Nick Sirianni

Q. What can you share about your messaging to the team this week? (Tim McManus)

Nick Sirianni: We really talked about the process. Sometimes I’ll share the message, sometimes I won’t, but we just talked about the process. The process is what produces results and just being completely locked into the process. I kind of correlate it to somebody shooting a free throw, right? When you are shooting a free throw, we’re taught to have a process in that, right? However many dribbles that you have and then shoot. Why do you do that? You do that because when the gravity of the moment seems high or the crowd’s yelling and screaming, trying to get you to miss the free throw or anything like that, you focus on the process with your dribble so you can shoot and give yourself the best chance to shoot. So, that’s my analogy. I’ll hold my analogies from here on out.

Q. What was your routine? (Bo Wulf)

Nick Sirianni: One dribble. One dribble. I didn’t want to think about it too much, so boom, right? I asked some of these guys what theirs were and it was interesting to see some of their routines. [LB] Zack Baun’s was funny. He said he wasn’t a great free throw shooter, so he changed it a bunch. So, he had a couple of different ones.

I shared a story that I was like six of 14 from the line one game. I didn’t change it, but went back and really worked on it and the next game I was like 14 to 15 from the line, but I wanted them to know from that that I did a good job getting to the hoop. So, there was part of that reason why I told that, too. [Laughing.] I just wasn’t a shooter. They just see me shooting here, so I just wanted to give that little bit of an insight.

Q. LB Nakobe Dean went on social media this morning, said he wasn’t getting activated. How’s that process going with him? (John McMullen)

Nick Sirianni: Yeah, I think he had a good week of practice, and we’ll see. There’s still time. We don’t have to make that decision until tomorrow, but I thought he had a good week of practice. It was awesome to get him back out there. He’s a great leader, great teammate. Looking forward to when we can get him back.

Q. Has the success on field goals this year changed your game strategy? (Zach Berman)

Nick Sirianni: Your game strategy is always based off your line. So I guess the best way to answer that without giving up too much, is that when there’s a game with the weather where your line changes or there’s a game in a dome where there is no weather situations, that always switches up your strategy of what you do, when you do it, all those different things. So, if the line moves back because we’re making more or whatever, all those things go into account. I guess the short answer is yes.

Q. At the end of the half two weeks ago, you sat on the ball, and given it is a situation now where one completion puts you in a long– (Zach Berman)

Nick Sirianni: What was the time on that?

Q. I think there were 12 seconds, and you had a timeout. (Zach Berman)

Nick Sirianni: That’s obviously something that I’ve always studied. I have actually looked at every end of half under a certain time. There are moments where you sit on it, there’s moments that you don’t. Throughout those studies, there’s negative things that can happen in those moments as well, but you always take everything. You take the clock into account; you take your amount of timeouts into account. We have a formula for when we do, when we don’t. The clock, timeouts, and you take where you are on the yard line into account.

At that particular point, that was the Rams game. We weren’t having a lot of success quite yet there and you take the game flow into account. So, that is definitely a good observation by you. That’s always something– like you’re always in these modes of two-minute. Two-minute is a situation, but there are situations within the situation. What mode of two-minute are you in? And those things usually are dictated by score, half, clock, all those things I talked about.

Q. When you get a chance to see QB Jalen Hurts and WR A.J. Brown interact in a way we don’t, what do you notice from them whether it’s on the practice field and the facility about their relationship? (Eliot Shorr-Parks)

Nick Sirianni: Yeah, just always trying to get on the same page, always trying to do what they need to do to go out there and perform, whether that’s talking through things in the meeting room, whether that’s out on the practice field, getting the looks of practice, but then also the extra reps on the side. I just see two guys that are great pros that care deeply about winning. They know the way they perform dictates winning and losing and they work hard at that together to put the best product out on the field that we can.

Q. To follow up on that, how do you, as a coach, handle maybe generally the way players use or don’t use social media? QB Jalen Hurts, when he talks to us is very controlled in what he says, and then of course WR A.J. Brown will put things out there, and that’s a normal thing nowadays for people of his generation to do. How do you deal with that? (Mike Sielski)

Nick Sirianni: Yeah, it’s just a different form of communication, so it’s no different than what you talk about when you talk to the media or talk to whatever. It’s the same thing. It’s just a different form of communication that, and maybe I’m not– I don’t have social media, I don’t get to post anything, but it is still communication and it’s still your words. Whatever you put out there is going to get out there just like you would with your words in this setting. We treat it as that.

