Miami Gardens (CBS12) \u2014 It was the final home practice for the Miami Dolphins on Wednesday before heading off on one of the longest road trips in recent memory during training camp. The Dolphins are heading to Chicago for their first joint practice on Thursday, leading up to Sunday\u2019s first preseason game on Sunday. After that, the team will head straight to Detroit to go head to head with the Lions at practice next week.<\/p>\n
\u201cJoint practices are fantastic for a multitude of reasons,” says Dolphins Head Coach Mike McDaniel. “But first and foremost, I think you\u2019re trying to see \u2013 it\u2019s the best opportunity to give the guys a chance to make the team. We\u2019re very much focused on, on the team, and competing within it, but you go to a joint practice, you get to take all the tools that you\u2019ve been refining and you get to try to do responsibilities much further beyond result-based but executing techniques and fundamentals. It\u2019s invaluable. And then the discipline that it takes to play three quarters football, nontackle football; joint practices are a challenge, but it\u2019ll be good for the football team to strain between the whistle and get back to the huddle and do it again. So that competitive spirit, I\u2019ll be looking forward to.”<\/p>\n
\u201cI think they\u2019re really cool,” says Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa. “Because they give you a different perspective because there\u2019s different ways to call plays, different ways defensive guys run certain coverages and how they can get into different coverages. So you\u2019re getting a lot of the same things, it\u2019s just different looks and different ways and how they present them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Click on the video link for more from practice, and to hear from second year linebacker Grayson Murphy, who can\u2019t wait to get on the preseason game field and prove he deserves a roster spot against the Chicago Bears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Gardens (CBS12) \u2014 It was the final home practice for the Miami Dolphins on Wednesday before heading…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":124626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[10809,960,15917,76754,5386,1818,76751,76753,76752,48479],"class_list":{"0":"post-124625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-bears","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-dolphins","11":"tag-grayson-murphy","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-illinois","14":"tag-joint-practices","15":"tag-mike-mcdaniel","16":"tag-preseason-game","17":"tag-tua-tagovailoa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114983987040589442","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}