June 3, 2025 • 38 mins
The Dolphins were back on the field for a rain-soaked practice. We’ll break down all the happenings with practice notes and hear from Mike McDaniel, Jaylen Waddle, Jaylen Wright, Patrick Paul, Austin Jackson and Tyrel Dodson.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up, dollphans, and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today show
we heard from coach McDaniel. Then we had a very
rain soaked practice and then we spoke to Austin Jackson,
Jalen Wattle, Patrick Paul Tyrell Dodson, and Jalen Wright who
at a seventy yard home run today on the ground
by the way, which we'll cover in the practice notes
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from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
This is.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
The Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Jaffee.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Things got started on Tuesday, late morning, early afternoon with
Chop Robinson in the Orange Jersey who's been having a
hell of a spring so far. He was my top
performer last week, comes out in the Orange Jersey today
and just keeps things rolling with the way he performed
on this Tuesday afternoon. But I want to go here
and ronological order, and we'll go ahead and play some
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sound bites throughout this episode and kick it off here
in the individual portions. And my first note that I
wrote down for myself to convey to you all was
that it was dumping rain out there, and I would
say probably the most rain I've seen in a practice
since the infamous twenty twenty COVID year Davy practice where
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it was a literal, oh, what's the word, not monsoon,
a torrential downpour. I thought I didn't know what torrential
meant until I moved to South Florida, and then I
learned what it meant because we saw a torrential downpour
and the ball was just bouncing all over the place,
off receivers hands into defender's bed baskets, and it was
a bad day offensively for that reason, and I felt
like context kind of got lost in the shuffle on
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the way that practice was covered a little bit, and
today it kind of reminded me of the same, but
it was a much sharper football team, not in the
sense of the offense went out and dominated, because the
defense actually got the best of the day in my opinion,
but the whole operation just looked a lot sharper, and
I thought it was worth touching on because that was kind.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Of like.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
The inaugural year of like the core of this football
team that you saw come together the tu WA Draft. Obviously,
Austin Jackson part of that draft as well, and so
many key players that joined the team that year that
are still around and to see them, you know, five
years later after the fact, have a practice in similar conditions.
I just thought it was worth noting and kind of bookending,
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you know, today with the you know, it wasn't even
May back then because the whole calendar got tripped upside down.
It's not Meg today, it's June. I keep forgetting that,
so there you go. But I thought it was just
interesting because that was a big factor in the practice.
And also it's the first practice I can recall where
I wore a sweatshirt to practice, and the first practice
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I can recall where I watched for you know, more
than fifteen minutes where I didn't sweat. So that was
really welcome here in the South Florida heat, a nice
little break from the from the humidity. And he we've
had the last couple of weeks and I just wrote
a few notes to I talked about cater Co who's
growth and professionalism and full transparency. The cornerbacks work out
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right in front of where the media sits, and so
it's usually the best view you gets. Those guys as
well as the edges and the defense, the whole defensive
side of the footballs on that side of the field,
offense on the far side of the field. So sometimes
you might get fewer notes from certain positions from me
because I try to watch what I can, so just
full transparency. But cater coo who watching the cornerbacks go
through the individual drills. I talked about Cam Smith last week,
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how his individual portions he just looks different than like
other guys in the group, and the way he glides
and moves around, and you know, I thought last week
was a tougher practice for Cam. I thought he had
a better bounce back day today, which it's tough for
you know, a person that comes out once a week.
I don't have the full not that I come out
once a week, but I you know, it's open to
the media once a week.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
It's it's you know, you.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Say like, oh, we had a tough day last week
and a good day today, Like what does that really mean?
Because there's practices in between, and it's more about the
overall body of work for these guys. I remember last
asking coach McDaniel last year, like, at what point do
you because he had made a comment about like this
grand evaluation and how all the things are considered, and
they want to put players in positions to trust the
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coaches and the technique they employ and utilize that and
trust it and grow from there. And it's like, okay, well,
you know, if you're learning a swing change in golf,
which we're gonna have some golf references in the podcast today,
you wouldn't judge the way you would score when you're
going through a swing change. So why the hell would
I judge what a football player is doing when he's
working on maybe a new technique from his position. Maybe
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he's playing a different side of the football and he
has to kind of relearn the other half of his
body mechanics to incorporate the same thing you have from
the other side of the ball. Like, there's so much
that goes into it, and so when I talk about
growth and progress, it's not the full comprehensive picture. But
when I'm talking about cater Coohu and these drills, just
the growth and professionalism and approach you've seen from him,
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not that he wasn't doing this before, but really getting
my eyes on him and you go through a practice
and you just watch him steal reps where he can,
Like you know, he's often the side when they're doing
individuals and it's not his turn, but he's going through
the footwork ladder or you know, working on the technique
that he's going to deploy when he gets in when
it's his turn to run the drill. He coaches up
the young guys or so many young guys in that
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room between Storm and Cam himself and you know the
udfas and bj Adams and gosh, I'm Jason Marshall, the
fifth round draft pick. I just think there's leadership qualities
that have developed there. And I feel like in a
year where you know, Ramsey's not been here obviously for
these practices, we'll see what happens with him long term.
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Doesn't seem like he'll be here long term, But if
that's the case, and a year after Xaving Howard, who
was a leader in that room, Like what I'm getting
at is that it elevates Cater's voice into one of
the primary voices of the rooms of the room. And
just seeing the way I think he like responds to
that and the way he's approached his craft, I believe
that's a sign of growth and a good thing for
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this tall cornerback room. But just in general, the way
he and Cam Smith move in that drill is different
than everybody else.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I thought.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
They both look smooth, and Cater catches the football so
well when the ball finds him, he does not drop
the football. And then I wrote down, speaking of the edges,
how explosive I thought Jalen Phillips looked man. They were
doing this two man drill where you essentially retrace screens.
And for those that are new to the podcast, are
new to football in general, retracing is essentially it defines
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it in the word itself. You retrace your steps, so
you'd lose your keys, retrace your steps right, go find
out where you drop those keys at and on a
screen pass, the offensive line is going to invite you
through the line of scrimmage because they want you to
play upfield. They want you to run towards the opposite
end zone and screen the ball in behind you. So
you have to retrace your steps and go get back
out to the perimeter and find the football and tackle
the wide receiver and set the drill up this way
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where there's no obvious offensive line, but it's bags it's
like the weight bags, right, and so they.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Would line up one by one or.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Two by two I should say, with two of the
rushers and the bag would you know, invite the rusher
into the backfield and then they would have to get
eyes on a coach, which you have to have your
eyes up in everything in the sport, but especially for
a screen pass. And then much like the combine drill
where they point to a direction, you run that way,
that's what they would do. They would point the football
to the right, you sprint to the right. And Chop
is the fastest one every time. He might be the
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fastest DAN player on the field. And I include that
with Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle not reality, but Chop
is different. He moves different, right. You knew that about
his draft profile. You saw it last year in games.
You've seen it this year in the spring ball. But
damn it if Jalen Phillips was not matching him when
they would go together and he had the ACL injury.
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I'm looking at my team calendar on September thirtieth last year,
it's June third, so we'll call it May thirtieth, October, November, December, January,
February March April May. Yeah, it's eight months removed. You
wouldn't know that.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
He towards ACL late last September.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Watching routes on air once again, I just grow an
appreciation for the way Tua puts the.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Ball on the money.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
And there was you know, some sporadicness early on in
the drill with the rest of the quarterbacks, but like
it's one of those things where, I mean, the footballs
were all soaked, so who knows what the hell is
happening on any given play. We're sitting there under a
canopy that covers us the entire time, and it's dry
for me sitting there in my hoodie with my I
have a freaking, you know, warm cup of cappuccino, and
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I'm writing notes about football. They're out there and the
elements taking the beating from the rain. So I just
I think it's fair to outline that context talking about
that stuff because you probably see it from somewhere else,
and I want to make sure that this podcast provides
ultimate context. And I also wrote down that I kept
seeing number twenty three move seamlessly and find the football
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and then finish the interception. And again that's not an
easy thing to do in this weather, because you see
guys take their gloves off and try to catch wet
football with their bare hands because the gloves be come
more slippery, and you know how how sticky gloves are
these days. But every time the ball hit twenty three,
it stuck to him and he was moving around there,
and I was certain going into this practice. I haven't
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gotten to this point yet, but I will buy training
camp where I don't know all ninety numbers by heart yet.
Number thirty three is who I thought Alardy Burns was,
and I looked at my roster. Oh, twenty three is
already Burns, and I was watching him do his thing,
and I just thought he looked really good in that portion,
and I wanted to watch him in team drills, which
I made a point to do that. So we'll come
back and touch on that here in just one second.
