OTA Week 1 Coverage - Mike McDaniel Audio, Practice Report and Players Talk Offseason Program

it in my voice, you better check your pulse. We've got Miami Dolphins football talk about and I am stoked it is May, but we have practice from organized team activities. We've also got audio from head coach Mike McDaniel a handful of players, and my favorite thing to do on this podcast a practice report for all of you. Again, if you can't tell my voice, I am very very fired up, and me check that pulse. Yeah that's going. Let's get going from the Baptist Health Studios inside the

Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime pod cast. That is another Miami Dolphins first down. We saw plenty

of those on the field on Wednesday. Before we get to that, let's go ahead and start with coach McDaniels Wednesday, May the seventeenth media availability, and he kicked it off by walking in and saying, almost surprised about how many of us were in the media room for this press conference, for this first a day of media access to O T A. S. And he said, you know, your priorities might be a little bit out of whack considering the fact that there are two playoff games tonight the Florida

Panthers and Miami Heat in the second round of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs and the Eastern Conference Finals for the Miami Heat. Talking about those two games, and so you love hearing him already aware of the other sports in the region and how well those teams are doing, like knowing to that off the top, You love to hear that. And speaking of local ties, Sony Michelle now

Miami Dolphins. Here's coach McDaniel on what intrigued Miami to the dolphins new running back and Sony Michelle, Um, Sony the the you haven't you have an opportunity in the off season to add a player of his caliber, of his pedigree, just him as a human being and um a multiple Super Bowl winner. Um that we jumped at the opportunity and you know his interests that our interests and UM, you know, competition for the for the Miami Dolphins,

UM is is only a good thing. And I think, UM one thing that's unique about that particular room is no one shies away from competition, and everybody in there's UM excited UH for the offense, for the opportunities, and wants to be UH, wants the best man to win, UM and aren't backing away from that. We'll have a chance to get to know Sony Michelle on the next edition of the Drivetime podcast. He'll be joining me here on Drivetime, so you don't want to miss that great

signing as well. Obviously I did that competition that running back room, not just in that running back room, but across the entire football team. Here in that competition is something he talks about there or something they're not going to shy away from. And I love this next answer here about he was asked, what's something you want to establish here in your first O t A with the

Miami Dolphins. They talked about the process of the off season, and it's a length the answer toming go ahead and just let coach do the talking for you right here. I think we've we've begun that process. You know, there's three phases in the NFL off season UM. Phase one is meeting room exclusive UH and and guys UM, you know, and we're currently in phase three, where we're actually able to practice for the second time. And Phase two you getta you get to do some UH drill work and

coach them on the field, not in team settings. But UM and all three phases are are really cool to me, UM for the specific reason that you get to coach and not prepare for an opponent. So the the you know, we're learning toerent language UM on one side of the ball, and we're refining a language on the other side of the ball. But UH, realistically, you want guys committed to UM getting better and you want to really establish UM

how you're gonna go about business. You know, we we had a bunch of time to prepare for you know, we had to we had to UM voluntary mini camps and now we're UH UM this afternoon, you guys will see our second O t a UM. And what was important to me is UM. You don't skip steps in

this business. So if we want UM, if we want to make strides and and progress as an organization, as a football team, we have to position ourselves so that when we come back for training camp, UM, that we're able to practice and operate at a high caliber level that fits you know, our goals and UM, there's no easy way to do that. You just don't wish things to happen. You take matters into your hands in the game of football. And guys, I am very proud of

the way they've approached everything. UM. From that standpoint, just the details of the process along the way really stand out when listening to coach McDaniel speak watching this Miami Dolphins team practice, Like, for instance, there's a there was a a drill and individuals where every single position group goes through their drills and it was the handoff and then after the handoff, the quarterback would catch a ball from an assistant coach and then finish the rep and

