Brian Daboll & Joe Schoen on how Giants have improved from last season, 2024 waiver decisions | SNY

I just want to start off again thanking my prostaff, my leadership staff, it's a lot of work during the month of August with all the preseason games and there's been 11 hundred players, cut since Friday and intimate, knowledge of the staff has oh those players, you know, going through all the preseason games top-to-bottom, understand the league at the cut down where depth maybe where you know, things make fall a little bit short for for what we need and that helps us in, you know? Strategy planning and all that stuff. So Brandon Brown Tim McDonald, Dennis hickey, Chris Rossetti, and his staff Ryan Cowden did a great leading the prostaff splitting up the league and you know we ended up claiming one player Anthony Johnson from the Green Bay Packers of safety. And you know, again they do all that work and we get one player and, you know, again, it's it also sets the table for us. Moving forward, practice squad claims. We just, you know, an email just came out with the subsequent moves that that will go through the This evening. So I just thought, it'd be important to recognize those guys in the job they do. And you know what they mean to the team without open up to questions, we put in one claim, So how do you feel with your corner back to position right now? Because that's a position. People thought you might be looking to add. How do you feel with what you have at outside corner opposite? Yeah, I feel good with it. To address that position this offseason. Yeah, I mean draft. Andrew Phillips was a we're excited about him. We thought that was a good pick for us. In the third round you get a certain amount of swings and certain players are available. So it's a position will continue to look at it as we will with all positions. And if there's an opportunity to upgrade their, we will. I think there was again, 11:00 players drafted are drafted day, eleven hundred players that were cut since Friday. There was 26. We just talked about this 26 players. Hers. I believe we're claimed five were Corners, so of 1100 players, five, four corners that were claimed. So, you know, just that's an important position when we're making these trade calls or depth caught, you know, dep calls with other organizations about you're going to go if you called every team 32 out of 32 would probably say looking for depth that corner. So you know it's a difficult position to find you know, we're always going to look to upgrade across the entire roster but you know that that position in You know one or two injuries away. There's there's not a lot of teams that have three good corners on there on the roster as you really look through it. So again, like I said, every every Position will continue to look to to upgrade. If we can having Nick MacLeod, get the first crack there. Yeah, they're gonna compete, it out flip flops back now. So those guys will compete and you know, again we'll we'll leave that to Dave's and his staff and how they want to do it going into the week one with Minnesota. And, you know, you know, let him talk about who's going to play in that play. If both guys could play the name, Yeah, I have a good feel for it. I'm not going to share it with you right now but I have a good idea of the direction. It's going. You guys walk off the field at the end of last season. Obviously your tasks that that point to improve the roster. How much do you feel you have? And what main areas, do you feel you have? I feel like we've improved in several areas, but again, like it's, you can improve. The team still has to come together as a team, and every team is different. And I know Dave's is talked about and I talked about it. You, you know, you still got to come together. I like the chemistry of the team where we are now. I think that's important and, you know, some of the best teams aren't always the most talented team, but they come together, they you know, they work hard, they know their assignments, they execute again. We don't know how this team's going to react when we're downtown, or how are they going to react when we're up 10? And when adversity, strikes, you know what's that going to look? Look like. So again, talent-wise, again we like to grouper have we're excited about them and, you know, we'll see how they jail and how they execute once. We once we get out there on Sunday like not, not the expectations of the results, but what do you think? When you look down this 53-man roster, you like better now than you did them? Yeah. I like the group, I don't want to go position by position but, you know, I like the group, we like the team. We like the chemistry. We like where we are and, you know, excited to get things going this week. Obviously want to improve every year, right? I mean, you feel like this is your strongest But the three again same thing. Like we talk about it all the time. You're one or two injuries away from you know again we like the group we like where we are. You know again if you're sitting up here last year with the Bangles you think they were going to be home in the playoffs but now they have talented roster and you know, burrow gets her. So again you prepare the best she can you put together to put together the best group you can? And you know you gave me a hope things go well and you know again I'm confident our staff, I'm confident players that we have and you know I look forward to seeing how this team comes together and gels. What do you You would make a successful season this year? Yeah, again I'm not going to get into what successful and that was, you know, I mean we're worried about Minnesota and getting on the next week. Again. We like the group and you know we're going to see what happens by any of your players that cleared. Waivers you able to bring back on the practice squad. You was I said again, were you surprised by any of the players that you guys had that cleared waivers that you were able to bring back on your practice squad? I wouldn't say surprised I would say happy. I'm glad we were able to get some of the guys back that we got on the practice squad. So yeah, you know sometimes you Worried about losing some guys. And again, you put some time and effort in our coaching staff, do a good job, developing these young men. And if you get the opportunity to continue to work with them, you're excited about that and also the practice quads an extension of the roster. So you try to, you know, tread between developmental players and guys that can come up on on Sunday, if you need a new play. If something happens on a Friday or something that, you know, they've played in Sunday games and they know the offense and you can trust him to execute their assignments. So, you know, we like to group, we have right now will have a workout tomorrow with some guys and we'll continue to turn that to try to have the best practice squad we can. To really improve a team at this time of the year, you build a roster free agency in the draft and then and then there's this time of year comes along. You know, how hard is it to make a big impact moves? Yeah, I think pry, the biggest area where you can do it is the, the practice squad, you know? Again, those those players. Again that's your emergency list now, used to have six or eight practice squad players and you have these workouts and you'd have to sign somebody off the street and they have to go play on Sunday. So to me trying to Gather the best practice squad that we can wear. Again, those guys can be elevated on Sundays and help you win games. And you know, if they have familiarity with this or coach on our staff or whatever, maybe, but to me, that's that's your depth throughout