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Jonah Seville colley Man, Jonah Savity Naya, there it is Boom.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I just thought he looked like.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
And this goes back to the Campsmith comment earlier, like,
I don't have the knowledge to comprehensively cover every single
practice for you guys here, but from what I saw
last week from the opening drill to the end of
practice to today, I just thought there was like a
ton of growth that was tangible for the naked eye,
and they were running these drills. You know, this defense
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loves to unveil their pass rush games, and they would
do that and he would he would throw a punch
and he would he wouldn't get leaned over his skis.
He would stay in really good posture into a set
and just naturally settle into that position. And then from
there he can shuffle. And he's so big and dense
and and just a thick dude that it's it looks
easy for him to do that. So I think once
he kind of finds that comfort level and he's not
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going to be there where he wants to be the
finished product until you know, probably the end of camp.
But I think that we are well on our way
towards Jonah being what you thought he was there at Arizona,
just based upon how he looks out here in spring football.
And then Willie Gay's speed in person today was you know,
the first day I had a chance to really hone
in on him and watch him, and it was even
better than what I saw on tape. With the way
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he times up his runs to the line of scrimmage,
whether it's a pass blitz or you know run blitz,
and gets downhill towards line of scrimmage, even in an
install period where it's like, you know, there's no bodies,
they're just running around, you know, five trash cans for
offensive lines, which they pull out those big tubs and
they act as the offensive line just to get the
splits of the gaps for the guys to work off of.
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And like the way he explodes through that. It's like,
I compare it to these these monster trucks my son has,
which he is all about monster truck life these days.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Is two years old.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Too young to go to Monster Jam, because I feel
like he would love Monster Jam, but I feel like
he's also too young. But he has these trucks where
you pull them back and like it it you know
what's the term for that, It like locks in the
wheels to like once you put it down, that takes off.
That's what Willy Gay reminds me of with how his
first step explosiveness is. So that was the individual portion.
Let's go ahead and run some audio here. I am
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gonna sprinkle this in as we go throughout the episode.
Let's go ahead and start here because there was a
comment before practice that Coach McDaniel made when he was
asked about something with OTAs, and it evolved into this
conversation about attendance at practice. I want to just go
ahead and run this audio from Coach McDaniel about the
participation and focus of this year's OTAs.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
We've had unbelievable participation and focus. The focus in regard
for the opportunity, you know, for for for our team
in the offseason. It definitely, uh, there's been voluntary activities
that haven't appeared voluntary by the nature of their.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Approach. I'll say that it's you know, what I'd hoped
in that way.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
If that was a little bit too coach speaky for you,
and I don't think it was, but just to lay
it out a little more clear, like what coach is
getting out there is that guys have been here and
they've been locked into their assignments. I mean, we see
him running gasers after our practice, we see them doing
extra work to get further install after practice, and and
the way the defense flew around today, and the way
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they played connected and communicative and just you know, kind
of on the same rope, I would say, as you'll
hear from Jillen Wattle later on. In fact, let's go
ahead run this audio from Jillen Wattle. I asked him
today about a dominant defensive performance where I just thought
everybody looked connected and in line with one one another.
Let's go ahead and run this audio to close the
first segment that Gilen Walla talked about from what he's
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seen compared to year's past. Remember, he was a guy
that has been here for this is his what fifth year,
So he's seen these defenses change year after year and
have to install and kind of, you know, take the
brunt of the offense's best most practice days, especially this
time of year, because the offense is so finally tuned
at this point, but now as defense has some continuity
in their in their corner at this point. So I
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asked Waddle, from your perspective, what have you seen from
this defense and how they're playing in terms of their
connectivity and how well they're communicating on the backside.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I mean, it seem like they all over the place. Man.
They're saying, like they all connected, they playing together, they
all playing on the rope. They're communicating good on the
on the backside, man, and they just overall the good
on all tharly level with man.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I want to come back to that here in a
little bit. Let's go ahead and take our first break
and come back on the other side. Get to the
practice notes. I have a ton more media sound bites
for you guys. That's all next Draft Time podcast, brought
to you by Auto Nation. This particular SoundBite doesn't really
feed into practice. I want to just go ahead and
run it here off the top. Coach was asked on
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Tuesday morning about John who Smith, and I just want
to go ahead and run his audio talking about the
Dolphins tight end.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
John is a very important player person to me and
to the guys. You know, I think one thing that
we can stand on as his professionalism and how he
goes about his business. And you know, there's times that
business can play a part for sure, and it's as
(14:37):
it can make a team can make it as complicated
as they would like. If they have a lot of
time and to focus on what's going on with John Eu,
I would, you know, encourage them to focus on their
own game. Fortunately, I haven't had to have those conversations
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guys have been very focused on what they can do
today to get better for the Miami Dolphins organization.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
And just to provide an update on that, Adam Schefter
did tweet on Tuesday. This is per reports obviously that
the Pittsburgh Steelers will not be making a move for
Jonas Smith. He talked about Gabe Davis being a guy
they had in for workouts. The Steelers pretty clearly trying
to add to their skill group, their arsenal weapons there
for Skylar Thompson and Mason Rudolph their quarterbacks right now.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
So that's the last on Johnny Smith.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Let's go ahead and get back to practice here and
talk a little bit about what happened on that football field,
and we kick it off with him seven on seven
work where there was to me, when there's this much rain. Offensively,
it really challenges you to be even more on point.
Like the very first play of practice, Ta had this
deep shot to Devon ah Chan where he got a
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step and I'll just say this, like, without getting into
the nitty gritty of the scheme and whatnot, I'm excited
about the next evolution of how this offense can take
advantage of you know, the way team have attacked it
in recent years. I thought the first play was a
good example of that, but Tua was a little bit
long on this deep shot to Devon h Chen who
got a step on Ashton Davis in coverage. And again,
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just to you know, communicate this within the rules of
camp reporting, I'll just say this about the defense and
we're gonna jump right back into this conversation we had
with Wattall on the other side. The amount of presentations
I'm seeing and the post snap rotation and how just
well constructed and communicated a kind of tough to digest
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scheme that looks like it has a pretty advanced stage
already being implemented from this fast menu, and we've talked
about on the podcast all off season. It's no secret.
Coach McDonnel talked about it on the podcast. Back at
the combine, Coach Weavers talked about it. I've pontificated and
had confirmation from players and coaches about how beneficial it
is to have that, you know, retention of staff and
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scheme and structure. I think you're seeing that play out
and know the quarterbacks have had to be super precise.
The very next play after this, Tua had a shot
in the honey hole to Taj Washington. He couldn't quite
hang on, but it was a really nice anticipation throw,
and the defense is challenging the quarterbacks to do that.
And we'll hear from Zach Wilson or talk about Zach
Wilson's practice in that regard here in just one second,
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because I thought he had a big bounce back after
a slow start in this practice. But I'm really really
impressed by how this defense is moving and they're communicating
and I can't even you know, I try my best,
and even though it's not reportable to track all the
different you know, schemes and looks that I see, it
just looks like what you saw from you know, the
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coaches that Weaver has talked about as his influences and
the guys he coached under who had three four years
to put their system in place. It's getting you know,
closer to that look. So that to me is exciting.
And then let's go ahead and run some audio here
because I heard I talked to Tyrel Dotson about that
and some of the guys on offenses too. Let's go
ahead and play some audio here from Tyrel Dotson, who
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I was. I asked him about the communication and how
important it is for the back end on the defense.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Yeah, you can lose a game, you can win a
game just off of the communication. Communication has to be
at an all time high at all times. So if
me and JB aren't on the same page, that's a
bomb over our head. Yeah, and just with the run game,
you know, this defense is built off the intile linebackers.
So if you can't stop the run or you know,
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cover the past, you want to have a long day.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
And I thought that was really worth kind of examining
further because in this practice and practices of the past,
like Jordan Brooks finds a free run. In fact, one
of the first notes I had on the team period
was that he made a play that nobody in the
world was going to block him on because he keyed
it and read it. Zach Thomas, like, you know how
you saw him do for ten years, twelve years down here,
where he would just read it and anticipate it and
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go the way two it does offensively like Jordan Brooks
is to me is like on that level of intelligence
and anticipation and keying what the offensive tendencies are. We
saw him do that. I saw a Tyrol dot to
make a play the same way I saw Willie Gay
bust through the exact same drill I saw in the
install period carry over to the team drill, and he
got a sack that way by running down the quarterback
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with that get off. So I asked, you know, Dotson
to continue about that and touch on the urgency of
this time of year and why you guys are so
tuned in right now in early June.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
When you come to work, you gotta be serious about
work because you know everyone else around you or depending
on you to make plays. And you know, this is
how I eat. This is how I feed my family.
