Myles Gaskin – August 1, 2022
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Monday, August 1, 2022
RB Myles Gaskin
(On the difference in speed on offense this year) – “Yes, you said it, man. Just everything is moving fast. A faster pace. Guys are coming together, obviously. It was a big offseason for us as the Dolphins. I think it’s finally coming together. Obviously we were just all excited to get back in here for camp and everything. Being here has just been a lot of fun, learning this playbook, getting out here and running these plays, seeing these new guys, getting to see ‘Cheetah’ (Tyreek Hill) out here. Man, it’s a lot of fun and a lot of excitement for us.”
(What is the speed like? You see it firsthand. We only see it from far away?) – “What’s the speed like? I’ve never been in an offense that moves like this. The o-linemen are going. We’re racing every day. Everybody wants to be the fastest guy out there, every single day. It’s a competition. I mean, that’s what you want in the league. Compete every single day with your teammates and it’s going to translate to Sunday.”
(Almost every offense you’ve kind of been in, you’ve been the fastest guy, right? What’s that kind of like to have other guys like this here?) – “That’s the competition part of it. Bringing in the guys that we brought in, just real fast guys and guys that have been in this system before. It’s just excited being able to learn from these guys. It’s exciting. I can’t elaborate that enough, but it’s been fun. It’s fun.”
(For you personally, how does this system fit your skillset compared to last year’s system?) – “I think it fits my skillset. I think – it is what it is. At the end of the day, you get a playbook, you learn how to run how they want you to run, but at the same time, you continue to be yourself. All of us are here for a reason. So you take the coaching points and then try to translate them to your game and how you can excel like that. Every system is always a little bit different. Coaches want a little bit something (different) from others, but at the end of the day, it’s football. I think this one, a lot of outside zone and that type of stuff, it’s been good for me.”
(RB Chase Edmonds about transitioning from inside to outside and some of the thought process and some of the difficulties there. I’m curious with your experience how you’ve kind of evolved switching to the outside zone scheme?) – “Every year I’ve been in the league, I’ve had a different ‘OC’ (offensive coordinator), a different system. So I guess it’s just the new one this year. I know I do like this one the most. Just getting guys out there running, we have athletic guys up front, and that’s what we want to do. Everybody on the team has bought into that as an offense. Once everybody is kind of pointing and facing the same direction, that’s what you want. It’s going to make it easier for everybody.”
(You mentioned the fun you’re having. It was kind of a fun moment before practice where you had guys coming over and pumping the non-existent crowd. Moments like that, is it as fun as it seems from the outside? Does it feel like that?) – “(laughter) The rookies. Definitely, definitely. I think being an older guy now, you get to see the rookies come in. You see how they’re a little bit nervous the first day and they loosen up and then you get to see their personality. Coach (McDaniel) definitely brings a type of vibe. The whole coaching staff brings a different type of vibe than honestly I’m used to in kind of all the years I’ve played football, but it’s exciting. It’s exciting. He’s a young dude, and he kind of speaks our language. It’s exciting – he relates. He relates to us. I think when you have that, guys just want to play for him. Guys want to make plays for themselves, obviously, and for this team, but also for the coach.”
(WR Jaylen Waddle talked of tinted contact lenses. Are you wearing those?) – “Yes, that’s why my eyes are red. I don’t know if y’all can see it. It’s just my eyes have just gotten a little bit sensitive to light, moving from Seattle. It was always grey all the time, and then I got out here and the last couple years and I’ve been sensitive to light. It’s been helping for me.”
(How does it help?) – “It just kind of dims it down. It just kind of dims how bright it is down, just kind of like having a tinted visor but just contacts.”
(How did the rookies do in the fake pump-up?) – “We’ve got some work to do. They’ve got some work to do. (laughter) Good thing we didn’t have anybody out there today. So that was the practice for practice tomorrow, you know?”
(How does it feel knowing that this offseason, they added RB Raheem Mostert, RB Sony Michel, RB Chase Edmonds? How does that feel? How does that impact you?) – “I’m always excited about competition, and I’m always excited about learning from other guys. I think me and Chase (Edmonds) are kind of built the same. Smaller guys, run the ball kind of similar, so I like kind of watching him play and see how he plays. When we talk and when we come outside, how he talks to me and how I’m talking to him. Raheem (Mostert), he’s been in the system before, and he’s excelled before. Sony (Michel) has won Super Bowls. So I think that we brought in good guys that I can learn from and everybody can learn from in the room. I think those guys learn from each other and that’s what you want. You want a room that everybody wants to get better, everybody wants to compete but is not selfish. That’s football.”
