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Will Hernandez was the New York Giants’ second-round pick in 2018 out of UTEP. Ostensibly, Hernandez regressed in his second NFL season, after a promising rookie year. Nevertheless, it’s safe to say that Hernandez had a sophomore slump in 2019, but there were many variables that led to that decline. |
I think Shurmur’s staff was pretty bad for the most part. They certainly didn’t help his cause. I mean we are a young rebuilding team, but some of the offensive line mistakes you pointed out in this post combined with guys on defense looking completely lost on a regular basis is pretty damning from a coaching perspective.
In my view, it's simply having to identify the threats and adjusting. Part of that is knowing what your own weaknesses are and being prepared for you opponent to exploit them.
Any "scheme" designed to exploit one thing will, inevitably, leave something exposed.
Seems to me that the Giants coaching staff, for the past few seasons, struggled with all of it.
I don't believe that Giants fans have any idea if this OLine is any good or not.
The players went into games unprepared. Something as simple as Inside Zone shouldn't be confusing to an OLine. Odd fronts, Even fronts, Gap exchanges, twists, blitzes...all part of what to expect.
I'm looking forward to seeing what the Giants really have up front.
Do You see a difference between his stance for a run and a pass? See how far back his left foot is compared to his right foot ! Is that a tip off?
About Hernandez, to me he's a misplaced right guard (he doesn't have the feet of a pulling guard).
Pio gets a lot of grief here because he does look more than lost at times. His best technique is as a ground hugging stay-at-home kind of center (not comparing him to old "00" (the Raiders Jim Otto), just that that style of play suits him best)
Most of the Giants line demise, I put right at the feet of Hal Hunter; man, am I glad he's gone.
On both the Eagles and Jets runs he is taking an outside step to help on the 4i at the same time that Pio is driving on the 2i. BOTH A-gaps are wide open and the MLB takes immediate advantage of it. Coaching/assignments should fix this.
Fix all of that, and I believe Hernandez is built to be a Road Grader....a Brawler. I dont believe he's mobile enough to be a great player. The entire line looks similarly equipped.... I don't believe in it, and i certainly don't believe in it unless they run an offense suited to the personnel
I believe coaching will help.
We have to hope that Solder bounces back a bit but at his age I doubt he returns to "serviceable" status this year.
We definitely need rookie Thomas to be "NFL ready" and not have him struggling for much of the season.
We could really use Gates to step up and be a better oC than Pulley or Pio.
And the OL needs to stay healthy through camp to get in sync in this crazy off-season else D. Jones is going to be hit hard and often.
I do believe this coaching staff seems better but we won't know for awhile. I just expect us to get killed early against teams that return coaching staffs, starting possibly 0-3.
New schemes. Big holes. Lots of youth. Limited off-season. All these spell early troubles.
Lastly, we really need to know about all three drafted OL's by seasons end as well as Gates as these are the young guys who will likely represent our 2021 offensive line. If we didn't hit on these picks and see Hernandez pick it up we will remain an inept offense especially against good fronts.