You know, my mom and my you know, my girlfriend,
my cula dog back home this hot this is how
they eat. So you know, just assist an urgency as well.
You know, we got to go. You know, there's no
more waiting, there's no more waiting in line. You know,
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you gotta be the first man up and you gotta
go make place when your name's called.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
That's fitting for a guy that had three picks last
year being here for half the season leading the football
team in that category. I just want to continue this
because I feel like This is the first time I
really had a chance to talk to Tyrell, you know,
and this extensively and kind of pick his brain. Is
a guy that we heard Jordan Brooks talk about him
wearing the green dot you know, at his press conference
last week, and how impressive that is for a guy
that again got here in mid season last year and
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then jumps into you know, OTAs and is calling things,
you know, for the defense and being a big part
of the communication in the middle. So I asked him
more about the defense of connectivity, like what can the
inside linebackers do as you heard him talk about the
importance of the inside linebackers and.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
What do you know?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
More confirmation for the ideas we had back in February
about the Baltimore defense and how they took off when
they got ro Qwan Smith next to Patrick Queen and
the Seahawks emphasis on getting linebackers and Ernest Jones and
Tyrrel Dotson and the Titans going after linebackers and the
teams that run this system, how they've excelled in that arena.
Here's Tyrel Dotson on the connectivity of the back end
and how critical that is for a defense.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Yeah, one word I just think as one, like we've
just been moving as one. We don't care what people say.
We don't care if we don't have who and who
and who. We're here to work. And no matter if
you're a third tring, first ring, you know, fifth string, undrafted,
first round, if you're out there, I'm expecting, we expecting,
Joe Be's expecting you to make plays. So no matter
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who you are, you just gotta be accountable and you
gotta go. You gotta come ready to play. So and
the guys, our energy is different this year, man, you know,
coming in last year midseason is the energies is different.
We're just moving as one.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
You know, I thought about that energy comment because again,
you know last year, like as you were disappointed as fans, like,
imagine how these guys feel. I mean, they live it
every single day and that's their entire life and livelihood.
And Tyrell got here, you know, mid season when things
weren't going well and we were losing games and two
it was hurt and there was you know, it was
tough to deal with, Like it's tough to come to
work when you're consistently you know, coming up short on
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the results end. And for him to kind of have
that perspective to get here for that and then to
come back this offseason and be so critical in the
you know, the glue, the gelling of all these guys
and being that glue part. I just think it's fascinating,
especially alongside Jordan Brooks, who we've talked at length about
his leadership and the impact he has and the quiet
kind of confidence that he, you know, brings to the table.
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I just wanted to continue here with Tyrel Dotson and
talk to him about that because we taught we have
the Jordan Brooks thing last year talking about sitting down
with guys and having lunch and just talking about who
they are. Well, Tyrel Dotson sounds like he's not too
far off from that type of personality as well.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Yeah, I mean it's more of like just hanging out.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
You know.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
It's just like a relationship. When a person doesn't hear
your voice a lot and then you try to correct them,
they're gonna naturally just.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Disagree with you.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
But when you have that dialogue with each other, you know,
each and every day, like a relationship like your wife
or anything like that, you know, the tone and the
voice is more familiar. Where you're willing to take criticism,
you're willing to take more information. So that's what we've
been building. We've been going to dinner and stuff like that.
So just creating a dialogue.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
To reflect this back to my own personal life. We
are really struggling right now with my daughter to like
follow instructions and listen and clean up after herself. And
my wife made a good point that, like we get
so frustrated that we only nag her about that. We
have to have positive reinforcement and talk to her more
about it. So it's not like always could perceive as
this negative thing. And I thought that connects to what
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Tyrrel Dowson said today at his media availability, So I
wanted to go ahead and run that because I was
a kind of a big chunk of the podcast I
thought was worth diving into in depth. Let's go ahead
and pivot now to some Tua Tuk coach mcdanel. I
talked about Tua and I'll run the audio here, but
I asked, coach, you know, we saw Tua in the
Orange Jersey on Monday. We all see like what it
looks like when he throws the ball and it you know,
(23:24):
it's the pass looks pretty and the production's there. But
I wanted to hear from coach, like what goes into
TUA or quarterback in general earning the orange jersey? Can
you give us some more detail on how that happens.
And here's a great answer from coach McDaniel.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
It's a cool question because this one specifically, I thought,
you know, to the previous practice to wearing the orange jersey,
had most ownership of all all the players on each
and every down, particularly in non passing downs. There was
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double motions where he was aligning people appropriately. He really
had command and resolve within the practice of things that
you know. Sometimes football for the court for a quarterback
can be uniquely challenging because you have the ownership of
(24:21):
the operation of the whole unit. You have one eleventh
of the execution of it, and any anything that falls
short can be frustrating. So sometimes your play can be
exactly how you envisioned it going into whatever the performances,
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but then you're faced with frustrating things that.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Are out of your control.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
What a great rep for the for a player of
the quarterback position when you have practices like that. We
had some things people weren't necessarily where they should be
at the appropriate time and run and pass, and he
handled his job and then performed executed and was very
(25:16):
very competitive and didn't allow the ebbs and flows of
practice to really keep him out of his rhythm. So
that for me, there's a lot of layers. It's definitely
not just like, hey, three throws. When you're a quarterback,
you throw the ball professionally, so like I feel like
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you should have good throws, but playing the position and
being what the other ten players on the team need
you to be on that down, that's a whole another story.
That's why I earned it.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
And I didn't think this practice was anything like crazy
noteworthy from Tua in terms of big time throws. I
did think that when the offense was struggling, he came
in after a couple of like down reps and down
periods and kind of helped stabilize things. And you know,
it's one of those things where like a lot of
times they run the same stuff. You know, Quinn you
Weers's unit runs the same stuff as Tua runs, and
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so there's like anticipation and expectation there for the defense.
But I thought two was kind of stabilizing force and
the way he's what's the word, like whether the storm
of the pass rush that was getting after him and
this entire Dolphins offense and found quick checkdowns. Like I
think it was good for him to get that stuff
on tape for the younger guys or for a new
guy like Zach Wilson, because it kind of gave them
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a visualization of like how to mitigate that pressure in
those things that could go wrong when a pass rush
is getting aftery like that. So not a crazy big
day from Tuba, but I thought those soundbites were good.
Let's go ahead and close this to a talk with
Austin Jackson on the leadership of QB ONEO in You're six.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
He's definitely a lot more confident and decisive on and
off the field. You know, he knows what people are
supposed to be doing a certain in terms of training.
He knows what we're doing on the field. He knows
how to take care of his body, he knows how
to unite guys, bring us together for you know, team
camaraderie and stuff just to get together. He's, you know,
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he's a full blown leader, and I think he's showing
that he wants to take control of his team, and
he is.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Spots for a quick break right there. Come back on
the other side.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
I've got a lot more to get to here, So
a long podcast today, Draft Time Podcast brought to you
by Auto Nation. Some more practice notes here. I had
Dwayne Eskridge. D Eskridge with some really good competitive catches
in tight spaces, in particular from Zach Wilson at quarterback
where I just thought he continued to pluck balls that were,
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you know, around defensive backs arms. There was a play
where Ethan Bonner was in great shape to make a
play on him, but he just snatched it out of
the air. Speaking to Ethan, he had great coverage later
on a ball to Jalen Conyers or no such check
that to Tanner Connor that twa threw in the whole hole,
shot down the sideline that he was in great shape for,
but Conyor's made Connor made the catch rather man Conyers
(27:57):
and Connor is gonna be. That's gonna be a lot
for your boy at the tight end position. Speaking of Conyers,
he did win a nice seam route down the middle
with a little arm bar over and kind of got
on top of the linebacker stacked and made a catch
for a big gain. I had Eskridge for another big
catch in tight coverage, and that was not exclusive to
Ethan Bonner. I had already Burns consistently in tight coverage.
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He had a nice route on Monterey Baldwin, the rookie
from Baylor, where he re routed him and undercut him
for a pass breakup, and just consistently challenged everything and
played on that rope. On the back end, I thought
Quinn Ewers had some really good growth in terms of
how he saw the field from last week. There was
a shot where he he it was like, so he
(28:39):
guess what smashes right? Smashes one of the most basic
concepts in football. The one receiver kind of tries to
hold the cloud corner with a short route and then
you run like either a takeoff or a corner route
or a deep out or a comeback, you know, to
basically put that cloud cornerback into bind. And I thought
Quinn did a good job of kind of selling the
throw short and then took the over the top throw
(28:59):
and pulled that cornerback up, but he just missed it.
