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Some interview pieces...
On Coples’ play as a senior…
RYAN: I think that’s a fair question. The guy did have seven sacks as an interior lineman — that’s pretty good numbers-wise. But I think expectations going into the season, he might’ve been behind Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III, but he’s probably the highest-rated player going into the season based on the previous season, with the 10 sacks. You don’t see that from an interior lineman, a guy that’s 6’6” and 285 pounds.
So I think maybe he did not meet those as a player, but the thing that I know, being a defensive line coach for a number of years, is that when he switched from the left side to the right side, and a lot of his time was spent as an inside tackle in a 4-3, then they move him to right side defensive end in a 4-3, now that takes some time and some adjustments. Everything you’re used to working off, a right-handed stance, now you’re down to a left-handed stance.
Some guys, they can make that transition easy, and sometimes you can’t. I remember when I went to Baltimore, the first thing I did was make Tony Siragusa right defensive tackle because he’s a natural left-handed guy. When a guy’s a natural right-handed guy, it’s easy. There are some guys who can do it and some who can’t do it so well. I feel that he’s a guy, and I compared him before to Shaun [Ellis], I think Shaun was much better on the left side than he was the right, so when I got here, we never flipped Shaun, we left him on the left, and I think that’s what we’ll do with this young man.
what Ryan was looking for by getting hands-on with Coples at pro day…
RYAN: What I tried to do was tire him out, but he wasn’t winded. He went through all the defensive line drills and he was not winded so I wanted to push him. I wanted to see how this guy would compete through the drills and put him through drills he wasn’t familiar with, which were linebacker drills.
It’s funny, I forget who was there with me but I said, “I think I just made this young man a lot of money,” because when we were going through the drills, he can catch the football, he can run. That’s not saying he couldn’t play outside linebacker because he looked really athletic. He was really impressive in those drills, and I couldn’t get him tired. There were several coaches there putting him through drills and it was impressive.
On how issues that occurred at UNC when Coples was a senior affected the Jets’ perception of him…
CLINKSCALES: I think it was just a small point, because he was a kid that through everything that went on there, he stayed above the fray, he never really got into any trouble. I think that there was an incident where there may have been something with a hotel and he had all the receipts. This kid stayed clean through all the transitions with all the coaches.
Some interview pieces...
On Coples’ play as a senior…
RYAN: I think that’s a fair question. The guy did have seven sacks as an interior lineman — that’s pretty good numbers-wise. But I think expectations going into the season, he might’ve been behind Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III, but he’s probably the highest-rated player going into the season based on the previous season, with the 10 sacks. You don’t see that from an interior lineman, a guy that’s 6’6” and 285 pounds.
So I think maybe he did not meet those as a player, but the thing that I know, being a defensive line coach for a number of years, is that when he switched from the left side to the right side, and a lot of his time was spent as an inside tackle in a 4-3, then they move him to right side defensive end in a 4-3, now that takes some time and some adjustments. Everything you’re used to working off, a right-handed stance, now you’re down to a left-handed stance.
Some guys, they can make that transition easy, and sometimes you can’t. I remember when I went to Baltimore, the first thing I did was make Tony Siragusa right defensive tackle because he’s a natural left-handed guy. When a guy’s a natural right-handed guy, it’s easy. There are some guys who can do it and some who can’t do it so well. I feel that he’s a guy, and I compared him before to Shaun [Ellis], I think Shaun was much better on the left side than he was the right, so when I got here, we never flipped Shaun, we left him on the left, and I think that’s what we’ll do with this young man.
what Ryan was looking for by getting hands-on with Coples at pro day…
RYAN: What I tried to do was tire him out, but he wasn’t winded. He went through all the defensive line drills and he was not winded so I wanted to push him. I wanted to see how this guy would compete through the drills and put him through drills he wasn’t familiar with, which were linebacker drills.
It’s funny, I forget who was there with me but I said, “I think I just made this young man a lot of money,” because when we were going through the drills, he can catch the football, he can run. That’s not saying he couldn’t play outside linebacker because he looked really athletic. He was really impressive in those drills, and I couldn’t get him tired. There were several coaches there putting him through drills and it was impressive.
On how issues that occurred at UNC when Coples was a senior affected the Jets’ perception of him…
CLINKSCALES: I think it was just a small point, because he was a kid that through everything that went on there, he stayed above the fray, he never really got into any trouble. I think that there was an incident where there may have been something with a hotel and he had all the receipts. This kid stayed clean through all the transitions with all the coaches.
Some interview pieces...
On Coples’ play as a senior…
RYAN: I think that’s a fair question. The guy did have seven sacks as an interior lineman — that’s pretty good numbers-wise. But I think expectations going into the season, he might’ve been behind Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III, but he’s probably the highest-rated player going into the season based on the previous season, with the 10 sacks. You don’t see that from an interior lineman, a guy that’s 6’6” and 285 pounds.
So I think maybe he did not meet those as a player, but the thing that I know, being a defensive line coach for a number of years, is that when he switched from the left side to the right side, and a lot of his time was spent as an inside tackle in a 4-3, then they move him to right side defensive end in a 4-3, now that takes some time and some adjustments. Everything you’re used to working off, a right-handed stance, now you’re down to a left-handed stance.
Some guys, they can make that transition easy, and sometimes you can’t. I remember when I went to Baltimore, the first thing I did was make Tony Siragusa right defensive tackle because he’s a natural left-handed guy. When a guy’s a natural right-handed guy, it’s easy. There are some guys who can do it and some who can’t do it so well. I feel that he’s a guy, and I compared him before to Shaun [Ellis], I think Shaun was much better on the left side than he was the right, so when I got here, we never flipped Shaun, we left him on the left, and I think that’s what we’ll do with this young man.
what Ryan was looking for by getting hands-on with Coples at pro day…
RYAN: What I tried to do was tire him out, but he wasn’t winded. He went through all the defensive line drills and he was not winded so I wanted to push him. I wanted to see how this guy would compete through the drills and put him through drills he wasn’t familiar with, which were linebacker drills.
It’s funny, I forget who was there with me but I said, “I think I just made this young man a lot of money,” because when we were going through the drills, he can catch the football, he can run. That’s not saying he couldn’t play outside linebacker because he looked really athletic. He was really impressive in those drills, and I couldn’t get him tired. There were several coaches there putting him through drills and it was impressive.
On how issues that occurred at UNC when Coples was a senior affected the Jets’ perception of him…
CLINKSCALES: I think it was just a small point, because he was a kid that through everything that went on there, he stayed above the fray, he never really got into any trouble. I think that there was an incident where there may have been something with a hotel and he had all the receipts. This kid stayed clean through all the transitions with all the coaches.
