Drive Time - Training Camp Day 5 Recap

another day, another Dolphins practice. We're going to run it back for the fifth time this week with another day of pads popping football. Plus we'll hear from Brian Flora's and the three rookie draft picks along the offensive line as we get audio from Austin Jackson, Robert Hunt, and Solomon Kinley. All of that and more on this Saturday Training Camp August edition of the Drive Time Podcast Dolphins. We're gonna get coach filling down here in just one second,

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you wear a mask for? Mask up South Florida, Keep caring, live healthy, stay strong, and learn more at Baptist Health dot net slash coronavirus. And as we do here on the training camp editions of the Drivetime Podcast, We're gonna start off first with hearing from Coach Flores, who had some really in depth answers on Saturday morning's media availability. A lot of questions about the offensive lineman upfront because we are later going to talk to Austin Jackson, Robert Hunt,

and Solomon Kinley. The first question for Flora's was about Austin Jackson, but of course that always gives coach a chance to expand upon his rookies and his entire roster in general. Austin you along with you know, the other rookies. He's he's obviously learning, he's improving on a daily basis. This is a a talented kid, tough, he's smart, um and he is you know, like all the young players, all the rookies, all the all the rookie players. He's

he's improving every day. He's getting better. He works at it. He's doing extra in the meeting, doing extra on the field and practice. It's important to him. Um, he's making mistakes, like everyone on the team is. I mean, none of us are perfect, you know, to myself included. And uh, you know he's learning from him and I think he's getting better. He's getting better on a daily basis. And that's the case with Austin and Robert Hunt and Kim Lee and you know, all of our all of our

rookie alignment. Up next, some great news, Yeah, if it's will be out there today, short and sweet regarding Ryan Fitzpatrick. They're up next. Coach was asked about linebacker Jerome Baker, who left Friday's practice with trainers and coach talking about him trying to get ready to get back to practice today. If not, he's day to day. You know, Jerome's taking this. You know it's day to day. Um, he's getting treatment, he's doing and everything. Uh. Uh he can to get

back to to get better. Guys getting nicked up in training camp. We're out there in pads. It's hot. You know, he's kind of going through some some treatment, you know, this morning, last night. Um, you know this is gonna come down right to the wire whether or not we can get him out there today, So we'll see. Overall health of the football team has been good so far.

Knock on would of course they're up next. Coach was asked about his own experiences going from year one as a rookie head coach into year two, the things that he has learned and how he's applied those so far. Here in your number two. He was also asked about the T n T Wall and why the Dolphins are not using it this year in a shortened off season, trying to get more reps. Here's Coach's answer about maximizing

the reps on the practice field every single day. From a scheduling standpoint, there's only so much time we can be out there, especially in the early part. So it was ninety minutes the first day in ONT five. So I just wanted to know there's not as much time as there is. So as far as like running to the wall or or anything like that, Um, you know, I just I'd rather just get get onto the next play and not lose a rep four for another guy. Which you know in other years that that's not the case.

You have enough time to do that and get to get all the reps in so UM as a staff, we're kind of running off the field because we hit our ninety minutes or we hit our hour forty five, or we hit our two hours. We're at the point training camp now where we do have enough time, so we we we we could incorporate that, but UM, don't worry. I hammer these guys when they're when when we have penalties pretty good in the meetings. UM, you can ask them about it, UM. And it's not something we take

lightly at all. UM. I just felt like, you know, we're better off, like like in the game, let's just move on and on to the next play and we'll hammer time them later in the day. Stop hammer time. They're gonna get on those guys for having penalties later in the day. I love to hear a coach talk about that. Love to hear him say he maximizes the time on the football field. Very forward thinking coach we have here in Miami, and just a good example of how he's not a coach who was stuck in his way.