throw the football. And I was talking to John Conjemmy about it. You know, you guys don't know who John Conjemmi is, and he was saying, yeah, it gives you an extra rep. You're just doubling your reps that way. And so that's a cool way to kind of give yourself as much work in the a little time as you possibly can get out of it and just maximize your opportunity. You heard coach talk about that learning a language on one side of the football, refining a language

on the other side of the ball. They're going to be detailed in the processing, get things down and and build towards this thing and not skip steps. You heard him talk about that. I thought it was a really cool answer. He also then talked a little bit about Lynn Bowden was that was the subject of the question, But he was asked about how attracted he or he rather he talked about how he was attracted to players who had multiple position experience, and specifically the quarterback position

because of the way they see the game. I thought that was an interesting perspective there, and just in terms of maximizing your knowledge base, maximizing the guys on the field that can communicate that knowledge base. And he's talked about what makes him Iami Dolphin for a long time now in the course of this process, since being hired, and it sounds like intelligence is really high up on

that list. He was also then asked about the difficult the position that's the most difficult to his offense, within and he just gives it, gives a really good long answer. Here, let's go to coach. The most drastic disparity from you know, whatever you'd call quote traditional. You enter it when you're coaching players. You were very aware of their past coaching. You make yourself aware of that so that you can best articulate, Hey, this is like this or this is

not like this. The biggest disparity from a traditional standpoint is the offensive line, without a doubt, UM that and and it and it is a full scale commitment to UM certain principles and ownership of fundamentals that we ask them to do in a major in UH and that.

So as far as the off season program is concerned, it's it's almost built for our offensive alignment in terms of how to approach things, because you need about two weeks of you know, an hour and half or hour forty five minute meetings, which is what Phase one allows you to digest. Hey, we're asking you to UM, run off the ball, We're asking you to have these landmarks.

We're asking you not to hesitate UM. And then phase two you and kind of drill it um that I think in terms of UH, you know, Johnny don't know his name coming on the team and then all of a sudden being thrown into the mix. I think that it's the hardest position, UM, because we are so committed UM to to our fundamentals and technique and UM you know, offensive alignement are like uh oh or like officials. I would say, we're like, you're not talking about them and

that's a good thing. And they have scars from when they are talked about. So to get them to just let go and let all that stuff, UM, let the past be the past and move forward. Is is the most deliberate and intentional thing that as a coaching staff

we have to do. UM. One of the reasons that kind of shaped my whole vision for UM hiring a coaching staff, I wanted to make sure that the guys that were touching those players ars, we would be able to see the results of the of the scheme and people really UM dive in and invest, understand where they're coming from, some of the stuff that they have in their past and let that go and move forward. UM. And I feel very very comfortable and confident and happy

with what UM. You know, start with Matt Applebaum and UM and and and Lamb has been doing an outstanding job understanding everything that we're trying to do. UM, Mike person and then uh Frank Smith obviously the offensive coordinator. So UM, that position is probably I'm not sure if if you're do you have any interest in the offensive line position? UM, am I boring you? UM, but that it's it's exciting too because you, UM, you get to

see guys at that position. UM. I feel like we're kind of it's liberating to a degree because they're Uh, listen the guys that UM if I were to tell you that, UM on this team and this is my seventh team, UM been in a lot of different places, but this is the uh as athletic and capable of any group that might you might be like, huh are you great? Um? But they they really are, and they're hungry and committed, and it's been really really UM rewarding

to watch them works, see the benefits. And then more than that, UM, you know what's gonna happen with your first adversity because this just in offensive linemen have adversity. They live in adversity, UM, and they how are they going to respond to a run play where they're short on their aiming? Point and Christian makes you pay in the backfield or um uh sailor whoever um And and that's the fun part of this part of the year is you get to uh focus on them and not

not an opponent. I just love that, especially apart talking about the athletic ability and the capability of these guys on the offensive line, consistent with the message we've heard from Mike McDaniel, from Chris Career, from Frank Smith, from Matt Apple, mom John Embrey, the assistant head coach, as well this offensive staff and the belief of the players they have on the offensive line to get him coached up, to get them playing, and to get this offense really humming. There.

