Head Coach John Harbaugh

JOHN HARBAUGH: Appreciate you being here. Good practice, tough practice. We took a little bit off of it, but we added some game-like situations you saw, especially at the end where we played it out like a fourth quarter of a game and that was fun. And the guys competed and I thought they worked really hard. What questions you have?

Q: I'm not sure I've ever seen anybody do that thing where you actually brought everybody off and actually punted the ball rather than just give the ball to the other side. Is that something you do all the time just to make it feel more game-like or what's the idea there?

JOHN HARBAUGH: Yeah, I mean, we have. I mean, we have done that all the time when we do that drill and it is to make it feel more like the game. You get a punt and put a little pressure on the punter and the snapper. He hit a good ball.

Q: They convinced you to keep that long field goal look like at the end?

JOHN HARBAUGH: They did.

Q: What do you make of (kicker Dominic) Zvada and his range? I mean, made that, I know it's with the wind a little bit, but pretty easily.

JOHN HARBAUGH:  I thought he was going to make it. I mean, (Special Teams Coordinator) Chris Horton told me the 42 is the line, so I had to give him a hard time after that. So, it was actually a little further back and it was a great kick, great snap, nice to see. It was exciting. It's fun.

Q: How much is that part of what he brings to the table, right? That he does have that big leg. You could tell when he kicks, there's a difference there.

JOHN HARBAUGH: He does have a big leg, but the bottom line is you got to kick it straight consistently.

So, having a big leg is a big deal. Kicking it straight consistently is a bigger deal. I think both those guys have done that very well and (kicker) Ben (Sauls) has a very good leg, too. I don't want to imply that he doesn't. Ben's a very strong leg guy, as well, but they're both having really good camps.

Q: John, do you intend to play (quarterback) Jaxson (Dart) in this weekend's game and if so how much?

JOHN HARBAUGH: Oh, that's a good direct question I'm going to have to dodge. I'm going to have to bob and weave and I'll say, I'll let you know later.

Q: John, where is (wide receiver) Odell (Beckham Jr.) as far as his ramp-up stage?

JOHN HARBAUGH: I think he's ramped up, honestly. I mean, I think he's there. You saw him on the sideline over there. I mean, he almost got his feet down on that really tough catch. He's looked good. He's in shape. He's taking every rep he's supposed to take in practice. He's getting stronger. I feel like he's getting stronger every day. He's in a good place. He will play and I'm looking forward to seeing him play.

Q: John, what made you guys want to bring in (cornerback) Terrion Arnold?

JOHN HARBAUGH: Because we want to be aggressive in every way, whatever we can do, find everything out we can about any situation player that can help us be better, probably. I would say that's it. The margins are tight in National Football League. You try to win a game.

You come up with a good play. You can find a play on the internet that somebody puts out there that one of your opponents is running in practice, man. You look for those too. So, we're looking for players that can help us all the time. And he's a player that can help us. Now, I know your next question, follow-up question is going to be his circumstances. And that's something that also the organization has studied very deeply. I've got an overview of it. The organization has looked at it in depth. If there is a decision to be made on any player that, you don't want to go there with a player, then this organization, they won't go there. And so, that decision would also have to be made. Just understanding everything that goes on with that. It's more than just what you read in the papers though. I mean, you got to find out exactly where everything stands. And I think, I do know that our people do a great job of that.

Q: It seems like a lot of teams have had him in. Is there any chance you would sign him before things are settled or you have to wait for the legal process to play out more?

JOHN HARBAUGH: Well, the legal process could take years, so then his career is gone. So, I think you have to decide, where does the legal process stand? What are we really talking about here? What does it look like? And you have to make a judgment along those lines.

Q: There is a possibility too while the legal process is in limbo, the league could put him on the exempt list.

JOHN HARBAUGH: They could.

Q: Which, you never can tell, right? So, how do you weigh that?

