Andre Patterson: “Shock him with your hands and go. You don’t have to wait…You’re going to come around clean.”
SACK
L Williams: “That was all Coach.”
Wink: “That’s why you’ve always been my favorite!” 😂😂😂
(2 clips)
The time is right for a Giant to not only destroy Philadelphia’s hopes and dreams for this year, but assume the role of city and franchise antagonist for the next decade…
Joe Schoen broke down the draft picks in a 12 minute interview w/
@cfrelund
on NFL+. His facility describing taped highlights reveals his primary experience as a scout. He’s so concise, studied and comprehensible it’s clear he’s expert in presenting game film to others.🧵
1/9
👀
Craig Fitzgerald, Director of Strength and Performance, and Sam Coad, Director of Performance/Asst Strength and Conditioning Coach, have been removed from the Giants website.
Related to the number of injuries incurred by the team in 2020 & 2021? 🧐
#TogetherBlue
Top 2022 cap hits:
BUF
S Diggs $17.9m
T White $16.5m
J Allen $16.4m
D Dawkins $12.7m
T Edmunds $12.7m
NYG:
L Williams $27.3m
J Bradberry $21.9m
K Golladay $21.2m
A Jackson $15.3m
B Martinez $14.0m
Cumulative difference: $23.4m
#WhatsJoeThinking
How explosive is Barkley, since he came into the league? His 8 TDs of more than 50 yards ties him for 2nd with Tyreke Hill behind Derrick Henry with 9.
Henry 51 games played
Hill 47
Barkley 35
#TogetherBlue
The
@mckinney15__
interview via
@thepivot
is a lot… Besides recounting the details of the ATV accident, lots of Judge/Graham disparagement, although Jerome Henderson has been there for all 3 of his years. Would love to hear his take on this…
1/4
On the
@JordanRaanan
pod, Davis Webb says that Kafka’s showing the QBs a lot of Mahomes film and he, Webb, Face Times Mahomes with Jones & Taylor alongside to talk about specific plays and concepts 👀
(He says they watch Allen film, too.)
Daboll has consistently referred to this being Daniel Jones’ “second year” in spite of it being his fifth NFL season, which reveals his and Schoen’s mindset about their QB and, frankly, makes me more optimistic about the team’s future.
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#NYGiants
Joe Judge: “The first thing we want to be able to do is run the ball.”
2019 Giants:
-
#29
in Rushing attempts
-
#19
in Rushing yards
-
#7
in Rushing yards per attempt (4.7)
Smart man.
#GiantsPride
The foregone conclusion of a second Saquon Barkley contract is gone. The pass-first philosophies of Daboll & Kafka and the $7.2m cap hit when $40m in cuts are sought put Barkley’s future as a Giant in play.
What can Barkley return in a trade?
#SchoenPain
In spite of everything, Matt Peart has still played more offensive snaps than:
Saquon Barkley
Kadarius Toney
Sterling Shepard
Darius Slayton
John Ross
#Pain
After noting that Tyre Phillips’ hand and foot work improved since leaving the Giants for 6 weeks to work with J Stoutland, a simple statement speaks volumes about Bobby Johnson: the two OL with the best technique Sunday joined the team this month.
The cap will be slashed, but “cut Bradberry”?
He’s played 92/97 possible games at an injury-riddled position.
Compare:
A Jackson (59/81)
A Robinson (9/17)
D Holmes (23/33)
R Williams (6/17)
J Williams (ERFA)
Extend Bradberry (consider trading him) but cut him? No, thank you!
WHOA! Chris Mara now listed as Senior Personnel Consultant under Ownership and removed from Player Personnel on website directory. 👀
Tim McDonnell now atop the roster of Player Personnel staff.
Daboll admits some of the route concepts aren’t working and as coaches it’s important to move on from them to find what works. In other words, responsibility for practice struggles doesn’t rest with one person!
Morning Zen:
“You’re the dominant force in this league. You step on the field and you know it, you earn it, you live it. You with me? Let’s go. Give me a day.”
#Coaching
#TogetherBlue
WR Coach Mike Groh says Jalin Hyatt is stronger and heavier this year and his growth since being drafted has been “tremendous” and “he’s a different guy.”
Tyler Dunne on
#WFAN
says Daboll scripted plays to make Daniel Jones look bad in training camp and Tyrod Taylor to look good on purpose, in order to test Jones under pressure, both on the field and in the media, and adds that Jones passed with “flying colors”.
An unfortunate situation for a great guy. I think the
#Giants
should look into the Team Dr. Rodeo’s diagnosis of injuries. From the starting QB to a multitude of other players, to my 2019 “high ankle sprain” that I never even got an injury grade on & a very vague diagnosis (1/5)
Schoen says his roster plan was accelerated by the DJ contract: “You do a deal with Daniel, you see how it was structured so you try to expedite the process and give him a chance to succeed.”
