The New York Giants protection will tackle a brand new look in 2024 with Shane Bowen taking on as coordinator for Wink Martindale.
Upon his hiring, Bowen and head coach Brian Daboll had been fast to retain defensive backs coach Jerome Henderson and gave him the added duty of defensive passing recreation coordinator.
Henderson has been across the block a couple of occasions and understands methods to cope with change. Bowen will provoke a totally completely different method than Martindale. Henderson is ready to see how issues pan out however is liking what he’s seeing so far.
“You all the time marvel,” Henderson mentioned in a latest interview on Giants.com.
“Shane has been superior. He’s been an awesome chief to date. He’s accomplished 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 lots of enjoyable to date.”
Two of the Giants’ high gamers final season — security Xavier McKinney and cornerback Adoree’ Jackson — are not on the roster, though Jackson continues to be a free agent and will re-sign.
“There will not be lots of new issues in soccer,” Henderson mentioned when requested what the secondary will appear like this 12 months. “It’s simply we name them various things. It’s related ideas, completely different language, little tweaks. It’s somewhat 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 related coverages, we’ll have related fronts, we’ll simply hopefully play them at the next 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 underneath his cost, defined what a high-caliber cornerback appears like in his eyes.
“Clearly the motion expertise are key for us, the power to vary instructions and be explosive,” he mentioned. “I believe one of many issues that’s neglected, although, while 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.’
“After 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.
