Dolphins Training Camp 2021 Day 6 Recap

Will break down all the action from a run heavy padded practice with the depth of the defensive line showing out, the linebackers flying all over the field, some offensive line and running back talk, and much more, including your Twitter questions, audio from Albert Wilson, but Narderick McKinney, and Jerome Baker, Top performers, matchup of the day, All of that and much much more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast.

We kick it off at the latest roster news from your Miami Dolphins as we keep you up to date on this ninety man roster. DeVante Parker was out there today but did not work. The same was true of Jalen Phillips and one day after exiting the field with trainers, savan Akhmed was back on the practice field, albeit in a red non contact jersey, but that obviously is a terrific sign. Andrew Van Gigl exited practice on Tuesday with trainers. Will monitor that and get you updates as we have them.

And the Dolphins also announced on Monday the release of d J. Fluker off the injured reserve with an injury settlement. The team also added another tight end in Gabe Homes and in fact, on the first period, he was working with the senet let offense read senet and opened up a huge lane on a Jared Oakes run. Kyle Crabs, who's here at practice the next two days, and I were talking about him before the play and we at each other and just say, hey, welcome to Miami, Gabe.

Kind of a cool moment. So we get out there and you know the drill. Christian Wilkins comes out first, Shakie Griffin out there shortly after, and the guys go to work on the pads and the bags, just popping those things. There was a different sound today with the pads on, and you can tell it was going to

be a physical practice from that moment. From the outset, and one thing I really liked about that opening period was the drill where the defensive line would push the sled up to its max height, lock out their arms, and then other players at the position group would take some pads they used to go up and block against the pass, rush against and push on the player's side to kind of simulate staying on balance through contact on double teams. And watching Christian Wilkins do this, you know,

looked not of this world. First, he's fully extended with his bass planted and the arms all the way locked out, and then the hits on him are just not moving him. And there's a great snapshot of the underrated value in my opinion, of what he does that doesn't show up on the stat sheet. The job to stay engage on those blocks so they can't climb to the second level.

I mean, when you double team, you definitely don't want to keep two bodies on one guy because that takes away your numbers advantage the offense might have, and that's the entire point of the running game, to get a favorable box count and attack the mismatch. But Christian doesn't give an inch in this area and creates chances for the backers behind him, and we saw that throughout the course of today's practice. We also saw the defense just

swarm to the football. They played fast, physical, and the depth of the group was apparent on this day. We've covered this in the podcast all spring and summer, really, but I mean, you're six, seven, even eight deep up front, you've got a wave of edge rushers, you've got good interior linebackers that can be three down guys. And then of course on the back end, I don't know, some combination of like twelve proven vets with young guys that have tons of upside and potential and high draft status.

So the DBS didn't factor into this particular portion quite

as much. You get the idea, And I pulled up my tweet from last month ahead of the Interior, Defensive and Positional Preview up on Miami Dolphins dot com as well as here on the Drivetime podcast, where I noted that from week ten on last year from Pro Football Focus, Wilkins, Seedler, and Davis all finished with top twenty grades at the I d L position, and they were the NFL's top trio in terms of total pressures and run stops in that department because well, not many teams have three guys

that continuously tick the stat sheet in those two departments. And then what you add Adam Butler, And I'm not interested in ranking these four guys because I think you could make a case for each of them as being you know, the quote unquote best one out there, and that includes Butler, which just says so much about the depth and how all four of those guys could really be really one through four on the old depth chart there.

And then at linebacker, Bernardick McKinney comes in, and that was maybe the best individual day of any player through six days I've seen out here so far, and that should come as no surprise. He was an absolute monster against the run and a blitzer in Houston during his Pro Bowl run there and even in coverage to a

true three down backer. I want to play some audio here from Bernardrick because he was excellent with us after practiced, just talking about returning from the injury, getting the pass back on how he had to dial in because he says, you know what, We'll go to the audio here first, but first I want to start with his response to my question when I just straight up said to him you know you were in the backfield a lot today

and that doesn't happen by accident, obviously. What is it about this defense that allows you to play so fast being just one week in the training camp with your new team. Here's b mac. It has a lot to deal with drawn helping me out of the defense. Uh, guys like Rob helping me out. Coach camp helping me out. Um, the whole whole line of the room. To be honest, we uh we talk a lot in the line of the room and uh they hit me out every every guy's helping each other out with the defense, and um,