JOHN HARBAUGH: Well, yeah, you try to do the best you can to anticipate what that might be and see if it's worth it. I mean, there's risk-reward. There's things to be gained and things to be lost. And you just kind of got to balance it out and try to make a decision that's two-fold. I mean, one aspect is what's best for your football team. The other aspect is what's best for your organization and your people and doing the right thing. So, there are certain situations that I know the Giants and Baltimore, we were the same way in the past. They're that way as well, where you just don't go there with a player. Other situations where you understand the circumstances and you're willing to do that. So, it's really a case by case. Those are great questions.

Q: We've asked you a lot about rotating corners on the first team. It seems like you've mixed in (safety) Ar'Darius (Washington) and (safety Jason) Pinnock at safety with the first team too. What are you seeing there in terms of the first team safety?

JOHN HARBAUGH: Yeah, I think it's a credit to how well those guys are playing. They have played like starters for quite a number of reps. So, let's take a look at them with that group. We've had a couple of things, we've got corner, Paulson's (cornerback Paulson Adebo) a little nicked up right now. So, those other guys get a chance as well. So, it's kind of good to see those guys. It's good to see everybody in different circumstances and situations. I think that's part of camp.

Q: What is going on with Adebo?

JOHN HARBAUGH: Day-to-day, day-to-day, yeah.

Q: Something with his legs?

JOHN HARBAUGH: Yeah, he's got some stuff. We don't usually delve in. When you have to put an injury report out, I do sometimes tell you guys, then I feel bad about it after. I'm like, 'I shouldn't have told him exactly what it was.'

Q: And (wide receiver Jaylin) Hyatt, I think was the other one that in the last couple of days we haven't seen.

JOHN HARBAUGH: Yeah, Hyatt had that, when he got, you remember when someone fell on him there? Yeah, at the end of the deal. So, he's working through that. But again, he should be back in a reasonable period of time.

Q: We asked you about the running back room to start camp. What do you make of the depth of that room?

JOHN HARBAUGH: I think some people are stepping up. I really like, I mean, obviously Motor (running back Devin Singletary) is a really good football player. He always has been. He's had a great camp. You know exactly what he's going to give you. I think if I'm just looking at guys, I mean, (running back Eric) Gray has really had a good camp. You see all the pads come on, you say this guy knows how to run the football. And then Turbo (running back Dante Miller), he's explosive. He's had catches. He caught one today long. He's had runs where he's shown acceleration. So, I would say those guys, I'm not leaving anybody out, am I?

Q: Just, 37. (Running back Damon) Bankston.

JOHN HARBAUGH: Oh, Bankston. Yeah, Bankston. Another guy's had big plays too. He's a little further back as far as understanding the offense, but he deserves credit too. So, now I'm looking forward to seeing those guys in the game, live tackling, seeing if they can make people miss and make yards on their own.

Q: We haven't asked you about (wide receiver Malik) Nabers in a couple days, just curious where he's at. Doesn't look like he did as much today, just curious where he's at.

JOHN HARBAUGH: Yeah, he's kind of exactly where he's been. And we're looking towards soon ramping him up into some group periods and perhaps some team periods. Maybe next week, we'll see. He's doing great. He's working hard. Spirits are high. And yeah, we'll see where we're at next week.

Q: (Offensive Coordinator) Matt Nagy said yesterday that the offense is basically halfway through its install. Is that normal, are they behind schedule?

JOHN HARBAUGH: Oh, no, that's normal. Well, he says halfway through, but there's, I would say probably the truth of it is he's probably like five percent through because throughout the course of the season, a lot of the things that you do, how do you define the install? Is it the plays or is it all the ways you can run the plays and all the personnel groups you can run and all formations you can run them out and hide them. So, you've watched Nagy, Matt Nagy, and you've watched the offenses he's been a part of.

They hide their plays all the time, but they have core principles in the offense. So, I would say most of our core principles are in, but some of our methodology is going to be basic methodology to get the plays is not in yet. Some of the check with me's and some of the different ways we'll put plays together.

Probably that's the other half I would think he's probably talking about.

Q: John, do you have an idea in your head how much you want to see Odell play?

JOHN HARBAUGH: Not off the top of my head. No, I probably want to see him play enough, but you got to play other guys too. I think he could play the whole game and he'd be fine. He's in shape to do it, but we're not going to play anybody really the whole game just because we've got 90 guys.

