Q. I know before the season you had the meeting with each player about their role. When a role changes during the season, especially a decrease how handle that?
NICK SIRIANNI: Again you talk to everybody, just open lines of communication. You know, our role meeting is, yes, it's done in private but it's also done in person and then you redefine roles as each game comes up because roles change here and there within the game, or pardon me -- week-in, week-out.
So when you're going over goals, hey, it's important that we stop this guy and you're going to be responsible for that. So you know, again, when guys roles change positively or play them a little bit lessor have less, you just communicate everything.
Q. Held back -- what was behind that --
NICK SIRIANNI: Yeah, he was dealing with -- with as on the injury report dealing with the ankle and you know just making sure we're cautious with everything.
Q. He wasn't on -- Jalen Hurts, it was an ankle?
NICK SIRIANNI: That was a rest, yeah. Thought you were talking about someone else.
Q. Is there someone with an ankle problem?
NICK SIRIANNI: No, rest. (Laughter).
Q. When it comes to that role, to follow up, everybody handles it a little bit differently. How much does that come into it that you have to learn the personalities?
NICK SIRIANNI: Again, it's just knowing everybody, and everybody has a little bit different personality. Everybody is a little bit different, and just having that communication and knowing the guys at the end of the day is what's the most important. So you're able to communicate that with them.
And again, like don't get, I don't want to get too much into all the conversations that you have with everybody but it's, you know, again, a lot of it is done in front of the team as far as, hey, here is what's important for this week as a whole. Here is what's important for you this week as an individual. Again you can't do that every single week like you do in the preseason but yeah.
Q. How has motion helped in the pass game, obviously gives the quarterback a lot of pre-snap tell but in the run game, especially the read part of it, how does the motion help?
NICK SIRIANNI: Again just puts deception into the defense's mind and not giving them the same look. So they have to recognize different formations and adjust on the fly.
Q. When it came to the decisions for rest everything and else with, it being a short week the following week, how do you balance that?
NICK SIRIANNI: Everything you do, you're trying to get the guys ready for this game obviously but also have the future envelope mind, whether you have a short week the following week or a long week or, you know, a night game or whatever it is. So you're thinking about that with everything that you do.
So the rest this week -- we do -- you look at every single player and you kind of have an individual plan. I think that's why we have such good doctors and trainers and also strength staff because everybody has basically an individual plan but you know, even today, what will we do at the end of practice. That's kind of how the practice goes, right. How are we feeling, so something could turn into a jog through.
So everything, you have these contingency plans on everything. You know, what are we going to do, in this case, what are we going to do in that case. And so yeah, so we -- yeah, every little scenario has a contingency plan and then we will see how the game goes, see what Monday is going to look like, will we bring the guys, in practice, and later in the week all those things are discussed. And you go off your plans that you have done prior to that, as well and kind of just adjust those as you go.
Q. We learned that Lane and a couple offensive lineman came to you in the bye week and expressed their desire for the offense -- what was that moment like from your perspective?
NICK SIRIANNI: I spend a lot of time obviously with Jalen in that bye week and just talking through things. Jalen had so much good insight and you always listen to your players as far as they are the ones out there seeing it and feeling it.
And so I think it's just good feedback. That's good organizational -- that's just good organizational football, right, is to be communicating with everyone to get everyone on the same page and yeah, I thought it was great. Great, productive meetings.
Q. Why do you think in such a drastic change from one way to the other, 8-0, dominated at home last year and now really struggling, what have you seen on tape that makes them so different this year?
NICK SIRIANNI: Again, I still really have a lot of respect for this football team. They have got a lot of good players. They have got good coaches. And we're going to have to be on it, you know, going up there into a difficult place to play and be on it.
And so we're preparing that way. You know, when we put on tape, you watch tape different ways, sometimes you watch it in the flow of the game, and sometimes you watch it in -- as cut ups and when you're watching cut ups you're like, whoa, man, that's a tough one to stop or this is a tough scheme to stop or this is a tough player to stop. They have our full attention. This is a rivalry game. This is a big-time game against a big-time opponent, and you know, I don't think -- I haven't been a part of a team that's won there yet.
That's the goal that we're going in with, to get a win against a good opponent.
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