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We talked to Tyreek Hill after practice. The best of those sound bites for you all, coming your way from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
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So I've been trying my best to not make this a tua in Quarterback podcast every single day where the rest of the content becomes secondary. And thus maybe I've buried the quarterbacks a little bit too deep into the episode's the last few days.
So today we're coming out of the blocks hot.
Talking all things QBS, We're gonna start with QB one because the body of work now heading into tomorrow scrimmage at the stadium is a good sample size. And I tell you what, he is flat out cooking out here, guys. The confidence we've seen from Tua at the podium and press conferences, it translates to the field. And those of you that go back to my early content days know that my start was in quarterback evaluation and I watched more plays of Ryan Tannehill than any player in the
sport at the time. Well two was getting to the point now where I've seen maybe more of his work than anybody. And the player I saw today, the player we've been watching for the last week plus, to me, is by far the best version of Tua we've seen. And given the fact that he was number one in several key categories last year, that's a bad sign for
the rest of the league, guys. And this is why I always thought, despite the hip injury coming out of college and how that might stunt his growth or whatever you might have said about it, it's why I thought he was still worthy of the number five overall selection, even though it was natural to wonder would he be able to give back to the same player that he was him. Boy, has he the processing the consistency on
the stuff built into the offense. I always thought that was what would give him a baseline level of success even right away, and it did. Right He was a winning quarterback as a rookie multiple games before his first turnover. You know, I thought the offense kind of took a step forward when he came into the lineup.
He had the fourth quarter numbers over the course of his career.
Into that twenty twenty one season, The difference between he and other quarterbacks playing that year under center for the Miami Dolphins, it showed you something to build around. And then last year happened. Now we see him years removed from the injury. We see him with multiple off seasons worth of training to help transform his body and get back to the mobility and strength that he had pre injury and build up on top of that, and frankly, I think it's kind of transformed his game a little bit.
Look thought the arm talent thing was tired and overplayed, and so I tried to stay away from it because I'm not in the business of knocking sixty yard completions. I think it's silly to do that. But man, those of you that have come out to practice this week, is there a throw that you don't think Tua can make? Is there anything we're missing with this guy?
I don't see it.
Yesterday I raved about the off balance three quarter armslot throw that he had. Today, I saw him drive a ball fifty five yards down the field to chosen for a home run. I saw him plant his feet, get the entire mechanical operation going to the perimeter on a little sale concept and show the throw to one target, bring the arm back across the body, and a no look shot passed into a secondary target once the defense had already moved according to his.
Helmet and body positioning.
Seeing him do it all, man, Tyreek talked about to his physical skill set a bit and one of the throws that he made at yesterday's practice in today's media availability, here's the Cheetah. It's good.
It's grown crazy, man. You just the reception I had yesterday where he was able to throw it in between like three defenders was crazy. So it just goes to show the amount of trust that he has in me, you know, and you know I just feel like he's going to continue to grow.
So that's Tyreek talking a little bit about the chemistry between the two of those guys and how it's grown this year. And the great Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald tweeted this and this is why I love Barry. He's got the numbers to help support my eye test claims.
Barry had two with four red zone touchdowns today and that's accurate by my account, and several chunk plays that it just feels like a rinse repeat going back to training camp from you know, last summer, all the way through OTAs this year, and I guess end season last year as well, and all the way up through training camp. Right now, he's not throwing a pick and team period, guys.
Not one.
There's the one in seven on seven a great play by Cater Kohu won by Xavier and Howard and one on ones, and there was a drop picked in elevens two days ago, three practices ago. I don't know what it was, but it speaks to his proficiency, his trust and the offense and his receivers and just an overall level of comfort I think he's displaying. And like Tyreek said, man, it's it's just all buttoned up right now, and I
can't wait for September tenth. A couple of plays to break down before the touchdown breakdowns, there was a couple of throws that, like Tyreek said, that just show the trust and the anticipation and the accuracy that he can play with. Where Tua had this throw to waddle into a tight window. It's just I wrote it in such a treat to watch it work every day. Because the
ball is barely hitting the ground. He's finding ways to get off the spot to mitigate pressure, getting through his reads and showing off what looks to be to me, like McDaniel mentioned, all around better better physical skills, and
we see it in a multiple in multiple ways. There was a nice rep for two where he got through progressions and he was hitching up in the clean part of the pocket after getting some pressure around the backside, and eventually he checks it down, but you see him surveying up top to chosen and you see a flag come out, and two almost like sees that and says, okay, well I got the five yards. Let's take this shot
right here to a different part of the field. Just consistently understanding where his answers are when things are taken away. I think you're seeing that grow and develop a big time this training camp.
