(Opening Statement): “As far as injuries go, Nic Jones fractured a couple of fingers there. We will see
how he does. (Anthony) Witherstone hurt his toe, his big toe. We have to see how that also does
when we get back. All in all, it was good to get a game in. The ones – we have to pick up the tempo
there on both sides of the ball. Not good enough. We have some things to work on there. It was good
to get the young guys in. I thought they actually played pretty well, the twos and the threes. Some
good things from really all of the different positions. They all come back after being left in a deficit and
bring ourselves back in the game. You can’t finish it. You can’t finish with a mistake. That’s a terrible
way to end the thing. Looks like the Saints have a good football team. We have to make sure we get
our stuff taken care of.”
(On rookie Justyn Ross’ performance): “Yeah, you know before I comment, I want to take a look at
the tape. In general, I thought the guys did a decent job. I know he had the touchdown. That was a
good play, that play. As a whole I have to see all the work they did.”
(On Justyn Ross playing for the first time in two years): “That’s the good part of the story, and he
came out healthy. That’s a positive thing.”
(On Patrick Mahomes’ sideline leadership): “Some of the guys were a little flat in the beginning. You
can’t do that. When you come to work, you need to come to work ready to go.”
(On the 4th
-and-1 sneak): “After looking at it on the replay, we probably should have gone to the left
and not the right. They ended up pinching on that side, the left side, and we probably could have
gone in that direction. We’re trying to get where we can do that. We can’t work on that in camp live.
You get good work on it here. It didn’t work. That was the bottom line. We have to go back to the
drawing board on it.”
(On his thoughts on Richie James) “Again, I have to look at the whole work, but he had a beautiful
catch there, a couple of them. That’s a good job by him. He’s a good football player. We know that.
He’s got a good feel for things.”
(On rookies Felix Anudike-Uzomah and Rashee Rice): “That’s so valuable for them. They’re two guys
who need that – the speed of this, live, the whole deal – and not just a handful of reps, putting a
series together. I think that was good for both of them. Again, I have to evaluate off of the tape. We’re
going to look at it. There are going to be some corrections. I thought for the most part they held their
own and did a decent job there. I’ll take a peek at that.”
(On if he has any idea of the severity of Nic Jones’ injury): “No, I don’t. I’ll know more here in the next
day or so. We know it’s broken. Some you can just cast up. Other ones, you have to have surgery on
it. We’ll see where that goes.”
(On the touchdown pass by Shane Buechele): “It was a good escape. That escape was good. The
throw was good. The catch was good. All around that was a pretty good play. Glad he had a chance
to get one in the end zone there.
