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Jason Garrett likes Felix Jones
3:13 PM Thu, May 29, 2008 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
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I asked Jason Garrett yesterday for his opinion on the comparisons that Wade Phillips drew between Thurman Thomas and Felix Jones. Garrett was careful.
But read between the lines on this one.
"Wade was around Thurman Thomas, so he knows a lot more about him than I do," Garrett said. "I just know he's a very physically talented player who also has good instincts. And instincts are hard to teach. We can coach as long as we want, but it's hard to teach a guy vision and feel on some of those things. Tony Romo has some of those traits.
"And those are the things that really separate players in my opinion, and we saw that on tape and in the brief glance we've had, we're seeing that here. So again, we're excited to have him as a part of we're doing."
Thomas' vision and instincts were also top-notch, so I'm guessing that Garrett's seeing some of the same things Wade did.
Here's the rest of what he had to say ...
"I like a lot about him," Garrett said of Felix. "I felt like we had a good feel for him as a player, watching tape and knowing some people there, (ex-Arkansas DC/current Cowboys assistant) Reggie Herring being up at Arkansas and some people who were around him everyday. And everything that those guys said has come true. I mean, he's a quality kid, first and foremost, he wants to be a great player and he works at it. He studies it, he works at practice, he wants to learn, he wants to do it as much as he can.
"He's a very instinctive football player, too. He's very talented, but you can see he sees defenses, he knows how to get big, get small, do all the little things good players do. And we saw that on tape and we're seeing it out here in practice. He's a young guy, he has a long way to go, but everything we saw before, we're seeing it now and we're excited about it."
http://cowboysblog.***BANNED-URL***/archives/2008/05/jason-garrett-likes-felix-jones.html
3:13 PM Thu, May 29, 2008 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
Albert Breer E-mail News tips
I asked Jason Garrett yesterday for his opinion on the comparisons that Wade Phillips drew between Thurman Thomas and Felix Jones. Garrett was careful.
But read between the lines on this one.
"Wade was around Thurman Thomas, so he knows a lot more about him than I do," Garrett said. "I just know he's a very physically talented player who also has good instincts. And instincts are hard to teach. We can coach as long as we want, but it's hard to teach a guy vision and feel on some of those things. Tony Romo has some of those traits.
"And those are the things that really separate players in my opinion, and we saw that on tape and in the brief glance we've had, we're seeing that here. So again, we're excited to have him as a part of we're doing."
Thomas' vision and instincts were also top-notch, so I'm guessing that Garrett's seeing some of the same things Wade did.
Here's the rest of what he had to say ...
"I like a lot about him," Garrett said of Felix. "I felt like we had a good feel for him as a player, watching tape and knowing some people there, (ex-Arkansas DC/current Cowboys assistant) Reggie Herring being up at Arkansas and some people who were around him everyday. And everything that those guys said has come true. I mean, he's a quality kid, first and foremost, he wants to be a great player and he works at it. He studies it, he works at practice, he wants to learn, he wants to do it as much as he can.
"He's a very instinctive football player, too. He's very talented, but you can see he sees defenses, he knows how to get big, get small, do all the little things good players do. And we saw that on tape and we're seeing it out here in practice. He's a young guy, he has a long way to go, but everything we saw before, we're seeing it now and we're excited about it."
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