{"id":103965,"date":"2025-07-30T05:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T05:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/103965\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T05:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T05:16:11","slug":"everything-jonathan-smith-said-after-michigan-states-first-practice-of-fall-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/103965\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything Jonathan Smith said after Michigan State&#8217;s first practice of fall camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ON HIS DAY 1 GOALS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Heavy amount on the fundamentals in Day 1. When we&#8217;re just in the helmet, we&#8217;re not doing a ton of team period, so it&#8217;s a heavy emphasis on fundamentals. Your stance, your start, your footwork, do a lot of formation recognition, especially on the defensive side, and just making calls and those kinds of things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ON ANYONE WHO SURPRISED HIM ON THE FIRST DAY OF PRACTICE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought Derrick Simmons showed up today. I know it&#8217;s day one, defensive lineman. I hate pointing out just one, but where he&#8217;s taken his body since he&#8217;s been here, he looked the part, he fit right in being in Year 1.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ON THE DIFFERENCES IN NICK MARSH AS A SOPHOMORE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His confidence, awareness. We&#8217;re putting a lot on his plate, trying to move him around a little bit, and he hasn&#8217;t missed a beat. You can see his growth in leadership, too. I heard his voice out there a little bit today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get the latest info on\u00a0<b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/michigan-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michigan State<\/a><\/b>\u00a0football, basketball and recruiting sent straight to your inbox. Just enter your email address\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/michigan-state\/distribution\/signup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HERE<\/a>\u00a0to sign up for our free Spartans newsletter now!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ON HIS DAY 1 GOALS &#8220;Heavy amount on the fundamentals in Day 1. When we&#8217;re just in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":103966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-103965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114940491491708343","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}