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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And your experience. Is it typically easier to groom a
quarterback who has who's maybe a little older a prospect,
or is it better Are you better off with a
younger prospect maybe hasn't you know, seen as much?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, I think every every situation is different, regardless of
the position, regardless of the player. Obviously, guys that have
played in the league that have certain experiences in the league,
they've done it for a while, so there's some things
that you know, maybe they know that a young guy
that hasn't played in the league knows. But every situation
is different, Every position is different.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
What about in terms of systems, Does a certain system
in a college program make it easier or is it
also a matter of everybody's different.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, I think that any team you go to is
going to do things differently than the way you've done
them in college. So there's there's a learning curve for
every position, for every player, every rookie that I've ever coached, receiver,
tigh end, offensive lineman, quarterback, defensive back, of coach a
variety of them, and uh, there's you know, there's a
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learning and a process that you go through with with
all young players. Thank you yep.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Evan Barnes, Hey Brian, how are you doing good?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Heaven? How are you good?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Good?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
So with these last few workers that you guys had,
just curious kind of just what I do know you said, good,
you know what you're specializing, you love doing that, but
just kind of what do you glean from those now
going into the last few days of this decision process
before the draft? Just what do you learn, what do
you gain, what do you see? Just kind of how
do you take that into your final deliberations for this
week for the draft.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, I appreciate the question, understand the question. Uh, you know,
draft draft processes. You know, we hold those close to
the vest, and you know there's still work that needs
to be done. But to get into the details of
this helps this doesn't help. Uh, you know, we'll keep
those private, maybe just in a in.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
A general sense that that a little bit more like
in general, how does that help the processes that refer a.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Little bit more?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah, Look, you do as much work as you can,
you know, this time of the year for for the draft.
You know, I really have a great appreciation for Joe
and and the scouts that have put so much time,
effort and energy into this as they do every year
of being on the road and meeting with people, and
you know, you try to catch up the best you
can as a coach, so every you know, touch point
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is important.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Thank you all.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Schwartz.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Good morning, still morning, just the past morning at the afternoon, Well,
accept it, it's okay. What do you like about this
as a day where obviously players are in the first
day of the workouts? What I have a couple of questions.
What do you like about today?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Well, you like that the players are back in the building.
It's it's always, you know, that's what you do as
a coach. You you sit down and you meet with players.
This is very you know, introductory in terms of our
systems and our expectations and our standards, but you know,
the relationships that you've built with the players that have
been on your team to get to see them and
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see how they're doing, and then also the new players
that you've added to get a feel for those guys.
All but early in the process. But you know, it's
always it's always better when the players are in the building.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
And one more do you have do you.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Kind of as a guy who's been around quarterbacks, your
whole you know, football career pretty much. Do you kind
of glean in on seeing like a guy Russell is
in the building for the first time with a lot
of the players. I know he's worked out with them
a little bit off the field, you know, out of
the building. Kind of look and see how is he
interacting with this guys. You know, he's a guy who's
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going to be playing a lot, he's a veteran as
a whole new group, you know, kind of look from
a far or try to facilitate, Like so, let me
see how he's doing with these guys early and then
kind of check in on that as things go on.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, I think that's important for the quarterback position. Again,
Russell has been doing this for a long time, as
is Jamis. Both of those guys I asked them to
get up this morning in front of the offense and
talk a little bit about their story, kind of where
they came from and who's important to them in their
life and what's important to them in this game. And
they both did a great job. But it's really early
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in the process, Paul, but they understand what leadership is.
They've done it at a number of places and expect
them to do that here. Thanks yep.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
Dan dug In, Hey, Brian, I feel like whenever we
talk to you about quarterbacks, you talk about a lot
like intangibles, like how they are in crunch time and
to mandules that type of stuff. How important are just
the physical traits? Like is there a baseline where you
need guys to have a certain level of physical traits?
