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Video | Jason Garrett Saturday Presser
James Hana hurt knee, day to day, should be out a few days, same for Gus Johnson
Good to ease the injured running backs back in during the walk through
Darren McFadden has missed a lot, hasn't practiced much since joining team, but he's a veteran player, smart player, very engaged, good understanding of system and what we want him to do, rehabbing hard, excited to see him out there these next few days
Competition is really good for your team, competing for roster spots and roles is good for players, typically brings out the best in them, try to do that throughout your football team
Doug Free will do something in individual today, hopefully feel good with that and maybe do something more as practice goes on, anticipate getting more work as these days progress
Good and bad with Darrion Weems, played a lot, not everything was his fault, some plays weren't run correctly, needs to protect better, good work for him, kept fighting, kept scratching, good opportunity and he will grow and benefit from it
Greg Hardy didn't play a lot, you see how he plays and how you play matters, it's the way he practices, practices very hard, whatever we ask him to do, he goes 100 MPH, he did that in the game, plays with the right spirit and right mentality
La'el Collins, like with Weems, did some good things and other things he has to improve upon, with young players, playing helps them, the area it helps the most in playing decisively, the more they see the different looks, particularly true for OL (moving fronts, constant communication with teammates), come off ball together, reach assignment, sometime they slow down in games and don't play decisively or aggressively because they're thinking too much
La'el did a good job fighting through that, he played physically, made some aggressive mistakes, wasn't always on right guy doing it right way, but it was aggressive, it was hard, it was physical, had some highlight plays where he got to second level and knocked guy to the ground, you like that demeanor, that physicality but a lot of room for improvement for him just like with a lot of the young guys
Practicing the Rams will be great, create competition, going against another team will raise the level of competition, it's just human nature, we saw that in the San Diego game and we'll see it out here on Monday and Tuesday, make sure it's about football, a lot of stuff can happen, make sure your team stays focused, it can get a little chippy when you're just practicing against your own players, sometimes things get escalated in these practices, important for coaches and players to handle things the right way and stay focused on what's important, that's getting better as a team
You talk to other coaches about parameters, hopefully each side understands the rate we're going at and what we want from each drill, handle it the right way, communication is huge, be clear what each side wants, get on the same page
Laughing at question, still not happy with turnovers, poor tackling and not scoring on offense, a lot of other things we're also unhappy about but there were some positives as well, you look at it (game tape) from a team standpoint, unit standpoint and individual standpoint, you can point to positives in each of those areas and you can point to things where we all have to get better
There can be a feeling like the veterans have everything down and this is all about the young guys, that's really not the case, this is about coaching everybody and making sure everybody is playing at the right pace, right tempo, at the right level, we'll make sure to get that done, it's positive reinforcement for good plays and negative reinforcement for bad plays, what our expectations and standards are
There are a number of phases in training camp, look at the schedule, each stretch between days off and it builds up, now look at the first two weeks as a phase, now on to next phase, this is a great opportunity, played Thursday night, don't play again until next Sunday, now we dig in and have training camp and work hard, great opportunity to get better as a team, dig cleats into the ground and get back in training camp mode
Q: Did you invite the Rams?
Nah, they were just going to storm the gates (laughing), of course we invited them (continues laughing), we've had conversations about this for 4-5 months, they were going to be out here to play the Raiders, do you want to come down and practice with us?, always looking for chances to do that if the schedule works out with another team
Don't know Tony Romo's schedule for Rams practices, he will be out there today
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James Hana hurt knee, day to day, should be out a few days, same for Gus Johnson
Good to ease the injured running backs back in during the walk through
Darren McFadden has missed a lot, hasn't practiced much since joining team, but he's a veteran player, smart player, very engaged, good understanding of system and what we want him to do, rehabbing hard, excited to see him out there these next few days
Competition is really good for your team, competing for roster spots and roles is good for players, typically brings out the best in them, try to do that throughout your football team
Doug Free will do something in individual today, hopefully feel good with that and maybe do something more as practice goes on, anticipate getting more work as these days progress
Good and bad with Darrion Weems, played a lot, not everything was his fault, some plays weren't run correctly, needs to protect better, good work for him, kept fighting, kept scratching, good opportunity and he will grow and benefit from it
Greg Hardy didn't play a lot, you see how he plays and how you play matters, it's the way he practices, practices very hard, whatever we ask him to do, he goes 100 MPH, he did that in the game, plays with the right spirit and right mentality
La'el Collins, like with Weems, did some good things and other things he has to improve upon, with young players, playing helps them, the area it helps the most in playing decisively, the more they see the different looks, particularly true for OL (moving fronts, constant communication with teammates), come off ball together, reach assignment, sometime they slow down in games and don't play decisively or aggressively because they're thinking too much
La'el did a good job fighting through that, he played physically, made some aggressive mistakes, wasn't always on right guy doing it right way, but it was aggressive, it was hard, it was physical, had some highlight plays where he got to second level and knocked guy to the ground, you like that demeanor, that physicality but a lot of room for improvement for him just like with a lot of the young guys
Practicing the Rams will be great, create competition, going against another team will raise the level of competition, it's just human nature, we saw that in the San Diego game and we'll see it out here on Monday and Tuesday, make sure it's about football, a lot of stuff can happen, make sure your team stays focused, it can get a little chippy when you're just practicing against your own players, sometimes things get escalated in these practices, important for coaches and players to handle things the right way and stay focused on what's important, that's getting better as a team
You talk to other coaches about parameters, hopefully each side understands the rate we're going at and what we want from each drill, handle it the right way, communication is huge, be clear what each side wants, get on the same page
Laughing at question, still not happy with turnovers, poor tackling and not scoring on offense, a lot of other things we're also unhappy about but there were some positives as well, you look at it (game tape) from a team standpoint, unit standpoint and individual standpoint, you can point to positives in each of those areas and you can point to things where we all have to get better
There can be a feeling like the veterans have everything down and this is all about the young guys, that's really not the case, this is about coaching everybody and making sure everybody is playing at the right pace, right tempo, at the right level, we'll make sure to get that done, it's positive reinforcement for good plays and negative reinforcement for bad plays, what our expectations and standards are
There are a number of phases in training camp, look at the schedule, each stretch between days off and it builds up, now look at the first two weeks as a phase, now on to next phase, this is a great opportunity, played Thursday night, don't play again until next Sunday, now we dig in and have training camp and work hard, great opportunity to get better as a team, dig cleats into the ground and get back in training camp mode
Q: Did you invite the Rams?
Nah, they were just going to storm the gates (laughing), of course we invited them (continues laughing), we've had conversations about this for 4-5 months, they were going to be out here to play the Raiders, do you want to come down and practice with us?, always looking for chances to do that if the schedule works out with another team
Don't know Tony Romo's schedule for Rams practices, he will be out there today
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