Dolphins Training Camp 2021 Day 10 Recap

some exciting news. Will cover the contract restructure of xaviing Howard here from coach and x himself, as well as some other players. You got to hear what John Jenkins said. Today we'll cover the top performers, the matchup of the day, and as always, go unit by unit and breakdown yet another practice from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast. Little

moment upon arrival this morning to b HTC. The video team is gathering for their daily duties as they do every day, and I come into the podcast studio, which is adjacent to the video room, and there's a quiet buzz before somebody says, that's a great way to start the day, and they broke the news to me, the Xavier Howard and the Miami Dolphins agreed to a restructured contract. So that certainly gave me a pep to my step heading out to practice, and sure enough, a few moments

later it was confirmed by Brian Flores. Let's start the podcast by going to coach talking about the restructure of Exavian Howard's contract. Well, we're excited and we look. I've been up here multiple times saying we've been making progress. Uh, we have, Barry. Barry was asking me a question that

the question about progress. We're making progress, and then you guys probably felt like, uh, um, we were where I wasn't, you know, giving you all the information, which I wasn't, but we were working on it and I'm not gonna give you guys the details. But I're excited to um, I've gotten this done, um, and we are. I'm just looking forward to continually improving with Xum and really his teammates on a day to day basis. And uh, I'll just try to just build and get better offensively, defensively

in the kicking game. And x did play a fair amount in practice today returning from the ankle injury. I had a couple of notes on him. First, a pair of coverage reps. The first one was a rep down around the goal line, something like the five ish to eight ish yard line in that range. It was on the opposite side of the fields. I couldn't quite see, but going into the end zone and the receiver runs across the end line back under the goal posts, and the offense was having a lot of success with this

throughout the course of practice. And X takes a rep on mac Collins and pins him to the line and the throw goes by without really even the possibility or ability for Hollands to make a play on the football because of very rock solid coverage. Good to see that out there again from number twenty five. Then on a slant in the same area of the field, the ball gets into Isaiah Ford, into the belly or the bread basket rather, but X reaches in and strips that thing

out for the completion. And we note his ball skills all the time, obviously ten picks and a forced fumble last year. He's all about the football. I saw him try to punch one out on Mac Collins on the very first rep of the team period, and he connected on the football, but Mac hung onto it. Then again on another play he connects on the ball with Myles Gascon, but he's not going to cough that thing up. Just great to see X out there getting some work, and

after practice he met with the media. Now X is a man of few words, as he was with us post practice today, but I want to go ahead and play the audio for you. I asked X a question about how this team, how this defense and his teammates helped maximize his skill set and empower him to be the player we've come to know. Here's x um. I think we speaking out of each other. We've we've chaped each other. You know, we're gonna be there for you guys, no matter what. So you know you know they did

they think we all did it together. And Coach spoke about the return of X at his morning press, reminding us that he kept saying things were going in the right direction as you heard, and we've reached the conclusion. All right, let's go ahead and get to the housekeeping. Today. It was great to see Andrew Van Ginkle back on the football field, dressed in full pads and working. Davante Parker was out there again today, but this time in the non contact Red Jersey, no Will Fuller, no Jalen Phillips,

and no Albert Wilson. Wilson's absence was for undisclosed reasons. And before we turn to the practice notes here, I want to go back to the audio here of John Jenkins, Miami's defensive tackle, and his media after practicing day because he was a treat to talk to. He was asked in his post practice media about why he chose to come back to Miami after a stint with the Bears. In there after his stint with Miami, here's John Jenkins.

And when I got the call from him after I got released from the Giants, I heard it in his voice, you know. And I've been with some great defense throughout my years, you know, and to hear a tone of voice like close flow during that time, you know, and even now, it makes me want to just you know, do everything and anything possible to complete my job and do my job at the best of my ability. I mean,

how good is that? So I had to follow up with John to ask him, since you know, you were here for flows first year, not year two, but now you're back for year three and with coach always talking about the growth of players in the development. Let's go ahead and turn tables here, turn the tables and asked him how has coach grown in his third year from what you saw in your number one? Yeah, I mean he believe in us, you know, he he allowed us,

He allowed us to be players. He allowed uh the leaders to step up in and he allowed the groups to form and identity. So I know, you gotta head. Is that a lot of players to be players in Hey? That's so again, fun practice on Sunday, really good weekend of work in general. Really And I took down two notes from the Indies slash Fundy period individual fundamental periods.

