August 9, 2025 • 10 mins
Head coach Brian Daboll speaks to the media after the Giants vs. Bills preseason opener.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What were your faals of Jackson? That's about what I
thought he would do. Efficient, effective, aggressive, confident in the pocket.
Some stuff we can work on, but he's doing good.
He had to show some boys where he was pressure
from the pocket, gun roll out a nice screen t Yeah,
(00:20):
we're impressive the boys that he showed. He doesn't in practice.
I think I was asked a question from Pat holding
onto the ball, and look, there's things he can be
better at, but we missed some opportunities on third down,
some drops that we've even been better for him and
for us. But he's a confident young player. He's improved
since he's been here. Still got a long way to go,
(00:41):
but I enjoy working with him. I like his demeanor
on the sideline. Sees the game well. Again, not not
that we're getting We got a couple of blitches and
things like that, but I'm glad he's here. Boys in
practice a different than standing in there when the TV
standards sea face and well we saw that on tape.
It all missed though, So he did that for a
(01:03):
long time there. He's tough, He's got I told you
good mox. He's got toughness, he's got leadership, I think
we threw the ball fifty one times. He didn't have
a sack today, So credit the offensive line first and foremost. Held.
It's the whole regression you put help promise you it
look to Russell opened the game the way you did
with your quick passing attack, and then just you know,
(01:26):
and dark taking over just the whole. Yeah. Well, look,
we've we've we've worked hard in practice. You never know
how it's going to go. It's one preseason game. Russ
has done this for a long time, so it's, you know,
not his first rodeo. You know. Gave him some plays
to get in a little bit of a rhythm, you know.
I think all the quarterbacks led their their offenses down
(01:47):
to scoring points. Got held up in some of the
fringe stuff. Drops, a couple too many false starts, you know.
At one point we were we were pretty good on
third down. I'm not sure what we had it up,
but that you know, big plays. Didn't have I would say,
have a ton, but gave up far too many on
the defensive side of it. In the number of areas.
(02:08):
So it was a good first day. But I think
each offense had about four hundred yards. So the criticism
of Jackson face matter of college was the offense that
he played it from. No, who's criticizing him? The draft?
The draft criticism draft a yeah, pictures coming out, which
(02:29):
is why was he might be more green, might take
him a year and he needs to sit and things
like that. Was there anything that you saw about him
that made you not be concertainly yet he's going to
now be in a cross off? Yeah, pretty much. Everything
stood in the pocket, was good under pressure, good with
his legs, tough, competitive, accurate. Again, everybody comes from different offenses.
(02:52):
You know, Jalen Hurts came from a you know, running
college offenses. He's doing pretty good. Tua did when I
was there. I mean that a lot of guys run
offenses similar to that. There's not a lot of just
this is what it does. I mean where they run
our po offense, where they run some of Usually when
you come to the league, the offenses are going to
be different. Again, it's one game. He's had good practices,
(03:13):
He's had practices we got to improve on. There's good
plays out there, plays he can prove on. But again,
you know, just talking to him on the sideline, his demeanor,
that's a good start for him. There will be a
lot of quarterbacks to that avoid the rush when it's
in their face, but it's almost like they avoid the
rush when they just run. And Jackson does have the
ability to run. But it seemed like when he was
back there, his eyes never left down fields and he
(03:35):
was moving. Yeah, that's and that's something that that's something
else we saw on tape when he was coming out.
He's he's he'll stand in there and take one now.
But he's got good feel and good athleticism. Maybe he
has to run again. Pretty simple defense we're playing. We
understand what is. But it was good to be here
in this environment, no surprise, packed house, you know, first
(03:57):
preseason game here in Buffalo, not a surprise. So we
practiced with a lot of noise, and you know, great
first environment to be in for a rookie quarterback where
some places you're you know, ten to fifteen thousand fans. Here,
you've got a packed house, which is a good thing.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
And we're getting the first team involved.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
What we needed that decision. Care happy with what you
got out of the first team on both sides of
the ball. Yeah, Well, number of questions was asked about
that leading up to it, and you know the answer
is do it's best for the football team. So I
thought we needed that. We'll do it again. We're going
to play in the preseason. People that are able to
(04:39):
play are going to play. And if they're not able
to play, or a doctor or a trainer says it'd
be smart to hold them out, we'll hold them out.
