Drive Time - Training Camp Day 7 Recap

dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, day seven here from Davy of padded practices and the Dolphins are on the near field today, so it's an even better day here in South Florida. We're gonna hear from coach Flores, Josh Rosen, Jaccheine Grant, and Eric Flowers on this podcast. Plus we're gonna have all the news and notes from practice. All of that and more on this Tuesday training camp August edition of the Drivetime Podcast Dolphins

Off the Top. Here we have some roster news. On Monday evening, the Dolphins announced that round draft pick out of Boise State, Curtis Weaver would be waves slash injured. And I saw it all over social media and myself too, was a little bit curious to find out what exactly

that means. The Wave slash. Injured designation is only available to be used on players who are not vested veterans, and that just means they have less than four years of a crude time in the National Football League, and injured players with fewer than the four years of service time cannot be placed on injured reserve until they pass through waivers, So teams will cut this sort of player with a waived injured designation, allowing other teams to place a claim if they so choose, and if the player

goes unclaimed, his original team, the Miami Dolphins can place him on injured reserve or agreed to an injury settlement, then fully release him from the roster that comes from Pro Football rumors NFL glossary there. So I hope that makes sense for you guys all on the Curtis Weaver front.

As we press on towards Coach Flora's Tuesday morning media availability almost said Monday there, but first, As the official wellness provider and sports medicine provider of the Miami Dolphins, Baptist Health is ready and committed to continue caring for you safely. This pandemic has reminded us that crisis doesn't build character. It reveals character. It's also taught us that our health is truly what matters most. We have the power to protect each other by wearing a mask. Who

do 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 we now hear from coach Flora's and his prepractice Tuesday, August media availability had a pretty good feeling the first question might be about Kyle van Noy. It was, but it was also prepackaged into a question about both van Noy and Curtis Weaver. Here's Brian Flora's on the decision on Curtis Weaver and

also an update on Kyle van Noy's injury. Again, a lot, a lot goes into you know, these decisions, the injury itself, by performing salary cap debt, the position and next year's draft is. I mean, there's a lot that goes into it. Those conversations that I had by myself, Chris Brandon, the coaching staff, he's uh waves, I mean he could get claimed. It's a small percentage of players who do get claimed in this situation. UM, So we'll see if we get

him back, we'll know receive me. As far as Kyle got banged up a little bit yesterday, you know, he's getting treatment, he's feeling a little bit better, and we're just gonna take this thing day to day hopeful that he'll be out there. So I know he'll try to get out there as soon as he can. And we will hear from Josh Rosen later on today's podcast. So first we're gonna get a question here for coach Flora's about Josh Rosen and the progress he's made here in

training camp number two with Miami. But you know, all in all, I think he's competing. I think he's you know, of all the quarterbacks, he's you know, he's probably got the biggest arm um. He's made some incredible throws. Um. I would say we need to always be more consistent out of every position, UM, specifically the quarterback. And you know there's a lot of competition at work. It's to

to to Josh um. But he's a talented player, he's been he's been competing, but consistency really at that position you need it from a situation situationally from a leadership standpoint. But I do think He's making a lot of progress

and hopefully we'll continue continue with that progress. So we've talked a lot about Eric Flowers on this podcast and the band slash Harnessed apparatus he brings out with him every day onto the field to lead in instruction post practice with all the young guys getting some extra work

after practice. Here is a question for coach Floors about the leadership that Eric Flowers has shown so far and how valuable it can be on a young team and a young offensive line like the one the Dolphins have here. It's very valuable. I mean, Ix had a lot of experiences in this league as a high draft pick, has played for you know, a few a few different teams. He's had a lot of ups downs, you know, over

the course of his career. He's learned a lot. He's really kind of taking um, those young, young young players under his wing to a degree. To me, it's, you know, what better of a guide as to do that someone who has had as many experiences as he had been in different places, been under some different systems, but and

and had some success also, um success and failures. You know, when when he talks to a young guy, young offensive and For some reason, my audio cut out on that sound drop, but he talked about the impact it has and how it resonates with those young players, and he talks about some of the other offensive linemen in that room, Jesse Davis, Ted Carriss, Danny Isidora, about the collective effort of leadership and teaching the young guys the ropes early on.