First two or through a corner route to Jalen Waddle and it's on air, so I mean, take it for what you want, But man, he just explodes off the top of the stem. Your stem is going to be the part of the route where you're going vertical towards the end line and then you make your move and out up or back whatever it might be. And the way he accelerates to the corner, I just it looks

like a very tough cover. And you can see the chemistry there with tow a developing and building on these types of throws is he really seems to have the calibration down to gauge for the speed and where the target is going to be with regards to where the football has to be and where it has to to send for Wattle to run under it after he's created maximum separation, not turning back for the football or too

far out in front. That calibration looks pretty good to me early on and to contin knew this point on, Wattle just another really good day of making tough catches. You know, the slant in the end zone where the quarterback will throw it low so it's either a catch or an incompletion. He got his arms under one of those today. He caught one on a little hookup or a curl route between a couple of defenders and hangs

onto that thing for dear life. He caught another one of those quick rips up the scene that we've kind of seen become a trend in practice between he and tow Ah. He caught one work in the perimeter, catching it out in front of off of his frame, using the hands to make that catch. And later in the team period the pressure arrived quickly and to a got it out quickly and Waddle had to win quickly, and

he did for the completion. He's been a treat to watch through the first ten days in practice, and I cannot wait to watch him go up against someone else in a different jersey, whether it's practice against the Bears next week or the game's coming up here in the preseason, coach was also asked about the gate the limp of Jalen Waddle, and he said he would attribute that to camp sore nous, as guys are kind of dealing with getting through these first ten days practice and just generally

the soreness and fatigue that happens this time of year at training camp. My other note in this pre practice period watching the individual drills was getting a good look at Austin Jackson, but also his live reps later on in practice. You can see the natural movement ability when maybe we talked about Austin Jackson's ability to just athletically move and slide in the natural smooth feet, the light feet,

and they'll overall natural skills that he comes with. The knee bend, for instance, he can you know you hear the terms knee bender and wastebender if you're a waste spender not good, but if you can be flexible with the knees, it allows you to sink into the contact and absorb it and use the ground as kind of your friend or your help. There he plays load to

the ground. He's dropping that anchor, which again is part of the knee bend and past protection with the ability to not get his feet stuck in the ground so he can anchor and readjust and reposition. He's also getting under his man frequently in the run game and creating push that way, I mean, from my eyes, he's shown very very good signs of increm donal growth throughout camp

so far through ten days. And that takes us back into the notes, starting with the quarterbacks again like we do every day, and we covered some of the work with Wattle, both and indies and the team periods. The Dolphins offense was having a great day in those three on three drills down around the goal line and into seven on seven also later in practice. I have no idea how many total touchdowns there were today, but there were a lot of them, and again lots of red

zone and goal line works. That's to be expected. But the fans also got treated to a ton of reps from tah and the quote unquote ones today at practice, so to A opened up that period, the three on three period with three of four scores on the four reps.

The incomplete was damn good coverage and the flat from the ever quick and ever speed Jerome Baker who raced out there to the flat to disrupt a passing window on a pass to the back, and one of twos throws was a nice lobb to the corner and another one was a quick fastball in between a pair of defenders to Boat and he had a nice throw to the corner later on a pass to Kirk Merritt who

went up and pulled that down. So you see a nice of them on two on a couple of those throws, but also the ability for him to mix up the arsenal of pitches that he has the law of the quick pass, whatever it might be, he can go to different pitches in his bag. And then Jacoby Brissette comes in and completes all three of his reps to Foster Carter and I did not get a number on the third,

that's my bad. But it wasn't just offense. I mean there was a no throw because of coverage at one point from LeBlanc, mccordy and Ellis on the rep and speaking of mccordy, he continues to have a really strong camp. He was in the territory of a lot of incomplete passes. Today he's just smooth in the entire operation. For as much as we harp on fundamentals and technique down here, he's a great example for the young guys to follow, and I'm sure that's the case in the film room.

