July 29, 2025 • 31 mins
The pads were on and the practice was sizzling on Tuesday. Travis is talking about the physical nature of the practice, the ability to rush inside with explosive off ball linebackers behind big defensive tackles and the youth taking hold on the Miami roster. Plus, the offensive stars shine with cool pass-game design, and we’ll talk about some of the under the radar standouts of camp so far. Finally, audio from James Daniels, Bradley Chubb and Tyrel Dodson.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Drivetime with Travis wing Fee. What is up,
Dolphans and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am
your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, the pads
are on and the physicality was apparent.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I'm going to get through the theme.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
The piggybacks off of yesterday's concept of being strong down
the middle, but we'll explore its value from a pass
rush standpoint, as well as Miami's power run game outlook.
We're going to talk about the upside of first and
second year players and the value that could create, not
just for twenty five but beyond. We'll discuss McDaniel being
in his bag with offensive concepts, all the practice notes,
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Orange Jersey predictions. We'll hear from t Dot, beach Ub,
James Daniels, and a heck of a lot more, including
the unsung heroes of Camp so Far from the Baptist
Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
This is the Draft Time Podcast, daffeirs.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
It feels like the first day that we're kicking off
the podcast without any news in a while, although Practice
did produce one bit of news via the Injury Variety
with Ashton Davis leaving Practice with an injury today. I
imagine we'll get an update from Coach McDaniel on that
tomorrow morning at his eight fifteen press conference. But I
want to start here because it coincides with so many
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things that I have covered on the show recently, but
just as recently as yesterday, and these continued themes being
well themes for the next day just strengthens the belief
an actual that actual theme becoming a reality. And it's
the power of drafting talent that plays early and not
just that, but produces early and the long term benefit
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of that. Just Cliff's notes that I covered yesterday, going
back to the various press conferences of Chris Career and
Mike McDaniel this offseason, the famed setting your culture through
the draft quote from Coach McDaniel at the owners meetings,
and then going out and get a bunch of guys
that compete to see who can win the race to
the building in the morning and who can be the
last one to leave. That's what you have right now
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between Kenneth Grant, Jonahs Savit Naya, and Patrick Paul. And
I say this because three of the best players on
the field today were those three guys. Players in their
first and second years. And it's not even so much
that Jonah and KG were like winning every rep in
a like obvious eye popping way, but the constant strain
and the use of quality technique for players who haven't
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suited up in an NFL game yet, the power they
just they demonstrate the give and take back and forth.
And I saw from those two like we heard I
think it was Tyrrell Dotson after practice saying that KG
has been with the Ones or no, no, it was
James Daniels rather check that saying that Jonah Saba Andaya
has been with the one since springball and talking about
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how like he didn't even start until game whatever his career,
and talking about how like impressive that is and the
experience that he's gained from that and being trusted to
grow into that role as a you know, bona fide
producer at your guard position and take them and run
with them. That to me not only serves to get
you ready for DeForest Buckner and Grover Stewart and Quentin
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Nelson come week one, the matchups for those guys on
the interior, because like, yeah, sometimes you see a rookie
climb from the third string or whatever and get a
bunch of wins against fellow rookies and udfas and guys
that were, you know, playing in the Sun Belt Conference
last year and no shit against the sun Belt, but
it just came to my mind first. Then they get
to the season and it takes a while for them
to get going. But like when I see Kenneth Grant
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and Jonahsivit Naya straining and running to the perimeter and
Jonah trying to stay attached with everything that he has,
with kg putting three hundred and thirty pounds in the movement,
skills that he has, fighting back and the back and
forth tug of that. That stuff is going to pay
off come September for those guys and for the teammates
around them. And I was talking to some of the
reporters after practice and with Mike Kunyo from and he
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was in agreement with me about this concept of Patrick
Paul being one of the best players on the field
today and just full transparency off the top. He's my
Orange Jersey prediction for tomorrow and I guess we can
get that out of the way now. He and Willie
Gay are the guys I'll pick one and two. But
I was talking about the massive needle movement that would
occur if things play out in a certain way, because
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if you hit on Chop, which it kind of feels
like we already know that he has been growing. He
was in the Orange Jersey today off of a really
good rookie season. Kind of feels like that's a given.
But Chop, KG, Jonah, and Pat all of your first
and second round picks the last two years, all players
in the trenches for a team that, when they were
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at their best, was you know, criticized for being two finesse.
Now you've got four players that are, you know, potentially
impact players on the either given line. And you do
that at positions where if you are to go into
free agency and spend money on a left tackle like
toront Arpstad was kind of cheap for a player of
his caliber, but he's at least twenty million bucks. Robert
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Hunt got twenty million bucks a year on the open
market as a guard. We saw what Christian Wilkins got
for the Raiders, and look at what TJ. Watt just
got and what Parsons and Shrey Hendrickson are gonna get
on the open market.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
My point is, if you.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Hit on those four players within their first two years,
you know, year two for Pat and Chopp and year
one for KG and Jonah. That's three and four years
of club control on a rookie contract at positions that
cost you like a significant chunk of your salary cap
if you're going to go find that on the open market,
on top of what you have with the guys that
you've already drafted and developed on the perimeter at the
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quarterback position and so on and so forth. So not
only does that give you production right now, it frees
up your flexibility to improve the roster down the road.
Now now you've got all these under twenty five talents
that are some of the hardest working guys in the team,
and in three years, when they get those contracts re upped,
you bring in the rookies underneath them, and those guys
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set the example for how it's done, how to work,
how we expect things with the standard is inside the building.
I am just very excited about the prospects of that
and how it could unfold. And your boy has a
ton of confidence, and it goes back to their college
tape and the I think I tweeted about Kenneth Grant
being my favorite defensive tackle in the class.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I think.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I tweeted about Patrick Paul and watching his film last
year and being very encouraged by what I saw. And
Jonahsavit Eanya was a guy in the pre draft process
that I targeted as a Dolphins fit, and Duke Manni
Waither said it could be a special guard in this league,
like really really, really good, and then Chop Robinson like,
no mystery there. He's a freaking star already, or has
the makings of a star. I should say he's got
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to prove it first, but it looks like he's gonna happen.
And so I'm not like sitting here telling you what
you want to hear it. I'm just continuing what I
thought going into it, and the returns are what I
thought they would be so very excited about all of that.
I've got a bunch of audio on these guys today.
Let's go ahead and start here with James Daniels, who
talked about Jonah Savit Naya and what he's seen from
the youngster so far.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Jonah's been doing well, I mean him playing when he
first OTA practice, he was going with the starters and
like I didn't start until my rookie year, probably till
like week catching, week six or week seven, and so
like him being a starter for like day one and
going and going through all of Ota is going through
all of camp as like a start. I mean, it's
really impressive because the defense rows lost off fil then
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when I was a rookie, I was nowhere near as
advanced as he was, so he is, so I mean,
it's really cool. He's doing a really good job. So
I'm really excited for his progress.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
And all these guys.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Day began with one on ones, which was really fun
to watch, and that's where Patrick Paul's day just kind
of went nuts. Let's go ahead and rattle off my
notes from the one on ones. Kenneth Grant walked to
Jonas to vit Naya back and that got my attention
in a big way. The next rep, Patrick Paul blocks
out the sun on Grays and Murphy, who I love
Grays and Murphy, but in those one on one drills
you can kind of see the length limitations that he
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has and I wouldn't say the same as true of
Mohammed Kamara, which is why you wind up, you know,
going in the fifth round that kind of sack production,
or for Grayson Murphy, who was a good college player
going undrafted, Like there's a certain requisite amount that you
have to bring to an NFL team for them to
get excited about your prospects. I'm not saying they're not
excited about those guys, but I think you could see
those limitations in those drills. And there's a reason why
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very productive pass rushers fall by the wayside of the
draft because you have to have a certain requisite level
of length and skill and explosiveness, all that stuff to
be a high draft pick. And then Chop Robinson gets
a quick win on Larry Borow, who had a very
difficult one on one portion. He over sent him outside
cut back across the face. That was good to see.
