OTA Week 2 Coverage, Wednesday's Practice with Notes and Audio from Mike McDaniel, Terron Armstead, Chase Edmonds and Cedrick Wilson Jr

We've got practice notes, We've got audio from Mike McDaniel and a handful of players including Cedric Wilson Jr. And you will not want to miss the breakdowns I got from Chase Edmonds and to Ron Armstead and the insight. They provided a fun show today from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcast Miami Dolphins, all right? And with that, it

is football season. Because I had a little bit of rest and a little bit of a reset over the weekend since we last talked, a much needed weekend unplug I was the efficient of one of my best friends weddings. I had three jokes in the script and they all landed nice and the groom cried after every line of his vows, so he took a lot of the heat off me. Speaking of the heat, I don't want to

talk about it. Still think that the best team in the Eastern Conference, but the best team does not always win, will be back next year, Jimmy m VP of the playoffs. And with that, again, it is football season because the Mariners, my baseball team, are annually done by June one, and right now eight games under five hundred. That's about where I put them. But it has more to do with the fact that they have like one solid picture in the rotation and like five automatic outs in their lineup.

But I digress. So football time, I want to make note first of the transition from when I first got here in and really in earnest began covering this team like daily in and the transition of talent and the way this roster has been built up under Chris Career, Brandon Shore in this Dolphin's front office, and eventually now here underhead coach Mike McDaniel, and just looking out across that practice field and seeing Tyreek Hill, Jalen Waddle, Javon Holland,

Tehron Armstead, Melvin Ingram, you know, and that's just the marquee type of names, right, the guys in addition to the players that we know and love, I mean a Christian Wilkins, is Zach Seeler, A Jerome Baker, a Mike GATSICKI A in this case, Chase Edmonds to a Toungo by LOA Nick need Um, Byron Jones. And there's so many guys out there that you just recognize every position group you go through and you say, I want to keep an eye on that guy. No, no, no, no,

no that guy. Oh wait, wait, there's that guy too. Like every group you look around, there's just a lot of talent. And I know that's reflective of the mood I've seen on social media around this foot ball team.

You guys are pretty damn excited, and so am I. So with that, let's go ahead and start with the practice notes different order on the podcast today, since we did not hear from coach or the players until after practice, So we go ahead and start with practice, and we start with the orange jersey number fifty two Land and Roberts. And there was a lot of old school hip hop in there that I quite enjoyed. And when I say old school I'm talking about like early eminem I think

there was some Tupac in there. This was one of the better playlists I thought. Or wait, no, I don't say that, because if I want to say that, I have to get the orange jersey right, and I don't have the orange jersey. We're an awkward today. Actually the shirt belongs to Frank. That's a Billy Madison joke for you. But a couple of notes here from the individual drills and one thing I like to do when we get a new coach just to kind of see how those

guys go through their individual drills. And since the entire offensive side of the staff is largely new, I was kind of paying attention to that. And we've heard this before from Trent Sherfield on Drive Time. That's the beauty of being here every day is that you get have kind of collect your thoughts and things that you've heard and things that you're told from the guys that are experts at it, like a Trent Schurfield, who on Drive Time talked about this, and Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle

also talked about this in their media availability. We've also heard the same from the offensive line, like guys like Austin Jackson, Robert Huntley, and Ikenburgh about how important it is to come off the football in this offense. So seeing the receiver group stressing that in a drill, working on the release packages, whether it's you know, crossover step or a dummy, you know, a slow release, whatever the

case may be. They're doing all the release packages they have, but the whey they fire off the ball that I thought was cool to see. And then just watching all the talent in the room and knowing they've got West freaking Welcer to lean on. I feel so good about

that group. And something I pointed out to Big Seth watching this practice with him, and this is something that he O J myself talked about on the postgame show a lot last year on five sixt w q a M, the Miami Dolphins Radio network, was that the receiver room we thought, you know, needed that jolt, needed some fresh perspective. And I think that Tyreek Hill, I mean, we can talk about, you know, the on field production and the explosiveness of his game what that does, but man, this

dude sets a tempo at practice. We talked to him last week about it, and you know there's no veteran day off for you here in May, because he's he's running go routes, he's running full gasers, he's doing takeoffs, he's in every single drill. And he said, that's what I do, man, I come out here and I run full speed. I run fast, I go fast. And that's got that kind of can only when you're you know, your highest paid and your best player arguably are at that level. I mean, six Pro Bowls in six years.