Let's also go ahead and break down some of his.
Plays for y'all's I had a front row seat for the three consecutive touchdowns he threw down in the red zone, all of them third down situations two, which that's three straight plays where he makes a play that's worth four points, you know, difference between a field goal and a touchdown. So the first one you saw our team account posted on Twitter, a beautiful seventeen yard touchdown strike to Waddle where the defense brings the house man.
They's like a Geil break blitz.
Two.
A fades back into the pocket, kind of like the touchdown against the Browns last year to Tyreek, where he bought all the time he possibly could by fading away and holding onto the ball to the last possible minute to give Tyreek the two to three seconds he needs to uncover same situation, layers it to the back pylon and uses Wattle speed to run away from the defense,
puts it right into a spot. Coverage is close, placements perfect, Wattle runs under a touchdown third and five play, high leverage situation offense cashes in for six now an absolute laser and low red zone. This one was maybe my favorite. I don't know, it's tough to discern the different which
one's better than the other. But third and goal from the three, and Tua throws this ball essentially to the pylon, just I would say, just kind of understanding how the play was going to play out before it ever did. And what I mean by that is Raheem isn't even like into his route yet, like his the back of his head's facing Tua, and Tua.
Just throws it to a spot.
And by the time Raheem gets to a spot, which goes back to that chemistry and trust and repetition for these guys, and Raheem becoming more of a receiver in his second year. Right when he turns around, the football's right on him at the flag, turns it up into the end zone. Really impressive back to back throws from Tua and then he gets a third touchdown to waddle right under the goalpost, throwing the ball to a spot.
Just another area where I feel like Tua's trust comes from, like you know, you develop it from high level thinking akin to what coach said last year.
In the Texans game.
I think it was where he's miked up talking to Tua on the sideline about playing at a high level, the one where two is like not trying to hear it, saying yep, got to keep chopping wood. Coach and coaches like, nah, man, you are playing really well, just like believe it. So on this play, if the corner that Wattle is working on is not closing, or even better, if he's still getting depth, his ability to then transfer his weight into
a drive down the field, it's not there. There's no like you have to be progressing that way to accelerate that way, and so there's no ability for him to disrupt the catchpoint, especially when you factor in how quick to us releases. So I feel like he can throw the ball essentially right at the dB, who's more work and like it's for the quarterbacks perspective and for someone that doesn't play the position or never has, I think you would think like I'm throwing the ball right to the defense.
That feels weird.
But he throws it to that spot because that's where Wattle eventually wants to cross face at and he can do this because he knows the DB's more worried about Wattle's speed and the move that he might make.
So to a while the.
DB's focus on where Wattle's going, I'm gonna go ahead and throw the ball, so you can't react to my throw. And it's another benefit of the speed because by the time he processes all of this, Wattle's already flashing right in front of him and there's the ball too. So to what's quickness matches the quickness of his receivers. Does that make sense? Not from the foot speed standpoint. His processing is in the same realm as Waddle and Tyreek's physical speed. And that's why I think this offense can
be so special. And the fourth touchdown was a play similar to the pass breakup that Cam Smith had in the end zone, but the ball was right on target outside for Barrios to catch it, get the feed in at the front. Pilon just it was really a mastercraft
day from number one. And you know, having watched him through eight practices now and all of last offseason, and having seen other quarterbacks here years before two was here, and reading camp reports from you know, even the pre Tannehill days, and just hoping that John Beck would have a good day. It's nice to see a real, true, very very good quarterback every day in practice. It makes the rest of the practice way more fun to watch. And I thought Mike White was terrific again today as well.
I think there's a pretty clear hierarchy being developed here based upon practice performances. I think that click that coach was talking about occurred sometime last week early on in that week, because he's been spinning it, you know, pretty much since that bad Friday practice indoors when everyone talks about the sacks and the results in YadA YadA yah. But he's beating pressure. He's giving his guys a chance
with the ball in their hands after the catch. I think he's getting the ball to the checkdowns fast enough for those guys to make noise after the fact, because when you're late down the field, it makes you late to the checkdown. But Mike gets through it quick enough to where he can get them in position to get yards after the catch and not lost.
On you know me.