They're all kind of, you know, they work all work well together, Danny Sadora. They're they're they're all kind of work together helping those young guys get acclimated to the to the National Football League. Obviously, there's no preseason games, so they don't get to go out there and you know, bang bang with another team. But I know there's a lot of conversations about what it's like to play games. Lead those conversations that happen, and guys like Eric and

to Danny, they're they're they're leading those conversations. And now we get a two pronged question talking about Dolphins cornerback Nick need Him, which floors will start with, and then a transition into discussing playing time for rookies, kind of throwing them into the fire quote unquote there and how Flores feels about that, how he's gonna play the best guys that give this team a chance to win. Here's Flora's on Nick need him and his young players playing early.

You know, I think Nick has made a lot of a lot of improvement over the over the course of a year. You know how Nick came into training camp when he's learned a lot. I think he's been short a lot. I think he's taking a lot more professional approach from his rookie year. And um, he's made, he's made, He's made some strides. So just I tell these guys, when you get your opportunity and you have to take advantage of it. It's like basketball, you get to you know,

you get your opportunity. That's like getting to the free throw line. You know to make it, you know, or you don't. So that's kind of, um some of the things we talked about. So when Nick goes in because somebody else goes down and Um plays well, you know, that's what we're talking about as far as taking advantage of your opportunities. And that's not just football, it's life

in general. Um, so next done a good job. Um as far as rookies in general, and you know, throw them into throwing them in the fire versus not throwing him in the fire. You know, like we play the guys we feel give us the best chance to win. You know, that was the case with you. You know you mentioned Deeter um last year, UM, when he played a lot of football a year ago, and we felt

like he gave us the best chance to win. There's a little bit of forecasting and predicting you we need to do as coaches, as as a as an organization, as person as a personnel department. You know, where a guy may not be better than somebody else in week one, but prediction, the forecast is that he may be better in week twelve. And those are the decisions we have to make. UM. So every team is making those decisions in some form of fashion. And I'm not saying that

that's necessarily the case. We might feel like it is better right now then, you know, not not Deeter. I'm not talking specifically about you know, one specific player. I'm just you know, in general, we may feel like that player, player X is better than you know, the veteran, but we may also feel like player X is going to be better, UM, And that's that's a lot of what goes into the decisions here, so you guys will never really know what I'm thinking at the end of the day.

I just had to keep that laughing there because you kind of saw some maniacal facial expression there from Coach Flores about how he has knowledge of his football team that of course he's not going to divulge to the

media on that topic. Coach was then asked a question about Josh Rosen's placement on the team, and I didn't keep the rose and part in initially because I think that Coach, as he is wont to do, will shift this towards the focus of the entire team, because of course it requires a fifty three man fifty five this year roster to win games. And Coach talks about the evaluation process this stage of training camp, about halfway through day seven here on Tuesday, four team practices and total

before the season kicks off. Here's Coach on the evaluation process and where the Dolphins are right now in that process. You know, we're not anointing anyone starter. You know, this is still a competition in so I think he's gonna fit in and his role is gonna be what he makes it just like we said, every every player at every position. So unless you've seen our you know our debt cart, you know what I'm thinking, and you know to me it's still we're still We're still going here.

