Coach John Harbaugh sits down with Giants.com for a weekly conversation about the latest at 1925 Giants Drive.

Q: You're looking to go 4-0 at MetLife Stadium. It's the team's best start at home since 2008. Giants fans obviously always knew of you, but now you're their guy. Has it been fun for them to get to know you and vice versa?

Harbaugh: Yeah, definitely. It's been fun to see and feel the vibe in the stadium. And you do get to know them. You catch people's faces. You get a feel for the personality of the fanbase, and it's really cool. Or even like coming out, there's a tunnel with the fans there right around the bench area. It's been really fun, and there have been some tense moments, and they've been right there with us. They really have. And they get pissed off too, they do, and they should, like we all do. It's a great fanbase.

Q: You mentioned the Giants fans in Washington in your postgame press conference last week. How unique is that?

Harbaugh: The road fans really showed up. I was impressed. I mean, it was half the stadium. It was so cool. And I remember seeing them, I remember coming out and I'm like, damn, we got half the stadium in here. And they were loud. I felt like Washington had to go to silent count because of our fans.

Q: This was your first tie in the NFL, even going back to your Eagles days. How does a Harbaugh handle a tie? You were pretty fired up in the postgame locker room.

Harbaugh: I was disappointed we didn't win the game because we had it in our hands, but I was happy. I thought we won the circumstances, the circumstances of the game, because we didn't play our best football in a lot of ways. We dug a hole for ourselves, but the fact that we dug our way out, it just made me really pleased with the guys.

Q: This was two games in a row where you flipped the script at halftime. Two weeks ago, it was the defense. Last week, it was the offense. In your experience, are halftime adjustments overrated because you're constantly assessing drive to drive, or what actually happens in that 12-minute break before you go back out?

Harbaugh: It can be both, but it was a big deal. I would say both of these two games, we made adjustments. We made quite a bit of offensive halftime adjustments in this last game. We flipped it and the good thing is we had the ammunition in the game plan to do it, which is impressive, and the guys knew what they were doing. That takes a lot of preparation, but that was really great, the changes that they made. And then defensively, we've been playing well. We've just been giving up bizarre big plays. Get rid of the bizarre big plays and I feel like we're going to become a really consistent defense.

Q: Who has been the more inspiring Winston in your life recently -- Jameis or Churchill?

Harbaugh: Jameis, man, he's the one I know. Churchill would have had a cigar and a brandy on the team train on the way home probably. Churchill wouldn't have made it in time for the train. He'd have been late for the train, you know. I know a lot about Churchill. I like Churchill, but it's funny because I did not plan on answering a question about the Winstons.

Q: It worked.

Harbaugh: It worked really well. That was just luck, you know that was God. That was God.

Q: The best quote came from your wife, though, about the NFL being crazy town right now.

Harbaugh: That went viral.

Q: Everyone wrote that down because you're right in the middle of it. But looking at it from the aspect of now it's been a few weeks since losing Jaxson Dart and having that whole shock to the system, are you settling now into almost a second season?

Harbaugh: Yes, because there's obviously adjustments and it's never going to be easy. Not that you think it's going to be easy, but everything's a process. We're still in the process of finding ourselves. We're still in the process even defensively without Burnsy (outside linebacker Brian Burns, who suffered a torn ACL). But without the quarterback, now Jameis is the quarterback. So now what is the offense for Jameis? That's not easy, but I feel like the guys – coaches and players – have been great. They're doing a great job. Hopefully it looks good Sunday. You've just got to go out there and you've got to compete and see what happens.

Q: There was a lot of teach tape flying around the NFL and you spoke earlier in the week about going over situations with (Director of Football Data and Innovation) Ty (Siam). That strikes me as a role that involves a lot of trust from the head coach. You brought in a lot of new people, but he stayed. How did that come about?

Harbaugh: When you come to a new place, unless you have somebody that you just know you want to bring in, which I had a number of people like that, but you just look at the people that are already in place. You don't want to change good people who are doing a good job who want to be there just for the sake of change. And so Ty and I started talking. We talked a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot through those months and we continue to. The good thing about Ty is like he's idiosyncratic about the nuances of football strategy to the finest detail. He forces us to have conversations about everything. Sometimes it drives me a little crazy, but that's a good problem to have.

Q: Blitzing has been a big topic these last two weeks. It's been effective for your defense. I was watching some interviews from New Orleans and their center Erik McCoy said opponents are going to keep blitzing you until you show you have a solution for it, especially coming off the Minnesota game. Where is the line between keep doing something that works and keeping the schemes moving, like you talked about last week?

Harbaugh: I think the line is that you have to keep the schemes moving, too. That doesn't mean you stop, or you just completely change, but you have to stay unpredictable. It's really important.

Q: The other topic has been tempo. Dennard Wilson said New Orleans runs the most tempo in the NFL. What's the key to defending tempo?

Harbaugh: You've got to be able to communicate on the run and hopefully it doesn't limit your defense too much. But a lot of what offenses want to do is they get in the tempo because it's hard to call those plays on the run. They could come up there and they could settle down and they could look at you and make a play call at the line, take your time, give you time to make a call, or they can come up and snap the ball right away. So you have to be ready to play right away with a call. You don't get a lot of your automatic calls, your formation adjustments, all those things. They can kind of see what you're in because they do oftentimes just snap the ball. I think it's a good strategy for an offense, so defensively you've got to really think about your strategy, but there are things you can do to make it a problem for them too. But you've got to practice them and the good thing is we practice tempo every day from both sides from the first day of OTAs. So, I do think we're comfortable in that world, but we're going to find out Sunday because these guys do it at the highest level.

Q: We keep getting further away from training camp, but I keep hearing it referenced a lot. Isaiah Likely was actually just talking about how the players feel conditioned because of what you did over the summer.

Harbaugh: That's good to hear. I agree with that.

Q: Even these last few weeks you have referenced that rain in West Virginia and how that prepared you for wet conditions on Sundays. Was it a special training camp?

Harbaugh: I think the guys were really intentional about everything they did in training camp, which made it stick. It was a well-organized training camp. It's probably the best organization that we've ever had, I would say, and hopefully every year you say that – that it's better than the year before. But I'd say the players were super intentional about everything we did. They took nothing for granted and so much of those things we learned in training camp have really stuck.

Q: You had young offensive linemen get a lot of reps in that training camp. Bryan Hudson was one of them and now he's your starting center. Marcus Mbow was called upon at right tackle last week and could be again. Did that camp get your gears spinning with them?

Harbaugh: The one thing we have always believed in is part of the reason you practice as many reps as you do in camp is that everybody gets a chance. Like if you take a fewer number of reps, then your developmental players don't get reps. Then what's the point? You've got those guys there for a reason, and you never know. First of all, you want to develop them. Secondly, you want to have them compete. And you're right, both those guys had really good training camps, as did the other guys. So then when they get their chance, they've got all those banked reps under their belt. That's a big plus.

Q: Going back to Isaiah, did you sense in Baltimore that he always wanted more? That he wanted to get his shot?

Harbaugh: Sense it? He told me every day. Every day he told me. You know Isaiah. Yeah, he told me every day, and for him to get his opportunity and to make the most of it like he has, has just been awesome to see. It's been so much fun. And I mean you never know until you do it, but I feel like he felt like he knew. He told me every day.