So I think with a player like him and any
player that's developing and that young like find those areas
of growth. Maybe it's not going to be perfect right away,
but to see him get better from last week, I
think is a good step for a player like that.
So got Ardie Burns here. I want to make a
note about some of the past rushers. Man, I'm starting
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to think this group has a pretty good chance to
be pretty good. I've talked about Chop. I mean, Chop
has just been a monster. I had him for another
sack today. Guys are having a hard time with his speed,
which should be no surprise. But we here at Austin
Jackson talk about Chop Robinson after practice and you know
about the speed, but this is what I keep seeing too.
I'll let Austin go ahead and explain it for me.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
Playing very well in his second spring, he's been a
lot more active with his hands, playing more physical. It
looks a lot more confident comfortable than his rookie year.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
So I had Chop Chubb Willie Gay with a sack,
and I had Grayson Murphy with a sack one play
after he overset the left tackle to eight and inside gap.
And I actually talked to him after the practice, like Hey,
did you have like two gap responsiblay this? Well, I
guys at the edge first off and then if I
can play back inside, I will. And that's what he
did and got back under the block and tagged off
at last Crementchi he is. He makes plays every single day.
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And I'm pretty confident that Grayson Murphy is gonna have
his say on making this roster because he just looks
the part. He looks the part all last offseason and
you know, got injured in preseason, but I'm I'm very
excited about the way he can play. He wins with
you know, peer speed, with some physicality. He can really
reset guys. I just think that he's he's got a
pretty impressive resume so far this offseason and last offseason.
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And on one of the plays where he forced the
quarterback off the spot, if emlafon Wu is in phase
the entire way, gets under a route, turns his head
back around, makes a pick. Might have been out of bounds,
but he finished the place. That's all I care about.
In practice, just it was like that all day, like
good pressure, well connected coverage in the back end, and
I was I was pretty impressed. The defensive backs coaches
and the defensive coaches in general were going nuts, especially
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the dB coaches. They were loving what they were seeing,
which tells me that they were executing a new install,
a new like, hey, let's let's get more coverage out there,
let's get more presentations. And these guys took it and
ran with it. It's what it seemed like to me.
And they were just fired up to see all of that.
I had chanting tyndallal dial up a blitz at one
point and tag off on Alexander Madison in the backfield. Already,
(31:20):
Burns got himself in for a TfL after Jordan Phillips
had initial disruption, and just they continued to do it.
Jordan Brooks had that run through Chubb forced Tua off
the spot, but two was able to navigate that and
get a check down completion. They try to end around.
At one point that storm Duck really shut down. So
I just whatever they threw at them, it was like,
we got you, We're ready for you, guys. Now, Ollie
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Gordon did find some of his some cutback lanes, and
he has a real feel for, like, you know, finding
those cut back lanes and getting to him quickly. I
thought him and Jalen Wright really ran the ball well
on this on this day, including a seventy yard touchdown
run from Jalen Wright. He was kind of picking his
way through the initial traffic in line of scrimmage and
then he would he would take off in his second
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level speed. I tell you what, for a guy that tolds,
he gained six pounds of muscle this offseason. And I
saw McDaniel was like behind the play. He likes to
watch the plays from behind the safety's perspective. I heard
him and he was freaking out about how much he
loved that run from jalen Wright.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
So I think that he is doing some good stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
And speaking of Jayleen Wright, coach talked about his mindset
and what he wanted to see from jalen Wright this
season or this offseason, I should say, and so far,
so good.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Well.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
I think jalen Wright benefited tremendously from coming into the
league in a very competitive room. I think when that's
the case, you learn how little room for air you
have to execute your job responsibilities or to be complete,
(32:47):
to have complete ownership of your assignments. Because if you're
a hair off or a hair laid or a hair indecisive.
There's decisive people who are talented that can contribute to
the team. So you know, I really saw, you know,
when we had exit meetings.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
UH.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
You know, I was talking to Jalen right about you know,
being able to UH nonverbally communicate to me his hunger
for a increased role. I see better than not here.
And you know for Ota s n that I can
(33:29):
see him following through with that. A big thing for
him and really our entire team this offseason is UH
is each and every day being exclusively UH the exclusive
evaluation time, and we UH awesome one day efforts. We're
(33:53):
looking for UH consistency and continuity and and I think
that's how we It's the only way that we're gonna
be happy with the product come fall.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
I might have to run some of these sound bites
on a Friday podcast because we're getting long here, and
I've got so much more from Jalen Wright from.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Who else I got.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Wattle talked about juggling like three times in his press conference.
He's very proud of the fact that he learned to
juggle in two days, which I think is really funny.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
He cracks me up. Man.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
He's a good one. Let's see what else. Okay, I
talked about Zach Wilson. Tanner Connor had a big day,
a couple of catches, really good smooth transitions from catch
from pass catcher to ballcarrier. And I mentioned Zach Wilson
I thought struggled in the first period. I thought he
really bounced back big and the rest of the practice
and including two really tight window throws. One down the field,
up the corner where he had a tight window and
(34:42):
just jammed that fastball in there with real velocity and
that was an impressive throw. And then later between two defenders,
like in the hook riat middle of the field where
he threads it between two defenders. I think that was
one of the most impressive practices I've seen from a
quarterback not named to at Dolphins camp. Like there's been,
you know, some bad practices, some good ones too, but
I thought Zach today in that after that first period
(35:05):
was as good as I've seen from a quarterback that
wasn't too at Dolphins practice. So all kinds of stuff here.
Let's go ahead and finish up with a couple more soundbites.
I'll make sure I'm not forget anything I did make
this note on Twitter that Patrick McMorris the way he
trust his eyes, and you see it on his tape
as well, like he makes a decision and he goes.
You don't see him second guess himself. And there was
(35:26):
a play today where a ball wound up incomplete and
he was running towards that side of the field and
the ball goes incomplete away from him and he runs
over and scoops the ball up like at full sprint.
And I started watching him do this, and he does
every single play, and I thought to myself, Yeah, that's
muscle memory for how you teach yourself to do that.
And now he'll know instinctively every time the ball's in
the ground, he'll get there. And it might be irrelevant
(35:47):
ninety nine times out of one hundred, but that one
time could be the game ceiling pick against the Buffalo
Bills that wins the division, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Like, that's how you.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Prepare in this sport to make plays. You prepare all
the time and when that moment comes, you make that play.
And I really thought that was impressive. As Zukomma had
a big play. I mentioned Ollie Gordon a little bit.
I think that's all I've got for you guys. Yeah,
Tanner Connor, Willie Gay, Dwayne s Gridge. Yeah, I think
we're good there. Okay, cool, Let's go ahead and do
two more soundbites from Patrick Paul. I thought they were
cool and worth playing on the podcast. We'll go ahead
(36:16):
and close it up with this here from Pat Paul,
who was asked about the pressure he might feel or
does not feel, replacing Tron Armstea at left tackle.
Speaker 6 (36:23):
Ah. Not so, no, not really. You know, I'm built
for this, always been ready for the moment, and that's
why I play football, to compete at the highest level
and to be the best at my job. So I'm ready.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
I love that built for this comment. He's obviously confident
as well. Let's go ahead and close with this. I
asked him about his development and how he kind of
has enjoyed that experience and journey and if it ever
clicked for him at one point and what that was
like when it did click for him in terms of
the scheme and get everything down to where he's ready
to be a starter here at left tackle for your
Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 7 (36:51):
Ah.
Speaker 6 (36:51):
Yeah, it's definitely. I think I just matured in my
game and that just comes with time. I think offensive
line is an art, and as you go day by day,
you're just going to keep fine tuning your skills, and
one day it's just gonna click. Everything that we do
out here day by day is just gonna start getting easier.
And I think I've reached that point where I know
what it is and know what they expect from me,
and I know how to do it daily.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
To the golf analogy there, Man, the more you can
kind of rep it and make it muscle memory, don't
have to think about it, that's going to become the
best version of yourself as a golfer. Okay, long podcast there.
I just can't get enough of these practices. So I
do apologize for being long in the tooth, but we
will go ahead, long tooth, long winded, Let's go ahead
and call it a show right there.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Come back on Friday.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
I'm not sure what that podcast will look like just yet,
but well, as we always do, we'll get you guys.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
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Speaker 1 (37:47):
Until next time. Bins up Carolin Cameron, Daddy, He's coming home.
