The New York Giants protection will tackle a brand new look in 2024 with Shane Bowen taking up as coordinator for Wink Martindale.
Upon his hiring, Bowen and head coach Brian Daboll have been fast to retain defensive backs coach Jerome Henderson and gave him the added duty of defensive passing sport coordinator.
Henderson has been across the block a couple of occasions and understands the best way to cope with change. Bowen will provoke a very completely different method than Martindale. Henderson is ready to see how issues pan out however is liking what he’s seeing up to now.
“You at all times surprise,” Henderson mentioned in a latest interview on Giants.com.
“Shane has been superior. He’s been an ideal chief up to now. He’s accomplished a very good job getting our workers collectively and giving us his imaginative and prescient of our protection. He’s a man who has listened to our enter and requested for enter and mentioned, ‘That is going to be our protection, and we’re going to construct it the appropriate approach.’ It’s been a number of enjoyable up to now.”
Two of the Giants’ prime gamers final season — security Xavier McKinney and cornerback Adoree’ Jackson — are now not on the roster, though Jackson continues to be a free agent and will re-sign.
“There aren’t a number of new issues in soccer,” Henderson mentioned when requested what the secondary will appear to be this 12 months. “It’s simply we name them various things. It’s comparable ideas, completely different language, little tweaks. It’s a bit of little bit of, from the high-level perspective, only a completely different philosophy of how we’ll play protection. However on the finish of the day, we’ll play comparable coverages, we’ll have comparable fronts, we’ll simply hopefully play them at a better stage clearly this 12 months and make the Giants followers proud.”
The Giants have a bunch of younger cornerbacks led by Deonte Banks, Cor’Dale Flott, Nick McCloud and Tre Hawkins III, and will usher in a couple of extra this month within the draft.
Henderson, who as soon as had Corridor of Famer Darrelle Revis below his cost, defined what a high-caliber cornerback seems to be like in his eyes.
“Clearly the motion expertise are key for us, the power to vary instructions and be explosive,” he mentioned. “I feel one of many issues that’s missed, although, once you discuss Revis — he had this in spades — it’s that demeanor that ‘I need to dominate and management this man throughout from me.’
“Once I take into consideration the actually good ones, they needed these huge moments, they usually needed to be on that island. They needed to know that I’m guarding the man, they usually needed the ball to be thrown at that man. The nice ones did it at a excessive stage and received much more of these battles than they misplaced.”
Banks appears to have that in him, however the Giants will want much more than that.
