Safety Tyler Nubin
April 27, 2024
Q. Your first impression, your first time here I assume?
TYLER NUBIN: Yeah, this is my first time here, Bro. It's incredible, man. Not my first time in New York. I came for a Bowl game a couple years ago. So I already know about the city. But this facility is incredible, man, I can't wait to get to work.
Q. What have the last 12 to 24 hours been like for you?
TYLER NUBIN: Unbelievable. Doesn't even feel like it's real. Still trying to catch my breath. My voice is kind of going because I was screaming and crying for hours last night but it's been awesome, man. I can't thank this organization enough for giving me this opportunity.
Q. What did you dream this was going to feel like, does it come anywhere close to what that is?
TYLER NUBIN: No, nothing close. I don't think anything can prepare you for what it feels like to get that call, get an opportunity like this, play in a league where not a lot of people have been able so say they have been able to get to. So it's a dream come true. So I was not prepared for that at all.
Q. How much do you think the scheme you played in at Minnesota prepared you for playing defense in the NFL? Just like how has that prepared you?
TYLER NUBIN: I think the way the scheme was taught and the way the details were taught definitely prepared me for the NFL. The attention to detail and how everything was and how we ran our defense there definitely prepared me for what's coming, especially, you know, being able to recognize formations and tips and tells from offenses, from the offensive perspective. I think that's definitely going to help me a lot.
Q. How much did you play in the slot? Is that something that you can do if needed?
TYLER NUBIN: I didn't play much in the slot at Minnesota but I do believe I can do that.
Q. Joe Schoen said he felt like you could be a culture changer like you were at Minnesota. What does that mean and what do you think you can do in that regard to the Giants?
TYLER NUBIN: I think that just means coming in and being a leader and pushing people every single day and pushing myself and making everybody else around me better as well as myself.
So I think that leadership quality is something that everybody needs and everybody can do. It's important for any team, so that's what I'm going to bring.
Q. Did you consider leaving school after last year and why did you go back?
TYLER NUBIN: Yeah, I did. I was considering leaving. I came back to finish my education, one, and also get another year to play with my little brother. He plays running back at Minnesota. So I wanted to get another year with him because I got that COVID year. So I wanted to do that.
Q. Looks like you picked your number already. What goes into that and why?
TYLER NUBIN: I saw 31 was available and my dogs, Antoine Winfield and Jordan Howden, both wore 31 their rookie years in the league. Carrying tradition for gopher safeties wearing 31 in the league, I guess.
Q. Back in the day when the Giants were first getting better, they had a guy named Jason Sehorn, wore 31, big interception guy. Do you think that will be as easy picking balls as it was in college?
TYLER NUBIN: Honestly I'm super excited to be able to get the opportunity to even get an interception in the NFL. I'm going to go to work every single day, listen to my coaches and definitely, especially the vets here that have done it before, so I can put myself in those positions to do that for sure.
Q. You've played obviously a lot of football in college. You hear players sometimes saying -- or people talk about the player and say he's "NFL ready." What do you think that means, and are you?
TYLER NUBIN: I just think that means just being a pro before you're a pro in how you attack every day and how you do your work before you're a pro. I saw a lot of guy do that. I saw a lot of people do that. I saw Antoine Winfield do that. I saw Jordan Howden do that. I saw Ben St-Juste do that, all guys that played in my DB room, come from Minnesota, being a pro before they were a pro, I think that's what it means, and that's why I emulated in college. You see how those guys are doing now, I think that's a recipe for success if you go in the NFL.
Q. You mentioned some of the vets. What do you make of the defense you guys are establishing?
TYLER NUBIN: Man, it's going to be exciting, man. Got some monsters up front. You guys got some great guys in the back end. I'm excited. I'm excited to get to work. I can't wait.
Q. Have talked to anybody else about the defensive side of things?
TYLER NUBIN: I actually just met Dex outside like five minutes ago. That was awesome. That man is huge, Bro, man, that man is giant (Laughter).
That's the only one I met so far.
Q. What did he tell you or what did you guys talk about besides body composition?
TYLER NUBIN: He was just welcoming me here, saying he was getting ready to go to work and how excited he was, and I was talking about how excited I was.
Yeah, it was awesome. Can't wait (Laughter).
Q. What does it take to be a ball hawk? Is a lot of that instincts? Do you have to take risks or is that something that is calculated?
TYLER NUBIN: I think it's my preparation in how I attack the game every week and how I prepare, I think it's second-to-none. The way I go about studying the offense and studying offensive coordinators, studying the quarterback, his tells, what he looks like when he’s dropping back in the pocket, his set foot, his release point, you know, if he does something like pat the ball before he release, things like that, that's what gives me my edge when I was in college and that's what gives me my edge in this game is preparing.
So I think that's what's going to keep carrying me to do that in the NFL as well.
Q. Do you remember the first time you ever turned on to that kind of thinking?
TYLER NUBIN: Definitely when I got to college. Just learning under guys like Tweeze (Winfield), like J-How, all those guys, how they watch film and how to prepare for a game. That's how we did it at Minnesota and that's how we made plays.
Q. The Giants have a couple openings. Do you think you're going to be a day one starter? Is that the goal?
TYLER NUBIN: The goal is to come in and help this team in any way possible. Whatever they want me to do, wherever that is, special teams, coming in and playing, I'm ready for it.
Just coming in and doing my job.
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