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up, dollphans, and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today show
we heard from coach McDaniel. Then we had a very
rain soaked practice and then we spoke to Austin Jackson,
Jalen Wattle, Patrick Paul Tyrell Dodson, and Jalen Wright who
at a seventy yard home run today on the ground
by the way, which we'll cover in the practice notes
(00:32):
from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
This is.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
The Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Jaffee.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Things got started on Tuesday, late morning, early afternoon with
Chop Robinson in the Orange Jersey who's been having a
hell of a spring so far. He was my top
performer last week, comes out in the Orange Jersey today
and just keeps things rolling with the way he performed
on this Tuesday afternoon. But I want to go here
and ronological order, and we'll go ahead and play some
(01:01):
sound bites throughout this episode and kick it off here
in the individual portions. And my first note that I
wrote down for myself to convey to you all was
that it was dumping rain out there, and I would
say probably the most rain I've seen in a practice
since the infamous twenty twenty COVID year Davy practice where
(01:23):
it was a literal, oh, what's the word, not monsoon,
a torrential downpour. I thought I didn't know what torrential
meant until I moved to South Florida, and then I
learned what it meant because we saw a torrential downpour
and the ball was just bouncing all over the place,
off receivers hands into defender's bed baskets, and it was
a bad day offensively for that reason, and I felt
like context kind of got lost in the shuffle on
(01:44):
the way that practice was covered a little bit, and
today it kind of reminded me of the same, but
it was a much sharper football team, not in the
sense of the offense went out and dominated, because the
defense actually got the best of the day in my opinion,
but the whole operation just looked a lot sharper, and
I thought it was worth touching on because that was kind.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Of like.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
The inaugural year of like the core of this football
team that you saw come together the tu WA Draft. Obviously,
Austin Jackson part of that draft as well, and so
many key players that joined the team that year that
are still around and to see them, you know, five
years later after the fact, have a practice in similar conditions.
I just thought it was worth noting and kind of bookending,
(02:24):
you know, today with the you know, it wasn't even
May back then because the whole calendar got tripped upside down.
It's not Meg today, it's June. I keep forgetting that,
so there you go. But I thought it was just
interesting because that was a big factor in the practice.
And also it's the first practice I can recall where
I wore a sweatshirt to practice, and the first practice
(02:46):
I can recall where I watched for you know, more
than fifteen minutes where I didn't sweat. So that was
really welcome here in the South Florida heat, a nice
little break from the from the humidity. And he we've
had the last couple of weeks and I just wrote
a few notes to I talked about cater Co who's
growth and professionalism and full transparency. The cornerbacks work out
(03:06):
right in front of where the media sits, and so
it's usually the best view you gets. Those guys as
well as the edges and the defense, the whole defensive
side of the footballs on that side of the field,
offense on the far side of the field. So sometimes
you might get fewer notes from certain positions from me
because I try to watch what I can, so just
full transparency. But cater coo who watching the cornerbacks go
through the individual drills. I talked about Cam Smith last week,
(03:28):
how his individual portions he just looks different than like
other guys in the group, and the way he glides
and moves around, and you know, I thought last week
was a tougher practice for Cam. I thought he had
a better bounce back day today, which it's tough for
you know, a person that comes out once a week.
I don't have the full not that I come out
once a week, but I you know, it's open to
the media once a week.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
It's it's you know, you.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Say like, oh, we had a tough day last week
and a good day today, Like what does that really mean?
Because there's practices in between, and it's more about the
overall body of work for these guys. I remember last
asking coach McDaniel last year, like, at what point do
you because he had made a comment about like this
grand evaluation and how all the things are considered, and
they want to put players in positions to trust the
(04:14):
coaches and the technique they employ and utilize that and
trust it and grow from there. And it's like, okay, well,
you know, if you're learning a swing change in golf,
which we're gonna have some golf references in the podcast today,
you wouldn't judge the way you would score when you're
going through a swing change. So why the hell would
I judge what a football player is doing when he's
working on maybe a new technique from his position. Maybe
(04:36):
he's playing a different side of the football and he
has to kind of relearn the other half of his
body mechanics to incorporate the same thing you have from
the other side of the ball. Like, there's so much
that goes into it, and so when I talk about
growth and progress, it's not the full comprehensive picture. But
when I'm talking about cater Coohu and these drills, just
the growth and professionalism and approach you've seen from him,
(04:57):
not that he wasn't doing this before, but really getting
my eyes on him and you go through a practice
and you just watch him steal reps where he can,
Like you know, he's often the side when they're doing
individuals and it's not his turn, but he's going through
the footwork ladder or you know, working on the technique
that he's going to deploy when he gets in when
it's his turn to run the drill. He coaches up
the young guys or so many young guys in that
(05:17):
room between Storm and Cam himself and you know the
udfas and bj Adams and gosh, I'm Jason Marshall, the
fifth round draft pick. I just think there's leadership qualities
that have developed there. And I feel like in a
year where you know, Ramsey's not been here obviously for
these practices, we'll see what happens with him long term.
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Doesn't seem like he'll be here long term, But if
that's the case, and a year after Xaving Howard, who
was a leader in that room, Like what I'm getting
at is that it elevates Cater's voice into one of
the primary voices of the rooms of the room. And
just seeing the way I think he like responds to
that and the way he's approached his craft, I believe
that's a sign of growth and a good thing for
(05:59):
this tall cornerback room. But just in general, the way
he and Cam Smith move in that drill is different
than everybody else.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I thought.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
They both look smooth, and Cater catches the football so
well when the ball finds him, he does not drop
the football. And then I wrote down, speaking of the edges,
how explosive I thought Jalen Phillips looked man. They were
doing this two man drill where you essentially retrace screens.
And for those that are new to the podcast, are
new to football in general, retracing is essentially it defines
(06:29):
it in the word itself. You retrace your steps, so
you'd lose your keys, retrace your steps right, go find
out where you drop those keys at and on a
screen pass, the offensive line is going to invite you
through the line of scrimmage because they want you to
play upfield. They want you to run towards the opposite
end zone and screen the ball in behind you. So
you have to retrace your steps and go get back
out to the perimeter and find the football and tackle
the wide receiver and set the drill up this way
(06:52):
where there's no obvious offensive line, but it's bags it's
like the weight bags, right, and so they.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Would line up one by one or.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Two by two I should say, with two of the
rushers and the bag would you know, invite the rusher
into the backfield and then they would have to get
eyes on a coach, which you have to have your
eyes up in everything in the sport, but especially for
a screen pass. And then much like the combine drill
where they point to a direction, you run that way,
that's what they would do. They would point the football
to the right, you sprint to the right. And Chop
is the fastest one every time. He might be the
(07:21):
fastest DAN player on the field. And I include that
with Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle not reality, but Chop
is different. He moves different, right. You knew that about
his draft profile. You saw it last year in games.
You've seen it this year in the spring ball. But
damn it if Jalen Phillips was not matching him when
they would go together and he had the ACL injury.
(07:43):
I'm looking at my team calendar on September thirtieth last year,
it's June third, so we'll call it May thirtieth, October, November, December, January,
February March April May. Yeah, it's eight months removed. You
wouldn't know that.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
He towards ACL late last September.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Watching routes on air once again, I just grow an
appreciation for the way Tua puts the.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Ball on the money.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
And there was you know, some sporadicness early on in
the drill with the rest of the quarterbacks, but like
it's one of those things where, I mean, the footballs
were all soaked, so who knows what the hell is
happening on any given play. We're sitting there under a
canopy that covers us the entire time, and it's dry
for me sitting there in my hoodie with my I
have a freaking, you know, warm cup of cappuccino, and
(08:28):
I'm writing notes about football. They're out there and the
elements taking the beating from the rain. So I just
I think it's fair to outline that context talking about
that stuff because you probably see it from somewhere else,
and I want to make sure that this podcast provides
ultimate context. And I also wrote down that I kept
seeing number twenty three move seamlessly and find the football
(08:52):
and then finish the interception. And again that's not an
easy thing to do in this weather, because you see
guys take their gloves off and try to catch wet
football with their bare hands because the gloves be come
more slippery, and you know how how sticky gloves are
these days. But every time the ball hit twenty three,
it stuck to him and he was moving around there,
and I was certain going into this practice. I haven't
(09:12):
gotten to this point yet, but I will buy training
camp where I don't know all ninety numbers by heart yet.
Number thirty three is who I thought Alardy Burns was,
and I looked at my roster. Oh, twenty three is
already Burns, and I was watching him do his thing,
and I just thought he looked really good in that portion,
and I wanted to watch him in team drills, which
I made a point to do that. So we'll come
back and touch on that here in just one second.
