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Every Thursday, the Giants three coordinators – Tom Quinn (special teams) Perry Fewell (defense) and Kevin Gilbride (offense) meet with the media. This week, the three have a lot on their plate as the Giants’ roster keeps shifting shape due to injuries, inexperience and underperformance.

19 yards rushing, just a bad game all around?
Gilbride: It was a bad game all around. There’s no question. You hope that it was an aberration, that it’s not a downward spiral. We actually thought we were making some headway, not as fast or as much as you’d like, but we thought it would get better and improve. But last week is not what you were looking for.

How much concern do you have with the position changes on the offensive line?
Gilbride: You always have concern, whatever the position change is that takes place. Obviously up there it can have an impact everything. Not just passing game, but everything, run game, pass game, protection of the quarterback, what have you. You’re concerned and you just hope that whoever you put in there is going to rise up and play the way you think he can, or he wouldn’t be on the team. We wouldn’t put him in in the first place. We’re confident. We have some guys in the backup role who can play. 

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As usual, we bring you highlights from the media sessions from the Giants’ offensive and defensive coordinators
- Kevin Gilbride and Perry Fewell

Gilbride’s impression of RB DJ Ware’s performance thus far….

“I think he’s doing well. He’s done a nice job for us – I think we’ve talked about it – with scan principle with a lot of our protection, where you don’t just have a person, you have a guy then you have to kind of clean up wherever the blitzer shows up. He has not made any mistakes in that respect. So it allows you to be a little bit more sophisticated in some of your route running because you can change up your protection a little bit. He’s done a good job with that. When we’ve called on him to run the ball, he’s done a pretty good job with it”

Gilbride on LT Will Beatty, who missed practice yesterday with a back issue, but is expected to play this week…

“He’s done a nice job. He’s done a very good job. He’s very athletic. He’s the kind of prototypical athlete that you’re looking for to play that spot and he’s been very effective. He’s done a good job for us.”

Fewell on DE Justin Tuck, who has publicly displayed his frustration over his subpar play this season…

“He just wants to make plays. He is not making as many plays since returning or a year ago or when we were playing last year or when he played earlier in the preseason. I think it will come, I really do. He made a comment to me saying he had to get good again and I said, he just has to practice. This has been his second week of really practicing at full tilt for us. It will come. Justin is a gifted player.”

Fewell on why rookie LB Mark Herzlich has not been used on defense…

“He has been in several packages that we have had over the last few weeks. The personnel groups we were playing didn’t allow us to use him. It is not that we haven’t wanted to use him. He has been practicing up in some different packages but we just haven’t used those packages.”

On what he likes about Herzlich…

“He is a big man and he is physical. Mark is a go getter. He is one of those 100% guys that if he sees something, he is going to go smack it and ask questions later. The thing that I really like about Mark, he is a student of the game. In the classroom, when you are going over a defense and about to ask a question, he is already answering it. You really like his enthusiasm for learning the game and him trying to absorb as much as he possibly can absorb.”

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This is the stretch of games where Perry Fewell will either earn his stripes as Giants’ defensive coordinator or get tossed the way of the Bill Sheridans and the Tim Lewises.

The Giants face Tom Brady this week, which is enough to keep you up nights, but in the ensuing weeks they draw the 49er running game and Frank Gore followed by Michael Vick, Drew Brees and Aaron Rodgers.  If his ‘bend but don’t break defense’ can stand up to those tests, he’ll be in good shape. If, not…well…you know the rest.

The Giants can contain Tom Brady by hitting him often – which they may do – but they have to do more against this team than hit Brady to be successful. They have to cover receivers and stop the run, too. BenJarvis Green-Ellis is no Adrian Peterson, but against the Giants’ poor run defense, he may just look like he is. They need to knock him around, too….. But how?

In case you haven’t heard, Bill Belichick is no dummy, and he just may decide to run the Giants right out Foxborough.  By doing this, he would keep Brady safe and upright and expose the Giants’ weak underbelly: the run defense. It will be up to Fewell to counter that. One problem, though – he has a rookie MLB who is struggling to acclimate to the pro game.

