Dolphins Training Camp 2021 Day 5 Recap

training camp. One another strong showing from the offense and the quarterbacks. We take a focus on some of the lesser known players showing out here at camp so far, A big day from another handful of receivers. Your questions on Twitter, the coaching staffs work on the practice field. We'll hear from coach Flora's and Eric row Onto, a tongue of by Low and a variety of other topics, and much much more from the Baptist Health studios inside

the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time post. A couple of roster moves since we last spoke, as Mike Gisicki, Adam Shaheen, and Sethan Carter were placed on the COVID nineteen slash reserve list and coach George Godzy was not out there at practice on Monday for medical reasons estated by head coach Brian Flores at his Monday morning press conference, and coach spoke about this in his Monday morning press or that it's the same as last

season with regards to contingencies and plans in place. They have plans in place and then plans in place of those plans in case somebody is out, and knowing coach, that shouldn't be a surprise to anybody. He's prepared for every detail imaginable. But the note that I thought stood out was one where he said, we've been dealing with this for eighteen months and it's not over. And he's right, and if anyone is going to remain vigilant, it's him and the staff. That was his message all last year,

remaining vigilant. And you can't just get tired of it and stop doing the stuff you do to prevent to to do the preventative measures to help reduce possible COVID outbreaks and contractions. So Dolphins on top of that, tight ends sal Canela and Calif Jackson were signed and on the practice field on Monday. Also back on the field was wide receiver Davante Parker, who went through some of the drills and I thought looked pretty good out there.

I was keeping a close eye on him during the on air throws to kick off practice and kind of the individual portion of practice, and it looked like the same old DeVante to me. He kind of sinks those hips at the top of the route and drives that ninety degree angle and the ball meets him right off that break from tah and he's catching the football with his hands. It can be easy to let the ball kind of get into your body and that's when you

can really get beat up by the football. But he wasn't doing that, so I thought he looked good out there. His best play of the day came in goal line work where he's totally covered along the end line and two of throws, one high and away from the defender, and Davante goes up and snatches it and comes down in bounds for the touchdown. You know, a fifty fifty type of ball, with fifty being a catch and the other fifty and this instance being an incomplete pass because

he put it. We're only his receiver had a chance to get it. But we also know what Davante, this is basically a proposition, and this one turned out to be zero because he caught it. Savan Akhmed left practice after getting nicked up. I'll get you guys an update on him as soon as coach gives us one. And here we'll go a position by a position again, but first I want to cover a full bullet points a

few bullet points of notes I have here. First, the energy at the started practice was a blast again with the fans back for the second day, and once again Christian Wilkins was the first one out. He gets a

greeting of a big applause and then shakeem. Griffin again comes bouncing over, and I use that term very specifically bouncing because he is on a gallop for a full fifty sixty seventy yards and then he gets down in the stretching portion of practice and he's doing some dance moves that I'm not sure I could replicate if you

gave me a year of practice. He was really getting after it and he just brings that energy, like Coach mentioned last week, Within thirty seconds of meeting this guy, you can feel the energy, I think it's more like three seconds. As far as the on field work, I knowed something about Charlie Fry during quarterbacks throwing two receivers

and how he's out there. And mind you, there are quality control coaches, interns and what have you that do a lot of behind the scenes work that nobody really sees that makes these practices work as efficiently as they do. And during this particular drill, Charlie Fry is running underneath

the receivers. And we've talked about this. Right when you throw the football in between the second and third level and first levels defensive line, second level linebackers, third level, the safeties in the back end, a good deal of spin is required to get the ball over that hump where it climbs over the second level and descends under

the third level. So coach Fry is one of the coaches kind of simulating that second level defender underneath the receiver to give the quarterbacks a snap shot of where it might be and how to let them throw over it in the instance of dealing with disrupting passing lanes as far as the defense is concerns. So I tweeted that out. Then I started to look across the practice field to see what the other coaches are doing, and it's not exclusive to Fry. In fact, they all do it.