(09:33):
Jonah Seville colley Man, Jonah Savity Naya, there it is Boom.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I just thought he looked like.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
And this goes back to the Campsmith comment earlier, like,
I don't have the knowledge to comprehensively cover every single
practice for you guys here, but from what I saw
last week from the opening drill to the end of
practice to today, I just thought there was like a
ton of growth that was tangible for the naked eye,
and they were running these drills. You know, this defense
(10:01):
loves to unveil their pass rush games, and they would
do that and he would he would throw a punch
and he would he wouldn't get leaned over his skis.
He would stay in really good posture into a set
and just naturally settle into that position. And then from
there he can shuffle. And he's so big and dense
and and just a thick dude that it's it looks
easy for him to do that. So I think once
he kind of finds that comfort level and he's not
(10:22):
going to be there where he wants to be the
finished product until you know, probably the end of camp.
But I think that we are well on our way
towards Jonah being what you thought he was there at Arizona,
just based upon how he looks out here in spring football.
And then Willie Gay's speed in person today was you know,
the first day I had a chance to really hone
in on him and watch him, and it was even
better than what I saw on tape. With the way
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he times up his runs to the line of scrimmage,
whether it's a pass blitz or you know run blitz,
and gets downhill towards line of scrimmage, even in an
install period where it's like, you know, there's no bodies,
they're just running around, you know, five trash cans for
offensive lines, which they pull out those big tubs and
they act as the offensive line just to get the
splits of the gaps for the guys to work off of.
(11:04):
And like the way he explodes through that. It's like,
I compare it to these these monster trucks my son has,
which he is all about monster truck life these days.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Is two years old.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Too young to go to Monster Jam, because I feel
like he would love Monster Jam, but I feel like
he's also too young. But he has these trucks where
you pull them back and like it it you know
what's the term for that, It like locks in the
wheels to like once you put it down, that takes off.
That's what Willy Gay reminds me of with how his
first step explosiveness is. So that was the individual portion.
Let's go ahead and run some audio here. I am
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gonna sprinkle this in as we go throughout the episode.
Let's go ahead and start here because there was a
comment before practice that Coach McDaniel made when he was
asked about something with OTAs, and it evolved into this
conversation about attendance at practice. I want to just go
ahead and run this audio from Coach McDaniel about the
participation and focus of this year's OTAs.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
We've had unbelievable participation and focus. The focus in regard
for the opportunity, you know, for for for our team
in the offseason. It definitely, uh, there's been voluntary activities
that haven't appeared voluntary by the nature of their.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Approach. I'll say that it's you know, what I'd hoped
in that way.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
If that was a little bit too coach speaky for you,
and I don't think it was, but just to lay
it out a little more clear, like what coach is
getting out there is that guys have been here and
they've been locked into their assignments. I mean, we see
him running gasers after our practice, we see them doing
extra work to get further install after practice, and and
the way the defense flew around today, and the way
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they played connected and communicative and just you know, kind
of on the same rope, I would say, as you'll
hear from Jillen Wattle later on. In fact, let's go
ahead run this audio from Jillen Wattle. I asked him
today about a dominant defensive performance where I just thought
everybody looked connected and in line with one one another.
Let's go ahead and run this audio to close the
first segment that Gilen Walla talked about from what he's
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seen compared to year's past. Remember, he was a guy
that has been here for this is his what fifth year,
So he's seen these defenses change year after year and
have to install and kind of, you know, take the
brunt of the offense's best most practice days, especially this
time of year, because the offense is so finally tuned
at this point, but now as defense has some continuity
in their in their corner at this point. So I
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asked Waddle, from your perspective, what have you seen from
this defense and how they're playing in terms of their
connectivity and how well they're communicating on the backside.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I mean, it seem like they all over the place. Man.
They're saying, like they all connected, they playing together, they
all playing on the rope. They're communicating good on the
on the backside, man, and they just overall the good
on all tharly level with man.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I want to come back to that here in a
little bit. Let's go ahead and take our first break
and come back on the other side. Get to the
practice notes. I have a ton more media sound bites
for you guys. That's all next Draft Time podcast, brought
to you by Auto Nation. This particular SoundBite doesn't really
feed into practice. I want to just go ahead and
run it here off the top. Coach was asked on
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Tuesday morning about John who Smith, and I just want
to go ahead and run his audio talking about the
Dolphins tight end.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
John is a very important player person to me and
to the guys. You know, I think one thing that
we can stand on as his professionalism and how he
goes about his business. And you know, there's times that
business can play a part for sure, and it's as
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it can make a team can make it as complicated
as they would like. If they have a lot of
time and to focus on what's going on with John Eu,
I would, you know, encourage them to focus on their
own game. Fortunately, I haven't had to have those conversations
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guys have been very focused on what they can do
today to get better for the Miami Dolphins organization.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
And just to provide an update on that, Adam Schefter
did tweet on Tuesday. This is per reports obviously that
the Pittsburgh Steelers will not be making a move for
Jonas Smith. He talked about Gabe Davis being a guy
they had in for workouts. The Steelers pretty clearly trying
to add to their skill group, their arsenal weapons there
for Skylar Thompson and Mason Rudolph their quarterbacks right now.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
So that's the last on Johnny Smith.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Let's go ahead and get back to practice here and
talk a little bit about what happened on that football field,
and we kick it off with him seven on seven
work where there was to me, when there's this much rain. Offensively,
it really challenges you to be even more on point.
Like the very first play of practice, Ta had this
deep shot to Devon ah Chan where he got a
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step and I'll just say this, like, without getting into
the nitty gritty of the scheme and whatnot, I'm excited
about the next evolution of how this offense can take
advantage of you know, the way team have attacked it
in recent years. I thought the first play was a
good example of that, but Tua was a little bit
long on this deep shot to Devon h Chen who
got a step on Ashton Davis in coverage. And again,
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just to you know, communicate this within the rules of
camp reporting, I'll just say this about the defense and
we're gonna jump right back into this conversation we had
with Wattall on the other side. The amount of presentations
I'm seeing and the post snap rotation and how just
well constructed and communicated a kind of tough to digest
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scheme that looks like it has a pretty advanced stage
already being implemented from this fast menu, and we've talked
about on the podcast all off season. It's no secret.
Coach McDonnel talked about it on the podcast. Back at
the combine, Coach Weavers talked about it. I've pontificated and
had confirmation from players and coaches about how beneficial it
is to have that, you know, retention of staff and
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scheme and structure. I think you're seeing that play out
and know the quarterbacks have had to be super precise.
The very next play after this, Tua had a shot
in the honey hole to Taj Washington. He couldn't quite
hang on, but it was a really nice anticipation throw,
and the defense is challenging the quarterbacks to do that.
And we'll hear from Zach Wilson or talk about Zach
Wilson's practice in that regard here in just one second,
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because I thought he had a big bounce back after
a slow start in this practice. But I'm really really
impressed by how this defense is moving and they're communicating
and I can't even you know, I try my best,
and even though it's not reportable to track all the
different you know, schemes and looks that I see, it
just looks like what you saw from you know, the
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coaches that Weaver has talked about as his influences and
the guys he coached under who had three four years
to put their system in place. It's getting you know,
closer to that look. So that to me is exciting.
And then let's go ahead and run some audio here
because I heard I talked to Tyrel Dotson about that
and some of the guys on offenses too. Let's go
ahead and play some audio here from Tyrel Dotson, who
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I was. I asked him about the communication and how
important it is for the back end on the defense.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Yeah, you can lose a game, you can win a
game just off of the communication. Communication has to be
at an all time high at all times. So if
me and JB aren't on the same page, that's a
bomb over our head. Yeah, and just with the run game,
you know, this defense is built off the intile linebackers.
So if you can't stop the run or you know,
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cover the past, you want to have a long day.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
And I thought that was really worth kind of examining
further because in this practice and practices of the past,
like Jordan Brooks finds a free run. In fact, one
of the first notes I had on the team period
was that he made a play that nobody in the
world was going to block him on because he keyed
it and read it. Zach Thomas, like, you know how
you saw him do for ten years, twelve years down here,
where he would just read it and anticipate it and
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go the way two it does offensively like Jordan Brooks
is to me is like on that level of intelligence
and anticipation and keying what the offensive tendencies are. We
saw him do that. I saw a Tyrol dot to
make a play the same way I saw Willie Gay
bust through the exact same drill I saw in the
install period carry over to the team drill, and he
got a sack that way by running down the quarterback
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with that get off. So I asked, you know, Dotson
to continue about that and touch on the urgency of
this time of year and why you guys are so
tuned in right now in early June.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
When you come to work, you gotta be serious about
work because you know everyone else around you or depending
on you to make plays. And you know, this is
how I eat. This is how I feed my family.
