According to ESPN\u2019s Jeremy Fowler, the New York Giants have also requested to interview Indianapolis Colts passing game coordinator Alex Tanney for their offensive coordinator vacancy:<\/p>\n
This comes after a recent report that the Giants have also requested to interview Colts offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter for the same opening.<\/p>\n
Clearly, new Giants head coach, John Harbaugh, or someone within New York\u2019s top leadership is a big fan of Colts head coach Shane Steichen\u2019s offensive system and scheming, and now specifically, his blossoming coaching tree proteges.<\/p>\n
Although, it still has a ways to go to become Sean McVay\u2019s highly sought out coaching tree.<\/p>\n
Regarding Tanney, the 38-year-old former NFL quarterback, who previously played for the Giants from 2018-20, has served as the Colts passing game coordinator since 2024, having previously been the Philadelphia Eagles quarterbacks coach (2023) among his other prior pro offensive coaching roles with Nick Sirianni\u2019s squad.<\/p>\n
He was also on the Colts practice squad in 2015 during his well-travelled NFL playing career.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s hard to say what exactly Tanney brings to the table, but he appears to be an up-and-coming, young offensive mind, who helped coach a Top 10 NFL offense with the Colts last season\u2014and that was with starting quarterback Daniel Jones, who was in the midst of a career year, missing the last four games of the regular season.<\/p>\n
If Cooter were to land the Giants\u2019 offensive coordinator job instead (or with the Eagles for that matter), Tanney would be a key internal candidate to replace him for the Colts\u2019 same role. However, the Giants job would present an upgrade because with the Colts, Steichen still handles the offensive play-calling, not his offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to ESPN\u2019s Jeremy Fowler, the New York Giants have also requested to interview Indianapolis Colts passing game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[2005,7,2004,392,3562,2381,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-715042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-colts","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-indianapolis","11":"tag-indianapolis-colts","12":"tag-indianapolis-colts-news","13":"tag-indianapoliscolts","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115980833296630718","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715042","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=715042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}