So importance of the offensive line not lost on this coaching staff, not lost on Coach McDaniel. And I can't wait to watch those guys get out there against somebody else. Long way away from that, but I can't wait for that. But before we do that, go ahead and keep covering

O T A S. Here. Next, coach was asked about what he's seen so far from the rookies and new d f A S. And again, coach goes beyond the question and gives you a more insightful answer here talking about the process of building us group up and everybody in the organization being involved in acquiring them, and also the value of U d F as overall as a group. I feel I feel that our all all the parties involved and acquiring them. You know, I hold undrafted UH

free agents with high esteem, like they aren't just like throwings. UM. They're important to me. We've had UM a multitude of success over the years. Having UM undrafted free agents really impact your team. And what I will say is as a group UM we have it's a testament to the organization's scouting department and Chris career and the collection of people because we have the right types of people. This is overwhelming. You have to understand that rookies, UM people

don't really view it this way. But I was just talking to the guys yesterday, is they are coming in trying to make a living at something amongst people that have been doing it professionally for years. So and then you're doing that in a language that you're like, what you know, you just got introduced to stuff, so you're tripled behind the eight ball. You get to find out fast if if guys are tough, minded enough, and I

will say they are made of the right stuff. Um, so far having one weekend with him and then uh, this is being the second O t A. We're gonna hear from one U d f A turned starter last year with Nick Needham here at the cornerback position, and another U d f A who made a big play in practice today that's coming up here in just a second. Coach also told us about joint practices this preseason with

the Philadelphia Eagles and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Tampa Bay on the road the first week of the preseason Philadelphia week three towards the end of August there with the Raiders sandwich between that. So some good work against other teams coming your way this offseason, and you know we love those training camp joint practices. Up next, I asked coach about, how does this dream job of yours you've talked about,

you've been working towards us for twenty years. How does this compare in reality to the expectation you had for the job here? How has your experience live up to the expectation of your dream job surpassed it? Now? It's um, you know, it's just it's just really fun, UM to express a lot of the things that you you didn't know if you ever have the opportunity to do UM. And I feel uh and I'm surrounded um with so many people that uh, that are supporting and helped driving

the force that UM. It really, it truly feels like a team that um, we're working together for a common goal, which that is what football is all about. Two last things I want to touch on here before we get to the Wednesday May set a practice report here live for the Baptist Health Studios. Well I'm live now, but the podcast is alive. You guys get it. But Coach talked about, you know, particular veterans who are not participating

in this time of year. And he talked about, you know, there are certain guys that have earned the ability to stand off to the side, but not just that the science backs the fact that maybe that's best served they're not out there. I thought that was really cool talking

about the use of science. He also talked about the use of GPS or I guess mile prior tracking, I should say, because he was asked about, you know, the topic we all love to hear about, right, the guys that want to race in a foot race, whether it's Tyreek Kill Jalen Waddle where heem moster. The list goes on and on of guys on this team who are absolute burners and speed merchants, and he talked about, well, I'm not gonna stop them, but I'm not gonna make them do it, so it's pretty much up to them.

And then he also mentioned that I'm more curious about who can run the route the right way, who can cover a go ball, and talking about how that speed is tracked by their the mile prior tracking they do have, and he did mention we have a few guys out here run in twenty twenty one miles per hour, which I'm sure you guys can guess who they are. So great stuff there from Coach. You can find the entirety

of that up on the team YouTube channel. Let's go ahead and pause for our first break and come back with our first practice report of the Mike McDaniel era, our first practice report of can you tell them fired up yet? Let's go ahead and do that. Next Draftime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.

