00:00Let's start with a training camp report because Solana said that Mike McDaniel did speak with the media today and he's got a couple of the reports of what happened there.
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00:32Can you say anything of note, Solandria?
00:35Yeah, several things of note.
00:37He was pressed a little bit regarding the cornerback situation, by the way, and he gave a very long answer regarding the cornerback situation.
00:49I'll get to that in just a second, but he was asked, obviously, about Matthew Judon and his free agent visit today.
00:56He says it has nothing to do with an injury at outside linebacker, but this has nothing to do with any other injury on the Dolphins, which is good news.
01:04And he said, quote, we are visiting for the sake of seeing if there's a situation that both parties would be able to come into an agreement of, hey, this is a situation that fits.
01:14Okay.
01:15I'm down with that.
01:17Like I said, you can get a guy as talented as Judon.
01:19Like, why wouldn't you explore it?
01:22Why not?
01:22Don't give him a whole bunch of money.
01:24Don't give him no six years.
01:25He's old.
01:26But yeah, if he can help out in third down, it'd be lovely.
01:29Yeah, I love bringing in aging vets.
01:32I mean, what could go wrong?
01:35Our young dude can hurt.
01:36But he's still been productive, though, no?
01:38Yeah.
01:39Well, he had five and a half sacks last year.
01:41We read the stats last year.
01:43He was ranked, like, second worst edge rusher or outside linebacker last year by PFF.
01:49That doesn't mean that he was the second worst.
01:51It's just what he was rated.
01:52Um, he, since 2022, after leaving New England, he just hasn't really been the same in terms
02:00of production.
02:00He just hasn't.
02:01Doesn't mean he can't have a bounce back year, bro.
02:03Calais Campbell had one of his best seasons last year.
02:06And you had the same take on him.
02:07I had the exact same take.
02:08Actually, it was probably worse.
02:10I ripped Calais Campbell.
02:15Uh, Devon Achan, you know, he has the calf injury.
02:17Won't practice this week.
02:18They're going to be cautious.
02:19Okay.
02:20Zach Seeler, he's dealing with an injury.
02:23I still don't know what the injury is.
02:24Uh, but McDaniel said he expects Seeler back at practice this week.
02:28So, it's not that serious.
02:30I know what it is.
02:32Affluenza.
02:33That boy just got 30 million.
02:37Yeah, I think I'm going to take a couple weeks off, Cole.
02:40He got more than that, didn't he?
02:43Like 30, it was 30 guaranteed, wasn't it?
02:4530 guaranteed.
02:45Something like that.
02:46Yeah.
02:46Yeah.
02:46He got paid, paid.
02:47Uh, my guy, Ethan Bonner, he came up limping, holding his hamstring.
02:54He has a hamstring injury.
02:56We'll be out a few weeks.
02:58I saw Fironis tweet that, uh, McDaniel said Darren Waller might practice this week.
03:03Quote, I'm expecting to see him sooner than later.
03:06All right.
03:08He's, yeah.
03:09We, we need something there.
03:11Tanner Connor, God bless him, but we need a threat at tight end.
03:16Julian Hill.
03:19Julian Hill did not play the other day.
03:23On Saturday.
03:24I didn't even notice that.
03:25Didn't play.
03:26What does that tell you?
03:28He's a one.
03:28Didn't have any drops.
03:29Didn't, didn't, didn't jump off sides.
03:31They had to go on first sound.
03:36Cause he jumped off sides.
03:37Any other snap count.
03:39He's a starter fellows.
03:40So jump on the, uh, the Julian Hill army because he's a starter.
03:46Touchdown machine.
03:47They call them, right?
03:48Mm-hmm.
03:50And, uh, he said, uh, he's confident.
03:54Austin Jackson will be back for the opener versus Indy, which by the way, we are 20 days
03:59away from Dolphins football, officially 20 days away.
04:03How about that?
04:06Browns, by the way, have named their a week one starter, Joe Flacco.
04:11Yes.
04:13Who's their backup?
04:16Did they announce it?
04:17I don't know.
04:18No, I don't think they have.
04:19They won't.
04:22They try.
04:23They, cause you saw Dylan Gabriel said.
04:26Yeah.
04:27Although that was some context, he said, but it's just, it's, you don't want your backup
04:33quarterback situation to be that like, they're not even talking about Joe Flacco.
04:37They're talking about should do reverse Dylan Gabriel.
04:39It's just the Browns made a mistake with this one.
04:41Brought it on themselves.
04:42Yep.
04:42A hundred percent.
04:45You think they want another guy?
04:46We can trade them.
04:47Uh, Zach Wilson.
04:48I would take, uh, Dylan Gabriel or, uh, or Shadur.
04:57Who's the fourth guy?
04:59Pickett.
