Dolphins Training Camp 2021 Day 11 Recap, Joint Practice with the Bears

with the Chicago Bears for a spirited joint practice. Will cover the top performers, position by position, details a new type of matchup of the day. We'll talk about the Dolphins defensive dominance, answer some of your questions, and send out a massive thank you to the greatest fan base in all of sports. All of that and more on this edition of the Drive Time Podcast. Where else could we start besides the hashtag that was trending on Dolphins

Twitter Wednesday morning? The practice started off on Wednesday as an open to the public session, which means live tweeting is permitted, and we were out there for all of fifteen minutes before the lightning alarm went off on the practice field, and they had to clear out the field, players, fans, media, everybody, and so it was off to the indoor facility where the media stuff is all set up, so the field

is not immediately available for use. And once it became clear the bad weather would last for a little while, a little over an hour, a bunch of staffers from both clubs worked at a rapid impressive pace to clear things up, and the Bears got half the field and we got the rest of the field, and there was a little bit of eleven on eleven in this period, and then it was right back outside. But the change meant the practice was now close, so no live tweeting.

So with my laptop of my phone, I'm taking all the notes i can. I got down as much as I could to bring you guys a great show here on the podcast in lieu of the live tweeting that I know you all love so much, but I'm glad to have you here with me. On drag time at the final special teams period, I take a little bit of a break and checked Twitter to see all these photo shops. Someone found some horrible art video projects still up on YouTube that I did in college a few

years ago. And use that to talk about this hashtag. And on top of that, the free wingfield hashtag was trending to the point that when I typed in the hashtag and free wingfield and Twitter, the only other topic ahead of it, or just free rather, the only other topic ahead of that was hashtag free Brittany. Just remarkable.

You guys sure know how to make a guy feel special, And I just want to say what an honor and privilege it is to be counted on by so many to get the word out and talk about this team and share my excitement for what Chris Greer, Brian flo Reas and everybody involved. I mean, it's hundreds and hundreds of people what they're involved here and putting together with the Miami Dolphins. The only thing that makes it better is what you guys did. So thank you truly from

the bottom of my heart. And stay hilarious because some of the stuff that you guys had sent to me or just put on Twitter in general had me laughing out loud at the top of the bleachers like a total psychopath. So keep that energy coming on Thursday at Thursday's practice to finish set in the scene here kind of a cool spot out in the forest in Illinois.

Out here, they've got four practice fields at Hollis Hall and we're on three and four, which is a bit of a walk away from the actual facility located back on the back part of the property. And right behind that, right behind the field is a very foresty area with an open field beyond the trees, and there's a railroad system back in there too. And I mentioned this on Twitter. I'm just a sucker for, you know, intimate type of romantic settings, and I found this to be one of those.

It was. It was a really cool looking spot, really cool looking practice field, a deaf and it change from South Florida. And on top of that, there was a bit of a chill in the air ahead of the storm, which was a very very nice break to get away from the oven that is South Florida in August. And I'm sure the players appreciated that a little bit too.

But man, it speaks to the challenge of playing somewhere up north all summer for training camp in preseason, before coming down to South Florida for a game in September October, and quite frankly, the entire calendar, it's human up here. Too,

but nothing compares to that South Florida's sweat box. As for the practice itself, before we went inside, and this is funny to me because I joked with coach Lemuel John Pierre about how they work so far from where we sit at Baptist Health Training Center in Miami Gardens, and I was dying to get an up close look at the offensive line, and today I got that chance.

I started off in the bleachers right behind the end zone where they were working, so I got to hear the pop of the pads and the instruction of the coaches and just everything that went along with that unit and with that period the practice, I want to go ahead and get to the notes here and talk about the offensive line first, because I felt like I got a really good look at this group, not for the first time, but the first really close up focused practice

