when you add the safety groups to
the defensive backfield discussion, I think Miami has a better
secondary then quite a few of these teams on the whole.
I am not saying this cornerback room is gonna shock
the world and you're gonna uncover three stars and you're
not gonna have to worry about it. I'm not even
saying it's in a good position. But my god, the
rumors of their demise are truly insane to me, especially
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from a group that told me all year last year
that the Dolphins' biggest downfall was that they had to
emphasize trench play and didn't do it, which is exactly
what they did this year. So did you want the corners?
Did you want the trench play? What do you want?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Rachel McAdams. It just annoys me to know.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
And when something is so widely accepted like this and
the mob mentality can just kind of snowball.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And that's why I think has happened here.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
It's gotten out of control to this point that it's
like you're acting like this as the Mariners rolling out
Roddy to Les as their opening day first basement, it's
not that if two all plays games, they're gonna be fine.
They're going to win games. This is a good football team.
I would stake a lot on that. I can't monetarily,
but my reputation. As long as two will plays games,
this is a good football team and they're going to
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find a way to play winning football on that back end.
So with that, let's go ahead and start with the
cornerbacks because that was kind of my area of focus today.
The secondary theme became the physicality of the team. We'll
get into that in a very physical practice and the
commentary from three guys that have helped increase that aspect
of the team in Ferro Brown, Ollie Gordon and k J.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Britt.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
But the cornerback observations and one on ones went like this.
First off, Bjay Adams was back at practice, so was
Kendall Sheffield. Some of the one on one notes were this,
Ethan Bonner continues to look the part to me, even
on two catches he allowed in the red zone one
on one period, his ability to transition as he changes directions.
We know about the long speed. I've seen him really
put his face in the fan. In the Running game today,
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they had the corners work on the heavy sled doing strike, extend,
peek and shed drills, which is a defense of line drill,
but it works for the screen game too. And I
saw Jack Jones get himself involved in the physicality aspect
of the game as well. Because speaking of his fight,
I compare him to that friend that nobody wants to
guard when you go play pickup hoop, you know on
the black top or even in a gym. But he
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goes and just drops the shoulder and goes full locomotive
mold mode. I had a friend like that growing up.
His name was Bryce. What's up Bryce if you listening
to the show here, But I hated playing basketball agains
him because he would literally try to run you over
on like asphalt.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Not fun.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Erica Zukama had to catch on Jack Jones where it
was physical a reroute and they were fighting up the
stem and Ee winds up kind of pushing off and
getting separation at the goal line and makes a catch
going to the ground, but Jack Jones like dives over
the top of him and tries to punch it out
like he plays to me like a guy that tweeted
out I'm not playing this year like, and I think
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he's had some cusswords in there as well. He later
had back to back really nice reps where he re
routed the one, which is the furthest out receiver on
a red zone thrill coming back across the middle of
the field. Then he sunk back into the corner in
his zone look and took away the underneath option for
the two, which is the slot receiver who was running
to the corner trying to get depth and try to
beat that outside corner back with the inside route, keeping
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his eyes, but he did not take the cheese on
that And the next rep he does the same reroute
at the lion scrimmage, does the same peel off into
a cloud coverage, and this time the ball does come
his way and he leaps up and makes a sensational
interception off Zack Wilson in the corner of the end zone.
We did not have a ballhawk like Jack Jones and
the roster last year. We didn't have a ballhwk like
Mika Fitzpatrick on the roster last year. I think Jaylen
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Raansy is a great player, but I don't think he
had the ball skills those two guys have. And I
think it's incredibly lazy and insanely disingenuous to excuse his
ability because he.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Was available in July. We know why he was available.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I think it's extremely naive to act like it has
anything to do with his football.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
We know why he was available.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
He's gotten himself into trouble and put himself in this
position after some pretty good tape through four years of
his career. Mike Hilton was the other cornerback on that
first rep, but that's just kind of what he does.
He's where he needs to be when he needs to
be there, and we don't really get a full scope
of his skills in practice where we're not game planning
him as a rusher, we're not playing full contact. That's
his game and you don't get a chance to really
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see it out here in practice. So we'll get a
chance to look at that in the preseason perhaps, and
then Jason Marshall Junior has been one of my risers
from day one to now and teams don't do this,
but if you want to, like send a blitz and
call man on the back end, I think he's got
the chops to do that, like right now today really
good man cover skills. What they will have to find
out is how quickly he can acclimate to playing in
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zone and how on top of his rules he can be.
We have to be one hundred percent right in that
right Like I'm not saying he's not that, but that's
a lot of study in prep that has to be
done for rookie to step in and really be sharp
as a event like Mike Hilton, what you'd expect him
to be in you know, Mika Fitzpatrick, he had a
really nice rep in the short yardage period on third
and one to jam the receiver, flip the hips and
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stay in phase as Zach Wilson tries this long shot
to d s Gridge, but he was right there to
contest at the catchpoint for the incomplete pass. I saved
the player that I think had the best camp so far,
has had the best camp so far at the position
among the guys that have been up and not the newcomers.
I'm talking about the young competition between you know, Cam
Smith and Isaiah Johnson and Ethan Bonner. And let's go
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ahead and let tyreek Hill introduce him Storm.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
He's doing a great job. He's been doing a great job.
He's really patient at the line of scrimmage. He's strong,
real quiet though, he's humble and he wants to be great.
Me and him had a conversation his offseason. He asked me,
He was like, how are you able to stay in
the league this long? What are some of the things
you've done? And you know, I gave him my insight,
and you know, as a as an older player looking
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at a younger player, I was like, this dude gonna
be good in his league because he wants to be great.
Comes to work every day, but bust his tail, isn't
scared to compete, goes against Wadall, goes against myself, and
he's only going to get better.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
And Storm's football IQ was where I think he can
make a difference, and he has the body type and
temperament to play those man reps. We talked about what
Jason Marshall does, but the way that he sees and
processes things to get to the playing time that he
did last year, to me, speaks to how the coaches
and Anthony Weaver trust him. I think if you're looking
for a potential breakout guy, he would be my pick.
And let's say you know it's him, it's Jack, and
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it's Mike Hilton. I think that has enough upside should
they earn the three starter spots. But his ability to
play to the rules makes me think you can keep
your expansive coverage menu available and call man without being
worried about him not being.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Up to the task. There.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
So, if I had to stack the cornerback room today,
based upon all the knowledge of training camp practices and
the past resumes and all that stuff, I would go
Jack Jones, I would go Storm Duck.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I would go Mike Hilton.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I would go Ethan Bonnard, Jason Marshall, then Kendall Sheffield,
Isaiah Johnson, cam Smith, Cornell Armstrong, bj Adams, and Ethan Robbinson.
Let's go ahead and take a break and pick it
back up with our second theme of the day, which
is where the majority of the practice notes came from.
The physicality. That's Next Draft Time podcast brought to you
by automation. So this was one of the more demanding
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practices We've seen lots of hitting a short yardage period,
a lengthy low red zone period, which is short yard
in its own right. It was a buckle your chinch,
trap and bring your lunch pial type of day to
the field. Let's get into some of the notes from that.
