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The Washington Commanders looked impressive on both sides of the ball in their joint practice vs the Dolphins! Denton Day from Westwood One Sports joins The Kevin Sheehan Show to recap what happened at the Commanders vs Dolphins joint practice, what stood out the most from both sides of the ball and which players are solidifying their place on the roster.
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00:00and day the former producer of this show and a good friend of mine who does so much good work
00:06in so many places he is a co-host on an overnight show uh on westwood one sports radio with
00:14our guy
00:14linnell he is the host of the commander's pre and post game shows on this station and 106.7 the
00:22fan
00:22and he's a big college football guy on sirius xm but he has been out at every practice so far
00:29during training camp and was there yesterday for the dolphins joint practice with washington so uh
00:39let's just start with your overall headlines from the joint practice i know you were making your way
00:46your way around both fields um as the defense worked against miami's offense on one field the
00:52offense worked against miami's defense on another but give me your big headlines from the day
00:57tongue-in-cheek is that boy miami sucks um the actual headline is that boy jay daniels is really
01:03really good you know he's really starting to understand what they're trying to do on offense
01:08and i think we're seeing once he starts to get the hang of things i think we kind of saw
01:13this in his
01:13rookie season but once he starts to get the hang of things he really takes leaps and bounds quickly
01:19in terms of his understanding and i thought that was on display probably the most yesterday which
01:24would be the biggest headline all right so what specifically about jayden daniels stood out to you
01:32he really processes well he's quick to go through his reads he throws over the middle of the field
01:38he understands where everyone is supposed to be everyone is in the right spot we know from last year
01:43that's very important and that was not always the case in 2025 but he started to build a really
01:49really good chemistry and just kind of understanding that when you know where everyone's supposed to
01:54be it makes it really easy to play with the defense with your eyes and i think we started to
01:58see that a
01:59little bit yesterday just kind of moving safety's linebackers around a little bit just to give himself
02:03a little bit of space to give him and his guys a little bit of a window and then delivering
02:07the ball
02:07where it needed to be what did you notice about the 11 on 11 work like and what i'm getting
02:14at is
02:15the comfort comfort with him being under center the amount of him being under center um the lineup
02:23that was with him you know when they went ones versus ones who was out there who wasn't out there
02:28so that's the part that's one of the things that i really didn't love about yesterday is and maybe to
02:35an extent in the long term this is a good thing they had every wide receiver out there with him
02:40for
02:40the most part i mean within reason like with respect to river crawcraft and nick nash they weren't
02:45getting time with the ones but they had formations with diami treylon and luke they had stefan terry
02:51and luke they had uh stefan luke and tre like they they kind of mixed and matched what they were
02:56doing
02:56on offense which in one instance is like really nice to get everybody reps with jayden but i wanted to
03:02see terry diami or terry uh digs and then whoever they wanted to put it three which i think is
03:08going to
03:08be luke at least for the next couple of days and weeks i wanted to see a lot more of
03:12those and we just
03:14didn't terry didn't do a whole a whole lot yesterday he made a couple of big catches but
03:19it felt like he was the guy that was off of the field a little bit i don't know they
03:23haven't said
03:24he's dealing with something but i kind of got the feeling that he's dealing with some soreness or
03:29something along those lines so i would have liked to see him on the field with jayden a little bit
03:35more in terms of the comfortability uh he looks really really good on the move and i think we kind
03:40of started to ask that last year like hey can we move the pocket a little bit for jayden daniels
03:45he throws with really really good accuracy really really good touch on the move and i think that's
03:50probably been the biggest takeaway from the under center stuff is that even if he does turn his back
03:54to the defense slightly it's not like this be all end all the plays dead he can still understand what
04:00the defense is trying to do nothing surprises him when he turns his head back around so i think
04:05that's the thing i've been most impressed with with the under center stuff it's not going to be like
04:0990 of the time we know that you know they might be doing under center stuff like 35 of snaps
04:14this
04:14year but it's going to be a lot more than what they did last year yeah for those that that
04:20don't know
04:20like even the teams that led the league in under center snaps most of the i think the rams i
04:27forget
04:27who the team was there was i think one or two teams that took more than 50 of its snaps