Hard to argue against that when he's the one that's not jogging to drills, but running to drills and he's kind of waving guys long, Hey, let's go to the spot. Hey, let's go over here and get this part done. He is getting guys to follow his pace and we know that's fast and he's setting a tempo that I think it's gonna maximize not just that room, but the entire team. And that's kind of what we've seen from some of the veterans that were added to this team across the board.

We'll talk to to Ron Armstaid later on in this podcast and hear from him about imparting his wisdom in that young offensive line room. And then Melvin Ingram as well in terms of getting on the grass with the guys and helping out any way that he can. It's nice when you can add veterans who can produce results, but it's the best of both worlds when they are eager to help the younger guys as well. So we talked about a Landing Roberts catching the orange jersey for today.

Who might be wearing it tomorrow? We wonder. I can't say because I don't have access to the tape and to go over all of that, but I do think that Noah Igbonogny made a case for it on this Wednesday,

June the one. So we'll start in the defensive backfield sort of here because coverage sacks were the theme of the day, and so too where batted balls at the line of scrimmage and Big Seth said to me a few times at practice, Man, they sure are picking up right where they left off, aren't they in terms of the defense. And we'll also hear from Chason Toehron on that fact. Really good insight from those guys on just that.

But remember that Austin Clark Dolphins defensive line coach. They that grew up led the national Football League in terms of batted passes at the line from defensive lineman, and Emmanuel Ogball led all defensive lineman in that category per Pro Football Focus as well as Pro Football Reference. And what's funny is that to a is one of the league's least rejected passes, throwers, pass throwers, passes, throwers, I don't know words in the league zero batted balls last year.

That's according to Football Outsiders and to the two highest percentages from Football Outsiders last year. We're a pair of six ft five quarterbacks Cam Newton and Ben Roethlisberger. So which is it? Is it the quarterback is the defensive line? That stat right there tells you it's the defensive line doing what they do best. Back to the defensive backfield

and Noah Igbanagady, he's playing fast man. He's flying around out there, and you often mistake him for Javon Holland, and athletically, they kind of pair up that way because they both are so explosive. That's a good company, right. He came in for a would be sack at one point. He was challenging the catchpoint all practice long, and we talked to him, what was it two weeks ago, the first week of of media availability here at practice or media being at practice, I should say, and what did

he talk about? But confidence, how that's key for him. I think we saw a big step today or just from the off season work in general in that department. And it was evident on the final play of practice today. Jalen Waddle runs a takeoff route and we know how he can run. And the ball is throwing a country mile down there off the arm of number one two a toungo byloa and it's a good ball. It's in stride.

It looks like Jalen is gonna have a chance for the home run ball, but here comes number nine skying through the air to break it up. He got all kinds of dap after that one. That's one thing when you're watching practice plays you look for is you obviously you're watching to get your own field, but notice who gets the dap afterwards. That's the best way to evaluate who did their job correctly when maybe you don't know.

But this instance, it was obvious because he made the play on the football and all the I gave him a big, big uh celebration for the hell of a day for no ignogamy. I thought Nick Needham was locked down once again. He's been so damn good in these o t A s. I thought Javon Holland as he is wont to do impacting the game or practice from everywhere on the football field. Same for Brandon Jones. This secondary I think pro football focus rather than the number two,

the number two Travis Know's words in the NFL. Yeah it's it's there, or number one. It's one of the two in the receiver group too. So I mean very impressed the defensive backfield today, and that includes a lot more names, but just a couple of mentions here. I thought Eric Roe, Javarus Davis, and Trull Williams all made some plays that I saw. At linebacker Andrew Van Geekl

was in the backfield a lot. Jalen Phillips had a would be sack and he was impacting the pass pro on damn near a down by down basis he gets reset, you know, you reset the alliance scrimmage where you kind of move the guys back and forced the quarterback to deal with a different pocket than what he was expecting, or the running back to deal with a different launch point than he was expecting. He does that for breakfast, lunch,

and dinner. I thought the line up front did well to keep those guys clean the running game as well, because linebackers had some some wide open tackle attempts. Like Brandan Scarlett, he wasn't there for a would be sack and had some really good work setting a hard edge and a couple of reps I saw. I thought Darius Hodge got his had some good reps to getting his hands in the football once and flying around pretty well.