It's always good to be evolving and learning, especially in this business. Speaking of learning and evolving, up next, Coach was asked about the three rookie offensive lineman draft picks Austin Jackson, Robert Hunt, and Solomon Kinley and if there's an experience factor that goes into the decision about who starts on opening day and if it could be those three guys in the lineup. Look, I mean, at the end of the day, you know, the guys who perform

the best they're gonna play. Let's say the offensive line unit's a little a little different in that you need five guys who who perform well together. Um, so there's some communication that goes with that, there's some experience that goes with that. Um, we'd have to get all three of them up to speed pretty quickly to to to do that. But look, if they're the five most talented players, and that gives us the best chance to ask some success and you know we're gonna have to we would

have to do that. Um, we've got some some veteran players, you know, you know theater who's played a lot, Jesse Davis has played a lot of Davenporter has played a lot, And so the question becomes do you do you play the three young guys or do you play a UM, you know, a combination of you to two of the young guys, one of the one of the young guys all three. I mean, there's so many different combinations. And you know, we've got some other guys who played UM

and started some games. So we just have to find out what the best five guys are from a communications standpoint, from UH and from a talent standpoint, and you know, we'll try to put the best team in. But you know, we're the three young guys. They're playing well, UM, they're learning their improvement, they're improving. Are they ready to jump in,

you know, in play sixty seventy snaps today? Unlikely, you know, given you know, not having not played UM in an NFL game and not feeling the speed of the game, and you know, I don't think anyone's gonna be ready to play sixty minute game right right on the on set. So I mean, we could see different combinations on the old line as well as other positions. Interesting note they are about combinations across different positions. In the first couple

of weeks of the season. Up next, coach was asked about how the quarterbacks looked to a ton of Iloa and Josh Rosen and Ryan Fitzpatrick's absence at Friday's practice. I thought they both made some good throws. Um, they've both made some not so good throws. Every day is a little bit different, and you know how practice is structured early down, you know, third down, red zone, two minute. We just want to see them in those those different scenarios.

How see how if they could be successful in those areas. Look, they're both working hard, they're both improving, and every play you know, for both guys and they're both young. Ever played for both guys is a good experience for him to learning experience. And I think they're improving and getting better. Um. Specifically in those situations in the red area, there's less field,

so they're they're tighter throws and they're smaller windows. You gotta make a really good throw and a really good cat and you gotta know, we gotta catch the ball into tight windows with receivers playing tight man coverage, and it's just not as much feeld um. I think you know you ever think everyone can can understand that. So um, how we evaluate them in that area the field is different than when we're in the actual field, you know, not not necessarily the red zone, but you know the

rest of the field. Um, And it's also different now we evaluate them in two minutes and the decision making which also includes the clock and time outs and things of that nature. So the evaluation is not just hey, how many you know did he complete or how many you know? It's not There's a lot that goes into it. So I think they've both improved and getting better. Again.

More good insight there from coach on the rookie quarterback to a tongue of by Loa and third year quarterback Josh Rosen as well as Ryan Fitzpatrick about how they evaluate these quarterbacks out here on the practice field. A lot more goes into it than just practice statistics, which yeah,

I think we can all agree on that. Up next, coach was asked about Miles Gaskins, second year running back, seventh round draft pickback in twenty nineteen, who's shone well in camp and progressing from the course of the time he was picked last year all the way up through today at training camp. I think Myles has done a very good job, was really, i would say, really improved over the course of last season, um, really from O T A s to Minicans to training camp, and you

can see kind of the growth throughout the season. He's playing well running it, you know, catching the ball out of bad field. Um, his blocking is improved. Look like I tell I tell him, like I tell it all the other players. Their role is gonna be what they

make it. So if you go out there and you continually make plays and handle your responsibility and you're someone we can depend on, where we're gonna find a role for you and UM productive along with being dependable, along with being you know, doing things you know the right way really on off the field, UM, then you know you could have a really big role. That's kind of what we tell every player and does't matter if you're

a rookie of veteran, undrafted, drafted. UM, you know that's the standard, and we're gonna try to hold the guys to that. And I think Miles has done a good job of doing everything he can off the field on the field, UM to make himself the best player he can be. And it's you know, you know, showing up. You know a little bit of practice, but again in this league, it's got to show up, you know, in practice,

in games, and it's gotta you gotta have consistency. So you know, that's what we're trying to stress to the guys, Miles along with really every other player. Your role is gonna be what you make it. Love that quote there

from coach. Here's a question from Joe shad I Plan asking Robert Hunt later on today in his media availability about the jump and competition from the Sun Belt to the NFL, and coach talks about the jump for rookies in general going to the NFL and how much different it is playing in college compared to the professional ranks in the National Football League for Roberts specifically, but really it's for all rookies. This isn't it's different from college.