Q: John, is it exciting, is it energizing to be ramping up for game day?

JOHN HARBAUGH: It is. It is. I mean, it's like, guys can feel it. It's always the last couple days here.

You get that grind 10, 12 days in and now you've got the three, four days, we're still trying to get better. We're still trying to focus on technique. We're making the most of these days and I'm preaching that, but you can see their attention is starting to go toward the game.

Safety Jason Pinnock

Q: What's it feel like, to be back, and what's it going to feel like maybe Friday, even though it's the preseason, to be wearing that uniform again?

JASON PINNOCK: Man, it feels good. It feels good. Just truthfully. I'm an East Coast baby. Born and raised, Hartford. So, man, I'm home. I'm home.

Q: We know that not everything's in your power when you're a free agent but any regrets about leaving in the first place?

JASON PINNOCK: I mean, I couldn't control that too, too much, you know? But, man, everybody's got their own journey. Everybody's got their own journey.

Q: What are your early impressions of the rookie, (wide receiver) Malachi Fields?

JASON PINNOCK: Oh, man. Ball skills. Like, if I had to say one glaring thing, is ball skills. He caught a dagger, like a dig, over the middle early, and this was OTAs, and it was like, he was just levitating. I was kind of just waiting for him to come down. So, nah, he's a freak. Freak athlete.

Q: And what's it like going up against Odell in practice? (Wide receiver) Odell Beckham Jr.?

JASON PINNOCK: I had to confess to him in the locker room. It was like 2016, 2017. I had him as my screensaver in high school. He was like, "Don't tell me that. That would make me feel a little old." But it's crazy. It's kind of like idol turned rival.

Q: How does he look to you?

JASON PINNOCK: Good. Doesn't look like he lost a step to me from what I was watching when I was in high school. (Laughs)

Q: We've seen you get some first-team reps. When you signed back here, what did they tell you about – you were obviously a starter here for years. What did they tell you about the opportunity? Would you get a chance to win that job back? Or be a backup? What did they tell you? And how have you gone about it?

JASON PINNOCK: Honestly, not too much. Like, I just – day by day. Day by day. Opportunity arises, I just rose to the occasion. Every time you throw me in there, I'm (going to) ball. Make sure – this is a new regime, so it doesn't matter that '22 to '24. It's about '26, so.

Q: Is it odd at all that the guy you helped in mentoring is now the guy you're competing with in (safety) Tyler Nubin?

JASON PINNOCK: And he stole my jersey number? Sorry, that's my brother, man (Laughs).

Q: Trust us, we're all trying to figure out, "Wait, who's 25?"

JASON PINNOCK: Yeah. (Laughs) That's my brother, man. Like, (one) call away.

I'm at his baby shower. He's at my baby shower. He's going to be at my wedding. Like, that's my guy. That's my guy, so – man, this is what comes with the sport. We're on each other. We're probably each other's biggest competitor, and we're on each other, bro. Like, it's just – it's what it is. It comes with the nature.

Q: You getting married soon?

JASON PINNOCK: I am. I am.

Q: When is the wedding?

JASON PINNOCK: 2/27. So, February 27.

Q: Great, congratulations.

JASON PINNOCK: Yeah, I appreciate you. Appreciate you, man.

Q: What have you seen from the secondary as a whole? A lot of mixing and matching parts. The corners, too. Not just you, Nubin and (safety) Ar'Darius (Washington). How do you get settled there with all the interchangeable parts?

JASON PINNOCK: Yeah, I was in a pretty heavy – like, depth-wise, what I thought last year in San Fran. This is a lot of just – full of starters. Like, it's going to be tough, you know? It's going to be however the cards are dealt. Best man win type of thing. You've got so many packages you can play with. I played in this defense before. It's like Wink (former Giants Defensive Coordinator Don Martindale), '22, '23. So, I'm very familiar with it. Kind of the same calls. It's going to be fun. It's going to be fun.

Q: What is the similarity between this and Wink? It's not chapter and verse the same though, right? There's some differences?

