| Opening statement: “All right, I hope everybody’s doing OK. Obviously, we’re just trying to get out of the game here and assess the game, go through corrections. We have a lot of corrections in the game we’re trying to get fixed here today. We’re focused on that and trying to get ready to turn the page. We have a very tough Oakland team to prepare for and get ready for. It’s a team obviously we don’t know very well, so we really have to study and get together, and make sure that we know the opponent, and how good they are, and what we’re getting into with them with a West Coast trip. I will say I met with the doctors this afternoon, so as far as Tracy (Walker) is concerned, from that standpoint we’ll take another look at him tomorrow, but right now he is day-by-day. We’ll just see how he progresses through the week and go from there. It’s truly just day-by-day, and we’ll see what he looks like as we go forward. That’s probably the biggest update from an injury standpoint.” On how they balance the trade deadline and preparation for Oakland: “You know, I mean I think, that’s obviously a balancing act that we do every single year and in all different phases. The great thing is I know Bob (Quinn, Executive Vice President and General Manager) and his staff are working really hard just to do everything they can to understand any and all options that are out there. For us as a coaching staff, Mondays are busy days and we know how busy Tuesdays are, so we’re just trying to stay on schedule and make sure we don’t get off schedule and do something that hinders our preparation for getting ready to go against Oakland.” On what the organization tells teams when they inquire about CB Darius Slay’s availability: “Yeah again, we’re pushing forward like normal. I saw Slay this morning, he was in and got some treatment, and was ready to go. He actually gave me a really good scouting report on Oakland, so we’re just kind of pushing forward as normal. I mean I think teams call in regard to a lot of players or just kind of what is going on, and Bob (Quinn) gives them a standard answer as far as that is concerned, and we just go forward. As far as the coaching staff we just focus on the game.” On what is the “standard answer” from Executive Vice President and General Manager Bob Quinn: “I mean those are always private conversations between Bob and other GM’s and whatever the information is that comes up, that’s what they discuss.” On DL Da’Shawn Hand’s impact his first game back this season after injury: “I think he did a good job in the game for his first action back out there. I thought he had good energy, I though he played with good pad level, lot of different blocks I think. We had a lot (of) scheme run from them and some different looks and point of attack blocking schemes that they ran. I think there’s certainly some plays in there that just took a little bit to kind of recognize how they were attacking us. I’m sure all that stuff was happening real fast for him in there. Overall, I was pleased with his ability to play the game, play it at a high level, and be able to make the corrections that we needed to during the game, so that was a positive.” On if he must create time for coaches to consider roster changes before the trade deadline: “I think really for us, we operate as normal unless there is something that’s pretty significant that would come or present itself. Then we would have to address or take a look or go back or review anything that we thought was necessary at that point in time if you were involved with it. We operate like normal. If something from a time management standpoint comes up that we need to shift gears, we quickly try to change hats and do our best – whether it’s give an opinion, a thought, an evaluation, a look, a film study, anything along those lines. We’ll do that, and then we’ll just change hats, go back to getting ready to play Oakland.” On why they had a holder on the kickoff in the game versus the New York Giants: “We were just trying to make sure the ball was steady on the tee on that alignment. Just trying to make sure we got a good kick. I thought maybe some of the kicks previously, were a – just trying to make sure we had a good angle and a good approach. It’s something that we were trying to do to make sure our kicks were good.” On his evaluation of the safeties, especially after DB Tracy Walker went down injured: “It was good. There were some good things, there were some things out there we definitely have to address. Some things from a communication standpoint, I would say was the biggest thing that I saw that we need to go through. Maybe a couple of different formations, especially late in the game, a couple of different motions, and just making sure that communication is cleaner. Also, a lot of things in the defense, as we’ve talked about before, I’ll give them different tools that they can use out on the field to try to help themselves through certain situations. I would say that’s the probably the biggest area where they have to understand, ‘Hey, you can make this call here, you can do this here, you can help yourselves with this here.’ Not that they didn’t know them, maybe just sometimes in the timing of everything, just being confident enough to make those calls and go. It’s obviously something I have to coach up better to give them that ability to make those decisions quicker maybe.” On if there was an injury with C/G Graham Glasgow in the fourth quarter: “You know what, we roll those guys pretty good, and especially by circumstance. From that aspect of it, it might have been something minor, but nothing really to report from that standpoint, and kind of just felt those guys during the game that that was the situation they had, and they just wanted to stay with the rotation.” On his overall impression of the rushing attack on Sunday: “I thought early in the game we had some pretty good runs. I thought we tried to run physical. I thought the runs were pretty well-blocked. There were a couple plays where we just maybe had a little too much penetration on a couple runs. We had to make a second cut, and maybe it took us out of some spacing that we thought we could’ve got some extra yards. I do feel that we can do better; we can improve on it. But I thought from what we asked our guys to do, I thought they tried to execute that at a high level. I think we felt a little bit more pressure which was to be expected than maybe what than they’ve done in the past. They’re a pressure defense – so a lot of movement up front, a lot of different stems, different fronts, different guys in the box from that standpoint, from the Giants. So some of that looked like that was – we had to work through some of those and some of those reads which we’ll keep getting improvement of that as we go forward. But I thought we tried to run the ball. I thought those guys tried to run it, especially early. But give the Giants credit – they have a good front, good scheme and certainly felt some of the plays they did a good job of executing on their end.” On the team having the least number of touchbacks in the League, and what about the new rules or your own personnel is influencing that decision: “You know for us, it’s really week-by-week. I think so far it’s kind of lined-up where we felt there’s been some plays out there that we could kick, and we could cover against and teams we could cover against. It hasn’t been perfect, but I’ll say I thought it was better this week than it was the previous week. I think those guys stepped up to that challenge. I think we coached it better. I think it got better from that standpoint. It’s really independent week-to-week based on gameplan and things like that. Certainly, we know that we can have kicks that are consistent and that’s always good for us. So certainly playing at home, we know form the conditions standpoint, that’s going to be consistent.” |
