"It’s a lot different,’’ Ellis said. “Coach Coughlin is a military guy, really, really disciplined. Rex was disciplined as well, but it’s just a little different. You walk in the building, you’ll see coach Coughlin anywhere. He’s so sneaky, man, you’ll see him anywhere. It forces you to be on point as far as your demeanor, how you act, everything in the building, it’s real."
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said defensive line coach Robert Nunn, who added Ellis “has got to continue to improve.’’
Hah I'd prefer he said "Ellis should just plateau off right about now."
Better than "has got to improve.". Ellis sounds excited.
My feeling is that Rex Ryan is a big mouth and little more. I would guess that Rex likes to portray that image, but when it comes down to actually coaching and doing the things that SB winning coaches do, RELATIVELY speaking, he's lazy.
He got 53 highly paid professional athletes and all that entails (i.e., egos) to be loyal and play hard for him. He understand defense better than most in the league and his offensive performance suffered from a lack of a franchise QB.
He had appropriately loose lips as a HC early on but dialed that way back = he learned on the job about what being an NFL coach means. He's a good coach, IMO.
The thrust, though, is good, if not surprising: that a new guy wants to "measure up" to doing things the way the Giants work.
It's one of the reasons I love this franchise and am proud to be a fan. While there are blips here and there over the franchise history, by and large it's a landscape (especially in the ball club's current era) of bringing in good people and influences and trying to vet those situations as much as you can.
Some great players may have been out there who possibly could have helped the club win a few more games and have more on-field successes, but we've seen the front office sidestep those situations pretty consistently.
I like the way the ball club goes about things, and I like that guys coming in seem to detect the difference.