Just watch the way thirty does things. He does it the right way. Nick need Hum and Eric Rowe, speaking of coverage, had a great bracket on jakeem Ground for Jachem Grant for an incomplete pass from Jacoby Brissette, and we hear plenty more from Row throughout the course of the day. And Jamal Harry got his seemingly daily pass break up on that flat route to the front pylon.

It looked to me like he had a chance to pick it off, but the angle that we showed on social shows you that he had to reach out there with one hand to tip it away for the PBu. And finally Malcolm Brown caught the last pass of the drill just short of the goal line from Brissette and Calvin Munson showed you the physicality he offers to drive on that play and keep him out of the end zone. Munson has gotten some reps on defense and special teams in his time here in Miami. He plays physical brand

of football. Let's finish up with the quarterbacks, and I really want to talk about running backs today. A lot too was sharp all practice long with the variation of throws I mentioned, but one thing I noted in my tweeting at practice was how quickly he gets the ball to the backs and receivers on the short throws, like, for instance, if you throw to the flat, he gets it out quickly, and you might see that route open up as a quarterback and tell yourself, okay, I've got

that in my back pocket. Let's take another peek downfield and see what we have down there. Then by the time you come back, you've limited the options of that short pass. You've limited his options because you put him in a box. But when you see a guy getting to a spot with a favorable matchup, and really they're all gonna be favorable matchups when you're in space, because tackling is hard enough, but doing it in space on all the athletes NFL has to offer these days. It's

just really difficult. But he just flips that thing out there. And I tweeted at O J mcduffee to get some confirmation and he said absolutely. I mean, why not use O J McDuffie a dolphin's legend when you have him in your back pocket? There? Late throws lead to headaches, he said. And so he gets this route out to Miles Gascon for instance, and think of it this way. Miles catches it on the move at the numbers, which you know, give you a solid fifteen yards or so

to the sideline. Now the defender has to account for him to accelerate to the perimeter. He has to worry about him dropping the shoulder and getting vertical, He has to worry about the cutback, and he also has to worry about Miles pressing his toes and going straight at him and then forcing him onto his heels and making

a move in any of those three directions. So he has to break down his you know, come to come to balance and come to control, break it down and then be able to match miles acceleration as well, which is just not easy to do. So give your guys the options. I'll never forget watching hard knocks with the Bengals and Chad Johnson was complaining about the exact same thing.

Get me the football early. He kept screaming to his young quarterback Andy Dalton on this little route where they would motion him across the formation and have him run parallel to the line. Otherwise the defender can get out to the perimeter, funnel that thing back in and then come up and help from the edge closing and as he sets the edge and helps off the edge as well as kind of putting that thing back to the teeth of the defense. I hope that all made sense,

and a quick aside here, real quick. I like coaches message in the pressure this morning, referring to the one thing players can do to help themselves is to know where the help is and know how to use that help. Very important stuff on a football field. I thought Jacoby Brissette was decisive and accurate today, especially in the two

minute period. He had a really nice completion to Heathan Carter on a corner route where he stepped up and got away from some exterior pressure, reset his mechanics and delivered a strike right and stride in the two minute period to get himself get that offensive drive going to uh in the day. Generally was accurate. Once again, he threw from different angles, but he had the two I

N T s in the two minute period. One was a clear miscommunication as he threw the ball to a spot where I think he was probably expecting Shaheen to set the route down and he carried it up the seam instead and it goes right into the lap of Eric row Ta goes up to Shaheen to talk to him after that, and he gave him a pat on the helmet, which again speaks to the leadership in command that mac Hollins talked about we covered on the podcast yesterday.