Keon Smith had some good reps on Matthew Dickerson, standing
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him straight up. I had that's not the one I want.
I got a receiver a note.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
They're my bad.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Kenneth Grant takes another walk with this time James Daniel.
So he took both the Dolphins starting guards for walks
into the backfield. That's pretty nice to see. But then
Jonah bounces back and has a convincing win one on
one against Kenny Grant. Paul gets Bradley Chubb and stands
him straight up, and then Chop on the next rep
tries to run the arc and he runs him past
the courts back shelf with the speed and the length
and the ability to kind of get to the corner.
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So we saw power and speed from Pat Paul, and
then Chop was beating everybody else that he faced and
would come back to Patrick Paul and have difficulties against him.
Remember last camp I talked about how the only guy
that really did a good job on Chop the entire
summer was was Patrick Paul. Kind of seeing more of
that here. We heard, you know, JP talk about Chop
last week. Let's go ahead and hear from Bradley Chubb
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on what he thinks about the Dolphins second year edge
with just oodles of potential.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Percent He's he's lights out man and his motor, the
way he binds the edge, the way he could play
the run. I know a lot of people, some people
in here say he couldn't play the round, but you know,
the way he does that is not sort of a
phenomenal man.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
And I'm excited to see him keep.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Going, I am all the way here for this.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Uh, you know a little bit of clap back on
the idea that he can't play the run because you
won't watching tape if that's what you think about the guy.
And then Pat steps up to the line on his
first rep of team ball and beats our other Orange
Jersey prediction in Willie Gay to get to the landmark
on a wide a Chan run. And by the way,
Devon eh Chan, I know it's crazy to say he
looks better than he ever has, and he gets enough
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of a piece of Willie Gay for Devon to turn
the corner and get up or downhill, I should say,
for a big gainer off the edge. And then just
the pass protection work continued throughout the day. I lost
track of the number of snaps where guys would try
their initial move, get swallowed up inside like a venus
fly trap catching its prey, and then try a spin
move to work back inside on a redirect to kind
of free themselves. But the way venus fly traps work
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is once the mouth was closed, you ain't getting out.
And that's how Patrick Paul is in pass protection. Maybe
a nickname there for him, the venus fly trap, the
how we got to workshop that. Let's go ahead and
hear from Bradley Chubb on Patrick Paul.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Yeah, man fitst fights man, not living with fist fights,
but you know, back and forth, it's a boxing match
at the end of the day that you got to
you win some, he wins some, and you just get
back and learn from it and go back at it.
So I'm excited to see his growth though. So he's
been doing a really good job.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I would not be at all surprised if we saw
someone go after after Pat Paul in a fighting manner
at some point, just because he's been so good and
he is the kind of guy that the way he
wins can be frustrating because it's like almost physically dominating,
And so I can see someone getting upset with Pat
in the future, probably a joint practice down the road,
because these guys are pretty good about taking care of
each other. But keep an eye on that. I think
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we might be heading towards something like that. And he
just was awesome. And then that's on the outside. We
had pads on today and a handful of downhill runs inside,
which again yesterday's segment about the pivot that the packers
and rams and the Niners will have to eventually kind
of fall into here in the post Christian McCaffrey world,
probably if that happens in the near future. About going
with more duo and inside zone and having some gap
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schemes and power guards, and investing heavily in the guard position,
and investing in more guys that can insert inside in
the running game. And Alexander Madison and Ollie Gordon like
that was on display today with the pads for the
first time. I think it's very instructive. I noted that
Alexander and Madison ran with a real power and surge
today and I think you can see his ability and
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more of those traditional run schemes where you just have
to mash, like just play football. Like so much about
the modern day run schemes is like out scheming teams,
and that's great.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I love that. It's my favorite part about football.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
But sometimes you have to just be bigger and stronger
than the guy across from you. And I saw some
of those runs today from Madison with the offensive line
getting their search too and behind the same guys inside
there are doing enough on the perimeter to get us
Devon eight Chan runs, and that's why I'm so damn
excited about what this offensive line can be this year,
for this running game and in the past game. You
have guys that can do a little bit of both.
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You have guys that do what I wanted Jackson powers
Johnson to be a target for a couple of years
ago because of his size and athletic ability.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I'm seeing it, damn.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
It, it's out there. It's happening right now, live and
in person. Six days of training camp, and Devon's hitting
big runs and Jalen Wright can do both of those things.
And both guys offer a change up, or I should
say Madison is the change up to those guys.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
It's just varying styles.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
And Madison did have an explos run that I think
was going to be a long touchdown in addition to
all of his grinded out yards. A Chan found cutback
lanes and had a long touchdown catch. More on that
in a moment. But I think that James Daniels has
been as advertised. I saw him in a combo block
on a big a Chan run. I saw him seal
the front side for a nice Madison run. I thought
he showed well in one on ones and on balance,
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has just been steady as he goes. He's not been
susceptible to pressure in the in pass pro. He's getting
movement in the running game. And today he told us
that he expects to get final clearance for full increased
like one hundred percent practice activity. He's been playing for
the majority of camp so far, but it's his last
doctor check and he says he expects to get full
clearance going forward. So it's all great news. They're on
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James Daniels. Let's hear from James on that right side.
And the chemistry brewing with Austin Jackson, who quietly has
had a great camp of his own.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
It's been it's been going well. So it's been going good.
He sits Ryan from me in Medians and we have
like a lot like we talk a lot like imediates
and so about like things he's done in the past
or things that like I've done, and so chemistry has
been going here, stringing well. So I'm really excited to
play with him.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
All good things, all good things. I thought.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Andrew Meyer had another really good day today, and I
think you're seeing why he earned and kept a roster
spot for seventeen games last year and gives us a
really solid option in the event that we are without
Aaron Brewer for a game or two. Speaking of brew
he's out there every single day involved with the quarterbacks
and the centers on the offensive line with Butch Berry,
I think that's worth mentioning. I know the guys looked
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at him as a leader, and he obviously played well
enough to me to garner a Pro Bowl spot last year.
I'm excited to get him back and get this front
five with everybody going, because I think all those guys
are good football players. And if you have five good
offensive linemen and you have two star receivers and you
have a top ten quarterback.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
See pretty good? Pretty good to me, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I do think it was a struggle for Larry Boram,
Daniel Brunskill today, Addison West, Braden Daniels, Jackson Carmen, and
Ryan Hayes were the guys that I thought kind of
surrendered the most activity from the defensive line.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
But they have a chance bounce back tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Let's go ahead and pause right here and stay in
this lane with the interior, but talk about the backers
and how they play off the defensive tackles with more
soundbites from James and Chubb as well as Tyrel dottson
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On the other side of the football, this defense has
three guys at least that can win just about any
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given stap right, Chub, JP and Chopp who just continues
to flourish. But we've seen something we've talked about on
the pod yesterday really transpired today and many of the
days of camp. Two of the best players all Camplong
have been Jordan Brooks and Willie Gaye Jr. And just
for posterity again with the safeties, you know what Minka
and if he can do to fit the run and
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blitz on any given snap with Dante Trader and Patrick
mc morris's games are all about to me, that's part
of it. But for the sake of the conversation, I
just want to keep it to the off ball linebackers
right now, and let's go ahead and first hear from
Tyrel Dotson before we get into this on what he
thinks about this line linebacker group of off ball linebackers
not off the edge.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
It's like avengers.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Everyone got their own superpower you know, yeah, we we
we We're getting closer and closer.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
JB's a hell of a guy, and Willie's a hell
of a guy. Like kJ Britt, you know, country boy.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
You know, we're just all a gelling man And it
was just trying to move as one.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
And Willy Gay, who I guess is, uh, don't try
to make superhero comparisons, Travis, because you don't watch those ever.
