Nick Sirianni On Facing the Los Angeles Chargers

Nick Sirianni On Facing the Los Angeles Chargers

All right, Nick. What have you seen from this Chargers team on tape both offensively and defensively? Yeah. Um, play they play with good fundamentals, play really hard, got good players. Um, well coached. Um, a lot of respect for this team. Um, and and the players and coaches that they have. Um, you know, one of worked with, uh, you know, Marcus Brady before have, you know, I know how good of a coach he is. you know, Nick Nick Hardwick uh played for us when I was with the uh when I was with the Chargers. He was an outstanding football mind um and an outstanding player. So, um you know, and obviously Coach Harbaugh has been a highly successful coach at, you know, every different area and every different uh place that he’s ever been. So, I have a lot of respect for him as well. Nick, after the last game, Jaylen mentioned that it’s getting harder and harder to to run the push play. Um do you agree with that? And how do you go about trying to protect and save a play that’s been so uh useful for you guys? Yeah, just like kind of we do with anything like you you they adjust, you adjust, uh try to make uh compliments off of it as many as you can to make them keep them honest, all all the different things that you do to to help. It’s it’s you know, I know it’s a unique play that gets a lot of attention and a lot of talk. Um but you you handle it the very same way. you still teach the fundamentals the same way you would in an inside zone or and the adjustments that come off of that and the you know the things that the defense is doing and how you can kind of combat that. What have you noticed from Saquon as he’s going through his season? Obviously not having the the numbers necessarily that he would want, but how he’s handling his business and uh you know going about trying to to troubleshoot. Yeah, he’s he’s the best. Um you know, he’s the same guy. I love consistency and he’s the same person every single day. Uh week in week out, year to year. Um I think that’s why you see that why his teammates, his coaches, everybody that comes in contact with him has the kind of respect that they have for him because his consistency doesn’t waver based off of anything um that happens on the field. It’s about his process and about how he goes about his work and you know, you love that out of your players. Nick, in the the episode of Hard Knocks, you were quoted during practice like joking that the sky’s falling on the outside. I was wondering what you learned during your time here about navigating the team when maybe from the outside there’s a lot of like anger with losses and stuff like that. Yeah. Um, you know, obviously we get angry when we lose. Um, and there are so many different things that can grab your attention and your job and your focus has to be on what you where you are and where and and really to be quite frank, the best thing to do is be able to block everything out. Um, I know that’s not necessarily the real reality of our world with social media, with, you know, how much we have access to, you know, everything like that, but um, you know, it is being able to block it out as much as you can. Um, you know, for me, I I don’t focus on anything other than what’s happening in this building. Um, it’s not good for me if I read it. It’s not good. And I and I say that in in both when you’re winning and when you’re losing. It’s not good for me to read no in any of your tweets, any of a fans tweets, any of a um if is it still I don’t even know if it’s called tweets, but um any article in anything like because all that can do and so I’m able to do that. I didn’t grow up in like the social media world and so I don’t I’m able to do that and just stay locked in and but I again I also understand that it’s the it’s the world we live in. So, but your your job is to be able to if you let anything steal your focus um or your joy or anything away from your attention of what you need to do that week that like every little thing that takes your attention away is one little less thing that you have um to give towards the game that you’re playing. And um you know, and there’s obviously other things that you we have responsibilities for our families, right? um you know, our faith, our you know, our football. I mean, that’s how I live, faith, family, football. And so, um you try to stay locked into those things and and truly be locked in on where you are. And um and that’s and that’s my message consistently and that’s and and I know that if I’m not doing it, then how do I expect them to? Nick, when you’ve made up to game day with all the prep that goes there, the workflow um when you put in first and second down and such Kevin was saying yesterday that hasn’t changed over the many by reviewing that. How much did that change over the offseason with the new coordinator and what goes into that review process? How would you evaluate that? Your your process is constantly tweaked. Now, you have a you have the guts of it that you that you have, but then naturally things get tweaked. um we can you you always are trying to pro you you put yourself into like if my process is good that doesn’t guarantee you anything but it it puts you in the best position to succeed each and every week. So you’re constantly tweaking processes. Hey, you know, oh man, they did this and maybe we never have looked at that before. Okay, now you know, you need to look at that now. And so it grow like, and I say that because it it the process actually grows as you continue on. It’s like something that happened to us when I was at the Chargers in 2015 or 14. I won’t get into what it is. It’s like, huh, maybe we got to look at that every week. And then that that gets added and naturally through your your course of your career as a coach, you have that process written out. You have it highly in tune and naturally things, you know, tweak as you go throughout it, but the guts of it say stay pretty similar. Um because, you know, yeah, the guts of it play stay pretty similar, but there are constant tweaks. Nick so I understand like just for example like you know you know this red zone situation this week was something that we might need to look at. You might change a day or a time or how much you evaluate into it. I’m just trying maybe not maybe not a time like but there are definitely days that you go in and say okay I’m devoting eight hours to red zone and then that day it takes eight and a half or nine or 10 or five you know what I mean? Like it it just depends on uh you know your schedule may be this but we have the ability as coaches to stay later. You know that there’s no we don’t have to punch a clock. We don’t get we don’t get overtime for anything. Although I did get overtime at when I was at IUP as a football coach. That was nice. Um I don’t