New Orleans Saints Coach Sean Payton
Post-Practice Rookie Camp Availability
Saturday, May 12, 2018
Opening statement:
“We are into our second day. Like every year, there are three or four groups of players. We have our draft picks, the free agents that we signed after the draft and then there is a large number of three-day trial players that are rookies. Then the league allows five veteran trial players. So that is what our numbers consist of. There are a handful of players that have been with us that are eligible that don’t have an accrued season.”
What are you looking for from the veteran trial guys?
“We have a vision for them. What kind of shape they are in? They have played so what do we think they can do to help us. We have (veteran tryout players at) a handful of positions, but we have had players (that we’ve signed). Billy Miller found his way onto the roster that way. So it is really about how quickly they’re getting up to speed, the same evaluation that is taking place with the rest of the players.”
Can you get a grasp of the guys’ learning curves?
“We tell them that these are the things that are important. Do they know what to do, that is important. They’re in a crash course if you will on getting adjusted to the terminology. Then how quickly are they learning what to do and are they doing what we’re trying to teach them. It is the beginning part of the process, with just three days certainly if you’re a trial player, there’s X amount of pressure to catch someone’s eye, but every year we’ve seen it. We always in the first meeting talk to them about the procurement part of it and getting here. Then at that point, how you got here is really unimportant to us. What is important to us is what you see and trying to be fair to the evaluation process.”
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