Miami Dolphins Preseason Game Top Performances After Bad Blunders

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Mike McDaniel says he’s not going to overreact to results in the QB2 Battle. Leroy gives us the 411 on what it feels like when a guy is trying to punch the ball out of your hands to force a fumble…

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00:00Here's real Mike McDaniel sound.

00:01Mike McDaniel talked about the backup quarterback battle between Zach Wilson

00:05and Quinn Ewers after Quinn Ewers had a really good second half.

00:09Zach Wilson was all right, too.

00:10I would say this.

00:11Both look pretty good.

00:12Let's be fair to Quinn Ewers.

00:15He didn't have a terrible first game, right?

00:20It's something to throw a ball into space,

00:23and it's something to throw a ball to a receiver.

00:26It takes a while to get used to that,

00:28and he picked it up pretty quick.

00:31Being that his second game, he was much better at it.

00:37He looked really good.

00:38Yeah, I thought he looked really good.

00:40I thought he looked really good.

00:40And the one thing that we don't ever take in account

00:46is when the receiver drops the ball.

00:49He had some drop passes his first game,

00:51so it made the numbers look a little.

00:56That's true.

00:57He didn't look good.

00:58I think it was the turn of the ball over, too.

01:00He got a little a couple times.

01:02That's it.

01:03I'll tell you one thing, though.

01:05Man, I felt good that D. Eskridge was able to bounce back

01:07because is there a worse guy you feel for in preseason

01:10than the muffed punt guy?

01:13Yeah, one job.

01:16I was like, no, but he bounced back.

01:18He had a really good drive.

01:19Dude, let me explain something to you.

01:21Man, there is no more dangerous thing in sports

01:27than catching a punt.

01:33Wow.

01:33Because you got two eyes,

01:36and they have to be looking in two different directions

01:38because you got to look at the football,

01:41and you got to look at that rush

01:43to see how close they are

01:45and whether you should fair catch it or go with it.

01:47I mean this respectfully.

01:49It's a job.

01:50No, no.

01:50When you speak to Hall of Famers about this

01:52or should be Hall of Famers about this,

01:54they tell you to read the toes.

01:57That's only for the direction of the punt.

02:04But it gives you a cheat sheet.

02:05Like Eric Metcalf will tell you,

02:06it gives you a cheat sheet.

02:08To catching the ball,

02:10what about the people coming at you?

02:12Well, I can't help you with that.

02:14But that's what I'm saying.

02:15Your eyes have to be looking at two different things.

02:20Right, but if you read the toes like Metcalf says,

02:22you're going to get a jump on it.

02:24Still doesn't change.

02:26It is by far the most dangerous job in football.

02:31Yeah.

02:32Crazy.

02:33Because keep in mind,

02:35you don't get no running start.

02:38You're just standing there

02:39and them guys are coming full speed

02:41and you can't help but doing this.

02:45Right.

02:46Well, that's why you want a good toe read.

02:48You don't have to do as much.

02:49Oh my goodness.

02:50Enough with that.

02:50It has nothing to do with what I'm talking about.

02:52That's not what Metcalf said.

02:54It's for the direction of the punt.

02:57That's it.

02:59That's it.

03:01Can I ask you a feeling?

03:03All right.

03:03Because, you know.

03:06Can I say no?

03:08I got a football question.

03:10I got a real football question.

03:11No, you don't.

03:12I do.

03:12No, you don't.

03:13Your football questions come with sidebars

03:17and other stuff.

03:19And see, I told you.

03:20You agree with me.

03:21That's how your questions go.

03:23Who was the running back?

03:24Was it Jalen Wright?

03:25Who had the fumble early on

03:27that bounced right to Tanner Connor?

03:29Was it Jalen Wright?

03:29I think it was Jalen Wright.

03:30Yeah.

03:31What does it feel like

03:32when you yak up the football

03:34but you get a lucky bounce

03:35and you're like,

03:36whew!

03:36I'll give you a perfect example.

03:42We were playing San Francisco.

03:45I was in Minnesota.

03:47Got the ball.

03:49Fumbled.

03:50They picked it

03:51and went for a touchdown.

03:53Oh, my God.

03:54It is the walk of shame

03:56going to the sidelines.

03:58Oh, that has to be awful.

04:00It's the worst

04:02because there's some players

04:05and coaches

04:06that will say,

04:07hold on to the ball.

04:09And there's other guys

04:11that will say,

04:12don't worry,

04:12you'll get them back.

04:14Right?

04:14But you get all that.

04:16Now, these are from guys

04:17who are supposed to be

04:18on your team.

04:19That's right.

04:19So,

04:21the very next,

04:24they didn't score.

04:25They just got the fumble.

04:27Okay.

04:27The very next play,

04:30a linebacker caught a pick

04:31and went pick six.

04:33And I ran on the field

04:34in the end zone

04:35and said,

04:35thank you.

04:37Because we ended up

04:39getting a touchdown

04:39out of it.

04:41Wow.

04:42Right after I fumbled.

04:43That had to feel good.

04:44Yeah.

04:45Okay,

04:45but what does it feel like?

04:46I'm not,

04:47I'm not,

04:47when you do yak it up,

04:48what happens when

04:49you yak it up,

04:50but it bounced right

04:51to one of your teammates

04:52and you're like,

04:53whew!

04:54I've been on both sides

04:55of that.