And I've seen this before, so I wanted to get on the podcast here. But Austin Clark, for instance, he is as animated as they come, working the sleds and the tackling dummies. He's giving pass rush instruction constantly, and you can see him really working physically to help show

the guys what he's talking about. Coach Campanelli the linebackers coaches running around bringing energy to that group, along with Robbie Leonard the outside linebackers coach g a Jaral Alexander is doing full on back pedals, opening up the hips and driving like he's still in his playing days. And frankly, if you've seen him do do the stuff out there, I'm not convinced he couldn't still play football. Coach Lemil John Pierre is down the trenches working on hand placement, footwork,

combo blocks. He also is very fiery and passionate. Coach Grazzar with the receivers, he's involved working with those eyes on catching passes in traffic. It's just unanimous across the board, and I love to watch it. It matches the energy the players have. So the philosophy of having guys that love football not just on the team, the coaching staff

and otherwise, it's spread across the board. So on the topic of coaches, I wanted to ask Brian Flores about this before practice, about the collaboration of not just offensive coaches serving as you know floaters, talking about the guys that kind of float between different position groups. You know, the varsity versus j v reference if you play both those back in your in your heyday, but across the crossing over from defense to offense and offense to defense.

And coach spends a lot of time with the quarterbacks during individual drills. And I'm not going to ask him about exactly what those conversations are because well, I know better. That's for them to know and for us to learn on game day on Sunday, I suppose, But I did want to ask him about those collaborations and if when he's working with the quarterbacks, is that something where he is giving his perspective for how he would attack a certain player as a for instance, to offensive play caller

here's coach, Yes, there is there is crossover. I think if you understand if you're an offensive player and understand how the defense is trying to attack you or um, you know, prevent you from doing from what you want to do. Then if you understand that, then that gives you an advantage. And the same thing vice versa. If you're a defensive player coach and you understand what the offense,

how they're trying to attack you. Um, there's there's some things you can anticipate, there's some things you can, um, you know, coach your players up on that will hopefully help them, um either not allow the defense to win or not allow the offense to win. So UM, I think it's all encompassing. You know. I talked to our coaching staff and say, hey, if you're a defensive coach and you can give an offensive player a coaching point,

do it. Same thing. If you're an offensive coach, you give a defensive one of our defensive players a coaching point, give it to him. I mean, we're a team. Obviously, we're competing against each other out here, um, on the practice field, and you know, no offense wants to beat defense, and defense wants to beat the offense. And you know, when we're in the kicking game, part return unit wants

to beat the you know, the punt team. But you know, at the end of the day, we're a team and if there's a way something we can do to to help a player on the other side of the ball, um, and we should do that. And we have. And it's I've seen players talk to each other offensive line, defensive line, receivers, dbs, uh, dbs, safety's quarterback, just you know, some of those conversations. I think that's where you get a lot of um, you can make a lot of improvement individually, just understanding the

other side of the ball. And coach was asked a follow up about that two questions later. Here he is again, Oh, yeah, that's constant dialogue among the coaching staff that way. And yeah, we've said a few things up that like that, to create dialogue, to create conversation. UM, I think it only helps, you know, offensive coaches to learn or to hear the defensive kind of mindset, thought process the same thing, or

defensive coaches to to hear the offensive thought process. You know, I've I've coached on both, you know, all three sides of the ball. So I kinda u it helped me. I would say that, Um, I can't you speak for anyone else, but it definitely helped me to understand h how offenses wanted to attack defense defenses and then conversely, how defenses want to attack offenses, and um, you know, in the kicking game, how to attack a field goal, a field goal protection, or how to attack a pump protection.

And then coach was followed up with that question asked if there's a formal or informal type of meeting or situation where they go through that, and he said, with a smile, let's go ahead and call that informal. So really good stuff there from coach talking about kind of his process, how he leads, how he delegates, and how he really trains the coaches you know on his staff to be or to take on more and to maybe

take that next step in their career. And one quick aside right here, I heard Josh Boyer celebrating a play in the three on three goal line work. It's just a tough, tough task for the defense, but because they are working with so much space, which always favors the offense obviously, but they got some wins. And on one play where the ball never came out because the coverage

