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Speaker 2: Have Welcome to another edition of mix Shots here at
Speaker 2: beautiful Oxnard, California, the River Ridge Sports Complex on this Tuesday,
Speaker 2: August sixth, Mickey Spagnola here with you, Savannah, and we
Speaker 2: have a lineup change. No, Bill Jones, Nate Newton, Jane. Yes,
Speaker 2: Nate coming out of the bullpen to help us out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, And every team, every baseball team, at the
Speaker 3: beginning of the year, they worry about pitching, and they
Speaker 3: were about the center fielder. But during the season, in
Speaker 3: the middle, the hot time, everybody worried about the bull pen.
Speaker 2: There we go.
Speaker 4: We have enough guys to take us through. I'm that guy, and.
Speaker 2: We got a reliable reliever here that's always available to
Speaker 2: us here on Mixed Shots. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 2: Nate and I go way back, yes, back to the
Speaker 2: star in the in the in the what we call
Speaker 2: that little room, what it was. We were in the basement.
Speaker 4: We're in the basement, man, Yes, we were well.
Speaker 2: Good to have you with us. Thanks a lot, and
Speaker 2: thank you. Another beautiful day here in ox start sixty
Speaker 2: two degrees here, eight o'clock our time. Everybody, good, good
Speaker 2: day yesterday for everyone?
Speaker 4: Yes, great day, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 2: You have an impression of practice yesterday, Nate.
Speaker 4: Yes, I mean.
Speaker 3: When you speak to the coaches that some coaches said,
Speaker 3: I went to good today. But from my point of view,
Speaker 3: guys are moving fast.
Speaker 4: Guys.
Speaker 3: You know a few guys have injured, which you will
Speaker 3: bring us up to date, but other than it has
Speaker 3: not been since the Sam Williams deal.
Speaker 4: Somebody just missed the.
Speaker 3: Whole a lot of practice time, except our first round
Speaker 3: pick with the flu, but he'll be back.
Speaker 4: So it's been good for me.
Speaker 3: You've gotten to see a high competition and great play
Speaker 3: and guys just trying to make this team. And the
Speaker 3: off sides will be coming more now. When we first
Speaker 3: started camp, well hardly know all sides, but it seemed
Speaker 3: like the more we have practice that I guess guys
Speaker 3: are getting tired and losing focus there. But other than that,
Speaker 3: everything's been pretty good.
Speaker 2: Either that or they're trying to be overly aggressive.
Speaker 4: Yes, that could be obay, that would be a nice
Speaker 4: thing to think.
Speaker 2: Hughes false starts, But then when Michael Parsons lighting up
Speaker 2: in front of you, you're probably a little jumping. He
Speaker 2: about ruined practice yesterday for the offense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was one of his days.
Speaker 3: You know, we had a lot of those last year
Speaker 3: where he just took over practice and uh, but we've
Speaker 3: had not had a lot of that due to the
Speaker 3: fact that our tackles have been fairly decent this year.
Speaker 3: They're used to that speed. They they're making adjustments to
Speaker 3: that speed. But when Mike decides to turn it up,
Speaker 3: he can't wreck practice.
Speaker 2: And if anybody's new to mix shots here at eight
Speaker 2: o'clock in the morning, the Zambodi's out loud and clear
Speaker 2: morning right. I thought Savannah was in charge of operations here.
Speaker 2: I don't know why she can't get this fixed.
Speaker 5: Do you know the field crew, they're unfortunately not under me.
Speaker 5: But I'll try and make some calls. We'll see if
Speaker 5: we can get misadjusted in the future.
Speaker 3: Don't Savannah, don't make that call because they may reach
Speaker 3: Mike McCarthy. He'll wipe out our show up. We gotta
Speaker 3: we got a deal between getting the field right and
Speaker 3: wipe it out.
Speaker 4: The show. He gonna wipe out our show. He'll blow
Speaker 4: us away, so don't bother they.
Speaker 2: It would be one thing if he was cutting grass
Speaker 2: or they were putting lines down, but he's just blowing
Speaker 2: the loose stuff off the field to make it look good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we have to make it look's ready because it's
Speaker 5: Rams week and the Rams are coming here in two days.
Speaker 5: We have to make sure our field is nice and
Speaker 5: set for the big scrimmage on Thursday afternoons.
Speaker 4: Well they call it out a scrimmage off practice, they're.
Speaker 2: Gonna call it a scrimmage. I believe it starts at
Speaker 2: two o'clock Thursday here and I go to California and
Speaker 2: Sunday for the first preseason game, which will be telecast
Speaker 2: live back to the Bluestar Network stations. So we got
Speaker 2: a lot to look forward to. Any observations yesterday, Savannah
Speaker 2: from practice, anything that jumped out to.
Speaker 5: You, you know, I like seeing as we've progressed with
Speaker 5: these guys being in pads, just the amount of effort
Speaker 5: that they've been putting in now that they're getting kind
Speaker 5: of used to these practices. But I like seeing some
Speaker 5: of these younger guys get a little bit more adjusted
Speaker 5: and comfortable as camp goes on. So one of the
Speaker 5: guys that kind of stuck out to me was Mayor
Speaker 5: wrist LEAFU Is that how I pronounce his name correctly?
Speaker 2: Got it?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 5: Great?
Speaker 4: Uh? Yes, he has number thirty five.
Speaker 5: He had a really good interview the other day and
Speaker 5: he was just saying, like, as a rookie, how quickly
Speaker 5: you need to pick things up, and that as you
Speaker 5: put on those pads and you're out there and you're
Speaker 5: starting to learn the playbook a little bit more, he's
Speaker 5: feeling more comfortable in that zone. And so I like
Speaker 5: hearing the rookies getting a little bit more comfortable with
Speaker 5: this playbook.
Speaker 4: He is. Excuse me, I'm sorry, he is.
Speaker 3: From the day one to now, I saw him breaking
Speaker 3: on some balls, especially if short pass is coming out
Speaker 3: of the backfield, he is right upon it.
Speaker 4: This kid is fast quick.
