Coach Brian Daboll reviews Giants vs. Saints

Evan Barnes (0:00)

How are the, how did the injured guys come out of yesterday?

Brian Daboll (0:05)

Yeah, I'd say Runyon is pretty sore today. There's still, a lot of these guys are still either getting MRI'd or getting looked at. But I'd say Runyon, Runyon has an ankle. This will, that'll be, I'd say week to week, maybe more than week to week. Nubin has an ankle, we'll see where he's at. Who else here? John Michael, MRI looks okay, but he's sore.

Who else do you want to know about?

Evan Barnes (0:46)

Uh, is Locktoon okay?

Brian Daboll (0:50)

Uh, he's getting an MRI at 12 p.m. He's sore. He's got a couple of things right now, but don't have the results just yet. Sore, sore, I know he's sore. Evan Barnes.

Evan Barnes (1:09)

Hey Brian, how you doing?

Brian Daboll (1:10)

Evan, what's up, buddy?

Evan Barnes (1:12)

Good, so obviously looking back at Drew's performance, I guess, how will that factor into your decision this week when you're evaluating the quarterbacks going forward?

Brian Daboll (1:25)

Yeah, Drew will be a quarterback this week, unless he can't be based on injury.

Evan Barnes (1:33)

And I suppose, I guess, what kind of went into that decision? Was it just kind of how he performed yesterday, or Tommy still recovering? What went into that?

Brian Daboll (1:39)

Yeah, no, look, he's played. He's really had one week of practice to go out there and play. And again, things that everybody could do better, but he'd be the quarterback this week if he's healthy.

Paul Schwartz (1:54)

Paul Schwartz. Hey, Brian.

Brian Daboll (1:58)

Paul.

Paul Schwartz (1:58)

Hey. I just wanted to ask you, do you, have you ever been part of, you know, a losing streak, something of this magnitude? And looking back, was there any ways that you or the guy in charge or people around you did things to try to end it? You know what I'm saying?

Obviously, everyone's trying to end it, but anything invading, something where you can maybe latch on to?

Brian Daboll (2:23)

No, unfortunately, I have been. You know, I've been part of some losing streaks like this and some winning streaks. You know, I think you're part of a lot of different things when you do it for as long as I have. You know, you get a little bit of role. You start playing good. Turnovers are big, usually a big factor in that. Situational football is usually a big factor in that. Whether that be red zone, third down, and that helps scoring points or preventing points. You know, I've been part of a few of them where we started out and had a fair amount of losses and finished strong. Again, every season is different. Every game is different.

There was ebbs and flows to yesterday's game. We had some opportunities there, I'd say, in all three phases. We had 13 points basically that we had, and then we didn't have them, or we got blocked. And then we had some opportunities. I had far too many third downs offensively. Didn't convert on those, and I had one thing in the red zone there defensively where they did a good job of shifting out. We had an uncovered guy. So there's plays every game, every season, and I got to figure out a way to make those.

Paul Schwartz (3:41)

Do you ever feel inclined, like you keep on saying, well, we prepare well, you like the way we prepare, to do something differently during the week just because it will be something different? You know what I mean?

Brian Daboll (3:54)

Yeah, I'd say, look, we got to do a just better job on, ultimately on game day of, you know, finishing things, obviously making some of them opportunity, opportunistic plays, and that's everybody that starts with me.

Paul Schwartz (4:10)

Thank you.

Brian Daboll (4:10)

Yep. We have time for a couple more if there are any.

Evan Barnes (4:18)

Art Stapleton.

Art Stapleton (4:21)

Hey, Dave.

Brian Daboll (4:22)

Hey, Art.

Art Stapleton (4:24)

With along the lines of what Paul was just asking, the idea of not so much doing things differently, but because of all the new faces and all of the younger players and the inexperienced guys that you had to get into the lineup for yesterday, you even talked and even some of the players in the locker room talked about how those guys really performed yesterday above maybe what expectation was. Is there anything you could take from the way you guys attacked last week and move it to, you know, have to move it to this week almost out of necessity and how you had to build the game plan around a lot of guys who really hadn't been out there for you?