How Danny Amendola, Brandon Bolden Brought Lessons In Preparation To Miami Dolphins

[DKphin]

Jakeem Grant was sitting next to Danny Amendola in the Miami Dolphins wide receivers room, as he does every day, when he noticed something the veteran was doing.

Grant had observed Amendola shows up early and watches extra film and how he takes every practice rep as though it’s the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl.

But this particular meeting detail stuck out to Grant.

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[NY8123]

I guess some of those things I assumed would be done at that level automatically. Glad Danny and some of the other vets brought in are changing this cultural problem Miami has had for years.

Seems like all the ol' timers weren't the only ones who were going to Miami to retire a lot of football players did too.

 

[The Ghost]

It would be nice to see an impactful special teams play made tomorrow.

Grant's confidence is sky high for sure, he knows his job is too simply get the ball into the endzone whenever he's touching it. Not sure when the last time I had that kind of thrill factor anytime a player touched the ball.

I don't know what the future holds for our WR's group, but I know Jakeem's not going anywhere for awhile.

Had to know this was part of what Amendola brought to the equation. The exact thing they lacked.

The Dolphins have spent the last 20 years trying to acquire talent, what they lacked was the knowledge of how to create a team. 2008 saw that with Pennington giving the guys a reason to come to work everyday.

Nothing like the bunch that represents South Florida today though. This team was put together with a grand plan in mind.

 

[Csonked Out]

It would be nice to see an impactful special teams play made tomorrow.

Grant's confidence is sky high for sure, he knows his job is too simply get the ball into the endzone whenever he's touching it. Not sure when the last time I had that kind of thrill factor anytime a player touched the ball.

I don't know what the future holds for our WR's group, but I know Jakeem's not going anywhere for awhile.

Had to know this was part of what Amendola brought to the equation. The exact thing they lacked.

The Dolphins have spent the last 20 years trying to acquire talent, what they lacked was the knowledge of how to create a team. 2008 saw that with Pennington giving the guys a reason to come to work everyday.

Nothing like the bunch that represents South Florida today though. This team was put together with a grand plan in mind.

Props to new WR coach Ben Johnson too. The routes have been much better this year.

 

[El Calebra]

Did not know about highlighting their routes? You would think that was taught in college. I mean its your assignment and you don't make note of it?
Draw that yellow highlighter over the route you will run?
Maybe I don't get it. But I know I used a highlighter anytime I needed to remember something important. Route running is very important.
Highlight your blocking assignment in another color.
What am I missing here? These are professionals. Grant had to "procure" a highlighter?

 

[fansinceGWilson]

Did not know about highlighting their routes? You would think that was taught in college. I mean its your assignment and you don't make note of it?
Draw that yellow highlighter over the route you will run?
Maybe I don't get it. But I know I used a highlighter anytime I needed to remember something important. Route running is very important.
Highlight your blocking assignment in another color.
What am I missing here? These are professionals. Grant had to "procure" a highlighter?

Don't be too hard on them. All the recievers who've gone through Miami, including Stills/Albert, and NONE of them apparently highlighted routes. That means the current group didn't learn highlighting from their PREVIOUS teams. Apparently the 'obvious' isn't quite so obvious.

 

[The Ghost]

Props to new WR coach Ben Johnson too. The routes have been much better this year.

Great point for sure.

 

[royalshank]

Did not know about highlighting their routes? You would think that was taught in college. I mean its your assignment and you don't make note of it?
Draw that yellow highlighter over the route you will run?
Maybe I don't get it. But I know I used a highlighter anytime I needed to remember something important. Route running is very important.
Highlight your blocking assignment in another color.
What am I missing here? These are professionals. Grant had to "procure" a highlighter?

I’ve maintained that Shawn Jefferson is still concussed from that hit Zach put on him in 1996.

 

[NBP81]

Well, highlighting routes could be of minimal importance to some... I'd say it's pretty trivial personally...

 

[Miamifinz]

The reality is some players just aren’t 100% invested in football, or they think talent is all that matters. The fact that Amendola studies his game intensely, and that a player like Jakeem can see his teammate doing that and say to himself “this is what I should be doing too.” Speaks volumes to both of them. Our receiving corps will only get better!

 

[Pandarilla]

 

[Danny]

It would be nice to see an impactful special teams play made tomorrow.

Grant's confidence is sky high for sure, he knows his job is too simply get the ball into the endzone whenever he's touching it. Not sure when the last time I had that kind of thrill factor anytime a player touched the ball.

I don't know what the future holds for our WR's group, but I know Jakeem's not going anywhere for awhile.

Had to know this was part of what Amendola brought to the equation. The exact thing they lacked.

The Dolphins have spent the last 20 years trying to acquire talent, what they lacked was the knowledge of how to create a team. 2008 saw that with Pennington giving the guys a reason to come to work everyday.

Nothing like the bunch that represents South Florida today though. This team was put together with a grand plan in mind.

It'd be nice to make a big play on ST's but first things first....make sure we don't give up a big play on ST's. Nothing brings a team down more when they're playing well than to see the ST's mess things up for them.

 

[Finland]

Well, highlighting routes could be of minimal importance to some... I'd say it's pretty trivial personally...

If it helps visualize it is a big thing, but highlighting, going over extra tape, being early, staying late, you would think it would be the norm.

 

[royalshank]

The first part of the article reads like an Onion piece. It could pass for satire. “He writes down what coach says so later when he’s home he can have it right there” or whatever that was. Highlighting things that are important? Taking notes in class? These are revelations to these guys? Wow. Just wow.

 

[LANGER72]

Just text the players a highlighted route.