Q. How did it go for you today? How would you assess it?
MALIK NABERS: On myself, had too many drops. Had a lot of catches that could have been made on the field. You know, so that was about me.
But it was a great competition day, great work day.
Q. When you get something like that with drops that you're not happy with, do you just go right back to work tomorrow?
MALIK NABERS: I mean, that's all I can do. Look at the film, see how -- see which better ways I can catch the ball but continue to stay in the books.
Q. Is it how they covered you or do you feel it was something you were doing?
MALIK NABERS: I mean, the coverage was pretty good. I mean, it's contested. It's going to be contested. That's what this league is. It's whoever can make those plays, and I think I can make those plays. Just didn't come out with those plays today.
Q. The last one on the deep one, did that that bother you maybe?
MALIK NABERS: Yeah, it bothered me pretty bad. If I had to do it again I would work on something different on catching the ball.
You know, I'll just go look at it, see what I can do better, and just practice that, practice getting my eyes around faster and finding the ball really in the air.
Q. Did you have to come back for it a little bit?
MALIK NABERS: No, I didn't have to come back for it. It was just when I had turned my eyes back on the other side of the shoulder I kind of lost the ball then I found it later.
So it was just a drop. I just got to try a different -- just try to catch it better I guess.
Q. How does it make you feel when Sauce Gardner is waving good bye on the sideline and...
MALIK NABERS: I mean, they can do that. They won on the day. Their defense came out here, executed well. You know, we beat ourselves today.
So it's about really going back into our playbook, going back into trying to be us, trying to find this team that we trying to look for.
So it's going back to the preparation really.
Q. It seemed that people were expecting you and Sauce to go head-to-head a lot.
MALIK NABERS: Yeah.
Q. Didn't seem to happen that much.
MALIK NABERS: I mean, that was -- yeah, that's a question for Dabs.
Q. You're such a competitor for yourself. (Indiscernible.) Where you have a practice, you're working on things you want to work on, and also know it's a competition because you're going against another team and you want to, and I don't want to say show out a little bit, but you guys want to compete. But is there that back and forth, that balance you want to strike?
MALIK NABERS: No, not really. It's about working on myself really. The defense is going to give me a look. I just got to play football.
It's work on different techniques, whether they're outside of my shoulder or inside of my shoulder, just continue to win.
Q. Do you think you and the first team offense would benefit from one more look in this Saturday's game? I know it's not up to you, but do you feel like you guys could benefit from that kind of work?
MALIK NABERS: I mean, of course. It's another opportunity to go in there and play a football game, find out what we need to work on, what we need to learn from.
Yeah, this opportunity to go play another game on Saturday is helpful before the season starts.
Q. Did you learn anything from the time you did get to go against Sauce? Maybe tips or tricks of going against a guy considered who is one of the top cornerbacks in football?
MALIK NABERS: Right. I mean, I'm ain't going to share all my key details, what I thought. I'm just going to keep it to myself and continue to work on myself.
Q. What was your impressions of DJ Reed?
MALIK NABERS: He's great. Great competitor. Smooth feet. Plays the ball pretty well when the ball is in the air. Knows formations and concepts, so going against him I kind of had to switch my game up a little bit so he wasn't jumping a lot of the routes. He's a great competitor.
Q. Different style than Sauce though, right?
MALIK NABERS: Different size, different lengths. Everybody game is really going to be different.
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