News, notes and observations from Day 6 of Dolphins training camp on Tuesday, which featured a fight during the session:
▪ Owner Stephen Ross watched his first practice of training camp on the field and it certainly wasn’t an ideal day for the offense to deliver their worst performance of training camp.
Miami was yet again plagued with snapping issues, and quarterbacks were missing on wide open receivers.
Not all of the blame can be placed on the quarterbacks considering the offensive line is leaking pressure, and few receivers not named Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle were getting open.
The offense seemingly got things into gear during the red zone area, situational work, where De’Von Achane started out the period with a touchdown and a couple of plays later Braxton Berrios caught a 5-yard touchdown pass from Tagovailoa.
But by then it was too little too late.
And then there was the fight.
Jaylen Wright and Kohou got into a physical altercation in practice and Paul flipped Kohou over in suplex fashion, which made the tensions grow between the offense and defense.
▪ Jeff Wilson injured his left leg during a third-and-1 situation period that ended the practice.
▪ Terron Armstead dressed, his first of training camp, but really didn’t do any work in Tuesday’s practice. In the days Armstead has missed the Dolphins have had Kendall Lamm, Patrick Paul and Kion Smith handle the left tackle duties.
Miami Dolphin’s offensive tackle Terron Armstead (72) talks during an interview after Miami Dolphins Training Camp on Monday, July 29, 2024, at Baptist Health Training Complex in Miami Gardens.
▪ Elijah Campbell was designated the orange jersey play, which recognizes him as the top performer from Monday’s practice. Campbell had strong coverage and broke up a deep pass from Tua Tagovailoa to Jaylen Waddle early in Monday’s session.
▪ Raheem Mostert and Anthony Walker did not work during Tuesday’s practice.
MORE OBSERVATIONS
Da’Shawn Hand deflected a Skylar Thompson pass.
Thompson connected on a 15-yard completion to Hill, but Emmanuel Ogbah beat Patrick Paul badly with a spin move and would have hit the QB if the action was live.
Kader Kohou broke up a pass to Waddle that could have been considered a drop.
Chop Robinson had a would-be sack on Smith on a play where Tagovailoa threaded the needle on a sideline tear dropped to Achane. However, Kohou knocked it out at the end and he might not have maintained possession.
Tagovailoa delivered a nice pass on the seam to Anthony Schwartz, which would have gained 20 yards. Tagovailoa put the ball on target in a very tight window.
▪ The Dolphins’ first period of 11-on-11s featured two missed deep balls to Hill, and three bad snaps that could have produced turnovers. Aaron Brewer continued his snapping mishaps with a low wobbler to Tagovailoa.
Later on in the series Matthew Jones and Andrew Meyer, two undrafted rookies, put high snaps on their QB.
When the snapping issues settled down Tagovailoa threw an interception to Jordan Poyer, who stepped in front of a pass intended for Braxton Berrios.
▪ Jonnu Smith dropped two passes during his work session.
▪ Calais Campbell and Quinton Bell did a phenomenal job of setting their edge. Every run that came their direction was choked out. It’s clear that Bell is competing, if not the frontrunner, for a starting edge role while Bradley Chubb and Jaelan Phillips are sidelined.