I had on the offensive line. First. Rob Hunt's strike and punches they're not just felt, they're heard. My God, he is powerful. Austin Jackson too. I heard both of those guys the most in that period. I noted that it like the way that Liam Eichenberg works everything in tandem, you know, step and punch time together, He's patient with that punch, and it allows him to incorporate the lower half and get the full force of those strikes because

of the way he's technically wired up. I just wrote that he's technically sound, which really corroborates with what a lot of draft knicks had on him pre draft out of Notre Dame. Now, derv All Kiras Netto's work over the last couple of years, I thought showed up in this period more so than any other time that I saw. And they were coming off the snap in into bags held by other offensive lineman who were seeming late in the role of defensive lineman, and the force of derv

All looked the most powerful of the group. And when I saw his feet really perfectly under his shoulders, not widening the base, not getting too narrow, just on balance, I thought, Man, what a great combination for that guy. I'm so excited to watch him play in a preseason game and get a look at how all that work of practice, squad training, camp o t s, everything he's done for the last three years kind of come to

fruition in an actual game day setting. I wanted to get a good look at Michael Dieter, and I thought you could just see the added strength and his ability to anchor against those big bull rushes in the inside. For instance, there was a rep where he drew Dervall as the lineman, playing that role of the defensive lineman, and you need to understand that there was no throttle down with Dervall, so he gave Mike everything he's got in that particular rep. And plus on top of that,

he used to be a defensive lineman. But Mike sinks into his pass set and absorbs the rush without giving a whole lot of ground. That's a very valuable thing to have right in front of your quarterback in this particular offense with TWA and the quick passing game. And the last note here from this period before we get into something on the one on ones and team periods. There was a ton today as you can imagine of

team and one on one periods. But in this portion, just watching Rob Hunt in space, he comes in controlled, doesn't sacrifice the power, and I think you see that translate to the tape you see on Sundays. All right, let's go ahead and get to the winners of the one on one period both between the offensive line and the defensive line, and it starts where the last portion ended with Rob Hunt his first rep. He gave absolutely positive ground to the pass rusher and the contact arrives

and everything just frozen time right there. He got dapped up by his coaches after this rep, just completely stone wall on the guy just hit the man, get out of there because you lost the rep. And there's always a good chance to see the reaction from both teams in these reps, in the joint practices, like who's getting dapped up, who's getting coached up, And in this instance it was Dolphins one, Bears zero. But the Bears really came back strong in that period. Man, they have some

dudes up front, a chem Hicks. That guy's a problem, but you knew that. I thought this was a good opportunity to see a new set of moves, you know, from different pass rushers that can bring different things. Power arm over guys were empering, emptying the clips, so to speak, in that pass rush game, and I wanted to get a good look at that rep after the rap. Remember on the podcast last year, we always highlighted the play before the big play, the play that made the game

changing moment. Possible because it's never just one guy or one big play. You have to make plays to set up the big play. Why I wanted to get a look at how guys would respond after losing a rep, and there were some good and it starts there with Solomon Kinley, who I thought basically took this segment and made it his own. There were back to back reps in this period that did not go his way, but he didn't let that ruin his day. He got some coaching from coach Lemil John Pierre got back in there

and finished the period with two really strong reps. Then he came into the team period and I thought had some really good work there too, especially in the two minute period at the end of practice when to a completed back to back passes for nice chunk gains to put Jason Sanders in position for the quote un quote win at the end of that period. I really wanted to make a note of that because to me, that's football,

and that's especially practice. How do you respond when things don't go your way Because in the sport, we know it's never going to go your way all the time, and the same was true of Cameron tom back to back reps one after another. One didn't go his way, and the next he just dug those spikes in the ground through the punch and stone walled Balala Nichols who play so low to the ground with such power and can really get under those pads and Cameron Tom responded

big in that way. And this is not in the same idea of responding, but just rather a lot of good work from Austin Jackson and spoiler alert here he's gonna be in top performers. I thought he did some damn good things out there. One thing that really caught my eye was the work he had against Robert Quinn. We all know Robert Quinn quite literally one of the

best burst off the edge in the last decade. Like it's Cameron wake esque off the edge, and against a Russia like that, it can be easy to panic and to overset. And when I talk about overset, it's where you rush up for to wall off the speed rush and that opens up a big gap between you and