I don't like superhero movies putting them in theaters. But
Willy Gays, whoever the fastest one is, That's what he
looks like to me. He had a tackle for loss,
had a couple stops in the run game at the
line of scrimmage. He has just been flat out awesome
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and was again today probably his best day, which is
kind of crazy to say. I just may say that.
And Jordan Brooks had all of his production in the
run game. I did see him slip in for a
potential pressure sack at one point, rushing that a gap
where he loves to live. And like, this takes me
back to a topic I covered in the off season,
and it goes back to like faith and coaches and
sometimes we make predictions based upon rosters and changes, and
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it reminds me of the New York Jets with Nathaniel Hackett,
Aaron Rodgers and all of that, and everyone's like, this
is going to be a great offense because they have
the quarterback figured out, and I'm like, who's the play caller,
who's the coach on that side of the ball, because
that's important. And that's why I am very bullish on
the defense with Anthony Weaver, because look at what that
man accomplished last year with his entire edge group wiped
out right. He had a rookie and Chop Robinson, Bradley
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Chubb didn't see the field, Jalen Phillips on the field
for three and a half games, and that was it.
It was Quinton Bell and a bunch of guys that
are third and fourth and fifth rushers stepping into starting spots.
Emmanuel Ogba gets called back up. Not a ton of
depth of defensive tackle as we're cycling guys like Neil
Ferrell in before Matthew Dickerson, behind Zach Kalais and Benito.
I mean, it was a mixed match Beyond those three
guys up front. They lost to captain in the middle
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of the defense and David Long, and they lost Anthony
Walker mid season to an injury. They incorporate a new
guy mid season in Terrell Dotson, who comes in and
leads a team in interceptions. Then you've got Kendall Fuller
missing games and playing up and down down on the stretch.
Like I think the injury, on top of what his
tape was down the stretch both played into the fact
that he was released from this football team. And let's
be real about this, an atrocious year from the two safeties.
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It was the worst year Jvon Hollins's career and Jordan
Poyer we called him Trojan Horse in the podcast for
a reason. He dealt with all of that Weaver did
and still turned around the fourth ranked freaking defense. When
you faced Josh Allen twice, Aaron Rodgers had his best
games against you, which is an indictment in and of
itself of your scheme in that game. But I just
thought Rogers played really damn good in those two games
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against the Dolphins, Kyler Murray, Matthew Stafford, Brock Purty, Gino Smith,
Jordan Love, and CJ.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Stroud. All of this.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Is to say that I think building the defense to
the vision of Anthony Weaver might be a good idea,
and what was the vision when he was in Baltimore.
A defense that took off around Justin Matdobueke nom Dae
madab Week now inside of a bunch of good parts
around him, Patrick Queen at linebacker, and what really solidified
that defense was the Rokwan Smith trade. So that's kind
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of how I view the additions inside. And I look
at this defense with Zach Seeler, who is just as good,
if not better than Nomdi Mattabuik. He was unblockable today.
Another news Water is wet, Sky is blue. Travis loves
the Dolphins. We talked about Kenneth Grant, Jordan Phillips continues
to look the part. Benito Jones is having a good camp.
I think Matthew Dickerson's made a lot of progress. Zeke
Biggers had a sack in practice today. Then you give
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me Jordan Brooks who has turned up to ten. Jordan
Brooks looks like an All Pro linebacker to me, and
Willy Gay might be even better than that.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
So far.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
It's a different role, different responsibilities, but Willy Gay is
probably the MVP of camp for me so far. And
then Tyrrell Dotson's been said as he goes and kJ
Britt makes a couple of run tag offs every practice.
Channing Tindall has quietly had a nice camp. I think
about the combination of those guys playing behind the big
defensive tackles who don't get easily uprooted, but who can
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also run to the perimeter because you can allow the
linebackers to stay free and stay clean and unblocked and
can't get the offensive line detached and up to that
second level. And that's gonna let Willie Gay run free.
That's gonna let Jordan Brooks run clean to gaps and
run free. As rushers, I can defend the run from
light boxes and get another guy in the coverage passing
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lens and coverage while I heat up the quarterback. With
those guys coming after the quarterback too, that's a lot
to deal with for the opposing quarterback. I think it's
part of the schema that made Matthew Stafford and Brock
Purty not have good games against you last year. I
asked James Daniels about the brad and Bradley Chubb rather
about this dynamic. Let's go ahead and start with Chubb
and then go back to JD on the middle of
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this defense and how it makes things so much better
for the edge guys and how it challenges the offensive
line on the interior with all they have to offer.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
I mean, we've draws it up perfectly, man, and we
got the guys to do it. So, you know, just
seeing how they attack each and every rep and like
I said, it's a race to the quarterback.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
Nobody wants to be the last one there.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
And you know, when we're good, we got what seven
guys with that same mentality.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
I feel like it's gonna be hard to.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Start good because I mean, they know, they know our
plays and like the plays we do and walk through
the plays that we do in practice. So it's like
the plays that I mean, they know how we're blocking things,
and like they're giving us as good would look as possible.
So because they're trying to make the plays. Obviously it's
not a scout team or anything. It's like they're trying
to make the plays as to the best of their ability.
So it's been good work so far.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Let's just go ahead and rip off some notes here
on Willy Gay and Jordan Brooks today. So Willy Gay
beats the block and greets the back at the point
of attack for a big collision on Alexander Mass And
there was a big hit that got the fans going ooh,
like it was one of those pops. Let's see, Willy
Gay's got a sack from depth. He beats Brunskill inside
with a little hesitation step for that sack. Willie Gay
has another sack, wins with the pass rush inside right
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down the middle run of the A gap. Willy Gay
has a rundown win from the backside of the formation.
Came in untouched and whacked Jalen right when he tried
to bend that back. A good edge up by Quentin
Bell to force the cutback. So I mean I just
gave you. We talked about him in the coverage and
the curl flat and the hook zones, talked about rushing
the A gap, playing the backside gap against the run,
Like what does this guy not do? Like there's a
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reason why he was Travis his top off ball linebacker
of this free agency. He's been better than avertise. Let's
go ahead and hear from Bradley Chubb on Willie Gay.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Yeah, he's all over the place, man. He flies around.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
He's a Super Bowl champ, so I always tell him, Man,
we need that super Bowl DNA whatever, whatever you whatever
bits and crowns you got for is man, we need it.
And he shows it each and every day. So, like
I said, it's great to have him on our team
for sure.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Back to JB here, I got some notes on him.
He comes down this time and gets him for the
sack on too with the edge presence. This team has
these two quick twitch linebackers I wrote, and really feast
rushing the A and B gaps. He also stacked up
an eight chan run off the perimeter earlier in the practice.
I failed to mention this earlier, but Zach Steeler had
two sacks on the day, which you know, grass is green,
sky has blue.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
That type of stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Let's go ahead and pivot here real quick and get
off that topic and use this for this segment or
to close the segment, I should say my last theme
of putting the notes in and it's it's the passing game.
I thought this was Tua's worst day, and I used
air quotes because like, it wasn't even a bad day.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
He hasn't turned the ball over yet.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
He was off target with like two throws, you know,
maybe three, but that's a lot for him. He had
a couple of throws. I think we're intentionally located in
tough spots to account for the coverage and give this
guy a chance to make a play like this throw
on the back hip of Waddle jumping and spinning through
the air with Minka buzzing that crosser across the middle
of the field. For most quarterbacks probably picked that off.
Tua puts it in the right location as settle him
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down in the window. He did miss Tyreek on a
corner route that was wide open. That was strange to see.
He had Wattle hot with an overload pressure where he
moved to the side and that got rid of the
ball but missed the throw. The best play on the
entire training camp practices so far was Waddle on a
deep ball that I felt Tua missed. But it's also
a thirty yard touchdown that he missed on. So what
are we doing here? I think you'll see the video
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of it on social We'll see if that comes up later.
