McVay & Snead … 4/6 … excerpts

MCVAY ON COOKS

“The track record, the production, the human being, all those things align,” McVay said, “and certainly there’s teams that have reached out because they see the same things that we value about the player.”

SNEAD ON GURLEY

“There’s no way you can ever regret, I call it, the yards he gained,” Snead said, “the touchdowns he scored for us, the championships, whether it’s two division titles, a conference championship, Super Bowl appearance, that would be tough to regret. What I can say is obviously I think we all wish the partnership could’ve lasted longer.”

SNEAD ON THE KICKING GAME

“We did know this,” Snead said. “Going into this year we needed to become a more consistent team kicking field goals, especially from 40-49 range, and whoever that was going to be — whether that was Greg or someone new — we were going to have to somewhat take a risk with and find out during the season how that part of the game was progressing.”

SNEAD ON DRAFT PREPARATION

“We rely on the film more than any other piece of data in terms of the evaluating,” Snead said. “There’s also the intangibles that come into it, but I think that’s what you have to do. So if you relied on it 90 percent, maybe (now) you got to rely on the film 94 percent. If you relied on it 80 percent, maybe you need to rely on it 88 percent. But there’s a big chunk of the evaluation is, again, how that player performs on film, and that’s usually how his traits that you can measure, per se, at a pro day or combine are actually helping that player perform.”

MCVAY ON INSTALLING A NEW DEFENSE IN A LOCKDOWN

“Whatever we’re able to do with our players when that time comes, I feel like we’ll be able to maximize it,” McVay said. “And it’s not exclusive to even sometimes saying, ‘OK, we’ll send the iPad out.’ You might film an install. It’s a little bit weird as a coach, but we have enough guys that you feel are conscientious that, hey, watch this 30-minute video on one of our base calls, and then we’ll have a meeting to follow up with that. So it certainly is forcing us to get creative, but we’ve got some guys that are pretty efficient in how they utilize the technology at our disposal.”

MCVAY ON THE NEW DEFENSIVE FREE AGENTS

On Floyd: “You see the versatility where he can rush, he can play in coverage. He’s got length. He’s got the ability in a lot of instances to be able to be used like you use a running back or a tight end that can do a bunch of different things in the pass game or a tight end being able to contribute as a run-blocker, a pass-blocker and in the pass game. You know, Leonard kind of does that for the defense.”

On Robinson: “We had identified some guys in the instance if you lose Brockers, all right, who are the guys that you feel like have the body type, the versatility to play across the front with some power, some athleticism, the ability to be able to work edges on people. He was a guy who, originally, you said, ‘OK, this is somebody you hope can be like what Michael has been for us.’ But then to be able to get Michael back and A’Shawn — and you look at the development of a Sebastian Joseph-Day last year, Greg Gaines is an ascending player — we feel really good with the interior depth.”

MCVAY ON BROCKERS

“I think there was a mutual excitement about getting a chance to reconnect,” McVay said. “I know Aaron (Donald) finally was talking to me again once we got Michael back. He was a little upset with me, I think, for a couple days.”