JASON PINNOCK: Front-wise, I guess, and a little bit tighter back end. You know, Wink was a bit more pressure-based. But he's all around. But just the looks, everything, I won't go too much in detail. But very similar. Very similar. Always in Baltimore.

Q: Do you feel like it'll put you guys more around the ball and turn the ball over?

JASON PINNOCK: Yeah, I think so. Just a more attack from what I experienced in '22, '23, and then going to (former Giants Defensive Coordinator Shane) Bowen in '24. So, for sure. Definitely an attack-style defense.

Q: That wedding, I'm assuming you booked it for the end of February, just in case?

JASON PINNOCK: Oh, yeah. What? (Laughs) What (did you think) it was, February 7? Nah, February 27. I'm at the end. Got to make room.

Q: Jason, we see a lot of balls batted by the front seven. Have you noticed that? And what could that do for the back end in terms of turnovers?

JASON PINNOCK: Yeah, I mean, you know what's going to happen. We're going to get a couple. (It) only takes two to three a year or one a game, that'll shift the whole game. So, hands up, match the hands, give us a chance.

Q: Last time you were here, (cornerback) Deonte Banks had a really rough season. What do you see from the Deonte Banks you're playing with one year later in terms of, maybe he needed a fresh start as much as anybody.

JASON PINNOCK: Yeah, yeah. Just – I would say the focus. A little bit more attention to detail on how to study. And I was trying to guide him as much – different room but still give him guidance because that's where I was drafted, as a corner. And then, for me, it was a bit more glaring, too, coming back because I had a year off. You know, the (cornerback) Dru Phillips' and the Tyler Nubin's, they were here, so they saw the progression gradually. But just sharper, man. Sharper, takes the game more seriously.

Q: How difficult is that transition going from corner to safety in how you see the field from those perspectives?

JASON PINNOCK: Yeah, I've got to shout out my guy, (Former Giants Defensive Backs Coach & Pass Game Coordinator) Marquand Manuel, Coach M over there at the Jets. And we – man, we had two season-ending injuries, (Saints safety) Marcus Maye and (former Jets safety) Lamarcus Joyner, and I switched out in London, man. So, it was a lot going on. It was a lot going on. But, man, hours and hours just slowing the game down. I was a corner. It was all feet, feet, feet, and I'm here, I'm here, I'm here, and just able to slow it down and go from high progression to – you know what I mean? So, it just made my game much faster, bro. But shout out him and shout out when I came here on waiver, man, just Rome Henderson (Colts Defensive Backs Coach Jerome Henderson), Mike Treier (former Giants Safeties Coach Michael Treier), all those guys. Wink giving me a shot, man, and able to show that I can play in this league at, honestly, wherever. I'm a DB. That's what I'll say.

Q: What have you thought of (inside linebacker) Arvell (Reese) and (cornerback) Colton (Hood), just the two rookies on this defense?

JASON PINNOCK: I'll start with Arvell. Yeah, I mean, he's a freak, man. I don't know. Y'all was in that back corner? You caught that one here yesterday? Yeah, so there you go. So, that'll answer that. That's a big middle. That's a big middle, bro, (inside linebacker) Tremaine (Edmunds) and him. That's – good luck. And you talk about tips just from the D-line. We're going to get a couple just off that. And then Hood, man, just a competitor and smart. He kind of reminded me of me. Like, I was a real, like – I diagnosed a lot, even though I was a corner, so that was kind of why the transition was a little bit easier. He's smart. He's smart. So, it's going to help him in this league.

Linebacker Micah McFadden

Q: What's it going to feel like for you, have you thought yet about what it's going to feel like for you to be on the field again in a game on Saturday? I know it's preseason, but after all the long road?

MICAH MCFADDEN: Yeah, I have thought about it, and I'm excited. I'm excited to be back out there. I was thinking about it recently, it's almost a year since that happened, definitely over 11 months. I'm excited, feeling good, feeling ready to go play.

Q: Are you an emotional guy? Will you get choked up a little bit at all, or will you just be ready to run through the wall?

