RB Cam Skattebo: 'I've proved what I am in college, but I've proved nothing at this level'

Cam Skattebo talks to the media friday after day one of rookie minicamp.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
On his first day.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Good, it was awesome. I'm in a new building with
new people, and I fill at home. So yeah, when
you first heard you were coming to the Giants, what
was your reaction? I mean, as you've seen, I cried.
You know, this is an awesome place to be. Did
I expect it to be here? No? But this is

(00:23):
where I want to be now, and I love that
I'm here. I've met new guys, you know, throughout the
last two weeks, and it's been awesome. So ahead, well
why did you cry? What was the motion it was
going to? I've I've worked eighteen years, you know to
get to this moment, and you know, I'm on NFL
team now and I still have more to prove. So

(00:43):
I'm excited to, you know, get to get to work
and prove what I have, prove what I.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Am okayis was something you had to work on as you.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Got all Yeah, I mean I worked on it. You know,
throughout my whole life, I caught the ball. My dad
was a six five and ten pound receiver in high school,
so catching the ball was big for him. And as
I grew up, you know, catching the ball was an
emphasis he made me do, so It's been natural throughout,
you know, my life, and credit to my dad had
really good hands in high school. So what about the

(01:15):
physical part of the game. Do you love promotion? I
feel like that's what everyone says, physical, physical, Like, what
do you love about that? Getting the end zone? I mean,
you know, it feels good when you run somebody over
and then getting the end zone. I mean, it feel
good when you get in the en zone. But imagine
running someone over and then running another person over and
then getting in the end zone. It's not much better,
you know. So it just shows that, you know, when

(01:37):
when you're physical, it shows the work you put in,
you know, the weight room, and how much you do
to make your game better. So do you think well sleep.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
On your ability to make guys miss in the open field?

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Say one more time?

Speaker 1 (01:49):
You feel like people sleep on your ability to make
guys miss in the open field?

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Maybe a little bit this past year, I didn't do
it a ton, you know, I more so hit people
or attack their one shoulder. But I mean people want
to sleep. They can sleep, you know. I have no
issue with that. It's been something I've had to deal
with my whole life. So I'm going to continue to
do what I need to do to be successful and
play as long as I can in this league.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
You talk about being physical and attacking at one shoulder,
it's about angles. How often does that get lost in
terms of how folks view the running back position, like
you always taking on too much contact, but not that
every contact contact is the same contact.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, exactly, and that's right. I mean head up contact
is that's that's real contact, you know, And shoulder to
shoulder isn't as much contact as people think, you know.
And uh, I have a I have a good balance
underneath my feet. So if I can get half of
a body, you know, I feel like I'm in a
good shape to go past them. So with all you accomplished,
how do you keep finding the chip on your shoulder

(02:45):
and to prove people that you can still do? Or yeah,
how many snaps of the NFL have you seen me play? Zero? Right,
I've proved nothing. I've you know, I've proved what I
am in college, but I've proved nothing at this level.
So what now? Where I'm at, I have to prove myself.
And if that's for five years or if that's for
ten years, I'm gonna continue to prove myself I'm the best,

(03:05):
do it for the longest, So continue to do that
and just work my butt off until, you know, until
time comes. Kim, have you heard from Tyrone Tracy or
watch any film about him? What do you know about
him as the running out? Yeah, he's I've watched him
film obviously. I'm in the coach in the room with
coach Betts, and uh, he's texted me and we've gotten contact,
so you know, I've I've i haven't met him in

(03:27):
person yet. I'm excited to, but uh, you know, I'm
excited to play with him, next to him, in the
same room as him, you know, even me learning from him.
He's done it for a year and I'm excited to,
you know, pick things from his game also. So it
seems like a really good guy. You know, we've we've
had conversation and I can't wait to meet him. There's
a lot of NFL teams that use like a two
back system. And this is not in any way to

(03:49):
say that you both can't do it all. But could
you guys together be like a thunder and lightning kind
of combination. Yeah. Absolutely, I Mean he's he's a really
fast you know, running back, and and there's nothing about
his game that you can take away from. And you know,
he might be a little faster than me. So if
you want to call it thunder and lightning and go ahead,
But you know, it's it's it's a running back backfield,

(04:10):
no matter how it goes, whatever our roles are. You know,
if he plays the whole time and I play at all,
you know, not at all. I'm just gonna be here
and I'm gonna work, put my head down and keep going.
How much pressure does it put a defense put on
a defense when you do have two backs that can
sub in and out, in and out in and out,
that run a little differently. I know, you guys can
all do everything. But he's known for more speed, you're
known for more physicality. Yeah, I mean it's huge because

(04:31):
you got if I'm in the game, you got eight
guys in the box, and you know, if he goes
in the game, there could be five. So he could
have a really good advantage in the run game. I
could have a really good advantage of the catching in
the past game. So it's it's gonna switch things up,
and I'm excited. You know, I don't have any any
idea what they're gonna do with us. But whatever they
have for us, I know we're both gonna take it
on head on, and you know the rest of that
room too also, So Ky, what's your first depression here? Jackson?

(04:55):
Obviously run there's a lot of the meetings, I'm sure,
and on the field. Yeah, I mean he's incredibly smart.
You guys will talk to him soon, But I mean
I've I've talked to him the last twenty four hours,
and I mean, the kid's incredibly smart. You know, he's
one of the smartest I've been around. And I mean
he did he did a great job today with the
you know seven seven on seven play calls, snap counts

(05:17):
and all that and keep making make sure everybody was
in line. So I can't you know, I can't wait
to see what he does and what he's capable of.
How do you know that?

Speaker 1 (05:26):
How do you know that?

Speaker 2 (05:27):
You say he's incredibly smart, I mean you haven't been
around him. How does that smart manifest itself? Yeah? I
mean coaches say things and if you answer it fast
and right, you know that that's that's that's hard to do,
you know, especially how with the nerves and everything that
rack up as a rookie, the head coach asked you
a question and you know the answer like that. You
know you're into your books and you know you're very smart.

(05:49):
So and just talking to him about football and certain
routes and play calls and just hearing him hear a
call one time and being able to call it multiple
times back to back. It's just something that he does
well in. Uh. I can't wait to continue to see
what he does. How do you do more with those
snap questions?

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Have you done so far? Good?

Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah? I mean I'm a I'm a pretty smart back,
so I don't. I don't really have a ton of
issues with, you know, answering questions as simple as for
doubling up. They give it to you exactly this. This
is what I'm in for now. We'll see what I
I'm not. I'm this is a temporary number. We'll see
what I end up in the season, but we won't
know that until you know later on