There was a period where it was third or the
down doesn't matter, but it was three yards or less
to go on every single snap, and you got wins
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from the guys that you brought in. And what I
would say is a safe way to say that we're
brought in here to change the part of the team
that you would consider finesse Right, we talked about it
each of the last three off seasons. This team moves
the ball up and down the field. And if they
were two conversions better per game, that's going to produce
three or seven more points per game as you can
extend to drive and cash it in like those can
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be the four point plays in the game, right, So
it goes from a field goal to a touchdown or
from not in field goal range to a field goal
that you could possibly get out of that And on
the first play of all this, Kenny Grant clogs up
a Jaalen Wright run as he surges in behind James
Daniels and Austin Jackson to move the pile for a yard,
a straight up win by Kenny g But I would
also say that the surge to move the pile at
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all was something we didn't see a lot of last year,
and that created a third and one situation where now
Tua gets it to Jalen Wright on a short throw
that goes for about fifteen yards, and that ability to
hit a explosive or close to an explosive there. I've
made no secret about the fact that I love taking
shots on short yards because you get your best opportunity
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at one on one coverage for some of your top
guys down the field.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
But it wasn't even a shot.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
It was just a little throw into the flat, a
little wrinkle off play action where you jam twelve personnel
on there a full back and you send the running
back out in the flat and throw it to him
and he gets space and has a chance to make
a one on one move against the safety.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Just a cool wrinkle they.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Can get to with both Devon and Jalen Wright because
they can run the ball and they can catch the
ball out of the backfield. Although Tyreek did say that
he believes the key to success on third Towns taking
Devon ah Chan off the field, which you kind of
wish you wouldn't say it things like that openly.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
But he's not wrong.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
By the way I heard, I had the read on
the right fumble forced by Seeler totally wrong. I sat
lower today under the fans because there was not an
ounce of win on the practice field that I ended
up getting blocked out on this particular play by the
coaches and players behind the football. Most times the players
don't occur four yards behind the last scrimmage.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
This one did.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
But to correct my tweet, it was Seeler who forced
the fumble. It was not a failed mesh point. Chubb
and Chop were back there and Chubb scoops it up
out of the air and scores it. Going back the
other way back to it. We talked about Storm Duck.
He had a really good physical reroute rep on ty
Reek where it looked like Reek might stack him and
two A floats this thing up over the top, but
Storm stays through. The hands did not early extend and
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allow the ball to get over his top, over the
top of his head for a long touchdown. And Reek
almost made a juggling catch but it was contested enough
to fall incomplete. And then Oli Gordon and Alexander Madison.
First off, Madison just came on doing it. He's had
a really impressive camp. He gets a run that looks
like it's shut down, but he makes the subtle move
at the line of scrimmage and the knife's his way
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through the arm tackles where he can power through for
some linear yardage accumulation as we seth love it and
myself loved from coach McDaniel from previous years. Ollie Gordon
had a nice patient run to press the play side,
slowly sifts to the backside and finds his angle to
get a cutback laying downhill for five or six yards.
I think these are the kind of runs where we
would get caught searching for the big play last year
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and turn down successful opportunities wins and turn them into
no losses or no gains rather or losses, which can
reset your entire playbook. And then later Allie had one
of the best runs of camp where he had a
slow developing stretch run to the outside where he just
stays on the track, lets the angles kind of declare
themselves and then explodes it around the edge. He's really
showing a feel for how to read the angles of
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his blockers. Let's go ahead and hear from coach McDaniel
on this concept of these two running backs in short
yardage and how Gordon and Madison the kind of you know,
after thoughts of compared h and right in their draft
position on the roster, they're having great camps. Let's go
ahead and hear from coach McDaniel about those two players.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
You know, it was the second I think we've had
two We've had two days of pads, and with the
last one, I think Alie, uh, you know, took the
opportunity to to kind of introduce himself to the team
as a rookie running back in particular, a lot of
guys are talented their whole careers, and the best play.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Is snap handed the ball right.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Well in the NFL, you that the position of running
back expands a ton to get you the ball in
numerous ways.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
And he is in the rookie process where he's.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Learning by mistakes, and so far he's responded in a
in a great way.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
You know, you can't.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
You have to to do right by the length of
the season with rookies and not overcook a successful day
and and wish them into a taking the foot off
the gas. So I say that guarded only because so far,
so good. He introduced himself to his teammates with some
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pad level and uh and uh, you know as the
as training camp goes, the battles will continue. And uh
they I think they know who he is today and
we'll see how he.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Responds to that.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
That's the whole crew all ninety There's a version that
you that people have defined them as put or put
them in a box. I think mad Dog himself is
a great example of no. Here, we allow your your
play to tell us who you are and how you
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adjust to coaching and how how willing you are to
invest in your game and your team. And so he's
a great example as a veteran player who I think he.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
I'm hoping he knew.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
That that kind of box in that he that he's had,
because that was the whole basis of my continued joke
that I've been yelling at him. So but you know,
I think that that's the great thing about football and
being on a team in the National.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Football League is a lot of people have a lot.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Of opinions, and collectively you can work together so that
individually you can define yourself where you know, perhaps in
his case, in places that you know people around the
country have limited him and said he couldn't do.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
So I love that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
I've just been so impressed by both those backs with
the pads coming on. Also, Jalen Wright had some good
how it runs today, including a five or six yard
touchdown run just saddling up his guys on the offensive
line with Austin Jackson and James Daniels and then Devon
a Chan had some runs down there where.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
He was successful.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
He caught a pop pass where he didn't have the
angle Rob Gronkowski style, but then won the angle and
just outran everybody to the pylon for a touchdown, which
would be a passing touchdown for two because those pop
passes count as throws forward. Last note on the backs here,
they are able to play off of this and get
them in some favorable matchups in the playoff or in
the passing game. Rather, we've seen a Chan and write
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an Ingold all sneak out for explosive plays in the
passing game. They got Ingled out there today on Phillips
and he dropped what would have been a twenty plus
yard catch, and later JP broke up a pass to
him in the corner of the end zone that looked
like a touchdown off the hand of two a tongue
by Loa. But I want to pivot to the trench
play here because it's continues to be something that stands
out to me and especially in these padded practices.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
So just a few notes.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Devon Ah Chan gets blocks from Jonah Savit Naya and
Patrick Paul to win the corner and get to the
second level. That was a note from early in practice.
Austin Jackson and James Daniels drive the defense off the
football as Right plows in behind them for a touchdown
for five yards out. Smart run by Right, impressive sturge
where the big fellows up front. Larry Bourne with a
nice block around the edge to free up Alex Madison
on a second, good rip for him. Madison with another
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really good run running wide, staying on his track that
never decelerates. Keon Smith got movement, Larry Bourne with a
good seal as he wins the edge once again. Another
rep I saw Brun Skill and Braden Daniels open a
hole with Farrell Brown climbing up to the second level
and attaching there for a big block to kind of
free up a walk in touchdown from Ollie Gordon, and
then Farrell Brown caught a little post up touchdown on
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Jordan Colbert from quinn Ewers.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
He had a big day.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Blocking off the edge and catching passes in the passing game.