Back here on this Wednesday edition of the Drivetime podcast covering the first day of O t a S as far as our coverage goes here on the Drive Time podcast, and I want to go ahead and just start off here talking about one of my favorite things to observe every single time we're out there on the practice field. Energy and in particular this time around the coaching energy as the effort you see guys put in on game

day right like you'll see it. You'll see screens retraced, or defensive lineman chasing down plays on the opposite side of the field, getting back into the second level and retracing that way, and just getting all the effort maximized out of and every guy you possibly can, and those are things that they take only are accomplished through effort

and will. Right, there's no skill to really help you on hustle, but you can train those things and that's what we so frequently see out here with these guys, and in particular I'm talking about defensive line coach Austin Clark. And I always tell Christian when I see him, like, dude, your tape, the way you retrace those screens, it's my favorite thing to watch on Sundays. And he's always really appreciative of that, but you see it on the practice field.

They work on those things. They're not just showing up and expecting to hustle on game day. It happens out here on the practice field. First, uh, special teams portion. The thing I really put down on my notes here was the Trent sherfield and key on crossing to me stood out and that should be no surprise, as both those guys are really lauded for their fight and their effort and their work in the third phase of the game. Both guys have been productive in that area of their career.

Now we get to some team notes here, just kind of go through my list of notes that I jowned down here and give me some comprehensive thoughts. Towards the end, Jalen Philip showed up on back to back plays. And one cool thing about Phillips we'll hear from Nick need Um on this in a second. He was wearing an orange jersey out there and he was going through every drill and everything. I thought, that's usually you know, maybe that's a medical shirt. I'm not really sure what that is. Like.

You know the quarterbacks where the red shirts too, you know, keep your hands off, keep your hands off. This guy in practice, but it's not what it was. The orange jersey was for the practice player of the day the previous day, and so Phillips won that and he got to wear it. And we later found out from Nick Needum that means you gotta choose the music as well as where that jersey. So it's a big deal now

on practice to see who's wearing the orange jersey. And sure enough, the guy in the orange jersey jail and Phillips blows up two plays within his first couple of opportunities. One was a running play where he has a very nice stack in shed, gets off of his block and cuts down and run play right at the lion of scrimmage and comes up with a little fist pump celebration. Always easy to tell who makes the play when you

see who celebrates afterwards. He then wins with a would be sack that of course does not go as a sack because you're not gonna hit your quarterback. But back to back big plays there for Phillips and a couple of reps. We had a couple of nice really runs throughout the course of this practice. Savon Akman had a big rip through the offensive line, with a big hole created by Solomon Kinley and Michael Dieter untouched into that second level and from his from there, you know what

his speed can do. I thought, it's a quandarie right, White, I should say, had some nice looking runs finding those those cut lanes, those cut back lanes, and his ability to get square to the line of scrimmage quickly after pressing and finding out where his gap is. Then you

get square and you hit that thing quickly. I saw that on tape at South Carolina, saw it in this practice out here the first time I got a chance to watch him play, and that was kind of the entire running back room throughout most of the there was a very short team period, but through most of that practice, seeing the running backs find those find those lanes, find those cutbacks, and you hit it and you go see

it and go and hit with speed. That's gonna be a big factor as far as creating a big explosive place, and we saw that with Savan Akhmed's a quandary right Miles Gaston had a nice rip as well, So the running game got some things cranking after some early reps from the interior defensive line where they were just doing what they wanted to do. So I Zach Seeler had a play where he got in there immediately and blew

things up. He blew up a screenplay with a wicked arm over move that he put on an offensive lineman and he's at the quarterback before the fake even occurred, like a potential, you know, in a game day situation could have been a real big game changing play if he can put the hit on the quarterback before the ball gets to the running back. And he was doing

that for the course of the day. Christian Wilkins found found his way into the backfield and ran clean at the quarterback and he finished the celebration about thirty yards down the field doing the arms swing and all kinds of fun stuff. He was high step and having a good time with it. And on defense also, I thought

Noah Ibnagny really showed some of his stuff. Had a really nice pass breakup working against Jalen Waddle on one particular rep that kind of showed what he can do the physicality of his game and kind of learning into year three now and processing all those things and making his whole game to come together. We'll talk to him in just one second. About that, but him on the

on the edges. Nick Needon was out there and competing all day, Javon holland Brandon Jones, all these guys I thought kind of stood out as guys that move fast and played fast and and looks pretty good out there among others. Of course, with those are the guys that made it into my notes. And then up front, you know Zack Seeler, Christian Wilkins, Ray Kwon Davis just getting after it, Jalen Phillips, the linebacker Corps doing some stuff as well. So a fun practice on the defensive side.

