Coach Brian Daboll previews Giants vs. Commanders

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SPEAKER_3 (1:00)

How are you looking at left tackle this week?

Brian Daboll (1:02)

What's the plan? Similar to what it was last week.

SPEAKER_5 (1:04)

Rotation? Practice?

Brian Daboll (1:06)

Yeah, we'll see. But today, not for Zulu because he won't practice. He has a knee.

SPEAKER_6 (1:10)

What's Tom Richards doing?

Brian Daboll (1:12)

Concussion protocol.

SPEAKER_3 (1:15)

Is he going to be on the field though?

Brian Daboll (1:16)

He's going to be doing stuff off to the side, but he's early stages of it.

SPEAKER_5 (1:23)

When did Josh get hurt?

Brian Daboll (1:25)

He had his knee drained. So, yeah, so he'll be he'll be out today.

Yeah, Dex. He won't practice. Give him a vet day. Amir. He's got an ankle. Bryce Ford has an Achilles. Matt Adams has a knee and Jamie.

SPEAKER_7 (1:51)

Is the Achilles concerned in the long term or is that?

Brian Daboll (1:56)

No, not. It's not long term, but he's not practicing today. I don't know if he will. We'll see where he is tomorrow, but it's sore. Yeah, day to day.

SPEAKER_8 (2:06)

You obviously liked what you saw of Jaden coming into the draft, then you got to see him in week two. What have you seen in his development since then, now that this will be the second time you see him?

Brian Daboll (2:18)

Well, he's one of the better quarterbacks in the league already. He's got great vision. He can throw the ball in any area he needs to throw it. He can throw it under pressure. He can escape, make plays with his feet. He can escape, make plays with his arms. He's got good command, which we knew he was a smart, smart guy when we spoke with him. He's playing really well at a high level.

And you can tell there's a lot of confidence in him. He has a lot of yards per attempt, eight and a half, which is really good. Makes good decisions. He does a lot of good things.

SPEAKER_5 (2:59)

What do you need to do to improve your run defense?

Brian Daboll (3:03)

Yeah, I'd say tackling in the open field is something that we, you know, you talk about and work on, you work on it in drills. You have to be able to finish it in the game. They hit a couple of long ones, which usually leads to higher yards per attempt. You know, gap, integrity, all the things that it takes to be a good run defense.

SPEAKER_6 (3:25)

I assume you do Hail Mary defense all the time. Is now, when you see what they did last week, do you think you and everybody in the league is like, okay, we got to do more of this?

Brian Daboll (3:36)

I think you do it, I don't want to speak for every team. We do it every week. You never know when the situation is going to come up, the play before, the play after. You study, you know, years of the coordinators, play calling history of how they play it, how the offense wants to try to attack it. You know, it was a really good play, but a quarterback, too. To be able to buy his time, to let the defenders get down there, and he scrambles one way, scrambles the next, that's a huge element to the play. As a quarterback, being able to do that, to let the routes, whatever they're going to be, declare. And then give them a chance down there, you know, in the end zone, which the ball got tipped up, and the receiver was in a good location behind the back tip. And it was a heck of a play.

SPEAKER_9 (4:28)

It's part of the preparation for that. You know, so much focus was on the last play, but then watching the game, the previous play that got them the extra 10, 15 yards seemed to really set everything up.