was so tight, which is so rare. A trio of Jaitlyn ask you, Nate Holly and Calvin Munson were in on the coverage and we could hear Boyer from the stands saying, or he's in the field where in the stands saying that's the idea, that's the idea. Again. Just love the fire the staff has and the passion they bring. Let's dive into the practice play by play here and go position by possession, starting with the quarterbacks. And stop me if you've heard this before, but another really good

strong showing from to What's Onno byla. I had him with six touchdowns and no picks today and those were all red zone drill So the touchdown number maybe a bit inflated, but good to have efficiency in that department. In fact, he hasn't had a team period interception since the first day of practice, so we're going on four days in a row now without a pick in eleven

and eleven. We might recall he set records last year for not throwing a pick in the first x amount of throws as an NFL career, and up until that Kansas City game, his first pick and game number five for him and the efficiency of the offense in this regard is no fault of a bunch of short throws

offensively because they've been aggressive and attacking. And on that note, why don't we go ahead and hear from one of the Dolphins defensive backs who had a note onto a Tonguo by Loa had this to say after practice, as far as the passing offense goes, and to us growth in your number two, Oh yeah, no, he letting it fly this year, for sure. I mean he was last year. But you can see like he just looks a little more comfortable back there and me making some tough throws

putting it in the hole, um, leading receivers. You know what I'm saying. I don't when he threw the rob yesterday on a little out and up and throw it in a nice little pocket right there. So that was nice, Yes, sir, I love hearing that right there from Edom because I talked about on the podcast and he explained about throwing into a pocket. It was the out and up where it was an out route that he kind of threw before Robert Foster was out of the break to go

up on the sideline. And he threw it to a spot and Foster got to that spot as the ball came down and landed in his lap. So good stuff. They're good audio from Nick need Hum. And you know the ball playsment with ta is what really continues to show up for me as a you know, amateur scout up there in the stands. That and the quick trigger

the ball is coming out fast. He's had plays where the defense gives him a key that makes him decide to make that throw immediately after the snap, like one shot for instance, up the seam to Mac Hollands today where he's given a free access or free release after the first level as that defender across from him rushes in to a stands up, pops it out there and Mac has a catch ten yards up the seam with a full steam ahead attacking the third level with the

football in his hands. That's hard to stop and can really force a defense to reconsider their pressure package when the quarterback can get it up and down so to speak, in that arena. Coach was also asked about Tungo by Loa this morning at his presser, and he said he's very happy with where to is so far, and of course there's a long way to go. But I thought his comments about what to has drilled and work on was really good. Let's go to coach talking about his

young quarterback toa has. I think he's gotten off to a good start, still a long way to go, still very early. UM, good community offense. You know his techniques and his you know his QB mechanics fundamentals. UM, trying to work those every day and get them where they need to be. So that is footwork, is timing, you know that all kind of plays into um, his accuracy as a pastor, but also uh, ball handling with the backs and things of that nature. So I think he's

off to a solid start. You know, it's still still very early. We haven't that's still so early. We got a long way to go, um, and we just need to strin continue to string good days together. That's always my message to the team. You know, one meeting, one walk through, one pack, one practice won't play at a time. And UM, he's taken out approach and seeing small improvements

on a daily basis and hopefully that continues. And it's not just to Jacoby, it's read and uh, you know a lot of players offensively defensively in the kicking game. So that was kind of the scouting report, right, the ball placement, the mechanics, the footwork, all that fun stuff we talked about at least, you know, when I produced my own scouting report, that's what it was. Incredibly light on his feet, the black jack dealer with the release,

the just getting that thing out there. The ball placement, which has been on point this week. Some of the highlights from two of today. I had him on a great touch throw to the back pylon to Jachem Grant where he got it up over that underneath defender like we talked about with Charlie Fry and descending right into the lap of Jachem Grant in the corner for a touchdown. He completed his first two passes in the seven on seven red zone drill, both touchdowns to Wilson and Gaskin.