You know, the speed of the game, the amount of time that you know, we put in compared to to you know, what they're doing in college. There's no classes, you know, and they're not trying to you know, they're not you know, working on protections against the blitz, you know, or four different blitz looks. I don't know what classes they're taking, you know, doing psychology class that like, that's

not that's not part of this. So the amount of time you know, they they're they're asked to spend uh, not just football, but but from a treatment standpoint, from a weightlifting standpoint, from a nutrition standpoint. You know, in this league, you've got to be you've got to try to be good in all those areas, uh, to be the best version of yourself on the field. And that's kind of what we try to coach to these all players,

specifically the young ones. Um. The competition, uh, you know, sun Belt a C c ivy league, it's gonna be better. Just that's just what it is. You know. The receivers in this league, you know, just talking about you know

what I've talked to our young bbs. You know what, Brandon, you know, receivers are in this league or they're good, they're fast, they're big, they've got good hands, they're quick, um, and there's no different than on your line, you know, and that's an adjustment for Kinley you know who playing SEC and Austin who played in the Pact well and

Robert you know was played in the Sun Belt. Defensive linemen in this league are you know, they're asked that the big, the fastest, strong, their mean so and they bring it every place. So we've got to bring it every place. Um, So that's the that's the message to Robert Austin, Kenley Hubbard, all the guys were here. That's still better in as linement as well. Try to get complacent. I think you got it. Hit writing and you hit writing them out. So it's kind of where we're at.

And then we were back on the practice field for the fifth training camp practice so far here in two thousand and twenty. Just a couple of individual notes here from the pre practice portion. We start off as we do daily with the pre practice notes. Obviously you heard Flores say that Ryan Fitzpatrick would be back on the field and he was no Jerome Baker though on Saturday, but you did hear coach say that Jerome is day

to day. I got a photo of Eric Flowers walking out from the building onto the practice field with those workout bands and the harness that apparatus that he uses with the young off fensive lineman. Who will hear from here in just one second, that's been a daily thing for Eric Flowers. I put it up on Twitter if you want to go check that out. At Wingfield, NFL, I had Calin Balage as a big fan of the

music choices out there. He is feeling it every single day during stretching dancing more so than anybody right now, which is a surprise because both Jachim and Davante and Jerome when he's out there, all can challenge him in that regard. And something I noted about the offensive lineman up front speaking of Eric Flowers and leading that group, and you'll hear Solomon talk about this later on in

this podcast are his movement abilities. And man, he was doing some pulling and some stuff getting out in space and he can flat out scoot. He gets out there, gets squared up to the line of scrimmage and just moves really really well for a three thirty five pounder.

Then I kept an eye on the cornerback drills a little bit, moving to the other side of the field and watched Byron Jones go through this punch, flip and locate the ball drill where you punch the bag, turn around, run up field and find the football, make a play on it. And he just looks so smooth and all of those assets aspects of the game. The pat pat, flip, turn around, elevate, find the ball at the highest point.

He just looks like a stud out there every single day, and watching those defensive backs work with how to deal with stacks, the communication out there is very apparent. You see a stack formation where you have receivers on top of each other, it creates confusion on the way you press and that type of thing. Those guys were doing such a good job of being very animated in their discussions. Obviously I can't hear it, but you see the coaches and players kind of giving it back and forth to

each other. It goes back to the comment we had on the podcast yesterday about a high level of engagement with the players and the coaches guys very very in tune to what's going on. Then I come back over to the wide receivers and man, DeVante Parker's hands are pretty absurd. The coaches throw them the balls in these individual drills and they're never really that accurate because they're just coaches, but he makes them look so easy, like he's playing with a nerf ball, just plucking it with

one hand. Then we come back to another drill where it's working on getting in and out of breaks, and then over to the sideline coming around the backside of a tackling dummy, you catch the ball and drag your toes. He did that again one hand while dragging the toes, and it just looks so effortless for Davanta Parker, very very skilled wide receiver as we all know. I also really enjoy watching the linebackers and the spot drop drill.

