{"id":196215,"date":"2025-07-10T13:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T13:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/196215\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T13:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T13:26:13","slug":"new-york-giants-rakeem-nunez-roches-offers-blunt-solution-to-fix-run-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/196215\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Giants’ Rakeem Nunez-Roches offers blunt solution to fix run defense"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Giants<\/a>‘ defensive line got a wake-up call when stud nose tackle Dexter Lawrence was not on the field in 2024.<\/p>\n

This offseason general maanger Joe Schoen added a few more pieces that should address the depth issues, but the returning core needs to step up their collective games.<\/p>\n

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Veteran Rakeem Nunez-Roches recently said on the Giants Huddle podcast<\/a> that he and his linemates must band together and communicate better to have a cohesive unit.<\/p>\n

“To be honest with you, a simple fix: Just do your job,” Nacho said. “The biggest thing last year was sometimes you felt like you had to do somebody else’s job or compensate because of a lack of trust.<\/p>\n

“This year, I feel like taking that step together and believing in one another. Like, hey, ‘I’m going to do my part and you do your part.'”<\/p>\n

The Giants relied heavlily on Lawrence up front last season until he was lost for the year in Week 13 with a dislocated elbow. Lawrence played on nearly 80 percent of the defensive snaps to that point and the Giants were last agaisnt the rush, yielding 5.2 yards per attempt.<\/p>\n

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The line actually played better against the run after Lawrence went on season-ending injured reserve (IR).<\/p>\n

This season the Giants hope to lessen Lawrence’s workload, bringing in veterans such as Ray Robertson-Harris and Jeremiah Ledbetter to take some snaps in the rotation. The best-case scenario, however, is that third round pick Darius Alexander can come in and be effecive early on.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Giants Wire: Giants’ Rakeem Nunez-Roches offers blunt solution to fix run defense<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Giants‘ defensive line got a wake-up call when stud nose tackle Dexter Lawrence was not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[2913,1156,1489,7,519,12074,1917,56,2321,2469,6,20238],"class_list":{"0":"post-196215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-darius-alexander","9":"tag-defensive-line","10":"tag-dexter-lawrence","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-giants","13":"tag-jeremiah-ledbetter","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-giants","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkgiants","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-rakeem-nunez-roches"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114829170178873623","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}