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 accountability of defensive passing sport coordinator.
Henderson has been across the block a number of occasions and understands the best way to cope with change. Bowen will provoke a very completely different strategy than Martindale and Henderson is ready to see how issues pan out, however is liking what he’s seeing to date.
“You at all times surprise,” Henderson stated in a current interview on Giants.com.
“Shane has been superior. He’s been an ideal chief to this point. He’s executed a superb job getting our employees 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 stated, ‘That is going to be our protection and we’re going to construct it the appropriate approach.’ It’s been quite a lot of enjoyable to this point.”
Henderson is returning however two of his prime gamers — security Xavier McKinney and cornerback Adoree’ Jackson — are usually not, though Jackson might nonetheless re-sign with the group.
“There are usually not quite a lot of new issues in soccer,” Henderson stated 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 just a little 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 the next degree 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 herald a number of extra this spring within the draft.
Henderson, who as soon as had Corridor of Famer Darrelle Revis beneath his cost, defined what a ‘high-caliber’ cornerback appears to be like like in his eyes.
“Clearly the motion abilities are key for us, the power to vary instructions and be explosive,” he stated. “I feel one of many issues that’s neglected, although, once you speak about Revis — he had this in spades — it’s that demeanor that ‘I wish to dominate and management this man throughout from me.’
“Once I take into consideration the actually good ones, they wished these huge moments, they usually wished to be on that island. They wished to know that I’m guarding the man, they usually wished the ball to be thrown at that man. The great ones did it at a excessive degree 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.