{"id":287756,"date":"2025-08-14T15:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T15:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/287756\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T15:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T15:31:12","slug":"what-dolphins-writers-are-saying-about-lions-dominant-joint-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/287756\/","title":{"rendered":"What Dolphins writers are saying about Lions\u2019 dominant joint practice"},"content":{"rendered":"

By now, you\u2019ve likely read from multiple sources that the Detroit Lions had an absolutely dominant day of practice on Day 1 of joint practices with the Miami Dolphins. Chances are, though, you\u2019ve mostly read those opinions from the Lions writers you know<\/a> and love<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But what did the Dolphins reporters on hand think of practice? Remember, Miami just completed joint practices with the Chicago Bears last week. They have a frame of reference and perhaps a different outlook on how things went down on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019ve collected a bunch of resources from Miami writers to see what they thought of the Lions and if it was just as dominant as local reporters said. If you want to read some of those observations yourself, here are the resources I used:<\/p>\n

Amon-Ra St. Brown \u201cis like that\u201d<\/p>\n

Stock Down: Defensive back Jack Jones: From the very beginning, Jones was chirping. The only issue was that he didn\u2019t back it up. St. Brown consistently torched the fourth-year corner who seemingly sought out the matchup against the three-time Pro Bowler. It didn\u2019t matter the period \u2014 1-on-1s, 7-on-7s, 11-on-11s \u2014 if St. Brown saw Jones across from him, he cooked. Even worse: St. Brown did it in a multitude of ways. He caught deep balls. He caught a 5-yard touchdown. And he did damage with his fair share of grabs in the intermediate as well.<\/p>\n

— Overall, Amon-Ra St. Brown was simply a matchup nightmare for the Dolphins\u2019 secondary. He was able to get in space and was open whenever he needed to make a play.<\/p>\n

Thought Miami\u2019s D matched the physicality of the Lions, but Goff and St. Brown were basically perfect. They didn\u2019t get much on the ground but Goff was throwing handoffs and St. Brown catches everything.<\/p>\n

Dolphins offense \u2018frustrated\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI think today offensively was a very frustrating day in regards to what we wanted to do, what we said we wanted to do. We just weren\u2019t able to get things jump-started. So that was very frustrating today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tagovailoa specifically pointed to the Lions\u2019 pass rush as something that just threw off the timing of everything for Miami\u2019s offense.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur timing in the pass game was well off of what our pass (protection) looked like,\u201d Tagovailoa said. \u201cThat\u2019s just not a good recipe for success in this league, and against good teams, you know, things like that are going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for observations from Miami reporters, it was a disastrous day for the Dolphins\u2019 offense.<\/p>\n

\u220e Tua Tagovailoa was sacked on the first play of 11-on-11 portion of practice. Several followed.<\/p>\n

\u220e The 7-on-7 portion of practice did not go well early for backup quarterback Zach Wilson. Wilson threw interceptions on his first three passes as the Dolphins receivers struggled with getting open against the Lions defense. The receivers also had several drops.<\/p>\n

Before we get to specific plays, let\u2019s just say it was a really rough outing for the offense.<\/p>\n

Quarterback Tua Tagovailoa didn\u2019t throw a pick after his rough three-INT joint practice against the Chicago Bears on Friday, but he also didn\u2019t have a touchdown<\/p>\n

Back to the Dolphins\u2019 official reporter:<\/p>\n

Hey, honey, chin up. The Dolphins did some good things<\/p>\n

Apparently, the Lions\u2019 offensive line (particularly the second team) struggled against some Dolphins defenders. Defensive end Derrick McLendon, linebacker Jordyn Brooks, and starting defensive tackle Zach Sieler were particularly disruptive:<\/p>\n

Not only did McLendon consistently win his reps during 1-on-1s, he got some extended run with the starters during the situational period at the end of practice when Robinson went down.<\/p>\n

Also\u2014and I can personally attest to this\u2014running back DeVon Achane is good and was a problem for the Lions\u2019 linebacking corps.<\/p>\n

Overall, the offense didn\u2019t play great. Achane, however, showed a bit of life During 7-on-7s, the third-year tailback caught a ball from Tagovailoa for a nice chunk of yards. Then, during team drills, he had a nice misdirection run that would\u2019ve picked up significant yards.<\/p>\n

Enjoy this 10-minute video of former Dolphins linebacker Channing Crowder (you may know him from The Pivot podcast) hyping up the Lions:<\/p>\n

And here\u2019s the Dolphins\u2019 SI affiliate breaking down practice:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By now, you\u2019ve likely read from multiple sources that the Detroit Lions had an absolutely dominant day of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[449,23618,7452,7],"class_list":{"0":"post-287756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-detroit-lions-analysis","9":"tag-detroit-lions-preseason","10":"tag-detroit-lions-training-camp","11":"tag-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115027842708806519","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}