Joint practices add a refreshing ripple to coaching camp with added competitors outdoors of three preseason video games.
Final season, coach Mike McDaniel and the Miami Dolphins participated in joint practices in Tampa Bay earlier than starting the preseason towards the Buccaneers. The workforce additional endorsed the thought with an early journey to Philidelphia for joint practices forward of the preseason last towards the Eagles.
The Dolphins are doubling down with two units of joint practices set for the 2023 preseason. Miami will host the Atlanta Falcons after which journey to Houston early for practices with the Texans.
“These sorts of alternatives are invaluable,” McDaniel stated. “It breaks camp up. It provides somewhat newness to it. It reinvigorates it, but it surely additionally – there’s solely a lot scheme that one facet of the ball can have. You get totally different gamers that you must go towards and refined schematic nuances which might be totally different that basically assist the gamers get ready for preseason after which common season.”
Miami joins the Detroit Lions, Las Vegas Raiders, and New York Jets as groups with two units of joint practices on the preseason schedule.
The Dolphins start the preseason schedule on Aug. 11 at Arduous Rock Stadium towards the Falcons. Eight days later, Miami performs the Texans at NRG Stadium.
“Yeah, excited to go towards the Dolphins right here forward of our preseason sport, the second week of preseason,” Texans coach DeMeco Ryans stated. “I feel we will get quite a bit out of joint practices, particularly a workforce pretty much as good as Miami, a playoff workforce, a workforce that has a ton of playmakers offensively and a very good protection, as nicely. It’s a very good alternative for our offense to go towards a unique defensive construction.
“They’re extra of a three-down entrance the place we’re primarily a four-down entrance. So it’s an opportunity for our offense to get totally different seems, and it’s additionally an opportunity for us defensively to get totally different seems from totally different gamers and compete at a excessive degree.”
The Dolphins wrap up the preseason on the street towards the Jacksonville Jaguars on Aug. 26.
