Dallas Cowboys defensive line coach Brian Baker highlights intensity level of professional league
Dallas Cowboys’ defensive line coach, Brian Baker, has urged the rookies to focus more on strengthening their techniques, saying that the intensity of the game in the professional league is different than that of college football.
Baker has been training different defensive squads in the National Football League (NFL) since the last 15 years and knows well about the aggressive, violent and desperate nature of the league.
According to the details present on the team’s official website, Baker has not yet spent much time with the new players who have joined the team during the 2012 draft or after that as undrafted free agents, but the coach wants them to have a clear idea about
what they are going to face as they turn pro.
While mentioning that the players in the professional league have ‘bad attitudes’, the coach said:
"You've got to really want to handle your business down in there.”
Baker got a chance to train lightly with the rookies during the team’s three-day minicamp earlier this month and after watching them the coach believes that they have potential of becoming great players.
That being said, Baker also asserted that college football is different from the professional league and said:
"In college you may come against a guy, a college offensive lineman that's playing offensive line because he can't play anything else. At this level, these offensive linemen are trying to feed their families. It's a little different intensity level."
Meanwhile, Baker also praised Cowboys’ third-round draft pick, defensive end, Tyrone Crawford, saying that the rookie has got great football instinct.
The coach, however, maintained that Crawford is still in early days of his NFL life and he will need to spend a lot of time in training and learning to become a good pro.
Baker said of Crawford:
"He's one of those guys you see throwing people out of the way to get to it, diving over to get to it, crawling and spinning to get to it. He understands that it isn't always pretty down in there you've got to fight a different kind of fight.”
On the other hand, Crawford has also said that he would give his best shot during the team’s training camp this summer so as to learn as much as possible.
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