Not An underrated fact by any means is putting the ball on those guys accurately so they don't have to go to the ground with it or you know drop the ball.
I thought this.
I thought his best ball was a twenty or so yard ripped to Barrios for a catch and run over the middle. He's been really throwing the ball in that area.
Well.
I haven't seen anybody here do it like Tua ever, but Mike's been like the second best at it that I've seen so far. And he had a really nice throw in a situational drill where the offense had to get like twenty or some yards to get into field goal range with twelve seconds on the clock. All the quarterbacks got one rep. No one got it down the field, but Mike White did for about twenty five yards and a chance for a field goal. I want to go to offensive coorda or Frank Smith here for a little bit.
As he talked about the second year in the offense. I've talked to everyone under the sound about this, including Mike and Tua, including you know, Greg Cosel back in Indianapolis.
Everyone that I can talk to.
I've talked to you about this, haven't had a chance to ask Frank Smith about it. How do you feel year two in the offense can benefit you guys?
I think overall the guys they hear the concept, and now it's more of the not executing an assignment, but understanding what it attacks, how it attacks, how they work together. You know how quarterbacks progression fits on what they're trying to do. I think it's overall when you know you learned something the first time, you know, it's just trying to make sure you get it, and you learned this year.
Now you're really taking this next level to the overall understanding of the offense and the concepts.
All right.
So there you go, almost a whole segment, or it was a whole segment to the quarterbacks. Let's come back on the other side and finish up the offense, including a big day from devon a chain. We'll hear some more sound bites, much much more on the Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. So we saw the passing game clicking on Friday's practice. The usual suspects were out there. Waddle got open a ton, especially in the red zone finding the paint with Tua
at the controls. One of my favorite plays though, was from Mike White where he gets free on a third and fifteen play coming across the formation at least ten yards short of the sticks, probably more, and he catches the short pass with the defense kind of playing the sticks, and he just turns on the burners and uses the entire width of the field to get them to get the ball across the sticks before going out of bounds.
And he ran by a couple of guys that I think didn't realize that they were kind of Gronkowski on Drake in that instance where they lost the angle. Those kind of plays swing games man, and Waddle makes them with regularity, but from from fourth and eight to a first down, like that's another possession you just stole because Wadell's so damn special, and Tyriek Sher commanded some attention today with his work. He was his usual self, flying off the snap and taking eyes with him, creating space
for himself and others. A lot of those chunk plays came in the absence of coverage that was running with ten down the field.
You just see his true.
Snap by snap impact and why he's so valuable to this team. Gosh, those two receivers are fun to watch. So is Braxon Barriers, who I thought looked good again at today's practice. He's been getting evolved. The last couple of days, Chosen had the long catch from Tua where he got on top of the defender and used that long speed to stay there. I think those guys give you a really good mix inside in terms of their skill sets and how different personnel groupings can be attacking
different defensive groupings with the skill sets they offer. It's a deep, versatile group. Wes Welker talked about that a little bit today. He also talked about Eric Azukama, who missed today's practice after exiting yesterday early.
But we did hear from.
Wes on Azukama, and I want to play this sound for you guys with coach on the second year wide receiver who they talked about this last season. I don't remember when it was, but how last year was almost a red shirt year for those first two rookies that were taking in the draft. But we're seeing both Azukama and Tendall play well this camp. Here's Wes Welker on Eric Azukama.
No, Eric can definitely help us this year. I mean last year it was just hard getting him lined up, and now this year we're able to re lined up and now we can start to get into the details of the offense and how we need to do everything, and there's still a lot of work to be done, but you know the fact that he's lining up right and doing the right things and listening to the coaching
and all those different things. He's progressing really well and leave some bounds better than what he was last year.
We love the transparency you get with his coaching staff. I think you're also seeing tight end Elijah Higgins get some valuable work in his new position, including that in line work that comes along with that spot. I caught up with coach Embria talk about Elijah Higgins, but also he mentioned unsolicited some comments on Julian Hill and you know, speaking of transparency, EMBO's going to tell you how he feels.
And I thought this was pretty telling about the two rookie tight ends he got in camp in twenty twenty three.
Well, the first thing is, you know, just his ability, which you know, being from Stanford, you know you would think this would happen. But how quickly he was able to pick up the system and we were able to move him around. He's gotten better as a run blocker. That's always going to be a work in progress, but one of the things about him every time he takes a rep and I challenge him and Julian this all the time. I always tell him every day make new mistakes.