I'm getting it. I'm starting to get it. Business. It's a long way before the season starts, and I'm just taking it one day at the time to try to get to know the ins and out. And if that was him just getting to start to know the defense, then I can't wait to see where he is a month or two or even four from now. And Jerome Baker touched on that too. I asked him about the camaraderie we saw during that goal line drill to end

the practice. And I'm sure you guys have read about tweets, the stories, the articles and what's and so forth, And I didn't tell you guys. I couldn't wait for two things, goal line and one on ones, and we got both those todays. So when goal line, the defense continued the theme of the day. They got after the offense pretty good. They were stacking up runs, defeating blocks, arriving with big collisions. Man,

it was a lot of fun out there. And I want to make this quick note because I think it's very important, and I think it's a bit lost on the narrative I've seen kind of developed on Twitter. I suppose as I scrolled through while eating my cheese ravioli and grilled cilantro shrimp here with a delicious meal of the Miami Dolphins cooked up today and every day really, but absolute compliments to the chef on that's it's it's

fantastic food they give us here. But the run to pass ratio to kind of dispell the narrative, the run to pass ratio and this practice was probably close to ten to one, and that might even be generous. A couple of the team periods were exclusively run. It's a run install. Remember what coach told us about fundamentals and technique.

You have to get that part down before you can start going to play pass or bootleg or whatever kind of action you want to do to make the defense consider the other areas of conflicts besides just playing downhill and flowing to the football on the running plays. In fact, the one play action passed in the goal line period presented Carson Meyer wide open in the back of the end zone, completely left alone for a room service touchdown from Jacoby Brissette. So take that for what it's worth.

So the defense won a lot, but let's just please maintain perspective here. It's akin to judging the results of those O t A practices back in May and June, Like, does anybody remember that because it doesn't matter anymore. Results aren't the end all be all this time of year. It's putting the guys in position to foster growth and improvement. And I think we saw a step one of that

today as far as the run game is concerned. The physicality of the game here in training camp, and good for the defense to get to tee off a bit after the offense was you know, dropping in these deep passes. Is these deep passes throughout the first five days of practice and at times with little resistance, and so those

practice would kind of flip the script. And a reporter actually asked Baker after practice if it was a bit of redemption for the defense for the big plays the offense scored throughout the first five days of practice, and Jerome said he doesn't know about redemption, but he did say that it felt good to get the physical aspect

of the game back. I also asked him about the energy and what that meant to him in that final period as the defense in that goal line period, because if you've ever been to a practice when it's full team period and just one field of work, like they're not working both fields, the offense goes to one sideline

and the defense to the other. But in this period, the defense went to the end line under the goal post, and there was all kinds of chirping and hoot and holler and just like it should be because football is fun, right, And that's what Jerome said. And just give you a heads up here when he starts this answer by saying, amazing, he got a massive smile across his face. Here's Jerome, amazing.

It was fun. It's just one of those periods you know, it's live and you can really play ball and you can just let it loose and really, you know, show what you got. Uh. I just love the energy of you know, we was hyped through with the ones, and we was hype with the twos and we carried that same energy. Uh that we made some mistakes, but at the end of the day, you know, we're just getting

better and that's what it's really about. I had mentioned a SoundBite from Jerome talking about b MAC earlier on the podcast. Let's go ahead and hear from Jerome before we get to Bernardrick and the rest of his interview. But first let's hear from Jerome on b MAC. That's amazing. He's a big dude. Um, he's willing to learn. He goes hard. Uh. You know, he communicates, That's that's the one thing he does when he doesn't know something, he acts. Uh.

