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Q. How have you evolved in this process? Hasn't changed that much, Kellen and Vick, bringing them into it?
NICK SIRIANNI: Every year you do something, you go through what can we do better? What can we do better? What wasn't quite good enough? The process always changes. You're always in the business of perfecting the process. It's never set.
I had one year, like, hey, I wanted to push it a little bit more and get a couple more reps 7-on-7 and a couple guys got hurt. Then my next notes in 2022 said pull back a little bit from that. You're always in the search of having a good process.
That's just what you go through at the end. But there's some similarities. It's different. These guys are not in football shape. These guys, we're training to run a 40. These guys, we're training to run the combine drills. They weren't training all this time to be football players.
And some of the guys were on a lot of 30 visits. So we wouldn't have ever asked our players to go out, our veterans, to go out without any preparation into just full-go practice. You ease into it. So I think that's the thing we always have to guard yourself against a little bit is, man, I want to do more. I want to see these guys a little bit more. Get this guy and that guy a touch.
It's making sure you're not doing too much early on while still getting the ability to get an evaluation on the guys that are here that you drafted, that are undrafted free agents, try-out guys, stuff like that.
Q. (Inaudible)?
NICK SIRIANNI: We obviously have a lot of time to figure out who our guys, top five guys are. He's played tackle, obviously as everybody knows, and he'll start there and we'll see what happens.
Q. First impressions you had of the guys out there.
NICK SIRIANNI: It's fun to get out. First thing you're thinking is how do we knock the rust off of ourselves. We haven't coached on the field for a while. You're thinking -- making sure everything's right there. And get to be able to watch these guys. And so you get good impressions.
I had some guys in there I'm, like, man, that looked really good. I'm going to hold back on saying this guy or that guy because it's only one day. But you guys kind of interrupted me. I was up there watching tape. I had to come down talk to you. I wanted to see a little bit more.
But you get to see it out there live. Again, it's just exciting to get out there and work again. But there's definitely guys you saw out there, they're like that's the burst I saw on tape. That's the little move right there I saw on tape.
That's exciting. And so you definitely get excited about being back on the field, first of all, and secondly, the guys that we have, because we're really excited to work with these guys.
Q. Connecting with Vick since he hired.
NICK SIRIANNI: Just the same as I try to do with everybody else, of finding that common denominator of what you have in common and talking to him about that. I know this about Vick: We have in common that we love football, and so we get to be able to talk a lot about football.
So some of it is getting to know each other in just that way as far as our football discussions, situational discussions, taking-the-ball-away discussions. And then it's trying to find different ways. He's been at both cheesesteak runs that we made. Now he knows all the good cheesesteak places, I get it. He's from here.
But just different things like that. I know how big of a Phillies fan Vick is. We haven't been to a Phillies game together, but I'm imagining that's going to happen at some point.
But in similar ways you try to do with players, find that common bond that you have and kind of latch on with that.
Q. To get a guy like Jalyx around some of the veterans, other rookies as well. Doesn't have a whole lot of experience.
NICK SIRIANNI: Goodness, he gets to be around B.G., and that's huge. Just like it was for Cam to be around Jason. And just like it was for Jordan and Jalen to be around Fletch. It's going to be the same thing there.
So really looking forward, and the same thing for Trevor to be around Lane and Jordan. Yeah, that's a huge advantage, right, to get him around these guys.
It's not only that person at that position, it's getting them merged into the culture. Our culture is our behaviors, what you do every single day, over and over and over again. So it's exciting that they're here.
Now, they're not here with the veterans right now, but they're immersed in it. What was really cool in my mind was that A.J. was out there today and that Jordan Mailata was out there today. A.J. giving up coaching points. Jordan Mailata, I got in here this morning, he was in here for the team meeting and went to the O line meeting this morning, just to be there with those guys.
That's special. That's a connection that these guys are willing to put that time in to be around our rookies, see what they're made of, and just be there for them.
So I'm excited for these guys to all get immersed into the culture. It was cool to see our veterans do that today.
Q. Heard a lot about (indiscernible), chance to see him, what stuck out to you?
NICK SIRIANNI: We had limited reps today. I get to see him go through drills. You saw the burst and quickness that we saw on tape of why we drafted him in the first round.
Made a couple of nice plays on the ball today out there with some 7-on-7 speed. And so just excited to see him out there on the field and competing.
Again, limited reps today, but you did see the quickness and the burst and the acceleration.
Q. (Question about secondary and Cooper)
NICK SIRIANNI: Cooper has obviously versatility. Quinyon has big play ability. They both have big play ability. Obviously we're not to a point where this guy's playing here or that guy's playing here or this guy's limited to just this. We're just out there right now getting some reps out there and seeing where they fit.
Q. (Question about Jordan and Lane)
NICK SIRIANNI: And Landon. And Landon.
Q. (Question about what's the message overall)
NICK SIRIANNI: Just get immersed into the culture. Just get immersed into the culture. We can go over our core values, what they are, what they mean, how we do it, but until we start doing, your culture is just your behaviors. Until we start doing those things, they're just words on the wall.
So it's just getting immersed into the culture. And part of that is the detail, understanding what to do and how to do it. And just diving into that every day. Yeah, it's a lot. Rookie mini camp, though, it's new words for all these guys. It's new language, all these different things.
But, remember, rookie mini camp, we're not throwing them the whole book. We're really pulling back, because in my mind it's really more important to see what they can do as opposed to what they know because they're not going to know much right now. It's too fresh. It's too new. Kellen kept the inventory down. Vick kept the inventory down. Coach Clay kept the inventory down so we can go out there and see their movements, watch them. Especially the try-out guys. You don't want to flood them. You want to see what they can do. They're here for a try-out. It wouldn't be fair to them to make them learn everything and then they can't play fast.
They're not swimming yet is what I'm saying. If they tell you they're swimming right now, they're not. It's not to that point yet. They're not swimming yet. It's fun to be out there and watching them roll.
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