And then the second one, well, we're gonna cover that here in just a minute. I want to finish up with this note on the quarterbacks. I like the way this receiver room has balance of size and speed, built like a basketball lineup, and how the quarterbacks are really developing a sense of how each player operates at their best at their peak, like which routes and which throws are are suited for each guy. I think seeing the evolution of each practice gives you kind of a linear

trajectory that is going in the right direction. For how that chemistry has developed between mac Hollins versus a Jalen Waddle with two with Jacoby Brisette with Read Senet, and just the different skill sets those guys have and how they've matched up. Let's go ahead and get to the running backs now, and the play of the day was a run by Savon Akhmed. From myimony, his first run set the tone for what kind of day he was

going to have. In my opinion, he runs up the middle and sees it, you know, kind of bunch up, kind of clog up. Then he bounces it outside and wins the corner with a foot race, and rather than just taking the thing right out of balance for five or six yards, he sticks his foot in the ground and runs through contact upfield for an extra few yards to gain about eight or nine on that play. Then a few runs later was the run of the day and maybe the play of the day. He's got the jets,

I wrote on Twitter. Takes a toss, gets to the perimeter and turns it on and Javarus Davis came from the other side of the play, the other side of the formation to possibly stop him at about the twenty yard line, but I think it was probably gonna be a seventy five or eighty yard touchdown, and I didn't see where it started twenty five or twenty yard line.

There was good blocks on the outside by Merit and Hunter Long, adding explosive plays like that in the run game to what this receiver group has shown you throughout camp. If you can get both those things cranking, men, that's gonna be a fun show to watch. But Savon on that particular run the juice to press outside, which forces the kind of the overflow of the linebackers and second

level defenders to come over the top. Then he can bang that thing back up inside and use the speed to accelerate and leave everybody in the dust at that point. So I wanted to ask Myles Gaskon after practice, since he's so close to Savon, their best buddies. I asked Savan to evaluate where Savan is from now compared to where he was when he got here right at the

end of camp last season. Just confidence, um, I think, I mean with me being with him at U dub is kind of the same jump from his freshman year to sophomore year, and con said the same thing the league. Rookie year to the second year. You make that jump so confident, making a lot of making a lot of good cuts, asking a lot of good questions in the room. Um definitely putting in or having a good input on what other guys are doing, or hey, did you see

it over here? I saw it like this and this out in the third So I just kind of seeing him grow into it. So NFL running back is always exciting. But I mean that's I mean, that's what we're gonna happen regardless. I got a lot of fathing that do. And Miles in his own right is having a damn

good camp as well, and particularly in the passing game. Man, he is making a lot of people miss in space and frequently, and he's got such steady hands, whether it's running the flat or the flare, which is a tough angle to catch the football running away from the quarterback with your kind of back parallel to the line of scrimmage. You have to turn your hands over and make that play while also being blind to the pursuit behind you. He catches wheel routes down the field, angles over the middle.

He can really do it all. And that extra Pep and his step. I think that's noticeable, especially when he puts the foot in the ground takes off. He also talked about leadership today, as you heard him mention the jump from SAVANMD from freshman year to sophomore year at U dub We heard my always talk about this in an earlier podcast that his last press availability, but here he is talking about his leadership and being a conduit from the coaching staff to the players on the football

field very important. Uh. I've been here for three years. I've been with Flow for all of them. Um, so I've been able to see what he wants to see out of his players, how he wants to see this organization ran as a team, and being able to relay that message to to the other players as like a player that's been there myself, especially to the young guys. And uh, I mean, I feel like that's my role at this point. And I thought the run game as

a whole really had one of their best days. Malcolm Brown had a really nice jump cut to stretch the defense and then get vertical. Jared Oakes looks the part in the short yardage and goal line game. There was a couple of times this camp. It's looked like he's been stacked up right away at the line and then he's surged us through the arm tackles for an extra yard or two. He had one touchdown run working behind blocks of Adam Pinky Durball, Kiras Netto and Chris Myrick today.