I want to go ahead and play some soundbites here
from Farrell Brown because he was impressive, and we'll start
with him talking about how his camp is going so far.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
This can has been great for me in the heat
best shaved my life a lot of learning, but I've
been loving it. Helped me out and over. A lot
of my game has just been heartwheel aggression. You know,
now Mike and coach Imbury bleed it preach a lot
of techniques. So finally being in an offense that has
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this technique in an identity that I'm able to learn,
help me, help me prolong my career to year sixteen
coming soon.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Now, we heard from Pharaoh, by the way, year sixteen.
He's joking about that he wants to play for sixteen years.
But we heard from Pharaoh back on DRAGT time when
he did the free agent interview and he talked about
being the best blocking tight end in the league, and
he has continued that sentiment here, but also talking about
winning games. I love this comment, and I love the
entire Dolphins philosophy that if you run the ball late
in the game, and they stressed, they stressed these third
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and short situations, these goal line situations, if you win
those moments the end of games, you're playing winning football.
And he's excited to get to four minute offense here soon.
But he talked about how critical those crucible moments can
be and just how the Dolphins have to train themselves
to be able to win in those moments like they
did in this game.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
On this practice today, let's go back to Pharaoh break about.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Just that.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
I got. My vision is to be the best blocking
tight end and win a lot of games. And the
way I see it, if you're in the game running,
that means you're winning. So uh, catching balls not at
is cool. But I want to win and I want
to be I'm going to be the best blocking tight
end this year, so everything else is a bonus. And
if I get a couple of bars, I thank God
and be gratefull and just keep winning.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
He also talked about how he thinks they have a
physical football team. We saw those battles today on that
practice field. Matthew Butler got himself a quick win on
an Alex Madison run, but he got to the corner
behind a nice Faro block Faro Brown block around the outside. Later,
Jordan Brooks scraped off of a win by Kenneth Grant,
who was toffing up runs with pretty good consistency on
the inside today from Devon Han. I thought Kenny was
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showing the goods all day at practice. Zach Steeler had
a big day. He reached at the front side of
the line of scrimmage to help Jalen Phillips dent the
backside for a run. Stuff on a Jalen Wright run
steiler again quick penetration, but eight Chan gets by and
follows a block by Paul and Savit Naya for a
burst of six. Here comes Jordan Brook over the top
for the stop.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Again. Jordan Phillips.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
His power was on display all camp long, but he
got a quick win downhill, penetrating against the backfield on
a stop for Madison. Behind the line of scrimmage, Matthew
Dickerson has had some good reps. He had a really
good reset disengage rep on the left guard. I didn't
see who it was, but he's had some some nice
work in the run game. I thought Ben Stilly was
disruptive today, kind of getting some some aggressive, some physical
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I should say reps. Recent the line of scrimmage, Jalen
Phillips took on an alec ingole block and got a
hit on a Chan for a stop. Also had to
sack one on one against Austin Jackson and Zeke Biggers
has been consistently disruptive. He shot across Brunskill's face to
make a back bubble in the backfield at one point,
and then James Daniels in the one on ones I
thought had two really interesting reps. One he stood Zack
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Steeler up and then later Kenneth Grant through a heavy
move rey cross face on Jad and it was an
immediate win for the rookie. So I continue to marvel
at how KG moved at his size. Jordan Phillips I
thought had more great hand placement and dispatching of guys
with a kind of push Paul. I thought Larry Boram
had his best practice, including a good one on one
period just mirroring rushers at that tackle position. He can
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stay his patient and throw that punch and kind of
shuffle back and forth as like you would on a
on a basketball court and defense. And then they close
the period with Patrick Paul on Chop Robinson and Chopp
tries the speed move around the corner, Paul beats him there,
and then Chop tries to rip back inside with the
club and Paul swats the hand down, and eventually Chop
tries to spin back inside and Paul just cuts him
off and keeps on shutting him down. So I was
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impressed by that, And then practice concluded today that was
the opening of practices. Concludes with a big hit from
kJ Britt, who put a big stick on a ball here,
and he talked about the physicality of this team after practice.
We'll go ahead and close the segment with his comment
here from kJ Brittle.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
O wing good. I'm just to see the want two
in guys, and to see the want to and your teammates,
and just to know that short yards can win and
lose a game. Third to one, you gotta have it,
fourth on one, you gotta have it. You know, everybody
just started going four and fourth down, so you know,
we know that shortyards is a big part of the game.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
So learn last break there, come back on the other side.
A few more notes and some audio from coach and Tyreek.
That's all next Drift Time podcast, brought to you by Autnation.
Some additional practice notes that fall out of the realm
of those two themes. I thought, Nick Westbrook Akine has
continued his ascension over the last handful of days. He's
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got really reliable, sturdy hands. He gets open over the
middle of the ball and takes advantage of the space
afforded to him by all the coverage getting lifted by
the other talent on this offense, Dwayne Eskridge ds Gridge
keeps making plays. He had a nice touchdown on a
throw in the back of the end zone working on
John Saunders from Zach Wilson, although Saunders did get a
pick off viewers. Later in practice, Tanner Connor scored himself
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a fifty to fifty ball win at the front pile
on little throwback play action that Jordan Colbert looked like
he had measured for a pick with the ball got
on top of him from Zach Wilson. He gets a
fingertip on it, but Connor stays with it on his
feet and hauls in a twenty six yard touchdown catch.
Tyreek and Wall put on a show in one on one,
and then Tyreek got a couple of touchdowns from Tua
and team. He talked after practice about to US comments
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and I thought this was good. Let's go ahead and
actually hear from coach first about two US comments. We'll
get a follow from Tyreek Hill after that.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
I'm seeing the daily investment. I'm seeing.
Speaker 7 (30:17):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
I think it's a it's a well known fact.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
That you know two is the leader of our our
our team in the locker room as the franchise quarterback.
And I think there's a lot to be said about
a leader saying the hard things. I think there's a
lot to be said about you know, uh Reek, and
and how how clear they've been towards each other so
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that these conversations that you can say these things and
call a spade a spade. I see that as grown man,
grown man's stuff. He was watching grown man's stuff like that.
That that is real. That relationships aren't created in a
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vacuum of dandelions and daisies. Relationships, real ones, ones that
matter you. You go through a process of earning and
delivering on trust. So what I've seen is it's important.
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It's important to the players on this team that they
are connected to each other, both on the football field
and off. And when you have people going in that
direction and focused on that, that it there's there's only
good things that can come from that.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
So so far, so good.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
I see guys delivering on on their words with actions.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
And Tyik was asked what he can do to do
the things that to us said that he needs to
do to rebuild those relationships.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Let's go back to the chief just showing up man.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
You know, I feel like that's the most important thing,
you know, being consistent coming out here, working every day hard,
you know, just trying to get back to you know,
that old form of myself.