But other than that, we're gonna play. Can you talked
about earlier this week wanting to see Jackson into Frank scenarios? Yeah,
obviously you guys to manage a two minute drill at
the end of that.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Hap what'd you see them in that?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah? We manufactured one earlier to a kind of an
up temple no huddle the touchdown drive, I believe, or
I told Mike, let's kick it up a gear and
go no huddle. You know, he's had different situations third down.
You know, it's good to play him almost a half
and I think I don't know what Ruscott would he
get twelve or thirteen, fourteen plays somewhere on there. Twelve,
(05:17):
So again, as many situations as we can put all
the quarterbacks in. You know, I thought Jamis came out
good too. We got a couple of plays. We need
to make those plays to keep drives going or a
yard short on a stick so then we you know,
kick it and they get a short field, we bust
the coverature there for a big play and just we
have to do better job. Complimentary football, good things to learn,
a lot of learned things to learn from. Proud of
(05:38):
you know, it's always it's always hard to win a
game in this league, regardless of what it is. But
you know, a lot of things we have to improve
on a lot of the good learning things that you
get from the preseason that you know, we got to
make sure we watch and we get we learn from it.
Talk a little bit about a touchdown, like just a
(05:59):
sweet throat. Yeah, he had a couple of them. We
had a couple of chances down on some goes to
that we should have caught. He said, Connor, go out
there running, go against that corner. I'm gonna throw it
to you, buddy. So luckily we didn't have Connor out there,
we had somebody else.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
And uh yeah, he threw it was one on one play,
threw it up through a go receiver, made a nice
play stacking him, good catch, balling stride you know, he
gives guys chances down the field, doesn't throw the ball
out of bounds most of the time, and gives them
chances to make plays.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
And then it's a job of a receiver to make
a play when you're one on one. That's the job
of receiver. Job of a quarterback is is give your
guy a chance, don't throw it out of bounds, don't
give him no chance when it's a one on one play.
What we expect from all our qbs. Yeah, significant, Well,
(06:53):
flap flat wasn't here, but you know, I thought I
thought d could use some work, so I played him
as much as I'm to play more time. Yeah, not
not a ton of plays for those first guys, A
couple series, which was the plan. Somewhere between six and
ten plays, unless we were playing a certain way. Maybe
(07:14):
have been a little bit more. But again, there's some good.
There's plenty of I don't want to call it bad,
but bad that we got to learn from. We got
to build on it. We've got a big week of
practice here against AG's Jets. Expect good competitive practices with
that group. Try to take another step. Still a ways
(07:35):
to go, so but beat you alternative who Yeah, not
not a lot of plays. So good week here coming
(07:57):
up against the Jets. You know, keep on building with him.
So with all these with the rookies, with our team,
with everything, again, let's take it for what it's worth.
It's one preseason game. There's some good stuff and there's
a lot of things we need to correct, and that's
what our job is to do, is to leave here
and go home and you know the guys, some of
(08:20):
the guys played a fair amount, and make sure they're
ready to go, and then come back on practice and
you know, improve the things we need to improve on,
which we can learn a lot from this. Take a
lot and I think it was Brandon Brown's and a
couple of months earlier idea when you're scouting guys and
you see it on film and college and stout and
(08:41):
then again a lot of you start saying the same
things you just mentioned you saw on table hold of
this for Jackson you're now seeing now, is that also
part of you? Especially for Jackson? Yeah, that's where extinct. Yeah,
(09:06):
and again we're talking about one game. But I've seen
him in O t as, I've seen him in training camp. Uh,
I know his personality, you know, developed a good relationship
with him throughout the draft process. God, here you know
someone that I you know, enjoy coaching and have a
(09:26):
very good relationship with and see a lot of positive signs.
And he's very hard on himself. You know. I said,
I'm proud of you tonight. You do some good things.
We've got to make some more plays too, on a perimeter.
That's not what we do. You know, we got two
or three chances to make those plays. And you know whatever, Mid,
what's mid now mean? That was Mid? That? That was
(09:49):
his response. I said, let's let's just let's he's pretty
hard on himself. I'll say that. You know he's Yeah,
you gotta ask him about what mid means. Six seven.
Everybody who didn't play was limited in practice, so we
know why they didn't play.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And except Jalen, hyen is not a.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Medical thing too. Everyone that didn't play didn't play because
the medical team or the doctors told me that it's
probably a good idea they don't play this game, so
everyone including that would be everyone. Ryan, Yep, you know,
I'm just messing with you. Body,
What were your faals of Jackson? That's about what I
thought he would do. Efficient, effective, aggressive, confident in the pocket.
