Responsible Decision-Making Is Key

Here are some highlights from head coach Sean McDermott’s recent press conferences.

Q: It has been a strange year in the NFL and that road teams have a lot of success this year, more than usual. Is home field advantage the same as it used to be or is this anomaly that road teams are winning more than they have in the past, what's the difference with this year?

SM: I think it’s probably year to year. Honestly, it is nice to play at home. Overall though, at the end of the day, you’ve got to play well wherever you play. And I think that’s the key takeaway for our team is that you got to play well wherever you play.

Q: What’s the way you fix, one of the issues obviously out of the Eagles game was run defense, and in the middle of a season, and at these kinds of practices where you’re opponent specific with so many ways, but it also seems like there's some fundamental things there that probably need to be addressed. So how do you, especially with your background, go about doing that when it comes to run defense?

SM: Yeah, reteach. Whether it’s run defense or whatever it is, as it relates to performance, is reteach the fundamentals. That’s what I’ve been around for my career. And that’s what we that's what we’ll do, and we’ll continue to do that to reteach the fundamentals because if we’re not getting the fundamentals then we’ve got to go back and reteach the fundamentals and make sure it’s clear what we expect with fundamentals and technique and then execution. So yeah, that’s what we are, we’re teachers. We go back and reteach to make sure there’s an understanding of what we're looking for and what we need.

Q: With the trade deadline recently happening, how close were you guys, if at all, to making a move before the deadline?