It's probably instructive to flash back to the summer of 2013, when the Cowboys took a "beach day'' off from training camp in Oxnard, allowing the then-rookie his first visit to the Pacific Ocean. Garrett relayed the story shortly thereafter:
“He goes running in and I swear to God he thought it was a swimming pool,'' Garrett said, "because he got about three steps in the water — it could not have been more than 12 inches deep — and he jumps up and goes 'bang!' It’s rocks. It’s sand. It ain’t deep. He kind of played it off and got going again but I am not so sure he knew what he was getting into.
“Typical Randle,'' Garrett said, chuckling. "I say that with affection.”