I find it very aesthetically pleasing to watch them and how perfectly coordinated they are as they work in tandem there to get to the hook zone, to find that spot on their zone coverage on defense there. They work really well in that drill. Individually. I haven't talked a lot about this guy, but he's been very active on the field so far. I noted him with a really nice win as a blitzer in one on one drills against the Backs. He also came back later in coverage

and had a nice pass breakup Sam egg Vaughan. Remember, he was near the top of the leaderboard last year and quarterback pressures among all linebackers in the NFL. Now, granted he did rush more than most, but even with a much deeper room this year, I think he's got a really nice role as a coverage slash specialist type of player on that defense. Then I avert my eyes back over to the running backs, and you've gotta be a damn hawk out there, man, because things are going

on all over the field. Haven't talked a lot about this guy either, but Patrick Laird I really enjoyed watching him work in the passing drills. Running back routes can be a bit funky because you have a swing route or a flat route, and that has you running, has you running parallel to the quarterback, which is a really weird angle for both the running back and the quarterback to make that work. But he transitions out of those very,

very smoothly. Just looks like a smooth back in the passing game, like we saw last year, like we saw in college at CAL. I wanted to play koser attention to the tight end and safety battles on the field on Saturday, and I got some goods on that front. First up, Mike a sick. He can flat out move.

They were running these wheel routes to the backside of the formation on air, and all the tight ends were doing it, and there was a distinct difference in the way eighty eight moved compared to the rest of the group. And on top of that, This will come from the one on ones, but it's relevant here. Mike get sick. He does so much better, I think, than he did his rookie season. We saw it developed last year as well, but this year in training camp really noticing it with

strength and contact balance. Through that contact from the defensive back, he can get through his route while being challenged without really much of an issue, and he stays on his feet and stays strong at the point there. I think that's really gonna make him tough to cover down on the red zone or really anywhere on the field for

that matter. Then we go into some one on ones, and again I kept a close watch on the safeties and tight ends, but also on the linebackers and running backs as they were doing some passing drill work at safety. It's such a treat to watch Eric Roe work against tight ends down in the trash, down in the line of scrimmage, fighting the hand fight, and going up against the running game that way. Very technically, sound plays it

super aggressive. He's the one to initiate contact, plays it physical, and I thought the same true was true of Brandon Jones out there on Saturday. Both those guys working very well in a variety of roles on that defense. Just a few bullet points that I jotted down here from practice notes. Eland and Roberts has been putting guys on the ground all week long. He did it again today in the individual drills. It was a pass block versus blitzing, and he ran somebody over like Jack Parkman did in

Major League. At linebacker Tyshon Render, I just wrote down that he has an impressive looking body. He's very long and well built for the position. He looks we're out there at number sixty four, but his body definitely looks the part of an edge rusher slash linebacker type. At run back, Patrick Lair does really well to be aggressive, like I talked about with Eric Rowe, to approach the block and get his nose up and there before the block,

before the rusher can get to him. That's how you have to win and pass blocking as a running back. And speaking of linebackers on running backs, I had ray Kwad McMillan with a very nice side step on Chandler Cox to get a pressure on the quarterback there in that one on one drill. And then eg vaugh also put another running back on the ground with his work in that drill. Going back to the one on ones for the quarterbacks here too, I thought was throwing the

ball very very well in these drills. Not necessarily a great indicator without a pass rush coming at them, but you can always see the accuracy and the timing and the field he has in those drills. The intentional ball placement. I saw one more Clayton Federalum had Adam Shaheen dead two rights in coverage, but to a throws an absolute seed up high and away and Shaheen went up and rebounded it like a power forward. Very nice work there

from the quarterback to the tight end. And then the next play it's a different throw, but again to a tight end. He runs a route with a dB over the top of him, so to it has to kind of set that thing down and drills it low on the back hip and that location was just perstige for Chris Myrick to make a catch on that place. So good work there with ball placement. A few other notes here I check out the cornerbacks. I see Nick need to make a play on the football once again. That's