Speaker 8 (04:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
And Dan, I that that goes for every position. You
have to be a good player physically, whether it's speed, quickness, accuracy,
decision making. I'm talking about you know those last two
for quarterbacks. Power ability to bend, redirect, offensive lineman get off,
you know, ability to cover man to man, play the
deep part of the field, great turn. I mean, there's
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obviously a physical skill set you can't You got to
have good players to put yourself in good position that
can do the necessary things physically that you need them
to do.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
And you and Jove gone through the you know, the
quarterback process you know multiple times. Now, I guess are
you aligned in your evaluations of the.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Group this year?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah? I think you know again the draft, it's it's
it's really good to start catching up as a coach.
You got a lot of work to put in these
Our scouts and Joe have been doing a great job.
And I'd say that, you know, the process has been
excellent every year. There's really good communication, and not just
with the quarterbacks. With each position. It's okay to do disagree.
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You're not going to be disagreeable.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
And everybody has thoughts and opinions of what they evaluate
and what they see.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
And there's great conversation. I mean, I really, I really
enjoy our process of how we do it with the
assistant coaches, with the area of scouts, with the national scouts,
sometimes the pro scouts, with Joe myself, the people that
are kind of in Joe's leadership group are coordinators. There's
a lot of good give and take. And at the
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end of the day, when you're drafting a player, everybody's
on board with with who you draft and the process
of which we go through. Yep, bur gotta meet myself here,
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got you.
Speaker 9 (06:48):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
How we do every year you.
Speaker 9 (06:51):
Come in there, I'm sure you have like a you know,
a message to the team of big overarching messages. They're
buried by year a little bit. What was your message
to this group this year?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yeah, it's early Jordan, it's phase one. So you know,
we're really our strength coaches are speaking to our team
head from departments are speaking to the team different very
you know, different departments, could be nutrition, could be sports, psychology,
could be the training room, meadia, relations, myself. And then
we break up. You know, one team on one area
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goes a lift. The other team, you know, the offense
stays to meet and they flip. It's very it's it's
very introductory right now. We're we're just getting going here
in phase one and you look forward to getting.
Speaker 9 (07:36):
Your work and then how do you balance your time
right because you have the team here now and you
also have the draft this week? Are you guys? Are
you are you close to being done on the draft side,
Like where are you at with that? And how do
you sort of split your time there?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, I mean Joe, Joe goes all the way up.
You know, he'll he'll have a good idea of of
you know, kind of what we're going to do. But
there's there's conversations still to be had. But you know,
as a coaching staff, myself and the assistant coaches, you know,
from the players that are in here from when they
get in here to eight to when they're done. You know,
all our focus is on our players who we have
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in our building, and then there'll be other meetings after
that that, you know, maybe you might bring a coordinator
in or a position coach that's evaluated a certain guy
or someone that was laid at on. But there's conversations
kind of all the way up until the day.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
You guys were as injured at the end of last
year as any team I can ever remember. As you
get going here, I know you're not on the field yet,
but as you get going yet, do you have anybody
that you expect to be out for a while, or
you expect most of the guys who were injured at
the last year to be able to get going here
in the spring or anybody ut go like you don't think.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
You will see it the camp, Yeah, I mean it's early.
All those guys that have had some type of injury
are rehabing. They've done a great job, you know, throughout
that process, from the time that they've been going up
until now.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
And then the Giants were nice enough to post like
sixty eight photos online of day I don't see. One
of mylik neighbors is he in the building today.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah, I would say that there's I'm not going to
get into who's here, who's not here. We have very
good attendance the people that aren't here that it's for
a specific reason and you know they'll be here shortly.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
And then last to follow up on Douggan's question, what
happens like how do you reach that consense? Did you
give us a very good answer there on the process.
