Q. Seemed like Jalen a really good day throwing the ball yesterday. Do you agree with that assessment after re-watching practice?
NICK SIRIANNI: Yeah, do I. I thought he knew where doing to the football. Made quick decisions. You always want a cup that will go a little quicker with the decision but yeah, I thought he had a good day throwing it around yesterday.
Q. Did you have a chance to tally up the score?
NICK SIRIANNI: We like to keep those competitions when we're going score for score against our own team, but when we look at it, it's hard to tell when a guy gets tackled or when a guy has a sack because they are pulling off and it's not going to the ground. It was great work. It was great work against a really good team and a really well-coached team.
Q. How much of an emphasis has it been with Jalen getting rid of the ball quickly on time?
NICK SIRIANNI: You know, again I think I've mentioned this before that I didn't want to completely change something that is a strength of his but you want to get more baffled throwing the ball on time. It's definitely been an emphasis. Don't want to be extreme with it. Again wise man avoid all extremes, and don't want to say, hey, you have to turn into this passer but he's getting better at it.
The things you focus on, I tend to think you get better at them and that's an improvement he's made.
Q. What have you seen from Devonta in the one day he's been back? Would you like to see him play in the preseason?
NICK SIRIANNI: Yeah, I always think it's niece for guys to play in preseason and go through that. Matter of fact, I'll let you guys in, you'll see it in a little bit, Devonta is going to do some team reps today, so excited about that.
We've got to see how today comes out. We have a preliminary plan of what we want Thursday to be like but we got a lot of good work yesterday and we will have a lot of good work today so that changes with every player.
Q. With a guy that's completely healthy, how much do you want the ones to go?
NICK SIRIANNI: Again we had a plan of what we thought we wanted to do but again we have to just get through today and get great work today and see where we are and re-evaluate because yesterday, these two practices yesterday and today are game like, as much game like as you can possibly get. That's why I value these practices so much. So just something that we're in the process of evaluating and like I said, we have a plan but that could change and I don't want to disappoint.
Q. I'm sure did you homework on Mac Jones; curious your evaluation of him?
NICK SIRIANNI: When we watched Mac and all the quarterbacks, I just thought he was really accurate, a really accurate quarterback that knew where he was going with the football. Obviously we got to see Mac even more because we watched Devonta a lot, and when you're watching Devonta's highlights it's easy to be like, whoa, that guy can make some great throws. He's a great player, great college football player and looking forward to see how well his career goes.
Q. What are your impressions of Kenny Gainwell two and a half weeks into camp?
NICK SIRIANNI: He is very strong and he catches the ball very well and he's got really good quickness and he's going to be able to do some of the things that we want him to do and why we drafted him.
Q. We've seen Javon Hargrave -- what have you seen from the entire defensive line?
NICK SIRIANNI: I just think that we have got a pretty experienced group up there and we have coaches that are helping them to continue to develop and a lot of experience and again, you win games with good O-Line and good D-Line and it really starts there and I see that as one of the strengths of our team.
Q. What has he done in preseason?
NICK SIRIANNI: Yeah, Sean's energy is contagious, he's just a guy you want to be around at all times and the guys feel that around him. Obviously he's got talent and just continuing to learn the system and getting himself in position to be in the right spot at the right time and using his instincts, the thing about him is that he's a good leader, personality is contagious, guys want to be around him.
Q. When you said that Jalen had checked the pass to Dallas and Joe had checked to the touchdown to Quez, is it the kind of thing where you call a couple plays and they pick what they want based on the look or is it totally audibled out?
NICK SIRIANNI: It's a little different each time. Sometimes it's a play that, hey, we are running this, and if we get, this we are running this. Sometimes we are running this and if we get this, we're doing this and if we get this it's a three-way check and sometimes it's just built into, hey, this team likes to do this, this sort of pressure, be ready to check to these couple things that they do.
So it's a little different each time, but that's why it's so important that the quarterback and myself as the play caller and Shane as the offensive coordinator and Ryan as the quarterback coach are all on the same page and seeing things alike; hey, we love this play versus this, we have to be ready to adjust.
We are not going to bat a thousand as coaches, right. Defense coaches get paid, too. Here is what we like it against, be ready to get out of those plays if we don't like it against something.
Q. You talked about preserving the mystery of your scheme -- am I getting ahead of myself next week with the Jets because you play them, do you treat those practices differently than this week?
NICK SIRIANNI: This is a little different. There's only two teams that see this, ourselves and the Patriots and ourselves and the Jets. We are very professional with them and they are very professional with us knowing we want to continue this relationship with both the Jets and the Patriots, so whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, right.
So whatever happens on these practice fields stays here. We're able to do a little bit more than what we do in a preseason game at this particular point because not all 32 teams get to see it.
Q. What's your philosophy on hurry-up-tempo? That something that you would like to favor a fair amount? And also how do you think that plays to Jalen's skill set when I guess you're giving him a couple plays on each down; is that correct?
NICK SIRIANNI: At times, yeah. You know, we've always had that, again, it is to our advantage that nobody really know what is we're doing, all right, when we go in there and step into Atlanta game one.
But it's no secret that the teams that I've been on, teams Shane's been on, we've used many tempo and it helps. I think it just helps the simplicity of what's happening out there for the quarterback because they have got to get lined up. It pushes stress on them while you run their base play. That's always been a part of what we do but again, you know, we'll see how much we use it.