been the case all week for him. Very good start to camp for the Dolphins. Second year cornerback out of U tep Alright, how about some plays from practice the Big Place from the team period of Saturday's practice. At one point ray Kuan Davis had his jersey ripped off because he came back with a plain awkward jersey on without numbers. Is actually he and Austin Jackson as well. Hear later in the interview portion of the podcast, that

got the jersey there off of ray Kwon Davis. It kind of reminded me a little bit of little giants or something. But don't mistake this guy for a little giant. My goodness, he is a large giant and he makes it work. He is a bowl in a china shop. He had a pass breakup on the very first play. He had some really impressive battles with Solomon Kinley. We'll talk about that again more later on in this podcast. They were just getting physical and both guys were taking

turns really moving each other out of the gap. Power on power. I might need to go back and watch some of those Band with Georgia games and get a good look at those matchups, because these guys are playing some good football. Then Davis gets a pass breakup. I had him with a huge tackle for loss in goal line work where he took the lineman and basically used him to tackle the running back for a loss in the backfield. And honestly, he did that a couple of

times in practice, just on Saturday alone. He's really getting after it out their dominant player for long stretches of play during Saturday's practice. Speaking of TFLs, we had Commu grug Hill on the podcast or on the interview yesterday. He blew up a play for a huge loss. The running back tried his side. He sniffs it out and comes down and makes a play four or five yards behind the line of scrimmage. Might have been even more.

And speaking of Solomon Killy, going back to blocking Ray Kwon Davis, one thing you really noticed is the execution of double teams has been so nice so far. Very common block in football, but the combo block. I've seen this line really get it done from all guys, whether it's Kinley, Carriss, Flowers, Davis, Jackson, Hunt, dieter Is Adora, It's been good work from a lot of those guys getting those combo blocks taken care of on the offensive line.

I had plenty of praise yesterday for Austin Jackson, and I think he continued that today. I don't recall any pressure coming from his side, and he had a run block where he completely collapsed the edge for a huge lane. Eric Flowers kind of holds the point and then Jackson comes down and wipes it out, creates a big gap. Those two guys working really well together across the board there.

I just can't wait to watch this offensive line get some real season action, because I think they're playing well. I want to see how that translates to the regular season. Out Wide, Davanta Parker and Brandon Jones continue to do battle as they have all week long. Both guys scored some wins as they have all week. They've been going

back and forth, trading off wins and losses. At the end of practice in two minute, Parker went up for what looked like one of those classic Davanta Parker high points, going to be another thirty thirty five yard game, but Jones stays with the play, gets his hands in between Davanta's and separates them for a really nice pass break up and pushed the offense back the other direction. Good on good. When those two guys match up, Parker did get Jones though, and I thought this was really cool.

He talked about working on his comeback routes earlier this week when he did media availability here on the podcast. A route that's been pretty challenging to sell are going to be challenging to sell on a defensive back with such great athletic ability like Byron Jones. But Davante ran that comeback, caught the football right around fifteen thirteen yards and then sprinted up the sideline for another ten yards or so. Again good battle, strong on strong there when

Parker and Jones tee it up. How about quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick. He was back out there and looked really sharp on Saturday. He was throwing on time and on target. He moved the offense down the field very nicely in the two minute drill at the end of practice and for what would have been a game winning field goal in that scenario, I assume off the foot of Jason Sanders, who continues to make all of his field goals. He also had

a number of good tight window throws. The first one I really was impressed by was an unblocked rusher on third and short, and a lot of times you'll have that by design where you draw the defender up out of the flat part of the field so you can give the running back space to operate with you play action it and then Fitzpatrick is a really nice job getting the football to that space, kind of like a contested shot in basketball, a hand in your face, same

idea there. He had to work around that hand in his face and get the ball alta Brita, who then turned up and made a nice chunk of yard after the catch to convert on third down. Fits also had a sixty yard bomb a touchdown past to Preston Williams. Again more fine attention to detail. He went quick, sold a nice ball fake on a double move, Igbo jumps the route, Williams gets open behind him, and Fits fires

it for an easy walk in touchdown. Then he went down the field and greeted Williams for congratulations on the big touchdown play. He also had my favorite play of the entire day when he got out on a scramble on a naked boot down around the goal line. He wanted to get the football to Miles Gascon in the passing game, but the lane opened up, so he had to take it all the way for himself, as he did four times last year with four rushing touchdowns on