Speaker 3: I don't think he's the most athletic guy, and that's
Speaker 3: what they say, but the way he playing and knowledge
Speaker 3: that he shows out there, he seemed to be on
Speaker 3: top of everything.
Speaker 2: You know, as as advertised when they took him in
Speaker 2: the third round.
Speaker 4: Uh huh.
Speaker 2: He was supposed to be a really good cover guy
Speaker 2: linebacker that was mobile, that could help you on the nickel,
Speaker 2: and I think we've seen that man. You know the
Speaker 2: other thing I noticed, so Saturday's practice and Monday's practice,
Speaker 2: and a lot of times when you're off on Sunday
Speaker 2: and you come back on Monday, it's a little sloppy.
Speaker 2: You got to back. But I thought those two padded
Speaker 2: practice were two of the best they've had so far.
Speaker 2: One of the things I've noticed. I guess we should
Speaker 2: mention this first talking about Micah, So Tyler gotten still
Speaker 2: not practicing. I've been told that he has a chess cold.
Speaker 2: How do you get a chess cold out here?
Speaker 5: We're just talking about that yesterday. It's just the vitamin
Speaker 5: C from the sun.
Speaker 2: Anyway, he at least was working with britt Brown yesterday,
Speaker 2: so that was a step forward. We'll see where he
Speaker 2: can go. But hid his absence, Chuma Doga and Awesome
Speaker 2: Richards were taken care of that left tackle spot, and
Speaker 2: that kind of was where the defense was attacking. With
Speaker 2: Michael Parsons on that side. You think Zim decided, Okay,
Speaker 2: we're gonna see what they can do with Micah lighting
Speaker 2: up at defensive end on that side.
Speaker 4: Well, and I.
Speaker 3: Think for some reason, I was as Michael was doing
Speaker 3: an individual he kept going back and forth with the
Speaker 3: strength coach, the head strength coach, about whether.
Speaker 4: He could continue practice.
Speaker 3: And he asked coach Jeff, the defensive line coach once
Speaker 3: they went over to team like periods inside run, like
Speaker 3: can I do this? And Coach Jeff like, yeah, he
Speaker 3: should be able to do it. And so Michah had
Speaker 3: a little chip on his shoulder because they was trying
Speaker 3: to hold him out of practice, right, A lot of
Speaker 3: you know, and so a lot of time when you
Speaker 3: when you rubble a great athlete like that the wrong way.
Speaker 3: He just turned it up all day. I mean, he
Speaker 3: just continued to show everybody I'm all right, I'm all right.
Speaker 3: So it's it's good to see that because when your
Speaker 3: stars practice, what can the role player say? A role
Speaker 3: player has to get out there and do his job,
Speaker 3: because if you see the stars giving it up, it
Speaker 3: makes you want to be a part of it.
Speaker 2: So I noticed that when they went seven on seven
Speaker 2: and then at the other end they were practicing basically
Speaker 2: running plays. Yes, sir, I don't know if it was
Speaker 2: goal line, but it was. But they didn't have him
Speaker 2: in there. So when he wasn't in there, he was
Speaker 2: running sprints across the field. Did you notice that? Now? No?
Speaker 3: Man, I know Michael looks at me sometime weird because
Speaker 3: he like, I'm serious, because I'm that guy that always
Speaker 3: think that he has more to give, you know.
Speaker 4: I don't. I believe in complete stars, and I think
Speaker 4: Mike has another level.
Speaker 3: So you know, I know people like man that Nate
Speaker 3: Doon be on you, but I be on him because
Speaker 3: if he becomes the best he can be, then.
Speaker 4: I def will be unstoppable. But if you just tagged
Speaker 4: a pass rusher, and that's.
Speaker 3: Why me and Mick and I don't know how you felt,
Speaker 3: young lady, yeah about the linebacker down line of stuff
Speaker 3: a few years ago.
Speaker 4: But this is the best possible position for this kid.
Speaker 4: I mean, what's your thoughts on that linebacker down line?
Speaker 4: How did you look at that?
Speaker 5: I think Micah is the perfect player to move around. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and you have to see him be moved around, whether
Speaker 5: that's off the edge, whether that's playing linebacker. But to
Speaker 5: see what he's just doing out here, just practicing, you
Speaker 5: can tell he has that drive and it's progressed over
Speaker 5: the past few years. But I think really locking in
Speaker 5: a little bit more and just knowing what he brings
Speaker 5: to the table. I think that's really important for him
Speaker 5: because he is that guy. But it's the it's a
Speaker 5: matter of you, you do your job there.
Speaker 2: It is I like the fact that it is, like
Speaker 2: Zimmer pointed out the other day, that he could properly
Speaker 2: play every position on defense, and think he could, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure he would want to. But putting him at linebacker,
Speaker 2: I think has opened up a whole new realm of
Speaker 2: what he can do out there to ruin plays. And
Speaker 2: he was doing that a couple of things. So with
Speaker 2: him one on one with Tuma, they finally adjusted. They
Speaker 2: started putting a tight end over there, and then I
Speaker 2: saw a tight end and the fullback over there to
Speaker 2: just counter that they could Tuma could not handle him. Now,
Speaker 2: it wasn't every play, right, but I bet he beat
Speaker 2: him one out of three plays every time.
Speaker 3: That's not a good ratio. That's not a very good ratio.
Speaker 3: You shouldn't even bring that to the public.
Speaker 4: You got here about one.
Speaker 2: Not even for the offensive lineman.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all of a sudden, the public like guid and Guiden,
Speaker 3: where are you? But he's got a chess cold.
Speaker 4: Baby's sick.
Speaker 2: We need to get him back out there.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 5: You need to get him back.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying he fixes that, but I think his
Speaker 2: wider wingspan, yes, causes Micah when he goes outside to
Speaker 2: go further outside. But he's still got that inside move
Speaker 2: that you gotta be aware of.
Speaker 3: And I'm watching our tackles, and I'm quite sure Kachi
Speaker 3: Lari in his system is telling them play him for
Speaker 3: the outside. You gotta play him for the outside, but
Speaker 3: always be weary of the inside move, because that is
Speaker 3: the quickest.
