Nick Sirianni

Q. Did WR A.J. Brown’s knee injury happen in practice or is that something from the game? (Dave Zangaro)

NICK SIRIANNI: Yeah, he was limited yesterday. We’ll see how he is today.

Q. Was it a practice thing or was it the game? (John McMullen)

NICK SIRIANNI: He was limited. Yeah, he was limited yesterday.

Q. Well, he didn’t enter the practice with any status so … (Jeff McLane)

NICK SIRIANNI: You guys can figure that out.

Q. So did he finish practice? (Jeff McLane)

NICK SIRIANNI: He was limited.

Q. Last time you played Washington, it was a short week. This time, you get the full process. Does that affect anything either way? (John McMullen)

NICK SIRIANNI: Every time you go in and play a team a second time, you have things that you go about looking for. It’s a unique week, very similar to a Monday night game, very similar to a Thursday night game, very similar to a Thanksgiving Day game, opener, coming off a bye week. You are presented with a lot of different things on a schedule with different types of schedules. You kind of go through your checklist of things that you do on those.

We had that this week. Again, very similar to how you go through a Thursday night game. But it was our normal week process with those extra additions of the second time playing a team.

Q. With WR A.J. Brown, is he going to be out on the field today? (Tim McManus)

NICK SIRIANNI: We’ll see. We’ll see how it goes when we get out there.

Q. What is it about Defensive Coordinator Vic Fangio that’s allowed him, as one of the oldest defensive coordinators in the league, to connect with so many of your young players on defense so well? (Sal Paolantonio)

NICK SIRIANNI: I think the thing is, with highly motivated players like we have, the thirst for knowledge is huge. These guys are motivated. They see that [Defensive Coordinator] Vic [Fangio] can help them get better, and that’s where a relationship can start.

Vic has done a great job connecting with our guys, putting our guys in positions to succeed, helping our guys play well. Our guys have played well, so it’s a true group effort.

Like I said, can’t say enough good things about Vic and all the things that he’s brought to our football team and the way he’s leading our defense.

Q. What are some of the ways your defense has grown just in the last couple of weeks? (Sal Paolantonio)

NICK SIRIANNI: I think we’ve been playing really good football for the last ten weeks or so. Even before we got on our winning streak, I thought our defense was doing a really good job as well. We continue to get better at our fundamentals. We continue to be on the same page. We continue to play with relentless effort. I think we are just getting a little bit better each week.

Q. At this time of year, I’d imagine you’re not just thinking about a 17-game season but 20, 21 games potentially. Are you at the point of monitoring the snaps of some of the key players as you get down the stretch here? (Zach Berman)

NICK SIRIANNI: We’ve got to do what we’ve got to do to win each and every game. We’re focused on Washington. We’ll do whatever we can to win Washington. Everything else is out of our control.

As far as that goes, as far as anything else goes, our job is to focus on Washington. We’ll take this week that way. We’ll take next week the way we need to take that week.

All our focus is on Washington and the things we need to do to win this football game against a good football team.

Q. The team put out a video of you emphasizing the team ‘tough, detailed, together.’ You have it on your shirt there. Is that something all year you’ve emphasized, or have you just now decided on this message? Why at this point in the year? (Eliot Shorr-Parks)

NICK SIRIANNI: I think at the end of the day, it’s something we have emphasized since 2021. It’s just a simpler way to say our core values and chunk them all together. Football IQ and fundamentals are detail and the things that go into that. Toughness, we talk about that with compete. Together is connect.

So it’s just a different way of saying it to be quite honest with you. It’s really something that’s been a message that we’ve been talking a lot about for the last four years. Just a catchier way of saying it, I guess to say, with ‘TDT’.

Q. Seems like there’s very little talk about the NFC East title in the locker room from what we’ve gathered. What do you make of that and how it speaks to the team’s mentality? (Tim McManus)

NICK SIRIANNI: Just that we are going about our business to try to win this football game. We know what it means if we win this football game. But our goal is just to continue to get better each and every week. Focus on the things that we can control.

Just like when we made the playoffs, we said, ‘All right, congratulations’ – that’s as long as it lasted – ‘Let’s go and see how we can get better from this.’ And it will be the same conversation. We’ll congratulate each other when we have that opportunity to do so, and then we’ll move on and then get better.

Q. Is it different from two years ago when you guys won the NFC East for the first time? (Martin Frank)

NICK SIRIANNI: I think we had that same mindset back then. It was the exact same mindset. We enjoyed it for the moment, and then we were ready to move on.

Q. Is DE Bryce Huff’s injury one that requires a ramp-up period to the same degree of a lower body injury? (Zach Berman)

NICK SIRIANNI: Yeah, any time you’re getting back and recovering from something, it’s always going to take a ramp up. Every situation is a little different. Every guy is a little different. We’ll see how that goes.

Q. When it comes to RB Saquon Barkley, in the Giants game, there was that video, you asked if he wanted to go for his single game record. We’ll know more about his pace obviously after this weekend’s game. But if he wants to go for the record, where does that fall in line to you wanting to rest guys, him wanting the record? (Jeff Neiburg)

NICK SIRIANNI: We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it. We are focused on winning this game and what we need to do to win this game.

I’m sorry guys, I want to be respectful of your questions and answer your questions, but we’re boring. Our sole focus is how we get better today in practice. Laser focused through everything. Laser focused at practice. We need a great day at practice today to help us win this football game against a very good football team. That’s literally all we’re thinking about. That’s all we’re focused on.

I know that doesn’t make for a great story, but our locked in focus is here. The more you think about things that are out of your control, the less you’re going to think about the things that are in your control.

So we’ve got to have a great red zone today. Then recapping the rest of the week. Play with great fundamentals out there today. Handle the elements out there today because the game is going to be cold and the more we can get out there in situations like this, the better it’s going to be for us. That’s all our focus is [on].