Q. What's the latest with Devonta?
NICK SIRIANNI: We'll see. See how he's feeling by the end of the day. We'll see where that is. Get a little bit more time to figure it out.
Q. How is Britain --
NICK SIRIANNI: He's done a nice job. Except we'll see where he is by the end of the day. Don't have to make any decisions quite yet but he's done a nice job. Nice to get him back out there. Can't stress enough how good of a teammate Britain coffee is and guys like being around him, so it's nice having him back out there in the mix, and interacting with his teammates on the practice field.
Q. When he is back --
NICK SIRIANNI: Obviously we'll always do what's best for our football team and what we feel is best for our football team. Coop has done a very, very good job returning the ball and Britain's absence. Britain has done an excellent job, been one of the best guys in the league returning the punts as when he was the punt returner. Good problems to have. We'll factor everything and make the decision that best suits our football team.
Q. From the outside what we know, seems like you're very much a players' coach and being able it relate to them that way helps you, but when you find it necessary to give out punishment or discipline, what factors going in that direction? What do you factor in?
NICK SIRIANNI: We have a standard, and if the standard is met, I think if you ask the guys, tell they will you I'm fair, and if the standard is met, I'm going to be one of the most excited people in the building. Let just talk about the tape first. I won't get into off-field stuff or anything like that. Everything's kind of handled a little bit differently.
If we are talking just about the tape, if the standard is met, we'll show it on tape and celebrate it, and other guys will learn from it. If the standard is not met, we'll correct it, and we'll correct it like we do with everything in front of everybody just so everybody can get better from it. Anything off the field, we have our rules. Same thing. I think it's kind of the same thing. If the standard is met, then we celebrate it. If it's not, then we have rules. We have team rules.
Q. Throughout your coaching career -- Jake Elliot and others -- that you're not putting too much weight on past results and focusing on current results?
NICK SIRIANNI: Yeah, that's a good question. You put faith -- you account for everything, just like when you are trying to make decisions on, you know, game management things. Like everything is accounted for. What currently is happening and what's happened in the past, you see it in practice every single day.
Again, you guys and everybody doesn't get to see the results at practice, right.
So practice, we feel like if you practice average you're going to play average. If you practice great, you're going to play great. So a lot of these things and a lot of these decisions and a lot of this faith, you're seeing 1/10th of it on Sunday. Now you're seeing the most important part of it, right, because it's what you prepare for when you watch a game, when you guys are watching the game, but all that, yes, game, we take a lot of faith from what happens in the game but all those things that happened in our game, like practices, as well, are taken account in our walk through and our meetings. That's where you build faith up and so -- but everything is taken into account.
You know, when a play is designed for somebody, that play was thought out, you know, very in-depth by us as coaches and with either a player in mind to be able to run that play, and then it was executed in practice. If that doesn't happen, it's rare that something is not executed well in practice that gets run in a game. I think that all goes into it.
Q. Is that more being proactive because of the pass increase he's had late in the season?
NICK SIRIANNI: You know, again he's good to go. I'm not going to get too much into everybody's injuries. You guys know me how -- not injury, but getting into everybody's things. Like I'm not going to get into that but he's going to go. Everybody's doing maintenance on their bodies at this time of the year. And so you saw he was limited on Wednesday. He was good to go yesterday. He'll be -- he'll be full in today.
But like I said, everybody is doing maintenance. Because this is a long season, these guys go through, you know, just such a long, grueling season, and we're in Week 12, yeah. We are in Week 12 right now. So you know, a lot of guys are just, you know, continuing to do the extra things they need to do to be in it for the long haul.
Q. I meant from a point of view of like, he's always been a guy who wants to do everything in every practice.
NICK SIRIANNI: Like I said, I'm not going to get too much into that. He's good to go. And you guys, like I said yesterday, he was in full and you guys talked to him and heard from him as well.
Q. If Jahan or Wilson would have elevated roles this week, what gives you confidence that they are ready for that?
NICK SIRIANNI: Just continuing to get better every single day. Both of them have made some big plays in the past couple weeks, right. Johnny catching his first touchdown pass, Jahan catching a deep ball in the Jacksonville game, and then also the Dallas game.
And so yeah, again, the things that we see in practice. These guys come to work hard every single day. They put it on the line every single day. They have had good practices throughout the week, and you know, we're -- yeah, we're excited about their possibilities if they need to go, and then we've had some good experiences with guys this year that have stepped in and contributed, and that's the awesome part of a team.
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