The third was incomplete, but the officials threw a flag that there was new officials there today for the first time they threw a flag in the secondary. And then too it comes back on a later drill and rips one down the seam to mac Hollins. And again this is what I talked about, where the ball finds him right as he turns his head in the soft spot of the coverage. So spatial awareness, the accuracy, knowing what the defense is going to do and how to react

to that. He had a pair of completions early on in the team period to Waddle and Wilson on short throws where they both had a chance to make a move in space. I want to see those simulations live. We'll see that soon enough here in preseason games and

in real games come September. He also had a rip to Jalan Waddle across the middle of the field where he catches the thing and stride the ball and the receiver intersect at the same time, and he was one slip tackle away from the safety from going eighty yards for a touchdown. Just really good precision like we saw with those guys back at Alabama. He had a deep out from the far hash to Albert Wilson and the ball gets there before the defensive back can dry because

of both the zip and the anticipation. Another really strong day here for the Miami quarterback. To A had a shallow crosser to Waddle on red zone work also where he kind of laid it out there and gave it put plenty of air under it, so Waller could run underneath it and get up field for a nice touchdown scoring play. On that one, I put a note in the Michael Dieter had a great pass block on ray Kuan Davis. More on that here. In just a minute, Mac Hollins ran a dig halfway into the end zone

from about the ten yard line. A dig's usually a twelve or fifteen yard in cut route, and two or two have fired this ball before he came out of the break, and it's right there on his face when he cuts in, he celebrates with a dance and then dunks the ball over the goal post. He came back later with a quick slant to mac collins for a nice game and then through a nice touch slash zip that second level throw over the hump into the third level to mcollins once again for a chunk of yards.

And really, you know too, and the first team offense. I've just shown progression each day through these first five practices. Zero picks in the last four days during team periods, explosive plays, sharp on the tight windows and the timing and the rhythm. It grows every single day. It's been a lot of fun to watch and seeing, you know, tweets from the Beat guys that Omar Armando, Berry Jackson,

Joe Shatt, etcetera, all saying how sharp this offense has looked. Well, it's a great start and a great opportunity to build on those bricks that are being laid. I'm gonna go ahead and say running back notes more for tomorrow and the pads go on, but I will say Miles Gascon continues to look really smooth as a pass catcher, and I think Malcolm Brown moves well for a guy that's built like an absolute house. I've been itching to see him get some goal line and work. We'll get that

later on this week, hopefully. Carl Tucker had a nice catch on a pass from Reid Sinnet and seven on seven red zone drills for a touchdown. I talked about him being a natural pass catcher last week. I thought that was evident on this play. But he did later come back in practice and juggle one that got tipped up and picked off by Trill Williams. And we'll cover the other two to quarterbacks. Start the rest of the

position groups here. Like with the receivers, Albert Wilson once again gets into the notes, and you continue to have these standout practices, not just with the deep balls, but you know, in fact, I think the part that I've most enjoyed watching these guys work with is, aside from the fun stuff down the field, is guys like Albert and Jalen Waddle winning in ways that traditionally speed receivers are perceived to not be able to do. It's not

just speed or possession guys, it's multifaceted guys. These guys can catch the football and traffic, catch it away from their frames and their toughest hell through contact, and the concentration just hasn't lapsed so far in these five practices. Wilson a diving touchdown catch for the second straight day. In the goal line. Work in that kind of three on three drill, and it's a post up type route, a hookup route where you set that thing down on

the goal line. The quarterback wants to get it out before you've shown him your numbers because there are two defenders, one on either side of you. And this one throw from Jacoby was a bit wide and he lays out makes a tough catch, especially when you consider the velocity on that short area throw. Then Jalen waddle Man, he's been a tough cover for everybody out here. When he's wide,

he stretches the defense from that alignment. When he's inside, he's deadly because the three way go whether it's deep, in or out. And my perspective tells me that he's using his speed and the defense is knowledge of his speed to really exploit areas of conflict. And what I mean by that is when he's in there and has the threat to run straight to the goal post and take off and get beat deep, you have to respect that.

And if you do, he can cross your face and get to the other side of the formation on the over route, and then it's just a foot race and well, good luck on that guy ran a four to eight once upon time. And if you cheat, he can snap that thing back to the outside, which he has done.

