Dak Prescott and Cowboys Raise Intensity at Training Camp

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00:00At training camp yesterday, Dak meeting with the media saying that intensity level is up and Cowboys getting ready to go.

00:06I think it's a good thing.

00:07I don't think there's necessarily, I mean, maybe one of them we had some punches going.

00:12But other than that, I mean, it's football.

00:16It's high emotions.

00:17You got guys out here practicing and competing for their life, competing for jobs.

00:22You've got to have that edge.

00:24I think that's a difference.

00:29That's the difference right there is how passionate these guys are.

00:32I mean, they're being taught and being told to compete every day.

00:35And some guys compete different ways, right?

00:37And I think when you put that together at times, you're going to have those disagreements.

00:41You're going to have those frustrations.

00:42But they've been doing a good job of, for the most part, viping each other up, looking in the face and realizing, OK, this is my teammate.

00:48I'm not going to take it there.

00:49And just as important as that, understanding that you can't take it there on game day either.

00:53So learning from it, controlling the emotions at the same time of being competitive.

00:58I mean, Coach says it all the time.

00:59We can be competitive without being combative.

01:01So I think it's a fine line.

01:03And I think we're flirting with it.

01:05And I think that's healthy.

01:07Yeah, nobody wants to see fights at training camp, especially amongst their own teammates.

01:12But usually that happens after like a week or two.

01:14I don't know that it happens on like day two or anything like that.

01:16But it shows you what the Cowboys are up to.

01:18All right, now what are the Pittsburgh Steelers up to?

01:21Man, do they look different going into training camp, right?

01:23Quarterback is Aaron Rodgers.

01:25Wide receiver is DK Metcalf.

01:27And they're more than just teammates, apparently, at this point.

01:30They're also staying with each other overnight in what they call a suite.

01:36Now, where this is on campus in the NFL, I'm not really sure.

01:40But here's Rodgers and that relationship budding between he and his star wide receiver.

01:45Not actually way different.

01:47We were at the dorms at beautiful St. Norbert's College for 14 years, first 14 years of my career.

01:55And in those years, I had to go from the third floor to the second floor.

02:00And finally, about year six or seven, I was on the first floor.

02:03So I'm on the first floor here, which is a good start.

02:06I got DK as my suite mate.

02:08So we're sharing a toilet and a shower.

02:10But I love, actually, I love this idea, this opportunity to be out here in the trove and to stay here and connect with the guys.

02:20Is that your choice to have DK as a suite mate or is that a Mike Tomlin assignment?

02:23No, I was surprised.

02:25I was here Tuesday night and not many other guys were here other than the rookies.

02:29And when I got in the room, I realized we were sharing something.

02:32I was, you know, secretly kind of hoping it wasn't a big lineman or something.

02:37Maybe somebody had, you know, cared about their hygiene a little bit.

02:41So when I walked in, I saw like a standard suitcase.

02:44I said, oh, I think it's going to be good.

02:46This is probably DK.

02:48Good stuff from Aaron Rodgers.

02:50All right.

02:51Finally, Houston Texans, of course, under some fire this year.

02:54Got to do better than they did last year for sure.

02:55Here's D'Amico Ryans, not worried about last season or the season before.

02:59For me, it's, I understand very quickly about our first two years, like with the success that we had.

03:06Like, yeah, it was great.

03:08But you have to forget that very quickly because to me, again, it doesn't, it doesn't predict.

03:14It doesn't really guarantee what's going to happen now.

03:17And every year, I tell our coaches, I tell our players this, every year the team changes.

03:23You're going to have some additions to your team each and every year.

03:27So it's all about how does that puzzle fit together?

03:30How quickly can we come together?

03:31Can we connect as a 2025 Texans?

03:34Like, I truly believe that.

03:36So if I'm harping on what we did in 24, that won't allow me to fully commit and fully dedicate myself to building this team,

03:44this roster in a manner that we need to be to go out and be great.

03:49And it'll be a growth process, right?

03:50We won't just, I'll tell you, you don't just start off where you ended last year in the playoffs.

03:55There's a lot of work that goes into getting back to that moment.

03:58It's not just guaranteed to you.

04:00So how bad do these guys want it?

04:02How bad do our coaches want it?

04:04We've got to put in the work to put ourselves in that position.

04:06It's going to be one day at a time, one game at a time, and we'll see where we end up.

04:12And by this time next week, we'll have our first preseason game of the year on tap.

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