the year. Then he chucks the ball off the face of the building down here in South Florida at the Dolphins training facility and runs up to the window that looks into the cafeteria and hits his fist and helmets his helmet on the glass in celebration. He just cracks me up every time he plays man. Sixteen years in

the league and he still loves it. In fact, one of our video guys who used to work for the Bucks when it was there, told me that they did a thing where they went through each jif of Ryan Fitzpatrick on the internet and had him describe what each

one was or what he was doing. So I asked him what Fits said about the whole wide eyed celebration after he does running for a touchdown or gets pumped up here with the Miami Dolphins last season, and Fits just basically said that when he does that celebration, that's not actually him doing it. That's him being taken over or possessed if you will buy another life force. So just always being a funny guy, always being a good team, always fun to watch on the football field, as well.

On the topic of Miles gascon if he brought him up here, you heard Flow talk about him and his media availability. He had a nice run and I credited Danny is Adora with a very nice block to get his man out of the gap. I think both Danny and Miles had some good moments so far here in training camp too. Had some good moments today as well.

Had a couple of touchdowns down a goal line. There was one player where he kind of sprinted out to the side and had to make a decision to kind of come back against the grain and found a second or third option in the passing game there for a nice touchdown. Really good job getting through those. He also found Chester Rodgers in the team period shooting one right down the seam with really good touch timing and ball

placement for a big yard game or so. In the team period, Josh Rosen had a very nice third down conversion where he took a stick or he had to stick a ball into a tight window and threw a little bit low and took his receiver to the ground intentionally, which again is a good thing because you throw it up high, you're gonna have your receiver get ran right into a huge hit and probably get him killed there.

I wrote a note here that I didn't put into context, but let's just go ahead and do it anyways, because why not. I just wrote that Ray quad McMillan. His tackling form is as good as ever. We've made no secrets about how good he is in that area. On this podcast, I also took down a note on Isaiah Ford put a third down conversion of his own from Fitzpatrick.

Ford does so well to come back to the football when you push up field on the route and you work back towards the quarterback to give you a better window for the quarterback. He pushed up on Jamal Perry for fifteen yards and broke the route back to the quarterback with an angle to pick up thirteen yards on third and ten for a big first down. Mike is sicky on top of some big plays in the team period, also had one where he caught a short pass on a quick hitter and then had some room to run.

One of those plays I would love to see played out in a real life situation, but of course in practice, we're not gonna tackle and hit each other. He's getting vertical and catching them short doing everything in this offense right now. Mike Kasicky looks really good. Eric Rowe got him back later though, in the same drill where he did really well to initiate the contact on the press on the bump there and really disrupted the route for Mike.

There was a pocket there for fits to put the ball and he did put it in that pocket, but Kassick he couldn't get there because of Rose Jam just off timing a little bit. Great battle between Eric Row and Mike Asicky. I also had a note of Row applying that hand fighting drill and practice where he scraped over the top of a block and put a hit on Howard Jordan Howard at the line of scrimmage. Row had a few of those today, and I thought Brandon Jones did had warrant to as well in that area.

Good work from the Dolphin safetyes all around from McCain, Jones, Row and the rest of the boys out there another day, another big run for that same guy, Jordan Howard, same story man patience to let the whole develop, then he explodes through that hole with physicality. I had Carris and Solomon Kinley at the point opening up that hole. I had Kyle van Noy with some more nice plays on this particular practice one where he showed again that ability

to work up field and flatten that edge. Talking about that as a pass rusher all the time. He can work inside to get the set of the offensive line of working inwards. Then he dips that inside shoulder and stays on balance as he pursues the quarterback. We see

him do that every single day here. He also had a really nice play where he beat a block from the tight end working towards the backfield on a running play to get a tackle for loss as well, so pass rush and playing the run there for Kyle van Noy had Andrew van Giggle in there for a pass break up at one point on a really nice pass rush move, and I wrote that Bobby McCain is just

playing fast and loose talking about those safeties. He came over the sideline from the middle of the field and really close it down to cause an incompletion in the team period. Not a lot of notes on him because he's just getting the job done, but he does flash a time or two every single day and practice, and that's exactly what you want from your safety playing back there all r let's go ahead and get to some more audio here. We're gonna start first with Austin Jackson.

