Players didn’t hear the word this season until a Saturday-night meeting. “That’s the first time I said ‘playoffs’ to them,” says Brian Daboll. AlbertBreer on how, after a brutal half decade, the Giants got back to the postseason:
It’s been an interesting couple of days in East Rutherford. It started with the end of the Giants’ workweek, on Friday, and how first-year coach Brian Daboll chose to address his players. It was with a question:Daboll got nods and smiles—especially from the players who’ve been around long enough to know how hard the past five years hit a proud franchise.
In short, Daboll tried to get them to value the process over the result, and the playoffs, as he sees it, are in the results category—with no need to focus much on it. Except, that is, for a day like Sunday. Or when you get to where your team can handle it. • A look back at a zany semifinal Saturday in college football, and how it might impact the April draft.Daboll has trouble saying he and Schoen are surprised by any of what’s happened since September, and that’s because, as he explains the 2022 Giants’ story, he really didn’t have any expectations at all.
Landon Collins, who rejoined the Giants in October after three seasons in Washington, stretched the lead with a pick-six.What does that look like? The Giants started by marching down the field on 11- and nine-play drives of 71 and 64 yards, to go up 14–3. Then Landon Collins scored on a 52-yard pick-six to make it 21–3.
So Schoen brought Brandon Brown from Philly to be assistant GM, and Daboll imported coordinators from Kansas City and Baltimore , and the process was such where the minute a guy came aboard, he was part of hiring the next guy. DBs coach Jerome Henderson, for example, was hired weeks before and part of the interview process for Martindale. Then he helped Martindale pick other position coaches.
Which went for putting another former Bill, Davis Webb, in the quarterback room with Daniel Jones. Or getting former Raven Jihad Ward, who played for Martindale in Baltimore, in the outside linebacker room with Kayvon Thibodeaux, or another former Raven, Justin “Jelly” Ellis. Or landing former Colt and Eagle Marcus Johnson to come into a receiver room coached by former Indy and Philly assistant Mike Groh. And that was just one phase of how the puzzle came together.
Daboll was all smiles as Jones's career year continued with two passing TDs and two rushing TDs on Sunday.In turn, as each of those players have produced individually, the constant idea that the other shoe is going to drop, built over those five uncharacteristic seasons of losing Giants football, have started to subside.
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