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We know Michael Vick is probably playing on Sunday. He’s no Mike Kafka, but he still presents a challenge. That challenge is all too prescient in the psyche of Giants’ defensive coordinator Perry Fewell, whose team was left flatfooted by the Eagles offense twice last season.

Giant fans are left to wonder what Fewell has up his sleeve this week. With a squad that is literally down to its last man, Fewell is going to have to come up with something more than faking injuries to stop Vick and Co. He spoke to reporters yesterday:

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Giants defensive coordinator Perry Fewell will be charged with stopping his predecessor’s new team this week in as crucial a September game the Giants have played in years. The Giants’ secondary is settling in as is rookie LB Greg Jones, who will continue to be their starter in the middle. Fewell faced reporters yesterday……..

Was the amount of zone defense you played in Washington planned or based on the personnel?

It was about 50-50. If you go back and study us last year on a 16-game season, we were probably about 50-50. We did something last week on a zone concept that we normally don’t do as much because of personnel.

What did you see from your secondary?

counted seven plays that were 18 yards or more and five of those plays were errors. Mental errors or communication errors where we let people run free when we should not have let them run free. Again, that is just communication and them getting to know each other. Sometimes guys just gave a call that was not the right call. We didn’t have a guy on a guy. This team is learning together and how to work together and I’m learning this team also. We are trying to learn each other and last week, from the secondary standpoint and even the front standpoint, we consider Justin Tuck and Osi apart of our secondary because the quarterback doesn’t get a chance to hold the football when we play zones, and it comes out quicker. That was a little bit of a problem, we missed two secondary players too.

With those two would you have had more sacks?

We would like to think so but you never know. Some of the plays that occurred in the ballgame , you say that didn’t occur a year ago.

Why is it so hard for rookies to cover?

It happens so fast out there. There is a lot of communication when we play coverage and there is a lot of assignment switching that goes on. We try to do things to confuse the quarterback a little bit so that we are not confused. We were confused five of those seven times that the ball went 18 yards or more. Without any OTAs or a two-a day training camp and because we lost Jon (Goff), we are missing details. We missed some of those details in that game last week. Yesterday and today these guys came back and performed better in practice. It felt like we won today in practice. We got better as a defense so I look at this group to get better and better and come together and perform for us.

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Sometimes you have to look in the most unique places to find motivation and sometimes that motivation is right in front of your face but you’re too close to see it.   In 2007 Tom Coughlin invited Lt. Col. Gregory Gadson to meet with the team and talk to them about “service, duty, perseverance and adversity.

Lt. Col. Gadson had lost bough his legs, above the knee when fighting in Iraq.  The former West Point football player gave such a moving and emotional speech that each and every player on the 2007 team reached deep down inside and found something.

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With some of the NFL’s assistant coaches, you get the sense that their stay as a coordinator or position coach is temporary. Once they build their resume and a head coaching job opens up, their name is mentioned. Off they go to the interview and if they’re one of the lucky ones, they get their shot.

Giants defensive coordinator Perry Fewell fits that profile. This offseason, Fewell interviewed with the Broncos, Browns, Panthers, and Titans. He didn’t get any of the jobs, but listen to Fewell and you’ll know he isn’t at all discouraged.

“I know now, probably more so than ever, that I’m ready. I’m prepared to lead a club and an organization and a football team into battle on Sundays to win a Super Bowl. I learned a lot about administration and organization and preparation as far as the interview process is concerned.”

“Even though I did not obtain a job, I got really good positive feedback. I feel very good about my preparation and my goal of becoming a head coach.”

Fewell is also confident in the defense he’s leading here in New York.

“I think all we did was just scratch the surface of what we can be with the New York Giants. I thought we played well, but we didn’t play consistent enough. And as a guy that aspires to be a head football coach, we want consistency in our play and in our game.”

