• 2 months ago
Bryan Broaddus joined Shan & RJ live from Oxnard to talk about more from the Cowboys' first preseason game, including where he thinks both Trey Lance and Mazi Smith can improve going forward, where the wide receiver room stands even with a CeeDee Lamb return, and more.
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00:00initial reaction, what we've seen from the game from the TV copy, right? And then you
00:19get a chance to go back, watch the tape, see things a little bit more clearly. Trey Lance
00:23better, worse, or about the same as what you had seen live on Sunday.
00:29He's gotten better at practices since you guys departed. In the game the other day,
00:33missed some opportunities where his accuracy wasn't very good. He made his receivers have
00:38to work several times to get the football. I think there were a couple of different times
00:42where they set him up to maybe make a throw that would have likely put points on the board.
00:47They had a wheel route that they ran with Princeton Fant that I felt like McCarthy called
00:54it with knowing that without the Rams, we're going to play it down in that section of
00:59the field. And he threw the ball back to his left where it was probably a harder throw.
01:05But there were some throws that he could have made in that game that could have ended up
01:10as scoring plays for this football team. He just missed them.
01:13I know you felt like Mozzie Smith had been overly criticized when you got the chance
01:18to watch the first time. Getting into the tape, watching the tape a little bit. Improvement
01:23looking a little more solid. I know it looked like that third drive he was winded.
01:27Yeah, playing with his hands. It's unfortunate that the screenplay that he made, he plays
01:33off the block of Linder, the center, and does a really nice job of extending his hands,
01:40which is something that they coach him all the time. It's hands, Mozzie, hands, Mozzie.
01:44Not outside, inside, Mozzie. Inside hands, Mozzie. And so his hands were much better.
01:49His extension was much better. He controls the center. And then he reads the screen and
01:54he gets over and makes the play. And then the very next play he does absolutely nothing.
02:00It's like he took a play off. It's like, oh well, hey I made a play so now I get to take
02:04a play off. And what they need him to be is the player that played the screen. They need
02:09him to be the player that fires his hands inside and controls the blocker and plays
02:13square. And those are the things that I think that, you know, that Mozzie's capable of doing.
02:19We talk about him every day in a way of there are flashes of plays that he makes. And I've
02:25always been taught a flash player is not a great player. And so that's the problem. And
02:32they need more consistency from him. He's capable of making plays. He's capable of learning.
02:38But there's times where he does get winded. And it might be a little bit of his conditioning
02:42that is a problem. The shoulder, the rehab, all those things. Maybe he didn't get to work.
02:47But we've been through now two weeks of camp. You know, there's a lot of guys that are in
02:52good condition right now and are playing a lot of snaps and practicing a long time and
02:57not looking, you know, not taking plays off. And that's the unfortunate thing with Mozzie.
03:03Every time you see the two or three really good things, there's probably another one
03:06or two other things where you're going, man, if he could just find a way not to play this
03:11way, he'll be a much better player.
03:13You kind of answered it, but I was going to ask, you know, how often does that like
03:16light stay on? Because I saw some of that in Oxnard where I'm like, did he just give
03:21up right there? Is he half out?
03:22Yeah, it's unfortunate. Yeah, it really is. It's unfortunate because he made a really
03:27good play of controlling the center and getting over on the screen. And you're like, you know,
03:31you're saying that now that's what you need. You're one technique to do to extend play
03:36with power, throw that blocker aside and then get over and make a play. And then the very
03:41next play, I could clip it for you guys and show it to you, where he acts like that, OK,
03:46huh, made a tackle. Now I get to take a little break. No, I mean, hey, you're still fighting
03:53to get off the field. And, you know, when he plays those four or five plays in a row,
03:59you know, he needs to be good on three or four of those plays. He just can't be one
04:03good play and then take three plays off. That's just not going to be good enough for this
04:07football team.

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