But upfront man Christian Wilkins, that's the tweet him. Him and Zach Seeler caused a ton of problems again broken record. And they do it from we know they can do it from multiple positions. We saw Wilkins play multiple spots, you know, on game day tape the last couple of years. Same for Seeler. That's the same deal out here. In practice, both guys go on runs, whether it's deconstructing the interior

or the edge, whatever the case may be. Those guys just continue to get the job done in practice and in games. And we saw that today. Uh Benito Jones came clean for it would be sack I think, or maybe no, no, no, check that check that check that check out would have been a nice collision in the backfield on a running play. He came clean a couple of times. He's been making some plays here so far in the offseason program onto the other side of the football.

And as much as it sounds like the d offense just did whatever they wanted, there were some offensive wins too, and especially I thought across the offensive line. I thought Austin Jackson was tremendous today. There was a rep where he dealt with a speed rush by quickly getting into a setup, swiping the hands down, then finishing the rep

and getting the rusher onto the ground. And it was Christian Wilkins too, so like this is a big dude coming off and coming around him and he just finds a way to get the hands down and put him on the ground. That does not happen very often. Austin Jackson got done today. I thought Liam Eichenberg had a lot of reps in the running game where he generated push and created gaps and created space for the running backs.

Thought Connor Williams did the exact same thing. And the two U d f A s I thought had some nice work Kellen Dish and Blaze Andrew's. Both those guys fire off the ball and it puts them in advantageous situations, and it did so a couple of times today. But I think, man, this line, when they get to drown Armstead going and they get the positions ultimately sorted out, there's a chance for this line to be pretty damgn good. The running backs. I am so impressed by Chase Edmonds.

I mentioned it on Twitter. You could see his explosiveness and the individual drills. Big Sath comes up to me and goes, what you watching for? Said feet feet feet, watch the feet, watch everybody's feet out here. But he can just sink his hips into those cuts and it helps him fire out of those breaks and it translates to the to the actual game, to the play the team drills. Heh's a couple of nice runs in practice, and we'll talk to him about that here in the

third segment. Really interesting stuff from him on practicing and shorts and shells and how to evaluate it. I mentioned this two weeks ago as well. I think the Quadria Whites vision and feel really gives him a chance to make a make some noise here. Saw some more of that today, and his South Carolina tape is full of him finding that backside escape hatch, that fold back run, and you don't do that without having really sound vision. He's done it a few times now that I've seen

in practice. The quarterbacks, receivers, and tight ends, this was the group that I thought struggled the most collectively. There was lots of checkdowns, lots of coverage sacks, but each guy had a handful of plays to have found. Lind bowed on the first play with a really nice shot between a pair of defenders, and it's the throw I've been clamoring about two a skill set for well since Alabama.

Right his ability to get up over one defender and under the next, good touch, layering the football as it's called. I thought that in his ability to anticipate, you know, here's the coverage, here's where the ball can go against that coverage, I thought those were the best traits he had on display in this practice. The ball comes out early on a particular breaking route, and the ball meets the receiver when he gets that part of the route.

Good stuff. I thought. Skyler Thompson had some nice throws, some good zip checked, a lot of balls down, but showed some physical skills. And then Teddy Bridgewater after up and down day, had a nice rip to Trent Sherfield for a touchdown in red zone work, and that's where we started receiver Schurefield. He found the soft spot and showed the quarterback his numbers, made some tough catches and

did a nice little dance after the touchdown catch. Then at the end of practice, he caught a ball laying out running away from the defensive back, running away from the quarterback with coverage tightly in tow. Had a very nice day sort of lym Bowden that grabbed him to a and another one on a similar throw later where he's open but still has to go to the ground and make a tight bang bang catch. Really nice day for number three. Cedric Wilson continues to catch everything we

heard from him after practice. Excuse me more on him in just a moment. And then both Tyreek Hill and Jillen Waddle caught touchdowns in the red zone period, and my note there was that you don't just recognize their speed and suddenness in the long game, but also how effective it can be in the red zone, like super effective. They both score a bunch of touchdowns. Waddle had seven last year. Tyreek's usually around ten in his career. But it's not just forty plus yard plays. I mean, what

was Waddle's longest touchdown last year? Eleven yards? The guy can get open, He can get open down there in the red zone. It reminds me of my scattering report I had on Brandon Cook's out of Oregon State when he came out back in fourteen. Almost had born and O four one of my favorite players in that draft, because yeah, he was fast, but his ability to win and condense spaces and quickly really stood out to me