You know, my mom and my you know, my girlfriend,
my cula dog back home this hot this is how
they eat. So you know, just assist an urgency as well.
You know, we got to go. You know, there's no
more waiting, there's no more waiting in line. You know,
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you gotta be the first man up and you gotta
go make place when your name's called.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
That's fitting for a guy that had three picks last
year being here for half the season leading the football
team in that category. I just want to continue this
because I feel like This is the first time I
really had a chance to talk to Tyrell, you know,
and this extensively and kind of pick his brain. Is
a guy that we heard Jordan Brooks talk about him
wearing the green dot you know, at his press conference
last week, and how impressive that is for a guy
that again got here in mid season last year and
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then jumps into you know, OTAs and is calling things,
you know, for the defense and being a big part
of the communication in the middle. So I asked him
more about the defense of connectivity, like what can the
inside linebackers do as you heard him talk about the
importance of the inside linebackers and.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
What do you know?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
More confirmation for the ideas we had back in February
about the Baltimore defense and how they took off when
they got ro Qwan Smith next to Patrick Queen and
the Seahawks emphasis on getting linebackers and Ernest Jones and
Tyrrel Dotson and the Titans going after linebackers and the
teams that run this system, how they've excelled in that arena.
Here's Tyrel Dotson on the connectivity of the back end
and how critical that is for a defense.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Yeah, one word I just think as one, like we've
just been moving as one. We don't care what people say.
We don't care if we don't have who and who
and who. We're here to work. And no matter if
you're a third tring, first ring, you know, fifth string, undrafted,
first round, if you're out there, I'm expecting, we expecting,
Joe Be's expecting you to make plays. So no matter
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who you are, you just gotta be accountable and you
gotta go. You gotta come ready to play. So and
the guys, our energy is different this year, man, you know,
coming in last year midseason is the energies is different.
We're just moving as one.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
You know, I thought about that energy comment because again,
you know last year, like as you were disappointed as fans, like,
imagine how these guys feel. I mean, they live it
every single day and that's their entire life and livelihood.
And Tyrell got here, you know, mid season when things
weren't going well and we were losing games and two
it was hurt and there was you know, it was
tough to deal with, Like it's tough to come to
work when you're consistently you know, coming up short on
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the results end. And for him to kind of have
that perspective to get here for that and then to
come back this offseason and be so critical in the
you know, the glue, the gelling of all these guys
and being that glue part. I just think it's fascinating,
especially alongside Jordan Brooks, who we've talked at length about
his leadership and the impact he has and the quiet
kind of confidence that he, you know, brings to the table.
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I just wanted to continue here with Tyrel Dotson and
talk to him about that because we taught we have
the Jordan Brooks thing last year talking about sitting down
with guys and having lunch and just talking about who
they are. Well, Tyrel Dotson sounds like he's not too
far off from that type of personality as well.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Yeah, I mean it's more of like just hanging out.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
You know.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
It's just like a relationship. When a person doesn't hear
your voice a lot and then you try to correct them,
they're gonna naturally just.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Disagree with you.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
But when you have that dialogue with each other, you know,
each and every day, like a relationship like your wife
or anything like that, you know, the tone and the
voice is more familiar. Where you're willing to take criticism,
you're willing to take more information. So that's what we've
been building. We've been going to dinner and stuff like that.
So just creating a dialogue.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
To reflect this back to my own personal life. We
are really struggling right now with my daughter to like
follow instructions and listen and clean up after herself. And
my wife made a good point that, like we get
so frustrated that we only nag her about that. We
have to have positive reinforcement and talk to her more
about it. So it's not like always could perceive as
this negative thing. And I thought that connects to what
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Tyrrel Dowson said today at his media availability, So I
wanted to go ahead and run that because I was
a kind of a big chunk of the podcast I
thought was worth diving into in depth. Let's go ahead
and pivot now to some Tua Tuk coach mcdanel. I
talked about Tua and I'll run the audio here, but
I asked, coach, you know, we saw Tua in the
Orange Jersey on Monday. We all see like what it
looks like when he throws the ball and it you know,
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it's the pass looks pretty and the production's there. But
I wanted to hear from coach, like what goes into
TUA or quarterback in general earning the orange jersey? Can
you give us some more detail on how that happens.
And here's a great answer from coach McDaniel.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
It's a cool question because this one specifically, I thought,
you know, to the previous practice to wearing the orange jersey,
had most ownership of all all the players on each
and every down, particularly in non passing downs. There was
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double motions where he was aligning people appropriately. He really
had command and resolve within the practice of things that
you know. Sometimes football for the court for a quarterback
can be uniquely challenging because you have the ownership of
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the operation of the whole unit. You have one eleventh
of the execution of it, and any anything that falls
short can be frustrating. So sometimes your play can be
exactly how you envisioned it going into whatever the performances,
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but then you're faced with frustrating things that.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Are out of your control.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
What a great rep for the for a player of
the quarterback position when you have practices like that. We
had some things people weren't necessarily where they should be
at the appropriate time and run and pass, and he
handled his job and then performed executed and was very
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very competitive and didn't allow the ebbs and flows of
practice to really keep him out of his rhythm. So
that for me, there's a lot of layers. It's definitely
not just like, hey, three throws. When you're a quarterback,
you throw the ball professionally, so like I feel like
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you should have good throws, but playing the position and
being what the other ten players on the team need
you to be on that down, that's a whole another story.
That's why I earned it.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
And I didn't think this practice was anything like crazy
noteworthy from Tua in terms of big time throws. I
did think that when the offense was struggling, he came
in after a couple of like down reps and down
periods and kind of helped stabilize things. And you know,
it's one of those things where like a lot of
times they run the same stuff. You know, Quinn you
Weers's unit runs the same stuff as Tua runs, and
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so there's like anticipation and expectation there for the defense.
But I thought two was kind of stabilizing force and
the way he's what's the word, like whether the storm
of the pass rush that was getting after him and
this entire Dolphins offense and found quick checkdowns. Like I
think it was good for him to get that stuff
on tape for the younger guys or for a new
guy like Zach Wilson, because it kind of gave them
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a visualization of like how to mitigate that pressure in
those things that could go wrong when a pass rush
is getting aftery like that. So not a crazy big
day from Tuba, but I thought those soundbites were good.
Let's go ahead and close this to a talk with
Austin Jackson on the leadership of QB ONEO in You're six.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
He's definitely a lot more confident and decisive on and
off the field. You know, he knows what people are
supposed to be doing a certain in terms of training.
He knows what we're doing on the field. He knows
how to take care of his body, he knows how
to unite guys, bring us together for you know, team
camaraderie and stuff just to get together. He's, you know,
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he's a full blown leader, and I think he's showing
that he wants to take control of his team, and
he is.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Spots for a quick break right there. Come back on
the other side.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
I've got a lot more to get to here, So
a long podcast today, Draft Time Podcast brought to you
by Auto Nation. Some more practice notes here. I had
Dwayne Eskridge. D Eskridge with some really good competitive catches
in tight spaces, in particular from Zach Wilson at quarterback
where I just thought he continued to pluck balls that were,
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you know, around defensive backs arms. There was a play
where Ethan Bonner was in great shape to make a
play on him, but he just snatched it out of
the air. Speaking to Ethan, he had great coverage later
on a ball to Jalen Conyers or no such check
that to Tanner Connor that twa threw in the whole hole,
shot down the sideline that he was in great shape for,
but Conyor's made Connor made the catch rather man Conyers
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and Connor is gonna be. That's gonna be a lot
for your boy at the tight end position. Speaking of Conyers,
he did win a nice seam route down the middle
with a little arm bar over and kind of got
on top of the linebacker stacked and made a catch
for a big gain. I had Eskridge for another big
catch in tight coverage, and that was not exclusive to
Ethan Bonner. I had already Burns consistently in tight coverage.
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He had a nice route on Monterey Baldwin, the rookie
from Baylor, where he re routed him and undercut him
for a pass breakup, and just consistently challenged everything and
played on that rope. On the back end, I thought
Quinn Ewers had some really good growth in terms of
how he saw the field from last week. There was
a shot where he he it was like, so he
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guess what smashes right? Smashes one of the most basic
concepts in football. The one receiver kind of tries to
hold the cloud corner with a short route and then
you run like either a takeoff or a corner route
or a deep out or a comeback, you know, to
basically put that cloud cornerback into bind. And I thought
Quinn did a good job of kind of selling the
throw short and then took the over the top throw
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and pulled that cornerback up, but he just missed it.