Then that takes us to the offensive line, and Miles talked about how he loves watching the way those guys compete every single day. They bring the juice, they bring the energy. And one of my favorite blocks came from rookie Lee and Eichenberg on a pole where he has to square up a block in space and man, he nailed that thing. And there was Emmanuel Ogba two, So not a not an easy task for Eichenberg and he got some good push and sealed some lane today. Thought

he and Austin Jackson were good that way today. Laurnel Coleman has been impressive the last few days. He had a really nice rep on Shaq Griffin where he didn't panic on the speed upfield pass rush move that Shack likes to throw, and then he redirected Shakim's spin back to the inside. Good work there from Coleman. He talked in the past about playing basketball and defense and staying in front of your man. Saw some of those traits today, the way he can kind of transition that weight from

side to side. Now, the goal line work went to the offense today, which is a nice response to the last time they really ran that drill and the defense was stout. The offense scored on three of the four plays, including one throw from two of a smile where to really sold the play fake, extending the football all the way out there. You get the fall steps out of the linebackers. Those details really matter in the run game

and the play action game. Then they hammered it on the ground twice, one with Doakes and one with Miles. I thought Cameron Tom had some good work upfront as well at center. Also mentioned Adam Panky earlier. I thought he too had himself a good day. So some good work from the offensive line, and as a whole, the old line really well worked well in protection today. I thought to slide pick up stunts and games communicate passing

off certain rushers. There were a few instances where to A was legitimately allowed to stand back there for three or four seconds and survey the action survey of the field, and if you give this receiving corps that kind of time, big things can happen at tight end. The bummer of the day was Hunter Long leaving the field on the practice on the cart. He left practice on the cart and did not return. Obviously, I hope he's okay. We'll get you an update when we have that. Shaheen and

Smythe made some plays in the passing game. Smythe had a number of solid blocks in the run game too, and then the receivers we touched one out a little bit. Jachem Grant made a bunch of plays again today. His moves to create separations sure are fun to watch at the top of the route. Holland's size is something defenses have to deal with, both as a blocker and the way he catches passes and tight quarters, especially in the

red zone. He made a bunch of plays again today, both on offense and working his butt off on special teams. Will touch more on the receivers here and just a little bit. Let's go ahead and get over to the defensive side of the football. And Zach Seeler was a wrecking crew today. He was in there against both the past and the run game. You see that grip strength that allows him to control reps and really attack the gap he needs to is he has to work off

either the left or the right side. Because of that strength in that reach, he can sure do that. He's a smart player that gets himself in position a lot too. And Christian Wilkins was also a beast today. He had a couple of run stops even a TfL or two

in the practice. He's making plays every day where he stays on his block and then disengages at decision time like it's time to go time, like right when the back is about to get to the gap, he comes off that block because if you come off the block too soon, then the offensive lineman can climb to a linebacker. But Christian does well to stack it up and then make plays off of that. And then Adam Butler had

a would be sacked in the team period. So he continues to get pass rush up front for the Dolphins. And then Jerome Johnson caused a nice pile up in the one stop of the defense they had in the goal line drills. He is the U d f A from Indiana number sixty seven. To keep an eye on him on Saturday in Chicago. Emmanuel Ogba had a sack today that was blown dead by the refs. He's adding some more pressures throughout practices to go along here. Stacked up the running a couple of times a day as well.

He's consistently setting a strong edge in the running game. Also off the edge shakeem Griffin and Tyshon Render teamed up for a very nice run stop on a Patrick Laird run today. Really nice move by Render to get off a block of Robert Jones on that play, and then Jonathan Ledbetter had a nice play in the run period also to get off a block and make a play on the ball. Care good to see ninety three

out there making plays throughout camp so far. I love the way Andrew Van Ginkle has a variety of block defeating moves in his arsenal and kind of like he does with a pass rush as well. And it coincides with the ability to flatten the edge because he can really get under blocks and stay on balance as he gets load to the ground to make the tackle on the ball carrier or the quarterback. We saw that a couple of times a day. Sam egg Von Strong camp continues.

