Q. If you had to compare each of them to a player on the team...
NICK SIRIANNI: Well, Miles, Miles Sanders. TJ Edwards. Who are you like Taylor? She's got a lot of personality.
Q. Slay.
NICK SIRIANNI: Yeah, that's a good one. Slay, TJ Edwards, Miles Sanders.
Q. So that's a good sign for Slay, TJ Edwards, and Miles Sanders.
NICK SIRIANNI: Yeah.
Q. The offense seemed to struggle a little bit today. Why do you think that was?
NICK SIRIANNI: Well, I want to go watch the tape. I think when you're in training camp there will be ebbs and flows on both sides of the ball. In fact, that's what you want. You want there to be ebbs and flows on both sides of the ball. You don't want one side to dominate the other, and so you're going to look for those.
So there is no doubt we have good balance on both sides of the football. You know, defense is presenting challenges both with the looks and then with the players that we have on that side of ball.
So I got to watch the tape to see all that. I know we didn't turn it over as much today. We ended practice with a turnover, but I will have to watch tape to get a little bit more feel for that.
Q. This was by far the longest practice. (Indiscernible.)
NICK SIRIANNI: You know, we don't have to play tomorrow, and so of course you're looking at it and you're saying, guys got tired in that last period. There is no question.
But we're working, throwing different conditioning things in addition to our plays every day at them. So I can tell that we're getting a little bit better with our conditioning each day.
And that's pretty typical in two-minute, that guys are going to get tired in fundamentals and football IQ will suffer a little bit when you're tired.
So we have to fight through those things when we have them, but the intensity, again, was high. Are there mistakes? Of course. That's what training camp is for.
Sometimes as coaches you're like, I'm glad that happened right here because it's going to be a great opportunity to teach from it.
So of course there are mistakes because it's training camp, but I do I feel like this group of guys are getting in better shape. Tribute to them, because most of them came in and really top-notch shape ready for this mountain we have to climb.
Q. What happened (indiscernible) with Dillard?
NICK SIRIANNI: Yeah, concussion.
Q. I mean, but...
NICK SIRIANNI: How?
Q. Yeah.
NICK SIRIANNI: I don't know the exact play it happened on either of them, and neither of the guys were able to say the exact play it happened. It's obviously football and there are collisions, and there is no more collisions than the O- and D-line have. That's why they're wearing the guardian caps, because they have the most collisions.
We could say we're not live, but the O-line and D-line are live every single play. So I don't know exactly how it happened. Like I said, they don't either. Obviously we'll be very cautious with those guys.
Q. They both happen on Tuesday, during Tuesday's practice? Did both those condition concussions happen on Tuesday?
NICK SIRIANNI: Yes. Yesterday was Wednesday? Yeah. It was on Tuesday.
Q. How did Devonta injure his groin?
NICK SIRIANNI: How did he?
Q. Yeah.
NICK SIRIANNI: I can't give you the play it happened. We're being cautious with him and we know how important he is to this organization. I don't know exactly the play. He's running a lot and he's always at the top of the charts who ran the most, so just a little bit of wear and tear there.
Q. As far as your offensive install, has the walk-through days, has that shifted your timing with that kind of stuff or is it still the same sort of process whatever practice...
NICK SIRIANNI: You take into account days off when you're going through an install. Walk-throughs give you an opportunity to get more plays run, right? We stay on course with the walk-throughs as far as where we are in the process of the install, because you can get a lot of plays run and repped.
Given the time, you asked me about that with the walk-through, when you can really tell is -- and it's happened on multiple occasions -- where the defense had a play a couple days ago where the offense motions across. The defense spins their blitz to adjust to the formation that the offense is in, and they get us to be -- you know, they get pressure on us and we have to throw the ball hot because they get to the quarterback.
That doesn't happen unless there is extreme focus and detail in the walk-through. Tribute to the players. They know how important the walk-throughs are, and they're treating that just like a game. We talk about it all the time. You're full speed to the snap in the walk-through.
I'm just giving you one example of what happened, and it's been happening over and over and over again with our offense and defense, because they're acting like true pros in those walk-throughs.
Q. When will the offense be completely installed?
NICK SIRIANNI: Usually our installs are eight days. Used to be ten, now they're eight, just because as you go further in your coaching career you realize, we don't have to have every play in. There is a lot of good plays. What do our guys do well?
