The hold out is over and Sam Darnold’s first practice is in the books. Here is what head coach Todd Bowles had to say after practice on Monday.<\/p>\n
On Sam Darnold being at practice for the first time\u2026<\/strong> On Darnold having enough practice time to play in first preseason game\u2026<\/strong> On how important it was for Darnold to get to camp\u2026<\/strong> On Darnold possibly having a specific date to be at camp in order to play in first pre-season game\u2026<\/strong> On how much time it will take Darnold to get up to speed\u2026<\/strong> On increasing Darnold\u2019s reps each day\u2026<\/strong> On if Darnold missing three practices is detrimental\u2026<\/strong> On doubling up Darnold\u2019s reps in the beginning and not the end of practice\u2026<\/strong> On if Darnold was operating on recall from Spring practices…<\/strong> On the team now being \u201cwhole\u201d with Darnold being signed\u2026<\/strong> On when Darnold will get full reps in practice\u2026<\/strong> On the quarterback competition\u2026<\/strong> The hold out is over and Sam Darnold’s first practice is in the books. Here is what head coach Todd Bowles had to say after practice on Monday. On Sam Darnold being at practice for the first time\u2026 He was late. That\u2019s about it. First day of camp for him, it looked like the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":33945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[213],"tags":[2856],"class_list":{"0":"post-40304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jet-news","8":"tag-sam-darnold"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_1460.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-au4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40305,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40304\/revisions\/40305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHe was late. That\u2019s about it. First day of camp for him, it looked like the first day of camp. He\u2019ll get some studying in and he\u2019ll catch up.<\/p>\n
\nHe had enough time to run out here and practice in his first practice. So, he will probably have enough time to play in the preseason game. We\u2019ll see what he learns, and we\u2019ll see what he applies, and we\u2019ll go from there.<\/p>\n
\nYou always want everybody in camp on time but it\u2019s a part of the business. Obviously, you understand the ramifications when you aren\u2019t in camp and when you get into camp you just got to put your head down and work and he’ll do that.<\/p>\n
\nLike I said, I wasn’t worrying about that, I was just coaching the guys that were here. He gets here when he gets here, and circumstances make you play or coach accordingly and we did that. But he got here, so we’ll get him down and get him ready to play and we’ll go from there.<\/p>\n
\nWell we’ll see, it’ll take some time. He’s just got to put his head down and work.<\/p>\n
\nDepending on what he takes in, he’s going to see some things from the defensive standpoint that for three days we\u2019ve put in that he hasn’t seen in the spring, so it’s going to take some time, but he’ll get some reps.<\/p>\n
\nAll depends. You want everybody here on time, like I said, but it’s a business and you understand the ramifications and missing three practices, but he can catch up. He’s got time to catch up, but he’s got to put his head down because everybody has a head start.<\/p>\n
\nThere were similar plays of which he ran in the Spring and we had other things going on later on so everybody wasn\u2019t going to get full reps today regardless.<\/p>\n
\nOr whatever we could tell him that he could walk up to the line and run but he got his feet wet and it was the first day of camp for him and he’ll just work.<\/p>\n
\nWe’re always whole. You come in and get hurt the first day and you’re down you still lost him, whether it\u2019s him or any other player. So, you’re always whole and injuries are going to happen, suspensions happen unfortunately, holdouts happen, and you go ahead with your team. You don’t ever think the other way and that’s not how I think, so I\u2019m fine.<\/p>\n
\nTomorrow’s a day off. He\u2019ll practice Wednesday and we’ll put in what he can take, and he can handle and get time to run them. So, we’ll just play accordingly and go from there.<\/p>\n
\nJosh (McCown) is one, Teddy (Bridgewater) is two, Sam is three. The competition\u00a0has been underway, it didn’t just start today, it started on Thursday when we reported for camp. (Darnold) has got some work to catch up and do so, throughout the course of preseason that will take care of itself and we’ll go from there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"