He tried to get better. Um, you know right now is you know, you can get chemistry, but the real chemistry is in the game. We really see, you know, when the bullets are flying, who really with you? So uh, you know, we're just getting better every day. And you know, I definitely love having next to me And like I said, I want to go ahead and just play some more of McKinney's press, almost in the entire party because it

was just so good. Let's go ahead and start with him talking about getting shoulder pads back on, as if you might recall the injury he had last year with Houston was in fact his shoulder injury. Here's b Mac. Uh, it's a great, great relief day one, having hey shoulder pads on a long time. Um, but I had no doubt in my shoulder. Uh, it's feeling really great. It

was a great successful practice for me. Um, and I feel good about my shoulder and how I practice and just trying to help the team and do whatever it takes to make the defense better. And then he talked a little bit about live tackling in the period of life tackling or a whole practice of it. I should say, here's b Mac once again on live tackling. I love I love those moments to me person. I love going life anyway because that's my that's my strong suit. Uh,

just coming down here. But it's great. Just guys cheering, guys on. Uh. Getting the chemis shore of the team. Everybody is the one of core. Everybody having fun, making plays. It was a great experience and UM ready to see more of it. And alb Mack repays the confliment with Jerome Baker asked about playing alongside number fifty's it's it's very fun man. He's he's a great leader. Um, he's been hitting me out with the defense a lot. Um, he's a great guy to be around, a great guy

on the field, a very athletic guy. Uh to see him rent sideline. The sideline is very interested just seeing them make plays. It's very fun. And now we hear from b Mac talking about the goal of linebackers in this defense. I thought this was very insightful. Uh, just no one for one is just getting off blocks. I mean, um, we know we have to do with linebackers. We can't try to sell for one on one blocks. We gotta defeat blocks. We gotta be able to get off blocks.

You gotta be able to make plays. And he always emphasized that, and we've been taking it to the heart every day, just trying to get off blocks and uh, help the D line get free, just like they're trying to help us get free. So we're trying to work together as as a whole defense and then we finish up here with b Mac for a question about the mental aspect of the game and getting pads back gone for the first time since that injury last Today for me was about just um me not being able to

play football, you know. Uh, since I got hurt meant a lot for me. Stepping on the field, being able to play again and being able to tackle and be physical the guy that i'm that I am and have no worries meant a lot for me today, you know what I'm saying. So it was a great day for me. I felt comfortable. It's a lot of stuff I gotta work on, uh individually from the scheme and uh, just me being inside line bigger here. So I'm just gonna work on that and just take it one step at

the time. And that's the presence that I think is somewhat intangible, how to harness your emotions and focus on assignments and fundamentals, etcetera, etcetera. I absolutely and loved that quote. And this is where we jump into the matchup of the day. The matchup of the day a bit of a detour from our normal schedule, but I think it fits here because the matchup of the day is but Drick McKinney and Eric Studisfield the Dolphin's co offensive coordinator

and run game coordinator. Now, I put coach Ian here because I can't say all the backs in the entire offensive line, So we'll go with coach who saw his backs spring a couple of runs, get to the edge a few times. We even saw Ta get out wide on a quarterback sweep, and man, he looked fast getting out to the edge. You want a foot race to the corner with the Dolphins defense. Now, normally Jerome is

out there winning those foot races. And as you heard b Max say, his sideline the sideline capability sure is fun to watch and us to be mac us too. But McKinney's inside presence was hard to miss. He was everywhere out there. I talked about this back in March when he was acquired via that trade with the Texans. How you would often seem him, see him barking out signals, moving guys around, making sure the defense had their alignment

and assignment. And then he pulled the trigger off of a key or some tip that he had pre snap and take himself right to the action. And he did that all day today. In practice he was awesome and that at doing that as well as deconstructing blocks when he had to hear him talk about defeating blocks there in the defense, and he certainly can do that in spades. Let's go down the notebook here real quick. McKinney flies in for a hit on the back in the backfield,

I wrote. Then later McKinney is having none of the run game right now? Is he scrapes off the edge. And when you hear scraping, that's when the defensive tackle or a player in front of you is locked up and engage in a block, and you play right off that outside shoulder and shorten the the area and condensed that gap to force the running back to have no room to squeeze through. For daylight, he was doing it through the a gap all the way out to the edge,

just firing on all cylinders. And then McKinney again for a TfL, I wrote, defense getting after it. And the symbiotic relationship as you heard him talk about there between the backers and the defensive lineman really seemed to be clicking early here on day one of training. Gap but Adam Butler actually told us after practice that he considers this day one when the pads do come on, so

something to note there. Later on in practice, McKinney had one of those truck stick stick type of hits where and Nick Needham was on the hit too, where he blows it up and kind of slowly walks away back to the huddle with two arm flex like, yeah, I just did that. Let's go ahead and continue the segment, and mentioned some of the work from the running backs.