Speaker 7 (32:12):
Man.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
I think that's very important. And just holding myself accountable. Man,
I think you know, to to a comments were needed,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
I mean, he's.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Obviously the leader of our team, so.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
He says the standard.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
So I'm just trying to be the best teammate, best
version of myself for this team. I can be man
every day, showing up the means coming out here every
day Western Matael in practice.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
I think it's important.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
Man.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
So if you want to be able to leave a legacy,
you gotta be able to, you know, consistently do those
kind of things.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
That's kind of all I've got for notes.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
I have two more soundbites I want to play from
coach that I think we're very valuable today. Let's see
Orange Jersey was Jordan Brooks today. That was a matter
of time to me. My prediction for tomorrow, I'm gonna
go with Zach Seeler number one, Jalen Phillips number two,
and then my kind of off the off the radar
picks will be Alex Madison and Farrell Brown. Let's go
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ahead and conclude with these two soundbites Coach talking about
Tua and the investment, or rather his comments I should
say about being less results based in practice and be
more process based. Here's coach on Tua and the maturation
of a six year quarter that is a.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Product of.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
A lot of intentional, deliberate work conversations. You know myself,
you know, Frank Smith, Darryl Bevill, Bobby Slowick, but most
notably Tua. Because the game, the game in general but
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specifically for the quarterback is quite literally handling noise. And
when you are able to go through a practice and
focus on specific things to your game and not results
your training, you know, kind of in sync with all
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the great people that are great at stuff you have
to it is.
Speaker 5 (34:17):
It is a daily challenge.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
He's working on stuff that you know, philosophically, I believe
is gigantic for mastering h NFL quarterback play and that
you know, that's the meat and potatoes of it, working
on identifying, working on something so you improve, and you know,
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the sometimes the hardest thing in sports is adjusting to
success or failure. And when you aren't, your motivation is
not to do anything but get better. Generally, you get better.
So I don't know about you. I'm fired up about
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him getting better.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
And last word here on the impressive, impressive second year
left tackle Patrick Paul.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Patrick Paul is having a very good camp and that's
because he had a very good five week train, a
period of time on his own that followed a great
eight week program of off season.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
He you know, I think he's been on a steady.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Uh uh, a steady confidence climb, and you know, it
was very helpful getting uh, you know, ingratiated into the
NFL game and being able to play you know behind
uh uh.
Speaker 5 (35:50):
You know, toront Armstead one of the best to do it.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
And he he's operating every day like he knows the
NFL regular season is coming and he wants to surprise
people just like sounds like you guys are by one
on ones the players on the team. He has earned
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respect with being as intentional and deliberate as any player
on the team. And you have a gigantic player with
an athletic skill set that is attacking.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
What really matters not hey I blocked him, or hey I.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
Didn't but angles of sets, how to keep your balance,
how you drive off the ball, landmarks, all of those things.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
Pad level. He's he's all in to his game, and.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
I think people are starting to see that on the
practice field and we hope that turns to the game.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
All Right, there you go a little bit long episode today.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
That's usually how it goes, and we have Coach McDaniel
at the podium, but we're gonna go ahead and call
it a day. We'll see you guys back here tomorrow
for a Saturday practice. Members only out here, so we'll
see all the season ticket members for the Miami Dolphins.
August the second. We'll be back on the third as well,
and then I think Monday's off, and then right back
at it again Tuesday. But until all of that, you
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Cameron and Willow Daddy. He's coming home.
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. What is up, dollphans
and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am your host,
Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, practice number eight is
in the books. We're talking about the physicality of this
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football team. Have they or will they shed the label
of a finesse team this year? We'll talk about that
in a heck of a lot more on that topic. Plus,
the cornerback room got a heavy look from the old
tea Dog, the old t bone big dog, Travis T
dub took a look at the cornerbacks.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Today.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
We're going to talk about that in depth. We'll go
through all the practice notes. We'll hear from coach Mike McDaniel,
We'll hear from Tyreek Hill. We'll also hear from kJ
Britt and Pharaoh Brown and Ollie Gordon from the Baptist
Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is
the Draft Time Podcast brings us into the show here
and just heads up, I might be hallucinating this entire
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episode because I'm working on about three hours of sleep
from last night. My son is not feeling well, and
I'm just basically running right now on iced coffee so
trying to get through the day, get through the show
with that. And forgive me, if you will, for doing
some things on the show. They're not related directly to
what happened on the practice field. And one of my
(01:26):
best friends in the world, one of my I would
consider him a professional mentor, told me that I should
do the practice notes on the podcast first, and I've
been doing that, I think since he told me that,
taking his advice. Seth Levitt is the guy Fish Tank host,
by the way, but I am finding some value in
the show being more complete with some added commentary on
top of other topics. I've kind of worked to weave
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the practice notes into these pontifications, if you will.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
And I wanted to come to this and how do
I say this?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
From from my position, there's a decent chunk of the
listener that will say, like, no, thanks to this idea.
And that's fine with me because this is just the
facts to me. But the cornerback position, hysteria has reached
some pretty truly insane levels from what I've read on
social media. And again, Twitter is seventy six percent bots,
so who gives a damn Travis. But that's all I
(02:18):
have to go off of and I saw somebody apply
to a tweet from Chris Coffin C. K. Perrott that
this might be the worst cornerback room in the history
of the NFL. And again, I know, like social media,
and that's just kind of how we operate these days.
It's like either the best or the worst of whatever.
It is, like that statement, like can we get a grip?
That's kind of how I want to say that nicely.
(02:40):
And again, you guys are relying on the reports of
the guys out here, and you can't trust me because
I only fluff things up to tell a story that
I want to. So you're left to read tweets from
guys that don't realize that Mike Hilton has been one
of the five best lot cornerbacks in the league for
the last half decade or more, which prompted my tweet
about Mike Hilton trying to basically provide you with information
(03:00):
to discredit the misinformation that was being put out there
by other reporters. And it's that this Mike Hilton has
been the most prominent slot player over the last eight
years because he's got the longevity of his career in
doing so, and so excuse me, I tweeted about you
know what his I guess metrics from the last few
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years are, and I've found this since twenty twenty he
has a passer rating against of ninety two point four
on two hundred and ninety targets, which is the most
target So nobody's played more slot football slot nickel quarterback
over the last five years than Mike Hilton. So why
did he keep asking who the hell the slot's going
to be? It's probably Mike Hilton. That's the fourth lowest
passer rating allowed on qualifying slot quarnerbacks. He also has
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one hundred and sixty six stops. Those are tackles that
signify defensive wins, which, again if you're new to the show,
is basically, did you get a certain percentage of the
down and distance to go or did you not offensive
win if you did, defensive win if you did not.
One hundred and sixty six stops for defensive win, forty
three quarterback pressures. Those are both tops among slots over
that span as well, And I didn't include the twenty
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twenty four stats. They were a bit of a regression,
which probably tells you that's kind of how the Bengals
viewed his game as a possibly declining player, But in
twenty twenty three, he had the fifth most targets in
the slot and he did not allow a touchdown and
had a passer rating of eighty one point nine against.
That's the lowest of any slot who was targeted fifty times,
and those stats can fluctuate. So maybe he has a resurgence.
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Maybe he's in a better scheme this year. Lu An
Arumo and that defensive backfield got a lot worse last year.
It's not crazy to think that he was in a
bad situation and could come back this year and bounce
back and play like Mike Hilton has the seven years
previous in his career. So I wanted to put that
out there because I thought you were getting bad information
about what the slot position looks like. Even with Cohu here,
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Mike Hilton was probably going to be the slot because
co who's played more on the outside lately than he
has on the inside.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
But since we are just you know, I guess name watching.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Has anybody else bothered to check out some of the
other team's cornerback rooms right now? I used to talk
about the dearth of the offensive line in the NFL
because all the big body guys that can play in
the trenches were signing up to play defensive line because
pass rush is sexy and there's bigger money there. And
we went through a shortage for a couple of years
in the draft where it was basically due too at
that position for entire draft classes for like two or
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three years running, and that's bounced back since then. I
think we've seen something similar happen right now though at
the cornerback position, because you can't sit here and say
we get fifteen productive receivers every single draft class and
not have an impact on the cornerback spot. We still
did get Patrick Startan, we got Derek Stingley, we got
Trent McDuffie. Those are the unicorns of the crop. But
there's also been a ton of misses at that cornerback position.