Some stuff we can work on, but he's doing good.
He had to show some boys where he was pressure
from the pocket, gun roll out a nice screen t Yeah,
(00:20):
we're impressive the boys that he showed. He doesn't in practice.
I think I was asked a question from Pat holding
onto the ball, and look, there's things he can be
better at, but we missed some opportunities on third down,
some drops that we've even been better for him and
for us. But he's a confident young player. He's improved
since he's been here. Still got a long way to go,
(00:41):
but I enjoy working with him. I like his demeanor
on the sideline. Sees the game well. Again, not not
that we're getting We got a couple of blitches and
things like that, but I'm glad he's here. Boys in
practice a different than standing in there when the TV
standards sea face and well we saw that on tape.
It all missed though, So he did that for a
(01:03):
long time there. He's tough, He's got I told you
good mox. He's got toughness, he's got leadership, I think
we threw the ball fifty one times. He didn't have
a sack today, So credit the offensive line first and foremost. Held.
It's the whole regression you put help promise you it
look to Russell opened the game the way you did
with your quick passing attack, and then just you know,
(01:26):
and dark taking over just the whole. Yeah. Well, look,
we've we've we've worked hard in practice. You never know
how it's going to go. It's one preseason game. Russ
has done this for a long time, so it's, you know,
not his first rodeo. You know. Gave him some plays
to get in a little bit of a rhythm, you know.
I think all the quarterbacks led their their offenses down
(01:47):
to scoring points. Got held up in some of the
fringe stuff. Drops, a couple too many false starts, you know.
At one point we were we were pretty good on
third down. I'm not sure what we had it up,
but that you know, big plays. Didn't have I would say,
have a ton, but gave up far too many on
the defensive side of it. In the number of areas.
(02:08):
So it was a good first day. But I think
each offense had about four hundred yards. So the criticism
of Jackson face matter of college was the offense that
he played it from. No, who's criticizing him? The draft?
The draft criticism draft a yeah, pictures coming out, which
(02:29):
is why was he might be more green, might take
him a year and he needs to sit and things
like that. Was there anything that you saw about him
that made you not be concertainly yet he's going to
now be in a cross off? Yeah, pretty much. Everything
stood in the pocket, was good under pressure, good with
his legs, tough, competitive, accurate. Again, everybody comes from different offenses.
(02:52):
You know, Jalen Hurts came from a you know, running
college offenses. He's doing pretty good. Tua did when I
was there. I mean that a lot of guys run
offenses similar to that. There's not a lot of just
this is what it does. I mean where they run
our po offense, where they run some of Usually when
you come to the league, the offenses are going to
be different. Again, it's one game. He's had good practices,
(03:13):
He's had practices we got to improve on. There's good
plays out there, plays he can prove on. But again,
you know, just talking to him on the sideline, his demeanor,
that's a good start for him. There will be a
lot of quarterbacks to that avoid the rush when it's
in their face, but it's almost like they avoid the
rush when they just run. And Jackson does have the
ability to run. But it seemed like when he was
back there, his eyes never left down fields and he
(03:35):
was moving. Yeah, that's and that's something that that's something
else we saw on tape when he was coming out.
He's he's he'll stand in there and take one now.
But he's got good feel and good athleticism. Maybe he
has to run again. Pretty simple defense we're playing. We
understand what is. But it was good to be here
in this environment, no surprise, packed house, you know, first
(03:57):
preseason game here in Buffalo, not a surprise. So we
practiced with a lot of noise, and you know, great
first environment to be in for a rookie quarterback where
some places you're you know, ten to fifteen thousand fans. Here,
you've got a packed house, which is a good thing.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
And we're getting the first team involved.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
What we needed that decision. Care happy with what you
got out of the first team on both sides of
the ball. Yeah, Well, number of questions was asked about
that leading up to it, and you know the answer
is do it's best for the football team. So I
thought we needed that. We'll do it again. We're going
to play in the preseason. People that are able to
(04:39):
play are going to play. And if they're not able
to play, or a doctor or a trainer says it'd
be smart to hold them out, we'll hold them out.