So it's an eight-day install, so closing up on the end of the installs.
Q. You're very particular about the way you want... (indiscernible - regarding receivers.)
NICK SIRIANNI: It's very important that the quarterback knows exactly where the receivers are going to be. So if it's zone, we talk about all the time there is route discipline, right? There is route discipline as far as, Hey, you have to be here at this particular time. Versus this look you got to be here, this look you got to be there.
So we spend a lot time on that. If you can get guys in the right position that's half the battle versus the different looks. Then it's being sharp and detailed with your routes, one so you can separate from the defensive back or linebacker, and two so you indicate. So for the quarterback when you're breaking you down.
So everything we're doing as far as that, I know what it takes to be an a good passing team. I've been on a lot of good passing teams. Those are really common denominators of the receivers and tight ends and runningbacks of good passing games. Be where you're supposed to be, be disciplined in your route, indicate to the quarterback, separate from the defensive back.
So everything we're talking about right there is critical so the quarterback reads the play correctly. So in a sense, when I'm getting on the receivers, tight ends, runningbacks on something like that, right, when I'm getting on those guys about that, I'm getting on them for the benefit of the quarterbacks and the benefit of the offensive line that the ball is getting out on time.
That's why this is the ultimate team game. It takes everybody to be precise. We are very particular with that. I don't want to give it a time like it takes this long to get there, but you see gradual improvements.
You're more and more saying -- every time I have something like that, it's like more and more times I'm saying in the film room, that's exactly how do it. That right there.
That's when I know we're getting close, that we are going through that process and it's like you're seeing it over and over again.
Are we there yet? No, but I feel myself saying that more each day, and tribute to the guys on the details and attention to the details.
Q. What do you see from Jalen Reagor? Tuesday seemed like he had a good day. Starting to stack some days together?
NICK SIRIANNI: He came in in in great shape, ready to go. So that's a big part of it, right, being able to run. He plays a position that you got to run all day.
So he's ready to go and ready to go as far as his shape when he first got in here. He's just working to get better every day. And I see improvements, right? He's making plays when there are opportunities. We talk to him a lot about, Hey you're not going to get 11 chances a game like you did at TCU. If you get three, you got to take advantage of those three and you can't leave them on the field.
So it's the consistency, his shape, and I see that he is playing more consistent right now.
Q. (Regarding last season.) Has that carried over to training camp as well?
NICK SIRIANNI: Yeah, of course. I just think he's a very instinctive player that's done it really well in this league for a long time. When you have guys like that in Slay and him, it makes the receivers work. I think I talked about that last time here. You know, the development of your receivers gets better as you go against better competition. No exception here.
He's making everybody better. He is making the defense, and in the process making our offense better because he is making them work to how you're going to get open against him. He's so instinctive, like you better not give him a little tell to the inside. So if my head is not perfect on my fundamentals, right, and I give him a little peek to the inside, he's going to drive that inside. You better be perfect.
We've seen it. Like I said, you don't want to mistake, but sometimes that's the best way to learn. That's our jobs as coaches to point those out and let's have a learning curve from that, right?
That's what he's forcing us to do. The same thing that's happening on the offensive and defensive line. You make a mistake with Fletcher Cox, you're in trouble. You make a mistake with Jason Kelce, you're in trouble.
It's making sure every detail is on and that we are striving for perfection knowing that that's impossible to do. But they're making it hard both offensively and defensively.
Q. When it comes to practicing in the heat, what do you like and dislike about it?
NICK SIRIANNI: Yeah, you know, the thing you dislike about it is I don't want to lose guys. You're worried about the heat as far as players' health. That's what you dislike about it.
What you love about it is this is how the first couple games will be played. Atlanta last year, that game was hot. This year's game in Detroit they'll have the air conditioning on.
After that, it's going to be hot and we have to be ready for that. It gets you in great shape.
What else you like about it is they're all fighting through the same elements together. It's not just hot for one of them, it's hot for both the offense and the defense. So you get a little bit more of a bond with that.
The other thing you like is they get tired a little quicker, right, so you have to fight -- when you're tired fundamentals can suffer. Football IQs can suffer. You got to fight through that.
There are so many great things that are preparing us for the season when have a hot day like this. We enjoy it, having that type of heat.
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