Q. Does he play to Jalen's strengths?
NICK SIRIANNI: I think he plays to any quarterbacks strengths because what it does instead of the defense being able to get their perfect scheme on or whatever, they have to stay pretty base because they have to get lined up. When we are going to the line of scrimmage, the defensive coordinator has to get a call in quick and it forces them to be pretty simplistic.
Q. Reagor and Watkins had productive sessions yesterday. When you see improvement every day, how much improvement have you even from those young receivers?
NICK SIRIANNI: Yeah, I really like the development that's happened. The thing with Jalen Reagor yesterday, what I was real impressed with was particularly his one-on-ones. I thought he had a good day all together.
But his one-on-ones now were special and he was starting to use some techniques that we want him to see because we all know that he has phenomenal athleticism, right and so it was like, can we put -- and this is with every player, you made it this far because you're a heck of a football player. Can you put that football ability and your athleticism and can you combine fundamentals and technique with it and that's when you reach your ceiling.
So what I saw Jalen do yesterday in those one-on-ones, he was great off the line of scrimmage of how he was moving a guy, he was good at the top of the route. He finished with the catch. He just had a good feel how to attack guys yesterday and so I really see him growing, really a credit to Aaron Moorehead and Kevin who have really helped work there and it's great to have Eddie Royal here working with our guys.
Eddie is doing an internship with us. He was a great football player for our charger teams, and you know, had a lot of success, and I always thought he was really savvy as a football player and I'm glad he's able to add his knowledge there as well.
Q. You play the Jets in the regular season and you know the Patriots, how different are these practices from that --
NICK SIRIANNI: Well, the difference is that they are going to have 13 games on us before we go play them, so this was a discussion and we talked about that. We said, hey, we want to do that but if we play too early in the season, it doesn't make sense.
When the schedule came out and it was week 13, for us to go back -- maybe we will go back and watch the tape and maybe they will go back and watch the tape, but you're kind of who you are at that time and they have a lot of other film to watch. That's why we are not as concerned about that. Hopefully I answered your question.
Q. -- what have you found out about yourself in terms of being a head coach and asserting your authority? Are you the type that you'll listen to other before making a decision or are there certain things that you feel strongly about? Do you think that your personality makes you open to being accepting of other people?
NICK SIRIANNI: I think there's no clear-cut answer there. Always to me, it's always a group decision initially, but my job as the head coach is it's always a group decision but my job as the head coach is to hear all the different parties that play and be able to make the decision that I think is best for the team and our football team.
I think some of the offensive staff would argue with you sometimes. They would say, Nick is set on how we are doing this play and I can't turn them there, so there's some, that's some things with coaching. There's philosophies that I don't want to say they are deal breakers, but they are like I feel strong conviction on, and when I have a strong conviction on something, it's going to be hard to change my mind, both as a leader and as an offensive coach.
Q. You've mentioned in terms of dealing with medical you just allow them to make personnel --
NICK SIRIANNI: Taken a little out of context, what you're saying, just let them do it. Again they are the experts at it and I listen to them and everybody's ability to tell me and give me their expertise but at the end of the day I still have to make the decision what I feel is best for the football team.
Q. Miles you held him back the other neat obviously, is that because of the position he plays and are you learning more about him now that you have --
NICK SIRIANNI: Say the full question again.
Q. Holding Miles Sanders back is that because running backs, the position he play s is a high contact position and are you learning more about him thank you than you knew?
NICK SIRIANNI: It was the decision we felt was best for the team before that game. He had to get a little bit the position and that's just been the experience with me at that position that we didn't feel -- that's a high-volume position that takes a lot of hits and we just felt like he didn't need to do that last week. Again, we are re-evaluating this week to see if we should do that but he's getting a lot of good work here yesterday and pleased with everything he's done so far here in camp.
Q. You've spoke about your admiration from Bill Belichick. Anything you hope to take from him in these two days?
NICK SIRIANNI: Just being able to be around people that are high -- that are really good at their job, I think you learn just from being around. I'm not looking for something in particularly, but I'm always observing, right. I'm always observing gives that are good at those things. So I just admire the way he prepares. I admire the way he gets his guys ready, how he motivates his guys. Those are things -- you see little things like that so it's good to be around him. Most of my attention, obviously, it better be, right, is around our football team but you still get to learn from guys that you're around.
Q. You have three or four more cuts to make by four o'clock today. How challenging at this early stage is it to do that and have any decisions been made?
NICK SIRIANNI: Yeah, we are using today to help us because it's hard, right. These guys that we are going to have to end up cutting which we don't know exactly who they are yet. We're going to go through practice again today. It's hard because they have bled and sweated and they have done all these things as a team and then it's the bad part of the business, you've got to let the guys go.
Like we've got to let four guys go today, and in a couple weeks we've got to let, I don't know exactly a number, 20 and again it keeps going down. It's hard. It's hard because you get close to guys and that's -- our very first core value is connecting. That's just not with players one, two, three and power and that's just not with your quarterback and that's just not with your safety; that's getting everybody lined up. That's with everybody.
So that's what makes it hard. But everybody that we do end up letting go, I make sure that they understand that to stay in shape, they know the system and that they have contributed to the culture that we have and the practice habits that we have and where we are at this point.
Q. Will you meet with everyone to discuss --
NICK SIRIANNI: I think that's my job as the head coach -- and I owe that to every guy to talk to them and give them feedback to help them develop their career.
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