Speaker 4: Way to the quarterback.
Speaker 3: If Michael can blow you past you a couple times,
Speaker 3: you can turn and run. If you're half man, you
Speaker 3: can turn and run.
Speaker 4: But once he gets on your inside shoulder. You see
Speaker 4: he hit.
Speaker 3: Dak hand two or three times in the last two
Speaker 3: or three days. Somebody gotta tell him that's not a
Speaker 3: good thing. Somebody gotta squalk with. Mica said, no more
Speaker 3: than you break the quarterback on we threw, you can
Speaker 3: forget it.
Speaker 4: But anyway, somebody need to warner.
Speaker 3: But every time he goes to the inside move, he
Speaker 3: gets to that and that should not be happening, not
Speaker 3: every day, And so what.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, go ahead, it is obviously you know, we
Speaker 5: do need Tyler Goyton back in here, and we hope
Speaker 5: he gets better soon and we'll see what his status
Speaker 5: is later today. But it is very important to have
Speaker 5: those reps from Awesome Richard and Schuma Adoga. They need
Speaker 5: that little push, especially if Micah's coming at them. They
Speaker 5: need to feel that and feel the pressure because they're
Speaker 5: also fighting for a spot right now.
Speaker 2: So what do you think of Awesome Richards?
Speaker 3: That is my man, That was my man last year.
Speaker 3: You know how I felt about him and Tja. When
Speaker 3: you have given kids a true opportunity. And I'm talking
Speaker 3: about its two guys before them. I'm not gonna call
Speaker 3: their names. I just hate bashing guys. But it's two
Speaker 3: guys before them that they've given three years. And I
Speaker 3: tried to tell Mika the first year, these guys are
Speaker 3: not gonna work, but these bass and Awesome Riches will work.
Speaker 3: Awesome Riches needed to get stronger from last year. That's
Speaker 3: why he disappeared. I stacked mac w M Mick. Why
Speaker 3: did he disappear? Well, he needed to get stronger. Will
Speaker 3: told me that. Uh coachin Lauri told me man. He
Speaker 3: get and he's stronger. Now what he needs now is reps.
Speaker 3: I think he did good Saturday. He held his own Saturday.
Speaker 3: He uh, he didn't get a lot of reps cause
Speaker 3: Schuma was getting all the first team reps. But that
Speaker 3: that's my guy. He he's got the feet to stay
Speaker 3: in front of people. He's got the strength. Now he's
Speaker 3: got to start believing. It's like stacking good Day on
Speaker 3: to good day. Those are my two guys. And I
Speaker 3: told coach to Lawry, if you allow awesome Richards to
Speaker 3: hit them streets, you'll see that he'll be starting on
Speaker 3: somebody the team for like ten years and we'll be like, no,
Speaker 3: we didn't.
Speaker 4: This kid can play for us.
Speaker 3: So at one of these spots, whether it's the right
Speaker 3: side or left side guard attack, h all, some Richards
Speaker 3: can play. And I want TJ. Bash to get every
Speaker 3: rep he can and and and that that's just the
Speaker 3: bottom line, because these guys needed they can play.
Speaker 2: So since we're on the offensive line, I wanted to
Speaker 2: get your guys thoughts on brock Hoffman, and I thought, uh,
Speaker 2: and I wrote a column on him yesterday, and I
Speaker 2: think that where we go to read this, Mick on
Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboys dot com. Okay, you should be reading that
Speaker 2: website every night to see what's new there. I think
Speaker 2: there was this assumption, because they used that third round
Speaker 2: pick on Cooper BB, that BB was going to be
Speaker 2: the starting center, and everybody kind of dismissed brock coffin,
Speaker 2: Yes we did, who was a reliable backup last year.
Speaker 2: Started only two games at guard, one at center, but
Speaker 2: he played well. And I remember before training camp started,
Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy pointed out that the center position was competition
Speaker 2: and he said, and by the way, brock Hoffman was
Speaker 2: not going to just roll over and allow BB to
Speaker 2: be the starter. This guy is really competitive and he'll
Speaker 2: bring his lunch pail to work. And we're what's two
Speaker 2: weeks in the training camp, brock Kaufman's still your starting center?
Speaker 4: What in five padded practices, whatever.
Speaker 2: We're at now? Yeah, what were your thoughts on him
Speaker 2: and what he's done so far?
Speaker 3: I just want to hear what a young lady got
Speaker 3: to say. First, she's rolling this one. I'm liking that.
Speaker 4: Go ahead on young lady work.
Speaker 5: Jed brock Kaufman. I listened to his interview the other day.
Speaker 5: He said verbatim, I've always had a chip on my shoulder,
Speaker 5: and he feels that this year he's had a better
Speaker 5: mentality going into training camp and that he has a
Speaker 5: little bit more fight in him and his mental speed.
Speaker 5: He said that in terms of his growth, he feels
Speaker 5: like he's grown a lot learning the playbook. But I
Speaker 5: think brock Hoffman is your starter this year as far
Speaker 5: as the center position goes, Cooper Beb I don't think
Speaker 5: that he is up to speed enough as brock Hoffman is.
Speaker 5: Rock Coffin has that experience in that position. And I've
Speaker 5: even just seen around this complex him spending time with
Speaker 5: Dak and that's important right there, just being the center.
Speaker 5: And I just like the way his attitude is. I
Speaker 5: think Cooper Beebe has some time to where he can
Speaker 5: step up to that. Brock Kaufman has the attitude we
Speaker 5: need for this position.
Speaker 2: Confidence playing confidence, you know.
Speaker 3: I thought about it more and more as as we
Speaker 3: got closest to the to the training camp, and I'm
Speaker 3: like the brock Hoffen we've seen is very competitive.
Speaker 4: He's a chatty guy.
Speaker 3: He reminds me of Kevin Golgig a lot of times.
Speaker 3: Kevin Gogan would always be able to match the foot
Speaker 3: speed or the defensive guy.
