Press Pass: Chip Kelly

Chris about that. I can check on that, but I know he has a sprain knee and I'm gonna see what what goes on with that week. No, I don't know that either. I just know he's he's got a sprain knee. I don't I don't know if he'll be out this week into the decision, will leave for New Yorker a couple of days or eli? Is that all just logistics with getting the players in there the complex And yeah, it's supposed to be a lot of people coming to town this weekend. There's something going on. So

how does that change anything preparation wise? It's fine, it doesn't change anything. We use the Jets facility up there to practice. If you work that out now, that would be a little dicey. I think if we were reacting at the Jets facility, So what's up, We're going up to Mamouth Miles also Miles Yea, the legend was going back home. So there's players. It seemed to think that the Eagles are not that they know the plays, but

they are predictable in their offense. I've heard a couple of players say that, have you seen that you believe that, whether it's a snap count, whether it's the limited number of play I think we've been varied in our two games, and then then through our preseason and everything. We do a different job, change informations and things like that. It's you know, when you're not successful, I think guys are grassman excuses to be honest with. We still need to

block and tackles. Yeah, and what I'm saying is that we need to execute it. I mean we just like you know, when the teams in Tampa two they're going to slant the three in the seventh technique, and when they do it, it's not a surprise to us. I mean, there's there's everybody has predictabilities and tendencies going into every game, So I think that's just part of the part of the game playing. Did say that he hears calling at

the police? Yeah, I just asked him about that. He didn't he he didn't say that to us, So, you know, I just asked Josh that do you think they had any of our signals? And he said no, So, so, so what's he? Where's he? Where's he coming from? I don't know. I just asked him a second ago. I said, Josh, so you think that they're picking up on things? And he said no. So have you heard that before from other players as a team, that that they were No.

I mean, I think there's certain things that everybody does that's predictable from a tendency standpoint. When you line up in this formation seventy five percent of the time, you do this twenty five percent of the time to do this. But there's nothing I don't think anybody does offensively or defensively. That's one hundred percent of the time. You know, the team you're playing is eighty percent man coverage in this look that, but that doesn't mean you're going to get

man coverage every time. I mean, that's just everybody kind of does what they do. There's a certain percentage that everybody does what they do. You're not always fifty fifty, you know what I mean? Self scouting in terms of like little little tendency guys spend the same amount each week. That's the first thing we start talking about. We've self scout ourselves and by down and distance, by area on the field, be zone, coming out, going in, all that

other stuff. So everybody who wills ready today, Michael with his hamstring, and then um Ceter Thornton and Taylor Hart they're both not practicing today. Jeff, What did the Jets do defensively that impresses you? Especially in their front four? Well,

I think they're sound at every level. Sal You know, they've got an outstanding secondary, you know with Kramari and Revs and gil Christ and prior back there they got two really talented insideline backers, and then obviously the front you know, with with workers in and Leonard Williams added to it, and then you got pace in couples. So you know, I think they're sound at every level, you know, and and have really good playmakers at every level. But the one thing that stands out with them as a

whole defensively, is just the turnovers that they've created. They've created the ten in the first two games of the year, so you know that's that's five a game right now. And um, they're doing a great job of taking the ball away, whether it's from strip, fumbles or interceptions, it's a combination of all of them. So um, you know they kind of all playing and sync and they're doing a really good job. But they're they're talented at all

three levels on the defensive side of the ball. When the team is that aggressive with the takeaways, and you can't practice not ter fall over, but it is a point of emphasis. How do you go about it? Yeah, it's always a point emphasis. You know. I think our defense has done a good job in terms of going for strips and things like that. It's been an emphasis

for us since last April. So, um, you've got to be conscious sick about it because you've got a team that's really good at it and will continue to train it and drill it. Here in these next couple of days. What's the process been like? HA learned that the system to Sam's strength, does he have a lot of input in that? How do you feel like. I think it's the same with every quarterback. You know, you're always getting feedback, whether it's Michael or Nick, or Mark or or Sam.

You know what, they feel more comfortable. One guy likes to maybe, you know, throw this route to the left better than that guy like to throw that route to the left. So, no matter where I've been or whoever we've had at quarterback, you've always always taken input from

those guys. And Sam's a real student of the game, spends a lot of time watching take is in this building a lot, so um you know, he'll come in and sit down a visit with us and talk about really situational football, what he's seen on third down, what he's seen in the red zone, and then we collaborate on that thinking things next center. Do you think he had any correlation to him trying to compensate for the guys that are next to I think that's a great

question for Jason. How did you see anything on film that makes you believe and that's what he's doing. No, what do you said yesterday to us was that there were all these things in the game plan that he was trying to keep in mind rather than just hitting the guy in front of him. How do you address that? Do you just simplify what you do this week? It just it all depends on who you're playing and what

they're doing. You know, Dallas was a big movement team up front, you know, in terms of moving the three and the seven had a lot of tendencies on them that he knew when they were in certain coverages and certain looks that they're doing. You know, there's a predominant amount of time they're going to do that. So that's just part of every game plan you go through. You don't just say, hey, forget about it, and we know they're slanting out of this front and this coverage, but

let's not talk about it. I mean, you still have to address it and present it to himself. Forge he's done a good job, I think. The one thing, and I don't know if people realize that fits he played a lot for Chan when Chan was a head coach at Buffalo, So he's just really comfortable. It's not a traditional new quarterback new coordinator getting together and where they are. I think he's got a a real comfort level with Chan. Bob mcnell, our wide receiver coach, is actually on staff

with them there in Buffalo. So Um had a great command of that offense when when he was running up in Buffalo, and I think he'd It's probably been the easiest transition for him in terms of anybody else because he's his familiarity with Chan and what he wants to do, how he's gonna call things, and the offense they're running in Buffalo, I mean in New York right now is similar to the one that Cham was running when they were in Buffalo together. So sure do you know Todd

both much? And is his fingerprints on the Jets improven defense? Yeah, his fingerprints are on that. I don't know much. I talked to Todd when I first got here. He was on his way out, he was headed to Arizona with with Bruce, But you know, I know him from just a coach of Circle. So he's done a really good job in a short amount of time in New York.