We've got you know, practice today where guys will be competing and trying to get better, and we're gonna work for a second third down in red area to a minute, you know, works in two point players today and we'll just compete and see where this thinks, how it shakes out. So and we finish up with a question I was curious to ask coach myself on this particular press conference about linebacker Ray Kawon McMillan. Here's coach breaking down the

Dolphins fourth year now linebacker out of Ohio State. Ray Kwan's obviously started a lot of games in this league. Good tackler, good communicator, smart player, plays in the kicking game. He's still ascending. I think he's doing well and he's playing well in this training camp. And um, there's a lot of competition at that at the linebacker position between Ray Kwan and Landon Roberts and Calvin Onntson Baker and Como. And we'll see with the with the with the with

the chips fall and um again, everyone's still competing. This is practice seven of fourteen in training camp. So we're right, you know, we're right at the halfway point and a decisions have been made, but we're closing in, you know. I mean, we're definitely making our evaluations and uh, some people are ahead of others. And when you're not gonna get that out of me today, jail, and we're just trying to look, we're gonna try to feel the best team we can um and try to compete for an

entire season. So the Rake one is playing, he's playing well, and I think he's a he's a very good player in this league. And there you have it. We heard from coach on this Tuesday and the Dolphins were back on the practice field and it was another one of these kind of cloudy and breezy days, which are very very welcome down here in South Florida. That humidity causes your shirt to stick to you, but that breeze and

that cloud coverage can make a huge difference. We had that again for back to back days on Tuesday, and we start this day with some music takes because yesterday I recognized kid Cutty. Today, I recognize a new Drake song, I have no idea what it's called. And my age and my lack of pop culture knowledge here in the music industry is definitely showing because I didn't recognize any of these songs. But then today we got three back to back songs that I recognized, Black Sabbath, Nirvana, and

Guns and Roses. So that might have been a little treat for me there watching practice, watching the guys get stretched out. And this practice was much more about live periods, live sessions, team red zone two point drills skipped the one on ones entirely. We had referees out there, officials calling flag or throwing flags and calling penalties on the Dolphins. And there was two great stories about the referees that

occurred in this practice. The first one, the receivers were working on toe tap drills down around the end line, with the quarterbacks throwing the football over a second level defender like a linebacker for instance, and they had to elevate and get the feet down, and the RAF was standing there signaling touchdown or in completion, and mac hollins came down for what looked like a successful conversion, but I'll go ahead to defer to the referee here because

he was right down there and he called it incomplete and mac holland's kind of fake chewed him out about the call. They were having a good time bantering back and forth with that. And then later on in the two points conversion or two point play period of practice, say that five times fast. There was a play where the runner was running for the pylon short left and tried to get into the end zone and the offense

thought he was in. Everybody thought he was in, and they had the team split up on either sideline during this portion of practice, and the referee signaled him down at the one yard line, and the offensive sideline booed the referee, and Flora's happened to be on this side as well, and he shot a thumbs up over to the referee there with a smile on his face. So some good, lighthearted moods out there at this practice. Some other news and notes from practice. Kyle van Noy was

out there and dressed and participating. Noah Agnogamy was out there as well. New signing Trent Harris was on the field. Preston Williams had the day off, and no Jachem Grant and no Patrick Laird for this particular practice. And one note from the last couple of days of practice I want to put in there, and more so from yesterday

on Monday, was to do a little bit more. The day that to a tongue of bola the quarterback had and I thought he was sharp again on Tuesday, but on Monday this note during the two minute period, that was what really stood out to me most so far in training camp about his performance. I've talked about this a million times and you can find it on Twitter if you just search my handle to a tongue of Voloa and go to my videos up there at Wingfield NFL. It's the inherent feel for the game. And that's not

just pressure. It's timing, it's rhythm, it's where the matchups are on the offensive side compared to the defensive side. It's a lot of things. Now, in this instance, it

was in fact that quarterback pressure. He was getting plenty of it, but his ability to be able to process things as quickly as his body can move and as quickly as things developed in front of him allows him to anticipate not just the rouchdown field, but where that pressure comes from and how to get away from it, and how to make plays amidst that pressure, he would hit the top of his drop, and before he could even settle into that drop, he was bouncing up and

