Coach Brian Daboll reviews Giants vs. Ravens

Tom Kahneman (0:00)

I just want to ask where you are injury-wise and how Tommy DeVito, assuming he's in protocol, what you expect to do at quarterback this week?

Brian Daboll (0:09)

Yeah, he's in the protocol, so we'll see where he's at. Again, it's only a day away from where Drew was, so we'll see how Drew is. And we could potentially do that, but we'll see where these guys here are at each day. And Wednesday, hopefully, they'll be ready to go.

Brian Dumblybee.

SPEAKER_3 (0:42)

Hey Brian, how are you?

Brian Daboll (0:44)

What's up?

SPEAKER_3 (0:47)

Understanding obviously that winning is the priority on an individual basis as you try to evaluate players and know what you have with guys going forward. How tough is that right now with the situations going on right now? Like, can you get honest evaluations on your players individually? Or no, because they're playing with guys that they don't normally play with, and the scores are maybe not competitive. All the extra stuff going on, how does that make individual evaluations difficult?

Brian Daboll (1:19)

I don't think it makes it difficult. They go out there, they compete as hard as they can compete. You evaluate their technique, you evaluate the understanding of the schemes, their competitiveness, all the things that they need to do at each position. So everybody that's out there is going to be obviously evaluated, but everybody out there is going out there with that type of mindset.

SPEAKER_3 (1:45)

Thank you.

Jordan (1:47)

Paul Schwartz.

Paul Schwartz (1:49)

Hey, Brian.

Brian Daboll (1:50)

Paul.

Paul Schwartz (1:52)

I got a couple for you. First of all, I wouldn't say Brian Burns is the last man standing, but he certainly is standing still and hasn't missed anything. From what you knew about him when you guys were thinking of trading for him to what you know now, the exact same, a little different, the player, the person, things like that?

Brian Daboll (2:12)

Yeah, competitive young man. He's been productive. You know, he's been productive for us. Tough, you know, he's fought through some stuff. You know, Nixon bruises here. Done a nice job in his leadership role for us. I'm glad we have him.

Paul Schwartz (2:29)

And just as you're playing the team this week that drafted a quarterback in Michael Panics, a guy I'm sure you did a bunch of work on, and he's not playing. When you guys were in Buffalo, you guys got Josh Allen. I don't think the plan was to play him right away, but plans change, right? You played him pretty quickly. In the course of your time with these quarterbacks, what goes into that and what do you think? I mean, is there a right and a wrong and a best and a worst? I mean, as far as playing him, not playing him, I mean, there's a lot of different ways to go here.

Brian Daboll (3:01)

Yeah, I think every situation is unique in and of itself. I can't speak on, you know, on Penix relative to be in Atlanta. Obviously, they have cousins there who's been a good player for a long time. And, you know, everybody, every situation's been a little bit different here with some of these guys that have really, you know, taken off into, I would say, elite level of quarterback play, you know, the last, call it the last five or six years since the draft. So, again, every situation's different. The consistency there is important. But, again, not knowing the player or the exact situation, I think it's just different.

Paul Schwartz (3:38)

Thank you.

Brian Daboll (3:39)

Yep.

SPEAKER_6 (3:40)

I'm Rock.

Brian, what did you think of the way Tim played yesterday when you went back and watched the film? And, you know, I mean, could he step in and be the starter on Sunday?

Brian Daboll (3:54)

Well, it depends on how these other guys are health-wise, too. But I thought, again, I thought there was some, you know, he made some nice throws. He was decisive with the football.

You know, he was he was ready to go. He was prepared. He's worked extremely hard since he's been here. And, you know, he made he made the most of his opportunity, the chance he got to be in there.

SPEAKER_6 (4:17)

I also want to ask you one of the things that Burns said yesterday after the game was that there wasn't a lot of talking after the game. It was, you know, nobody kind of gave sort of a fiery oration or whatever has usually followed these these losses. Did you did you sense that? And what does that tell you about where you guys are at?