October 4, 2014
Redskins Park
Head Coach Jay Gruden
On the injury report:
“Tracy Porter will
be out. He did not practice. Obviously, he’s out. Trenton Robinson was limited.
He’ll be questionable. Kedric Golston was limited. Akeem Jordan was full. Shawn
Lauvao was full. Niles Paul was full. Jordan Reed did not participate today. We’re
going to make sure he gets another full day of rest and we’ll evaluate him
tomorrow again. Trent was limited – Trent Williams. And then everybody else was
full – Chris Baker, [Jason] Hatcher, DeSean [Jackson], Jarvis [Jenkins] and Rak
[Brian Orakpo].”
On if there is a chance tight end Jordan Reed could play:
“There is a chance.
We’ll see him tomorrow. Today we didn’t want anything worse to happen, so we’re
going to take a look at him tomorrow, do a nice workout and go from there.”
On if Reed had a setback:
“No, he feels OK.
It’s just I know how these things are, so we are just going to take it another
day and give him another day of rest and evaluate him tomorrow.”
On if Reed has run full speed:
“He’s been running,
but full speed I can’t tell. I haven’t seen him run in a long time. I don’t
know what his full speed is right now. That’s what we’re going to look at
tomorrow and see what he can do, let him stretch it out a little bit and if he
doesn’t feel like he can run full speed then obviously we’ll hold him out. But
we’ll take a look at him tomorrow. It’s 50/50 – that’s what questionable is.”
On quarterback Robert Griffin III:
“He’s making progress, obviously. He’s doing a great job
working. We’ll see.”
Of if he thinks prime-time games can affect a player’s
body clock:
“I don’t think so. I don’t know. I haven’t found that to be
the case. The little experience I’ve had with the late night games in
Cincinnati and here, we’ve only had one – well, we had the ones in the
preseason and we were fine – so I don’t know if that’s an issue. I just think
Thursday night, prime-time game against the Giants, we just didn’t play very
well, we were a little bit beat up and the Giants came and took it to us. We’ve
just got to understand that that’s the type of game we’re going to play every
week and we have… to take it to somebody and not get it taken to us. So [it’s]
very important for us to come out, play some physical football, play the way we
want to play and worry about the results when they happen.”
On if he attributes quarterback Kirk Cousins’ mistakes to
his mindset or his youth:
“I don’t know. Every interception is different. I think his
mindset’s fine. You’ve just got to play and he’s got to see the looks, and some
of them are going to happen. Guys are going to throw interceptions. If you
throw the ball 35-40 times a game, you’re going to throw an interception or two
every now and then. The big thing is you bounce back and you don’t force the
issue the next one. You’ve got to learn from it and move on and continue to
compete. And that’s what he’s going to do – that’s what he’s done all week.
He’s competed, and learned from them, and studied the game plan. The Giants
game is totally out the rearview window right now. We’re not even worried about
the Giant game anymore. All we’ve been focusing on since Tuesday is the Seattle
Seahawks, and he’s done a great job preparing for what type of defenses he’s
going to see and how accurate and how good he’s got to be in the pocket moving
forward. I think his mindset’s OK. I don’t think his confidence has been
shaken, but we’ll see come Monday.”
On if he believes the Redskins were overconfident going
into the Giants game:
“I think they’re OK. It’s not so much they were
overconfident, I think. I just think the stress has been that we need to make
sure that we play hard all of the time – all the time. First quarter, second
quarter, third quarter, fourth quarter – we have to continue to compete on
every down, everybody. Not just one group – not just the defense, not just the
offense, but everybody’s got to compete every down, and hopefully they
understand that. Because every team in the NFL’s got talent – some teams have a
little bit more than others – but the fact of the matter is all 31 teams can
come in here and beat us on a given day, and I feel like we could beat all 31
teams. It’s just a matter of we need to make sure we compete, protect the
football, and when adversity strikes we’ve got to hang in there and move
forward.”
On if he’s a fan of the layoff from a Thursday night to a
Monday night game:
“I was fan of it after the Thursday game. I needed a couple
days off after that one, and I think our team needed a couple days. The
negative on a Thursday: you don’t feel like your team’s ready to go after the
Sunday game, but the positive is you get a couple extra days of recovery time
for the next game. We used that as a positive, the extra couple days – gave
them [the players] a couple days off, gave the coaches a couple days off, and
then came back fresh and ready to roll, and the players got in the treatment
room – the ones that needed it – and the majority of them have used that to
their benefit. They all feel good and fresh, and hopefully that will pay off
come Monday.”
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