approaching the line of scrimmage while keeping his eyes down field to survey the coverage and attack accordingly. He's working on the move towards the line. He gets his hip squared to the line and throws absolute darts all over the field. It was so impressive. It was the exact same thing I saw in college that made me love him as a prospect. And I thought it was great to see out here in the aquaand orange wearing the Dolphin's colors doing the exact same things we saw him

do at Alabama. As for the practice itself, I had two clear standouts on Tuesday, and they were the two edges that came over in free agency, one from the Chiefs, one from the Buffalo Bills. And Emmanuel Ogball and Shack Lawson. And we'll start with first, because I legit started to lose count. I think it was three batted balls and three sacks I might have had him with on his

overall production. He is just so powerful and puts such pressure on the player across from him to get that technique right, because if you don't get those hands right,

he's gonna walk you right back into the quarterback. After a series where he and Jesse Davis were doing some good battle there, I saw Jesse come over and the lineman kind of congregated around Jesse Davis, and I obviously can't be for sure what they were talking about, but it looked like they were discussed how to handle those difficult heavy hands, the long arms of Emmanuel Ogbah, and how to combat that as you try to get yourself into a balanced set and really work to absorb those blows.

It seems like one of the mysteries of camp so far, because Agba has been doing it every single day. On the notebook, I go back here and Ogba had three batted passes, two sacks, two more instances where he impacted the throw with pressure on the quarterback. A monster day for ninety one out there. We've heard that before here, haven't we. The guy on the other side, number ninety he wasn't far behind Shack lost and had a potential

sack on the first play of the team period. It's sometimes hard to gauge if it is a sack or not. Because it's if the guy gets close to the quarterback, I'm gonna go ahead and call it a sack because they have to pull up and can't finish the tackle. Obviously. He then later blew up a screen pass on that same series. He also drew a holding call on an outside run down on the red zone period, and he finished the day with a sack and another pressure where

he impacted the quarterback's ability to make the pass. So by my count, between those two guys, four sacks, three pressures that impacted the quarterback, a holding call, and three batted passes and a ruined screenplay. Have a day, big fellows. And a quick note on some two point success rates. Fits and Rosen, we're both a perfect three for three converting two point conversions. That's a one thousand batting average from the offense, and that part of practice all throws two.

So good work down there from the QBS. Actually checked that they were five of six because one of those plays was the call where the official ruled the player out at the one yard line. But like the offense, I don't quite agree with that call, but we'll leave it to the referee, So five out of six on that particular portion of practice, and I want to give a portion of the pod here to the specialist because

I haven't talked enough about these guys. Those guys work their butts off and really have to do the most straight line running as they cover kicks, work to get back on blocks, that sort of thing, and they wrap it over and over and over again. And Danny craftsman, he is pretty vocal and he's out there barking at these guys and they absolutely play their asses off for him.

The first guy I took note of was Clayton Federalum, it's not glamorous work, but he's out are fighting like hell to find angles, to do everything he can to get himself in position where he's not going to commit a foul because it's so easy to throw a block in the back and cost your team huge yardage, not just the ten yards that cost you, but also the lost yardage of the return, so so crucial to get

those leverages and get that placement right. He's getting square up to his man playing off that leverage, and he was just getting a lot of praise out there from the coaches, and I thought he did a hell of a job in this practice. I also noted Calvin Munson, Sam egg Von, Miles Gaskon, and Mac Hollins doing plenty of good work on that particular part of practice as well.

And I know I missed some guys there. I think Andrew van ginkle was out there as well, Tyshon Render and some others, but those are the ones I wrote down. Some really good work on special teams. Speaking of Mac Hollands, he had himself a day as a receiver as well. He caught two passes on the first series at receiver. First a contested catch up against Nick need Um, who was draped all over him, but he pulls it down for a tough catch along the sideline for a first down.