He is flying all over the place and doing it all phases, run past rush game and Jerome Baker showed you the speed we talked about in the coverage drill, but also on a sack where to A stepped up and out of pressure, and then Baker was there with a quick trigger to close the space and forced two a laterally to the line of scrimmage and the reps blew that play dead. If I had to guess based on past Mike Depps, I've seen he was definitely yelling sack, sack,

sack the entire time. Bernardrick McKinney made some play scraping off stacked up blocks of the guys in front of him too, So that relationship with a D line and linebackers seems to be clicking well here ten days into camp. Let's then go to the secondary here where A and Jason mccordy was just having a hell of a day in the area where the offense was having so much success down around the goal line, so many of the incompleations. You look up and you see thirty In coverage, we

talked about X and his ball production. Byron Jones punched one out today in the ball security drill, I think he also had one in the team period that was recovered by Javon Holland. He had a really good day in general, wasn't really targeted a whole lot. He was competitive often in phase and just attached to his man and coverage. He even stayed square with Jalen Waddle on a play in open space, and we know how hard

that is to do. Good work by Byron Jones. And then Eric Roeman, what a problem he was for the offense on Sunday. He had the pick on the first play of two minutes. He tipped another one that could have turned into a pick, but Jachem caught it one handed. He was flying in on run support, covering one on one, playing some zone and just getting in the right position

all day long. Good day for Eric row and then Nick Needham scored himself a sac Cravon LeBlanc had a couple of p b U s and I want to finish up here with a player that takes us right

into our matchup of the day. But before we do that, the player who was the unsung hero of the interception to end practiced by Javon Holland, who had the two picks in three days and the fumble recovery by the way, but Javaris Davis, the former Auburn cornerback and you d f a really helped him get that pick today because he had blanket coverage on Jachem Grant on a takeoff route where he really pinned him into the sideline to allow Javon to show the range and ability to high

point the football for the takeaway to quote unquote win the game in the two minute scenario, get the pick, get down, let the clock right now as you take in the on offense on the other side. And with that, let's get to the matchup of the day, Javon Holland versus two A Tongue by Lowe. I'll never forget asking

Xavier McKinney about practicing against TWA back at Alabama. I asked him this NFL combine and how their relationship blossom because of the talks they would have after practice, just kind of going over the day's work, certain plays, what each other each other saw on a play by play basis, and with the goal of the quarterback, you know so

frequently to manipulate the post player. I tried my best to scan the relationship between these two players on a handful of reps and it sure was fun to watch, but just two extremely instinctive players who spend so much time with the excess and nose and trying to find advantages anyway they can before they even hit the practice field, and both had some wins against each other. And it was going into his favor early as he was really controlling the intermediate portion of the field, both down the

middle and to the outside of the numbers. He had the quick rips to Waddle and Shaheen and Hollands and a couple of throws. But then Javon Holland really came to life in the two minute periods, showing more range and I've seen on the practice field from that position in a long time, and the way he got over the top on that rep high points the football. I think you can just see why he was top five in the country and interceptions between and with nine picks

in those two years. And Oregon also not for nothing. The long completions have really tempered recently since the first week of camp, and I think with a rookie signal caller in that position, that shows you the growth. That's a great sign to see. So today's top performers are Jalen Waddle, just a quickness and explosiveness that he continues to show. It pops every day. Savan Akhmed the big run.

He looks really fast out there. Christian Wilkins spent a lot of time in the backfield today, so did Emmanuel Ogba with the pass rush in the run game, as did Zack Seiler. Those guys all get on. Top performers. Eric Rowe was a beast in coverage. Jerome Baker had some sacks or a sack rather and some coverage reps and wins. Jerome Johnson had a great rap on the goal line. Also some good reps with the third team there, Liam Eichenberg some good blocks along with Austin Jackson, and

then Javon Holland. Two is a Waddle, Achmed, Wilkins, Ogba, Seiler, Rowe, Baker, Johnson, Eichenberg, Jackson, Holland Tongue by Low was in there until the very last period when of Hudant took him off there because you've given him a lot of praise on this podcast for a great camp so far. Let's get to two Twitter questions and start with this one. It's from Rob Hella. Brand he's at Dolphan rob One on Twitter, I was curious how coach Flores conducts himself at practice with the players.