And really, I can't think of a practice where they've made the same mistake twice that they've done two or three days earlier of the day before. So that's really impressed me a lot about both of them, because that's harder to do. It's easier to said than done. And you know, he he's running good with his routes. Haven't had a ton of ops as far as getting getting the ball throw to him, but they're putting a lot of good stuff on tape, so.
That's the pass catching element. I thought the run game had won it's better day today as well. Raereheem Moster had his usual few runs where he found some creases and he just looks smooth and faster. I think, Jeff, that's the thing about this team, man, Like there's so many guys that were coming off injury a year ago or were new to the team, like a Bradley Chubb mid season or Jeff Wilson where in the first year the system on the offense for Tyreek and for Waddle
and for Azukama. I just think there's a lot of incumbent growth we can see this year, which when you see the results last year, like we've done this in the pastes Dolphins fans, right, and I'm getting way off script here, but we've done this thing where oh, you know Ted Ginn year two, it's gonna the light's gonna come on for Ted Genning, your number two. You know Ryan Tannehill it's year at number five now, like he's finally gonna go from a twelfth best quarterback to the
fourth best quarterback. And there's a million other names, right, But now, that belief comes from proof of concept. We saw it last year. We saw the number six offense. We saw two a dazzle, We saw Tyrek and Waddle set records. We saw the running game find its footing down the stretch. We saw Raheem Moster proved to be really a pretty good bell cow late in the season. So you have this proof of concept and you're building off of that opposed to building off hope, and why
would you not believe in it? That's that's kind of my question is how can you not expect that big jump because of all those factors coming together and being back together for a second season when they you know self admitted it wasn't necessarily like fluid last year because it was the first year.
And so man, I'm fired up about all that. I thought.
The run game, you know, Raheem did what he did. Jeff Wilson looks explosive to me, like faster than last year. I cannot wait to watch him in live periods because he just runs so damn hard and he's gonna he's gonna drop the shoulder pad some guys when it comes to preseason games. But I know the one you all want to hear about Stevan a Chan and you should.
He was very, very good today.
Each day we see him influence the defense with his speed, his ability to press and force those players to come down from depth. It allows him to pop back outside when he can accelerate through his cuts, his cutbacks to the backside of the formation, and then you're anger, are in all kinds of trouble because of where he drew you in with where you thought he might go, and
then he changes up on you. I think there was one play where he had Trill Williams coming downhill and it was if he makes trill miss that tackle, it's a seventy yard touchdown run. It was still a ten yard run. But I like my chances. If I can create three of those a game, that will hit you know, one every other game. That's you know, that's a lot of numbers, but you get what I'm trying to say. I think he's just super effective in that aspect as
a pass catcher. I think that his goal line work shows a lot of his skills too, where his ability to kind of change the angle or target point of the defender allows him to not get hit clean, it allows him to fall forward through contact and get extra crucial yards and down there, an extra half yard can be a touchdown. Let's go to Frank Smith, who had some thoughts on the rookie running.
Back coming out of A and M. You know, I mean, you saw the explosive plays that he was able to make in the running game, in the passing game, and just you know, the NFL there just comes a you know, a process of understanding the volume increases, what we ask increases, and you know, and he's really working with Eric to understand, you know, all the nuances that come to the NFL
level playing running back. Especially in this offense with being able to run the ball and then catch it, so overall, you know, where he's been working to so far has been very promising. And again the next couple of weeks for the guys, it's going to really be the great the greatest growth because you go against the defense for several weeks and then now it's going to change as we played different defenses. So it's gonna be a great opportunity for him to really.
Grow an inside to the offensive line. It was great to see Tron Armstead back out there for eleven on eleven and he gets out there and did what he does lock down. His side was in there for some of those successful runs we talked about. I know we all saw it last year with a difference between Tea
Stead on the field versus not pretty tangible. I thought Connor and Rob had some really excellent catching climb blocks Aday combo blocks where you go hip to hip, shoulder to shoulder, climb up to the second level after detaching off the first level defenders, and they really pave some way for some big runs that I talked about.
Those guys.
Typically the big runs in this offense up the middle come off of that right guard, and that's Rob Hunt. That's why you want to keep him there because he can generate some explosive in the running game for you. I liked the work of Lester Cotton today out there. We mentioned him in the podcast a few days ago, and he keeps finding himself in the notes. Could be a guy to keep an eye on going forward. And Dan Feeney, I think is the one on one champ
so far. Every time I watch him in one on one drills, there is sixty seven causing a stalemate in pass protection drills.
