Jordan Phillips has great day after sparring with Omar Kelly

Miami Dolphins defensive end Jordan Phillips took to the full padded practice today with a chip on his shoulder and it drove him to a have his best of camp.

On Wednesday Miami Dolphins fans on social media site Twitter were sitting back watching to see if an exchange between Omar Kelly and Jordan Phillips would flare up into something more robust than a couple of jabs. It didn’t but Phillips made sure that Kelly knew he had a good practice.

It started when Kelly tweeted about how surprised he was that Jordan Phillips was working with the starters in practice. Phillips responded with a comment saying that he was surprised that Kelly still had a job.  Here is the exchange.

Kelly fired back, “If you made plays as often as you get in your feeling maybe you wouldn’t have a underachiever label”. Phillips told him they weren’t going to do Twitter stuff that they could talk at practice today when Kelly came to watch him do his job.

The two have a history dating back to last off-season. Phillips has never taken kindly to Kelly’s critiques. Today however, Phillips backed up his word. and his defensive line coach, Kris Kocurek,  took notice.

"(How is DT Jordan Phillips doing?) – “Doing well. He’s showing up with a great attitude and practicing hard. (The) consistency is starting to come. He’s done well. He had a really good day today. He was disruptive in the backfield, especially in some of our short-yardage situations. You really saw him show up. I’m pleased with Jordan.”"

Phillips has been inconsistent in his time with the Dolphins it was a knock on him coming out of college. Many draft sites cited that he doesn’t go 100% on every play and that he sometimes takes plays off. When he is on his game, he a really good defensive tackle.

Kocurek said that Phillips needs to be consistent with himself and that they need to stack one day on top of another.