in this instance the left guard and the player. The pass rusher can then just redirect work back inside and get that easy access to the quarterback likes it's easier to get to the quarterback when the tackle oversets than it is to run around the guy because it's an obviously quicker path of the quarterback. So it's big problems when you react to the speed rush in a way that is overreactionary. And he just didn't do that at

all today. And it wasn't one rep or two reps, it was actually three reps up against Robert Quinn where he got this three straight against and he was perfectly happy to kick slide, get into that set and work the inside shoulder and put himself in position to either run him around the arc around the back side of the quarterback, which is the worst place to be in football, or mirror when he tries to cross face, and nothing Quinn was throwing at him in this drill was helping

him get to the quarterback. And Quinn had some success in other parts of the day as well, so it's not just like he was losing to everybody. Just good work by Austin Jackson. And my last note here on Austin. I noticed a lot of times that Quinn or otherwise they would try to draw that punch out early where you want the offensive linemen to show the hands, because

once he pulls those hands up. That's how pass rushers go to work, because they start to grab and pull and grip and and do things to get you off balance against your momentum. I'm going in the wrong direction, and Austin just stayed patient in the air in that area and wouldn't throw the hands. If he can showcase that skill set consistently with his athletic profile, change of direction, skill set and ability to create push off the line, man, I'll feel damn good about that left tackle position and

finishing up here on the offensive line. I thought Jonathan Hubbard had a really good day and he's had a quietly strong camp in his own right. The same is true of Adam Panky. He had some reps in the one on ones and again in the team period where I just thought he was winning and getting pushed and doing good and pass pro. Where should we go next?

How about the quarterbacks? Everybody loves quarterbacks right Well, first, I want to make it clear that you just cannot take it all out there, take it all in out there. So my apologies to read Sennetta. I did not see a lot of his reps, and as you can imagine, I mostly watched our defense when Jacobe Brisette was in the game as well, so when I did get a look at him, though, he made some nice throws in

the team periods, especially late in practice. Now, as for Tua and the passing offense in general, two quick things here. They got the ball out wide a lot, and I'm not sure if it was my design or based on what they saw by the but I counted at least three or four times where two against the ball outside the numbers to a man who was pretty open and had space to run. He found Wattle twice on these, Shaheen once and Miles Gaston another time. And we're talking

gains of twenty plus yards each time. And that part kind of crosses over into the second part, which was the way he worked with and mitigated pressure. And just back to that first point real quick, like, maybe it doesn't look pretty as far as what you know reporters and writers want to see, but if you're gaining yards, what difference does it make? I mean that was consistent on that play. They were finding chunks of yards in

that area. But you know, back to mitigating pressure. I asked to after practice, if playing against another defense besides your own, albeit free of live contact and live rushes in the quarterback the red jersey, you know, everyone stops, but if it was different since guys on the other side, maybe they're a little bit hungry to get that extra inch closer to the quarterback, and of seeing a different color flash was beneficial to working through those simulated pressures

and just real quick. Both teams on this day did a really good job of taking care of each other, and Coach Flores talked about the agreement between they and the Bear staff. You know, no cut blocks, no fighting, things of that nature. So I'm sure if both staffs were pleased with that and the fact that I never

saw any quarterbacks on the ground. Let's go ahead and go to two and now to break it down, I think this defense is really good upfront, Um, you know there when you're hitting your back foot on your throws, you know they're they're right there. I mean, you know, kind of in your face area. Um, you know. But that forces us to, you know, as quarterbacks, to kind of move the way we need to um. And it simulates game like um kind of pocket presents for us.

And so you know, I thought it was really good today. We'll take a look at the film. Um, you know, we'll try to correct a lot of the things that we didn't do well today, and I will come out tomorrow and you know, hopefully it's a it's a better one.