And that's all I got for you on the offensive line today.
Let's go ahead and take our last break right there and come back and do the defense. We'll hear from Coach Madison, Coach Fangio. I think I have more from Frank Smith as well. That's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Let's go ahead and pick it back up here the final segment of the week, although it's not because we have a podcast for you guys tomorrow and Sunday. I think I'm coming up on like fourteen sprints a podcast here
pretty soon. Let's talk with coach Madison here who I asked about the leadership impact value of Jalen Ramsey and now that he's not available on uniform, how can he still provide value with his insight? If you guys saw me on Twitter, Jalen's without the crutches already. That's pretty impressive. He's at the seven to zero so far against the rehabit he's been working on. Here is Sam Madison on the impact of Jalen Ramsey, even though he can't give
you number five on the field. Here he is in the impact of coaching the guys up on the sideline.
I'm good. I mean, just like when he came in, you know, the first thing that he asked of me, you know, coach, what do you want me to do? I was like, man, I need you to be a coach on the field. You know, between myself Rinaldo, we played this game a very long time and you know that's what our coach is expective of us to be able to do what they ask us to do. But yet, and still, when you have guys out there that are young, don't have the experience that.
You have, you have to be able to do that as well.
So he and X been doing a really good job of communicating with one another, but yet and still communicating with those young guys because you never know whohen is going to be the next man up and lo and behold, it came sooner than we would really expect it. But you know, he's still in that same capacity, in same role.
So just fun to be able to hear the things that was said about him in the past, but then now being able to see him firsthand, and then it's totally totally a blur of the things that you've got from other people.
So also in the defensive backfield, Sam talked a little bit about Cater Coho and his growth. Tyreek said that his pick for a big second year breakout was cater Koho and it makes sense given the way those two have been competing every single day in practice. And Tyreek told us that Eli Apple has not really covered him in one on one jet because X and Cater keep claiming him, and Tyreek said he can't back down from those challenges, so maybe one day we'll get a chance
to see him against Eli Apple. And I thought it was really funny his press conference that Tyreek said, of course I was okay with Eli coming down here. It just means I get an embarrassment every single day now. But it's not like that, like he talks about that at the press conference too, Like I didn't. Of course, I wasn't gonna say no, you can't sign the guy. Like it's more of a social media thing than it
is anything else. And yeah, Tyreek plays into it. But also I mean it's all just kind of for show. But you know, Cater gets those matchups. I think that it really says a lot about him that he wants to go challenge himself against number ten. You could go out there and say, let me get you know, on the receiver number nine and really boost my tape right now, or you can say, let me go compete against the best receiver in the NFL. And that's what he's done
all camp long. And for Tyreek's comment about the breakout player this year, I would argue that Cater already broke out as a rookie, but again had some more really good work today. He's just not seeing many targets. We've kind of seen. The targets to x are never there. The targets to Cam Smith have kind of fallen by the wayside a little bit. And cater Koho. They're not trying him anymore. Those are the three guys I think I've had the best camp at cornerbacks so far. In fact,
he and I mentioned Cam Smith. Cam Smith and another young cornerback put on a clinic today really separate in the hands of the receivers at the catch point, the hip pocket technique, play the ball through the receiver's hands. Because Tyreek gets on top of Noah Igbinoghany for a touchdown toss that had to be perfect from Tua and
it was. Then he had two reps breaking up passes by getting into position, staying patient, and really driving that hand through the receiver's hands in the football to break it up. Cam Smith on back to back reps as well, although he ran off the back of that field, slipped in that damn concrete and he left practice a few plays later. So that happened at Troll Williams last year too. I don't know anything about the injury. We'll get you guys an update on that and find out when he
comes back out for practice. I continue to love what I've seen from Javon Holland and coverage. I just think that he has the makeup to really do whatever he wants. In fact, we'll hear from Vic fangol here in just one second. He had a good touchdown sitting play near the pylon and not really live right now. But Javon, don't tell him that. Braxon Barrios catches a quick swing route.
And I think sometimes it's easy to forget about Javon's ability as a striker because of the playmaking and the coverage. But he comes downhill and I could hear it from the other side of the field, you know, fifty rows up on the stands. He put a lick on Braxon Barrios and said, you will get no such goal line today, mister Barrios.
