\ud83d\udcf0 Left tackle Andrew Thomas, who has not played since he suffered a season-ending foot injury on Oct. 13, 2024, will take “a good amount of reps” today, more than he did last week. “We’ll see where he is after today, but encouraged with where he’s at.”<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udcf0 After practice, the Giants released their first injury report of the week.<\/p>\n
Did Not Participate in Practice:<\/p>\n
LB Demetrius Flannigan-Fowles (Calf)
\nDL Chauncey Golston (Ankle)
\nLB Darius Muasau (Concussion\/Eye)<\/p>\n
WR Gunner Olszewski (Back)
\nDL Rakeem Nu\u00f1ez-Roches Sr. (Foot)
\nWR Wan’Dale Robinson (Foot)
\nG Jon Runyan (Back)
\nC John Michael Schmitz (Toe)
\nWR Darius Slayton (Groin\/Calf)
\nOT Andrew Thomas (Foot)
\nRB Tyrone Tracy Jr. (Calf)<\/p>\n
DL Roy Robertson-Harris (Knee)
\nRB Cam Skattebo (Ankle)<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udcf0 Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is “one of the best to ever do it” and is impressive both physically and mentally. He has made a lot of loose plays with his legs so far this season, particularly on third down. “But just an unbelievable awareness, instinct to play this position.”<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udcf0 The Giants will see a familiar face in Steve Spagnuolo, who is in his seventh season as the Chiefs’ defensive coordinator. “They’re kind of a spin-the-dial defense, if you will. Play a number of fronts, a number of coverages and have a number of pressures.” Spagnuolo is the only coordinator in NFL history to win four Super Bowls. He is also the sole coordinator to win a Super Bowl with two different franchises (Giants: XLII, Chiefs: LIV, LVII, LVIII). The Giants watched “a lot of film” on Russell Wilson against his defenses, dating back to 2017.<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udcf0 The Chiefs being 0-2 doesn’t mean anything to Daboll. Kansas City has been a “model of consistency in this league for the past decade plus.”<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udcf0 Wide receiver Wan’Dale Robinson, who had a career-high 142 yards last week, has been a good teammate first and foremost. Beyond that, he has the quickness and intelligence to play multiple spots. “It was good for us and for him, the contributions that he made down the field.”<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udcf0 There is “no substitute for explosive plays” in this league. Wilson leads all quarterbacks with eight completions of 25 yards or more. “They generate points, skip third downs. It’s a big contributing factor to the outcome of games.”<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udcf0 The cornerback rotation of Cor’Dale Flott and Deonte Banks is going to depend on what the Giants want to do that particular week on defense. “They’ve both earned playing time with some of the things they’ve done, and they’ll both need to help us.”<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udcf0 Daboll said he looks at football in four phases, not the typical three of offense, defense and special teams. The fourth is coaching.<\/p>\n
“Everybody’s involved in this. We watch a number of plays, we discuss a number of things, whether it’s strategy, whether it’s technique, whether it’s mistakes, whatever it may be, and try to build on the things that were good and improve on the things that weren’t where we need them to be. And then you move on. Once Wednesday hits, it’s full steam ahead against the team you’re playing. You put everything to bed Monday night, if you will, Monday afternoon, and spend all your time focusing on the team you’re playing this week.”<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udcf0 Rookie Marcus Mbow played 51 snaps at left tackle after replacing James Hudson III following the first drive. What happens now with Thomas taking “most of the snaps” at practice? “If you’re a backup, you get the reps that you get, and you take show team reps. I think we do things, whether it’s walkthrough, whether it’s after practice, much like the quarterbacks do, with guys that improve their craft the way we need to help them improve their craft.”<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udcf0 One of the big stories coming out of Dallas was the penalty issue. They were penalized 14 times for 160 yards. “Well I think there’s two types of penalties. There are penalties that are going to happen because you’re playing aggressive style of football, whether that’s a technique in a pass coverage. But the things that you want to make sure that you do a good job of correcting throughout the entire season are the pre- and the post-snap penalties. So the communication that happens as a play caller, whether it’s a quarterback, a linebacker, an offensive, defensive coordinator, making sure that those things are proper. And then the staying onsides, that’s a thing for each individual player that they’ve got to hone in on. Post-snap penalties, whether it’s hitting a quarterback late, putting a guy on the ground, we’ve got to make sure that we’re doing things the right way. Again, some of those are physical things that happen in a split second and we’ve just got to make the right decision on those things. A holding penalty, a coverage penalty, something like that where it’s going to be aggressive, you work on your technique the best you can. You’re going to have some of those, but it’s the pre-snap and the post-snap that really gets you.”<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udcf0 On Hudson: “Hud’s a pro. Again, there were some things that we’re going to have to talk about and fix, like [offensive line coach Carmen Bricillo] did. We’ve talked with him. I have confidence in Hud. He’s a pro. He’s a veteran. That was a number of penalties. Again, one of them wasn’t on him that was called on him. We can do a better job communicating on that spot. The one where he got him in the head, again, we can help some on the technique things, but I have confidence in Hud.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf0 Left tackle Andrew Thomas, who has not played since he suffered a season-ending foot injury on Oct.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[346,7,347,118,110,2438,2437,6,53247],"class_list":{"0":"post-375958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-chiefs","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-homepage","11":"tag-kansas-city","12":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","13":"tag-kansascity","14":"tag-kansascitychiefs","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-presser-points"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115221623463178130","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375958","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=375958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}