But I did see a video of it, which was
pretty damn impressive. But it was one of those quick
deep balls where Tua catches it and lets it fly
early because he knows we have track speed on the
perimeter with Waddle and Tyreek Hill. And when you have that,
the receiver has to win right away otherwise you can't
throw that ball. And that's exactly what Wattle did on
this play. He gets vertical, he stacks the corner back,
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then he lays out. It's Ethan Bonner by the way
he lays out. And when I say King Griffey Junior
making a full speed catch deep in the right center
field gap with the Kingdome full extension, he had to
secure the football with just his hands going to the ground.
A simply outstanding catch the playoff training camp for me.
And that's been Waddle all camp long, and quite frankly,
it's been Tyreek two who I noticed is catching the
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ball really smooth today. I mentioned this in front of
John Conjemi, like it looks like Tidreek's catching the ball
a lot cleaner this year. And he's like, yeah, how
could he not like fight the football last year with
that wrist surgery he had to have And he didn't
have the surgery, so like he's just playing with, you know,
banged up wrist and Tyreek made plays over the middle
on the perimeter. But I want to tell you, guys,
the surest sign that this offense can get back to
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twenty twenty three levels. There seemed to be this concerted
effort to lift the coverage today, and it's being a
bad teammate to tell you what the concepts are. Violates
reporting rules on top of that. But I can say
that the way they were able to lift the coverage
as decoys of sorts, it freed up all these big
plays like alec Ingold got turned free up the sideline
when both Reek and ran the defense offensive pitch and
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catch for thirty yards easy as you like. I saw
them get devon a Chan matched up on Bradley Chubb.
That's not what the Dolphins defense wants on a vertical route,
and that results in a sixty yard touchdown as long
as a Chan can make Mika Fitzpatrick miss in wide
open space, and if Miko makes a miracle tackle, it
was still a forty yard gain. And then there was
one play that was probably innocuous to most folks, but
I noticed that this is me smell of my own farts,
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But this they had Waddle matched up on dots and
because of the motion and the way the defense bumped
the coverage, it created a bad matchup. And Waddle got
a little quick hitter from Tua against Tyrel Dotson for
like seven yards, but he was in a huge space
of grass after the catch, like Packer's eighty six yard
touchdown Christmas patch of grass. Like, I think it was
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gonna be a big play. So they created all these
offensive looks. They had to create big yards. I thought
that was instructive. On top of the run game success
and the deep balls. I've just seen a little bit
of everything from this offense. Two Camps ago and three
Camps Ago really was up with deep ball, throwing these
long shots for exciting plays that were long touchdowns and
great to see. Last year it was all the short
stuff and being like, oh, this is a good compliment,
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but they didn't have either of those two things the
previous year. I've seen a better variety of it this year.
And Tua, Waddle, Reek and a Chan who all have
been fantastic in camp so far. There's not many four
sums in the National Football League. I'm taking over those guys. Sorry,
I'm not sorry. Let's go ahead hit our last break
right there and talk about the secondary a little bit
and finish up with a new segment idea I have.
(26:29):
I want to talk about some of the under the
radar guys that haven't gotten a ton of love, but
I've had nice camps. That's next Draft Time podcast, brought
to you by Auto Nation. I mentioned this in my
notes that Minka was doing a lot to take away
the deep shots in this Tuesday practice. Today's Tuesday, Right yeah,
South Park's tomorrow South Park? How about that first episode.
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And that's on top of all the coverage stuff he
does in the intermediate, how he can insert against the
run and as a rusher. He is the real deal man.
I thought the secondary had a really good start in
the one on ones. They won the first like three
reps of practice, even though Tyreek caught the first ball,
but Minka Fitzpatrick was all over him and runs this
comeback route. The ball was perfect, a good catch too,
but Minca could not have covered it better.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
I liked it.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
The first rep of one on ones has been ty
Reek versus Mika Fitzpatrick.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
That is instructive to me.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
It used to be Exaving Howard last year with Jeland Ramsey,
like usually the best guy goes and covers the best guy.
That's pretty pretty obvious there, Trent Sherfield, not Trent Sherfield.
Kendall Sheffield had really good coverage on Waddle, but he
makes a lunging catch on the sidelines.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Like That's the.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Point of these two tweets or these two comments is
that you can cover it perfectly and you still can't
stop theek to a Wattle connection. That's my takeaway from that.
Jason Marshall Junior had a pass break up when he
ran the route for a zuokama and cut underneath it
for a pass breakup. Ethan Bonnard got himself in a
great shape on a back shoulder ball to Nwi, but
a perfect throw from Tua makes a catch happen there.
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Bonnard did have a really nice pass breakup in coverage
on a pass that Zach Wilson threw. I didn't see
the receiver where he felt the route and then flipped
the hips and drove downhill and got a hand on it.
Mike Hilton had the clamps on des Gridge on a
throw over the middle. I thought Jason Marshall had just
a solid day. I talked about him a second ago,
but a solid day and putting together a good week here.
Speaking of all that, let's go ahead and finish up
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with some of the under the radar studs that stood
out through the first six days of training camp practice.
Although real quick first, I continue speaking of kind of
under the radar, which although it's quarterbacks, so maybe not,
I've been impressed by the other two quarterbacks. Man Zach
had a couple of misses, but with sharp outside of
a few of those throws.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Same with Quinn.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Quinn was sacked a few times, but he did a
RaSE a free runner by getting depth, you know, going
back around the outside and looping up and then attacking
the last scrimmage to throw the ball down the field
for a completion. I just think you're seeing these guys
get more and more comfortable in the offense, which begs
the question, are they that much better than the previous
backups or is the system maybe catering more to those guys.
I would say it's a little bit of both, and
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it's still early all right. Under the radar guys Alex Madison,
we talked about him, the physical runs and the home run.
Just a really solid camp so far, and when you
think about pass pro and short yardage. The way he
can run behind his pads, I think he's pretty clearly
you're running back three right now, maybe even threatening right
even though I don't think that's gonna happen, but it's
he's been that good. And when we started this thing,
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I thought he'd be a bubble guy with possibly you know,
Ali Gordon, maybe they keep three backs, but I think
right now through six days, he looks like a lock
to me. Tarik Black is a guy that was in
the practice squad last year and I don't think a
lot of folks have talked about him, but he's put
together a nice little camp so far.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
He was a big red.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Zone guy yesterday cut catching a couple of touchdowns. He's
gotten on top of the guys with the vertical stuff,
made a couple of plays on those deep balls up top.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Also has missed war too.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
If he could add that element to his game as
a tall, vertical threat, that could be an interesting back
part of the receiver room, a edition to the Dolphins offense.
Speaking of the back part of the receiver room, Taj
Washington has a say in that he had a crazy
play today where he caught an immediate slant five yards
down the field and then ran for like forty five
yards for a fifty yard gain.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Right, forty five plus one. I think it's fifty.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
But he's separating and making good catches on top of
what he offers as a vertical threat. It's gonna be
a tough choices in a month or so from now
to pick the receivers from that room. Westbrook a Keene
had a consistent day, caught the ball smooth, heavily involved.
I mentioned the Zeke Bigger sack. I thought he played
pretty well today. Kendall Sheffield was in on the Zack
Sealers sack, so a little bit of a little cat
blitz there and had a nice one on one period
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as well. I mentioned Ethan Bonner his play earlier. I
thought he had a good one on one and team
day today.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
And that's it.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
My Orange Jersey predictions are Patrick Paul and Willie Gay
and to just give you a couple more, I'll stay
with Waddle and Brooks. If I keep saying those guys enough,
it's gonna happen eventually. I've not had a good record
this year, but who cares, right, Maybe you care? I
don't know I don't. We're gonna come back and do
it all again tomorrow. We have coach in the morning,
we'll be back in pads, We'll have players after practice,
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and then Thursday off and then Friday, Saturday, Sunday back
at it again.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
No days off for the wicked here, no rest for
the wicked.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
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This is Drivetime with Travis wing Fee. What is up,
Dolphans and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am
your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, the pads
are on and the physicality was apparent.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I'm going to get through the theme.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
The piggybacks off of yesterday's concept of being strong down
the middle, but we'll explore its value from a pass
rush standpoint, as well as Miami's power run game outlook.