MICAH MCFADDEN: Yeah, I don't think it will be emotional. I think it will be the second one.

Q: How do you feel the camp has gone for you?

MICAH MCFADDEN: I feel good. Like I said, foot feels good, moving around out there, I feel healthy, just getting a hold of the defense and kind of learning all the nuance to it. Trying to learn all the positions and just understand it holistically so I can play fast, but feeling good out there.

Q: Why'd you come back here? Obviously, you're going to have to fight for playing time here. You didn't know they were going to draft (inside linebacker) Arvell Reese, obviously, but what made you want to come back here versus maybe go somewhere else and maybe have a clearer path to the top of the depth chart?

MICAH MCFADDEN: I like the situation. I like the coaching staff they brought in, and on the defensive side of the ball as well. I like DWil (Defensive Coordinator Dennard Wilson), I like (Linebackers Coach) Frank Bush, and the system. I've played in something similar before, but I like the system, and I'm excited to be a part. I think they've got a great – like I said, they've got a great staff here, and the culture that they brought in is something that I want to be a part of.

Q: So, did that end when they drafted Arvell and you realized the depth chart might be second team instead of where you were before? What was your reaction?

MICAH MCFADDEN: I think at this point it's just control the controllables, and with that be ready when the opportunity is called, but first and foremost embrace my role, and whatever that may be, go out and do my part to help the team.

Q: You're playing a lot alongside (linebacker) Jack Kelly, what have you seen from him?

MICAH MCFADDEN: He's looking good, and like Arvell, I think both the rookies are some of the best rookies I've seen as far as picking up the defense and playing fast and really not a whole lot of mistakes out there.

Q: You saw (wide receiver) Malik (Nabers) make the catch yesterday, I'm not sure if you saw the highlights online…

MICAH MCFADDEN: I don't know if I did, no – but he's been looking good. I've seen some of the stuff, just some of the videos of him making cuts, and yeah, it's good to see him far along, and we both were kind of going through that rehab process during the same time and definitely the early phases of it together, but it's good to see how far he's came.

Q: Have you been able to help out Arvell with some understanding of the run fits? You've lived behind line of scrimmage, 25 tackles for loss in three years. Have you been able to try to help him diagnose run fits and play the inside run game?

MICAH MCFADDEN: Yeah, we talk. I think we have a really good room, and our standard is going to be to be the best inside group in the league, and that's something we're looking forward to putting on tape. But I don't think Arvell needs too much help. He's a smart dude, and he knows how to play the game, but if there ever is kind of something different about the position that comes up, it comes up for both of us, just kind of talking it out and repping through it, I think. He's done a great job.

Q: Why are there so many batted passes in this camp? Is it something they're enforcing, about getting your arms up, or something with the quarterbacks? I think there were five today, and it seems like there's a lot every day when the balls are they just either knocked down or tipped up.

MICAH MCFADDEN: Yeah, I mean it's an emphasis, and with the type of pressures we're bringing, a guy might transition from rushing to being blocked, and then once that happens, it's an emphasis in our meeting room that now you're a pass defender as well, and if the ball's looking your way, get your hand up and be ready to knock it down. But I think with that, I've heard, I think (defensive lineman) Shelby (Harris) has talked about, he has had some of the most batted passes in the league for a number of years. I think it's just an emphasis on the front as well. I think they talk about it a lot.

Q: What have you seen from Dennard Wilson, and just what's he like as a coordinator?

MICAH MCFADDEN: He's awesome. I mean he communicates thoroughly, and the meetings are intentional. He's direct as well. He'll tell you what he thinks about you and how you're playing, and I think we need that within our room. It kind of permeates, but yeah, I like the scheme. I like the way he calls it, especially as linebackers. I think he lets us play free and fast, and I think we're excited to go put it on film.

Q: (Safety Jason) Pinnock said it's a lot like Winks (Former Defensive Coordinator Wink Martindale). Do you think it's a lot like Winks, or how's it similar? How's it different?

