NICK SIRIANNI: What are you looking at? It's my script for practice. All right.
Q. Nick, you guys have had a lot of travel here in the first 12 weeks of the season. Curious, prior to the season did you adjust how you wanted to do different things during the year because of all the trips, or if you had to make adjustments during the year.
NICK SIRIANNI: Yeah, we adjust things as the trip calls for. Yeah, we have a contingency plan for everything and we did that accordingly this year.
You do the same thing as you get later through the year. Do the same thing if you get banged up in a game. All things are accounted for, yeah.
Q. Have seen more enthusiastic and eager blockers from receivers and tight ends when you have a running back who can take it to the house?
NICK SIRIANNI: I think that's been the culture we've had. It's the standard of how we block on the perimeter. That's something that former wide receiver coach, former wide receiver, that's not negotiable of how we block out there and what we do.
So we talk about that a lot. I think it's awesome that they are having so much fun with it now, yes. Some of those long runs get sprung the way they do because they got the blocking downfield.
Covey and AJ on the first play of the second half had huge blocks. We did a great job on the back side, but those guys had great blocks to finish the thing off. So I just think that that's our -- and our guys know that selflessness, being a good teammate, connecting, part of that is selflessness and that's what it takes.
Those guys have been that, and we show it and point it out every time they're downfield blocking. I would like to sit here and say yeah the long runs make it so. I think it's the other way around because these guys have always been like this. That's another reason why the long runs are happening, that the 10-yard runs turn into 50-yard runs.
Now, Saquon has a lot to do with that as well, but all that helps.
Q. You guys have had a lot of success by committing to it and eventually breaking through in the second half. Physical defense of the Ravens, is there enough faith in the run game if it's more slow going to start, you could commit to it still?
NICK SIRIANNI: Yeah, we know this is a good defense. We're a good offense. It's good on good. Same thing vice versa with their offense and our defense.
And so see how the game plays out. You never know how the game is gonna play out, what the situations are going to be.
But, see how it goes as it goes.
Q. If we had told you before the season you would be 32nd in pass attempts and first in rushing, would you think that was possible? Is there any benefit to looking at teams like the Steelers and Ravens have been teams that have played that way for a long time. Any benefit looking at those teams when you look like you start to become that?
NICK SIRIANNI: Again, we'll do anything we need to do to win the football game. This last month of the season has been very unique. I'm not sure how many times we've even passed it in the fourth quarter in October -- pardon me, in November.
I'm not sure how long or how many times we've passed it in the fourth quarter because we haven't needed to. Been in four-minute offense. That doesn't mean in four-minute offense, you play your offense, but when you're up two, three scores you tend to play it more conservative in those cases.
I don't look too much into that. You know, again, we have the ability to throw it when we need to throw and the ability to run it when we need to run it. So that's a good thing to have.
He asked me second ago about this game. Every game dictates something different. We'll see how each game goes.
Q. Question to you over the summer was (regarding CEO coach.) In seeing the success John Harbaugh had in his career and see the Steelers, Lions, do you think it's coincidence that the CEO coaches are having that type of success?
NICK SIRIANNI: I think all the guys you just mentioned, Tomlin, Harbaugh, Campbell, you know, I think those are the three you mentioned, those are all really good coach es and organizations and they've done a phenomenal job. Guys that I have looked to and tried to learn from afar from, right?
And so I think that has a lot to do with it.
Again, just trying to do everything that I can do to help us win football games, whatever that may be. So I don't know. I can't answer that question. I just know what works for the Philadelphia Eagles and what we're trying to do.
But can't say enough how much respective, particularly for all three of those guys, but with us playing Coach Harbaugh this week. Coach Harbaugh, really admire his family background, his consistency of how good he's been throughout his career, you know the consistent winning.
It's just really impressive.
Q. How much have you guys had to coach up Saquon in terms of patience, vision? Obviously players are always still developing. Was there something you needed to do to help him in that regard?
NICK SIRIANNI: No. With patience and vision? No.
Q. ...not bouncing things outside.
NICK SIRIANNI: No. Not really. If there is something on tape that we need to correct we correct, but those two things to me, you know, were not something we looked at as an issue of him coming in and hasn't been since he's been here.
I just think we'll coach him up on the details and on the footwork and the ball security we have and different things like that, but to me he has really good vision and patience and everything.
Again, he can just beat you so many multiple ways.
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