We're going to talk about the upside of first and
second year players and the value that could create, not
just for twenty five but beyond. We'll discuss McDaniel being
in his bag with offensive concepts, all the practice notes,
(00:44):
Orange Jersey predictions. We'll hear from t Dot, beach Ub,
James Daniels, and a heck of a lot more, including
the unsung heroes of Camp so Far from the Baptist
Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
This is the Draft Time Podcast, daffeirs.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
It feels like the first day that we're kicking off
the podcast without any news in a while, although Practice
did produce one bit of news via the Injury Variety
with Ashton Davis leaving Practice with an injury today. I
imagine we'll get an update from Coach McDaniel on that
tomorrow morning at his eight fifteen press conference. But I
want to start here because it coincides with so many
(01:23):
things that I have covered on the show recently, but
just as recently as yesterday, and these continued themes being
well themes for the next day just strengthens the belief
an actual that actual theme becoming a reality. And it's
the power of drafting talent that plays early and not
just that, but produces early and the long term benefit
(01:46):
of that. Just Cliff's notes that I covered yesterday, going
back to the various press conferences of Chris Career and
Mike McDaniel this offseason, the famed setting your culture through
the draft quote from Coach McDaniel at the owners meetings,
and then going out and get a bunch of guys
that compete to see who can win the race to
the building in the morning and who can be the
last one to leave. That's what you have right now
(02:07):
between Kenneth Grant, Jonahs Savit Naya, and Patrick Paul. And
I say this because three of the best players on
the field today were those three guys. Players in their
first and second years. And it's not even so much
that Jonah and KG were like winning every rep in
a like obvious eye popping way, but the constant strain
and the use of quality technique for players who haven't
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suited up in an NFL game yet, the power they
just they demonstrate the give and take back and forth.
And I saw from those two like we heard I
think it was Tyrrell Dotson after practice saying that KG
has been with the Ones or no, no, it was
James Daniels rather check that saying that Jonah Saba Andaya
has been with the one since springball and talking about
(02:52):
how like he didn't even start until game whatever his career,
and talking about how like impressive that is and the
experience that he's gained from that and being trusted to
grow into that role as a you know, bona fide
producer at your guard position and take them and run
with them. That to me not only serves to get
you ready for DeForest Buckner and Grover Stewart and Quentin
(03:15):
Nelson come week one, the matchups for those guys on
the interior, because like, yeah, sometimes you see a rookie
climb from the third string or whatever and get a
bunch of wins against fellow rookies and udfas and guys
that were, you know, playing in the Sun Belt Conference
last year and no shit against the sun Belt, but
it just came to my mind first. Then they get
to the season and it takes a while for them
to get going. But like when I see Kenneth Grant
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and Jonahsivit Naya straining and running to the perimeter and
Jonah trying to stay attached with everything that he has,
with kg putting three hundred and thirty pounds in the movement,
skills that he has, fighting back and the back and
forth tug of that. That stuff is going to pay
off come September for those guys and for the teammates
around them. And I was talking to some of the
reporters after practice and with Mike Kunyo from and he
(04:01):
was in agreement with me about this concept of Patrick
Paul being one of the best players on the field
today and just full transparency off the top. He's my
Orange Jersey prediction for tomorrow and I guess we can
get that out of the way now. He and Willie
Gay are the guys I'll pick one and two. But
I was talking about the massive needle movement that would
occur if things play out in a certain way, because
(04:24):
if you hit on Chop, which it kind of feels
like we already know that he has been growing. He
was in the Orange Jersey today off of a really
good rookie season. Kind of feels like that's a given.
But Chop, KG, Jonah, and Pat all of your first
and second round picks the last two years, all players
in the trenches for a team that, when they were
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at their best, was you know, criticized for being two finesse.
Now you've got four players that are, you know, potentially
impact players on the either given line. And you do
that at positions where if you are to go into
free agency and spend money on a left tackle like
toront Arpstad was kind of cheap for a player of
his caliber, but he's at least twenty million bucks. Robert
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Hunt got twenty million bucks a year on the open
market as a guard. We saw what Christian Wilkins got
for the Raiders, and look at what TJ. Watt just
got and what Parsons and Shrey Hendrickson are gonna get
on the open market.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
My point is, if you.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Hit on those four players within their first two years,
you know, year two for Pat and Chopp and year
one for KG and Jonah. That's three and four years
of club control on a rookie contract at positions that
cost you like a significant chunk of your salary cap
if you're going to go find that on the open market,
on top of what you have with the guys that
you've already drafted and developed on the perimeter at the
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quarterback position and so on and so forth. So not
only does that give you production right now, it frees
up your flexibility to improve the roster down the road.
Now now you've got all these under twenty five talents
that are some of the hardest working guys in the team,
and in three years, when they get those contracts re upped,
you bring in the rookies underneath them, and those guys
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set the example for how it's done, how to work,
how we expect things with the standard is inside the building.
I am just very excited about the prospects of that
and how it could unfold. And your boy has a
ton of confidence, and it goes back to their college
tape and the I think I tweeted about Kenneth Grant
being my favorite defensive tackle in the class.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I think.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I tweeted about Patrick Paul and watching his film last
year and being very encouraged by what I saw. And
Jonahsavit Eanya was a guy in the pre draft process
that I targeted as a Dolphins fit, and Duke Manni
Waither said it could be a special guard in this league,
like really really, really good, and then Chop Robinson like,
no mystery there. He's a freaking star already, or has
the makings of a star. I should say he's got
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to prove it first, but it looks like he's gonna happen.
And so I'm not like sitting here telling you what
you want to hear it. I'm just continuing what I
thought going into it, and the returns are what I
thought they would be so very excited about all of that.
I've got a bunch of audio on these guys today.
Let's go ahead and start here with James Daniels, who
talked about Jonah Savit Naya and what he's seen from
the youngster so far.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Jonah's been doing well, I mean him playing when he
first OTA practice, he was going with the starters and
like I didn't start until my rookie year, probably till
like week catching, week six or week seven, and so
like him being a starter for like day one and
going and going through all of Ota is going through
all of camp as like a start. I mean, it's
really impressive because the defense rows lost off fil then
(07:22):
when I was a rookie, I was nowhere near as
advanced as he was, so he is, so I mean,
it's really cool. He's doing a really good job. So
I'm really excited for his progress.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
And all these guys.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Day began with one on ones, which was really fun
to watch, and that's where Patrick Paul's day just kind
of went nuts. Let's go ahead and rattle off my
notes from the one on ones. Kenneth Grant walked to
Jonas to vit Naya back and that got my attention
in a big way. The next rep, Patrick Paul blocks
out the sun on Grays and Murphy, who I love
Grays and Murphy, but in those one on one drills
you can kind of see the length limitations that he
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has and I wouldn't say the same as true of
Mohammed Kamara, which is why you wind up, you know,
going in the fifth round that kind of sack production,
or for Grayson Murphy, who was a good college player
going undrafted, Like there's a certain requisite amount that you
have to bring to an NFL team for them to
get excited about your prospects. I'm not saying they're not
excited about those guys, but I think you could see
those limitations in those drills. And there's a reason why
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very productive pass rushers fall by the wayside of the
draft because you have to have a certain requisite level
of length and skill and explosiveness, all that stuff to
be a high draft pick. And then Chop Robinson gets
a quick win on Larry Borow, who had a very
difficult one on one portion. He over sent him outside
cut back across the face. That was good to see.
Keon Smith had some good reps on Matthew Dickerson, standing
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him straight up. I had that's not the one I want.
I got a receiver a note.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
They're my bad.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Kenneth Grant takes another walk with this time James Daniel.