Quotes from the Star-Ledger’s Zach Berman.

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Giants DC Perry Fewell interviewed for the vacant Tennessee Titans’ head coaching position yesterday. He is one of four candidates being considered for the job left open by the departure of Jeff Fisher, who left the Titans last week after a 16-year run.

Tennessee also interviewed Falcons’ OC Mike Mularkey yesterday and have previously spoken with two internal candidates: OC Mike Heimerdinger and OL coach Mike Munchak.

as per John Glennon of The Tennesssean…..

Fewell, reached by phone after his interview, said he sees promise on both sides of the ball for the Titans, who beat the Giants 29-10 in Week 3 last season.

“They’ve got some very talented players,” Fewell said. “I like it because it’s a good young core of players also. I think you win the game up front, and they definitely have some good defensive linemen.

“They have some good solid linebackers and the secondary is very, very strong. It’s a good group of young men to work with, to win football games with and win championships with.”

Fewell acknowledged the need for help at quarterback, with the looming departure of Vince Young and the potential loss of Kerry Collins.

“That would be the challenge,” he said. “They have one of the best backs in the league and a great offensive line. They have very talented receivers. So just adding another piece to that puzzle should help the Titans win the division and then enter the playoffs.”

Read: Cards’ Whisenhunt Endorses Fewell for Titans’ Job

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The coaching  carousel and whirlwind tour is over for Giants’ DC Perry Fewell as the Denver Broncos announced today that they were hiring former Giants’ DC John Fox as their new head coach.

From BroncoTalk.net……

John Elway has just announced via his Twitter account that John Fox has been named the newest head coach of the Denver Broncos.

In a string of Tweets Elway stated,

“[Fox] is a dynamic and proven leader who will energize our entire organization. John has coached great defenses, turned teams around and been to Super Bowls. We couldn’t be more excited to have him lead the Denver Broncos.”

Fox is 73-71 (.503%) all time with a 5-3 (.625%) record in the post-season, he has been a head coach exclusively with the Carolina Panthers.

Coach Fox is a member of the Chuck Noll coaching tree; Fox has served under Noll, Bobby Ross, Art Shell, Mike White, Rich Brooks and Jim Fassel. Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Jack Del Rio served as a coordinator for Fox in Carolina.

Fewell, it seems may have been used by teams to fulfill Rooney Rule requirements.  Too bad for those teams.  They are missing out on a a good man.

Good for the Giants, though…. Fewell will someday get his chance, but for right now he’ll be back at TIMEX

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Weather had delayed the interview process for a new head coach in Denver, and now that five candidates have been screened, the team may be finally ready make their decision.

Of the five, John Fox, Perry Fewell and in-house candidate Eric Studesville have NFL head coaching experience.  The others,, Rick Dennison of Houston and Dirk Koetter of Jacksonville are both coordinators.

The rumor is that the Broncos are looking to pay entry-level wages, which means Fox would be taking a cut in pay.  That doesn’t mean he won’t, but it appears they may shy away from hiring him.

As per Jeff Legwold of the Denver Post….

The former Carolina Panthers coach will also be the most expensive candidate, having just made $6 million in his last season with the Panthers.

Broncos president Joe Ellis, who coordinates the budgets on all things Broncos for team owner Pat Bowlen, has said money won’t the guiding principle in hiring a new head coach, that the Broncos will try to get the best man for the job, no matter the cost.

Still, the buzz around the NFL is that the Broncos, with $3.5 million committed to Mike Shanahan this year and with a multimillion-dollar settlement having been paid to Josh McDaniels, aren’t looking to be in the high-rent district to pay their next head coach.

This means Fewell is still very much in the running for the job. The team won’t look elsewhere, as they have been turned down by many other viable candidates who will wait for more lucrative opportunities.

The only negative Fewell has in his corner is that he is a defensive coach, and as we all know Denver is now the world of Tim Tebow. There have been rumors that the team may try to trade Tebow, with the impending labor situation just weeks away, that may prove to be difficult.

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