Head Coach Joe Judge
Q: What s your overall message to your ball club now? With two games still to play and a lot still out there.
A: We have to have a good week of preparation this week. We are going to need our best performance on Sunday. The approach is still the same, come back to work on Wednesday. Make sure we go ahead and stay together as team. Make improvement. We want to be the best team we can be at the end of the season. The message has been the same all year. They have responded to it. We ve seen a lot of improvement throughout the season. No reason to change on it right now.
Head Coach Joe Judge
Opening Statement: I appreciate your patience. I wanted to check on a few of the players after the game. Like always, I wanted to make sure I make my rounds to guys before they get out of here. Look, before we get going, I d like to give credit to the Cleveland Browns. They played a good game tonight. They have a talented football team - it was well coached. They were able to take advantage of a lot of situations and opportunities. You have to give them credit. There were a lot of things that we did well in the game. We didn t do enough well, obviously. We have to capitalize and finish drives. We have to make sure we do a better job of getting off the field and taking advantage of field position we created right there. With that said, it s obviously all three phases and all coaches involved. We all have to do a better job. With that being said, I ll open it up to any questions you may have.
Head Coach Joe Judge
Q: From what I understand, you re going to have your outdoor practice today. Everything is a go?
A: Yes, everything is a go right now. We re all good.
Q: Now that you re back somewhat on schedule having a practice outdoors, will you determine today for Daniel (Jones) for Sunday?
A: I d like to have a much better idea. In a perfect world, I d like to have a decision today if possible. Tomorrow will be a walkthrough for the team in the morning. I can t say 100 percent that s going to be the case. But I d say I m leaning towards possibly making a decision today if that s possible.
Head Coach Joe Judge
Q: With Jason (Garrett), can you tell us how this came about this morning? Was he experiencing symptoms? How did this all come about?
A: I m not going to go into anyone s personal health. What I would say is this, we found out last night through the test results that we had a positive. Immediately, we made sure all of the coaches that were in the building became isolated in their offices. We did an immediate tracker on the tracings through the devices. We found out who was at risk, who wasn t. We were very fortunate to find out we had no high-risks, and we had almost minimal contacts as well. It was definitely a fortunate situation in terms of where we re standing right now. We took precaution today and we changed the schedule. We did an early morning meeting through Zoom. Really, we ve been doing that on Thursdays anyways, so the morning for us was really the same. Instead of practicing this afternoon, what we ll do is we ll bring the players back into a Zoom