So he took both the Dolphins starting guards for walks
into the backfield. That's pretty nice to see. But then
Jonah bounces back and has a convincing win one on
one against Kenny Grant. Paul gets Bradley Chubb and stands
him straight up, and then Chop on the next rep
tries to run the arc and he runs him past
the courts back shelf with the speed and the length
and the ability to kind of get to the corner.
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So we saw power and speed from Pat Paul, and
then Chop was beating everybody else that he faced and
would come back to Patrick Paul and have difficulties against him.
Remember last camp I talked about how the only guy
that really did a good job on Chop the entire
summer was was Patrick Paul. Kind of seeing more of
that here. We heard, you know, JP talk about Chop
last week. Let's go ahead and hear from Bradley Chubb
(09:24):
on what he thinks about the Dolphins second year edge
with just oodles of potential.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Percent He's he's lights out man and his motor, the
way he binds the edge, the way he could play
the run. I know a lot of people, some people
in here say he couldn't play the round, but you know,
the way he does that is not sort of a
phenomenal man.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
And I'm excited to see him keep.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Going, I am all the way here for this.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Uh, you know a little bit of clap back on
the idea that he can't play the run because you
won't watching tape if that's what you think about the guy.
And then Pat steps up to the line on his
first rep of team ball and beats our other Orange
Jersey prediction in Willie Gay to get to the landmark
on a wide a Chan run. And by the way,
Devon eh Chan, I know it's crazy to say he
looks better than he ever has, and he gets enough
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of a piece of Willie Gay for Devon to turn
the corner and get up or downhill, I should say,
for a big gainer off the edge. And then just
the pass protection work continued throughout the day. I lost
track of the number of snaps where guys would try
their initial move, get swallowed up inside like a venus
fly trap catching its prey, and then try a spin
move to work back inside on a redirect to kind
of free themselves. But the way venus fly traps work
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is once the mouth was closed, you ain't getting out.
And that's how Patrick Paul is in pass protection. Maybe
a nickname there for him, the venus fly trap, the
how we got to workshop that. Let's go ahead and
hear from Bradley Chubb on Patrick Paul.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Yeah, man fitst fights man, not living with fist fights,
but you know, back and forth, it's a boxing match
at the end of the day that you got to
you win some, he wins some, and you just get
back and learn from it and go back at it.
So I'm excited to see his growth though. So he's
been doing a really good job.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I would not be at all surprised if we saw
someone go after after Pat Paul in a fighting manner
at some point, just because he's been so good and
he is the kind of guy that the way he
wins can be frustrating because it's like almost physically dominating,
And so I can see someone getting upset with Pat
in the future, probably a joint practice down the road,
because these guys are pretty good about taking care of
each other. But keep an eye on that. I think
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we might be heading towards something like that. And he
just was awesome. And then that's on the outside. We
had pads on today and a handful of downhill runs inside,
which again yesterday's segment about the pivot that the packers
and rams and the Niners will have to eventually kind
of fall into here in the post Christian McCaffrey world,
probably if that happens in the near future. About going
with more duo and inside zone and having some gap
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schemes and power guards, and investing heavily in the guard position,
and investing in more guys that can insert inside in
the running game. And Alexander Madison and Ollie Gordon like
that was on display today with the pads for the
first time. I think it's very instructive. I noted that
Alexander and Madison ran with a real power and surge
today and I think you can see his ability and
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more of those traditional run schemes where you just have
to mash, like just play football. Like so much about
the modern day run schemes is like out scheming teams,
and that's great.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I love that. It's my favorite part about football.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
But sometimes you have to just be bigger and stronger
than the guy across from you. And I saw some
of those runs today from Madison with the offensive line
getting their search too and behind the same guys inside
there are doing enough on the perimeter to get us
Devon eight Chan runs, and that's why I'm so damn
excited about what this offensive line can be this year,
for this running game and in the past game. You
have guys that can do a little bit of both.
(12:33):
You have guys that do what I wanted Jackson powers
Johnson to be a target for a couple of years
ago because of his size and athletic ability.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I'm seeing it, damn.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
It, it's out there. It's happening right now, live and
in person. Six days of training camp, and Devon's hitting
big runs and Jalen Wright can do both of those things.
And both guys offer a change up, or I should
say Madison is the change up to those guys.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
It's just varying styles.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
And Madison did have an explos run that I think
was going to be a long touchdown in addition to
all of his grinded out yards. A Chan found cutback
lanes and had a long touchdown catch. More on that
in a moment. But I think that James Daniels has
been as advertised. I saw him in a combo block
on a big a Chan run. I saw him seal
the front side for a nice Madison run. I thought
he showed well in one on ones and on balance,
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has just been steady as he goes. He's not been
susceptible to pressure in the in pass pro. He's getting
movement in the running game. And today he told us
that he expects to get final clearance for full increased
like one hundred percent practice activity. He's been playing for
the majority of camp so far, but it's his last
doctor check and he says he expects to get full
clearance going forward. So it's all great news. They're on
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James Daniels. Let's hear from James on that right side.
And the chemistry brewing with Austin Jackson, who quietly has
had a great camp of his own.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
It's been it's been going well. So it's been going good.
He sits Ryan from me in Medians and we have
like a lot like we talk a lot like imediates
and so about like things he's done in the past
or things that like I've done, and so chemistry has
been going here, stringing well. So I'm really excited to
play with him.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
All good things, all good things. I thought.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Andrew Meyer had another really good day today, and I
think you're seeing why he earned and kept a roster
spot for seventeen games last year and gives us a
really solid option in the event that we are without
Aaron Brewer for a game or two. Speaking of brew
he's out there every single day involved with the quarterbacks
and the centers on the offensive line with Butch Berry,
I think that's worth mentioning. I know the guys looked
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at him as a leader, and he obviously played well
enough to me to garner a Pro Bowl spot last year.
I'm excited to get him back and get this front
five with everybody going, because I think all those guys
are good football players. And if you have five good
offensive linemen and you have two star receivers and you
have a top ten quarterback.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
See pretty good? Pretty good to me, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I do think it was a struggle for Larry Boram,
Daniel Brunskill today, Addison West, Braden Daniels, Jackson Carmen, and
Ryan Hayes were the guys that I thought kind of
surrendered the most activity from the defensive line.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
But they have a chance bounce back tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Let's go ahead and pause right here and stay in
this lane with the interior, but talk about the backers
and how they play off the defensive tackles with more
soundbites from James and Chubb as well as Tyrel dottson
all that next Draft Time podcast brought to you by AutoNation.
On the other side of the football, this defense has
three guys at least that can win just about any
(15:23):
given stap right, Chub, JP and Chopp who just continues
to flourish. But we've seen something we've talked about on
the pod yesterday really transpired today and many of the
days of camp. Two of the best players all Camplong
have been Jordan Brooks and Willie Gaye Jr. And just
for posterity again with the safeties, you know what Minka
and if he can do to fit the run and
(15:45):
blitz on any given snap with Dante Trader and Patrick
mc morris's games are all about to me, that's part
of it. But for the sake of the conversation, I
just want to keep it to the off ball linebackers
right now, and let's go ahead and first hear from
Tyrel Dotson before we get into this on what he
thinks about this line linebacker group of off ball linebackers
not off the edge.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
It's like avengers.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Everyone got their own superpower you know, yeah, we we
we We're getting closer and closer.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
JB's a hell of a guy, and Willie's a hell
of a guy. Like kJ Britt, you know, country boy.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
You know, we're just all a gelling man And it
was just trying to move as one.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
And Willy Gay, who I guess is, uh, don't try
to make superhero comparisons, Travis, because you don't watch those ever.
I don't like superhero movies putting them in theaters. But
Willy Gays, whoever the fastest one is, That's what he
looks like to me. He had a tackle for loss,
had a couple stops in the run game at the
line of scrimmage. He has just been flat out awesome
(16:43):
and was again today probably his best day, which is
kind of crazy to say. I just may say that.