05:00I'll take him too.
05:04Let's bring them all in.
05:05Um, and then finally, I'm just reading from the Herald asked if the Dolphins may add a
05:12veteran quarterback.
05:13McDaniel was noncommittal, uh, inherent in our job responsibilities is that we consider
05:19everything.
05:19There's a possibility we could add somebody.
05:21There's a possibility better players could already be on our roster.
05:24And then Barry Jackson writes, pressed about what the Dolphins see in their cornerbacks
05:29that others might not see.
05:31McDaniel spoke of their quote, detailed commitment to technique and fundamentals and spoke for
05:36several minutes.
05:37And then it's the whole paragraph.
05:38But this to me seems like last year's offensive line where everybody was saying, Hey, this,
05:45this offensive line needs some something that there should be better players on this offensive
05:50line.
05:51And then they're like, no, no, it's great.
05:53Trust me.
05:53We see something you don't.
05:55And then it was very apparent after week two that the offensive line was terrible.
05:59That's what, that's what the kind of okay with storm duck.
06:02I think I'm kind of okay with storm.
06:04So we're making plays, but you okay with storm for 17 games, being the number one covering
06:11the top.
06:12I'm okay with him as a cornerback.
06:14And I don't think you're going to be able to get a number one better than him now.
06:19So unless you're like giving up the farm, but you wouldn't do that unless you thought you
06:25were a cornerback away from being a Superbowl competitor.
06:28So I, they're, they're kind of stuck here.
06:30Like, okay, they'll go out and get someone, but if they go out and get someone, it's going
06:34to be a Matthew Judon type, someone who's declining in their performance.
06:39So I don't know what people want, but I don't, I think who they want is not attainable unless
06:46you're like, you're not mortgaging your future or giving up real talent to get a cornerback.
06:53It wouldn't make any sense.
06:54You're not, you're, you're, I don't know.
06:56I don't, I don't see what the options are.
06:58It would be a 34 year old Stefan Gilmore, right?
07:03That's, that's what he's the free agent.
07:05He's the top.
07:05I'm looking at the list now.
07:06He's the top free agent corner right now.
07:08He's 34 years old.
07:09Same thing.
07:10We're talking about with Calais Campbell.
07:11Same thing with Matthew Judon.
07:13They're going to go get a whole dude.
07:14Yeah.
07:15Like hope that he's got a great season left in him.
07:1824 year old pro bowlers are not on the market anymore.
07:21No, but they could trade.
07:22They could trade a fifth round, a six round pick to another team that maybe.
07:27He feels like they can move on from a veteran corner that maybe isn't going to get that
07:33much playing time over there.
07:34And the dolphins could use him, but bro, like I'm cool with saying, I like storm duck.
07:39That's fine.
07:41But let's be honest, man.
07:42Like, I don't think storm duck is starting as, as the, as the number one cornerback on
07:47any other team in the NFL.
07:49Agreed.
07:49That's not an indictment on him.
07:50I'm just saying, I don't think he is.
07:52And then you're, you're banking on Mike Hilton.
07:56I don't know.
07:57I'm not saying I'm good with the cornerbacks.
08:00I'm saying out of all of them, I'm good with storm duck.
08:04Like I feel like they have an NFL caliber player in storm duck.
08:10Who was the guy that I'm on Ross St.
08:12Brown was just eating alive in those joint practices.
08:15Jack Jones, Jack Jones.
08:17I felt bad for that guy.
08:19I felt bad for him too.
08:20I was actually there at that joint practice.
08:23And about the fourth time that I'm on Ross St.
08:26Brown kept walked up.
08:27I said, Jack, please don't walk out there.
08:29I'm saying to myself, please do not walk on this field.
08:32And he jumped his little happy ass out there and got another touchdown caught on him.
08:35Because the, the lions had posted a montage of I'm on Ross St.
08:40Brown from that first practice and holy hells Jones where 23, the 23 for the Dolphins.
08:47Oh my God.
08:48It was, I mean, it was, I mean, it was watching it and the sad thing was, I'm a, I'm on Ross
08:58St.
08:58Brown long name.
09:00He, he lets you know when he does good stuff and he was lighting Jack's ass up.
09:06It was, it was, it was bad.
09:08It really was bad.
09:11All right.
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09:26We don't storm duck, just Pittman week one, Stefan did it week to Garrett Wilson.
09:36He got it, man.
09:37He just Drake London.
09:39He's going to walk up Zay flowers.
09:42He's walking up against the best receivers in the world every week.
09:46Yeah.
09:46I don't like it.
09:47I don't like it.
09:49No, get pressure on the QB.
09:51They better send eight.
09:55Bring eight.
09:57Do we, do we need DBs?
09:59Like, can we just start, can we just have 11 pass rushers?