And that's one area where you've really seen the contested catch and concentration on every imaginable type of catch because he kind of works his way back into more traffic and he gets his hands under the ball overhanded, catches, catching it over his head, hanging on when your frame hits the ground. It's just been fun to watch him kind of develop here as a pro his first few

days of training camp practice. And so with that ability, plus the vertical speed ability, you can ideally force the defense to defend every single blade of grass out there, which for the fifteenth or sixteenth or time this year, creates chances for the backs, creates chances for DeVante Parker, Mike get Sicky mac Hollins, etcetera, etcetera. On this roster, Isaiah Ford had himself a hell of a day. I thought he both created separation on a variety of routes.

Wasn't always targeted, but that's beyond his control. But he got open on a really nice whip route, a rip routs where you basically stick your foot in the ground like I think Wes Welker, You run over the middle of stick your foot in the ground, and whip that thing back to the outside. He made two contested catches, including one on a comeback, which is a route that is designed for the ball to go outside because you go up the stem and you come back to the sideline,

you don't curl back inside. That's a curl. A comeback is outside, and the ball was thrown back inside where it would be for a curl and that gives the dB a chance to get to it. But Isaiah comes back inside and not just protects his quarterback with the PBu, he makes the tough catch. Get another catch later on where he worked the sideline all of Chris Chambers with a toe tap from yester year or two. So a big day Frisaiah Ford. Malcolm Perry had a good day too.

I thought his uh he first got in the notes during an open field tackling drill. I wrote he's got the shakes and he put one tackler on skates in short space. That's a lot of rhymes right there on that one drill. And we saw that in his route running a bit too today. Not only did he use that wiggle to kind of create some space, but to make some plays after the catch. And also Lynn Boden gets in the notes too. He had a couple of

nice catches down the middle of the football field. Speaking of working in the middle of field at tight end, I wanted to get a good look at Hunter Long today and he did not disappoint. He caught a really nice timing throw on a corner route from two oh just after catching one in traffic earlier in the period, I'll so noted his work as a blocker off the edge. You can tell this guy played in both power running offenses and spread offenses in college. He showed that versatility.

I thought on Monday Kirk Merritt had a handful of catches, been the case for him all camp long, and Robert Foster stabbed a really nice scene throw from Jacoby Brisett and the team red zone portion. I love that one because the entire offense went down there to celebrate with him. And then also here comes two of from the sidelines,

all out Christian Wilkins to celebrate with his teammates. We mentioned Mac Collins a lot in the QB portion, but I want to go ahead and put his name in here because he had an awesome practice on Monday as well. Along the offensive line, I thought derv All Kiras Netto had a good day today. He sure is tough to get around in past protection with that wide base and a powerful punch he offers. I mentioned Michael Dieter earlier in the podcast, thought he had a good day as well.

Tom and Paris had some good pass block reps. Jermaine and Luminoire also had some good reps out there as well. Again, we're gonna focus more on the offensive line tomorrow when the Pads come on defensively, Christian Wilkins in the backfield again for what might have been a hit on Tungle by Loa. This was, you know, been the case for throughout camp. He's it's ever agree with the foreman rotation of Wilkins, Steeler, Butler, and Davis. They all make plays

every single day. And there was a good clip of Adam Butler flushing to a in the team period down on red zone forcing him outside of the pocket. That interior pressure has been Adam Butler's game through four years of his NFL career. And on that Butler play, Van Ginkel's pursuit didn't allow Tah to attack the lion scrimmage. He was out in front of him, forcing him to continue to retreat, which is a very difficult position to

throw the football from. He wants to attack the line scrimmage as he surveys the back of the end zone, but he had to throw it away because Van Gekl was right there. And he's won both as a rusher and showing the mental aptitude to redirect and retrace when the pocket moves or the aiming point of where the quarterback is moves. He's a very heavy player that way, and he's really been productive in camp so far. Thought.

Emmanuel A had another good day with a couple of pressures and the best rep I thought he had was on a goal line run where he read the mesh point and chose correctly to get right in front of Miles Gaskin on a run from the two yard line for a possible collision that we could have seen in a real ackling drill. And then Schachem Griffin had a couple more pressures today. His speed is something that has to be accounted for off the edge and every single snap.