at Senior Bowl and on his Organ State tape. And this thought that you have to be this big bodied guy to winning the red zone, it's it's not the case at all, and I think that Waddle and Hill are prime examples of that. Finally, how about some specialist Thomas Morrista was punting him around midfield during one drill today and there was lots of lift and they would wind up putting the ball down around the seven or

eight yard line. It would spin towards the goal, the goal line, and the gunner was there to catch it and put that thing down at the one. So many times the ball was down into the five yard line in this practice, So Funday, nothing beats covering football. We'll have another one tomorrow for you guys here on Drivetime, and of course we have a lot of media to get to here the rest of the way. We'll do

that next Drivetime Podcast. Your host Travis Wingfield, Coach Mike McDaniel here next, brought to you by Auto Nation, back here on this Wednesday edition of the Drivetime Podcast. It might be Thursday when you hear us, but we recorded on a Wednesday after Wednesday's practice, and we're gonna go ahead and get right now into coach Mike McDaniel's press conference. If you want to watch this thing in its entirety,

go ahead and check out the YouTube channel. If you want to hear my thoughts on it, go ahead and stay here and listen to us talk about coach McDaniel, who first was asked about the change and schedule to practice. We were out here around noon the last couple of weeks. This week, we are out here right around ten, which is a training camp schedule. I have it sounds like, and that's what coach with Daniel was gonna talk about

here in just one second. So here's coach on the idea of this week of the mandatory mini camp and the scheduling they have or the thought process I should say behind the scheduling. Here's coach with Daniel. Yeah, from a operational standpoint, UM, we adjusted a little bit too.

Uh kind of coincide with training camp. So they're they're getting a taste and a taste of what the training camp day is like minus paths obviously, so it is a little different UM this particular UM uh mini camp, we're kind of doing a collection of all the stuff we've installed as an offensive, defense and special teams UM, and doing that in the mini camp and just using the meeting time to watch tape as opposed to traditionally in training camp or O t s you're installing plays

UM in the morning and at night. So uh, it's a continuation of But they had had their first non scripted period UM today. Uh. So that was different, which is UM typical of something to work into UM week three of training camp or week two UM and then uh, but their schedule will be the same as training camp. Really found that part about the unscripted portion of practice today that they don't usually use until week two or three of training camp, and we saw some offensive success there,

saw some defensive success as well. I just thought I was really interesting and I cannot wait. My biggest takeaway that I cannot wait for training camp because it's my favorite time of year, even though Seth always calls me crazy for it. I just can't wait to get back out on the football field and watch these guys do this thing, you know every day. That's that's my favorite

time of year. Question number two for coaches talking about the tight ends and you know, let's go ahead and just hear from coach about the tight ends as well as blocking the blocking, I should say of Mike KASICKI. So it was that was a process because you're you're hesitant to just do make foregone conclusions off of bscs

or anything like that. So it took a lot of tape watching and there's um, you know, we we knew fully that are that we'd be asking these these guys to do some different things, um than they've done in the past. Um. After really deep Diamond and watching all the guys, you know, it felt like there not only did they put good stuff on tape, but there was a lot of room to grow. We thought that UM and the and the people first and foremost were the type of people that UH we want to represent us

UM as Miami Dolphins. So UH that that was it was both the tape and and the people, and it took a little time to uncomb but UM, once we uncombed it, we we felt really good about it. As far as Mike Gasecki, he's he's UH be's been as impressive as any player on the team in terms of

going after UH a challenge. You know, he hasn't you guys probably could rattle off the stats, but UM three point wasn't his primary UM position And he's been working diligely in the run in pass game, UM to do things that UH that this offense can feature UM without taking away the stuff that that has made him who he is. UH. And and there there's pieces that in the offense, you know, as we're we're always tailoring, tailoring UM what we do to the skill set of our players.