MICAH MCFADDEN: Yeah, I think it's similar. It comes from the same tree. A lot of the terminology, the verbiage is the same. I think the way they call it might be a little different, and that's just kind of personality, but it's pretty similar.

Q: How is (inside linebacker) Tremaine (Edmunds) kind of taking charge of the locker room and positional room? I heard a guy say he's a natural leader.

MICAH MCFADDEN: Yeah, I agree. He is a natural leader. He's been doing it a long time, and he's still young, but he's (in) year nine, and been on three different teams, seen a lot of different locker rooms. He's had a lot of experience at the position and just in the league as well. He brings a lot to the table, and not just athletically, but off the field in that leadership quality as well. It's been good to see, and I think guys feed off of it.

Q: What do you think of the camaraderie of this group?

MICAH MCFADDEN: Holistically, I think it starts top down, and (Head Coach John) Harbaugh has kind of set the culture from his first day in the building. I like the way dudes are hanging out, and I think going from Greenbrier back to the situation we're in now, I think guys are, they just want to be around each other. I think that's been something here in the past, but even more so now, especially with all the new guys who have been added to the squad, that's kind of been the theme.

Q: What's the number one team component to fixing that run defense from last year, if you had to pick one?

MICAH MCFADDEN: I think, obviously it starts up front. It starts with the front seven. I think details and then playing fast and not thinking about it too much. I think at the end of the day, if you're physical and you play fast, I think that helps everybody around you. And then the guy can make a decision because you're playing fast. I think that helps. So, obviously we want to be correct, but at the end of the day, if you're fast and physical, I think that kind of makes everything right.

Quarterback Jameis Winston

Q. How do you feel like your team has, at this juncture of camp, responded mentally to all the challenges of training camp, and moving and shaking and all that stuff like that?

JAMEIS WINSTON: Man, I believe we have done an amazing job just setting a standard as a team that we are going to work our tail off and we're going to be our very best. Obviously, our leadership, offensively, defensively, special teams, the head coach – starts with the head coach – and really our front office, man, they have pushed this excellence as an individual, this excellence as an organization, so it's really fun playing football right now. It's the most wonderful time of the year. Football is back. So, we've definitely been taking advantage of it.

Q. You've been part of a lot of training camps, right? Where does this rank in regards to the difficulty, the workload? I mean, he runs a lot of live plays in practice.

JAMEIS WINSTON: Man, I think it's just so important that, especially when you're learning the new offensive scheme and you're trying to get acclimated to a system, that (Head) Coach (John) Harbaugh has been executing to perfection his entire coaching career, that we buy in and we focus on getting better every single day. We're not really – we don't really focus on the circumstances, just as the facts. Like, it's football. We're all just happy to be back together, and West Virginia was such a great time of connecting, and it just was us. And I was happy our fans came out there and supported us, but it just was a beautiful thing to know that we walk out, walk into the sports center over there at Greenbrier and we're seeing mountains, and then we get back home, now we walk out and we see Hudson Yards. It's just a different type of dynamic, but I feel like that time where we were gone for those 12 days helped us put everything, whether the glitz and the glamour, behind us and focus on what matters most, and that's being the best men we can be and being the best football team we can be.

Q. You've been part of a lot of offensive installs. How is this one going in terms of the results?

JAMEIS WINSTON: Man, it's exciting. It's so exciting because we have so many different minds, right? We have like five coordinators on offense, and I think that is very – that's a great example of the leadership that Coach Harbaugh has, that he's letting his coaches build a system that is very unique to all of them. All of them are doing different things and they're kind of like – I hate but just listening to (Hall of Fame quarterback) Drew Brees' Hall of Fame speech, I can compare it to gumbo. There's just so many good mixes in there. You've got the old school, you've got the new school, and you've got just this melting pot of greatness, right? So, it's really fun. It's really fun.

Q. How has that gone, just having that all mixed together? What's that actually like in a meeting? I guess the interactions between G-Ro (Senior Offensive Assistant Greg Roman) or (Passing Game Coordinator/Quarterbacks Coach Brian) Callahan?

