Giants Offense Treading Water With Injuries
Giants’ OC Kevin Gilbride has had loads of challenges this camp. Injuries to his offensive line, tight ends and now quarterbacks have restricted his offense from ironing out the kinks this summer.
In addition to having limited personnel resources, Gilbride’s offense has had to go head-to-head with Perry Fewell’s revitalized defense, which has been going full throttle from day one.
This week Gilbride will have to rely on his pet student, Rhett Bomar, to run his offense in a game. He had some thoughts for the media about that sudden reality.
Q: What’s the difference between his (Bomar’s) first and second training camp so far?
A: It’s his second time going through it. He didn’t get a lot of work
last year. We had four quarterbacks, and he was getting fourth reps. In
many respects, it’s kind of like his rookie year, there’s no question
about that, which is part of why we only brought three quarterbacks in,
to give him some work. We think we see a guy who has some physical
skills and some potential. We were trying to give him enough work to try
and see, never anticipating it would ever be as much work as he got
yesterday, or that he’s going to get on Saturday night. He can run, as
he showed you when he pulled it down. He’s got a very strong arm. It’s
really still growing in confidence, and doing the things we ask of our
quarterback, which is substantial. It’s significant. Much of our run
game is contingent on him taking in and out of one play to another, etc.
He also needs to grow with his consistency and his accuracy.
Q: Is there just one Giants offense or are there plays tailored to fit him?
A: We hope that there is enough variety, variation that you can
select the things that your player can do. That always enter into the
framework. Here is what our offense is doing, so we will eliminate some
of the plays that don’t fit. Here is some plays that we want to do but
our players can’t do so we’ll focus on those things that have a chance
to succeed based on what the defense does.