Malcolm Brown had a couple of nice plays, including one rip through the line where he busted through a seam on the offensive line and got into the second level and into the third level, but there was a flag throne for holding, so that one comes back, but he looked good on that run. He also pulled in a one handed catch on a ball in the flat from Burssett where it kind of got away from his frame. He reaches out, pulls it back and stabs it and it was one of the fifties and coverage either b

Macer or Baker and couldn't see who it was. But that's a good guy to get out there and coverage on or to beat in the passing game for Malcolm Brown. Then Jordan's Scarlett. He took a hit from Calvin Munson in the head up or in the goal line drills rather going head on, he absorbs it and fights forward to get across the goal line for six hell of an effort from Jordan's Scarlett on that play, and then

Myles Gascon. He's fun to watch man the way he constantly changes the angles on pursuits and the good balance he has and really looks to have improved his ability to absorb contact in the hole and to get to that second level, break those tackles and maybe turn you know, eight yard runs into thirty plus yard runs potentially if he can add that ability to a skill set. Later, I noted Gaskin getting outside on a run where he pressed the edge and cut off the butt of Austin

Jackson who cleared a lane. So the vision, the urgency of the whole, all that stuff is there from Miles Gaskin. My last note on him was just the workman like attitude that he does and everything that he does. He ran through a special teams drill that got a lot of praise from Coach Croftsman after his work on that rep So Gaskin pass game, run, game, pass, Pro Special

Teams does a little bit of everything. And Jared Note Jokes had a nice run today, a decisive run where he got to the whole fast and got through a skinny gap, made himself skinny and burst through that thing before lowering the boom in the second level. You can see the way he runs behind those pads with power. Certainly kind of provide some value there for the Miami Dolphins. All right, we're gonna come back to the defensive line

and offensive line. Let's go ahead and venture out wide and get some of the one on one notes from the individual periods. In fact, there are remore matchups. I want to go ahead and highlight here because I got a peek at the one on one drills over there. First up, Joachim Grant versus Nick Needum. They had a couple of battles out there, and on one Grant got to the back corner of the end zone where he went up and made a play and man, he he creates some space. But also the ups, this guy has

to go ahead and get up and jump. I bet you he can dunk a basketball because he could really

get off the ground. And then later Nick need Him had a a rep where Grant creates some separation, but Needham had good recovery to knife back under the route and break up the pass down on those goal line drills, Eric Roe versus the rookie Hunter Long Vet versus the rook Road got him once where Long couldn't come off the contact, but later a later rep in the same period, Long came back and just pushed his way through the contact. Like I watched that thing thinking are they ever going

to separate? And almost like he invited the contact offensively, then got to the separation to make the catch on Eric Row and a flag came in on the play for the defensive holding two. So love watching that physical battle there with those two guys and Row competing with tight ends. I mean, this guy was a cornerback a couple of years ago who beefed up and got inside and really matches the physicality inside. Finally, Albert Wilson and

Justin Coleman. Coleman had fantastic coverage on Burt on a corner route from Tua, but the ball was just perfectly layered nicely over his outstretched arm, and with Bert having only a small one that to work with, he showed nice concentration to haul it in and keep his feet

and bounds. Coleman got a win later as well by breaking up a past by really working with Wilson on the back line and kind of playing underneath his man and being able to go inside outside two waygo some of those slot strengths you see there from Justin Coleman. He's been fun to watch, having real good coverage and multiple reps on multiple guys. And this isn't part of the battles, but Jalen Waddle ran the smoothest route I've

seen out here all week in this particular period. He puts a little move at the top of the route and completely turned the defensive back around. He also put a move in open space on the pursuit tackle drill that had fans going bananas in the stands. Just a bunch of shake and wiggle for his game. And this was one play after Jachim had a joke that drew us and awe us from the fans, and then Malcolm Perry a field plays later did the same thing. He always shines in that drill. He made two guys miss