But he's really attacked it UM with UH with full vigger and has uh has really done a great job working on his footwork in the run game and UH, you know, hoping that carries over to pads when when that happens, and whatever month it is, Hey, don't cut coach off, let him do this, we all want to hear from him. I thought that was really interesting there. The I also thought that there was a theme about how guys just really want to work for this coach

and for the staff. Like he's talked about empowering players. We've heard the testimonies of Mike McDaniel's approach and how his players have appreciated what he offers them, and how he would say how he's provided value for players, how he would say that right. I think this is a prime example of that. You see the tight end room constructed before your arrival. You retain that room and its entirety except for you add one U D F A, and you get that type of effort, that commitment, and

that drive already you love to hear that. It's a great, a great almond for heading forward into the future. Up next, Coach was asked about Melvin Ingram and a couple of the guys to Ron Armstead who are not working in a full capacity, not dressing down, And here's Coach talking about the plan for those guys and the success they've seen from that already. Definitely, you know that that's something that we don't want to just throw people out there. To throw them out there, and UM, they have to

be in the prerecord shape. And we've been working since um April four uh with with the rest of the guys. So UM right now, that's kind of the the limit with which we're comfortable doing with him. And that's exactly why, all things equal, he's added value for the Dolphins because there's a an element of professional success and hung you know, he's trying to prove himself as well, just like this team is UM and we're doing that one day at

a time. So that was largely Melvin Ingram. Here he is talking a little bit about Toronto Armstead, Raheemo Start and guys that are working to get back. The progress is that, UM, we're we're trying to be UM, very deliberate and intentional with how we handle all those guys, and it's been very good. We haven't had a setback,

um really across the board now we are being fairly conservative. UM. But that's like on an individual basis, UM, you know, you you try to handle that the right way, which which makes the most sense, um for all parties involved, and we're when when they're ready, they'll be out there full full something I can promise you they want to be playing right now. UM, but you know, between them and the and the training staff, we're trying to be

very pragmatic and smart we bring them back. Next, here's coach talking a little bit about Austin jack and and his work at multiple positions. We know that he played left tackle, left guard last year and there's some opportunity on this offensive line to find a spot to crack into. Here's coach talking about the positional versatility and what he's

seen from Austin Jackson so far. UM been pretty pumped, um about how all all the guys have really gone after the techniques and UM, the we're we're really focusing on some position versatility right now. And UH when when Austin Jackson is playing right tackle, UM been been very pleased because he's he's approaching it the way that the only way you can get better as a player, and that's complete commitment to it. So there's there's some things that you know, it's a uh we're asking people to

do uh hard things at an elite level. So you try to do it over and over and over, and he's diligently attacking that. So um, the more you know, live bullets that we get for him at at every position, then he will play the better. I just love that comment there. And you know, Coach is gonna be transparent with us because he is transparent. I believe he's being transparent here. This has just always been the case with Austin. He's a studious player who works his ass off plays

with the nasty demeanor. I mean, go look at after plays, after good running plays, you'll see him getting into a little bit of you know, hand fights with guys and just exerting his will a little bit extra. And I know the first two years have had their ups and downs for him, but he's got a chance here and I think he's been showing you exactly what Mike talks about. That work ethic, the nastiness, and the athletic ability. That's

really kind of shows on his tape next year. How about Coach talking about the whole reason he took the job the orange jersey, sarcasm detective, that's the whole reason I took the job, you know, or the orange Jersey. Now that it's ah, I haven't got any push back yet, so I haven't had to flex the final say um. But collectively as a coaching staff, there's always been at least one player that's really separated themselves. So it's been easy thus far. I'll keep you abreast if there's any

fisticuffs up in the office. His ability to go from smart, like really intelligent football conversation to just like turn it into a buddies having drinks and b s and about stuff. I am continually impressed with his ability to how you can flip it on and off. Last question here talking about the center position. Here's coach talking about what he wants on the offensive line. Lots of good stuff here in this answer here, it isn't it's full entirety, full time.

I think you have to be careful to to pigeonhole who who is doing what when? Okay, I think that that isn't fair to the process. Um Um, I will say that we have if no other players added that, I'm gonna be very confident in our starting center next year. I'm I'm excited about who we have. Um. But you don't close the door or pigeonhole anything because it's just

not fair of the process. You know, these guys are out here wedding and in uh what is this mate or June one, um, and you wouldn't be doing service to June first or second if you um made some bold statement. That's why we practice and that's why we uh work diligently as we do. There you go, Coach McDaniel. You guys can see the entire thing up on the team YouTube channel if you have not done so already, We're gonna come back on the other side with Chase

Edmunds to Ron Armstead and Cedric Wilson. You do not want to miss that my favorite part of the entire day Up Next Drivetime Podcast Travis Wingfield brought to you by automation. We're back here on this day one coverage of mandatory mini camps on June the one here from

the Baptist Health Training Complex. We are in the Baptist Health studio talking to you here on the Drivetime podcast and we kick it off here for our three player interviews with running back Chase Edmunds, who I thought was potentially an Orange Jersey type of guy in this practice. Let's go ahead and kick it off here about just how it feels to be back on the grass, back at practice, working with this new team. Here's Chase Edmonds so good. Obviously I gotta get used to this heat.