Then a couple of plays later, he has his arm pinned down again by need Him on a third and long on a corner route and Hollands elevates and snags it one handed, pulls it down without the benefit of his left hand. Very nice work there from mc collins. Another guy that I list, or from that list rather, I thought made some nice plays was Andrew van Ginkl. He talked about getting stronger during his Monday availability and he was in there working off the edge both against

the run and against the past very effectively. I had him with a really nice play as the forced defender off the edge, setting the hard edge and getting in for a run stop. And then the theme of the day was in fact batted passes. He got two of them, including a two minute or in the two minute period at the end of practice on two up where he batted it up and picked it off. A big day for the gangster out there off the edge. Another player up front I had with some good work was rookie

Jason Strowbridge out of North Carolina. First, he too was playing off the edge and did well as the forced defender, set the hard edge, work inside and get the stop on Jordan Howard, who was a tough, tough tackle back there. Then a couple of plays later he comes clean for a possible stack on Tah but t A threw it away as he recognized the pressure right way and got rid of the football. But Strowbridge in the backfield quite

a lot. I also had to Von Gagha with a very nice pass rush wind that forced the quarterback off the spot. And how about some linebacker talk. I talked about Jerome Baker's run fits yesterday on the podcast, Same story today. He gets in there with a really explosive first step and good instincts, and I think he's gonna play even faster this year with more knowledge of this defense. We heard coach talk about ray Kwa McMillan and his pressor.

He had an awesome coverage rap where he closed down on a quick hitting pass to Matt Brita and wrapped that thing up for a short game. And another linebacker who has a lot of fun to watch in coverage is Commu Gruge Hill super fluid and like Bake has that first step quickness, has familiarity here with Brian Flores, so that's gonna allow him to play fast as well. He does a nice job of getting depth in that drop surveying and then following the play progression to the

football and he finds it. He also had the only strip in a strip drill, a pursuge offender would chase down the ball carrier and try to get the football out from the backside, and he was the only one that got it out in that drill. So a good word from Commu. On Tuesday, I mentioned Nick meet him on Mac Hollins earlier. He had a really impressive pass breakup on Devonte Parker on a third down at the end of one of the sessions. Really good battle there between those two guys who had a bunch of big

plays last season. Staying in the secondary. I thought Dietrich Nichols and Brian Borders had good practices. Borders got his hands on a football, but the receiver broke it up on a fade. Almost an interception there for Borders. I thought Brandon Jones was awesome man. We've talked about him and the way he kind of studies the game and digest defenses. You can see it in the play speed.

We talked to Van Ginkl yesterday about manipulating offenses into making them think you're gonna do one thing, then you do another. Jones times up his runs into the line of scrimmage so nicely, whether it's as a blitzer or a run defender, and if the offensive line doesn't have time to react, he can come and clean. And that happened a couple of times on Tuesday. Bobby McCain, speaking of coming and clean, also had himself it would be

sacked during the team portion of practice. How about some offense. Miles Gaskin took off for what would have been an eight yard touchdown rip and again on these run plays, I'm going off the player's desire to finish the run, and he did. He finished it in the end zone, but I think he didn't have a chance to do it because he slipped an arm tackle at the second level and Robert Hunt cleared a really nice lane for

him on that particular run. Both Shaheen and smythe Adam Shaheen and Durham Smith caught touchdowns in the red zone period on similar looking routes. They both showed some wiggle and caught the football right under the goal post for touchdowns. Davante Parker had a highlight real touchdown catch on a fade pass during the red zone work. It's just become an everyday thing with that guy out there pulling those passes in. And Josh Roseen I thought he had a

good practice as well. It was nice to see him get a little bit animated after he threw a successful two point conversion to Ricardo Lewis. You're gonna hear from him in just one minute, and what a great frame of mind, a great mentality mindset he's in right now, as you'll hear as we roll this audio from Josh Rosen's Tuesday media availability. The first question posted Josh was about the Dolphins offseason using the fifth pick on a

quarterback and where he's at mentally right now. It is what it is, and I just gotta come out and try as hard, has tried as hard as I can, compete as hard as they can every day and hopefully get the nod um at some point in the future. Right now, I'm just focusing on improving every day. If it's an awesome guy to learn from, and I'm sort of continue that progress I had near the end of last year. I think I'm doing a pretty good job

of it, and we'll suit the future holds. But I'm just I'm focusing on my development at this point, and i think it's been going pretty well. Up next, Josh talks about that development and what he's doing specifically to improve his game and where he thinks his game has taken growth from year one here in Miami into year two. Defenses um not just watching film but being able to apply um sort of information from the film room onto the field, and what that means for my particular play.