But what if like it's Wednesday and Brian Dable and
Joe Shane don't agree on who the third overall pick
should be, or it's Friday and you don't agree on
the thirty fourth overall pick, Like you make it seem
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like you always reach in agreement. Does that mean somebody
has to give in No.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I just I really appreciate our process. Haven't done this
a long time and a very variety of places. I
appreciate our process, our communication, the scouts communication, the coaches communication,
and once we come up with who we're taking, regardless
of when that is is there's an agreement on all
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parties and you know, we look forward to bringing that player,
whoever that player may be, into our building and try
to help develop them.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Thanks Brett aret.
Speaker 8 (10:15):
Hey Daves what's going on he along with what Jordan
ass In terms of messaging, I'm just curious from your perspective,
how much time and thought do you put into the
messaging with the team. And maybe it's a bigger scope
the idea of not just today, but you know, three
weeks from now and what you want to say for
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your for this season's message, right sure, what's important in
mini camp? How much do you think of that in
terms of when you meet in front of the players
and you know, you assemble your coaching staff and things
of that nature.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah, quite a bit. I think messaging is important. I
think having a detailed plan of how you want to
go through each meeting is important. I give expectations for
the position coaches and for the coordinators leading up to
this of messaging and things that I think we can
do a better job of as a staff and me
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as a head coach, and then what we're looking to
get out of each particular phase. So phase one, Phase two,
phase three, you don't go too far ahead, art you
kind of stay where your feet are and put everything
you have into in this particular case, phase one of
the program. But I have obviously things that down the
line when it comes to Phase two, phase three touch
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points that I think are important, and those will evolve
with getting to know the players, the relationships with the guys,
how things are going in Phase one, and making sure
you adjust and adapt accordingly.
Speaker 8 (11:46):
And that carries through the entire season, right. I mean,
that's really a part of your job that once you
become the head coach, you've got to be involved in
all of that.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah. Absolutely, And you know, you have good meetings in
the offseason with different departments, people that are responsible for
other areas of the building in how I can serve
them better and what I can do for them to
help with the players. I think that's important first and
foremost is looking at yourself and then you know, getting
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ideas and at the end of the day, you have
to put things together or present things that you think
will be for the benefit of the team. And that's
certainly what I always try to do and we'll always
try to do.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
You got one, Charlotte Carroll, how's it going?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Hi?
Speaker 6 (12:35):
Charlotte, just kind of want to develop upon Dunleavy's question.
I guess what are the conversations like when there is
disagreement on a prospect and if you guys aren't aligned
on someone especially kind of Joe said last week. I
think it was he's tasked with making the final decision
on a player.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
It's just that, Charlie. You just have good conversations. I
mean you are together all the time, and you've been
together for a long time. So again, it's like getting
ready for for a game. People are going to throw
ideas out plays that might not necessarily be, you know,
something that you had in mind, and then you're you
open to listen and say, oh, oh, I see it
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that way again. There's not I don't know. The there's
very professional, you know, conversations that we have and we're
all trying to do the same thing, is trying to
improve our football team. And at the end of our process,
whatever that may be, regardless of the position, everybody is
entitled to give their thoughts and opinions, which I think
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are important. And then you listen to other people again,
whether that be a scout, a position coach, a national scout,
you know, someone else that's double checking from the other
side of the whatever it may be, it's professional conversations
and you come up with you know, the person or
persons that you think would be good in that spot
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first round, second round, third or whatever be uh, and
you come to a you know, a consensus of this
is the player that we want or players, because you're
gonna have to have multiple players based on what happens
in front of you. And it's you know, it's a
it's a it's a process that I believe in. You know,
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I got a lot of respect for everybody's thoughts and
opinions and the work that they put in. You put
a lot of work into this, and at the end
of the day, you have your conversations and you come
up with, you know, a certain amount of players that
you would pick in each of those areas. But it's
it's a it's a very good process. You know, I
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enjoy it. It's a lot of work. You know, the
conversations that we have, you know, Joe and I listened
to you know, a number of people, uh, And then
at the end of the day, we'll have a conversation
and you know, pick the player we think it will
best be suited for the New York Giants.