04:56So,

04:56again,

04:57when you're a fumbler

04:59and somebody else

05:00carries the ball,

05:01you always chase the play.

05:03So,

05:04we were playing

05:04in a playoff game.

05:06Randall Cunningham

05:06scrambled.

05:07He broke free.

05:09He's running down the field.

05:10He got that ball

05:11like a quarterback.

05:13And I'm like,

05:13oh crap,

05:14let me go chase the play.

05:16They batted it

05:17out of his hand.

05:18It bounced right to me

05:19and I kept running.

05:21Wow.

05:22Yes.

05:23I'm trying to think.

05:25I'm trying to think

05:26because sometimes

05:28when I fumbled,

05:29it was the most

05:31glorious fumble ever.

05:33So,

05:33one time I fumbled,

05:34I was holding it so tight,

05:36a guy came up

05:37from behind,

05:39punched it,

05:40and it went straight

05:40up in the air.

05:42Like maybe 10 feet

05:43in the air

05:43and we're all standing

05:45underneath it

05:45like Mardi Gras.

05:48Right?

05:49And I had

05:51a wide receiver

05:52who was taller

05:53and he jumped up

05:54and caught it.

05:54And I was like,

05:56whew!

05:56But you still get

05:57the same heat.

05:58You get more heat

06:00if we get the ball back.

06:00So Jalen Wright

06:02still getting heat

06:03for yakking that one.

06:04For fumbling.

06:04Correct.

06:05Even with Tanner Conner.

06:06Correct.

06:07And then you got

06:07to watch film

06:08and here's the thing

06:10about fumbles.

06:13Like,

06:14imagine you holding

06:15the football

06:16and you have it

06:17at all the pressure points

06:19and you see it on TV.

06:20They try to tell you

06:21how you should hold it

06:22and protect it

06:23and you have all that.

06:25Right?

06:25And then somebody

06:27throws

06:28a Mike Tyson

06:30haymaker

06:31and punches it out.

06:33Sometimes the defense

06:35makes a good play

06:37and there's nothing

06:39you can do about it

06:40and you just kind of

06:42have to just take

06:43the heat and go on

06:44and just acknowledge

06:45that he made a good play.

06:47I've had times

06:48where I'm holding

06:50the ball.

06:50Right?

06:51They see the ball's tight.

06:52They grab your hand.

06:55Right?

06:56And start pulling

06:57on your hand

06:58while you're running.

07:00Right?

07:00And I'm like,

07:01oh no,

07:02this ain't gonna last long

07:03so I'm just trying

07:04to go on the ground.

07:05They hold you up

07:06and then the next guy

07:07comes in.

07:09Haymaker.

07:10Boom!

07:11Oh no.

07:12Now here's the

07:13unfortunate thing

07:14about that.

07:15I have broken ribs

07:17getting punched

07:17because the guy

07:20was punching for the...

07:22Huh?

07:22Like he hit you

07:23with the body shot?

07:24He hit me with a body shot

07:25because he missed the football.

07:26I saw him punching

07:27so I picked the ball up

07:29like this.

07:30Boom!

07:30Right in the ribs.

07:32Jeez.

07:33So it like,

07:34like yeah.

07:35So sometimes

07:36depending on what

07:38the situation is

07:39in the game

07:39or where we are

07:40in the game,

07:41soon as they start

07:42that silliness

07:43I just jump on the ground.

07:45Okay, that's enough.

07:46Four or five yards

07:46that's good

07:47because like

07:48I don't want to be the guy

07:49it don't make no sense

07:50to get ten yards

07:51and then you don't have the ball.

07:52No, seriously.

07:54Right.

07:54So you just gotta

07:55it's a tough

07:57it's a tough thing man

07:59when those guys

08:00because the rules

08:02have changed

08:02as how they get

08:04the ball out

08:05and you see them

08:05there'll be guys

08:06coming over the top

08:07boom

08:08guys punching underneath

08:09like meanwhile

08:10if they miss

08:11guess who's there?

08:12oh riblets

08:14and they just

08:15and you can't wear

08:18the like

08:19I wore the

08:20what is it called

08:21the bulletproof vest

08:23the

08:24I've worn that

08:26after I broke ribs

08:27but that's plastic

08:29and

08:29or Kevlar

08:30and the ball slides

08:32so now you're

08:33even more screwed

08:35if the slightest

08:36little bit of

08:37movement

08:37so yeah

08:39it's a tough thing

08:39but the way I

08:40you know what my solution was

08:42if I run hard enough

08:44they won't give a damn

08:45about this football

08:46they trying to get me

08:46on the ground

08:47Rob Higgins says

08:50Tobin you need to put

08:51that caller

08:51the telemarketer

08:52on the air

08:53Phil Hendry style

08:53I feel like we've

08:55gotten a lot stricter

08:55with the recording

08:56of phone call rules

08:57but to be fair

08:59they're doing it to you

09:00they are doing it to me

09:01so I don't know

09:02what the rules are there

09:03I'll probably have to ask

09:04Golen

09:05which that'll mean

09:06oh you know what that means

09:07he's gonna say no

09:08we couldn't even

09:08I agree

09:09I should be allowed

09:10to put that on the air

09:10we couldn't even do

09:11small assaults

09:13how are we gonna be

09:13able to do that

09:14what if we bring our own

09:15those are the rules

09:16you

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