Q. It’s going to be busy at the sports complex over the next three days, including you guys. When you have rare free time before and after your game, how much are you paying attention to what’s happening across the street and how does it feel to be a part of this pretty exciting time? (Dave Uram)

Nick Sirianni: Yeah, really good. Obviously, we’re so busy at this time of year, too, with the job that we have, but I know that with the Phillies, I always see them supporting us and we do the same thing. We want to do the same thing and reciprocate that for them. It’s an exciting time. We know that the Phillies energy will transpire into our games and vice versa, so wish them the best of luck. Appreciate you asking me that. I wouldn’t have brought it up on my own but wish them the best of luck and it’ll be exciting to watch them play.

I’m not going to say what team I grew up a baseball fan of, but it’s nice to be in a city where baseball’s an exciting sport where it means so much and the team’s doing a really good job and being able to follow that with my boys because my boys are Phillies fans and I’ve transitioned into a Phillies fan as well. That’ll be exciting. Saturday night will be a lot.

We’ll be in here though. We’ll be in here getting ready for the game. We will be in meetings at that particular time. I know that one thing that has been cool in the past were if they played on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday or whatever, and we’re in meetings as coaches when the players have left, you hear the roar of the stadium and the lights flickering on and off. That’s pretty cool. I know that [Defensive Coordinator] Vic [Fangio] sometimes, weather permitting, keeps that door open on the defensive staff room so he can hear that because he’s a big time Phillies fan. So, it’s cool. It’s cool to be a part of this. What a great sports town and it’s an exciting time.

Q. Defensive Coordinator Vic Fangio said earlier this week, the big test for CB Kelee Ringo will be to see how he improves from his first start. What have you noticed from him maybe during practice this week? Any uptick maybe in confidence or the way he’s handling himself? (Ed Kracz)

Nick Sirianni: I think he’s had a good week. Excited for all our guys going into this week. It’s been a good week of preparation and focusing on our process, and Kelee’s been doing a really good job with that to get himself ready to play in any mode. That’s what I admire about Kelee is like, last week it was a different mode that he was preparing for, and before that, it was for some things on special teams and to be the backup.

Kelee’s just a really good pro that puts himself in position by the way he works all week to be ready for whatever role that he’s called upon in the game. It’s been fun watching that and he played a good game, did some really good things in that Buccs game, big fourth-down pass breakup that gave us the ball back, and did some really nice things in coverage. Looking forward to seeing him play on Sunday.

Q. How impressed are you with Broncos QB Bo Nix? (Merrill Reese)

Nick Sirianni: Yeah, he’s a good football player. [Broncos Head Coach] Sean Payton, outstanding coach, great offensive mind, has done that for a long time. Had a lot of good success with the quarterback, and I just think you’re seeing that with Bo, too. Athletic, really athletic guy, decisive with the football. I got a lot of respect for his game and it’s obviously early in his career. So yeah, a lot of respect for this offense and this team, and particularly Coach Payton and Bo Nix.

Q. What have you seen from CB Adoree’ Jackson as kind of the veteran in that pretty young DB room? What kind of impact has he had sort of behind the scenes? (Ed Kracz)

Nick Sirianni: I think he’s a guy that comes to work every day. Another great pro. Just trying to get better and he’s seen– anytime you get a guy that’s seen a lot of football, that helps the young guys because he’s seen so many different situations, different routes, different types of receivers, and so that expertise is so valued. Think about that back with [C] Cam [Jurgens] and [former Eagles C] Jason Kelce and you think about that back with [DT] Jordan [Davis] and [DT] Jalen Carter with [former Eagles DT] Fletcher Cox. Then you get an opportunity to have a guy in here that’s seen a lot of football and that’s good. We talked about that also with [S] Marcus Epps helping [S] Reed [Blankenship] early in Reed’s career. So that’s always valuable.