You gotta love it when you have an idea of how you want to cover a certain event on the practice field at a game, whatever it might be, and your question to the player, of the coach, or whoever it might be, and their answer coincides with how you wanted to approach it to it did a great job. They're talking about the pocket presence and how they dealt with that pressure. So he talked about how he thought it was a good opportunity to work on dealing with

that stuff. And I thought that was where he really shined, because there was a couple of instances where he stepped up through the muck and cleared that initial rush, the initial wave and got past it. And a lot of a lot of good quarterbacks in today's league do that. And on one instance he had a bunch of green grass in front of him for a nice run. And then on three other occasions he presses the line and fires strikes to the intermediate portions of the field for

completions like today. It wasn't sit back in the pocket and scan the field and go deep like that wasn't the game today. Today, it was get away from pressure, throw quick, get the ball out of your hand, and make it work with what you have. And he did that a lot, I thought. And there was another one where he got to the line and worked down the line not so as to not cross over and lose the ability to throw the football once you get past the line and the illegal forward pass, and he completed

that one for a decent chunk too. So that's the kind of stuff that I think you can really take that can really take his game to another level, because we know he can play from the pocket and win that way. But to get off the spot and make plays off script, man, that's gonna go a long way for this guy for this offense. But again, that Bears front is ferocious. I thought Khalil Mack and Jesse Davis had some good battles during the team periods, trading some

wins back and forth. Good to see Jesse Davis hold his own against one of the very best in the game at times. Out there another area where two was strong. Before we get to the rest here, and this was in the seven on seven period. He threw some strikes to receivers working the end line of the end zone, low,

hit in the football, high and away from danger. Later we saw some of the manipulation with the body position, the way he can move the defense with not just the eyes but the position of the feet and hips to sell a player on a particular route, I'm gonna go in this direction and then once you move off

that spot, I'm gonna throw to the vacating spot. Saw that in spades and a seven on seven drill, and that has really been pretty consistent for two or throughout the course of this training camp and really going back to his college days. We saw a bunch of it last year in the rookie season as well. I think it's going to serve him very well, the ability to move guys off of a spot with not just the eyes but the body position as well. So some high

level stuff there from your second year quarterback. And one play I think too it would like to have back. He gets away from pressure and as he goes to throw, the ball slipped out of his hand and the bears fallen and he looked upset by it. But I thought, but he would bounce back. I should say, very next play rips one across the field to Jalen Waddle to really show off the arm strength and the zip, and man,

he was humming that thing across the field today. I thought particular play was a really good example of two of his arm strength and what he offers in that department. So that, paired with the bounce off the top of the spot of the drop like he mentioned, and the drive on the passes are two things that I think have really stood out to me so far in this training camp for two A tongue by loa. Oh you know what, we didn't do housekeeping. Let's knock this out

real quick. Jalen Phillips is back on the practice field. Davante Parker, Albert Wilson, and Will Fuller are here but will not practice this week, and coach says tight end hunter long remains day today. The only real other thing to mention here is that coach said guys will play on Saturday. He did specify who that is, but he

said they'll have an idea on game day. Had to have not finalized yet how much each guy will play, but he did clarify your quarterback to a tongue by Lola will in fact play in the game on Saturday

at one o'clock NFL Network. Okay, back to it. The receiver's Jalen Waddle continues to make tough catch after tough catch after tough catch, and that's something that Josh Grizzar, Dolphins receivers coach touched on in his media earlier this week, how he thinks the speed of Wattle, while readily apparent and very much in the mind of defenders that go up against him college pro or otherwise, Yes, that speed is definitely there, But the fact that he's a nuanced

route runner that's I think very overlooked. He really knows how to play leverage, how to chase blind spots, and what that means is wherever the cornerback's eyes can't be on his own back, if you can get in that spot, you can control the rep control the route. I've seen Davante Adams, Keenan, Alan Stefawn Digs guys just go to work on blind spots and they create separation huge that way because they know how to set them up and then get off that spot, and the dB has no

idea where he's gone. So there's one rep where I saw him just go to work wattle on the blind spot of a dB, and he basically never saw a wattle at any point of the rep. He just got on that backside, turned him in, dB, turns back that way to run after it, and he turns it back out,

creates space that way. And to the point of the speed, he caught one of those balls outside that I talked about where there was nobody around him, and he got as much as he could, just go as fast as he could up the side line, up the perimeter, stuck his foot in the ground, and when the safety pursuit arrived, I'm about sure he would have cut that thing, or he did cut the thing back, but I'm about sure that he would have taken that the next yards or so he needed for a sixty five yard touchdown. He