Speaker 4: But he would get at etra shove.
Speaker 3: He would he would do something to irritate that guy,
Speaker 3: say something to get the guy focused in on him.
Speaker 4: And I see Hoffman as that same way.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he's a chatty type guy, but
Speaker 3: he's very highly competitive. He and and i'ma tell you something.
Speaker 3: You don't know how important the snap is until you
Speaker 3: see four or five of those balls go low, too
Speaker 3: high and the quarterback has to go to the right
Speaker 3: of the left too much.
Speaker 2: Like he's played a goal tender.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's what our second team quarterback, Cooper has
Speaker 3: been going through a lot of with uh.
Speaker 4: Cooper Cooper is what the quarterback name. It's cool. I'm like,
Speaker 4: I want to say Cooper. I'm like to minute Cooper.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm like, hold on home man when I'm
Speaker 3: talking about Cooper, Rush and Cooper Babe.
Speaker 2: But anyway, I can give you three starting wide receivers
Speaker 2: all named jayl Yeah.
Speaker 3: But anyway, I had this kid will one day we'll
Speaker 3: convert the center. But it's just a little bit harder
Speaker 3: if you'd have took his last year and moved to
Speaker 3: center and did it a lot, he would It'll be
Speaker 3: an easy adjustment because you're trying to do it. It's
Speaker 3: against grown men, guys that are trying to win jobs,
Speaker 3: so they're not gonna to take it easy on you.
Speaker 3: They moveing and blowing into you. And you see a
Speaker 3: better player at guard. Did you do it center way
Speaker 3: better because he doesn't have to hack that ball.
Speaker 5: And I will also note that he mentioned in his
Speaker 5: interview that he talked to Tyler Biattish just the other day.
Speaker 5: I mean that just goes to show how close he
Speaker 5: was when Tyler was here and how much of probably
Speaker 5: a mentor Tyler was as far as veteran leadership goes.
Speaker 5: And now that Brock has this position and he's able
Speaker 5: to step into this role, I think it's great that
Speaker 5: he still talks to Tyler. But I think just Brockhoffmann
Speaker 5: is that guy right now.
Speaker 2: Well, like I said, I see him playing with confidence.
Speaker 2: But the key thing is he started three years at
Speaker 2: Virginia Tech at center. Ye in the center right, so
Speaker 2: he's got experience playing that position. Highly competitive, by the way,
Speaker 2: I could tell just from his interview how competitive he is,
Speaker 2: and he basically said, you know, when I asked him.
Speaker 2: I said, so everybody just assumed that Cooper Bebee was
Speaker 2: going to be the starter, and you almost got dismissed.
Speaker 2: And I said, what were your thoughts when you heard
Speaker 2: that stuff? And he Goes didn't pay any attention to it.
Speaker 2: He goes, I knew I needed to come out. So
Speaker 2: he was a undrafted free agent by Cleveland in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two. He was signed them to their practice squad.
Speaker 2: They let them go maybe November and the Cowboys claimed
Speaker 2: him on waivers and or no, they claimed they just
Speaker 2: signed them to their practice squad. But at the end
Speaker 2: of the year. You know how the practice squad guys
Speaker 2: had three elevations, They elevated them three times at the
Speaker 2: end of the year. And then last year he started
Speaker 2: off on the practice squad, but I think second or
Speaker 2: third game they brought him on to the fifty three
Speaker 2: man roster and he remained there played seventeen games. So
Speaker 2: he was like the backup center guard. Uh to be
Speaker 2: Hodish last year and uh, I think he got some
Speaker 2: confidence that they had confidence in him, and I think
Speaker 2: it's showing out there.
Speaker 3: The thing is and the what and the reason I
Speaker 3: think they they don't hesitate is the two guards. We
Speaker 3: got two elite guards, you know, so you know, you
Speaker 3: look at Hoffman and you look at BB. Short arm guys,
Speaker 3: not very tall, stocky built guys. So they have to
Speaker 3: rely a lot on on a tenacity and their technique
Speaker 3: and you know, the ability to grapple and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: So but when you got two guards that we have, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I think it should work. I mean, he gonna have
Speaker 3: some games where he struggled just because of the length
Speaker 3: of his arms. And I'm talking about both both centers
Speaker 3: BB and Hoffman. But Haffman is the is the clear
Speaker 3: like like you know they say, the clear, uh, winner
Speaker 3: of this race?
Speaker 4: So far?
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Speaker 2: And so I teased it. Got any observations from training
Speaker 2: camp yesterday?
Speaker 5: You know, I have a little bit of a quirky observation,
Speaker 5: and this is for Trayvon Diggs yesterday with his first
Speaker 5: day that we saw him out here in pads. But
Speaker 5: I will note that every time I have seen Trayvon
Speaker 5: come onto the field, it's usually a little later after
Speaker 5: practice just gets rolling and he'll kind of leave a
Speaker 5: little bit early, trickle out. He doesn't have his shoes on.
Speaker 5: He always is just wearing socks, running out here with
Speaker 5: his socks on. I don't know what it is, but
Speaker 5: I just don't think he likes wearing shoes or cleats.
Speaker 5: That's my observation of the day.
Speaker 2: Well, it's a good one because I did notice after
Speaker 2: practice he walked all the way to the tower. I
Speaker 2: don't know where he was going or what he's going
Speaker 2: to do, but he's carrying his shoes.
Speaker 3: He was in his stocking feet okay. And did he
Speaker 3: have his water bottle with him? Yes, yeah, that's.
Speaker 4: Him he carries.
Speaker 3: I didn't notice the shoes, but I always noticed the water,
Speaker 3: like they have a water bottles.
Speaker 4: Thousands of my why has he got in the water bottle?
Speaker 4: But you went even deeper with the shoes.
Speaker 5: And well even during Mini camp and OTAs this year
Speaker 5: when he was out there with Britt Brown doing his rehab,
Speaker 5: no shoes. Yeah, I don't think he likes the shoes.
Speaker 5: It's part of his rehab. So Supreme letting us know
Speaker 5: that it's easier on his knees.
