The Eagles had been again on the follow subject on Saturday, however earlier than taking the sphere, new offensive coordinator Sean Mannion spoke to reporters — in simply his second time talking to Philly media since being employed. He defined his coaching camp expectations, why he’s loved working with Jalen Hurts, and their approaches to putting in a brand new offensive scheme.
Right here’s what the OC needed to say:
On Jalen Hurts
“He’s very uniquely talented in terms of that athletic ability, it’s something he’s been effective with throughout his career. So, that’s part of what makes him such a special talent, but he does a lot of things well. I think he’s really operated through all facets of the offense comfortably, but the piece of him as an athlete in the running game that is unique. Those are elements we can lean in to, as well.”
Mannion had a variety of good issues to say about working with Hurts since attending to Philadelphia, and famous that the QB has had a variety of success and performed in a variety of video games, so his objective to get a really feel for what he likes. That features discovering Hurts’ consolation calls, what he feels tremendous assured with in a 2nd-and-long state of affairs, and people nuanced particulars will assist the OC as a play-caller.
“It’s been a great partnership with Jalen [Hurts] since we got here. The back and forth has been outstanding, he asks really thought-provoking questions, and it’s been a lot of fun to work with him”
On coaching camp expectations
“The thing we want is great effort every day, and then compete. That was a big thing coming into this camp for us, was every day is high-level competition — you’re competing against yourself, competing for a role on the roster, and then competing against the defense every day is going to make us better and better.”
Mannion went on to clarify that offensively, they’re whether or not they have a good pre-snap operation — one thing the OC admitted they struggled with in Day 1 of camp, however thought issues had been improved Day 2.
“And then just, assignment, alignment, execution — are we getting lined up properly? Are we not having mental errors? But, through the first two days of practice, it’s still early, I’m happy with the progress we’ve made, and we just gotta keep improving from there.”
The OC later mentioned that the extra veteran guys have been nice and tremendous prepared to study a brand new system. He famous that the most important factor is that all the guys are so hungry to study and for particular person durations once they’re engaged on method.
“Those are the type of guys you get to work with every day. Again, from the offseason program, you know, you have a summer break, and coming back, I thought Day 1 and 2, there was some pre-snap stuff we need to fix, but their retention from the spring was outstanding. And it allows us to pick up right where we left off and kind of keep building from there.”
On the WR room
Mannion mentioned that they’ve a really thrilling group of gamers at extensive receiver with such complimentary skillsets. They’ve a variety of flexibility with having the ability to put guys at totally different spots and transfer folks round, which opens up a variety of alternatives.
On the brand new scheme
Mannion didn’t wish to get too deep into what they’re planning on doing schematically, however did say that guys like Saquon Barkley and Tank Bigsby are actually able to being utilized out of the backfield. He famous that the operating backs typically have blocking duties, or different issues based mostly on what the protection is doing, however they’re all succesful go catchers and good route runners that can be utilized based mostly on safety wants.
When requested if he desires a real fullback within the offense, the OC defined their general method to those type of schematic particulars.
“As multiple as we can be formationally, I think that’s always something we want to try to do. And especially train these guys to do multiple things throughout camp.”
Lane Johnson and Jordan Mailata had talked about earlier within the week that the scheme is simpler for them upfront, and Mannion mentioned that the coaches are targeted on making issues as easy for them as potential — along with some issues with the tight ends that gives extra help than they’ve had beforehand.
“We wish these guys to go on the market, know precisely the place to go, and play quick. So, all through all of our educating, we wish to make as many issues as black and white for them as potential, so we’re all on the identical web page and we’re off and operating. A minimum of everyone knows the place we’re going, and we’re going with whole task dedication to assault our aiming factors, assault our targets, and that may in the end permit us to play quick, play bodily, have the play type that we would like. However, we wish to make the whole lot as lower and dry, and black and white for the offensive line to allow them to fireplace off.“
Different notables
The OC mentioned he was actually impressed with the recall and retention that everybody had getting back from summer season break. He mentioned that they had been clearly learning throughout the time away.
Mannion known as the Eagles protection below DC Vic Fangio a “tremendous group” and it makes nice competitors for the offense day by day going towards an elite unit — the OC mentioned it was a little bit of a every day chess match.
He talked about how a lot he enjoys spending time with all of the totally different positions, and acknowledged he must be just a little extra intentional with him time. Mannion mentioned he finds additional time with the QBs, and typically OL, when the remainder of the group is in particular groups conferences.