Um So, I think I've been able to um more so than I ever have in my career, being able to eliminate guys pre snap and start to zero in a little bit quick, grow on who I want to throw um, and that's helping me get the ball out quick quicker than I ever have, and make fast decisions and and not make my offensive line look bad. But holding under the ball. And now a question from yours truly, Hey, Josh,

how's it going? Man? We've asked fits to and Robbie about the atmosphere in that quarterback room, and I'm curious to hear your perspective on what it's like working in that room every day and some of the things that you glean from the collective brain trust there, collective brain trust. That's a good that's a good one. Um. So. I mean there's sort of previous relationships everywhere in the room.

I've known to us this have played him in high school, um and then he almost then he almost came to c l A, So I knew him at that point. And then Fits and Chan and Robbie all of their history. So uh, we all have some sorts of familial familiar connections, and um, it's pretty hard to uh not goof around with with fits and changing your room. So it's a really awesome atmosphere. Um, I've learned a ton. Um. I think we all really get attitudes and we're trying to

make each other better. And you'll notice this theme throughout Josh's availability here, the mindset he's in, trying to control what he can control. Here he is talking about just the frame of mind he's approaching this camp with and where he's at mentally right now at this stage of his career. I'm just trying to control it I can control.

I think I've played pretty well. Um. Definitely a couple of a couple of mistakes that I'm I'm trying to fix here in there, But I'm just trying to put the best product of Josh Is on the field that I can. Really doesn't really do well to focus on much else. Somebody asked Josh why he wants to stay here in Miami and hasn't asked to be basically let go in a trade or release, and I thought Josh's

answer was really cool. Here he is talking about the experience and knowledge in that quarterback room and how it's best for him to just learn from those guys right now at this point of his career. I like competing, but I think a lot of it's there's just a lot to learn, and I think you have to kind of treasure the moments that you're with sixteen, uh, sixteen seventeen, maybe your vet with fits UM coordinator like cham has been around the game for a long time, so UM,

I don't really know when or where. Hopefully this year here UM get a shot to play UM, but I'm just trying to focus on preparing for that shot, UM as best as I can. UM, that's within my control. And uh, I'm pretty I'm actually pretty satisfied with how I've come out and played this training camp. UM. Obviously some holes here and there that I definitely need to improve on, but UM, I think I really think I'm

sort of trending in the right direction. I'm uh enjoying it more than I ever have actually, And so the media began to pick up on his positivity, and so they asked him, where do you find that positivity from. Here's Josh responding to that question. I feel positive because I've I've noticed I'm a lot more comfortable behind center this year than I was last year, and I'm walking up to the line of scrimmage with a plan and

I've learned a lot. I've put a lot of work in this offseason and I've um I kind of after I got bench, that got bench the first first time, but the final time last time before I went in Redskins, I sort of, um did like a big kind of mirror reality check and just wanted to completely turned in words and see what I could do better. And I kind of like flick myself in the head and like, you're literally in the room with one of the best, um one of the best minds to ever do it,

and that's Fit. So I basically just sat there and tried to swallow up as much as I could from him. And I took that sort of process into the offseason and I'm I'm pretty happy with how I feel behind center at this point. Um. I mean, I got a lot of work to do, but I think I've only scratched the surface, um with what I can do. And I guess the reason I'm sort of positive outside of this situation is because, um, really, all I can control is my development. I think that's going in a good direction.

