The Miami Dolphins canceled their second joint observe with the Philadelphia Eagles on Thursday morning with a abdomen bug affecting gamers.
The Dolphins as a substitute met just about “out of an abundance of caution as a result of a non-COVID illness,” as acknowledged in a group launch, which coach Mike McDaniel later confirmed was a abdomen bug spreading amongst gamers.
“That was a unique curveball early this morning,” McDaniel stated. “It was just the accumulation of some players having a stomach bug that we don’t really know totally where it was coming from and just trying to be overly cautious so that we didn’t further affect players on the team, as well as had to think of the best interest of the Philadelphia Eagles. Couldn’t, in good conscience, just move forward and try to limit reps of practice.”
McDaniel added it’s “more than a couple of players” sick, together with a number of employees members — however “not half the team.”
“That’s what I was trying to prevent,” he stated. “I didn’t want to have half the team drained out from a stomach-bug fight through the heat and then have depleted performance in the preseason game because, for a lot of guys, it’s the most important game of their career, and I hold a strong amount of value to that and didn’t want to compromise that in any way.”
The Eagles held an intrasquad observe on Miami’s observe area. The two groups have a preseason finale scheduled for 7 p.m. at Hard Rock Stadium on Saturday evening.
“It all comes down to wanting to be able to fully play the preseason game as planned,” McDaniel stated. “The best way to do that with the unknowns was to just keep everyone away from each other because, clearly, it’s some sort of contagious, but it appears to be the normal symptoms of stomach bugs.”
The Dolphins and Eagles held one joint observe on Wednesday in entrance of followers. Miami missed out on a key observe for gamers combating for a roster spot as Thursday’s session was the ultimate one among coaching camp for the group. NFL rosters should be minimize down from 80 to 53 gamers on Tuesday by 4 p.m.
“I was pretty excited about [Thursday],” McDaniel stated. “Now, you just have to really reassess [Friday], when you get everyone in and make sure everyone is safe, not put in in harm’s way and then take it from there.”
Gesicki commerce talks?
McDaniel was requested a few Wednesday report from Pro Football Focus stating the Dolphins have “brought up” tight finish Mike Gesicki’s identify in commerce talks. McDaniel didn’t deny Miami’s involvement in mentioning Gesicki in commerce conversations, as a substitute noting it’s commonplace for a lot of gamers to be mentioned amongst NFL common managers.
“These reports are tricky to me,” McDaniel stated. “When they use the that loose verbiage of ‘his name has been brought up’ or whatever, I mean, the report is kind of misleading because there probably should be a lot of names on that report. … That stuff happens more often than it doesn’t.”
Gesicki set profession highs with 73 receptions for 780 yards in 2021 for the Dolphins. He was positioned on the franchise tag this offseason as he transitions to a brand new offense the place he shall be requested to play extra usually as a conventional tight finish and enhance his blocking.
“I’m focused on coaching Mike. Mike’s focused on getting better,” McDaniel stated. “You have to have the ability to do stuff with the ball and you’ve got to have the ability to block for different individuals which might be doing stuff with the ball, and we proceed to work these methods with everybody.
“He had a great week of practice this week, which tells you a lot about that individual because there has been random noise that he hasn’t listened to clearly.”
Van Ginkel has appendix subject
McDaniel revealed why Dolphins outdoors linebacker Andrew Van Ginkel missed observe all week.
“He had an unforeseen appendix issue, so we removed him of said issue,” McDaniel stated, insinuating Van Ginkel’s appendix was eliminated. “He’s feeling great. I just talked to him recently, and we’ll be moving forward. There’s some significant optimism that it shouldn’t affect anything in the season, but I know he’s going to do his best to get back as fast as possible.”
McDaniel additionally famous cornerback Nik Needham is day-to-day with an undisclosed harm that precipitated him to depart Wednesday’s joint observe with the Eagles.
“It’s nothing super significant,” McDaniel stated. “Really happy for him because I feel good about where he’s at.”
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