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And when fifteen of the guys that come out of
the draft every year are stud receivers, that's the same
body type for guys that play cornerback. And Daniel Jeremiah
would talk about all the time, like five six years
ago on the Move the Sticks podcast, if you have
a young football player who is fast and long and
can do the things that we receivers can do. Go
play cornerback because teams need that right now. And he's right.
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And the reason I give you this information is because
does anybody bother or check the other cornerback rooms across
the National Football League When you make these statements, when
you say the Dolphins have the worst cornerback room of
all time or more, you know, I think aptly put
of the entire NFL. How about just the teams that
are considered playoff contenders and like deep playoff contenders. San
Francisco is Diamadre Lenore is a good player. Their second
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cornerback is Upton Stout.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
He's a rookie.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
He was drafted in the third round this year. Trey
Brown was said was told bye bye by the Seahawks.
He's their current third cornerback. Who the hell's Darryl Looter?
Do you guys know who that is? He's the fourth
corner in Saran Neil, who was here as the sixth
cornerback last year, is their fifth. And then Jason Pennock
and Richie Grant are the safeties. Is that a better
secondary than what Miami has? Because if you include the safeties,
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I would say Minka Fitzpatrick tops Lenore and then the
depth from there is, if not comparable, better for Miami.
How about Green Bay, who I have not seen predicted
for anything fewer than eleven wins this year. And I'm
in that boat too, because I don't think one position
group can kill you, especially in an era where it's
all about shells and team defense and it's kind of
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become like, can you just be a solid, communicating back end?
And maybe the teams that have the stars are the
more lucky ones and it's maybe almost a luxury.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Couldn't think of that word. That's what I'm talking about with.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
The coffees right now, because the Green Bay Packers have
Keyshawn Nixon as their top cornerback.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Do you guys know who Keyshawan Nixon is?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
He was a return specialist who plays corner as a
moonlight profession. Nate Hobbs was a guy that I liked
in free agency, but he's a slot cornerback. He's like
the second best corner on the roster, and then Javon
Bullard and Carrington Valentine are the three in the four.
The Buffalo Bills have the great Christian Benford, who's a
stud Maxwell Harriston's gonna play on the outside as a
rookie with an injured knee and a checkered history. Taron
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Johnson's their great slot cornerback. But Dan Jackson and Trey
White were guys they said Austin lawago to two.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Years ago, and now they're back.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Minnesota has Isaiah Rogers and Byron Murphy and McKai Beckton,
Jeff Akuda.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
That's decent.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I guess the Raiders are gonna line up with Eric Stokes,
Jacory and Bennett, Darnay Holmes and Darien Porter.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Do you guys know who those players are?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Eric Stokes was said goodbye to by the Green Bay Packers,
who we just talked about is not having any quarterbacks.
Got the Rods are? The Bengals have Cam Taylor britt
He's a good player. DJ Turner, you've seen his tape.
Dax Hill, you're seeing his tape. Do you know who
Josh Newton is? Those are their top four cornerbacks. I'm
not saying that cornerback rooms aren't a problem for these teams,
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but I've seen each of these teams picked as playoff
teams by the same folks. To say the Dolphins cannot
win games because of their cornerback position. I've seen half
those teams talked about as Super Bowl contenders.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
So what is it?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Do you have to have good cornerbacks or can you
survive without it? And I will go ahead and put
this out there before you yell back at me. I
understand that Buffalo has Josh Allen and Cincinnati has Joe Burrow.
Cincinnati had Joe Burrow last year playing an MVP level
and they couldn't win half their games. Well, they won
half of their games, but they couldn't win more than
that because they couldn't get a stop on defense.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
So is it important? Is it not? Can't we make
up our mind on that?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
And I think when you add the safety groups to
the defensive backfield discussion, I think Miami has a better
secondary then quite a few of these teams on the whole.
I am not saying this cornerback room is gonna shock
the world and you're gonna uncover three stars and you're
not gonna have to worry about it. I'm not even
saying it's in a good position. But my god, the
rumors of their demise are truly insane to me, especially
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from a group that told me all year last year
that the Dolphins' biggest downfall was that they had to
emphasize trench play and didn't do it, which is exactly
what they did this year. So did you want the corners?
Did you want the trench play? What do you want?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Rachel McAdams. It just annoys me to know.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
And when something is so widely accepted like this and
the mob mentality can just kind of snowball.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And that's why I think has happened here.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
It's gotten out of control to this point that it's
like you're acting like this as the Mariners rolling out
Roddy to Les as their opening day first basement, it's
not that if two all plays games, they're gonna be fine.
They're going to win games. This is a good football team.
I would stake a lot on that. I can't monetarily,
but my reputation. As long as two will plays games,
this is a good football team and they're going to
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find a way to play winning football on that back end.
So with that, let's go ahead and start with the
cornerbacks because that was kind of my area of focus today.
The secondary theme became the physicality of the team. We'll
get into that in a very physical practice and the
commentary from three guys that have helped increase that aspect
of the team in Ferro Brown, Ollie Gordon and k J.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Britt.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
But the cornerback observations and one on ones went like this.
First off, Bjay Adams was back at practice, so was
Kendall Sheffield. Some of the one on one notes were this,
Ethan Bonner continues to look the part to me, even
on two catches he allowed in the red zone one
on one period, his ability to transition as he changes directions.
We know about the long speed. I've seen him really
put his face in the fan. In the Running game today,
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they had the corners work on the heavy sled doing strike, extend,
peek and shed drills, which is a defense of line drill,
but it works for the screen game too. And I
saw Jack Jones get himself involved in the physicality aspect
of the game as well. Because speaking of his fight,
I compare him to that friend that nobody wants to
guard when you go play pickup hoop, you know on
the black top or even in a gym. But he
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goes and just drops the shoulder and goes full locomotive
mold mode. I had a friend like that growing up.
His name was Bryce. What's up Bryce if you listening
to the show here, But I hated playing basketball agains
him because he would literally try to run you over
on like asphalt.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Not fun.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Erica Zukama had to catch on Jack Jones where it
was physical a reroute and they were fighting up the
stem and Ee winds up kind of pushing off and
getting separation at the goal line and makes a catch
going to the ground, but Jack Jones like dives over
the top of him and tries to punch it out
like he plays to me like a guy that tweeted
out I'm not playing this year like, and I think
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he's had some cusswords in there as well. He later
had back to back really nice reps where he re
routed the one, which is the furthest out receiver on
a red zone thrill coming back across the middle of
the field. Then he sunk back into the corner in
his zone look and took away the underneath option for
the two, which is the slot receiver who was running
to the corner trying to get depth and try to
beat that outside corner back with the inside route, keeping
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his eyes, but he did not take the cheese on
that And the next rep he does the same reroute
at the lion scrimmage, does the same peel off into
a cloud coverage, and this time the ball does come
his way and he leaps up and makes a sensational
interception off Zack Wilson in the corner of the end zone.