So I think with a player like him and any
player that's developing and that young like find those areas
of growth. Maybe it's not going to be perfect right away,
but to see him get better from last week, I
think is a good step for a player like that.
So got Ardie Burns here. I want to make a
note about some of the past rushers. Man, I'm starting
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to think this group has a pretty good chance to
be pretty good. I've talked about Chop. I mean, Chop
has just been a monster. I had him for another
sack today. Guys are having a hard time with his speed,
which should be no surprise. But we here at Austin
Jackson talk about Chop Robinson after practice and you know
about the speed, but this is what I keep seeing too.
I'll let Austin go ahead and explain it for me.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
Playing very well in his second spring, he's been a
lot more active with his hands, playing more physical. It
looks a lot more confident comfortable than his rookie year.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
So I had Chop Chubb Willie Gay with a sack,
and I had Grayson Murphy with a sack one play
after he overset the left tackle to eight and inside gap.
And I actually talked to him after the practice, like Hey,
did you have like two gap responsiblay this? Well, I
guys at the edge first off and then if I
can play back inside, I will. And that's what he
did and got back under the block and tagged off
at last Crementchi he is. He makes plays every single day.
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And I'm pretty confident that Grayson Murphy is gonna have
his say on making this roster because he just looks
the part. He looks the part all last offseason and
you know, got injured in preseason, but I'm I'm very
excited about the way he can play. He wins with
you know, peer speed, with some physicality. He can really
reset guys. I just think that he's he's got a
pretty impressive resume so far this offseason and last offseason.
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And on one of the plays where he forced the
quarterback off the spot, if emlafon Wu is in phase
the entire way, gets under a route, turns his head
back around, makes a pick. Might have been out of bounds,
but he finished the place. That's all I care about.
In practice, just it was like that all day, like
good pressure, well connected coverage in the back end, and
I was I was pretty impressed. The defensive backs coaches
and the defensive coaches in general were going nuts, especially
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the dB coaches. They were loving what they were seeing,
which tells me that they were executing a new install,
a new like, hey, let's let's get more coverage out there,
let's get more presentations. And these guys took it and
ran with it. It's what it seemed like to me.
And they were just fired up to see all of that.
I had chanting tyndallal dial up a blitz at one
point and tag off on Alexander Madison in the backfield. Already,
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Burns got himself in for a TfL after Jordan Phillips
had initial disruption, and just they continued to do it.
Jordan Brooks had that run through Chubb forced Tua off
the spot, but two was able to navigate that and
get a check down completion. They try to end around.
At one point that storm Duck really shut down. So
I just whatever they threw at them, it was like,
we got you, We're ready for you, guys. Now, Ollie
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Gordon did find some of his some cutback lanes, and
he has a real feel for, like, you know, finding
those cut back lanes and getting to him quickly. I
thought him and Jalen Wright really ran the ball well
on this on this day, including a seventy yard touchdown
run from Jalen Wright. He was kind of picking his
way through the initial traffic in line of scrimmage and
then he would he would take off in his second
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level speed. I tell you what, for a guy that tolds,
he gained six pounds of muscle this offseason. And I
saw McDaniel was like behind the play. He likes to
watch the plays from behind the safety's perspective. I heard
him and he was freaking out about how much he
loved that run from jalen Wright.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
So I think that he is doing some good stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
And speaking of Jayleen Wright, coach talked about his mindset
and what he wanted to see from jalen Wright this
season or this offseason, I should say, and so far,
so good.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Well.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
I think jalen Wright benefited tremendously from coming into the
league in a very competitive room. I think when that's
the case, you learn how little room for air you
have to execute your job responsibilities or to be complete,
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to have complete ownership of your assignments. Because if you're
a hair off or a hair laid or a hair indecisive.
There's decisive people who are talented that can contribute to
the team. So you know, I really saw, you know,
when we had exit meetings.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
UH.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
You know, I was talking to Jalen right about you know,
being able to UH nonverbally communicate to me his hunger
for a increased role. I see better than not here.
And you know for Ota s n that I can
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see him following through with that. A big thing for
him and really our entire team this offseason is UH
is each and every day being exclusively UH the exclusive
evaluation time, and we UH awesome one day efforts. We're
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looking for UH consistency and continuity and and I think
that's how we It's the only way that we're gonna
be happy with the product come fall.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
I might have to run some of these sound bites
on a Friday podcast because we're getting long here, and
I've got so much more from Jalen Wright from.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Who else I got.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Wattle talked about juggling like three times in his press conference.
He's very proud of the fact that he learned to
juggle in two days, which I think is really funny.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
He cracks me up. Man.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
He's a good one. Let's see what else. Okay, I
talked about Zach Wilson. Tanner Connor had a big day,
a couple of catches, really good smooth transitions from catch
from pass catcher to ballcarrier. And I mentioned Zach Wilson
I thought struggled in the first period. I thought he
really bounced back big and the rest of the practice
and including two really tight window throws. One down the field,
up the corner where he had a tight window and
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just jammed that fastball in there with real velocity and
that was an impressive throw. And then later between two defenders,
like in the hook riat middle of the field where
he threads it between two defenders. I think that was
one of the most impressive practices I've seen from a
quarterback not named to at Dolphins camp. Like there's been,
you know, some bad practices, some good ones too, but
I thought Zach today in that after that first period
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was as good as I've seen from a quarterback that
wasn't too at Dolphins practice. So all kinds of stuff here.
Let's go ahead and finish up with a couple more soundbites.
I'll make sure I'm not forget anything I did make
this note on Twitter that Patrick McMorris the way he
trust his eyes, and you see it on his tape
as well, like he makes a decision and he goes.
You don't see him second guess himself. And there was
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a play today where a ball wound up incomplete and
he was running towards that side of the field and
the ball goes incomplete away from him and he runs
over and scoops the ball up like at full sprint.
And I started watching him do this, and he does
every single play, and I thought to myself, Yeah, that's
muscle memory for how you teach yourself to do that.
And now he'll know instinctively every time the ball's in
the ground, he'll get there. And it might be irrelevant
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ninety nine times out of one hundred, but that one
time could be the game ceiling pick against the Buffalo
Bills that wins the division, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Like, that's how you.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Prepare in this sport to make plays. You prepare all
the time and when that moment comes, you make that play.
And I really thought that was impressive. As Zukomma had
a big play. I mentioned Ollie Gordon a little bit.
I think that's all I've got for you guys. Yeah,
Tanner Connor, Willie Gay, Dwayne s Gridge. Yeah, I think
we're good there. Okay, cool, Let's go ahead and do
two more soundbites from Patrick Paul. I thought they were
cool and worth playing on the podcast. We'll go ahead
(36:16):
and close it up with this here from Pat Paul,
who was asked about the pressure he might feel or
does not feel, replacing Tron Armstea at left tackle.
Speaker 6 (36:23):
Ah. Not so, no, not really. You know, I'm built
for this, always been ready for the moment, and that's
why I play football, to compete at the highest level
and to be the best at my job. So I'm ready.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
I love that built for this comment. He's obviously confident
as well. Let's go ahead and close with this. I
asked him about his development and how he kind of
has enjoyed that experience and journey and if it ever
clicked for him at one point and what that was
like when it did click for him in terms of
the scheme and get everything down to where he's ready
to be a starter here at left tackle for your
Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 7 (36:51):
Ah.
Speaker 6 (36:51):
Yeah, it's definitely. I think I just matured in my
game and that just comes with time. I think offensive
line is an art, and as you go day by day,
you're just going to keep fine tuning your skills, and
one day it's just gonna click. Everything that we do
out here day by day is just gonna start getting easier.
And I think I've reached that point where I know
what it is and know what they expect from me,
and I know how to do it daily.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
To the golf analogy there, Man, the more you can
kind of rep it and make it muscle memory, don't
have to think about it, that's going to become the
best version of yourself as a golfer. Okay, long podcast there.
I just can't get enough of these practices. So I
do apologize for being long in the tooth, but we
will go ahead, long tooth, long winded, Let's go ahead
and call it a show right there.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Come back on Friday.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
I'm not sure what that podcast will look like just yet,
but well, as we always do, we'll get you guys.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Covered with Dolphins content here in the meantime.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Subscribe rate review the podcast from Apple Spotify, review your
podcast from follow me on social at Winkle NFL the
team at Miami Dolphins. Check out the YouTube channel for
media availabilities, Dolphins HQ, Drive time content and so much
more and last button, not least Mimi Dolphins dot com.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Until next time. Bins up Carolin Cameron, Daddy, He's coming home.
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