Josh McDaniels Press Conference - 9/5/2008

Fri, 5 Sep 2008

New England Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels addresses the media during his press conference at Gillette Stadium on Friday, September 5, 2008. Transcript to follow

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Play from 0:06[0:06] ..." Losses -- Training camp that. -- thought. It would be -- just very kind of training and you know. Birdie and other training camp with the all the receivers and play well last year when we'll get use. Getting news -- during training him what had"...

Play from 1:23[1:23] ..." I watch the offseason work -- on. Studying what defenses I have done from random. Late in the season and his production obviously one. Great it"...

Play from 0:06[0:06]" Losses -- Training camp that. -- thought. It would be -- just very kind of training and you know. Birdie and other training camp with the all the receivers and play well last year when we'll get use. Getting news -- during training him what had a great season but I'm still ahead of the -- my -- I would train him all the receivers in place. Even -- ready to play it."

Play from 0:30[0:30]" I think that Britain as far as this system is concerned I think the players that are here. No more about the system and they did you know at this time last year you know we had some new guys last year and I think that was a constant. You know they were there were learning basically the whole year or until at least the good part of the year. At this point last year that's kind of where we were I would say that we're ahead of the game and that in that respect. Think we're always trying to fight to get back to that level of consistency that you hope to reach. You know at some point during the course of the season we're certainly not there yet. So. From from a learning standpoint from an understanding of the system standpoint I think or where we would want to be I think this this group of guys this. Very easy to coach there they learn they learn the system of the new things each week very quickly. And they're not and they're not learning as many new things as they were last year at this time."

Play from 1:23[1:23]" I watch the offseason work -- on. Studying what defenses I have done from random. Late in the season and his production obviously one. Great it was early in the year what did you see it's. Bad."

Play from 1:39[1:39]" I think we saw a lot of different things as the year went on. Some teams. And no no two teams really play us. The same which is what you expect coming into this season anyway. But you know different people played some different type of coverage schemes against him."

Play from 1:56[1:56]" Some of that gave us out a lot of other options you know and there are plays certainly did that more than one guys open on the play."

Play from 2:02[2:02]" And and you know not everybody can get the ball so."

Play from 2:05[2:05]" We looked at some things to do differently with all of our plays we do that every every spring reevaluate what we did with with the --"

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