Miami Dolphins Training Camp Week 4 in Review: 3 Yards Per Carry

Nobody in orange as they were coming off a game.  A very light practice coming off the Friday night game versus the Atlanta Falcons, finds the Dolphins giving Tua Tagovailoa nearly every single rep in practice.  Tua later revealed to Kay Adams on her show, that he had not gotten any reps for 3 days, so he wanted a larger work load to get back in the swing of things.  Ethan Bonner was not seen at practice and Jalen Ramsey had what seems to be a veteran rest day.  The early part of the 11v11 is punctuated by a spectacular throw by Tua Tagovailoa on a deep corner to Jonnu Smith, who caught it for a touchdown and promptly celebrated.

The second half of practice was entirely made up of walk through stuff, and quite frankly, things that cannot be reported on here.  Patrick McMorris after practice, met with the media, and I asked him if his success was due to coach prep, film study, or gameplan driven, and his answer was rather revealing as he just chalked it up to a vanilla Atlanta Falcon attack that was easy to diagnose.  I gave the player of the practice to Jonnu Smith for his early work in the live portion of practice, and his several conversions, and his one eye popping touchdown.

3YPC Player of the Practice:  Jonnu Smith

Robert Jones was in the orange jersey and it’s well deserved.  Jones has been a consistent performer, all camp long, and my hot take is that he will be the next interior Miami Dolphins lineman to leave via free agency on a decent contract.  No Jalen Ramsey again, as he is seen jogging from 20 to 20 with Jaylen Waddle, who is taped up but not participating.  Mo Kamara is also not participating and is dealing with an undisclosed injury.  Ethan Bonner is now confirmed to be in the concussion protocol, and is not in uniform today.  Tyreek Hill does his usual late arrival, to participate in every 11v11 session as he begins practice with his usual warmup inside.

After an interesting Defensive install, and a OL v. DL 1v1 session,  we get going on 11v11.  The Tua led Dolphins at one point ran the same RPO 6 times in a row with varying success, although the early portion featured a well placed in cut from Tua to Braylon Sanders that went off his hands and got intercepted by Marcus Maye.  The play of the day was an end around to Jonnu Smith that scored from the 11 yard line.  This offense will involve the TE in many ways.  That is evident now.  Practice was then moved inside for an install session that can’t be reported on.  The post practice availabilities included Tua Tagovailoa who revealed the use of heavier personnel sets, and Jordyn Brooks who revealed that he is playing at 230 lbs.  I gave the practice player of the day to Kendall Fuller, who was sharp in his drops/leverage and had one noticeable play where he drove on a ball in the flat and nearly came up with a highlight interception.

3YPC Player of the Practice: Kendall Fuller

A light practice begins with Julian Hill in Orange.  Jalen Ramsey, Jaylen Waddle and Jevon Holland are non-participants, with Tyreek Hill having a day off.  Ramsey and Waddle are seen sprinting and working on the side.  Mo Kamara, after a short absence, returns as a full go to practice, while Jody Fortson works with trainers on the side.  A short special teams install kicks off practice before we are told that the team will go inside for nearly half of the practice periods.  Before we go in, we witness Jaylen Wright with a series of runs, including one in particular that was as impressive a run as you can have with a team not tackling and in shells.

When we move inside, we witnessed an install period that did not feature anything of note, as they seemed to go through the previous day’s offensive and defensive installs in a light walk thru.  The Washington Commanders come in for a joint practice and a game, so today was obviously preparation for that.  Today was one of the more uneventful practices of the last few weeks, but Jaylen Wright gets my player fop the practice award, for some eye popping cuts off some inside runs.

3YPC Player of the Practice: Jaylen Wright

Practice begins with Kendall Fuller in orange on this joint practice day.  Bradley Chubb and Cam Goode working on the side, with Jaelen Phillips and Mo Kamara mas full go’s today.  Jalen Ramsey and Jaylen Waddle are not participating, as Tyreek Hill shows up fashionably late.  The start with kickoff sims, and there is evidently a kickoff battle between Jason Sanders and Jake Bailey, but Sanders got the larger number of reps today.  By my estimation, the count today was Sanders 3 for 4 on kicks landing in the drop zone with Bailey at 2 for 2.  In my opinion, Bailey has been more consistent, but I don’t know what their thinking is going forward.  We do know that Sanders is getting reps at a 2 to 1 ratio.  But that’s all we know.

Red Zone portion begins and the Commanders 1^st round pick at QB, Jayden Daniels has a time with it.  Daniels looked in perfect command as he found plenty of success against tight coverage to throw 5 TD passes.  On the other end (also in Red Zone from the 15 yard line), it was a mixed bag, but Tua did find Cracraft for one TD and they ran for two others.  Then they moved to the full field 11v11 portion and Tua uncorked a deep ball overthrowing Tyreek Hill (he was open), and Mike White punctuated the session with a deep ball connection to Malik Washington for a gain of 41, where Washington was wrestled to the ground, fumbled out of bounds, but the ball was spotted for a 41 yard gain.  Overall, the Miami Interior OL struggled mightily against the two all-pro DT’s from Washington, Daron Payne and Jonathan Allen.  On the opposite field, Jaden Daniels found no success as he was sacked 5 times and intercepted once by Marcus Maye.

They closed practice with a simulated game inside the practice facility.  The ball was placed on the 30 yard line, and Tua quickly moved the team with completions to Berrios for 15 and Cracraft for a dozen. They stall, and setup for a 52 yard field goal.  The FG is good by Jason Sanders, and Miami leads 3-0.  Jayden Daniels can now win with a TD or Tie with a FG.  He gets an incompletion, a run for 2 yards and he is now faced with 3^rd and about 8.  Jayden Daniels throws a slant to Terry McLaurin that Kendall Fuller jumps and picks off.  Sim over.  Fuller then poses in front of the Commanders bench as the Dolphins come off the sideline to celebrate.  Practice over.  In my opinion, the Offense was average as the Defense was pretty good on this day, with a poor showing by the Dolphins interior OL against the two all pro DT’s for Washington.  Zach Sieler proved to be too difficult to block, so he got my player of the practice.

3YPC Player of the Practice: Zach Sieler

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