As far as the offense goes, boy, there was a lot of fun passing to be seen on this particular day of Miami Dolphins O T s. And we started off with Tyreek Hill who just was creating separation really from the onset on multiple different routes, multiple different looks. Gosh, he he is something else to watch out there. He came clear where he created like five or six yards of separation. Good pocket for Teddy Bridgewater and his shake at the top of the route, it just it left

his defensive back. You know, which way is this guy gonna go? And he breaks it off of course and he finds five or six yards of separation, a good solid fifteen twenty yards through the Eric completion. Then who knows what the heck it would have been after that. He also did it on again a variety of routes, just finding ways to create separation, sell the takeoff, go

a different direction, sell this route going. I mean, it's just it was consistent with him and the urgency that he creates among those defensive backs, and the urgency in general that he and Waddle together create. It just it shows up. It's as advertised, and it also kind of can influence the flow of the defense as well. There was one play where he he went one direction and you kind of see the defense flow that way and

the ball goes back the other direction. I'm sure that was intended for the Miami Dolphins here in this acquisition. But he can do things with the football, and he can do things away from the football that I think

really really help you. And then Jalen Waddle, I mean, I you guys knew that I loved his game out of college into O T A S. But where he really sold me last year was in training camp, just catching everything, the hands on balls off the frame, plucking that thing, pulling it into his body, and just kind of having a natural ability to get out there, expose yourself for as long as you have to catch the football, corral that thing back in, protect yourself, and then stay

clean from there. And he just whether it's tight coverage and making those tough catches where he goes to the ground survives, the ground survives, you know, the contact on the football all or catching it and stride and taken

off it all just showed up today. I thought it was a good example of how he and Wattle, or he and Hill rather can work together, creating separation, creating this urgency, and the way they both plucked the ball clean up their frame can certainly create some opportunities for Tah to put the ball like a little bit out in front, snag that thing with your hands and don't slow down and stride and keep that thing ripping, and

you could hit some big plays that way too. So I thought we saw that from both Tyreek and Jalen in this practice. Some might get sicky catch a ball, uh. That I thought was a good example of that. Him kind of having some space in the field to work with because of the presence of Waddle and Hill, and I think it's gonna show up a lot as we go along here. Let's talk some quarterback play, shall we.

I thought toa was sharp throughout the course of this practice Bridgewater as well, and to you know, in the individual drills watching him a little bit man talking about those those routes, you know, off the frame, putting the ball in trajectory to run towards the end zone. We saw that consistently, and the ball was out quick and it was on time, on target. Just looks really good there,

I thought. And that showed up pretty early in the team period when he hit Preston Williams right over the outstretched fingertips of Nick Needham, who was in a really good position for the coverage. But Preston gets in behind him and to just kind of lobs this thing up over the top of him. He can't quite get the fingernail on it. It comes down right into the bucket an absolute dime. Preston catches it and takes off. I put it was a sixty eight yard touchdown. I thought

it was ran from the thirty two. I saw some other beat guys say seventy yards seventy five, so I'll be more clear on that next time. I thought it was a sixty eight yard touchdown. But well, we'll see next time. And just real quick again on a to a point, you know, I really appreciate the ability to get the football into tough locations, not just with one

trade but multiple traits. Like for instance, there was a throw he made that he had to he really had to get it out there quick and with a quick set up, the quick delivery, but also just the location of the football to put it away for more. The defender can drive. We saw a lot in this practice. We've seen it in the history of to his career. I thought it really showed up today in this particular practice as well. Um So Giziki, Preston Williams. We had

waddle and hill. What else do we get the Quandrie White wanted to cover him, Savon Akman. That's pretty much it. Um Yeah, that that was pretty much the notes from practice day. A lot of good stuff out there, a little back and forth, some offensive wins, some defensive wins.