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you wear a mask for? Mask up South Florida, Keep caring, live healthy, stay strong, and learn more at Baptist Health dot net slash coronavirus. We start with Austin Jackson talking about competition so far in training camp. You know, I'm excited to go out and compete every day. You know, that's kind of the moral of this team. We look forward to those challenges and I definitely do myself and when they come, they'll come. I'm excited about it. I'm glad I get to work every day for it. Jackson

just turned twenty one earlier this month. You'll hear him talk here about how he turned up for his twenty one birthday by getting in the cold tub. The turn up was in the heist tub after practice, so I guess not much of one. Uh, you know, birthday is

always felt during camp. So and then next Austin talked about the playing in Pad's portion of practice, kind of having things ratchet up here a little bit this week, and also going up against re Kwon Davis, who again he was the one that took the jersey off of rerake Kuan Davis and forced keuand to go get a plain awkward jersey with no numbers on. You know, it's been fun just coming out every day and competing. You know, we got great guys on both sides of the line. Uh,

you know what I'd like to get after it. We all like to get after it, and you know, it's a lot of fun. And we'll go ahead and finish up here with Austin asking him about how he got himself in shape and what the off season was like for him this offseason and what was a very strange off season really was just just to you know, get as strong as I can in my in my core over time. UM didn't really have any weight goals because

we don't. I didn't really know what it looked like yet, so I've just been putting on with the right way and working. Up next, we had rookie out of Georgia, Solomon Kinley, Dolphin's fourth round draft pick. He had most of us laughing throughout the course of this presser. Really fun, a high energy guy. Let's go ahead and here from Sullivan Kinley. Uh my, I'm just blessed to be here.

I appreciate the MOMADLF for picking me up. You know. Um, like I said, I'm blessed to be here, and uh like you, like you said, every office is a lot of Every player got something to prove on every day. So you know, I'm just working at that. I'm trying to get better and I'm trying to prove myself out

blown while I'm at right now. Up next, Solivan answers a question about the veteran leadership in that offensive line room and how some of the guys like Jesse Davis and Ted Carris and others in that room have taught him how to be a professional, not just on the football field, but in every single aspect away from the field. Like we heard coach Florence talk about this morning and his pre practice pressor here's Kindley on that. They just

teaches me how to be a pro man. It teaches me how to be a pro um eating right um, studying the film right down, all the notes. That's that's need to be done. When the coaches talking to me in a meeting, UM, making sure um thirty forty five minutes the meetings early or I got little, if you know, petting up early, getting getting my day started and then only that teaching me a game of football like stuff that I that that you most people won't see that

I gotta see. You know this man, Eric Staffter pregnants every day and just work hard and you don't you don't get better on everything. That's bit of the game. Here's Alomen talking about the relationship developed between he and his fellow rookie offensive lineman Austin Jackson and Robert Hunt.

It's crazy because I think Austin said the other day, because you'll imagine all three of us would have been at the Moament Dolphins at the combined because at the combine they split us up into groups, and I was like number twenty eight, Austin was like number thirty, and Raw was like number twenty five, and we was all with each other the whole combine, and look, God blessed us to be in this position that we is not like like I said, those those my guys, Those my boys,

I'm glad to play with. And how about how a big guy three thirty five pounds can move around as well? That's Aloman Kinley does. So I'm watching you move around there, and you move really well for a guy listened to three. It's really impressive watch And I want to go back to your first job as a lifeguard. You've also got an impressive hoops resume. I guess what I want to ask you is do you attribute that agility to the other sports? And how do you train nowadays to maintain

that movement ability? You know, like like you said, being a lifeguard, you know, getting that water and doing a lot of labs and doing that the type of stuffing and all season. It really it helps a lot. But a lot of people don't believe that. You know, I was a lifeguard. So just using that and just taking the lifeguard and playing basketball, because basketball you gotta movie fee, you gotta run up and down the court. You know, that makes you because there's a lot of conditioning and

all these attributes of every game. It comes down to playing football and all come down to playing the sport that you want to play. So I just buy in and this U was all that together. And we'll get more from Solomon about being a lifeguard growing up, but here he's asked about his energy level and how he's such a positive guy and how he maintains that positive mindset.