But what he's doing defensively is what he's done, you know, similar to the scheme he ran when he was in Arizona for those two years and did a really nice job with the Arizona defense the last two years, and they're running a similar type system. Some of the players are slightly different, but it's a similar system in terms of what he was doing in the Cardinals. Did you have to keep Todd Bowles here? Who was he already doing? I talked to him when I first got here sal

and then Bruce got the job. I think his familiarity with Bruce was part of it. But we were gonna He had known we were going to interview a couple of defensive coordinators. Um but I never got a chance to ever get him back here, but I did visit with him for a while when I first came first got into those first couple of days. This is a turnover issue. How much have you addressed that with the

team this week, especially with your quarterback? I know we had a bad staff in one where the intercepts you went through the receivers. We addressed it every week, regardless of anything. I think. You know we're always trying to be zero in the turnover category on the offensive side of the ball and create him on the defensive side of the ball. So we talk about him all the time. We've talked about him since we've been our April twentieth.

It's been a big emphasis for us both ways. So obviously, if if you're losing the turnover battle, um, you know, the statistics will tell you, you you know, you don't have a real good chance to win of the games. So we've it's been a big emphasis for us. This is three f four like LU and one run down. They strictly two gaping where they allow like someone like wil person to kind of kind of treat They do everything, so I mean, there's not a I mean they do it.

You know, Todd runs a very diverse package, so he does it all, so they're gonna you'll see all sorts of looks out of him in his three down package and his four down package. They have a three down three linebacker package. They got a lot of different packages they're running right now, and they're really spread across the board in terms of how they're um deploying that whole thing. So it's not there's not one thing where he's just

sitting in one thing. So Sam was not the number four all time in lowest interception percentage before the year began. He's got four. Obviously they're not all his fault, but they have a couple of work been pretty bad and he faults. Why no, I mean, we look at every interception individually, so I know two of them are tips that went through our hands at and that's not the quarterback's fault, and that that's, uh, you know, we gotta

catchup all when it's down there. I know the one on Sean Lee, Shan had his back turned, you know, when he released the football and then Sean turn It was a hell of heck of a play by Bye Sean when you really look at it. But when you when you look at that matchup, when you're in the end zone and the defender has his back turn, you're

trying to throw the ball before you know. And and the fact that the way if you watch it, especially from Sam's u from the behind, when you watch it, when you see when he released it, Sean still had his back turn, and then Sean turned around and located the football, and I think that, you know, that's that's that's three out of four. So that's you know, you got to give the defender credit on that one. So

a lot of talks about his defender accuracy. I mean, yeah, I mean we were a little inconsistent on Sunday, but I thought he was pretty accurate in the Atlanta Falcon game, Yeah, when he was twenty one to twenty five minutes second Africans Falcons seven past week seven. Yeah, I mean you just there was some inconsistency there, there were some rush there issues there. You know, it's a combination of everything.

But I mean it's it's one game. So when you go those two, um you've mentioned before what happened to me perhaps the forty Niners team last year and then then before that and the Giant team, do you go back to the draw on board and James things. Do you just say, you know what, I think successful too one thing games these past years, We're just going to say do what we've always done. Now. I don't think the record has anything to do with anything. I think

it's always your game planning for your next opponent. So you know, what, what do we have to do to beat the Jets? You know, whether we were two and oh at this point in time or whether we were on two, you don't just say, hey, we're two and oh, we don't have to do anything this week. I mean every every week for any coach I think at any

level is it's an entire season. So it's kind of how you you look the whole thing out and kind of spread it out, But your your focus is on I know people make fun of coach Belichick, but I think when he said on to Cincinnati, that's what we're all kind of about. You're onto your next game and your game planning for your next game in terms of specifics of what they do, what do they present for problems? How do you handle Wilkerson, How do you handle Williams?

What do you do with Kumari? What do you do with Rivus? You know, how do you how do you do all that? Your your focus is on your next opponent. It's not about, hey, we did this two years ago when we played this team, so let's do this again, because that's going to change a winning stream, a losing streak into a winning streak. It's about what do we need to do to put a plan in place offensively, defensively and special teams to play the Jets? Jumy, what

have you seen in sin mentally? Haven't done his ability to turn the page after a rough game or a rough start, or you talk about his mental makeup a little bit. Yeah, I think Sam's really grounded. I think the one thing about him is he's really consistent. His approach and his attitude here every day. You know, there's he's not a guy that gets really really high, but

he's not a guy that gets really really low. And I think there's a lot of a lot to that, you know, especially in this game, because you're going to have successes and then you're gonna have failures. You could have him within a drive, you know, you could have him within a game. You know, you certainly have him within a season. So I think he's really consistent, you know, in terms of his approach of always trying to improve and always trying to get better offensive