Giants offensive line coach Bobby Johnson apologized publicly on Tuesday for shoving linebacker Cam Brown throughout Monday’s struggle.
“The incident yesterday, I take full responsibility. I’m remorseful,” Johnson mentioned. “It can’t happen. It won’t happen again. I’ve apologized to the appropriate people, in particular Cam. I have to be better than that. It’s not what we’re looking for. It’s a regrettable incident that can’t and won’t happen again.”
Brian Daboll mentioned he didn’t impose any self-discipline or punishments on the gamers and coaches concerned. But the top coach mentioned “in no way do we condone” the preventing.
And Johnson implied he had acquired a stiff warning, if not an ultimatum, from the top coach.
“It won’t happen again. It can’t happen again,” Johnson mentioned. “[Daboll] addressed it, and he made it crystal clear. So it’s been addressed, and we’re moving on from it.”
None of the gamers concerned within the struggle had been made obtainable to the media in regards to the melee. Daboll spoke on it as a substitute and made clear “we’re not gonna lose our composure like that.”
“Tempers were up,” Daboll mentioned. “I talked to the team, everybody involved with the team. That’s not what we’re looking to do. We pride ourselves on being smart, tough and dependable. I’ve been around long enough to see certain things like that after the third or fourth day of pads happen. It’s addressed. We’re not gonna do that. We’re moving on.”
While Daboll chastised the offenders for crossing the road, nonetheless, he exonerated Saquon Barkley for decreasing his shoulder into nook Aaron Robinson.
The Giants’ head coach implied that Barkley had accomplished nothing flawed, even when that collision had angered the protection and lit the fuse for the struggle.
“What I don’t want is, I don’t want them to tackle,” Daboll mentioned. “The tempo and aggressiveness, we’re trying to build that. Thud is thud, so the defensive player is gonna go in and thud the offensive player. So Saquon ran with his pads down and it wasn’t a tackle or anything like that. He’s just getting prepared to take a thud tackle, and tempers fly a little bit when guys go to the ground.”
“We’re not trying to bring anybody to the ground in these practices,” Daboll added. “We want to try to take care of one another. But we also want to practice hard and play with good pad level.”
Tuesday’s observe was dialed means again from the heavy contact of Sunday and Monday because the workforce ready for Thursday’s preseason opener on the New England Patriots.
Daboll took the pads off and ran a jog-through with each the offense and protection alternating in scout workforce roles. And the lowered workload was welcome.
Tuesday’s warmth was oppressive, reaching 100 levels on the warmth index.
Daboll wants his workforce to heed his message, although, with out punishment, after Monday spiraled uncontrolled.
“I spoke to the team. I spoke to the coaches,” he mentioned. “They know what the expectation is.”
TONEY DIALED BACK AGAIN, WILLIAMS SITS
Kadarius Toney’s 11-on-11 workload was dialed again for a fourth time in 11 practices. It didn’t seem this lowered workload was deliberate. He ran some routes within the jog-through however then got here out for good and acquired some consideration on the aspect.
Defensive sort out Leonard Williams, operating again Matt Breida and defensive sort out Nick Williams had been new additions to the didn’t observe listing on Tuesday, as properly. Breida labored on the sphere with trainers, whereas the Williams’ had been within the trainers’ room, per the Giants.
Receivers Austin Proehl and Robert Foster every got here up lame at factors whereas operating routes. Both gamers had been banged up in earlier practices.
Offensive lineman Josh Ezeudu didn’t run in workforce drills, his second straight day being dialed again.
THURSDAY’S PLAN
Expect Daniel Jones and the first-string offense to play a few quarter of Thursday evening’s preseason opener in New England, relying on the stream of the sport. Individual gamers might have their very own plans, too. Tyrod Taylor then in all probability will clear up the remainder of the primary half earlier than third-stringer Davis Webb performs the second half.
It’s unclear how any Tuesday observe accidents will change this listing, however listed here are the gamers who we all know are out for Thursday’s sport because of undisclosed accidents: LB Carter Coughlin, TE Ricky Seals-Jones, CB Rodarius Williams, and doubtless Breida and WR David Sills.
That’s along with the plain listing of any participant on injured reserve, non-football damage, or the bodily unable to carry out lists.
NEAL’S NEW NUMBER
Rookie sort out Evan Neal has switched from jersey No. 70 to No. 73. That’s the quantity he’s worn since his freshman 12 months of highschool, when it was assigned to him. Veteran Matt Gono left the workforce not too long ago, which freed up 73.
“Kind of like when Michael Jordan wore number 45 but had to switch back to 23,” the gregarious Neal mentioned. “It doesn’t really affect the way that you play by any means. A number can’t play for you. Just feeling more comfortable with your number.”
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