Thought the physicality was good, some good mix of running pass, some chunk plays, some defensive wins, some sacks, some run stuffs, some chunk gains on offense, the long touchdown, pretty much everything you want to see from a practice, especially day number one here in O T A. S. And that's gonna do it. We'll come back on the other side here and get to the post practice media. I talked to Nick Needham, I talked to Noah Igbanogeny and Liam

Eichenberg and River Craig Craft Gokugs Baby. Next Drivetime podcast your host Travis wing Filled, brought to you by Auto Nation. I really enjoyed my chance today on this Wednesday, May the seventeenth, to talk to Dolphins cornerback Noah Egmonogeny after practice, who had a really good practice, I thought, breaking up some passes, getting in the mix and coverage a few times. Let's go ahead and talk to him first now about how does it feel to be playing under Sam Madison

and Patrick Curtan the defensive backfield. I love him especially. I feel like there's a lot of definitely a lot of experience now in the room now saying it was last year, but those guys played the position they played at a high level and to just be able to learn and um and they're great teachers as well, so I'm just I'm blessed be able to learn from them. Also the chance to learn from xaviing Howard and Byron Jones. And he had plenty of reps in this practice today.

Didn't know what monogamy. How good was it for him to have a chance to run against guys like Tyree Hill and Jalen Waddle. Here's Noah, it's a big time because those are two really good receivers and just be able to go against them, and ain't lot of ain't a lot of guys like that in the league as well, So just be able again just to go against them in the season. Those are a lot of receivers are not as good as though, so so those are their speed and the way to catch the Boston. But I

ad to just be able to go against us. It's a blessing that happening on the team. And what is the confidence of making a couple of plays in practice do for you out here at the stage of the season offseason, I mean, it's it's a lot of confidence. Black, I said, I gotta do I gotta come back and do it again and ex play and do it again the next play and do it again. So I'm not saying that play doesn't matter, but again, I gotta be

able to move on. That's that's, that's what playing corner is when you gotta have a strong mentally just as well as because of its less strong mental strong physical. It's a good defensive backfield here and we stay in that defensive backfield with cornerback Nick Needham, who first was asked, how does it feel to get that second round tender and get back here to Miami. No, it was a blessing. Um, I wouldn't rather play anywhere else then Miami. This was

my first scene. They gave me a side and kept it honest with me and brought me up from a bat. And you know what I'm saying, young dude out to say, you're right practice squad? Did you know what I'm saying? Starting and playing with these guys? So, Um, I can't be more grateful for that opportunity, and I'm ready to just keep proving that what's saying that I could play and could beating this league at a high level and

just keep going up from there. The first time for a lot of us seeing the speed of Hill and Wattle on the field together, but I wanted to ask Nick about how it compares to on the field versus on the tape. Here's Nick need Im talking about the speed of this dolphins receiving corps. It's passed on film, but and when you really get right in front of them, like, oh man, like it's definitely those two definitely have a

different speed. And uh, it's gonna be great this year to just work versus out every day because it's like, man, nobody's gonna be fast the East. Know what I'm saying, we win versus them, it's like we should, you know, saying we should win a lot competition on offense, competition on defense. Here is Nick, I'm telling us about the orange practice jersey that the other Phillips is wearing. And

another project comes along with that, the music selection. Yeah, so yesterday he won practice player of the day, so they get to get an orange jersey and then they get to choose the music for the whole day. So yeah, you're feeling you're feeling it. Yeah, first, I mean being to practice played only he kept playing three songs over and over no blindo. But then he changed and it was good. So naturally had to ask Nick, does that

kind of fire you up a little? Bit more give you a little more motivation to go out there and dominate. He said, not really, but maybe me because a certain type of music that no one else plays out here. Now, I wouldn't say that, maybe me because no one plays California music. Are definitely want to win and play only can music. Yeah, I think they just tell you after practice and then you get it right for the next day.