But other than that, we're gonna play. Can you talked
about earlier this week wanting to see Jackson into Frank scenarios? Yeah,
obviously you guys to manage a two minute drill at
the end of that.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Hap what'd you see them in that?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah? We manufactured one earlier to a kind of an
up temple no huddle the touchdown drive, I believe, or
I told Mike, let's kick it up a gear and
go no huddle. You know, he's had different situations third down.
You know, it's good to play him almost a half
and I think I don't know what Ruscott would he
get twelve or thirteen, fourteen plays somewhere on there. Twelve,
(05:17):
So again, as many situations as we can put all
the quarterbacks in. You know, I thought Jamis came out
good too. We got a couple of plays. We need
to make those plays to keep drives going or a
yard short on a stick so then we you know,
kick it and they get a short field, we bust
the coverature there for a big play and just we
have to do better job. Complimentary football, good things to learn,
a lot of learned things to learn from. Proud of
(05:38):
you know, it's always it's always hard to win a
game in this league, regardless of what it is. But
you know, a lot of things we have to improve
on a lot of the good learning things that you
get from the preseason that you know, we got to
make sure we watch and we get we learn from it.
Talk a little bit about a touchdown, like just a
(05:59):
sweet throat. Yeah, he had a couple of them. We
had a couple of chances down on some goes to
that we should have caught. He said, Connor, go out
there running, go against that corner. I'm gonna throw it
to you, buddy. So luckily we didn't have Connor out there,
we had somebody else.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
And uh yeah, he threw it was one on one play,
threw it up through a go receiver, made a nice
play stacking him, good catch, balling stride you know, he
gives guys chances down the field, doesn't throw the ball
out of bounds most of the time, and gives them
chances to make plays.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
And then it's a job of a receiver to make
a play when you're one on one. That's the job
of receiver. Job of a quarterback is is give your
guy a chance, don't throw it out of bounds, don't
give him no chance when it's a one on one play.
What we expect from all our qbs. Yeah, significant, Well,
(06:53):
flap flat wasn't here, but you know, I thought I
thought d could use some work, so I played him
as much as I'm to play more time. Yeah, not
not a ton of plays for those first guys, A
couple series, which was the plan. Somewhere between six and
ten plays, unless we were playing a certain way. Maybe
(07:14):
have been a little bit more. But again, there's some good.
There's plenty of I don't want to call it bad,
but bad that we got to learn from. We got
to build on it. We've got a big week of
practice here against AG's Jets. Expect good competitive practices with
that group. Try to take another step. Still a ways
(07:35):
to go, so but beat you alternative who Yeah, not
not a lot of plays. So good week here coming
(07:57):
up against the Jets. You know, keep on building with him.
So with all these with the rookies, with our team,
with everything, again, let's take it for what it's worth.
It's one preseason game. There's some good stuff and there's
a lot of things we need to correct, and that's
what our job is to do, is to leave here
and go home and you know the guys, some of
(08:20):
the guys played a fair amount, and make sure they're
ready to go, and then come back on practice and
you know, improve the things we need to improve on,
which we can learn a lot from this. Take a
lot and I think it was Brandon Brown's and a
couple of months earlier idea when you're scouting guys and
you see it on film and college and stout and
(08:41):
then again a lot of you start saying the same
things you just mentioned you saw on table hold of
this for Jackson you're now seeing now, is that also
part of you? Especially for Jackson? Yeah, that's where extinct. Yeah,
(09:06):
and again we're talking about one game. But I've seen
him in O t as, I've seen him in training camp. Uh,
I know his personality, you know, developed a good relationship
with him throughout the draft process. God, here you know
someone that I you know, enjoy coaching and have a
(09:26):
very good relationship with and see a lot of positive signs.
And he's very hard on himself. You know. I said,
I'm proud of you tonight. You do some good things.
We've got to make some more plays too, on a perimeter.
That's not what we do. You know, we got two
or three chances to make those plays. And you know whatever, Mid,
what's mid now mean? That was Mid? That? That was
(09:49):
his response. I said, let's let's just let's he's pretty
hard on himself. I'll say that. You know he's Yeah,
you gotta ask him about what mid means. Six seven.
Everybody who didn't play was limited in practice, so we
know why they didn't play.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And except Jalen, hyen is not a.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Medical thing too. Everyone that didn't play didn't play because
the medical team or the doctors told me that it's
probably a good idea they don't play this game, so
everyone including that would be everyone. Ryan, Yep, you know,
I'm just messing with you. Body,
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