We did not have a ballhawk like Jack Jones and
the roster last year. We didn't have a ballhwk like
Mika Fitzpatrick on the roster last year. I think Jaylen
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Raansy is a great player, but I don't think he
had the ball skills those two guys have. And I
think it's incredibly lazy and insanely disingenuous to excuse his
ability because he.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Was available in July. We know why he was available.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I think it's extremely naive to act like it has
anything to do with his football.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
We know why he was available.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
He's gotten himself into trouble and put himself in this
position after some pretty good tape through four years of
his career. Mike Hilton was the other cornerback on that
first rep, but that's just kind of what he does.
He's where he needs to be when he needs to
be there, and we don't really get a full scope
of his skills in practice where we're not game planning
him as a rusher, we're not playing full contact. That's
his game and you don't get a chance to really
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see it out here in practice. So we'll get a
chance to look at that in the preseason perhaps, and
then Jason Marshall Junior has been one of my risers
from day one to now and teams don't do this,
but if you want to, like send a blitz and
call man on the back end, I think he's got
the chops to do that, like right now today really
good man cover skills. What they will have to find
out is how quickly he can acclimate to playing in
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zone and how on top of his rules he can be.
We have to be one hundred percent right in that
right Like I'm not saying he's not that, but that's
a lot of study in prep that has to be
done for rookie to step in and really be sharp
as a event like Mike Hilton, what you'd expect him
to be in you know, Mika Fitzpatrick, he had a
really nice rep in the short yardage period on third
and one to jam the receiver, flip the hips and
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stay in phase as Zach Wilson tries this long shot
to d s Gridge, but he was right there to
contest at the catchpoint for the incomplete pass. I saved
the player that I think had the best camp so far,
has had the best camp so far at the position
among the guys that have been up and not the newcomers.
I'm talking about the young competition between you know, Cam
Smith and Isaiah Johnson and Ethan Bonner. And let's go
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ahead and let tyreek Hill introduce him Storm.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
He's doing a great job. He's been doing a great job.
He's really patient at the line of scrimmage. He's strong,
real quiet though, he's humble and he wants to be great.
Me and him had a conversation his offseason. He asked me,
He was like, how are you able to stay in
the league this long? What are some of the things
you've done? And you know, I gave him my insight,
and you know, as a as an older player looking
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at a younger player, I was like, this dude gonna
be good in his league because he wants to be great.
Comes to work every day, but bust his tail, isn't
scared to compete, goes against Wadall, goes against myself, and
he's only going to get better.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
And Storm's football IQ was where I think he can
make a difference, and he has the body type and
temperament to play those man reps. We talked about what
Jason Marshall does, but the way that he sees and
processes things to get to the playing time that he
did last year, to me, speaks to how the coaches
and Anthony Weaver trust him. I think if you're looking
for a potential breakout guy, he would be my pick.
And let's say you know it's him, it's Jack, and
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it's Mike Hilton. I think that has enough upside should
they earn the three starter spots. But his ability to
play to the rules makes me think you can keep
your expansive coverage menu available and call man without being
worried about him not being.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Up to the task. There.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
So, if I had to stack the cornerback room today,
based upon all the knowledge of training camp practices and
the past resumes and all that stuff, I would go
Jack Jones, I would go Storm Duck.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I would go Mike Hilton.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I would go Ethan Bonnard, Jason Marshall, then Kendall Sheffield,
Isaiah Johnson, cam Smith, Cornell Armstrong, bj Adams, and Ethan Robbinson.
Let's go ahead and take a break and pick it
back up with our second theme of the day, which
is where the majority of the practice notes came from.
The physicality. That's Next Draft Time podcast brought to you
by automation. So this was one of the more demanding
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practices We've seen lots of hitting a short yardage period,
a lengthy low red zone period, which is short yard
in its own right. It was a buckle your chinch,
trap and bring your lunch pial type of day to
the field. Let's get into some of the notes from that.
There was a period where it was third or the
down doesn't matter, but it was three yards or less
to go on every single snap, and you got wins
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from the guys that you brought in. And what I
would say is a safe way to say that we're
brought in here to change the part of the team
that you would consider finesse Right, we talked about it
each of the last three off seasons. This team moves
the ball up and down the field. And if they
were two conversions better per game, that's going to produce
three or seven more points per game as you can
extend to drive and cash it in like those can
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be the four point plays in the game, right, So
it goes from a field goal to a touchdown or
from not in field goal range to a field goal
that you could possibly get out of that And on
the first play of all this, Kenny Grant clogs up
a Jaalen Wright run as he surges in behind James
Daniels and Austin Jackson to move the pile for a yard,
a straight up win by Kenny g But I would
also say that the surge to move the pile at
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all was something we didn't see a lot of last year,
and that created a third and one situation where now
Tua gets it to Jalen Wright on a short throw
that goes for about fifteen yards, and that ability to
hit a explosive or close to an explosive there. I've
made no secret about the fact that I love taking
shots on short yards because you get your best opportunity
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at one on one coverage for some of your top
guys down the field.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
But it wasn't even a shot.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
It was just a little throw into the flat, a
little wrinkle off play action where you jam twelve personnel
on there a full back and you send the running
back out in the flat and throw it to him
and he gets space and has a chance to make
a one on one move against the safety.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Just a cool wrinkle they.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Can get to with both Devon and Jalen Wright because
they can run the ball and they can catch the
ball out of the backfield. Although Tyreek did say that
he believes the key to success on third Towns taking
Devon ah Chan off the field, which you kind of
wish you wouldn't say it things like that openly.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
But he's not wrong.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
By the way I heard, I had the read on
the right fumble forced by Seeler totally wrong. I sat
lower today under the fans because there was not an
ounce of win on the practice field that I ended
up getting blocked out on this particular play by the
coaches and players behind the football. Most times the players
don't occur four yards behind the last scrimmage.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
This one did.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
But to correct my tweet, it was Seeler who forced
the fumble. It was not a failed mesh point. Chubb
and Chop were back there and Chubb scoops it up
out of the air and scores it. Going back the
other way back to it. We talked about Storm Duck.
He had a really good physical reroute rep on ty
Reek where it looked like Reek might stack him and
two A floats this thing up over the top, but
Storm stays through. The hands did not early extend and
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allow the ball to get over his top, over the
top of his head for a long touchdown. And Reek
almost made a juggling catch but it was contested enough
to fall incomplete. And then Oli Gordon and Alexander Madison.
First off, Madison just came on doing it. He's had
a really impressive camp. He gets a run that looks
like it's shut down, but he makes the subtle move
at the line of scrimmage and the knife's his way
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through the arm tackles where he can power through for
some linear yardage accumulation as we seth love it and
myself loved from coach McDaniel from previous years. Ollie Gordon
had a nice patient run to press the play side,
slowly sifts to the backside and finds his angle to
get a cutback laying downhill for five or six yards.