And Jordan Brooks had all of his production in the
run game. I did see him slip in for a
potential pressure sack at one point, rushing that a gap
where he loves to live. And like, this takes me
back to a topic I covered in the off season,
and it goes back to like faith and coaches and
sometimes we make predictions based upon rosters and changes, and
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it reminds me of the New York Jets with Nathaniel Hackett,
Aaron Rodgers and all of that, and everyone's like, this
is going to be a great offense because they have
the quarterback figured out, and I'm like, who's the play caller,
who's the coach on that side of the ball, because
that's important. And that's why I am very bullish on
the defense with Anthony Weaver, because look at what that
man accomplished last year with his entire edge group wiped
out right. He had a rookie and Chop Robinson, Bradley
(17:27):
Chubb didn't see the field, Jalen Phillips on the field
for three and a half games, and that was it.
It was Quinton Bell and a bunch of guys that
are third and fourth and fifth rushers stepping into starting spots.
Emmanuel Ogba gets called back up. Not a ton of
depth of defensive tackle as we're cycling guys like Neil
Ferrell in before Matthew Dickerson, behind Zach Kalais and Benito.
I mean, it was a mixed match Beyond those three
guys up front. They lost to captain in the middle
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of the defense and David Long, and they lost Anthony
Walker mid season to an injury. They incorporate a new
guy mid season in Terrell Dotson, who comes in and
leads a team in interceptions. Then you've got Kendall Fuller
missing games and playing up and down down on the stretch.
Like I think the injury, on top of what his
tape was down the stretch both played into the fact
that he was released from this football team. And let's
be real about this, an atrocious year from the two safeties.
(18:10):
It was the worst year Jvon Hollins's career and Jordan
Poyer we called him Trojan Horse in the podcast for
a reason. He dealt with all of that Weaver did
and still turned around the fourth ranked freaking defense. When
you faced Josh Allen twice, Aaron Rodgers had his best
games against you, which is an indictment in and of
itself of your scheme in that game. But I just
thought Rogers played really damn good in those two games
(18:31):
against the Dolphins, Kyler Murray, Matthew Stafford, Brock Purty, Gino Smith,
Jordan Love, and CJ.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Stroud. All of this.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Is to say that I think building the defense to
the vision of Anthony Weaver might be a good idea,
and what was the vision when he was in Baltimore.
A defense that took off around Justin Matdobueke nom Dae
madab Week now inside of a bunch of good parts
around him, Patrick Queen at linebacker, and what really solidified
that defense was the Rokwan Smith trade. So that's kind
(19:00):
of how I view the additions inside. And I look
at this defense with Zach Seeler, who is just as good,
if not better than Nomdi Mattabuik. He was unblockable today.
Another news Water is wet, Sky is blue. Travis loves
the Dolphins. We talked about Kenneth Grant, Jordan Phillips continues
to look the part. Benito Jones is having a good camp.
I think Matthew Dickerson's made a lot of progress. Zeke
Biggers had a sack in practice today. Then you give
(19:22):
me Jordan Brooks who has turned up to ten. Jordan
Brooks looks like an All Pro linebacker to me, and
Willy Gay might be even better than that.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
So far.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
It's a different role, different responsibilities, but Willy Gay is
probably the MVP of camp for me so far. And
then Tyrrell Dotson's been said as he goes and kJ
Britt makes a couple of run tag offs every practice.
Channing Tindall has quietly had a nice camp. I think
about the combination of those guys playing behind the big
defensive tackles who don't get easily uprooted, but who can
(19:51):
also run to the perimeter because you can allow the
linebackers to stay free and stay clean and unblocked and
can't get the offensive line detached and up to that
second level. And that's gonna let Willie Gay run free.
That's gonna let Jordan Brooks run clean to gaps and
run free. As rushers, I can defend the run from
light boxes and get another guy in the coverage passing
(20:12):
lens and coverage while I heat up the quarterback. With
those guys coming after the quarterback too, that's a lot
to deal with for the opposing quarterback. I think it's
part of the schema that made Matthew Stafford and Brock
Purty not have good games against you last year. I
asked James Daniels about the brad and Bradley Chubb rather
about this dynamic. Let's go ahead and start with Chubb
and then go back to JD on the middle of
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this defense and how it makes things so much better
for the edge guys and how it challenges the offensive
line on the interior with all they have to offer.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
I mean, we've draws it up perfectly, man, and we
got the guys to do it. So, you know, just
seeing how they attack each and every rep and like
I said, it's a race to the quarterback.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
Nobody wants to be the last one there.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
And you know, when we're good, we got what seven
guys with that same mentality.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
I feel like it's gonna be hard to.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Start good because I mean, they know, they know our
plays and like the plays we do and walk through
the plays that we do in practice. So it's like
the plays that I mean, they know how we're blocking things,
and like they're giving us as good would look as possible.
So because they're trying to make the plays. Obviously it's
not a scout team or anything. It's like they're trying
to make the plays as to the best of their ability.
So it's been good work so far.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Let's just go ahead and rip off some notes here
on Willy Gay and Jordan Brooks today. So Willy Gay
beats the block and greets the back at the point
of attack for a big collision on Alexander Mass And
there was a big hit that got the fans going ooh,
like it was one of those pops. Let's see, Willy
Gay's got a sack from depth. He beats Brunskill inside
with a little hesitation step for that sack. Willie Gay
has another sack, wins with the pass rush inside right
(21:36):
down the middle run of the A gap. Willy Gay
has a rundown win from the backside of the formation.
Came in untouched and whacked Jalen right when he tried
to bend that back. A good edge up by Quentin
Bell to force the cutback. So I mean I just
gave you. We talked about him in the coverage and
the curl flat and the hook zones, talked about rushing
the A gap, playing the backside gap against the run,
Like what does this guy not do? Like there's a
(21:58):
reason why he was Travis his top off ball linebacker
of this free agency. He's been better than avertise. Let's
go ahead and hear from Bradley Chubb on Willie Gay.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Yeah, he's all over the place, man. He flies around.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
He's a Super Bowl champ, so I always tell him, Man,
we need that super Bowl DNA whatever, whatever you whatever
bits and crowns you got for is man, we need it.
And he shows it each and every day. So, like
I said, it's great to have him on our team
for sure.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Back to JB here, I got some notes on him.
He comes down this time and gets him for the
sack on too with the edge presence. This team has
these two quick twitch linebackers I wrote, and really feast
rushing the A and B gaps. He also stacked up
an eight chan run off the perimeter earlier in the practice.
I failed to mention this earlier, but Zach Steeler had
two sacks on the day, which you know, grass is green,
sky has blue.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
That type of stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Let's go ahead and pivot here real quick and get
off that topic and use this for this segment or
to close the segment, I should say my last theme
of putting the notes in and it's it's the passing game.
I thought this was Tua's worst day, and I used
air quotes because like, it wasn't even a bad day.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
He hasn't turned the ball over yet.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
He was off target with like two throws, you know,
maybe three, but that's a lot for him. He had
a couple of throws. I think we're intentionally located in
tough spots to account for the coverage and give this
guy a chance to make a play like this throw
on the back hip of Waddle jumping and spinning through
the air with Minka buzzing that crosser across the middle
of the field. For most quarterbacks probably picked that off.
Tua puts it in the right location as settle him
(23:16):
down in the window. He did miss Tyreek on a
corner route that was wide open. That was strange to see.
He had Wattle hot with an overload pressure where he
moved to the side and that got rid of the
ball but missed the throw. The best play on the
entire training camp practices so far was Waddle on a
deep ball that I felt Tua missed. But it's also
a thirty yard touchdown that he missed on. So what
are we doing here? I think you'll see the video
(23:38):
of it on social We'll see if that comes up later.