with one move as well. Lots of fun battles today, so I mentioned to uh there and there wasn't a lot to really critique for the quarterbacks in this practice outside of ball handling and Mike points and that sort of thing in the running game. But without knowing those calls or the task, there's no point to even talk about it, so we won't. He did, however, have some

early throwing work in non team periods. My favorite part of the day was to a coming from the far field over by the the indoor facility, coming to the near field by the grandstands and stopping to dap up one the one and only go in Dan Marino, who was there at practice today, and he gave to us

some encouragement and some words before that period. Two of them springs in the step and goes into the huddle and completes three out of four in the period and had a really nice lofting corner route to Robert Foster at the back pylon, who continues to have a really

good camp Robert Foster does. This was the same three on three drill where it's it's two receivers or tight ends and the combination might be whatever you make of it, as well as a running back in that combination, so it could be one back, one tight end, one receiver or whatever else versus three defensive back slash linebackers and of course the QB two, so three on three with the all time quarterback we'll call it. But To and Hearns found a nice connection in the strial a couple

of tight window throws and catches. More on Hearns later. I note the defense might become might be coming privy to the route combinations in this drill, because there were a lot of incomplete passes in this period, and general Alexander and Charles Burke's were sure as hell loving it. Byron Jones had a really nice rep on Robert Foster where he ran him to the end line and then

eventually out of the back of the end zone. And too, I had to just eat the past because nobody was open, which in this drill is very rare, but today the dbs were getting after it. And I just really enjoy watching Byron's awareness and situational football, like knowing where the perimeter is, knowing where your help is, knowing how to play outside shoulder or whatever it might be. He just is so technically sound that way. And then Jamal Perry

made the same play he's made. This is a third day in a road now where he's driven on the flat route to the running back from the quarterback throwing kind of angling sideway to that front pileon he drove, got a pass breakup, he picked it off on Saturday, he dropped the pick yesterday or Monday rather, and then Tuesday today and getting my days mixed up. Today he had a similar play where he just forced the incompletion

by getting his hand there as well. So lastly on defense, you know, I mentioned justin Coleman having a really nice camp and the way I've I've kind of compartmentalized what I've I've liked this game is the way he operates in condensed areas, playing with a savvy physicality to know how to reroute and challenge routes, and that really can help you with those short areas and the two way goes.

And he does it without without doing it in a way where you're gonna get flagged by kind of grabbing your pulling or you see the jersey come out apart, or the chess play or the back of the collar bone there come out. He does a good job of getting those hands on guys, But not doing it in an intentional penalty way. Javarras Davis gets in the notes again for tight coverage on Kai Locksley for an incompletion. We'd hear from Javarras Davis later on in this podcast

as well. And finally Brissette fires one into mc hollins, who posted up on a curl route right at the goal line. He's really been making his hey mac collins has in the red zone was sort of this post up fade type of receiver that can do multiple things. Basically knows how to use that frame to get separation

space and make catches that are contested as well. And after this drill we go back to the Indies and I had talked about g A. Gerald Alexander in the secondary of working through rubs and passing off in different simulations for situations where you have to communicate effectively, And now they're working on picking up motion and it's just again a well oiled machine. Guys are not getting lost evident by not getting yelled at or no repeated reps. It's just get in, do your job, get out, next

guy up. It's fun to watch. Then we go back to the one on ones and I thought the offensive line did really good work in the past rush one on one drill. Jesse Davis had a great rap against Jason Strowbridge, running him around the arc of the quarterback to Moan Paris shut down an upfield rush from Vince Beagle and then redirected him to even off the quarterback going back inside. And Tomone Paris had a couple of good practices out there. He was a late addition to

the roster, but he's getting some work at tackle. Cameron tom who I thought had a good day with some push in the ground game. He took big Benito Jones to the ground on a rep a throw him out the club type of rep. One of his best of camp so far. Derval Kiras Nedo drew Adam Butler a very tall order and dropped the anchor to hold up in pass protection against him. Tyshon Render scored a win for the defense, finally crossing the face of Larnel Coleman, and we know how long Coleman is, so Render good