the year. So you, when you put 16 player, 17, now with the international times, 32 you know what's left on the street, there's not a lot. So to me the emphasis right now we'll be making the strongest practice squad, we can because that will be an emergency list throughout the year and you know maybe around the trade deadline. There's a A chance to improve again. But you know, I think most rosters are set. Why, why were you so judicious with just the one claim? Was it just because of what you have or because of what was out there? You think we can maybe make 34 here when you go through it? Yes. And sometimes it's fantasy football. You think they're going to, you know, people aren't cutting good football, you know, like good football players. Are you gonna get out there? You're going to put in 15 claims across League that are going to change your roster. So a lot of times its depth players, you know that Come in and and again get you through a season or a, you know, depth safety that if an injury occurs and they have to go start, then you're looking for those guys. So, again, there's typically not a lot of front-line, you know, starters that you're going to get, you know, maybe some vets that get cut, we've got experience with that but no, get Nick MacLeod, still here. He's a valuable role player for us and, you know, Jason Pinnock is now starting Forest, Arie Phillips, started games for us. So you know, history says you can find some good good football. Players during this time. But you know, again, you were pretty thorough in our process and identifying who may or may not help us. And, you know, again it's, you know, the way it felt there was there was one claim and also when you claim somebody have to get rid of somebody so that that affects that position room to. So you got to take all that into account. You see Brian Burns or one guy making to a defense means you're starting primarily. Most of the guys, either few rookies, maybe are at almost everyone else's guys that were here last year. So how much of a difference do you think Brian Burns? I make to this defense. Yeah any good player makes a difference. I went I can't quantify it. He's a good pass rusher. He's not a good job in Camp. It takes 11 people to play good on defense. It takes 11 people to play going on offense, special teams. But when you have a good player that certainly helps the other 10 players. So having a good pass rusher, if we can get them into those past situations pass rush situations, should help the back end but but again, it's team football, it's the greatest team sport there is so we need all 11 to play. But certainly the good ones, Jordan helped over 10 days, still Minnesota, just your players now. Every day in practice, just to focus on that, we've had two good. We've had two good days yesterday, we had a good day with, obviously, missing a lot of the practice, all the practice squad players. So it was, it was high Tempo but it was lower reps. Today we had a full training camp practice. We had one on ones with to, on twos, we had a bunch of Team periods against one another tomorrow to be. malheur with shells on and then the players will have the mandatory three days off the coaches are You know, our begin with, we worked hard in the offseason and I would say the early part of the Season just getting a feel for schematics but you don't really know the team you're playing until they have all the pieces. So you know the game planning for team is not just the scheme or the coordinator. It's now the pieces. So now once these teams have their 53 and you know, somewhat not everybody plays in the preseason but you know somewhat of, you know, the guys strengths and weaknesses. And again, you go back and look at some of the tape of the free agents that I'd say, Minnesota acquired, some of the rookies, you're doing a lot of work right now as a coaching staff. You know, you're looking at the stuff you did in the offseason, you're looking at the three preseason games, right now, we're spending a lot of time doing that as a coaching staff, but for the players right now, what we're doing is trying to make sure we, we clean up some of the things that, you know, we've had issues with whether you in training, camp preseason, whatever it may be. So those I'd say periods that we have are some are just offense versus defense. Some our problem plays if you will, that we've had in all three phases, So we're focusing on us. Players will have three days off here after tomorrow, which are mandatory will continue to work as a staff and make sure that we're doing everything we can do. Leave, no stone unturned to get ready for the the opening game. You said, you went pretty hard today. Just curious if we talked about the first team offensive line yesterday how they come through today, and the fact that you have proven Commodities on that line, maybe except for JMS who, you know, is going to be your to how much more of a mean, is it more of a feel for knowing what you're going to have and week one up there? If those guys are healthy versus maybe last year, you're waiting to see how guys will react. Yeah. I'd say 100% with the Five Guys. We have. Knowing they've only practiced a couple practices but you have for veterans in a second-year player that are pretty diligent in their craft. They played a lot of football, they understand what it takes. That's why we put gvr at Center just to give him some reps early on it actually helps you with the system when you have to play center because you're making a bunch of calls. He's played next to illumine or four season runyon's. Played a lot of football. At Green Bay, has missed a snap. So those guys are working well together. Other, but everybody needs to practice, practice is important, its practice and preparation helps you, you know, game and you need to practice. So those guys have had a good day of practice. It was good to get them out there and pads. We'll need another good one tomorrow and then get a couple days off and then get started again. But they played a lot of football. Yeah, that's okay. You've said you've gone back a couple times and watched having meals. Alabama tape, obviously, paid last tackle, are you convinced that he could be a swing cackle for you guys like cookie. Do left tackle and right toggle or is it enough for him to have to get back into the flow at right tackle? Yeah. Work that probably next week like Dave said we're still we're still doing you no good on good here and you know the giant stuff that we need to correct on so you know once we get in the game week we'll talk about who's going to be active who's not going to be active and what their roles may be. If if injury occurs, because I've guard for him, you guys contemplated that? At this point? No, no, no. Because we have enough guards. He needs to continue to work at right tackle. You like a friend? Would you like a swing tackle or could you have a different backup left tackle? Then you have a backup right time. You could have both. Yeah. Again, it depends on Whose goes to the game. So again, I think there's some flexibility with the depth that we have now at the offense of line, some of those guys were starters now, their backups, we have some young guys that were developing cubist's has come along nicely as a young player undrafted but has a good skill. All set in traits that you covet an offense alignment. He's a tough kid. That's really smart. And then we have some other experienced players that have played. So the depth is there now, it's just determine, you know, what eight or nine who want to bring that, whatever it may be to the game, but, you know, the Five Guys, we have will be the five to start. Hopefully, stay out there.