04:32from under center
04:34and then everybody else was under 50 even the teams that did it the most were under 50 of their
04:41offensive snaps so if you're expecting oh my god they're going under center that that means he's not
04:47going to be in shotgun he's not going to be in pistol no the odds are at the end of
04:52the year there
04:53will still be more non-under center snaps than under snaps it's just that the under snap percentage is
05:00going to increase um probably exponentially i would think from uh last year uh did you notice
05:07anything were there any takeaways from the brandon coleman replacement um of laramie tunsel and then
05:15we know that nick allegretti wasn't there yesterday won't be a part of the preseason game either but
05:20what did the o-line look uh to you like by the way i would say that miami defensive line
05:26personnel wise
05:27they've actually got some players i've been a chop robinson guy you liked him too right coming
05:31out of penn state um so maybe you know defensively they've got more uh talent than on offense but just
05:38tell me what your takeaways on the o-line were yeah chop robinson is one of their very few redeeming
05:44qualities within miami he's good and no one else i mean jordan brooks is good uh jacob rodriguez i think
05:51will be good i was gonna ask you because you i think you loved rodriguez at texas tech too right
05:56yeah i really i really liked him he wasn't like super popping um yesterday but i think eventually
06:02he'll he'll be pretty good uh the offensive line really struggled in the run game like brandon
06:08coleman himself i think was fine at left tackle connelly didn't have the greatest day but i do wonder
06:14long term if they're gonna have to make a move to coleman going back to guard because if they're going
06:20to
06:21be a run heavy team you're gonna need better guard play and first of all it's a good play
06:26you know he did a really good job last year but there are a couple of times where they're running
06:30counters and chris paul's pulling and he's just not getting there in time right and brandon coleman
06:34has a level of athleticism that chris paul does not have the problem is that you don't have a left
06:38tackle you know so losing laramie tunsel really throws this thing into chaos and maybe there's
06:43another body in the open market at the moment that you feel like you'd be comfortable with if you go
06:47out and get an ad i don't really want to see wiley playing left tackle but i think brandon coleman
06:53is
06:53going to be better suited for what they're trying to do in the run game playing a guard and i
06:56think
06:57their run game would be significantly better if they have cosme and coleman as the two guards and
07:01then you kind of allow nick allegretti when he eventually comes back which will be soon he this
07:06isn't like a trey amos thing i think nick allegretti is going to be back uh after at their first
07:10practice after the the preseason game but you feel much more comfortable at least i do with a cosme
07:16allegretti coleman interior offensive line than what we're seeing right now with cosme
07:21julian good jones and chris paul um so when we talked before the show that was the thing about
07:30the offensive line that you wanted to say about just chris paul's lack of athleticism at that guard
07:35spot uh there were there was uh two plays where they ran where he was pulling and just whiffed like
07:42the play was blown up really almost before i think it was bill as the running back uh before
07:47bill even touched the ball there's a guy in the backfield because he just didn't get there in time
07:52hmm um all right you know i i i do think that you know these i had somebody tell me
07:59uh yesterday
08:00late yesterday that these joint practices are slowly turning into preseason games meaning
08:07they used to really put stuff in for the joint practices obviously they leave it out for the
08:13preseason games but they're not even doing it in the joint practices anymore no i was expecting a
08:21little bit more competitiveness in certain areas and again maybe that is because like you would have
08:25been stunned how bad the dolphins were i mean they there were times where they didn't look like they
08:29were a real competitive football team especially when it was the commander's defense against their
08:34offense i mean god love malik willis the middle is running for his life he's not exceptionally accurate
08:39i want to get to the defense it's a reminder to everybody that malik willis this time last year
08:46no one even knew where he was or if he was even in the league anymore and then all of
08:52a sudden he was
08:53the number one quarterback available in free agency that tells you what everybody knows about the nfl before
08:58a season uh begins but um yeah i can't imagine it's going to be great right away with malik willis
09:06uh in the nfl.com power rankings did you see this yesterday denton with washington at 29th
09:13did you see that ranking i did see that i'd laugh at that yeah i mean who cares really except
09:21for
09:22i was a bit stunned like come on i mean you can't have one of the top 10 debatable top
09:2910 quarterbacks
09:30in the game and be 29th behind the browns and the cardinals you just can't be um but the dolphins
09:36were