work to get free of him. And then Michael Dieter I thought had the best rep of the entire drill. He actually got pushed like backwards push on ray Kwon Davis, which just doesn't happen, especially in a pass protection drill. He's done that a couple of times this week, and I'm actually pretty excited to get a look at deats as we go along here with the pads and practice

in the new preseason games. Then finally, Austin Jackson had a fantastic mirror rep on Brendan Scarlett where he shut down his initial rush and then his counter move as well, just kind of played a wall in front of Brendan. But we would hear from Brannan Scarlett later on in this practice. Then we get into the run exclusive period, and man, it was a masterclass effort by the Dolphins deep front, as well as mckinneyan Bake, who we already

touched on. But Zach Seiler was consistently standing guys up and what to find. He has been by this Dolphins team and he'll be here for a while with the extension he got last year. But it was a great day for Zack Seiler. I wrote that Adam Butler showed his versatility. Now we know about his ability to play fast and straight ahead and the explosive first dip we've covered on the podcast so many times, but he's a

hell of a two gap defensive lineman as well. There was a rap where he worked you know when they flow away from you and you have to kind of work down the line and reset the line of scrimmage. He worked a solid two gaps across where he started to greet Patrick Laird on a bend back run back into his gap. So good work from Adam Butler and then John Jenkins habit I thought was his best day of training camp. He planted his flag inside and just would not get moved off the nose most of the time.

There was also some instances where he came off his block in that first period for a run, stuff this one on Jared Oaks. He then later stacked up a block that Vince Biegel scraped off the outside to make a play as well. So Jenkins a big day and it wasn't just all frontline guys. Brandon Jones playing forwards

like a missile. He comes from depth so well, completely wiped out this off tackle run the Dolphins hab and speaking of Jenkins stacking things up, Christian Wilkins applied that drill and the team period I talked about, or the individual period I should say into the team period, they just couldn't get movement on him consistently throughout the day. Him, Seiler and Jenkins were tough in that regard. What else

we got here. We had another special teams period and again the effort is just so much fun to watch. They don't waste reps out there. It was a kickoff coverage drill where two blockers had to take on one man, and I wrote that Nate Holly plays with his hair on fire, and you see that in these drills, but also on defense he popped the pads a couple of times. Also noted Brandon Jones work. He hits, he chases, he flies around. I tell you, I tell you what, man,

He's just a great football player. He's fun to watch. And then Sam eeg Van, who we're here from again in this practice later on, had very solid special teams work as he is want to do. He squared up one block that completely stopped all momentum of the opposition,

and Coach Crossman quite like that himself. Back to the team drills, Adam Butler comes in for the first play and just blows through the line for a TfL for at least a three or four yard loss, and he popped the pop the running back and got up like, yep, that's that's what I do. And then Robert Hunt got the most consistent push in this period, I think, and in the entire day as a whole for the offensive line.

He sprung Miles gasking for a nice run off his gap at one point in this drill, and again it's all running play, so it's hard to get footing and get grounding when you don't really have the threat of the past. Until finally we do get a pass as to a swings one out wide to Jalen Waddle, who for sure made the first defender out in the flat miss. Then he takes off up the sideline for about fifteen yards before the next offender finds him and he makes

another move. Now, I'm not going to forecast a simulation for whether it was a touchdown or a tackle, but I tend to think Waddle is tough to to get down in that space. I mean, he did it all the time Alabama, and he's been doing it here so far through the first week. I told you we'd hear from Brandon Scarlett again later in this podcast, and he's been doing it all week, but now with the pads on the way, he forces outside runs to either bubble or bend back to the teeth of the defense man.