It could be here today, you'll be going tomorrow. I'm just like I said, I'm blessed for up to on and that's how my family and my mom and my dad raised me. So I just, you know, keep a positive attitude because you never know what can happen tomorrow. And he carries that energy over into the swimming pool, where he said he challenged some of his teammates in the pool and they learned real quick not to mess with Solomon Kindley when it comes to swimming and getting

in the water. We gotta I gotta the pool with a few of them before it kim even started. And um when we're doing a zoom call throughout the uh throughout the off season, they was all like, so, I mean, you can't swim him you can't do you can't do this. So we finally got in the pool. I promise you I would smoke everybody. I smoke everybody. Wasn't no challenge between nothing against anybody. I promise. You can ask anybody

on the team I smoked. I promise. And he doesn't only get it done in the swimming pool, he gets it done when it comes to the entire approach to play in the game. So far here he's gonna talk about the things he's learned from the veterans when it comes to football and technique and just a little things he's learning to fine tune his game and get better

at this level in his rookie season. Small technique stuff like step in this weight when this block is coming, put your hand up on this type of pass, pro make sure your eyes right on outside backer. You know, those are the things in college where it was it wasn't too big. But I am the NFL that your opponent, they're studying what you're doing every time. They're staying what you're doing every time. So don't look ask me to be and also, you do a little thing that can

make you great. And we'll go ahead and finish up with Solomon Kinley on this question from yours truly. Hey, Solomon, you've been going up against ray Kwon Davis a little bit in practice. You went up against him as as well at Alabama and college. What's that battle ben like? And how are you guys kind of learning and helping each other out as pros. He's a stud, he's stuff. Like you said, I've been't gonna get some for three years straight and instancy gets recon records on record, is

a very good player. He helps me out own certain stuff on the field, and I have them out sort of stuff on the field, and and that's just that's just that. So we've heard from Austin Jackson, we've heard from Solomon Kinley. Let's finish it up here with an interview with Robert Hunt, Dolphins second round draft pick out of Louisian la Fayette, and he starts off with the question answering how the Veterans almost Dolphins offensive line had helped him grow so far in training camp in his

Brookie season. Um, it's been very helpful, honestly. Um, you know, Eat Flowers and Jessie, all those guys, you know, they come to us separate and they give a little thing to work on. Do they see us that we didn't prove on? So, I mean we're all young, we're working, you know, trying to get better. So those guys have come up to us and the amples were a little thing. But if his post practice or if it's a neetant, those guys kind of help us and got us in

the right direction. And Robert can confirm the Solomon Kinley can flat out get it done in the swimming pool. Although he throws an next cuson here at the end for why he did, in fact get smoked by Kinley in a swimming race. Yeah, I think we did race. I think we raised one time, and yeah, he got the best of it that time. I think because he kind of the pool is kind of small, so he kind of bumped me out the way, you know. So that's why he won, and that that's the rule. But

now he actually is really good in the pools. And now we hear from Robert about the challenges and differences making the jump from college to the NFL. The whole game is faster, you know, but taking the day by day, I'm trying to improve on, you know, all my skills and everything. The coaches try to handle with techniques and everything. So you know, it's it's nothing is every easy, you know, So it's trying to um learn this game, learn us to do the game, and you know, get better at it.

And we talk about versatility on this Dolphins football team all the time. That applies to everybody on the team. Offensive line, defensive positions, whatever it is, you name it. Here's Robert Hunt talking about everybody doing cross training on that Dolphins offensive line. Not not not much really because when all of us we pretty much get cross training, so we all getting worked at different spots. So you know, it's been the same for everybody. Everybody just getting work here,

getting work there. So we're just trying to figure this thing out with them. You know. The best time I'll go out and playing compete and there he goes and there we will go as well. That is a rap from week one here at Dolphins training camp. Not gonna be with you guys tomorrow, but we'll see you again on Monday. We'll do it all over again. Training camp podcast recap articles up on Miami Dolphins dot com, The Audible,

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