09:37uh the 32nd ranked team all right tell me tell me about the defense uh the defense looked great
09:44you know it like it got to the point so the first 11 on 11 period i was watching the
09:49offense
09:50the second one i tried to watch a little bit of both but the third 11 on 11 period i
09:54was solely on
09:55the defensive side of the field or the other field where the defense was uh was playing and i just
10:01wanted to see what they looked like and they were just beating the offensive line like a drum it did
10:07like pick a name out of a hat and they were making a really really good play charles amenahue with
10:12the
10:12twos was destructive uh javon kinlaw looks really good deron pain was turning the clock back i mean
10:17they just couldn't block anybody the two biggest takeaways of the two biggest stars are on the edge
10:23adefe alway and caleb on chase on have been really good throughout the entirety of camp i was curious to
10:28see what they were going to look like against somebody else they looked the part i mean adefe alway
10:33is going to be a tough dude to block uh this upcoming season he's done a really really good job
10:37and they just love love love love what he is so i was really really impressed with the defense
10:43i couldn't really get a great gauge with the linebackers like that's one of the things that
10:48kind of ended up sucking is the offense for miami was so bad that it became really hard to evaluate
10:54everybody else because malik willis had like a second maybe a second and a half before there was
10:59eight bodies in his face including his own offensive line getting pushed back into his face so he's running
11:06he's doing a lot of cardio uh he made a couple of nice throws obviously mikey sander still had an
11:11interception that was a pretty big deal that got the crowd pretty fired up but i was impressed with
11:15what i saw with the defense i'm just taking it with like a bottle of salt because miami's awful
11:21yeah no i think i think even if it were a decent team you still uh aren't sure in that
11:26um environment
11:27on august 12th you know one of the things i think um there are two things that that have to
11:33happen
11:33defensively we all understand the new personnel the new coordinator etc uh but they have to to turn
11:41what we believe are much improved pass rushers loose like away like chase on by the way dorance
11:49armstrong i mean durante jones went out of his way to single out john baptiste the other day
11:53who i know they liked before he got hurt last year he was another one of those uh defensive linemen
11:59that got hurt along with wise and and armstrong um but they've got to stop the run you know you
12:05can't
12:06you're not going to be a great pass rushing team if you don't stop the run because third and two
12:12isn't a great pass rushing third and three is not a great pass rushing down is there anything about
12:19anything you've watched including yesterday that indicates to you that they've got a chance to be a
12:25much better run stopping team than they've been in the last two years really yeah there's two guys
12:31that indicate they're going to be better 52 sunny styles who they drafted in the first round and then
12:38i think what is sneaky been one of the best acquisitions on defense is the return of tim settle i
12:44think he
12:44does a really really good job uh you and they're going to run a lot of sets where he's on
12:49the field
12:50and he's not like this great pass rusher but he really knows how to occupy space at the line of
12:56scrimmage and i think that is going to be really really beneficial to him because i think
13:01caleb on chase on and odefe away will be good at setting edges which if you remember in 2024 which
13:06you do but if the fans remember 2024 boy they couldn't set an edge i mean they were running
13:11deron pain at defensive end in the playoff in one of the playoff games because they just could not set
13:15an edge i don't really think that's going to be a problem anymore i think they have enough speed on
13:20defense too with enough processing skills to for a guy like sunny styles to read where the hole is going
13:27to be and then get there and beat the running back to the spot yeah i think the one of
13:32the important
13:33things there is is styles being a taller you know um a linebacker you got to do a great job
13:41up front
13:41so that they can't get to them on the double teams um pain settle kinlaw newton etc uh those edge
13:49setters they're gonna have to do um a much better job the other thing i was going to mention is
13:54look
13:55they were 31st in the league last year 26th the year before in takeaways they have not been able
14:01to take the ball away obviously that is a massive massive determinant of football games uh and do you
14:10sense in watching over the first you know week and a half that this is something that they're going
14:16to be better at somebody mentioned to me that amik robertson is outstanding with his sort of
14:21you know risk-taking anticipation you know ball uh ball skills he's been the best corner
14:28by i would say a pretty comfortable margin i mean so when rasul douglas got here he made a couple
14:33of
14:33plays in the first couple days and that really stood out but from the the long-term view of things
14:40amik robertson's been the best corner that they they have there mikey made the pick six yesterday