That's a treat to watch. And speaking of Scarlett, let's go back to Bernardick McKinney, who was asked post practice about playing with Scarlett in Houston and now here in Miami. Brandon Scarlett, he's a very intelligent guy, very very strong, very fundamental sound, a great listener, great guy on the field. Off the field. Um, he's like I said, he's very very physical guy. So I love playing with Scarlett. He

brings you, he brings me energy. Um, I mean, it's just a great just a great group overall, just guys, congratulating guys, no selfish guys or whatever. So and then he was asked a question after that, So that's why it ends off there. But we pick it back up with more team period. I had Jerome Baker in on

a hit in the backfield for another stuff. Zach Seeler, the workman like mentality he has, like I talked about with Adam Butler and Christian Wilkins, going down the line, coming off the block and then tagging off on the tackle at the end. Just the way he gets his job done, it's almost like he expects it, which with the way he's played, I can see why. I had Solomon Kinley with a nice second level block where he came off the line, got to the second level and

put a punishing block on a linebacker. Got a good look at Robert Jones day at the U d F A from Middle Tennessee State, had a nice combo block on his last rep of that final period, and man, he is thick. He's got big thick tree, trunk, legs, ankles, calves, all that you want in that position. Sam eeg Van got got back into the statue here he shot the gap the a gap rather for a huge tackle for loss in these rundown periods. I mentioned Eric Rowe earlier

in coverage. You pair that with his ability to come in and stick his face into the fan. He had a play where he got down in the muck and greeted Miles Gaskin right at the point where he fall off a block from a tight end. I didn't see the number on the tight end, but he fall off a block and got in there for a run stop and then finally crave on the block. I had passed play one of the few ones of the day, gets

a ebu on Jacobe Brisette. The ball pops up into the air and Jamal Perry will see that one in his nightmares because he had a chance to catch it he didn't. He goes down for the push ups, but he's caught everything else in camp so far. The team period continues at the minus one yard line. Zack Steeler gets in penetration, makes a stop to the the line. A good job by Miles Gasing to get out of his tackle, but he was in there again to make another play

on the running back. He was basically got a one yard game which should have been probably a one yard loss which would have been a safety. So a good job by Seiler and Gaskin on that particular play. We get another pass play here where two of fines Durham Smith in the flat for a nine yard game and Jerome Baker speed you saw it on this play. He got over there in a hurry to stop Smith from getting the ten yards for the first down. Probably a

game of eight or nine on that play. But then the next play two yard line, this one, Manuel Ogba gets around the outside for a safety. Brandon Scarlett and Jerome Baker were in on the play too, but Agba one big time on that pass rush to Moan Paris. I talked about him earlier I wrote down just getting some push. He's moving some guys off the line, off his side of the offense of line. And then later

Jacoby Brissette tries to jam one into tight coverage. This time the ball deflects to Jamal Perry, who makes a diving interception to make up for the earlier one, but the refs ruled it incomplete. It would have gone to review on Sundays. I'd be curious to gonna look at that. I thought he got under it and cradled that thing for the I n T. And then Alan Hearns I

mentioned him uh coming back up in the podcast. He went up for a fifty fifty ball for a hell of a catch on a ball slightly under thrown about thirty yards from Jacoby Brissette, but he went over the

defensive back to make a great catch. And then read Senet fires a slant to Kai Loxley for ten yards, again still working from the minor's two yard line, and then throws another ball, this one to Kirk Merritt, who got behind the corner instantly by a solid three yards or so, and Sennette lofted one down the field and Merritt had to lay out and made a diving catch for a thirty five yard gain. The entire offense came over to celebrate with Kirk and the fans love that

to Kirk Merritt having a nice camp so far. We finished up with goal line Christian Wilkins fires in for a TfL on Miles Gaskin, and then Javon Holland made one of my favorite plays of the day. You might recall Rashaw Jones was such a phenomen at closing down the strong side sea gap, week side sea gap, coming off the edge, flattening and getting to the running back

before he can get the yard to gain. Javon Halland wrapped around the edge the exact same way, made a big hit in the backfield and shut down that run short of the end zone on a play round from the two yard line where Wilkins and Butler had stacked things up as well. Holland had a good day in coverage and in the early portions of practice two. Nice day from the rookie Brandon Jones and Clayton Federalum team up this time for a run stuff and this time

it was ray Kuan Davis who got up chirping. He took on a big double team to stack that thing up. Guys taking turns, making plays. And before we get to our top performers and your questions, I want to go ahead and finish up with some audio from Albert Wilson, who we haven't heard much on this podcast. We had another day of catches in the In the one on one period, he talked about developing chemistry with two a tongue of byloa and doing it previously in the off season.