Speaker 4: Likely, how did you come up with the Supreme name?
Speaker 4: Produce the Supreme?
Speaker 2: Bill Jones?
Speaker 5: Bill Jones came.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So since you brought out Trayvon Diggs, it was great
Speaker 2: to see him. It was his first padded practice yesterday,
Speaker 2: took part in seven on seven. He didn't take part
Speaker 2: in team, but it was good to see him out
Speaker 2: there and immediately he was making plays on some passes
Speaker 2: in the seven on seven. So think about that. You've
Speaker 2: got a guy that's been to the Pro Bowl twice
Speaker 2: at cornerback on one side, and the guy that went
Speaker 2: to the Pro Bowl last year, Deron Bland on the
Speaker 2: other side. I did a little bit of research and
Speaker 2: also thanks to David Brusey in the Cowboys PR department,
Speaker 2: and we figured out that the Cowboys are the only
Speaker 2: team this year to have two Pro Bowlers starting at cornerback.
Speaker 2: You just don't incredible. What a luxury, right, I don't know, Nate,
Speaker 2: if you ever I mean, I know you played with Dion,
Speaker 2: but unfortunately Kevin Smith got hurt right away with a
Speaker 2: torn achilles. I mean, this might be the best cornerback
Speaker 2: combo the Cowboys have had in quite some time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's It's a nice combo. And I hope
Speaker 3: they take their time with with Trayvon. I even spoke
Speaker 3: to Trayvon. I said, make sure you're mentally ready. I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm not saying don't go back on the field, but
Speaker 3: make sure you're mentally ready, because a guy like him
Speaker 3: who breaks on the ball the way he does, in
Speaker 3: the way a Bland does, you want to make sure
Speaker 3: that is really there, not only physically, but mentally because
Speaker 3: a lot of times you can see things and you
Speaker 3: don't have the ability ability to get there. Make sure
Speaker 3: you have that ability to get there when you see it,
Speaker 3: you know. And and I've spoken to Britt Brown and
Speaker 3: brit on him to continue to work and to do
Speaker 3: extra things to make sure that he that he can
Speaker 3: be mentally ready and physically ready. I know he's physically
Speaker 3: ready because if Britt Brown lets you loose, you're physically ready.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's not because his motto is when I let
Speaker 2: you turn, you loose to practice. Yes, I don't want
Speaker 2: you back, That's right. And so they make sure. And
Speaker 2: one of the reasons Savannah, I think he doesn't get
Speaker 2: out there immediately. He's still doing some of his recaps. Yes,
Speaker 2: he is doing the warm ups that that he needs
Speaker 2: to do, but just seeing him out there, uh, competing,
Speaker 2: and you knew he was chomping at the bit. He
Speaker 2: even when they put him on pop, he wanted to practice,
Speaker 2: but they thought that, uh, it was more valuable to
Speaker 2: use his time continuing to rehab, because once you get
Speaker 2: out there and practice, you may just slough off your
Speaker 2: rehab yes, uh and yeah right, he'll uh, he'll take
Speaker 2: care of that. So that was one of the things
Speaker 2: that I think was a good thing.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Yesterday and from an injury standpoint, a couple Ryan Flornoy
Speaker 2: returned to practice. He was dealing with a little bit
Speaker 2: of a knee, so it was good to see him
Speaker 2: uh back out there.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: They were still without uh Douce Vaughan. It's got a
Speaker 2: little bit of a strained hamstring, so he was working
Speaker 2: on the side.
Speaker 3: Zeke ric O'Donnell, what's my guy there? Those are your
Speaker 3: three backs. Duke's got to go. Uh And I'm not
Speaker 3: going off the team, but DU's gotta gotta gotta time.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: And this is this is what Deuce has to do.
Speaker 4: From my point of view.
Speaker 3: It was a great kid, played for Philadelphia a lot
Speaker 3: of years. About his same height. I can't think of
Speaker 3: his name. He has to be one cut and gone,
Speaker 3: deucey is that what you're thinking of. It's another guy, okay, Uh,
Speaker 3: you have to have and he come from Kansas City,
Speaker 3: I mean from Kansas too. He was a guy who played.
Speaker 3: Yeah he played for Kansas too in his earlier years.
Speaker 3: But my thing is this one cut and gold you
Speaker 3: you can't you can't make you cut and hesitate to
Speaker 3: see which way to guys you're thinking Darren spcause Sprolls
Speaker 3: started out slow too in his career, but once he
Speaker 3: figured it out, it's like, I'm quickening all of these guys.
Speaker 3: Now my anticipation of once I stop, I gotta go.
Speaker 3: Once I make a move, I gotta anticipate what he's
Speaker 3: gonna do. And now time I ten, your first instinct
Speaker 3: is gonna take you. Because he has the speed and explosiveness.
Speaker 3: But sometimes he hesitates a little bit too long, and
Speaker 3: these guys are athletic enough and this thing to recover.
Speaker 3: So once he make that cut, once he makes that stop,
Speaker 3: his next step gotta be going ninety going north.
Speaker 2: So they're continuing to talk about running back by committee
Speaker 2: right now. To me, the committee is Zeke, rico'dondo and
Speaker 2: probably Royce Freeman. Now he had a little bit of
Speaker 2: a man limp growing. No, there's gonna be four of them.
Speaker 2: They're gonna keep Lepke as a as.
Speaker 4: A full back and a third down back.
Speaker 2: And a third down back as you've seen him as
Speaker 2: a one out there. But I think they keep four.
Speaker 4: Oh, they gonna keep four.
Speaker 2: I think so, and I think that Royce Freeman right
Speaker 2: now is head ahead. But he was I had a
Speaker 2: groin issue yesterday and I saw Malite Davis sort of like, hey,
Speaker 2: got my hand in the air. I'm still here. By
Speaker 2: the way, you guys kind of liked me previously. So
Speaker 2: he was getting more reps and you know what it
Speaker 2: maybe you can speak to this trendy camp is about reps.
Speaker 2: If you get opportunities, then you got to cash in.