14:45and he made a good play he understood what they were doing um with the zone knew he had help
14:49over the
14:50top so he could be a little bit more risky on the play where he took it to the house
14:53but
14:54robertson's been the best corner i haven't loved what they've done at the position and part of that's
14:58because trey amos just isn't healthy right he comes back and practices for like a day and a half
15:02and then he tweaks something else that's alarming you know that that's not something that i'm thrilled
15:07with with the allegretti stuff i mentioned earlier you understand the timeline of recovery and
15:13at the very least if nothing else he's following the timeline of recovery for amos to kind of
15:19have this thing pop up that we didn't know about that kept him out for the first few days
15:23and he gets back and immediately has something else pop up not thrilled about that one because i like
15:29amik but i don't know that he can be like your number one corner when you start to see the
15:33the big
15:34boys come to town and they're they're coming to town in you know 20 days right with philly with uh
15:39and then with dallas i mean with cd lamb and george pickens that might be the best one-two combo
15:43i don't know i'm a little worried about what they're doing at cornerback when those two guys
15:49are on the opposite end of you by the way um ben pointed this out to me yesterday they just
15:54can't
15:55keep jeremy reeves off the field can they at safety like he's gonna be a player that's on the field
16:01a
16:01lot and and taking a lot of free safety snaps don't you think he he is so they they've run
16:07a couple of
16:08interesting packages to where sometimes they have three safeties on the field it'll be cross will
16:14harris is the third with cross and then will harris they did a couple of snaps yesterday where
16:20kwan would come in but i mean i wouldn't expect to see your options at free safety are effectively
16:26jeremy reeves percy buller kwan martin and while reeves isn't like this all he's never going to be
16:31an all bro i just don't think that's what he is at this stage of his career i would say
16:35he's probably
16:35the best option of those three i really want to love kwan but it just hasn't you know he had
16:41a
16:42good year in 2024 but last year was brutal and it's it's felt like in training camp so far
16:48that last year was much more of the player that he is in the nfl not what he was in
16:522024
16:53real quickly back to amik robertson and we're talking to denton um he was at the joint practice
16:59yesterday uh out in ashburn is amik robertson playing exclusively inside or not no they're
17:07they're moving him so okay again with with no amos right you're kind of like you're forcing a lot of
17:13guys to be in a different spot but i would say that robertson has actually played more outside
17:19the past few days than inside you know they were there was a few plays yesterday where he was the
17:24outside corner and mikey was the inside corner and then they had either rasul uh douglas or they
17:30would rotate in uh fabian moreau who they just signed like a week ago and he would be on the
17:35other outside so amik robertson has been playing some outside stuff too all right kickers had a great
17:41day uh right now who's the betting favorite to be the kicker in philadelphia on september 13th
17:47uh i would say it's the young kid stevens where number 19 um it feels like he has the leg
17:54up pun
17:54intended on the competition he could have honestly i think he could have won it the other day where
18:00moody missed four in a row in the kicking period and then stevens came out and missed three in a
18:05row
18:05in the kicking period but i think they like i think they like stevens a little bit more than they
18:09like
18:09moody right now but we'll see i mean once they start kicking an actual game action i think that's
18:14going to be a big time uh separator in the competition because you can do it in practice
18:20when you're not really getting rushed at and there's not you know thousands of people screaming
18:24at you we'll see what it looks like in a game even if it is just a preseason game all
18:28right i know i
18:29know you very well so give me the player that you're you know you've watched here for 10 11 days
18:35whatever it's been at this point that you've been paying attention to and that you've kind of fallen
18:41in love with that maybe you know nobody anticipated this player being a big part of the thing
18:46come the regular season who's that player i love colson yankoff i think that tight end room is really
18:53really deep but the way that they use his athleticism i think he has a he has an opportunity
18:59to be a really really big player and with the absence of john bates um for the past couple days
19:05and weeks in training camp he's getting a lot more action he's getting a lot more reps with the ones
19:09not a ton but a lot more i think the athleticism that he has could be a very very sneaky
19:15weapon for
19:15the offense when they're running some three tight end sets with jayden under center so i'm really
19:21excited about what uh what yankoff could be on offense all right thanks for doing this i'll talk
19:25to you later appreciate it yep see ya
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