Mike McDaniel revealed today that it's unlikely that Tua plays in Friday's preseason game. River Cracraft has the orange jersey at practice today. Another brouhaha during special teams.
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00:00Do you think Tua lines up on Friday?
00:01Mike McDaniels basically said no.
00:03He wouldn't say no, but he basically said no today.
00:06Right.
00:07Jordan loves playing though.
00:08Jordan loves playing.
00:09Again, I told you what they're gonna do
00:13with the quarterback situation.
00:15Now you can believe it or not,
00:17but that's what they're gonna do.
00:19And every coach has a different attitude
00:22towards how they play their players, right?
00:28Like it used to be, believe it or not,
00:32we had five preseason games.
00:34I had two years, I had six preseason games.
00:37Cause if you played in the hall of fame game,
00:38you still had to play your five.
00:42And it would go the first game,
00:47the starters would get like 10 plays, right?
00:50One drive.
00:51Second series play through,
00:52second game play through the first quarter.
00:56Third game, you go into halftime.
01:01Fourth game, you would go into halftime,
01:04come out of halftime and run one series there.
01:08And then the last game, you would come out,
01:11get a good run, see if things were going good.
01:14And there was no real timeframe of when you get taken out.
01:19Yeah.
01:19Because they wanted you to work on the stuff.
01:23The last week you do like a real game plan
01:25against the team you're playing and so forth and so on.
01:28So it's changed, but I always wonder
01:34if you don't prepare yourself to play football,
01:38are you actually creating more injuries
01:41when you have to go out there and everything gets going
01:45and you play to a high level
01:47and you haven't played to that high level yet?
01:50Yeah, that's an interesting thing,
01:51because they are, Mike McNails,
01:54overly cautious with injuries, right?
01:56Guys don't really play through things,
01:58but you are in a situation right now,
02:00like you don't have what, six wide receivers out there?
02:04Apparently they're-
02:04Don't worry about that.
02:05Don't worry about that.
02:06All right, I won't worry about it.
02:08Don't worry about it, because it's happened.
02:10Listen, especially that wide receiver,
02:13I told you they do a lot of running.
02:16They get sore.
02:18You need to, like, there's a fine line
02:21between working off that soreness
02:23and getting ready for the season
02:25and overworking yourself
02:26to when the season starts, you got nothing.
02:29Cam Smith apparently is not out of practice again today,
02:32after two days back.
02:33DBs too, DBs, same issue.
02:35So usually during camp,
02:37every team's signing a bunch of wide receivers,
02:38a bunch of DBs.
02:39Just got back though, dude.
02:41Like, what the hell happened?
02:43Them, like, tweaking a hammy
02:46in your second week of camp is no joke,
02:50because you're terrified.
02:51If they don't treat it right,
02:53you're going to be dealing with that for months.
02:57River Craycraft is the orange jersey today.
03:00Yeah!
03:02On the wide receiver playing.
03:03And your balls!
03:06Can't wait to see what that playlist is like.
03:09I don't know.
03:11I feel like he's going to have a diverse playlist.
03:13He's going to mix it up, River Craycraft.
03:15I do think he's going to mix it up.
03:16If he has any Willie Nelson?
03:19I don't.
03:22Yeah.
03:23Jordan Poyer's misses six straight practice.
03:25That one has me nervous,
03:26because he's got a little bit of durability stuff, so.
03:29And he's old.
03:31And he came in talking trash.
03:33He did!
03:34Yeah, you gave him a...
03:36Like, that's been an interesting thing,
03:37because, like,
03:38Klayas Campbell was talking about this
03:39a little bit yesterday,
03:40about, you know,
03:41he's been very vocal about the mentality
03:44that they want to be bullies.
03:45So you have him coming in new.
03:47He thinks he wants to change the reputation of the Dolphins.
03:49Jordan Poyer obviously said,
03:51Dolphins with full.
03:52Jordan Brooks, he's new.
03:53He said he wants the Dolphins to be bullied,
03:54change the mentality.
03:55So, all of these new starters on defense
03:59have come in with a very clear,
04:03either that was a message they got from Chris Greer,
04:05or that was just what was heard.
04:06That's the message they got from Weaver.
04:09Weaver, okay.
04:09Yeah.
04:10Think about Weaver and Baltimore.
04:14What is the first thing you think of
04:15when you think of Baltimore defense?
04:16Nasty.
04:17Okay.
04:18So, he's brought guys in,
04:21they brought guys in,
04:23and he,
04:24hey, we need to change the way we play.
04:27We need to be more physical.
04:28We need to do this.
04:29This is, I want you guys to set this tone.
04:31If I think of them as the Paul Maurice of football.
04:35Two-one filthy.
04:36Pretty much.
04:37But that's...
04:37Two-one filthy.
04:38And if you notice,
04:41they're huge up front, right?
04:44On the defensive line.
04:46They got linebacks who can run,
04:49safeties who can hit,
04:51and cornerbacks who are going to be aggressive.
04:54So,
04:56if you have the players in place,
04:59now all you have to play with is that attitude.
05:02You don't have to go to Jalen and have him worry about that.
05:08But the interesting thing is,
05:10like, the Dolphins,
05:12the Dolphins didn't have that identity issue,
05:15I feel like, on defense.
05:16Like, I didn't feel the Dolphins were a soft defensive team.
05:19It's offensive.
05:21Isn't that whole thing,
05:21isn't that whole narrative that we say on the Dolphins,
05:24isn't that an offensive thing?
05:25But here's what happens, okay?
05:31When you are that way defensively,
05:34and you practice against your offense,
05:36and then the other coaches say,
05:37we have to match their intensity,
05:39boom, the whole team becomes tough, right?
05:43When you talk about physical running,
05:46because the defense is playing with a level of physicality
05:50that you aren't used to seeing,
05:52then, boom, now the offense is playing at that level.
05:55So, when you think about it,
05:59they can affect the whole team,
06:01because you're practicing against those guys right away.
06:05So, you're practicing against those guys every day.
06:08That's kind of how that goes.
06:10So, Mike McDaniel is never gonna say anything about it,
06:15because yes, there have been a lot of moments
06:20during the season last year,
06:22where I've said to you,
06:25this is a point in time
06:26where you need to have a physical run game,
06:29and you need to close, run out the clock.
06:31Yeah, Marcos, this Leroy, he knows football, dude.
06:34Let me tell you something.
06:35He knows some things, man.
06:37He knows some things.
06:38And shout out to Dade South for the update,
06:41because Barry Jackson has reported,
06:42there is another brouhaha.
06:45Leroy has told us it's either wide receivers
06:47and cornerbacks, or in this case,
06:51Falcons tight end John Fitzpatrick
06:53in the middle of a fight between Dolphins linebackers,
06:55Cam Brown and Curtis Bolton.
06:58Wow.
06:59Tight ends and linebackers.
07:00Apparently, it was during special teams.
07:02Special teams, you know why?
07:04Because the dude blocking was getting too damn grabby,
07:08because it ain't going to get called, right?
07:10There's no, they have officials, but they don't call it.
07:12So, like, linebacks and tight ends,
07:14when they run those pass patterns or whatever,
07:16they holding and grabbing,
07:18and it's, hey, this is how it starts.
07:21I'm tired of you holding me, or else what?
07:24Fight.