That's how he's winning in there with those speed rushes. I thought Sam eg Von speed and coverage showed will today and on that topic, Jerome Baker had much of the same, just like Saturday, where it really shows up in the coverage area of his skill set down on the red zone periods. And it's not just the speed, it's the smarts that he has. Like on one play he carries a man to help and then passes him off to the help and then comes down and closes

on another receiver to force incompletion. You can disrupt two passing or two passing options in the in the pattern the pass options with five eligible receivers, so great work

there from Baker. Duke Riley had himself a really good day, most notably a one on one matchup with Patrick Laird as they both flex out wide and I say out loud, yep, that's where the balls going, that's your matchup, and Brissette takes a snap right away, throws the fade into the corner and Duke stays stride for stride to get his

hand in there for an incompletion. In the defensive backfield, I start here with Javon Holland, who another strong day of practice, including some nice coverage reps on tight ends. He had a great rap working against Chris Myrick where he stayed patient at the top, engage at the top of the route with physicality, and then got underneath his man to kind of play to the help play to the end line, play to where your defense is played

to the teeth of the defense. He understands that stuff and got under him on the corner route, forced him into the perimeter of the field and he drives in the football and makes a play for an incomplete pass, and head coach Brian Flores was asked about what Holland has put on tape so far through the first five days of practice. Here's coach Flora's before practice, so I guess it was only four days, but you get it. I think he's doing some good things. Obviously, it's still

very early in training camp. I haven't put the pads on, but you know, up to this point, just from a alignment, assignment, responsibility standpoint, he's moving in the right direction. Um, smart kid, He's hard working. Football is important to him. He's trying to take in as much as he can. He's really, um, I would say, trying to be a sponge with these you know, veteran players. You mentioned Jason, but also Roe Byron X. So um, he's he's doing a good job

from that standpoint at that same position. Coach was also asked about his familiarity with Jason mccordy, saying he had one year with Jason in New England, but he was more familiar with his brother Devn of course, but did respect what Jason brings as a leader, and you know, Jason doesn't really get the ball production in practice because he's away from the snap, but he's back there directing things.

And what I like is to watch him move with the route pairings as they could sort of declare themselves a very knowledgeable player on that back end. And he did get his ball production in the goal line and red zone work today. He had a nice pass breakup on Albert Wilson as to a roll and try to get it to Wilson. Mccordy was there for the past breakup. I also had him with good coverage on a lofted corner route to Durham Smith where he gets a PBu and a slightly under thrown ball from two a toungle

by Looa. I thought Jitaln asked, you had a really nice practice today out of Georgia Tech. The undrafted rookie playing the football, two pass breakups, tight coverage, good snapping the hips, and a real competitor. In fact, there's a lot of dbs on this team that I don't think get much press that they deserve. I think they played

well this last week. Tino Ellis, Javarus Davis, two Rail Bonds and Truie Williams have all had been in the notes a few times for me and Trull had a couple of places today where he was in the area to help create takeaway, so good stuff they're speaking to takeaways. Jamal Perry had that great pick and practice on Saturday. He had a very similar look this week or today,

I should say, driving on an out route. Just didn't catch this one, but he was right there to drive on the ball and break it up off the arm of Jacobe Bursette for the PBu Nate Holly I put a note in here that he's often down to the trash to Greek ball carriers at the line and run defense. And Clayton Federlin had a great pick on a tipped ball as he went to the ground, caught the deflection, went down, got back up and ran it back. You can find that video on the Miami Dolphins Twitter timeline.

And then Eric Rohman, he's often so often this guy is teaching tape. He was in phase and coverage all day. Doesn't get himself locked out of reps where he's easily stacked. Like if you get in one position on the receiver, they can find a way to stack you and get them on their back. So you can't get around them, and he's down there on the run game getting his face in the fan. I just love watching him play so much. The only guy I saw get a catch

on him was Hunter Long. And speaking of Hunter Long, Eric was asked after practice about the depth of US receiving corps making all these plays in practice, and here he is. You know, we got more speed, we got more pieces, and then even when Devonte and Pressing come back, you know it would be even deeper. So I'm excited to see it happen, you know, to uh, I think he's making that jump. I mean, I see you today.