I think these are the kind of runs where we
would get caught searching for the big play last year
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and turn down successful opportunities wins and turn them into
no losses or no gains rather or losses, which can
reset your entire playbook. And then later Allie had one
of the best runs of camp where he had a
slow developing stretch run to the outside where he just
stays on the track, lets the angles kind of declare
themselves and then explodes it around the edge. He's really
showing a feel for how to read the angles of
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his blockers. Let's go ahead and hear from coach McDaniel
on this concept of these two running backs in short
yardage and how Gordon and Madison the kind of you know,
after thoughts of compared h and right in their draft
position on the roster, they're having great camps. Let's go
ahead and hear from coach McDaniel about those two players.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
You know, it was the second I think we've had
two We've had two days of pads, and with the
last one, I think Alie, uh, you know, took the
opportunity to to kind of introduce himself to the team
as a rookie running back in particular, a lot of
guys are talented their whole careers, and the best play.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Is snap handed the ball right.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Well in the NFL, you that the position of running
back expands a ton to get you the ball in
numerous ways.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
And he is in the rookie process where he's.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Learning by mistakes, and so far he's responded in a
in a great way.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
You know, you can't.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
You have to to do right by the length of
the season with rookies and not overcook a successful day
and and wish them into a taking the foot off
the gas. So I say that guarded only because so far,
so good. He introduced himself to his teammates with some
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pad level and uh and uh, you know as the
as training camp goes, the battles will continue. And uh
they I think they know who he is today and
we'll see how he.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Responds to that.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
That's the whole crew all ninety There's a version that
you that people have defined them as put or put
them in a box. I think mad Dog himself is
a great example of no. Here, we allow your your
play to tell us who you are and how you
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adjust to coaching and how how willing you are to
invest in your game and your team. And so he's
a great example as a veteran player who I think he.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
I'm hoping he knew.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
That that kind of box in that he that he's had,
because that was the whole basis of my continued joke
that I've been yelling at him. So but you know,
I think that that's the great thing about football and
being on a team in the National.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Football League is a lot of people have a lot.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Of opinions, and collectively you can work together so that
individually you can define yourself where you know, perhaps in
his case, in places that you know people around the
country have limited him and said he couldn't do.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
So I love that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
I've just been so impressed by both those backs with
the pads coming on. Also, Jalen Wright had some good
how it runs today, including a five or six yard
touchdown run just saddling up his guys on the offensive
line with Austin Jackson and James Daniels and then Devon
a Chan had some runs down there where.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
He was successful.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
He caught a pop pass where he didn't have the
angle Rob Gronkowski style, but then won the angle and
just outran everybody to the pylon for a touchdown, which
would be a passing touchdown for two because those pop
passes count as throws forward. Last note on the backs here,
they are able to play off of this and get
them in some favorable matchups in the playoff or in
the passing game. Rather, we've seen a Chan and write
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an Ingold all sneak out for explosive plays in the
passing game. They got Ingled out there today on Phillips
and he dropped what would have been a twenty plus
yard catch, and later JP broke up a pass to
him in the corner of the end zone that looked
like a touchdown off the hand of two a tongue
by Loa. But I want to pivot to the trench
play here because it's continues to be something that stands
out to me and especially in these padded practices.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
So just a few notes.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Devon Ah Chan gets blocks from Jonah Savit Naya and
Patrick Paul to win the corner and get to the
second level. That was a note from early in practice.
Austin Jackson and James Daniels drive the defense off the
football as Right plows in behind them for a touchdown
for five yards out. Smart run by Right, impressive sturge
where the big fellows up front. Larry Bourne with a
nice block around the edge to free up Alex Madison
on a second, good rip for him. Madison with another
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really good run running wide, staying on his track that
never decelerates. Keon Smith got movement, Larry Bourne with a
good seal as he wins the edge once again. Another
rep I saw Brun Skill and Braden Daniels open a
hole with Farrell Brown climbing up to the second level
and attaching there for a big block to kind of
free up a walk in touchdown from Ollie Gordon, and
then Farrell Brown caught a little post up touchdown on
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Jordan Colbert from quinn Ewers.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
He had a big day.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Blocking off the edge and catching passes in the passing game.
I want to go ahead and play some soundbites here
from Farrell Brown because he was impressive, and we'll start
with him talking about how his camp is going so far.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
This can has been great for me in the heat
best shaved my life a lot of learning, but I've
been loving it. Helped me out and over. A lot
of my game has just been heartwheel aggression. You know,
now Mike and coach Imbury bleed it preach a lot
of techniques. So finally being in an offense that has
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this technique in an identity that I'm able to learn,
help me, help me prolong my career to year sixteen
coming soon.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Now, we heard from Pharaoh, by the way, year sixteen.
He's joking about that he wants to play for sixteen years.
But we heard from Pharaoh back on DRAGT time when
he did the free agent interview and he talked about
being the best blocking tight end in the league, and
he has continued that sentiment here, but also talking about
winning games. I love this comment, and I love the
entire Dolphins philosophy that if you run the ball late
in the game, and they stressed, they stressed these third
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and short situations, these goal line situations, if you win
those moments the end of games, you're playing winning football.
And he's excited to get to four minute offense here soon.
But he talked about how critical those crucible moments can
be and just how the Dolphins have to train themselves
to be able to win in those moments like they
did in this game.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
On this practice today, let's go back to Pharaoh break about.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Just that.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
I got. My vision is to be the best blocking
tight end and win a lot of games. And the
way I see it, if you're in the game running,
that means you're winning. So uh, catching balls not at
is cool. But I want to win and I want
to be I'm going to be the best blocking tight
end this year, so everything else is a bonus. And
if I get a couple of bars, I thank God
and be gratefull and just keep winning.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
He also talked about how he thinks they have a
physical football team. We saw those battles today on that
practice field. Matthew Butler got himself a quick win on
an Alex Madison run, but he got to the corner
behind a nice Faro block Faro Brown block around the outside. Later,
Jordan Brooks scraped off of a win by Kenneth Grant,
who was toffing up runs with pretty good consistency on
the inside today from Devon Han. I thought Kenny was
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showing the goods all day at practice. Zach Steeler had
a big day. He reached at the front side of
the line of scrimmage to help Jalen Phillips dent the
backside for a run. Stuff on a Jalen Wright run
steiler again quick penetration, but eight Chan gets by and
follows a block by Paul and Savit Naya for a
burst of six. Here comes Jordan Brook over the top
for the stop.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Again. Jordan Phillips.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
His power was on display all camp long, but he
got a quick win downhill, penetrating against the backfield on
a stop for Madison. Behind the line of scrimmage, Matthew
Dickerson has had some good reps. He had a really
good reset disengage rep on the left guard. I didn't
see who it was, but he's had some some nice
work in the run game. I thought Ben Stilly was
disruptive today, kind of getting some some aggressive, some physical
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I should say reps. Recent the line of scrimmage, Jalen
Phillips took on an alec ingole block and got a
hit on a Chan for a stop. Also had to
sack one on one against Austin Jackson and Zeke Biggers
has been consistently disruptive. He shot across Brunskill's face to
make a back bubble in the backfield at one point,
and then James Daniels in the one on ones I
thought had two really interesting reps. One he stood Zack
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Steeler up and then later Kenneth Grant through a heavy
move rey cross face on Jad and it was an
immediate win for the rookie. So I continue to marvel
at how KG moved at his size. Jordan Phillips I
thought had more great hand placement and dispatching of guys
with a kind of push Paul. I thought Larry Boram
had his best practice, including a good one on one
period just mirroring rushers at that tackle position. He can
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stay his patient and throw that punch and kind of
shuffle back and forth as like you would on a
on a basketball court and defense. And then they close
the period with Patrick Paul on Chop Robinson and Chopp
tries the speed move around the corner, Paul beats him there,
and then Chop tries to rip back inside with the
club and Paul swats the hand down, and eventually Chop
tries to spin back inside and Paul just cuts him
off and keeps on shutting him down. So I was
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impressed by that, And then practice concluded today that was
the opening of practices. Concludes with a big hit from
kJ Britt, who put a big stick on a ball here,
and he talked about the physicality of this team after practice.