So that was fun to see. He cannot wait to.
Watch him strap it up for a live football game here soon. Let's hear from Vic Fangio on the safety. That man, he loves watching this guy play.
Yeah, he's been very impressive. He's another guy that I really liked in the draft the year he came out, and he hasn't disappointed one bit. I think he's a hell of a player and should just get better and better every day every year and should be a top safety in this league.
It's not try Dilly Javon Holland update. I thought his former college teammate Veron McKinley rip Pac twelve is pretty solid on that deep coverage aspect of his job. I thought there was a couple of plays day where they had some chances for deep shots, but he carried those deep routes and really made the quarterback go elsewhere. Did that a lot last year. I thought a good job of that again today. Bryce Thompson makes a couple of plays every single day. He might be my pick right
now for safety five. If they go that way, I would say it's obviously the top three guys, Elijah Campbell and then probably Bryce Thompson. For me, I thought Channing Tendall had another excellent practice. Man has a player to every day where he's getting around the perimeter with that speed and cutting down run plays before they get started.
And that happened again today.
He also had his stuff and goal line work where he fit the gap, played downhill and arrived.
With some thump to stop Auchmed's Ford momentum.
Let's go ahead and hear from Fangio, who praised where Chang Tendall is right now and where he thinks he can go with his natural talents.
Channing's work and every day to get better, get a better understanding of the defense. Once he gets a better understanding, I think his talent will flourish.
Man, If I thought that I was impressed by Andrew Van Ginkle, why don't we go ahead and hear with coach Vic Fanjo had to say about his linebacker off and on the ball.
Yeah, I think Van Ginkle has done a great job for since we moved him to inside as part time he's still outside. Also, he's picked it up really well. His football instincts and acumen flourish in there. He's done a really good job for a guy. That's a hard transition for a guy to move from an on the ball position to an off the ball position, and he's very well with it. And it's going to give us
some good versatility throughout this season. I was, you know, we're moving him back and forth between the outside and inside, you know, and Nickel he could be a guy that could rush from the outside and in base defense. We're trying him inside just because we still have him. Found a fourth, fifth or sixth d lineman.
Some pretty good radical candor there from Vic Fangio. What else here is Seeler and Wilkins new day, same story. You guys know, the drill, consistent work in the run game, consistent pass rush. How about Coach Fangio's thoughts on Christian Wilkins.
Yeah, Christian was a guy that I really liked the year he came out in the draft, and he's exceeded my expectations. He works really hard in practice, he grinds. He's talented, and with his talent and work ethic, he's one of the top players in the league.
You heard coach mentioned Agbat earlier. He had a couple of sacks today he flashed that cross chop in a dip rip move. That really those long arms and powers how he wins out on the outside. I think Cameron Goods getting his fill this camp. Every day he makes the notes of something that he did run or pass. I thought Randy Charlton was a menace in one on one drills, and Jalen Twyman won that period with a
really impressive body of work and pass rushing. Let's play some more audio here from the two coaches, Frank Smith.
And Vic Fangio. Before we get out of here.
This one from Frank Smith, who told us about the challenges of facing a Vic Fangio defense and how it's helped the offense grow in this year training camp.
I mean, you're working with him in Chicago. It's a lot of the same same things. Of the multiplicity of what they do, with the multiplicity of the coverages, it all starts looking the same. It makes us have to really be on our recognition, beyond our communication and beyond
our fundamentals. So I think that we overall have been able to really work on our our game, are our techniques what we're trying to accomplish through what they're providing, because hey, you assume something and the next thing, I know, it changes. So I think it's helped us a lot, and you know, again excited for the next two days to really keep growing upon it.
Let's finish up here.
I thought it was cool to hear this about McDaniel and Fangio's working relationship and how they.
Can benefit one another.
You'll hear it here, But I just want to add the commentary of like, I'm there for it when he needs me, and he has needed me a few times, but I'm also not going to like, you know, steamroll the guy and take, you know, ownership of his job. I just love this answer here from Vic about the question was being a former head coach, do you want to offer Mike McDaniel anythings you've picked up or do you stick to being the d C.
Well, I'm there for any time Mike wants to use me as a resource, and he does that on occasion. You know, I've got my hands filled trying to run the defense and I'm not going to try and impose my will on things. But Mike's not reluctant to ask an opinion, and if he wants to use it, he can. If he doesn't, he doesn't.
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