10:02I was going to say, okay, bring them, bring 11, bring, bring 10 and leave a safety out there.
10:06Bring the house.
10:07Bring the house.
10:09Minka, go make a tackle, Minka.
10:11Want to get creative, Coach McDaniel, Mr. Cutesy Guy?
10:20That would be so funny.
10:21Like, Minka and then 10 pass rushers.
10:24Just go get the court.
10:26That's Crowder's defense when he was a defensive coordinator at university.
10:31The closest thing you can get to it, cover zero, man to man.
10:35Are you better than us?
10:37The only other thing that we haven't really talked about from the preseason game was how it finished.
10:45That guy, Ethan Robinson, the, I don't know if any of you were still watching at that point, but the interception, yeah, bro.
10:52The interception that, that he caught was insane.
10:59Also two entire two was comments regarding Tyree kill.
11:02We haven't talked about that.
11:03It was really wild to me.
11:06So Mike Cunho had two on the sideline on the CBS four broadcast and Cunho asked him.
11:12It was very innocuous question.
11:15You know, how's the relationship with Tyreek?
11:18And Tua's answer was along the lines of, well, he and I have very different personalities.
11:23So it's a work in progress.
11:26I came away with it as Tua hates this guy.
11:29I mean, it was, it was really odd.
11:32I thought the answer, well, I shouldn't say odd.
11:34I thought the answer was very telling in the fact that he doesn't jibe with Tyreek.
11:41Like, like they're just, they're not boys.
11:43They, they don't have much of a relationship and that, and that, and that's okay.
11:50Don't bother me.
11:51My take on it is that you're not going to like everybody.
11:54I hated teammates, either just personality, you know, differences.
11:59Like it's life.
11:59You don't hang with everyone.
12:02No, you don't get in the locker room and now you're all on the same page.
12:05It could be anything.
12:06It could be upbringing.
12:07It could be political.
12:09Jay Feeley is a super Republican.
12:12When it was an election, like we would argue all the time in the locker room.
12:16Not that I disliked him.
12:16We just had different thoughts on life.
12:18My thing is why the hell would Tua make this a thing?
12:23He could have answered this question like everybody else does.
12:27Hey, what do you think you and Tyreek's relationship?
12:28Tyreek, that's my boy.
12:30You know, we're good to go.
12:31We've played together for years.
12:32Boom.
12:32We don't even talk about it.
12:34Why is he going overboard to make us know that they're not right?
12:38That's why I found it so strange.
12:41Because he's being honest.
12:42And I like it.
12:43I like that he's being honest.
12:45Genuinely.
12:45Oh, I like it too.
12:46But you don't have, like, you're causing undue media attention when you can just say,
12:54yeah, I love all my guys out here.
12:55Everybody's good.
12:56We're excited to get going in week one.
13:00And, like, you don't have to say he's my best friend.
13:02No, he didn't have to.
13:04But guess what?
13:05Tyreek Hill quit on this team.
13:06I think inside the locker room, Tua especially, who's a leader in that locker room, he's a
13:11captain, they're genuinely hurt by that.
13:15And I think when Tua came out day one of training camp and he said that Tyreek has some work to
13:19do, I think he meant it.
13:21And I think he's standing by that statement privately, behind closed doors, and publicly,
13:26which is why I commend Tua.
13:28It reminds me of Chris Bosh.
13:30This was a story with Chris Bosh in the Big Three.
13:33When Bosh one year was like, yeah, I mean, sometimes Braun and Wade are over there together
13:37and I'm over here.
13:38Like, okay, so what?
13:40Does it mean that we're on the out?
13:41It doesn't mean Tua and Tyreek can't coexist on a football field.
13:45But hey, if Tyreek wants to be a leader captain, he's still got to put in more work.
13:49And he told us flat out, truthfully, I liked it, man.
13:52I think also Tua is saying, hey, if you want to be a team leader, you kind of got to go through
13:56me now and I'm not there yet.
13:59Right.
13:59I guess, I guess, no, I appreciate honesty, if that's what you're getting at.
14:04What's the point of it?
14:06That's not going to help the team.
14:07That's not helping them.
14:08To the side, to take Tyreek to the side and say, Rick, these dudes really last year put
14:13a bad taste in their mouth the last game of the season.
14:16Listen, for you to be on that pedestal that you were before that, you really need to reach
14:20out, take the guys out, you know, talk to some of the different leaders so they can trust
14:24you again.
14:24To the media to say, we're working on it.
14:27Like, it's not beneficial at all to the ultimate goal of winning games.
14:32That's why I don't see the angle of it.
14:34Well, the Dolphins are going to play the Jaguars and they have a joint practice on Thursday.
14:44We're all very much looking forward to.
14:46Yeah.
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