think they do that anymore but there was something anyway. Um, but no, it it just it just depends. When you’ve made a changes late in the season, whether it be a co coordinator change or even something small that may have benefited the team, um, how has that influenced when you looked at the team during this mini buy about weighing whether to make a change and whether it’s worth it or not? Yeah, every every scenario you ever go through um it’s our job whether again whether it’s a win, a loss, a positive scenario, negative scenario is always to learn from each and every scenario. So um and that’s what you know that’s how constant growth happens. And so all those past experiences um you know I wish I knew everything I knew today that I when I started um in 2021. But naturally your experience same kind of like with the game plan your experiences um dictate different things. So, um, so yeah, you use them. Um, you use all those experiences, you use all those things to help you make the best, but you know, you’re always your sole focus is always going to be like at the heart of it. You can change philosophies, you can change, you can change different things, you can change schemes, you can change processes, but um, you know, I don’t um, but yeah, it they all go hand in hand. Okay. What I was getting at, sorry I lost train of thought for a second, is you’re always trying to do what’s best for the football team. You had a report out there. You had a report out yesterday that you guys put a claim in on Slay. Do you uh feel like the need to talk to any players after that because maybe perception could be, hey, they don’t think we’re good enough here. Do you ever feel the need to You always are in constant communication with your guys about everything. Um and you’re and and one thing you’re always doing um in this room is is you’re you’re correcting um things that aren’t up to standard and you’re praising things that are up to standard. So I think the guys have a real good feel of you know how we you know obviously the communication but obviously and they have a good feel of how we you know we appreciate the things that they do because we we emphasize those things. So, but con communication is really key. What perspective do you have of the man, the player side? I’m sorry. What perspective do you have of Jordan a lot of the man like regarding the the player side? Yeah. Um outstanding leader um a great desire to help um others, a great desire to help his teammates. um an infectious personality um that you that you crave to be around. Um you know, guys that have, you know, he just got a great personality. You just want to be around a guy like that. Highly talented man. And I mean, it’s pretty amazing. His story is pretty amazing. Um shoot, highly talented and everything that I feel like he tries. He’s God’s blessed him uh abundantly. And I was just we were just talking about I’m like I’ve I’ve coached two players that have been on the masked singer Jordan Milada. And I’m like can you name the other does anyone know the other person? Boss, huh? I didn’t coach him. Mass singer. We play him this week. Keenan Allen. Yeah. So I’m like, man, I’ve been around these highly talented guys, not just in football. Um, but just yeah, I can best way to say that is God has blessed Jordan abundantly in his in his life with all the talents that he’s uh been given and um just somebody you want to be around. Hey Nick, time for two more. You guys have been outscored by like 30 points in the fourth quarter. You’ve outscored your opponent in each of the first three quarters. Any thoughts on why the fourth quarters have have not gone well? Yeah. um you know there’s you’re looking at the flow of the game of h of how that goes and um you know and all and all those different things. Um again some of these answers like when you’re trying to fix things like it is hard like some of the answers aren’t clear. You got to dig and you got to you got to fight fight to find them and and sometimes they’re not abundantly you know they’re completely clear. I I said abundantly like for the first time ever and now I’m putting it into areas where it doesn’t even fit. Um but um no, it’s just it’s just being consistent uh as coaches and as players throughout the entire game. Um you know, I never feel like when we’ve had a lead that we’ve been conservative and I haven’t felt the other way like we haven’t been trying like our crazy like to to to catch up when we’ve been behind or tied or anything. So, um it’s just it’s just the consistency from, you know, coaching. It’s just the consistency from playing, you know, the execution and um just trying to put together, you know, that’s what we our goal is to be playing our best football by the end of the year. You’re going to have ups, you’re going to have downs. Um and you know, obviously we’re on a twoame losing streak right now and it’s just about getting back to that confidence and that consistency. Last one. Nick, when there something like that happens with Kevin Patulo, how do you handle that behind closed doors? Yeah, everything I handle behind closed doors is behind closed doors. Um, you know, but at the end of the day, you just try to be there for for people, you know, I always um and Gus Bradley used to always say, give give strength to the people that that need it. Um, and I always thought that was really good, you know, pick up people that need it. And that’s your job as a leader, um, is to, you know, is to do that. Um and that’s why the relationship portion of it is so important because there are ups there are downs and relationships like that’s why together is our first one tough detailed together our third one um but you know some of you know I you know some of the some of the closest relationships you have happen because of you know some of the negative things that you go through, right? There’s there’s so many again I’ve I’ve said before like I get I’m thankful for adversities because one it helps you get if you allow it it helps you get better, right? Um if you don’t stay on the ground and you pick yourself up and you learn from those things, it helps you get better. And then the other thing is, you know, it brings you it brings people together. Adversities bring people together. You know, I have a tight a tightknit family that I grew up with. um you know as as a kid with two loving parents and uh great brother older brothers that showed me showed me the way but I I I think if you asked any of them were we’re were close as a family because of the struggles that we had to go through with my dad having cancer and so um you know you always you always want to look at negative things you always want to be there for guys but and then how do you use adversity to bring people closer together. All right. Thanks. We got to get out of

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