is fun to watch. He's explosive, he's the fastest guy out there. He's not limping. And Robert Foster had a nice day, including a spectacular one handed catch from Jacobe Brissette on a back shoulder ball where he got his left arm pinned in by the dB and used his right arm while going up in the air and went back to his back and he never really even got the second hand on it, just corralled it and pinned

it up against his right side. He also got deep earlier in practice behind the defense and the ball was overthrown just slightly by Jacoby Brissette. But he is getting open making some plays. Good to see him get back in the stat call because he hasn't caught as many balls last few practices, but today he had a nice number of receptions so too in mac Hollins, especially from two a tongue of by loa red zone touchdown type

of throws, uh short stuff. In the intermediate passing game, He's been catching a lot of things in the middle of the football field from your quarterback and Jachem Grant was the recipient of one of those two a climb and fires, and he also was the recipient on a pass over the middle on a pass where he created a ton of separation in the two minute period where he put the defensive back on his heels and just snapped that thing off and got some preparation for the reception.

Isaiah Ford continued his strong camp and made a couple of plays in the team period, including a nice game on a pass from Jacobe Brissette, and it was tough sledding to transition here to the running backs in the run game during the team period, and that was true for both sides. But Miles Gascon continues to make plays in the passing game, including a nice job by Towah to let a play develop hanging under Durest and then get the football out to a spot wide where Miles

runs under it. And it's one of those long catching runs we've seen from Miles all camp long. He is so natural at transitioning from receiver to runner where his back is to the defense, your hands are turned over to catch the football outside, then to tuck that thing away, put it away, eyes go upfield, and let's go baby. He does that so smoothly. And I noted later in practice he had a really nice run where he tried

to change direction like three or four times. Just jump cut left, jump cut right, jam that thing back up in there. But I never saw him get touched. A crafty runner who's tough as hell. He got popped on one play, but popped right back up and got back to the huddle. He's I love watching Myles gas Can play football. There was an outside run that showed Sevan Akhmed speed off where he just turned on those jets

again and won the edge. Malcolm Brown had some nice physical runs too, but none better than the biggest play of the day from the running game standpoint, where Austin Jackson got excellent surge up the middle, kind of pulling off the formation, getting a block in the middle, and then Michael Dieter climbed to the second level and opened up a huge lane and that was the big run of the day from Miami. He was into the second

dary untouched. And sorry to sound like a broken record here, but I really want to see a game to get a better field for the running backs. It's so hard to get a field for backs and practice. In my opinion, Adam he caught a bunch of balls today, including one of two is best throwers of the day where he where the defender was right in front of Shaheen, but he had his back turn, so that's where you know you can throw the spots and two throws it low

and away. Shaheen goes down and makes the catch before he gets out of bounds on the end line. Awesome throw, awesome catch. Sethan Carter and Jacoby Brissette are developing a nice little rhythm. They had a couple of hookups today, including one between a trio of Bears defenders. So that's the offense. But what if I told you I saved the best for last, because this defense came to play on Wednesday. Let's go and order and start up front, and it starts with the Emmanuel Ogba. I mentioned this

in the Monday podcast. The Bears were without Tevin Jenkins, the rookies second round pick who I thought was the top sixteen pick. Frankly and Jermaine Affetti, and Ogba made sure their absences were felt in this practice. He was in the backfield all day long. In fact, the first two plays of the two minute period were sacks by Ogba. Game over, right there. That's that's it. Two sacks, You're done,

no time outs, third and forever, game over. And he was using that length, the grip, strength, and the ability to cross face to give the tackles all sorts of problems. It's good to see him deconstructing pass blocks just like he did last year all season long, but also the ability to play in the running game and set shut a strong edge, play inside, do multiple things. Big day for Emmanuel Ogba, and I would say the second most frequent visitor of the offensive backfield was Shakim Griffin. They

didn't have an answer for him. He was dominant in the one on one periods and then when he got free in the team period, I said out loud to myself for his second sack of team period, this fan guy again. He bought out today. He was everywhere. It