But just to be out here with the team. You out here with the guys grinding hard. We're really trying to build something special here. And you know, coach mcginny, he just always talks about when want to build something special, it's gonna be a lot of hard work. So just having guys brought into the system, having guys bought into the work, taking care of each other, and just I'm

excited to be out here with the guys. Now. How about what makes Chase confident in how the system can help his skill set and the skills of his running backs in that room? Here's Edmond some really good stuff here talking scheme and next is a nose. Yeah, I mean I played against it, you know for the last four years. Uh, it's something special. Just with how they kind of disguise everything and kind of window dressed and

make everything look like the same. Really confuses the defense and it holds the defense to really be disciplined and just have gap integrity. And um, I think that's something that I'm pretty good at specialized with my my zone scheme, and I'm excited to just get it under the zone and kind of you know, work my feet work. Really it's a different scheme than what I'm used to. I was predominantly inside his zone. So just working my feet again.

Used to the outside zoe track again, used to the outside zone field, how certain lanes field, but just working the build to something specially man How about evaluating practices without pads at a position that's all about contact in the running game. Here's Chase Edmunds talking about how he does that. You always felt like, uh, you know, O T a sho. Always you're just about a mental emphasis. Um. I just feel like, especially with the NFL going to

seventeen games, it's pounding enough, you know. I feel like, guys, you gotta come out here, get the playbook down so that when we have that six weeks off it can stay fresh in our mind we come back to camp. You know, you really missing stuff. So you hit a couple of big runs, you count as big runs or does it not counting that there's no content? No, it don't count, no pass That's that's my opinion. You know, you separate the men from the boys once the pass

get on um. But again, I think it's just important for us to obviously get the scheme down and get the players down, and most important to just take care of each other. You know. Uh, in past season, if you have guys that you lose guys and maybe there's no reason for that. So just coming out here and making sure we're taking care of each other and getting good, solid work. So how do you when you go back and watching from how do you assess it? Yeah? I

mean you assessed about just your tracks. You assessed by like obviously the lanes that are there. We're still playing football, you know. But I just feel like from my personal standpoint as a as a running back, you know, it's not real until you get the ads on. You don't really get to feel the lanes. You don't really get to feel kind of the scheme. That's the tempo really, especially the tempo changes so much from pads to no pads. The church the most In the defense, who chirps the most? Uh?

Great Kwan, great kawan and see will. But I was just talking to the guys, man, I mean that's what it is. But we've got some dogs on defense that's the first thing I took notice about, which just being out here is just really the physicality and now we have a really solid defense. I wanted to go ahead and let that run on its own there with the Q and A and back and forth because of how

smooth and how good it was. They're talking to Chase Edmunds go ahead and finish up here talking about the defense and how and where they are and how he kind of sees their continuity having impacts so far early on in practice. We'll hear from more about us from Toronto arms At as well. Yeah, so we've got a lot of new guys on offense, man, everybody coming from different places. We're all still trying to get the scheme

down and get the players down. Football is very universal in the sense that a lot of the players are the same, but the language is just different. So it's really just about changing mode language that I've been used to from Arizona, like Tybreek has been used to in Kansas City, coming here and just establishing that in our mindset. So the defense, you know, I think I was like all the starters back, I think so they're already kind

of continuity. We're pretty used to everything in the flowing well. He also talked a little bit about how he and Sony Michelle were combined roommates now they reunited again here in South Florida. Let's go next to Ron Armstead, who was asked about that same unscripted portion of practice that coach McDaniel mentioned early on. Here's to Ron Armstead and

what he saw in that period. A lot of energy, a lot of energy, um highly competitive from from both sides, which is which is a great thing, you know, kind of training to be in those uh, real life situations circumstances. Uh. I think I think everything has been going pretty good, like still a learning curve of course, you know, new new offense, new players, but positive man. I think the I think the guy's performances has built the competence in

him that you know, they can handle it. And uh, even even that period that you that you're speaking about, I think it went well. You know, we had some offensively, we had some bad players, but we also have some it's explosives. So that was him talking about the decision to go with the unscripted portion of practice and what it says about not just the players, but also Mike's faith in the system and the players work within that system. He was then asked about working with the young offensive line.