He's getting better from the first day. So you know, now opposing offenses, I mean, defenses can't just double one guy and be like, okay, everybody else can be covered because now he got you know, water would speed Albert DeVante, you know Pressing, I mean, you know, Mike g I mean being pickle, you want and you heard er talk about two are taking that year to jump and the

hope that he can do that. And of course the reporter followed up with a great question about to asking what's different the confidence, the ball placement, the accuracy, what is it? Here's Eero. He's always had accuracy. That was never a problem. He's always had accuracy, always had the zip, he always had power. I just you know, I just believe it's that year to jump. Uh. You know, everybody you know needs to make from their rookie year. And then obviously the you know, the type of offense could

last year. I even noticed his playbook was condensed to like slants and bubbles. You know, it really wouldn't him show his arm. And now seeing in training camp, you know he's got a lot more deep routes. He's got a lot more you know, they give him allowing him the opportunity to throw it deep. You know, that's what

we need. He also talked a little about Javan Hollow at the end of that presser, saying that he's a guy that is very smart and sting Divon loves to play football, and he also said Javan brings snacks when they asked him to bring snacks to the d B room, So why to get up close to your reveterans there

and do what they say, young man. Good job with that Special Teams last note here before we get to some final last note, Michael Pollardy was crushing the football today evergreen, because he's been doing it every day so far. I got the timer out at one point and it was consistently four six to four nine seconds of hang time with footballs traveling fifty yards from the lion of scrimmage, not from where he kicked it from the lion of scrimmage,

so fifty yard kicks with hang time. His best one of camp was today, a sixty four yard punt that hit the ground at the ten yard line and rolled inside to be down at the one inch line, and Jason Sanders once again to not miss a kick. I don't think he has yet all camp. I asked the beat guys that have been around for a lot longer than I have if this was commonplace and practice, and they said, no, not at all. He's a very uncommon

kicker that way. Last note on practice, before our last last note, there was a loose ball drill where guys were working on covering the oddly shaped bouncing balls it's called around the practice field, and there was just an urgency in this drill that would seem like a good opportunity to take a breather right, take up drill off, But that's not how it goes around here. Every drill has a purpose and the players take on that approach of their head coach. And before we get to our

final segment here, pads are on tomorrow. I can't wait for that. And on that topic, let's get to our last audio clip of this podcast with coach talking about what he looks for tomorrow when the pads come on. Good fundamentals, a good technique, good pad level, um again, good communication. I think our overall communication leads to good communication leads to a good hopefully good execution. And U, I mean that's really it. I mean I think I think you know, pads no pads, um, those are the

things I'm looking for. You know, good huddle, good communication, get a line, know your assignment, know your responsibility. Once the pass come on, I mean then we get to see the techniques fundamentals we we work on on a day to day basis. Um, you know, in action in pads, um, we want those in actions and out of pads too. So um, it's just a more it's just more protection for the players can be a little bit more aggressive. And h yeah, I mean it's it's real football, so

we're looking forward to it. So there's pads on practice tomorrow, and before we close up this podcast, a couple more segments here, including the matchup Matchup. Matchup of the day. It was Michael Dieter versus Ray Kwon Davis, and I liked watching Deeter for the ability to anchor against such a big football player and also reworking the hands on some of the counter moves, keeping his feet active and

under him in those particular instances. And Coach talked about that pad level and that previous sound clip, and that's something I've been appreciating so far with Deeter's game through five practices, and we'll definitely keep a close eye on that as the pads do come on at Tuesday's practice. Now, the guy across from him, ray Kwon Davis, has had one of the best camps out here, So when Michael scores a win or two against him, that gets my attention.

Even still, most of the time, ray Kwan's power is just overwhelming, and we saw that in a few matchups out there today. He can really put pressure on guys with both the length and the power, and sometimes because of that and the threat of that power and that initial push and unlocks the ability for him to knife through a gap, a gap with a quick first step. Our top performers today on the list. Let's go ahead and go through this real quick to a tongue by Loa.