was great to see Jalen Phillips back out there. He had a nice rep in the run game where he was the unblocked man on the end of the formation, but he quickly erased that space and got right up into the mesh point of the quarterback in the running back and used that I discipline to stay with the back and shut him down for a short run so I'll get a better look at him pass rushing tomorrow. Didn't see a whole lot today, but the running game he was stout. The interior defensive line picked up they

left off in Miami. Man Adam Butler wanted everyone to know how much he was killing it in the one on once. He was visibly area please, kind of pumping himself up and and tapping up his teammates and coaches. Just a great effort by him, and justifiably so for the celebrations. He was dominant. They were in there a lot, and that includes Christian Wilkins, Zack Steeler, some linebacker work when they would go five on five with Bernardrick McKinney

getting some pressure up the shoot as well. Christian Wilkins, to me, continues to show the stuff that he has not just with quickness and the pass rush, with the stack and shed mode I've talked about a lot on this podcast where he gets hands on guys, works down the line and then can get He can wait until he needs to get off the block and makes that

decision at the right time. He did that a few more times in this practice, and Zach Seler Man he was rejecting passes, pushing the pocket, getting around the corner. And then Ray Kwon Davis boy, he is strong. He showed both the power and the ability to use his

wingspan to put guys in peril. He had one rush move where he rushed the outside shoulder of his man, got the left arm on the left shoulder pad and you know what's coming right now, hip toss hip time just chucked him out the club to get the pressure on the quarterback. Oh, by the way, here quick aside, justin Fields pretty good but probably probably good. That's it he can play, and that's your bearest coverage for the podcast. Justin Fields like what I see from him. But back

to our guys, the linebackers. I mentioned Bernardrick McKinney, by the way, that was Curb your enthusiasm and Detroitters with Tim Robinson. If you're not familiar, checked that show out. I thought bernardicc McKinney was really good rushing today, and I thought Jerome Baker did really well to string out some runs and some screens. He didn't have the splash plays and wasn't even necessarily involved in a ton of tackles, but gap sound speed to the football assignment sound. He

looked really good to me in this practice. And Duke Riley's speed continues to show up. I think he's having himself a whale of a camp. I knew his speed was there, but just to see it against someone else was awesome. He got out wide on a screen pass

and ran that thing down. And Nick Needham did really good on this play to show a good understanding of spatial awareness where the help is how to give or rather play to your help, as coach mentioned as one of the traits he's looking for from players, and Nick as he so often does, play such smart football, and on this one too, and allow Duke to get in

there and make the stop right at the line. All right, I've been waiting all day to talk to you guys about the secondary because it was fun my first note here, and why don't we get to it now? It was the matchup of the matchup of the bookdrop of the day Byron Jones on Darnell Mooney. Now, no Allen Robinson today, but Byron saw Mooney a lot, and I'm so impressed first by Mooney's route running. He's crafty as hell, especially for a second year player out of two lane, no less.

But Byron Jones is having zero of it today. I was watching him isolated a few times and the ball didn't even go in that direction, So you're not gonna see a lot of flash and pomp and circumstance in terms of the statistics. But he was in great position

all day long, press off man zone. He had it all working today and I just thought he made it a really tough, really tough day for the second year receiver, kind of getting a lesson and hey, this is a guy that's shut down a lot of number one receiver is in his career and this terrific rookie season. Came out today and learned about Byron Jones a skill set, his ability to get hands on him at the lion of scrimmage, get into the back pedal, flip the hips, drive,

pin him to the sideline on takeoff routes. I thought this was one of the best practices that Byron's had as a Miami Dolphin. Personally, on the other side, you know who's over there, You know that man Xavian Howard. He also was having none of it. In fact, on one play that actually would have been a sack by Zach Seeler, but the play extended and Dalton tried to test Xavian wrong move al wappo, he skies up and pulls that thing down for the pick like he did

all year last year. I honestly do not remember seeing x or Byron allow a catch in practice. I'm sure it happened once or twice, but I didn't see it. You know, you can't watch every rap again, I'm watching two fields at the same time, but I didn't see it. They were dynamite today. You know who else was dynamite and has been for a week plus now. Javon Holland. Guys, that pick it was a thing of beauty. Why don't we go ahead before you break it down here from

