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So yes, the Dolphins can indeed point to progress as their 49th training camp wrapped up Thursday. The passing game is far from perfect. But it’s certainly better than it was a month ago.

“[Ticked] me off,” Wallace said with a grin. “I thought I had one. Every day in ‘pat and go,’ coach tells us to body them off. On that play right there, just let it fall over my shoulder. Grimes made a great play. I actually didn’t think he was going to get there, but that’s Grimes. He does it all the time.”

Fortunately for the Dolphins, there aren’t many Brent Grimeses in the NFL. If Grimes hadn’t run stride-for-stride with Wallace down the right sideline, he wouldn’t have been in position to make the leaping deflection.

More often than not, the speedy Wallace will have a step or two on the defender – particularly when his hamstring heals fully.

Wallace said Thursday the injury is better, but not 100 percent. Regardless, he intends to play in Saturday’s preseason game in Tampa.

“Just two days off in this offense will have you gassed,” said Wallace, who missed last week’s exhibition opener. “You’ve got to keep going, keep building your endurance every single day. I definitely need to go out and get some plays.”
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He has apparently bought in. Dolphins coach Joe Philbin praised Wallace’s commitment to catching passes out of the ball machine following each practice.

“That gives me confidence that things, somehow, someway, are going to work out fine,” Philbin said.

Wallace also thinks he’s getting in and out of his breaks well, and ran good routes throughout training camp.

“I’m totally comfortable,” he said of Bill Lazor’s offense. “I feel really good about it.”

Added Philbin: “He has in-breaking routes, he has out-breaking routes, he has vertical routes, we’ve got slip-screens to him. I think he’s going to be involved. He’s been working on his route tree on a daily basis.”

That versatility of responsibility has been great for Wallace’s frame of mind. He said he looks forward to practice, because of the new possibilities that each day brings.

And he’s been surprised by just how well Lazor’s system works, when run correctly. There have been times when he has been skeptical about plays introduced in meetings, only to see them get receivers wide open when run at practice.
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Sounds like they have been connecting deep. I hope this year will prove tannehill has a nice deep ball. I thought his rookie season proved that but people forget how good he was deep that season
 
what's interesting to me about that pic is that it's down the seam in the middle of the field to wallace unlike last year when everything was down the boundary and giving you a shorter window to error on...
 
hooshoops said:
what's interesting to me about that pic is that it's down the seam in the middle of the field to wallace unlike last year when everything was down the boundary and giving you a shorter window to error on...
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Great observation, much easier for Wallace to adjust on the ball assuming he's behind the defenders. Never understood why the routes were so limited last season.
 
I attended Training Camp on Tuesday and I left Davie with some optimism because the single best impression of the day was that Mike Wallace looked really good. He looks confident and appears to genuinely like what Lazor is doing combining with Tannehill in the new system.
My hunch is that Mike is a confidence player who likes to show what he can do. Too many games last season he was not getting a sniff of the ball. OK maybe Hartline or Clay were having a good day, but Sherman struggled at times to get Wallace into the game.
Mike's swag is back.
 
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Tanny to Wallace DEEP BALL was the #1 item I wanted to see improve this year - by ****ing far!!!


However, I rolled my ****ing eyes @ this:
“That gives me confidence that things, somehow, someway, are going to work out fine,” Philbin said.
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Jesus-****ing-Christ-on-a-pogo-stick ... "somehow, someway" :bobdole:

I have yet to criticize Philbin. But, really?!? "somehow, someway" doesn't exactly inspire confidence in a plan. Sounds more like throwing frigging darts at a board, or consulting a ouija board to get results. The HC needs to inspire confidence in the team, not just hope things work out.

... Sorry for the thread de-rail.
 
I say we keep the old offense where he lined up the same way every play. OMFG!
 
Screens, reverses, slants. Let's seem some new plays where Wallace can show off his speed and get into space. When I saw that screen to him last year against Indy I was pumped I expected that all year, and I don't remember them really running screens much more after that.
 
hooshoops said:
what's interesting to me about that pic is that it's down the seam in the middle of the field to wallace unlike last year when everything was down the boundary and giving you a shorter window to error on...
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I think Wallace is going to have a good year this year and was happy with the signing. What's interesting to me in that pic is one player is aggressively attacking the ball and one isn't. With refs going to be quick to throw PI flags this season I wish Wallace would do more to temp them into doing so. But alas I just think I need to come to grip that it's just not part of his game.
 
Bumpus said:
Tanny to Wallace DEEP BALL was the #1 item I wanted to see improve this year - by ****ing far!!!


However, I rolled my ****ing eyes @ this:


Jesus-****ing-Christ-on-a-pogo-stick ... "somehow, someway" :bobdole:

I have yet to criticize Philbin. But, really?!? "somehow, someway" doesn't exactly inspire confidence in a plan. Sounds more like throwing frigging darts at a board, or consulting a ouija board to get results. The HC needs to inspire confidence in the team, not just hope things work out.

... Sorry for the thread de-rail.
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Great point. If somehow someway doesn't work, philbin will likely find himself somehow someway on another team next year
 
hooshoops said:
what's interesting to me about that pic is that it's down the seam in the middle of the field to wallace unlike last year when everything was down the boundary and giving you a shorter window to error on...
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What's exciting to me about the pic is the athletisism Grimes is displaying. I don't know, but that looks like a freakish play for the DB to make.
 
Am I the only one who looks at that photo and screams "God dammit Wallace! Go up for the f*cking ball!!!"

Has he not learned anything? This guy pisses me off.
 
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