So much for patience…
Easy to read as a signal that drafting a QB is a real option.
Bobby Okereke, with savvy media presence throughout his presser, cites the good fortune to play behind DeForest Buckner & Grover Stewart in IND and now Dexter Lawrence & Leonard Williams in NY.
Players recognize Players.
#TogetherBlue
The
#Giants
are 3-0 this year when they’ve scored 20 or more points.
Over the last two seasons, they are 12-3-1 when they’ve scored 20 or more points.
*20 or more points*…
Lot going on here…
Schoen: “There are only a handful of teams that are going to run the ball 25-30 times…you’re paying these QBs $45-50m a year and it’s not to turn around and hand the ball off…offensive minded coaches would rather go for 7 or 8 (yds) than 2 or 3…”
More…
From
@PLeonardNYDN
: Schoen/Daboll are maximizing sideline coaching with support from up top… “Every coach on the sideline has an assistant supporting”… the Pro Personnel scout who scouted the opponent is also in the booth
Daboll is giving the Giants a clear coaching advantage
“They’ve created a number of ways to hurt you.” Carroll praised Barkley effusively and then cited Jones and the QB designed runs as especially challenging. Taysom Hill (wildcatting) and Kyler Murray each rushed for 100+ yards vs them.
Based on the All-22, I observed the following:
-Williams, Tomlinson and Lawrence were on the field together for 14 plays (9 1st Downs, 5 2nd Downs). On those 14 plays, CHI gained a total of 14 yards rushing and 10 yards passing. TOTAL!
1/3
In
@TheAthleticNFL
,
@RandyMueller_
notes that the Giants’ moves gave them the “Biggest roster upgrade.”
He names Brian Burns “the closest thing to Micah Parsons I’ve seen on tape recently” (👀) and Runyan and Eleumunor as “proven but still ascending.”
According to the team website, the Giants have added Christian Daboll to the coaching staff as an Offensive Assistant.
Brian Daboll’s son was previously a student-coach at Penn State who signaled plays in.
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Per NextGen, among receivers, Daniel Bellinger ranks 3rd in Average Separation at the time of the catch at 4.4 yards and 125th (dead last) in Average Targeted Air Yards, the yards downfield at the time of all attempts, at 2.7 yards. 🤯
#TogetherBlue
Wink: “We’ve built a playoff defense and nobody can argue that”… “We’ve developed some safeties while X has been out…we’ve got even more players to add to the mix which is exciting to me” (2 clips)
#WeThrowTheChangeUps
Mark Glowinski says Daniel Jones was tight to start last year, that he wanted to “make sure he was being right all the time,” but loosened up over the season, let some swagger out and is ready to “have fun and kick ass” this year.
#TogetherBlue
1:23 to go. TEN up 20-13.
Jones yells, “Hey Shep, come in here and block 37.”
37 says, “I got it.”
Shep still executes the block, springs Saquon to the 3.
Myarick scores 1 play later, Saquon converts for 2 & the lead.
Beautiful.
MIA traded up from 50 to 42 with the Giants to pick Liam Eichenberg, who gets roasted by a local beat reporter on the
@TalkinGiants
preview pod.
Ojulari vs Eichenberg will be fun to watch, with the MIA top 80 pick as dessert.
#TogetherBlue
In last year’s final pre-season presser, Schoen was asked why there were so many WRs on the 53. He responded, “Offensive head coach,” and Daboll dryly added, “Five wide.”
A joke last year, but this year…? 🤔🤩😎
#TogetherBlue
The referee for the WC
#NYGvsMIN
is Adrian Hill, who was also the referee for the NYG
@MIN
in wk 16!
In that game, the Giants were called for 7 penalties, 63 yds, MIN 2 for 14 yds. 👀
The WC game will be Hill’s first post-season game as a referee.
On his pod
@CarlBanksGIII
says there’s a captain’s meeting every Friday with the coaches and he spoke with a number of captains and “to a man they said we don’t know where that came from” referring to McKinney’s comments.
#TellAFriendToTellAFriend
Amidst the noise around Daboll’s treatment of coaches, the March 2023 NFLPA Report Card highlighted his relationship w/players.
“The two areas that stand out as highly rated aspects of the club are the training staff…and head coach Brian Daboll.”
#PlayersCoach
-opposite philosophy to Judge/Garrett ideal of running it 30x per gm;
-further clouds the decision-making process on Barkley (beyond a desire to use him more in the pass game), which I think remains under-discussed, not fully clear and fascinating;
-exciting offense incoming!
The Giants have added Varun Ravishanker to their website directory under Football Operations as a “Football Systems Developer.”
Data & Innovation SZN 📈
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