The accuracy, the ball placement just continues to really pop off the charts. Isaiahfford competitive tough catches and traffic. Jason McCarty kind of a traffic cop back there getting his hands on footballs and p bus. Andrew Van Ginkle continues to disrupt plays in a multitude of ways. Javon Holland the coverage day was airtight on Dolphin's tight ends and

otherwise he was everywhere. Hunter Long though, had a good day and a couple of catches in the team period, including a long one on a corner route from tongue by Loa. I put Robert Jones in here because I thought he just physically looks the part. He's a big, big dude, big strong calfs ankles and the backside you really helped anchor and pass pro Curious to get a better look at him as pads go on as well.

Jalen Waddle is in there because of the urgency that he creates the offense and the speed and the conflict he creates on defense, just shows up every single day. Malcolm Perry shook some guys in space and made some plays that way as well. Mac Hollins is in here because of his constant receptions and big plays and celebrations at practice. Duke Riley had some good coverage and some good run defense and the run installed period early on.

Michael Dieter isn't there for the reasons we just mentioned. Jaitlyn ask you big plays on the football getting some production that way as well. So two a toungo by Loah Isaiah for Jason mccordy, Andrew Van Ginkl, Javon Holland, Hunter Long, Robert Jones, Jalen Waddle, Malcolm Perry, Duke Riley, mccollins, Michael Dieter, and Jaitlyn ask you. Let's finish up with

two more questions here from the Twitter timeline. I put the question out, you guys respond, We answer it here on on the podcast for you guys, and if you didn't get your question answered, we'll get back to more of those later as the week goes along, and if I can't get to many of them, we'll go ahead and just answer them on the Twitter threat itself later in the week, so keep an eye there. This first one from Jason Sarney, And if you ever have questions on how to be a fan, by the way, consult

Mr Sarney. Dude is a great, great fan and a pretty damn good writer too. I think he writes for Finns Maniacs. These days. He's at Jason Underscore Sarny and he asked a two parter. I'll bend the rules here for you, Jason, because normally it's one question for asker, but we'll go ahead and go with it. Which rookie

is looking the most pro ready. I'm going with Jalen Waddle just because I think the things you knew about him as a prospect are evident with the long speed and the quickness and the stuff that gets you on the highlight reels. But he's a crafty route runner. I think he really knows how to use that speed in the defender's knowledge of that speed to put them in conflict and create separation on a variety of routes, not just one to three or four routes, it's all routes.

And also the way he's caught the ball in traffic has been really impressive. It's been a treat to watch him work through five days. Let's go ahead and hope that it keeps rolling. Second question here from Jason, which but which veteran has arrived at camp looking the most improved? And I'm not sure I love the phrasing of that question as far as I want to give you an answer here, Jason, but I think that Wilkins looks a

step faster. I think Van Ginkl does too, and Miles Gaskin all third year players that I think have taken a step from where they were at this time last year. Speaking of great fans, go ahead and finish up this podcast Great Fans, Writers and podcasters with Kevin Dern at Kevin m d for Kevin, how you doing? Man Hope the Family as well on Twitter, he asks in terms of dB receiver matchups, which dB has done the best at matching wattle speed and acceleration out of the break

so far? And I think Wattle has done a great job of consistently creating separation for the first five days. He's been drawing plenty of different matchups with Justin Coleman, Nick need Um, No Monogamy, and plenty of others as well. I like the way Coleman has worked against him with the aggressive nature of his game, But I think Igbo has the athletic and movement skills that have shown best

in the area. In that area, Nick Needham talked about justin Coleman's physicality and the way he plays the game aggressively in his post game or post practice presser, so that stands out. But with Igbo's athletic skill set and the traits that he has. I've pointed to this a million times. The clip in college against Florida where he pivots, opens the hips and drives all in one fluid motion. It doesn't look real. I think most of you probably seen that out there on my timeline, but you see

that throughout the course of practice. The athletic ability so great question though. Wattle speed is evident at all times. And with that, that's gonna be my time. If you pose a question, I'll open those back up again later Again. I appreciate you guys doing that helps the podcast here big time. Also know if you want to help the podcast, go ahead and subscribe, rate and review the show on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. From Go ahead and

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