Speaker 2: But if you don't get the opportunity, yeah, you get overlooked. Right.
Speaker 5: Also, just a note on Royce Freeman. The other day
Speaker 5: during coach McCarthy's presser, he noted how well Royce Freeman
Speaker 5: has been doing this training camp and how just happy
Speaker 5: they are to have him on this roster, and he
Speaker 5: said specifically he does everything well. He has a chance
Speaker 5: to be one of our primary players on special teams.
Speaker 5: So I think that's really important to note how they
Speaker 5: potentially want to use Royce freemant. But I do completely
Speaker 5: agree with you, Nate Hunter. Lupkey absolutely love what he's
Speaker 5: been doing. He is such a neutral mindset. He's so
Speaker 5: focused on the game right now, and I think he
Speaker 5: has a lot to bring to the table.
Speaker 3: I agree the thing the thing that I'm looking for,
Speaker 3: and Zeke gives that.
Speaker 4: That's durability.
Speaker 3: The best ability is availability and that is Zeke now.
Speaker 3: And I was telling Zeke the other day man rubbed
Speaker 3: some of that toughness off on the Rico O'Donnell Rico
Speaker 3: would get out of this league as a as a
Speaker 3: well known player, but why is he out wall He
Speaker 3: stayed injured, you know, after three or four years of
Speaker 3: five and six games missing, coaches a kind of like
Speaker 3: they're doing the leak, you know, kind of forget about you,
Speaker 3: and you don't want that. So some of that, some
Speaker 3: of that stuff you have to work through. Some rose
Speaker 3: injuries you have to work through and make sure. I
Speaker 3: think he tried to do a lot of it, as
Speaker 3: should work through the injuries.
Speaker 4: But they're not careful. It'll be Zeke and Hanah Limpke.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what I thought that. You know,
Speaker 2: when they first signed Royce Freeman, I was like, well,
Speaker 2: it's a camp body assurance. Well, he showed he could
Speaker 2: be maybe more than that. But I think the bottom
Speaker 2: line right now is this, if you want to call
Speaker 2: it committee, I think the running backs have looked between
Speaker 2: Zeke and Rio, rico'dado and lip Key. I think these
Speaker 2: guys have played well so far there. I can't wait
Speaker 2: till the scrimmage and then the game. Now. I don't
Speaker 2: know how much they're going to put Zeke into a
Speaker 2: preseason now at SOFI on Sunday, but I bet he
Speaker 2: gets some work against the Rams right out here on Thursday.
Speaker 2: And he's looked good. He looks spry. He had a
Speaker 2: one cut yesterday that he just left everybody behind. So
Speaker 2: don't what I'm saying is, don't sell Zeke short.
Speaker 4: You know what, do what you want. Zeke got a
Speaker 4: lot left.
Speaker 3: When you know, I screamed to the top of my
Speaker 3: lungs and Supreme over there, I'll tell you, I was like,
Speaker 3: lock him in a room and let all the free
Speaker 3: agency pass, and they just offer him three mil because
Speaker 3: that's what I already had the right.
Speaker 5: Now say that all, yes, you did.
Speaker 4: That, man, You should have never left. And he just
Speaker 4: kind of looked at me, smiled at me.
Speaker 2: Should have done it last year, last year.
Speaker 3: But and I talked us to Zeke, if you would
Speaker 3: have been here, maybe we would have still had Tony
Speaker 3: Pollock because he would have been more healthier. We wouldn't
Speaker 3: have had to use him as much because we would
Speaker 3: have had you and you can still Toalke the rock
Speaker 3: you know last year between you and him, I just
Speaker 3: I just felt last year we kind of dropped the
Speaker 3: ball on that, but we we still was successful twelve.
Speaker 4: Wins, you know. And uh, but man Zeke has always
Speaker 4: been he quick stories.
Speaker 3: I was talking about the big kid that went to
Speaker 3: the big running back out of Bama at the time,
Speaker 3: I can't think of his name, and uh, that's why
Speaker 3: I was on too, and Mick was telling me, Man.
Speaker 4: You like this guy in college?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, big Henry and that in the cornerback that
Speaker 3: went to the Rams and now he's in Miami.
Speaker 4: And so those were my two guys in that draft.
Speaker 4: But Mick was all about this kid.
Speaker 3: I saw him over there at the stadium and I
Speaker 3: loved him, and I talked about he was.
Speaker 4: Gonna run over everybody.
Speaker 3: And then one day makes it well, you're talking about it,
Speaker 3: and then a carler came in and say, you're really
Speaker 3: talking about this kid. You really like this kid, but
Speaker 3: you're going with this other kid. What's your issue here?
Speaker 3: From that day on, I've been a Zeke fan and
Speaker 3: Zeke is real. Zeke is the closest thing to emmittt
Speaker 3: not in yards, but I'm talking endurability, the abilities to
Speaker 3: play through pain and to contend you, to give you
Speaker 3: a high level of performance. Zeke is nothing special. He
Speaker 3: is not gonna break sixty seventy yards unless it's perfect.
Speaker 3: But he's gonna give you one hundred and ten yards
Speaker 3: and then maybe fifteen carriages and maybe one hundred and
Speaker 3: fifteen carriages.
Speaker 4: He can give you that weekend and week out him.
Speaker 3: We don't have to use him that way this year
Speaker 3: with Rico O'Donnell and with Limke.
Speaker 4: Now we can just slowly build him up into the playoffs.
Speaker 2: And I saw and usually don't get this out of
Speaker 2: a veteran running back. I can't remember. I think it
Speaker 2: was Saturday. They did a little goal line. He was
Speaker 2: in on goal line, Yes, and he knocked people back
Speaker 2: into the end zone to get the ball into the
Speaker 2: end zone.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 5: And that's the Zeke that we know, Yes, And that's the.
Speaker 2: Zeke that we know needed too last year and they've
Speaker 2: got him this year. And we'll continue here on mixed
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Speaker 2: All right, we got a few minutes left here on
Speaker 2: Talking Talking Cowboys mix shots. Right, you remember when we
Speaker 2: did that, Nicky, We did that on the the game
Speaker 2: the game pregame show. Nate was going to finish the
Speaker 2: segment out and I said, thanks for joining us here
Speaker 2: on Talking Cowboys, and he goes, you're doing too many shows.