I'm pretty uh uh pretty, I don't know the word you kind of pick here, but doing well. The thing I love about Josh is every time he talks, you're going to learn something. And here he is talking about the challenges not just for him, but for any quarterback that has to go through multiple system changes throughout the course of their career. Here he is talking about going into yet another new offensive system, something he's very familiar with from college and the pros. Yeah, I mean it's

overwhelming every single year. And then there's always a kind of a moment in UM. Usually it's like spring bowling college or uh like O t a s where you feel like you're drinking from fire hose, and there's always kind of a moment where it clicks and you're like, Okay, this is I'm starting to feel this is my language. UM. And each year it's just kind of a rough road to get there, but once you get there, it's it's

you're pretty comfortable. Um. They're just different styles and UM, this offense that Chan runs is very UM player oriented. So it's just let's put your guys in position and let him make plays. Um. He wants us to play fast, make quick, decisions and let our playmakers make plays, and we got a lot of them. Um, I mean that that's a this is this is a pretty stark contrast to what we had last year. It was a very

very different style. And um, I'm not saying one is better than the other, but I'm just enjoying my time in this one right now and learning some of the

nuances that h Chann of Fits work together. It's really cool actually to like go back and watch like old Chang Jets film with Fits at quarterbacks, so we can see those specific plays and we can see uh like and ask and talk about the thought process of that play call and what Fits was thinking and why he threw it somewhere and reliving some of the heartbreaks and celebrations from some of the plays. Now, this obviously is

a football podcast. We won't get too far from the point here, but I just think that in general, in life, we can learn a lot from what Josh Rose and talked about there with my and set in kind of self reflection. They're really interesting press conference. I encourage each of you to to go check it out on Miami Dolphins dot com in its entirety. We also had Eric Flowers, new Dolphins offensive linemen, here talking to the media after

the practice on Tuesday. First. Flowers was asked about coming back to Miami, the place where he grew up, plays high school football, played in college, and now coming back home to play with his hometown Miami Dolphins. Yes, it's crazy because you know down here I grew up growing up, go to the Dolphin camps today, practices at the stadium today games, and then growing up the Optimists, Like you know, we had a little The state of provided a lot

of certain people's teams, like they're Optimist clubs. High school were at the stadium to get the fundraisers and all that stuff. So I grew up around it this whole time, from UM football to the Dolphins. So it's pretty crazy being able to play all at all three levels for where you're from. But like I went traded for nothing really, so I'm extremely happy. Talk about Flowers working after practice with the young guys every single day on getting their

technique in their hands. Right, here's Flowers talking about that and how he learned to become a leader at this stage of his NFL career. Very important. Um, I didn't learn an importance to that until of practicing the right things, taking the extra time. It took me about for or five years. You know what I mean that are coming into league is all about what type of the room you're coming into, right, you know, every room isn't the same.

Everybody doesn't coming to rooms with a veteran or a coach that really teaches you the right way and how to become a you know, an NFL alignment. And past year I got to play with Bill Callahan who was by far has been the best teacher, you know, not just in football, but the best teacher I've been around since I've been playing football. So he's taught me so much.

And being able to play next to a Pro Bowl right guard Brandons Surf show many stuff he did with the Dallas O'Ryan, just his resume reproofs in to put it, so, I kind of like my feet going to my fifth fear in the league. I kind of just forgot everything I know and just trying to learn his way in the right way to real around guys to do it the right way, and that's just how they do. Like good players go before practice and stay after practice, and they put in countless reps to get any type of

production and appropriately. So. Eric was asked next about the rookies in the offensive line room and how they've come to him for guidance and how he's felt about teaching them and bring them along so far in this new offense, in this new training camp, in with the Dolphins. It's been cool. Man. All of them are open minded, all of them are trying to learn, They're all trying to get better, and I'm just me personally. I'm just trying to give them everything I know, take what I know,