Talked about being a great room, how he's blessed to be with those guys because they work so extremely hard and they're so open to coaching and they want to be successful. And I asked him, do they ask you a lot of questions? And he said, yeah, they do, but not too much. And it's been great. But I want to play this audio clip for you here talking about Rob Hunt, Austin Jackson and why the scheme helps those guys and what he believes makes them good players

and how the potential that they have is still untapped. Yeah. I mean, you see guys like Rob Hunt, Austin Jackson just extremely explosive, like they they jump off the film, you know, uh so, and those guys are just tapping into what they are becoming as as players, as pros. It's excited. It's excited. And then the scheme, the offense that we're that we're running, that allows you to um show those those abilities and use that aolyticism and explosive

or so. Um, it's excited. How about his skill set and his anxiousness to get back onto the field. Are you anxious to get back out there to run? Here? He is, Oh, I am, I am, I'm you know, I'm anxious to get into this to this offense, this game. Uh you know, I think it fits my skill set pretty pretty well. Uh So I'm excited. I'm I'm gonna keep saying that word because I because I truly am just ready to get out there and you know, show

what I can do and in that fit. So we heard from Chase Edmonds earlier about counting the long runs and non contact practices. Tehron has agreevance with that. Here he is talking about the quality or the takeaway from good blocks this time of year. I disagree because it's harder to it's hard to run the ball. And in in this dress, you know, an underwear. Uh you know, guys can share defense can share it a lot easier

without the paths on. So you're getting explosive runs. And then in this dress, I mean it's not real football will get me wrong, but lanes like you're creating lanes that carries over. Here's some more from Armstead on his mentor role and how he embraces that role on this football team and in his entire career. Uh. Man, it look it's pretty pretty natural. Man. It's just I'm always just looking at help anyway, anyway I can. You know, I met I met these guys service. Um been that

way for the last several years. You know, I've been a captain for the last five years, uh in New Orleans. So it's just just a part of who I am as a player. I get knowledge, information, just the god to share. We heard Chase Edmonds talking about the Dolphins defense. What about Tron Armstead? One word dangerous, man, They're really dangerous. The looks, the speed, It's a ton of speed throughout the defense, you know, Um, and the pre snapp looks create a lot of challenges, will create a lot of

challenges throughout the season. You know, regardless of who we're playing. It's tough. It's hard to it's hard to pick up and and uh. Adding adding players like Melvin you know the things that he can do. Uh, that's another piece of versatility. Yeah, really good stuff there from Toront Armstead and Chase Edmunds. Go ahead and finish up here with wide receiver Cedric Wilson, who first was asked about playing outside and in the slot and why he believes that

the slot position really benefits his skill set. I mean, I feel like I could play both in and outside. I definitely liked the slot a little more like that's where I strive at and closer to the quarterbacks that you get the ball easier. Why do you feel like just because you're closer to the ball, get your close to the ball and most of the more shorter routes using the quarterbacks trying to get the ball out of

his hand. I asked Cedric this back on the Drivetime podcast when he signed, but I thought it was worth following up on because now he's been on the grass with these guys. How does this offense help benefit and it really magnify what you do? Well? I feel like it opens up the field. Um just with coach being able to call the players that he knows gonna work and he um, he sure knows who should get the ball when the cover shows it and when I know the ball coming to meet us always a good sign.

I'm about be on the field with Tyreek and how I mean, defense is looking at them the whole time. So usually I get um one on one and that's my job to win. Short and sweet there with Cedric Wilson, but he makes plenty of plays in practice, which speaks for itself, so we always appreciate that from the guys. We're back at tomorrow with you guys here. We're covering another day of practice back on the field on Thursday, and full coverage of that here on the Drive Time podcast.

We have the spaces tonight that should be just a couple of hours depending on when the show comes out for you guys here on the podcast, and then more coverage next week with one more practice right ahead of summer break. But we'll still have content for you than as well. Check out all the media vails on YouTube.

I'm gonna do a what we missed over the course of O t A So Far podcast that's coming Monday, so check that out as well from the stuff that was left on the cutting room for from these podcast so we'll continue to cover these practices as in depth as you'll find out there in the podcast. Realm, All Things told. Starting to feel a lot football around here, man, and I can't wait. In the meantime, you all please be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple podcast,

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