Speaker 2: Ye to the place, save me? All right, Here's something
Speaker 2: that I've noticed. We seem to have somebody different every
Speaker 2: day sort of stepping up. And you notice, I thought,
Speaker 2: yesterday Jalen Brooks had a really good day. Yes the
Speaker 2: day before it was Jalen Cropper. Maybe before that it
Speaker 2: was t Billy right, and then defensively, you know, Josh
Speaker 2: Butler will step up and make some plays. The other
Speaker 2: day it was Janie Thomas. But the key to these
Speaker 2: young guys is you gotta do that day in and
Speaker 2: day out. Right. You can't, as Bill Parcells would say,
Speaker 2: can't be a one hit wonder. You gotta be able
Speaker 2: to be consistent to make an impression.
Speaker 3: And that's why we're talking about our first round pick guiding.
Speaker 3: You gotta be out here to stack good day onto
Speaker 3: good day on to good day, and the whole day
Speaker 3: won't be perfect, but for the majority of you're getting
Speaker 3: better in your technique. You're getting better in your knowledge
Speaker 3: of the offense, and you're and what you have to
Speaker 3: do within that offensive scheme. And that is what we're
Speaker 3: looking for, you know, you know, to be out here
Speaker 3: to do your job. And like you say, every day
Speaker 3: it's a guy just stepping up, you know. But can
Speaker 3: they do it to the point where Dak would notice
Speaker 3: it and say, hey man, until this missing player get back,
Speaker 3: you are my guy, you know. So he's trying to
Speaker 3: make Billy that guy that that that that stud guy.
Speaker 3: But Billy is a lily inconsistent with the drop sometimes,
Speaker 3: you know, he would drop every nine DN.
Speaker 2: So I tell you who's stepped up and it's a
Speaker 2: real connection. It's DAK and Brandon Cooks. Yes, they've developed
Speaker 2: something I think special without c d here. Yes, that's
Speaker 2: his guy right now, right guys have seen that.
Speaker 5: Yes, definitely a little bit of that. And obviously like
Speaker 5: Brandon Cooks being that vet here that this wide receiver
Speaker 5: room can look up to love seeing that connection between
Speaker 5: him and Dak. But you did hit it straight on
Speaker 5: the consistency that you're seeing out of some of these
Speaker 5: throws right now with Dak and some of these receivers.
Speaker 5: You need to see these receivers keep that consistency a
Speaker 5: little bit. Cooks is one of them. Jalen Tolbert, I
Speaker 5: feel like, is another guy that's been more consistent. And yes,
Speaker 5: these guys are having some good days, they're having a
Speaker 5: little bit of off days, but I'd like to see
Speaker 5: Jalen Brooks kind of keep that consistency. And then Tyron
Speaker 5: Billy Johnson as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Von Turpan he's getting lost in he was
Speaker 3: two years ago. He was that guy we couldn't stop
Speaker 3: talking about.
Speaker 4: But has been pretty consistent.
Speaker 2: He has, and if you look at what they've been
Speaker 2: doing with the when they go Nickel top three receivers.
Speaker 2: Turpin's in there, and he's making plays too, by the way.
Speaker 2: I always thought he would, you know. I mean he
Speaker 2: got a little bit more of a chance last year
Speaker 2: as a receiver. I think they're going to rely on
Speaker 2: them a little more. Get the ball in his hands. Yes,
Speaker 2: you remember to see how many times they've tried that
Speaker 2: end around with him to start a series. Right, Keep
Speaker 2: the defense honest when they get in those pressure situations.
Speaker 2: Uh so, Yeah, But I just think Dak and Cooks
Speaker 2: are really cooking. How about that?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And and and and it when when they were in
Speaker 2: like third and whatever, the ball's going to Cooks and
Speaker 2: he gets open consistently, and against the first team, uh defense.
Speaker 2: The other thing that I wanted to mention is this
Speaker 2: tight end room. It's pretty crowded.
Speaker 5: It's one to watch, that's for sure.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: You know, Ferguson is picking up where he left off,
Speaker 2: and then let's let's see what goes on after that.
Speaker 2: Schoon Maker was having a good, good camp and now
Speaker 2: he's out with a tight growing right, And that's what
Speaker 2: you were talking about Nate staying healthy, right, I.
Speaker 4: Just it's just.
Speaker 3: Him Schoonmaker. Uh No, the guy, the defensive back with
Speaker 3: the great name. Uh, mock up a more, Uh you
Speaker 3: got me, give me a hint. I'm I'm fine, qualm
Speaker 3: is he he? They stay hurt, you you can depend
Speaker 3: on these guys, and I hate to say that they're
Speaker 3: gonna get hurt. And another guy who's getting through, who's
Speaker 3: forcing himself through is Tuma. Those three guys, ever since.
Speaker 4: They've been here, have missed most of training camp.
Speaker 3: You know, they'll go two days, they'll miss two days,
Speaker 3: and you have and these guys all have great.
Speaker 4: Potential to be swing.
Speaker 3: Tackle, to be playing all the positions, but in the
Speaker 3: secondary and Schoolmaker, we didn't bring you here to to
Speaker 3: not be to not force this team to play less
Speaker 3: than two tight ends. We should be a two tight
Speaker 3: ends team, Schoolmaking Ferguson and.
Speaker 4: And that's how it should be.
Speaker 3: But the guy's been he's been hurt, not serious way
Speaker 3: he can't play, can't come back, but serious enough that
Speaker 3: he can't prosper and be better as a tight end.
