Dallas Cowboys linebacker Bruce Carter, the team's second-round pick in April, said he believes he will be able to participate in training camp despite a knee injury suffered last season at North Carolina.
Carter tore his ACL in November. He told KESN Radio, "The knee's doing well. I'd probably say to myself that I'm about 85 percent. I will say that I am full speed, I've been cutting, it's just kind of more like a mental thing more than it is physical. Just trying to get my feeling back and I feel pretty good about it. I'm ready to go."
Asked if he would be able to play this week in the team had a game, Carter said, "It would be a game-time decision."
—Linebacker Takeo Spikes, who will be a free agent when the lockout ends after ending the 2010 season with the San Francisco 49ers, said he doesn't like the numerous player-organized workouts that have taken place around the league this offseason.
Spikes said, "I'm not in favor of those. And the reason why is because, No. 1, I think guys are doing it because the next man is doing it. It's like, if you are going to do what you are going to do, I've always been taught - and I live by this creed - that what you do in private will be displayed in public one day, so you don't have to try to keep up with the Joneses and try to do something because, hey, this quarterback is doing it, so I'm going to do it."
He also said the result can negative for players that don't attend and are singled out.
"The next thing I hate about it is the fact that some guys legitimately they can't come," Spikes said. "They can't come and so when you let the media come in and tape the workouts the first thing they are going to say is, ‘Where is so-and-so?' From that point, on whether it is wrong or right or indifferent, the media guys will paint a picture to the public about a guy who can't legitimately come."
Staying in shape shouldn't be an issue, Spikes concluded.
He concluded, "If you can't wake up in the morning, go work out, do what you are supposed to do and come back and have the rest of the day to do what you want to do, then you got a problem."