So I spoke to those three guys, got audio on that, and I also talked to River Craycraft, Washington State Cougar alumni. He gave me a go Cougs. I asked him about the difference between the Poulouse and down here in South Florida's had pretty hot, pretty hot, but also you know it was warm back in California, but you cannot replicate this humidity. He's a California guy that made his way up to Pullman to the police. Also gave me a gokug, which was a very cool moment for your boy here

on the podcast. I also liked him talking about what this receiving room is together and what he thinks he could bring to the receiving room, saying it was the closest knit group he's been a part of so far in the National Football League, and also just you know, he mentioned the talent and the ability of guys like Hill and Waddle, but also the experience and knowledge and knowing your role and what you can bring to the room.

And he said that his ability to kind of communicate the offense, the system, the checks, the calls, all that fun stuff that he believes he provides a lot of value in that way, which that gives you a really good balance in the receiver room, right, Guys that can that can know and can do, but can do both and can teach each other and depend upon each other. That knowledge across the room is only going to help everybody in there get better, especially when you have that

willingness to help each other get better. And from River Craycrafts comments, it sounds like we have that here in this Dolphins wide receiver's room and really across the entire team. Go ahead and finish up here on the offensive lines, we heard from Dolphins offensive lineman Liam Eichenberg, and we start here with Liam discussing his buddy in San Francisco, former Notre Dame Fighting Irish offensive lineman as well Mike McGlinchey, and the benefits of this system, of this coaching staff

on an offensive line. Here's Lie I'm talking about his conversations with Mike McGlinchey and what he thinks this offense can do for his game and his skill set. Yeah, feel good, feel good. Uh, you know, this offense does well for offensive lineman. You know, my buddy McGlinchey on San Fran loves it. And uh, you know, I'm just happy with what's happening here. You know, we've got a lot of guys that showed up for O T as

we're working hard. You know, I think it. Uh, it's a lot about technique and you know, I probably myself on that. So I think it's good for us. And then a lot of guys are you know, getting the hang of it and they're improving him. So just one day at a time. So one thing we discussed in the podcast here a lot is the affirmation of Chris Career,

Mike McDaniel, Thest. Dolphin's offensive staff to really kind of go to bat for this offensive line group and how excited they are about the athletic ability the capability of them. I thought it was cool to hear Liam talk about this as press conference or media availability. When he was asked if they have communicated that type of you know, confidence from the coaching staff to the players, here's Liam. You know, all I know is he said that he believes in us, and I mean that's all I can

ask for. So, you know, him giving us opportunity to compete and play and you know, believing in us is full support time. So yeah, it's good having a coach that, you know. I mean, he's a good dude and he obviously believes in us, so it's nice. Let's get one more answer here from Liam Eichenberg. When I was we talked to him a little bit about what Matt apple Bomb said about going over the tape and watching last year and pointing out individual performances and evaluating that way.

And here's Liam talking a little bit about that, but also what he's done to kind of help himself prepare for this new offense. You know, I go back now and I watch like Sampori, you know, because it's it's just different than obviously, you know, I know what I need to prove on from last year, but as of right now, it's more about you know, seeing guys, you know, guards tackles that have done well in this offense and

understand the scheme and understand how to run it. So just kind of look at those guys and core experience. So there you go, Liam Eikenberg no Egnogamy as well as Nick Needham and talking a little bit there with River Craycraft. Good stuff. They're fun. First day of practice for us here, getting a chance to cover this and bring the podcast to you guys, but however, that is

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