We'll go ahead and close the segment with his comment
here from kJ Brittle.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
O wing good. I'm just to see the want two
in guys, and to see the want to and your teammates,
and just to know that short yards can win and
lose a game. Third to one, you gotta have it,
fourth on one, you gotta have it. You know, everybody
just started going four and fourth down, so you know,
we know that shortyards is a big part of the game.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
So learn last break there, come back on the other side.
A few more notes and some audio from coach and Tyreek.
That's all next Drift Time podcast, brought to you by Autnation.
Some additional practice notes that fall out of the realm
of those two themes. I thought, Nick Westbrook Akine has
continued his ascension over the last handful of days. He's
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got really reliable, sturdy hands. He gets open over the
middle of the ball and takes advantage of the space
afforded to him by all the coverage getting lifted by
the other talent on this offense, Dwayne Eskridge ds Gridge
keeps making plays. He had a nice touchdown on a
throw in the back of the end zone working on
John Saunders from Zach Wilson, although Saunders did get a
pick off viewers. Later in practice, Tanner Connor scored himself
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a fifty to fifty ball win at the front pile
on little throwback play action that Jordan Colbert looked like
he had measured for a pick with the ball got
on top of him from Zach Wilson. He gets a
fingertip on it, but Connor stays with it on his
feet and hauls in a twenty six yard touchdown catch.
Tyreek and Wall put on a show in one on one,
and then Tyreek got a couple of touchdowns from Tua
and team. He talked after practice about to US comments
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and I thought this was good. Let's go ahead and
actually hear from coach first about two US comments. We'll
get a follow from Tyreek Hill after that.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
I'm seeing the daily investment. I'm seeing.
Speaker 7 (30:17):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
I think it's a it's a well known fact.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
That you know two is the leader of our our
our team in the locker room as the franchise quarterback.
And I think there's a lot to be said about
a leader saying the hard things. I think there's a
lot to be said about you know, uh Reek, and
and how how clear they've been towards each other so
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that these conversations that you can say these things and
call a spade a spade. I see that as grown man,
grown man's stuff. He was watching grown man's stuff like that.
That that is real. That relationships aren't created in a
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vacuum of dandelions and daisies. Relationships, real ones, ones that
matter you. You go through a process of earning and
delivering on trust. So what I've seen is it's important.
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It's important to the players on this team that they
are connected to each other, both on the football field
and off. And when you have people going in that
direction and focused on that, that it there's there's only
good things that can come from that.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
So so far, so good.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
I see guys delivering on on their words with actions.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
And Tyik was asked what he can do to do
the things that to us said that he needs to
do to rebuild those relationships.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Let's go back to the chief just showing up man.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
You know, I feel like that's the most important thing,
you know, being consistent coming out here, working every day hard,
you know, just trying to get back to you know,
that old form of myself.
Speaker 7 (32:12):
Man.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
I think that's very important. And just holding myself accountable. Man,
I think you know, to to a comments were needed,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
I mean, he's.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Obviously the leader of our team, so.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
He says the standard.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
So I'm just trying to be the best teammate, best
version of myself for this team. I can be man
every day, showing up the means coming out here every
day Western Matael in practice.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
I think it's important.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
Man.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
So if you want to be able to leave a legacy,
you gotta be able to, you know, consistently do those
kind of things.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
That's kind of all I've got for notes.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
I have two more soundbites I want to play from
coach that I think we're very valuable today. Let's see
Orange Jersey was Jordan Brooks today. That was a matter
of time to me. My prediction for tomorrow, I'm gonna
go with Zach Seeler number one, Jalen Phillips number two,
and then my kind of off the off the radar
picks will be Alex Madison and Farrell Brown. Let's go
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ahead and conclude with these two soundbites Coach talking about
Tua and the investment, or rather his comments I should
say about being less results based in practice and be
more process based. Here's coach on Tua and the maturation
of a six year quarter that is a.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Product of.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
A lot of intentional, deliberate work conversations. You know myself,
you know, Frank Smith, Darryl Bevill, Bobby Slowick, but most
notably Tua. Because the game, the game in general but
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specifically for the quarterback is quite literally handling noise. And
when you are able to go through a practice and
focus on specific things to your game and not results
your training, you know, kind of in sync with all
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the great people that are great at stuff you have
to it is.
Speaker 5 (34:17):
It is a daily challenge.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
He's working on stuff that you know, philosophically, I believe
is gigantic for mastering h NFL quarterback play and that
you know, that's the meat and potatoes of it, working
on identifying, working on something so you improve, and you know,
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the sometimes the hardest thing in sports is adjusting to
success or failure. And when you aren't, your motivation is
not to do anything but get better. Generally, you get better.
So I don't know about you. I'm fired up about
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him getting better.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
And last word here on the impressive, impressive second year
left tackle Patrick Paul.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Patrick Paul is having a very good camp and that's
because he had a very good five week train, a
period of time on his own that followed a great
eight week program of off season.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
He you know, I think he's been on a steady.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Uh uh, a steady confidence climb, and you know, it
was very helpful getting uh, you know, ingratiated into the
NFL game and being able to play you know behind
uh uh.
Speaker 5 (35:50):
You know, toront Armstead one of the best to do it.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
And he he's operating every day like he knows the
NFL regular season is coming and he wants to surprise
people just like sounds like you guys are by one
on ones the players on the team. He has earned
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respect with being as intentional and deliberate as any player
on the team. And you have a gigantic player with
an athletic skill set that is attacking.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
What really matters not hey I blocked him, or hey I.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
Didn't but angles of sets, how to keep your balance,
how you drive off the ball, landmarks, all of those things.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
Pad level. He's he's all in to his game, and.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
I think people are starting to see that on the
practice field and we hope that turns to the game.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
All Right, there you go a little bit long episode today.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
That's usually how it goes, and we have Coach McDaniel
at the podium, but we're gonna go ahead and call
it a day. We'll see you guys back here tomorrow
for a Saturday practice. Members only out here, so we'll
see all the season ticket members for the Miami Dolphins.
August the second. We'll be back on the third as well,
and then I think Monday's off, and then right back
at it again Tuesday. But until all of that, you
all please be sure subscribe, rate, review the show, follow
(37:15):
me on social at Linfold NFL, the team at Miami Dolphins,
check out the YouTube channel for Dolphins, HQ Media, availabilities,
drive time content, and so much more, and last butt
not least, Miami Dolphins dot com. Until next time, Fin's up, Caroline,
Cameron and Willow Daddy. He's coming home.
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