Nate Webster makes the real “Hard Knock”

Aug/17/08 10:30 PM Filed in: Nate Webster
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With no afternoon practice today, I just was able to get caught up with Episode 2 of HBO’s “Hard Knocks.” A television crew is following the Cowboys through training camp, including the team’s four practices against the Broncos.

Episode 2, which aired on Wednesday night, included a short segment on rookie RB Keon Lattimore, who just so happens to be little brother of Ravens LB Ray Lewis. Guess Broncos’ LB Nate Webster (who, like Lewis, is a former Miami Hurricane) hasn’t been watching.

On Thursday, Webster unleashed possibly the hardest hit of training camp on Lattimore — the crunch of the hit, not even a real tackle since no one was in full pads — was heard all the way across the practice field. No surprise, but Lattimore fumbled the ball.

After the practice, I was talking to Webster, when cornerback Domonique Foxworth came up to us and asked me if I had seen the hit. I said I did, but Foxworth wanted to make sure, so he grabbed my notebook and wrote in it that “Nate Webster almost killed a man.” Foxworth said it was Lattimore, and I told Webster that Lattimore is Lewis’ brother. That led to one of my favorite exchanges of camp:

Webster: “Ray Lewis has a little brother?”

Foxworth: “Not anymore he doesn’t.”

I’m looking forward to seeing the next episode of Hard Knocks to see if that hit — and how much of the Brandon Marshall-Adam “Pacman” Jones “feud” — makes the cut.

(blogs.denverpost.com)