Q. The Washington defense, what are the biggest challenges that they present?
JALEN HURTS: They're a disciplined football team, have great coaches. Obviously have a lot of familiarity with them, and they have great players playing hard.
Where they are able to create problems up front, their linebackers are really good players, smart players, instinctual players, fast players. Then out wide they're very sticky in coverage.
Q. Seeing John make plays in back-to-back games, has that raised your level of confidence and trust in him?
JALEN HURTS: It's just everything is coming in time. It comes with reps. It comes with conversation and communication. Obviously when you are able to take advantage of those matchups and take advantage of those opportunities, you seem to find yourself in more of them.
Q. You mentioned about the Washington defense. Bobby Wagner specifically. When you have sort of a quarterback at the defense like that who has played so long at such a high level, is that noticeable on the field when you are out there?
JALEN HURTS: Yeah, there's a respect factor to that. He's done it for a very long time. He's one of the best to do it. So competitively that's a great advantage for him with his experience and everything that he's able to lean on. That's something that pops off.
Q. Have you been able to watch much Jayden Daniels, and what are your thoughts on him so far?
JALEN HURTS: I've always thought he was a great player, been able to win the Heisman and all the success he's had and even to this point.
Q. Brian Johnson, obviously he's going to be on the other side of the field. Have you kept in touch with him, and have you noticed or heard anything about his impact on Jayden?
JALEN HURTS: I have kept in touch, yeah. I don't know about the second question.
Q. Back after the Giants game you mentioned it's a coincidence when it happens two times, and you guys kind of play well in a return for a player and said the third time it's a precedent. Could this be a precedent game with John playing Washington?
JALEN HURTS: We'll see. We'll see.
Q. Did Johnny cut his hair?
JALEN HURTS: Did you all see him in there?
Q. We did not.
JALEN HURTS: No, he didn't. Not yet.
Q. Are you disappointed?
JALEN HURTS: He's a grown man. He'll honor his word I'm sure. I hope.
Q. With Dan Quinn's defense, he's known for that Seattle cover 3, but is that still the basic zone that he runs, or is he doing things differently with different personnel?
JALEN HURTS: He's versatile. He has a multiple approach to how he does things, and it's always available in there. So like the best of them, it's about adjusting and being able to do what you see fit in that moment, and that's what they've done a really good job of doing.
Q. (Indiscernible) a lot about Thursday night or next week against the Rams. What, if anything, has the offense missed without him?
JALEN HURTS: We're hoping for the best with everything one way or another, but I mean, the opportunity to be pushing forward and whenever the time comes and have everybody back together, you know, that's always something to be excited about.
Q. In Jaguars game after the throw to DeVonta you said you talked about things about the quarterback's vision on such plays. I asked Kellen Moore about that earlier. Beyond just repetition with the guy, how does an offense kind of help a quarterback out in terms of vision like that?
JALEN HURTS: There's repetition in what you are doing. You build the instinctual trust in what you are doing because you have repped it 1,000 times. Do you fear the man that has practiced 1,000 different kicks or the same kick 1,000 times? That's the approach.
So there are some things out there that we all would like to be better at, and you ask yourself, Am I repping it enough? That's always the process that we all go through. That's something that I go through, and I learn from everybody preparing me to go out there and play. I know everybody does that at their position as well.
Q. How do you find value in a walk-through compared to a practice?
JALEN HURTS: Same intensity. I think you have to have the approach of really maximizing every opportunity, maximizing every minute, every second. They're so precious. Whether that's presnap, communication, how we operate, making sure we're on the same page, hearing the communication more than once so they know what I'm saying, how we're communicating out wide.
Just being on the same page. You can never get enough of that. You know, you want to tell yourself full speed to the snap. We get a lot of mental reps obviously.
That's for every team when we get towards this part of the year, but you just have to be able to process it and continue to find ways to build that confidence in what you're practicing.
Q. From a player's perspective these short weeks, Jalen, is it more difficult from a mental perspective or to bounce back from a physical perspective?
JALEN HURTS: It varies. You know, it feels like we haven't had a Thursday night game in a good minute now since last year was so early. So we've done some things different. Hopefully that's the best for us in the end.
Q. Back to the vision, Kellen said anybody under 6'6" is going to have a hard time seeing the offensive line. Are there ways that you can see that Kellen or something that you suggest to try to find ways to clear sidelines?
JALEN HURTS: What do you mean?
Q. Whether it's shifting protection or different kind of ways to help out vision on a given play.
JALEN HURTS: I'm not understanding what you are asking.
Q. Is there ways to help you see a play better? Are there ways that you guys do that?
JALEN HURTS: I mean, I think it comes down to repping it, building reps, building comfort in certain things. You see a lot of people out there. They move the pocket, and I think that's for more reasons than that.
You want to create a different flow for the defensive line. You know, when you are dropping back all day, the D-line kind of get a feel on that. Edge rushers get a feel on that.
When you are able to move the pocket, switch it up, switch up how you're attacking them, that's the whole impose and attack things from that vantage point. So how you approach it helps.
Q. Is there anything tangibly you can share where you have looked at these first nine games and said, Hey, we've got good chemistry here? You saw something good happening and said, Hey, this is a great sign of chemistry going the right way?
JALEN HURTS: Yeah. I think just the diligence with everything, being able to build like we have. I don't know if there's a certain moment. I just think the constant communication and effort in that department from all of us and continuing to learn one another and build.
I'm not satisfied by any means. There's nothing to be satisfied about in my eyes because we're still growing. We're still a work in progress. There's no moment we're going to arrive this year.
Some may think we have. Some may think we have it figured out, but we don't. There's so much more out there for us to accomplish. So we just want to continue to challenge ourselves to operate at the highest level we can and be efficient and know the details and the ins and outs of what we're doing and then have some integrity about what we're doing.
Q. On the touchdown pass to Dallas when you were explaining that you had to send that rusher free and it's on you to either make a play or get rid of the ball, is that decision based on route concepts, the path that he is taking to you? Is it just feel? How do you make that decision?
JALEN HURTS: Yeah, so I could have thrown hot or I could have did what I did. The hot would have gotten probably broken up (indiscernible) the game well. So I had to make a play.
Q. How do you process that in the moment?
JALEN HURTS: You don't. You don't want to be thinking out there. You know, you want to react in a sense. You understand the gist of what you are getting. I knew my issue. It's not about being right or wrong. It's about having a plan.
Would have been the right thing to do would have been to do that, but you make it happen.
Q. I'm wondering on the interception, you said about Grant, but rewatching the film and I think Kellen said this too, you probably made the right decision still just to throw it to Goedert or Trevon just made a good play? Do you still feel you should have gone with Grant, or do you feel like you made the right decision to go to Dallas?
JALEN HURTS: I don't know why we're still talking about this.
Q. I asked Kellen about it earlier because I wanted to see what you said about it. I'm wondering if you still felt the same way after watching the film?
JALEN HURTS: I think he made a great play. I think it was -- for me I think I could have maybe thrown it a little sooner. I think I could have reset outside with that time and as long as I waited, but it was either going to go to Dallas or go to Grant out wide.
I told Grant to get some width because he had the potential of getting the ball, and I hung on it a little longer than I wanted to. I got off rhythm a little bit, and Trevon, he made a hell of a play.
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