Trevon, Stefon Diggs share words from separate camps

By David Helman
FOX Sports activities Dallas Cowboys Author

OXNARD, Calif. — The ramping up is mercifully over.

Subsequent time the Cowboys take the follow discipline, it’ll be for the complete brunt of a padded coaching camp follow. In the meanwhile, they eased into their first off day with one closing outing in shorts and shirts.

With the group sitting idle on Sunday, listed here are some Saturday observations to hold the weekend:

Sibling rivalry

Know-how is such a fantastic factor. How else might we interact in some brotherly trash discuss from reverse sides of the nation?

Trevon Diggs appeared on NFL Community on Saturday afternoon throughout the tail finish of follow in California. Whereas he was there, he mentioned that if the Cowboys managed to play the Buffalo Payments within the Tremendous Bowl, he’d maintain his brother, Payments receiver Stefon Diggs, to zero catches.

Payments camp is going on all the way in which out in Pittsford, N.Y., however the fantastic NFL Community crew stationed there managed to ask the elder Diggs for his ideas. Earlier than he might reply, Payments quarterback Josh Allen did it for him.

“Ten for 160, two [touchdowns],” Allen mentioned.

The Cowboys and Payments clearly have loads of Tremendous Bowl historical past, with Dallas capturing its final two championships at Buffalo’s expense. I’d gladly watch a 3rd go-around only for this matchup.

Kicking issues off

The Cowboys don’t presently have a settled kicker state of affairs, however the competitors doesn’t really feel pressing as of but. Veteran kicker Lirim Hajrullahu and rookie Jonathan Garibay each kicked discipline targets throughout Saturday’s particular groups interval, however that is probably the most work we’ve seen them do up to now.

Maybe the majority of the kicking will include pads, when the offensive and defensive traces can higher simulate an actual surroundings. As a result of Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy mentioned he does intend to function each kickers this month.

“It is extra variety of reps, simply ensuring each guys have actual alternatives,” McCarthy mentioned. “I feel the most important change you may see might be in quantity.”

Each guys obtained some strong quantity on Saturday. Hajrullahu had the higher day, connecting on seven of eight kicks, with the lone miss coming from 47 yards. Garibay was much less constant, hitting simply 4 of eight kicks, with most of these misses coming from lengthy vary. It won’t have linked, however certainly one of his misses was no less than entertaining, because it bounced off the set lights getting used for NFL Community’s stay filming of follow.

Youth motion

The Cowboys secondary is having an exquisite begin to coaching camp. Anthony Brown has simply been one of many stars of the present up to now, and each Trevon Diggs and Jourdan Lewis have made their share of performs.

Saturday was an opportunity for a number of the youthful DBs to get in on the motion. The Cowboys did a number of work close to the purple zone, letting the offense drive towards the purpose line from the 25-yard line. Throughout just a few dozen reps, two younger draft picks, DaRon Bland and Nahshon Wright, managed to make a number of performs on the ball, coming away with three move breakups between them.

“[Bland] is leaping out actual good, he’s on his playbook actual good,” Brown mentioned. “He don’t say a lot, however he’s all the time on his stuff and all the time on level. Nahshon virtually had an interception as we speak. Want he would’ve got here down with it.”

There have been years in Cowboys coaching camp when it felt just like the Cowboys didn’t have a confirmed playmaker amongst their whole secondary. With kids making performs behind a bunch of confirmed starters, it’s unusual to suppose that this group is likely to be an actual energy of the roster.

Able to run

Linebacker is without doubt one of the hardest positions to judge throughout an unpadded follow, contemplating the extent of physicality required. What isn’t arduous to guage is Jabril Cox’s velocity and instincts, as he’s been capable of race everywhere in the discipline this week.

For anybody else? So what, it’s life within the NFL. However that’s an enormous step for Cox, who tore his ACL final Halloween and missed your entire offseason program throughout his rehab. It’s common to see a man getting back from ACL surgical procedure take it simple within the first week of coaching camp, however that hasn’t been the story for the second-year draft pick of LSU.

“I took it private to get again wholesome and prepare for coaching camp,” Cox mentioned. “I knew throughout the offseason I wanted to work arduous to get forward of schedule.”

There’s a great distance left to go, however Cox undoubtedly seems to be like a man who attacked his rehab. If he assaults his alternatives the identical method, it might imply quite a bit for this linebacker unit.

David Helman covers the Dallas Cowboys for FOX Sports activities, offering each day perception and evaluation on the NFL’s most seen franchise. Previous to becoming a member of FOX, David spent 9 seasons protecting the Cowboys for the group’s official web site, DallasCowboys.com. In 2018, he gained a regional Emmy for his function in producing “Dak Prescott: A Household Reunion” concerning the quarterback’s time at Mississippi State.

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