I think it's pretty good. We've these last two off seasons. Actually we've we've been gotten. We got a lot of work in when he first got here before I opted out, we spent the whole off season again there in this past offseason, Um, we didn't work at the same the same facility, but we was we was close and we got a lot of work in. So I feel like the chemistry has just picked up, picked up where he

left off for the off season. And we'll go ahead and close it up on the audio from this podcast with Albert Wilson talking about the catchable ball thrown by two a tongo by Lola. He has a really nice catchable ball, is not too tough to catches, is not darting at you, so it's pretty much easy to grab and go. So I like it. So there you go, grab and go, get that thing, get out of their

get up field, make plays happen. Our top performers today you might have a guest for who leads this list off, but Nargik McKinney playing fast every single gap, aggressive and physical tone that are out there, big day for number fifty. Robert Hunt had consistent pushing the run game I thought was the best offensive lineman today. Miles Gaskin just maximizes his runs, contributing the passing game in the three on three period as well as special teams. He continues to

look good out there and smooth and fast. Brennan Scarlett strong edge and the run game, creates chances and make some stops of his own, but he's so adept at getting outside of that man, which shortens the edge and forces it back into a quick decision to do two things you don't want to do, which is bubble go backwards or go back inside to the teeth of the defense.

Jalen Waddle. Those routes he was putting together out there were something plus the possibly long run after the catch on a simple swing route and the shaking pursuit drills that gets him on the list today. John Jenkins consistent against the run and more than just creating chances and keeping his back ards clean, he was in there for lots of plays of his own right as well. Adam Butler the big tackle for lost, the consistent penetration, working down the line to stack things up, but also make

plays of his own. Zach Seeler there was one point where he want to rep and just kind of walked back with his head down with a quiet fist pump. And this was after he had made a few plays, you know, indicating to me that he was just like, yep, not gonna happen today. I'm here today, boys. Brandon Jones, special teams and defense, the effort, the pursuit angles, the ability to come from depth. I like what he brings the entire outfit. And Kirk Merritt. The big catch was

the big lay offensively of the day. And he's just getting his name in here pretty much every single day. He's earned that right, but also promotions up to the second team throughout the course of camp with Jacoby Brissett and not offense, so Kirk Merritt, Brandon Jones, Zach Seeler, Adam Butler, Jalen Waddle, Brennan Scarlett, Miles Gascon, Robert Hunt and but Nargick McKinney. Let's go ahead and finish up this podcast with two of your questions from the mail bag.

First one from Russell Grace At Russell Grace, I are, he asks, I know it's hard to tell before the pads come on, but how are things looking at center? I watched that spot a lot more today because of the pads, and I thought Deeter had some really good moments,

especially with his play strength. And that's something that kind of feels like it's been a thorn in the side of the Dolphins for decades now, almost, doesn't it like something like sansonce to Telly, for instance, going up against Vince Wilfork those days back in the mid to early two thousand's, And the a f C East has loaded at defensive tackle now, so I think it's really important to have that. I also liked Cameron Tom's day today too.

He's strong as hell. And then also Matt Scura. I think he's gonna get better as we go along because he'll show you his best stuff in games, because he's such a cerebrally sound player that passes off stunts and things like that and communicates people forget this guy was just a couple of years ago playing at a very high level Pro Bowl level with the Baltimore Ravens. And then one more here from Glenn and Rushworth at g L Rush thirteen has to a show in the ability

to look off defenders with his eyes. There are videos, there's you know, there's videos I've used myself to show some of the work he's done in that regard. Might recall the Jacheme Grant bomb from O. T A S where he starts right, flips his hips back to the post, comes back to the right outside to deliver an absolute dark to Jachemee where he moved the safety off that

particular play. And then of course there was the throw on day one of camp to Adam Shaheen where he had to move Baker out of that passing lane, and there were a few others as well, but this was one of my favorite traits of two US coming out of college, and I think there were certainly instances of it last season and now this camp as well. Alright, guys, that's gonna be my time for this Tuesday edition of

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