Mazie Smith knows she needs to improve her sophomore season.She also believes that the Dallas Cowboys’ defensive line strength and a veteran presence like Jordan Phillips will only help her. him in the long run.< “I know. everything about Jordan Phillips,” Smith told Patrick Walker of the Cowboys’ website this week. He has done many games. He is the doctor for this game, and when you can enter the room, iron sharpens iron. This is what you want. You need a room full of competition. You don’t want to be (alone).”Mazi Smith knows his sophomore season needs to be better.He also believes the Dallas Cowboys will strengthen the defensive line with stay of the troops. Like Jordan Phillips he should only help in the long run.
“I know everything about Jordan Phillips,” Smith told Patrick Walker of the Cowboys’ website this week. He has done many games. He is the doctor for this game, and when you can enter the room, iron sharpens iron. This is what you want. You need a room full of competition. You don’t want (any)body to relax.”
Friday proved another hurdle for the second-year lineman, as the Cowboys announced he experienced an allergic reaction at training camp and was unable to travel with the team to Las Vegas for Saturday’s contest against the Raiders. He received treatment and will be reevaluated, after which Dallas plans to update his game status.
Regardless of whether or not he’s able to suit up this weekend, he’s hoping to hit his second season with a “clean slate.” He’s also planning on picking Phillips’ brain to help him rebound from a less than scintillating start to his career.
“Me and Jordan Phillips are gonna have conversations,” Smith said. “Just watching how they go about their business. You see vets and players who’ve done this for 11 years, they’ve started in the NFL for (a long) time and that’s not an easy feat. So, when you’ve got somebody coming in that’s done anything like that, first of all, that’s respect; and then you look to them and see what they’re doing and seeing what you’re not.”
So it seems the Cowboys added some much-needed depth and beef up front, along with a potential mentor for their 2023 first-rounder.