Javon Holland on the interception. Yeah, so I was just you know, going throughout my keys on that play, um basically reading the quarterback in the middle of the field, and then um, as I was breaking to the post, I read his eyes and you know, he let the ball go and I happen to be there, um right where you know, we planned on me being there. So you know, I've worked in my favorite that So you hear him talking about reading keys and reading the eyes

of the quarterback. Man. He jumped in front of that thing all out of Rashad Jones against the Titans back in for that pick six he had in that blowout game. But this was a little bit deeper down the field obviously in that twelve fift twenty yard Ranger show or so, and he just drove on this thing before the ball even came out. Elevates, pulls it down, and then like a running back, he's off to the races up the sideline for the touchdown pick six. I was so impressed

with him today. And then a few plays later he comes from depth on a short throw to the back in the flat and closes down on that thing before it could go anywhere. Just a good mix of his skill set, ball skills, tracking instincts, drive the acceleration off

of a spot. All that stuff on display today. And then this was something I've been wanting to ask him for a couple of practices now, and since he mentioned reading the quarterback's eyes, I wanted to ask him how much time he spends on the other side of the ball trying to pick the brains of the quarterbacks. Since he talked about reading the eyes of the quarterback on

this play, I thought his answer was great. So why don't we go ahead and go back to Javan I kind of you know, I actually do go and pick their brain a little bit, especially Jacobe. He's been in the league, so I try to ask him, you know, what he's looking for when you know, when we're trying to show this guys things like that. Same with Tour you know, Tour gives me great inside. He's a great dude.

All of them are great read to, uh so that you know, they give me insight on what they're looking for their keys, and so I can try to play to my advantage and you know, trying to confuse him before they play. And a fun little story. I saw Javon after practice and kind of kept my distance from him because I'm not supposed to be up close. But I just said, hey, Javon, you know, a couple of years ago, you had to pick six against the Coups that basically decided the game against us, and I just

want you to know that broke my heart. And he like dropped his head laughing and was like, I'm sorry, man, and apologize for it. What a guy said. You don't got to apologize, But I just want you to know you broke some Kogs fans heart that day, and he's probably gonna break some more hearts in the future. He eat a hell of a day on Sunday, all right. I think X Byron and Javon Holland I'll get a game ball a practice ball for me today as it were.

But Jamal Perry's in that group too, He also snatched an I n T. He's strung out a screenplay to the perimeter. He had a pass breakup that was batted up into the air and nearly picked off by Jerome Baker, and he made play after play after play. Big day for Jamal Perry, and he's had a good camp so far. I think he's really earned himself a shot to make this team and contribute for this Dolphins club. No Agnogeny

had some really competitive reps and forced two incompletions. I saw he also jumped a route that forced Justin Fields to pull that thing down like he wanted to throw it, and because he was a very pronounced pump fake, because he just at the last second decided I can't throw that ball there. That's tight coverage. He also had a pressure maybe even a sack on the day. So good day for no Agnogony against the Bears and then Javarrus Davis. He's been in the notes a lot. He had himself

a pass breakup on a slant. He was in great position on a deep throw up the sideline that the receiver caught, but he shoved them out of bounds and the officials ruled it out of bounds incomplete. So big day for Javarros Davis. He's made plays just about every day for a week or so now. And then finally I had two notes on Justin Coleman's making plays. He's

both aggressive and instinctive. He was really good on his screenplay to get into the passing window and he elevated and then I think it was it was Andy Dalton had to throw it over him and lofted over him, and because of that the cavalry arrived and got that played down for a short gain rather than having a one on one opportunity in space because of a quicker

pass would have given him more time. But Coleman said, no, sir alright, top performers today, you probably have a good idea where we're going here, But Jamal Perry is at the top of this list. Just play after play after play. Xavien Howard gets back on the interception list. He was also locked down in coverage Byron Jones mentioned he had a great practice just locking things down, really still doing a good job staying in the hip pocket and erasing

a man from the entire game. Zach or practice. Zack Seeler is on there. He had constant pressure up the tier year rejected a pass and was stuffing up the run game winning the one on one matchups. Emmanuel Agba had a huge day to day with sacks and pressures and run game edge set condensing inside and making plays down there. Duke Riley's speed showed up again in this practice.