But I did see a video of it, which was
pretty damn impressive. But it was one of those quick
deep balls where Tua catches it and lets it fly
early because he knows we have track speed on the
perimeter with Waddle and Tyreek Hill. And when you have that,
the receiver has to win right away otherwise you can't
throw that ball. And that's exactly what Wattle did on
this play. He gets vertical, he stacks the corner back,
(23:59):
then he lays out. It's Ethan Bonner by the way
he lays out. And when I say King Griffey Junior
making a full speed catch deep in the right center
field gap with the Kingdome full extension, he had to
secure the football with just his hands going to the ground.
A simply outstanding catch the playoff training camp for me.
And that's been Waddle all camp long, and quite frankly,
it's been Tyreek two who I noticed is catching the
(24:20):
ball really smooth today. I mentioned this in front of
John Conjemi, like it looks like Tidreek's catching the ball
a lot cleaner this year. And he's like, yeah, how
could he not like fight the football last year with
that wrist surgery he had to have And he didn't
have the surgery, so like he's just playing with, you know,
banged up wrist and Tyreek made plays over the middle
on the perimeter. But I want to tell you, guys,
the surest sign that this offense can get back to
(24:40):
twenty twenty three levels. There seemed to be this concerted
effort to lift the coverage today, and it's being a
bad teammate to tell you what the concepts are. Violates
reporting rules on top of that. But I can say
that the way they were able to lift the coverage
as decoys of sorts, it freed up all these big
plays like alec Ingold got turned free up the sideline
when both Reek and ran the defense offensive pitch and
(25:01):
catch for thirty yards easy as you like. I saw
them get devon a Chan matched up on Bradley Chubb.
That's not what the Dolphins defense wants on a vertical route,
and that results in a sixty yard touchdown as long
as a Chan can make Mika Fitzpatrick miss in wide
open space, and if Miko makes a miracle tackle, it
was still a forty yard gain. And then there was
one play that was probably innocuous to most folks, but
I noticed that this is me smell of my own farts,
(25:24):
But this they had Waddle matched up on dots and
because of the motion and the way the defense bumped
the coverage, it created a bad matchup. And Waddle got
a little quick hitter from Tua against Tyrel Dotson for
like seven yards, but he was in a huge space
of grass after the catch, like Packer's eighty six yard
touchdown Christmas patch of grass. Like, I think it was
(25:47):
gonna be a big play. So they created all these
offensive looks. They had to create big yards. I thought
that was instructive. On top of the run game success
and the deep balls. I've just seen a little bit
of everything from this offense. Two Camps ago and three
Camps Ago really was up with deep ball, throwing these
long shots for exciting plays that were long touchdowns and
great to see. Last year it was all the short
stuff and being like, oh, this is a good compliment,
(26:08):
but they didn't have either of those two things the
previous year. I've seen a better variety of it this year.
And Tua, Waddle, Reek and a Chan who all have
been fantastic in camp so far. There's not many four
sums in the National Football League. I'm taking over those guys. Sorry,
I'm not sorry. Let's go ahead hit our last break
right there and talk about the secondary a little bit
and finish up with a new segment idea I have.
(26:29):
I want to talk about some of the under the
radar guys that haven't gotten a ton of love, but
I've had nice camps. That's next Draft Time podcast, brought
to you by Auto Nation. I mentioned this in my
notes that Minka was doing a lot to take away
the deep shots in this Tuesday practice. Today's Tuesday, Right yeah,
South Park's tomorrow South Park? How about that first episode.
(26:50):
And that's on top of all the coverage stuff he
does in the intermediate, how he can insert against the
run and as a rusher. He is the real deal man.
I thought the secondary had a really good start in
the one on ones. They won the first like three
reps of practice, even though Tyreek caught the first ball,
but Minka Fitzpatrick was all over him and runs this
comeback route. The ball was perfect, a good catch too,
but Minca could not have covered it better.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
I liked it.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
The first rep of one on ones has been ty
Reek versus Mika Fitzpatrick.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
That is instructive to me.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
It used to be Exaving Howard last year with Jeland Ramsey,
like usually the best guy goes and covers the best guy.
That's pretty pretty obvious there, Trent Sherfield, not Trent Sherfield.
Kendall Sheffield had really good coverage on Waddle, but he
makes a lunging catch on the sidelines.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Like That's the.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Point of these two tweets or these two comments is
that you can cover it perfectly and you still can't
stop theek to a Wattle connection. That's my takeaway from that.
Jason Marshall Junior had a pass break up when he
ran the route for a zuokama and cut underneath it
for a pass breakup. Ethan Bonnard got himself in a
great shape on a back shoulder ball to Nwi, but
a perfect throw from Tua makes a catch happen there.
(27:54):
Bonnard did have a really nice pass breakup in coverage
on a pass that Zach Wilson threw. I didn't see
the receiver where he felt the route and then flipped
the hips and drove downhill and got a hand on it.
Mike Hilton had the clamps on des Gridge on a
throw over the middle. I thought Jason Marshall had just
a solid day. I talked about him a second ago,
but a solid day and putting together a good week here.
Speaking of all that, let's go ahead and finish up
(28:16):
with some of the under the radar studs that stood
out through the first six days of training camp practice.
Although real quick first, I continue speaking of kind of
under the radar, which although it's quarterbacks, so maybe not,
I've been impressed by the other two quarterbacks. Man Zach
had a couple of misses, but with sharp outside of
a few of those throws.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Same with Quinn.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Quinn was sacked a few times, but he did a
RaSE a free runner by getting depth, you know, going
back around the outside and looping up and then attacking
the last scrimmage to throw the ball down the field
for a completion. I just think you're seeing these guys
get more and more comfortable in the offense, which begs
the question, are they that much better than the previous
backups or is the system maybe catering more to those guys.
I would say it's a little bit of both, and
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it's still early all right. Under the radar guys Alex Madison,
we talked about him, the physical runs and the home run.
Just a really solid camp so far, and when you
think about pass pro and short yardage. The way he
can run behind his pads, I think he's pretty clearly
you're running back three right now, maybe even threatening right
even though I don't think that's gonna happen, but it's
he's been that good. And when we started this thing,
(29:14):
I thought he'd be a bubble guy with possibly you know,
Ali Gordon, maybe they keep three backs, but I think
right now through six days, he looks like a lock
to me. Tarik Black is a guy that was in
the practice squad last year and I don't think a
lot of folks have talked about him, but he's put
together a nice little camp so far.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
He was a big red.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Zone guy yesterday cut catching a couple of touchdowns. He's
gotten on top of the guys with the vertical stuff,
made a couple of plays on those deep balls up top.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Also has missed war too.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
If he could add that element to his game as
a tall, vertical threat, that could be an interesting back
part of the receiver room, a edition to the Dolphins offense.
Speaking of the back part of the receiver room, Taj
Washington has a say in that he had a crazy
play today where he caught an immediate slant five yards
down the field and then ran for like forty five
yards for a fifty yard gain.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Right, forty five plus one. I think it's fifty.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
But he's separating and making good catches on top of
what he offers as a vertical threat. It's gonna be
a tough choices in a month or so from now
to pick the receivers from that room. Westbrook a Keene
had a consistent day, caught the ball smooth, heavily involved.
I mentioned the Zeke Bigger sack. I thought he played
pretty well today. Kendall Sheffield was in on the Zack
Sealers sack, so a little bit of a little cat
blitz there and had a nice one on one period
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as well. I mentioned Ethan Bonner his play earlier. I
thought he had a good one on one and team
day today.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
And that's it.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
My Orange Jersey predictions are Patrick Paul and Willie Gay
and to just give you a couple more, I'll stay
with Waddle and Brooks. If I keep saying those guys enough,
it's gonna happen eventually. I've not had a good record
this year, but who cares, right, Maybe you care? I
don't know I don't. We're gonna come back and do
it all again tomorrow. We have coach in the morning,
we'll be back in pads, We'll have players after practice,
(30:45):
and then Thursday off and then Friday, Saturday, Sunday back
at it again.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
No days off for the wicked here, no rest for
the wicked.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
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