{"id":50513,"date":"2022-08-19T22:11:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T22:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/nick-sirianni-talks-eagles-browns-practices-devonta-smiths-development-and-more\/"},"modified":"2022-08-19T22:11:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T22:11:27","slug":"nick-sirianni-talks-eagles-browns-practices-devonta-smiths-development-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/nick-sirianni-talks-eagles-browns-practices-devonta-smiths-development-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Sirianni talks Eagles-Browns practices, DeVonta Smith’s development, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Eagles were back for their second joint practice with the Browns on Friday and head coach Nick Sirianni spoke to reporters before taking the field. He talked about the team’s performance in Thursday’s joint practice, what he’s seen from the safety position, and also explained his penchant for defending his players.<\/p>\n

Jacoby Brissett joked that Sirianni wanted to fight fans that boo’ed, but the Eagles’ head coach explained that he grew up with two older brothers and parents who fiercely defended each other, so it’s just what he’s used to. That’s how he’s always been. He knows his players can defend themselves, but he’s still going to stick up for them, too.<\/p>\n

Here’s what else the head coach had to say:<\/p>\n

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On joint practice and Sunday’s game<\/h2>\n

Sirianni mentioned that you don’t really grade inter-squad practices as wins or losses, the success is based on whether they improved as a team \u2014 which the head coach said they did. <\/p>\n

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\u201cI think [Jalen Hurts] had a good day. I really did. Again, I just continue to see him progress everyday, and yesterday I thought he did a really nice job. He had a good practice. He’s been sharp all camp and I thought he had a great practice yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The head coach was asked whether the pre-snap penalties from the OL in Thursday’s practice was due to the center \u2014 Cam Jurgens \u2014 but the head coach denied it was because of the rookie. He explained that they were trying to do some things with the snap count and they need to be more disciplined to avoid penalties.<\/p>\n

Sirianni was pressed about his plan for the starters on Sunday, but he didn’t want to finalize things just yet. He wanted to see how Friday’s practice went and evaluate some things before deciding whether the starters will see any playing time \u2014 that goes for all starters, even DeVonta Smith who missed last week’s game.<\/p>\n

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Ten Devonta Smith<\/h2>\n

Since coming back from injury, Smith has seen a lot more targets than he did early on in camp. Sirianni said that he want to get all their playmakers involved, and the balls been finding him lately.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe’s a great play maker, fantastic route-runner, has great feel about things, and, you know, there are some concepts we’re running with him that we feel like can \u2014 that he’s going to do a great job of this year , and he did a great job of last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The head coach also acknowledged that Smith has gotten a lot bigger, faster, stronger since he was drafted, and he’s become an even better route runner, too \u2014 something he says is natural for Smith, who is a guy that soaks up all the information he can and puts in the work.<\/p>\n

On the safety position<\/h2>\n
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\u201cI think we have good competition in that group, you know, led by Marcus Epps and then you have some good pieces to work with. And, I’m excited, we’ve been getting these guys in with different groups \u2014 sometimes with the ones, sometimes with the twos \u2014 and it’s exciting to watch them play with different groups.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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