Austin Jackson was really good and the one on one periods also thought he was good in the team periods that patients off the edge, the athletic ability to redirect work inside, all that fun stuff. Javon Holland at his three picks in the last four practices at a forced recovered fumble in there four takeaways and four practices and one touchdown and again the play where he came from depth. He's just consistently putting the offense in a bind as far as what he does too to be in the

right position to disrupt passing lanes. You get a few of those picks, you're gonna start being in the back of the quarterback's mind and that's going to impact the offense even further. Javarus Davis is also in there, just competes his ass off plays the football well, has the good speed and has just been really close and coverage a lot this training camp. Jalen Waddle created so much space in this practice as he has to hunt pretty much every single practice but continues to make the tough

catches going to the ground in traffic. Whatever you want, he's doing it right now. Rob Hunt, I thought was really impressive in the team period. Now. He had a Chem Hicks a few times, who was a tough, tough matchup, one of the best defensive tackles, and he got his wins. But so tuted Robert Hunt, and he was pushing some bodies around in the running game as well as providing good pass protection. Chachim Griffin was in the backfield all day long. He had a big time practice to a

tongue of Voloa. I thought the seven on seven he just absolutely crushed it through some nice anticipatory balls, mitigated pressure, and moved the defense with his eyes nicely. Ray Kwon Davis the hip toss alone gets you in here, but he was also dominant otherwise. And Adam Butler and Christian Wilkins too. Just these defensive tackles every day. It seems to put all four of these guys in here. Once again. They were all very very stout. We have one question

today and this one comes from Apple Podcast. Again, you put a question on Apple Podcast, we'll answer it for you here on the Drivetime podcast. This one from Nick Belinda. He asks, your podcast is great and I look forward to it every day. Thank you each and every day. One thing is I rarely hear negatives about the team. What unit are you most concerned about? Well, I wouldn't say I would have like concerns per se, not that

my concerns would matter anyway. But I think every position group on every team has an element of the unknown. We we we can't forecast anything in this business right question marks and that's why they play the game. And there's a reason coach always says he's focused on today because the moment you get into projecting is when you get out over your skis and you lose focus on

the here and now now. Obviously, this is an important method to follow for a coaching staff and for a player, but for a fan, a podcaster, or someone that has nothing to do with the outcome on the on field product, it doesn't matter for those guys. So when I think about some questions you might have for this Dolphins team. How quickly does a young offensive line gel and kind of come together? How does it shake out with the

starting lineup? Is it going to be a combination you feel is superior to what Option two or maybe even Option three looks like. And then newcomers and new places you just you can't you can't project that like you can with you know, previous players or guys that have proven resumes in your system. So newcomers in the role of like a Bobby McCain for instance, as the eyes of the defense in the back, well, Jason mccordy and Javon Holland took up that role and take it to

new heights. How does the committee of backshakeout? Is Miles going to be the focal point? I'm not sure about that? And of course does to a tongue of voloa make that year to jump that we all hope he will. Those would be so my questions heading into the season. But like I said, every position group has questions. That's why the coaches are here and are paid to get each group better every day and hopefully in December those

question marks have definitive answers. But you start a new campaign from step one and nothing from last year matter, So how do they replicate the things they had success with third down defense, takeaways, protecting the football, and offense? And how do they improve the things that didn't pan out the way you had hope last year? Running game, vertical passing game, everything about the week's seventeen game. That's

my response to that question. But truthfully, and if you've been following me along enough on this journey, I've always been very bullish on this particular program with Brian Flores. I think the front office has done a great job of taking the resources they have and maximizing those resources that are all kids to them and getting more than

market value for what they have. And I'm a big believer in the consistency day in day out of coach Flora's and the culture he's established and will continue to establish here in Miami. I think players relate to him and his staff, they respect him and his staff, and I think those two things together will always have me optimistic about this team and the things they can accomplish. All Right, that it's gonna be my time. You all please be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast.

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