and go on with their own experiences. Man. So just doing what I can. If anything they have, you know, anything I question they can ask me, or anything I see, I just trying to tell them, and I asked them to tell me what they see online. We just work together. And we finish up here with the question for Eric about offensive line coach Steve Marshall what he's learned so far from the new Dolphins old line coach. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Marsh marsh has been great, man. I think he's doing a great job with rookie is like learning their assignments, you know what I mean, and really trying to get them together. And it's really just gonna take everybody. Man, It's gonna take everybody because how it is and how we just jump into camp and guys finally getting each other, meeting each other, you know what I mean. It's kind of hard for him to go to every single player, but he's trying to do every single dude is get

as much as he can get done. I think he's doing a great job. And this guy, like I said, we just gotta keep getting better. And we close out this Tuesday podcast by hearing from Dolphins receiver Jachim Grant, who was first asked, so far, how is training camp going? Um? I feel like he's going pretty smooth. Ready, Uh, going really good. Um. Like I said, I'm gonna continue to go out there and get better and every every day and everything that I do, Uh, continue to gain the

coach of stresses and be consistent every day. And this next question, get some audio from a reporter who asked the question because Jachim cut him off, asking him about who is the fastest player on the Dolphins team. And you know, Jachim has one answer for that question, who is the fastest guy on this team? And they don't even have to say me. Of course, I'm gonna say that every single time. I don't care about I told man, I don't care about him running the twenty two point three.

I was like, look, I don't. I ain't gotta run that. I don't have to run full speed the b guys that the ends all that. I don't have to do all that. So but like I said, I'm gonna continue to say that, if you want to raceists, it's it's nothing. I'll continue to tell him, like, you're not gonna be bro, just tell him up Next, Jachim was asked about his comfortability playing inside and the slot. Here's his response to that question about playing inside and outside and doing what

the coaches asking of him, regardless of what it might be. Like, I played the slot probably throughout my whole career, and so I got up to the NFL. So I was when I got here as a rookie, I was playing in the slide. I got to learn behind Jarvis and they moved me to the outside. But I've been playing my whole life, so um, I mean, it's it's nothing to play it, you know, It's just more communications with the quarterback, identifying coverages and and just normal where to

be at all time. So um, but me, I feel comfortable playing that like without a doubt and with left handed quarterbacks kind of a dying or dead breed. Before two I got here. In the NFL, Jachim was asked about how different it is to catch a football from a left handed quarterback. Um, I was saying, not really. I mean as a receiver, the ball comes away, you

gotta catch it. That's that's just Uh, it's as simple as to get But I mean there's I feel like there's nothing different, um the spin rotation besides the spin rotation of the ball. But um, no, man, it's it's nothing different from it. Like like I said, man, your receiver cats the ball when it's coming your way. And we'll finish up with my question for Joachim. Hey, Jachim, what's up? Man? Uh? We saw you telling Davanta you're

weighing two hundred pounds these days. Just want to ask you for it's any truth to that and how did you get all that weight on? Oh? Man? Yeah, definitely not two hundred left. Like I always like to tell him, like I'm two hundred. I'm close there. I'm close to too hundred though, Man, I'm getting there. But man, I just tell him that because I I like to mess with him because he's liked to weigh in with his back back on, shoes on, is uh everything going there?

He always like yeah, Like I like, you take all that stuff on. And then that's why I came out and kept saying like I'm two hundred because if I went in with my back back and all my clothes on, I'll be two hundred two. So but that's where that I all started just kind of having a good time

with it. With Jachim. We had him on the podcast twice over the course of the summer, previewing the Receiver room and also earlier this summer, just talking about some off the field stuff, how he was dealing with the quarantine during COVID, A bunch of fun interviews. Chachem is a great guy. I talked to you their really good interviews today from Eric Flower, shakeem Grant, and Josh Rosen. We heard from Coach Flores in the morning. Had some practice news and notes there for you guys. We're gonna

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