Is he an old school yeller or the strong silent type or an active explainer and teacher. It's a great question, Rob And I actually was taking a look at the coaches working today in the individuals and fundamental drills, because I mean, how many times can I possibly report on how big break Kwon Davis looks or how flexible Emmanuel Agbay is and the coaching staff to me is a reflection of coach Floras, and what I mean by that is they are very all, very much hands on teachers.

I was watching coach Campanelli work with the linebackers, for instance, and how they adjust to motion pre snap, and he was out there really showing them rather than just telling them, you know what I mean, And the same with Austin Clark. He was literally working step by step with where the hands and the past rush moves go with a certain guys on the bags like Butler and Steeler and Wilkins

and Davis, all those guys. And you heard me talk about g A. Alexander and Charles Burke's at length on this podcast, but today they were working on this communication of covering bunches and stacks in the natural rubbrowts. We've talked about down in the red zone and who goes where with who at what certain look are certain route. Just the crispness of it all was really cool to watch and really quite pretty Honestly, I love watching the animated look of both g A and Coach Burke's going

through it all. And I tell you all of this to say that guys work with more than just their position groups, and that's true a flow as well. I mean, that's how he came up as a coach special Team's defense scout, all of it. And I had noticed that he spends a lot of time recently with the quarterbacks this training camp and to your point, your final point here,

it's hard to get a read on. I've heard his voice get loud at times from the practice field, but I've also seen our social videos where he's out there messing around with the Rae Kwon Davas saying you know, I'm gonna push your buttons as they kind of pokes with the mic under his chest play on those mike up days. So to summarize it's a collection of all of it. This stact does a great job of not

pigeonholing itself in anyway. Next question here from Shorty at fins Or he wants a fifty three man projection at the receiver position. Uh, and Shorty, I'm entering this because I want you to know that everybody who says they know is kind of full of it. Frankly, it's so deep this year. Isaiah Ford signs late, He's come out here and just bald, which adds another factor to the equation. Jachim Grant has always been a really good practice player, and this has been, for me, the best camp he's

had that I've seen the last three years. Robert Foster made a ton of plays early on. Mac Collins is having a tremendous camp. Alan Hearnes is making plays. Lynn Bowden has a unique skill set that we saw as a rookie. Malcolm Perry too, and Kirk Merritt has played as well as anybody regardless of position. Then you obviously know about Fuller, Wattle and Parker, and Albert Wilson looks like his old self to boot. This is all to say that it's kind of an impossible task to pick

it it really is. I mean, just for fun. The other night, when I was off the clock, so to speak, I was kind of going through what I think it might look like right now across the roster, and I simply couldn't make a choice at receiver. Just couldn't do it. If I had to rank the camps from what I've seen, I'd say Waddle, Wilson, Merritt, Grant Ford, Hollins have made the most plays, I think. But you know what I'm

I'll put it to you this way. I'd say, at least eleven guys on the roster, we'll take an NFL snap at some point this ye, whether it's here or catching on with somebody else. Like it's crazy to say that every day a handful of guys are just making plays. It's a great job from the front office and staff to go out and beef up this room after late in the year. Last year, injuries really took a toll

in the position and challenged its depth. Alright, that's gonna be my time on this edition of the Drivetime podcast presented by Auto Nation. But first let's do some programming notes here real quick. We have some schedule changes next week. We'll be back with you again either tomorrow night or Tuesday morning for a new podcast. It will be ten takeaways from camp so far, the first ten days of practice.

It will also feature more of your Twitter questions as well as the media from the assistant coaches we have scheduled for Monday. Then it's Wheels Up to Chicago. The next pod after this Assistant Coaches Takeaway slash mail Bag pod will be covering the Thnesday practice in Chicago. Then we'll do it again Thursday day off on Friday. Then we'll have the postgame recap from Chicago on Saturday night

for you guys. Fun times ahead, but in the meantime, you all please be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple podcast. Need us the rating, leave us a review, Go ahead and follow me on Twitter. It's at linkfoot NFL. You can follow the team at Miami Dolphins, check out the fish take podcast with Set and o J, and of course Miami Dolphins dot com. And until next time,