The strengths, struggles, and surprise breakouts at Cowboys minicamp

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Bobby breaks down the key takeaways from Cowboys mandatory minicamp so far, and highlights one of the biggest surprises, new cornerback Kaiir Elam. After a tough stint in Buffalo, Elam is starting to show real potential in Dallas, earning praise for his gritty coverage against CeeDee Lamb. Bobby also touches on Micah Parsons unexpectedly jumping into drills, along with Donovan Wilson and Sam Williams making their first appearances in helmets.

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00:00is uh brian was it was super excited to be there and he was super excited about what he saw

00:20from kair elam who kair elam has had some strong practices out here not every day there have been

00:28a couple times where he's been worked over in a practice or you had uh the practice last week

00:34that we had talked about where george pickens had beat him deep but a little bit of air under the

00:39ball so kair elam was able to catch up knock the pass away it's good there was another play where

00:44uh i think tuesday where people were talking about oh he had an interception or he knocked one down

00:48it's like well it was also a free play so like it was just that kind of throwing the ball up because

00:52there was a penalty on it so some of it when you start tracking the training camp stats which we'll

00:57get into here in just a second from kyle shanahan and why he hates that um when you're tracking the

01:01training camp or the ota or the mini camp stats um it's looked good but the reality is it's actually

01:09looked good this isn't like empty stuff he's looked better than i was anticipating and and it does give

01:14you a little bit of hope for all right this was a guy with first round pedigree from a couple years

01:18ago this was a guy who everybody in buffalo was like we wanted it to work and he worked so damn hard

01:24it just wasn't clicking here and so it does give you a little bit of a feel of like could it be just

01:29a a reset for your background or your scenery or the other question is this just kind of what

01:35kair elam does does he flash in practices like these yeah and then when you put the pads on or

01:40you're in game time is it is it not the same level schottenheimer was talking about him last week

01:44like leading kind of the gps stats dude he is he is intense at practice he runs all over the field

01:51he's been tasked a lot with covering cd just because a lot of times it's where cd's lining up

01:56he's lining up it's not like hey go take cd show us what you got kid it's not like that

02:00but he's had some really good reps against cd cd's gotten his no doubt about it but he's been

02:06really good he battles he's tough he fights it's all this positive stuff that you've heard about

02:11kair elam if he just kind of center it all together put it all together you might have

02:16a decent starting cornerback on your hands

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