JAMEIS WINSTON: Man, there's so much wisdom, and to me it's a privilege to get the knowledge of all these great coaches. G-Ro, just historically one of the best run game offensive coordinators in the world to ever do it. (Offensive Coordinator Matt) Nagy, one of the best offensive minds in the world. Coach Callahan, just his lineage of his dad and his knowledge. He's a head coach, one of the greatest offensive minds ever. He's seen so many systems. But even (Tight Ends) Coach Tim Kelly. People forget that he was OC in Tennessee and he had some great years in Houston as well. He's just an excellent mind. But I feel like we have so many people that lack ego. They just want us to be our very best. They want to put us in the best position that we (can) possibly be in, and it's fun.

Q. What's it like for you seeing (wide receiver) Odell (Beckham Jr.) out there, and how does he look to you?

JAMEIS WINSTON: Man, he looks great to me. And I think all the players say this, when you have somebody who has meant so much to this organization in terms of that catch, and I would say the excitement that he brought to the New York Football Giants during the years of (Giants Ring of Honor member Quarterback) Eli's (Manning) last years, it just was incredible. And you see that show up at practice day in and day out. But as me and him talk all the time, he's just hungry for more, because he feels like he's just got some unfinished business, and he's excited. I can't wait to hear the fans yell when he runs out there and catches a touchdown against the Minnesota Vikings in MetLife Stadium. I think that is going to be one of the loudest roars. I remember being in New Orleans. I threw Jimmy Graham a touchdown, and he had come back to New Orleans and freaking Who Dat nation just roared. I just can't even imagine the anticipation that our fans have for one of my favorite players growing up, Odell Beckham Jr., wearing that blue, man, and playing good football.

Q. You've experienced this too, where you've grown up as a player. How have you seen Odell, maybe now, differently than when you watched Odell early in his career? How has he maybe evolved as he's gotten older?

JAMEIS WINSTON: Well, I think as a player, he's still the same caliber player, but I've never been around him in a building. I only knew him as this football icon, the guy that made one-handed catches, and if you put the ball in his hand, he was going to make a play. But to see him being the teammate that he is – it's very funny seeing he and (wide receiver) Malachi (Fields). Because Malachi – most of the young guys, they're Odell Beckham Jr. fans. It's true. (Wide receiver) Jalin Hyatt got 13 because he's an Odell Beckham Jr. fan. So, it's fun to see him putting the past in the past and focusing on getting better every day.

Q. What are your thoughts on Malachi?

JAMEIS WINSTON: Well, I've been very impressed with Malachi and the things that he's doing. He's definitely a great young player.

Q. What makes him a great young player?

JAMEIS WINSTON: I just think his hunger, man, coming in day in and day out to get better. He has a great rapport with (quarterback) Jaxson (Dart). Man, he's curious. He's curious about what is required to be the best. And I think when you have that mindset, when you focus on what you love, it's a setup for success.

Q. Going back to the install, how have you seen Jaxson adapt? He had to learn – came in as a rookie, figuring it all out, and now he's got this whole new system to learn.

JAMEIS WINSTON: Yeah, it's fun seeing him just – again, just master what they're throwing at him. Because it's a lot because of the complexities of the different systems and him having to learn all those systems in one and ultimately creating a system that benefits him as a player. So, he's never lacking work ethic. So, he's been diving in, spending some late nights with these coaches and getting better every single day. So, it's exciting to see the dynamic that he is the guy, and we're going to do our best to build an offense that best supports his skill set and kind of capitalizes the things that he does well. He does a lot well, so it's a lot that we are capable of doing.

Q. You talk about, Jameis, all the egos, the lack of egos in that coaching room, the offensive room. How much do they gleam on you guys? And how much of y'all's imprint will be on this offense that we'll see out there?

JAMEIS WINSTON: Well, I think the biggest player imprint is our work ethic and our will. So, our ability to enforce our will upon our opponent. And I think that is kind of a buildup to how we practice. We set the tone at practice. And I think – I always say this, coaches coach, players play. So, the intensity, the urgency, the discipline that we practice with and that we invest time and energy into each other, it just helps the coaches. It helps the coaches do what they do best, and that's coach.