Speaker 2: And I think that tight end group is it's it's
Speaker 2: getting pretty full. John Stevens keeps showing up, as you know,
Speaker 2: he's more of a pass catcher obviously, but when you're
Speaker 2: going to tight ends, you know, you need guys that
Speaker 2: can block. And I noticed one guy that has getting
Speaker 2: more opportunities is Princeton Fan. Yes, and I thought he
Speaker 2: was maybe just a camp body, right, but he's he's
Speaker 2: kind of built strange. He's six two fifty and I
Speaker 2: saw yesterday they were using him at full back and
Speaker 2: it wasn't like an h back thing. It was as
Speaker 2: another full back and he'll stick his head in there.
Speaker 2: So you got him. Uh. And then the rookie for agent,
Speaker 2: Brevin spawned Ford has showed up as a complete tight end.
Speaker 2: So that room is pretty stocked, and you almost forget
Speaker 2: about Peyton Hendershot Uh that you know he's been here,
Speaker 2: what is his third fourth year?
Speaker 3: Now, this is another guy that has to be consistent
Speaker 3: throughout all of training camp.
Speaker 2: And both as a receiver and a block.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 3: Uh, he's kind of up and down guy, especially with
Speaker 3: his with his moodiness. And I tell people not in
Speaker 3: this game, because you can pick the wrong day to
Speaker 3: be moody and you can be out of here, you know,
Speaker 3: because this because this fan guy can can turn it
Speaker 3: on for a couple of days and you not have
Speaker 3: it going on in your mind mentally, and.
Speaker 4: You can be out of here.
Speaker 3: You can be placed on the practice squad, or you
Speaker 3: can be on these other squads that that cow. I
Speaker 3: mean that the league is developing it every time I
Speaker 3: turn around and got a new name for a new
Speaker 3: set of guys.
Speaker 4: So you can be one of those guys.
Speaker 5: And we'll see exactly what the status is on Luke's
Speaker 5: schoonmaker later today and how maybe long this injury is
Speaker 5: gonna last for him. But in regards to Peyton Hendershot,
Speaker 5: yesterday he had a drop pass that did not look great.
Speaker 5: And just as you said, it doesn't matter what day
Speaker 5: it is, Yeah, you're here out at camp to make
Speaker 5: an impression. So he does need to have that step up.
Speaker 5: Because guys like Princeton fam have looked really good this
Speaker 5: camp so far, and they're using them in different areas.
Speaker 5: John Steven's coming back, you never know what he's about
Speaker 5: to bring to the table. So this room, as kind
Speaker 5: of large as it is, and we've talked about them
Speaker 5: probably bringing on four guys out of this, I feel
Speaker 5: like it's narrowing down slightly as we keep going into camp.
Speaker 5: So it's one room to really watch out for, right now, and.
Speaker 2: It's I think it's going to be a tough cut
Speaker 2: for them to see which tight ends they keep, because
Speaker 2: I don't know that you can cut some of these
Speaker 2: guys and get them on to the practice squad that
Speaker 2: you know they could be playing for somebody else. I
Speaker 2: think they're that talented there. So it's a good group
Speaker 2: to keep your eye on. But again, that's why these
Speaker 2: preseason games are so important. These guys have to step
Speaker 2: up in these prec You know everybody ohes oh, preseason
Speaker 2: games don't matter. These preseason games matter. They matter for
Speaker 2: these tight ends, they matter for the running backs, they
Speaker 2: matter for Trey Lance. There's a lot of guys that
Speaker 2: got a lot on the line in these preseasons.
Speaker 5: I have a question.
Speaker 3: Eleven and eleven, that's twenty two, right, yeah, then you
Speaker 3: take about six more guys. That's thirty thirty one in back.
Speaker 3: You better Yeah, it means a lot to thirty one
Speaker 3: in back. Believe me, I was one of them thirty
Speaker 3: ones in back, did you way?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you had to play. You had to play.
Speaker 3: You can set up in an advantage you have as
Speaker 3: a player going into preseason. You ain't got to worry
Speaker 3: about no tricky stuff. They in a cover two, they're
Speaker 3: gonna stand the COVID too. If they're in the over,
Speaker 3: they're gonna stand. They're gonna be a whole lot of
Speaker 3: moving around, jumping around. So as a player, you get
Speaker 3: to show the coach your skill. You ain't got to
Speaker 3: be stopping and thinking and hesitate. What they line up in.
Speaker 3: They basically stay in and so the play fits and
Speaker 3: you go. And so you get the chance to show
Speaker 3: the coaches your ability to run this play, to be technique, sound,
Speaker 3: and and to dominate. So the preseason are built for
Speaker 3: number thirty one and back.
Speaker 4: I promise you.
Speaker 5: I think that this scrimmage coming up here on Thursday,
Speaker 5: which will preview on Thursday.
Speaker 2: Thursday when we come back on is it mix shots.
Speaker 5: Yes, right, I think that is a very important day
Speaker 5: for this. It is well based on the fact this
Speaker 5: is the first time that these guys are being able
Speaker 5: to hit somebody other than their own teammates out here.
Speaker 5: So they're gonna really bring that energy. And that's a
Speaker 5: big preview as to you know, what they're gonna do
Speaker 5: as far as is lining guys up and looking at
Speaker 5: what that looks like. But I think preseason yes, Sundays
Speaker 5: on on the horizon here, but I think Thursday is
Speaker 5: one of the most important days of this training camp.
Speaker 3: And the Rams have always been a physical team when
Speaker 3: they come to Dallas to scrimmage or we go to
Speaker 3: them to the point where we haven't been able to
Speaker 3: complete them, you know.
Speaker 4: So it's been physical and it's been right. So here
Speaker 4: we go. I mean, I'm with you, miss Evanna.
Speaker 3: This is this is the first test, and you don't
Speaker 3: have to be oh, I'm sorry, just do what you
Speaker 3: gotta do, and.
Speaker 2: We appreciate you stepping in join us on Thursday. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll be back man, all right, and we will preview
Speaker 2: that scrimmage that will start here at two pm. I
Speaker 2: believe that's the start time. And we've had a great
Speaker 2: morning here on mixed Shots. We'll be back on Thursday.
Speaker 2: Thanks to Nate, Savannah, Chris and we will see you
Speaker 2: again on Thursday. On Dallascowboys dot Com.
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