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| Jerome Henderson did not get what he wanted, and there is no doubt that stung. He was a candidate for the Giants defensive coordinator job that was vacated the day after the 2023 season ended when Wink Martindale lost it in Brian Daboll’s office. Henderson went through a formal interview with Daboll — he was the only in-house candidate — but did not get the job. Daboll went outside the organization and hired Shane Bowen from the Titans. This scenario often leads to a breakup, based on the ego of the coach who got bypassed and the possible degradation of the dynamics of the coaching staff. Does a guy want to stay where he was told “no thanks’’? Does a team want the passed-over assistant to stay, knowing he might be disillusioned about his future with the organization? Henderson chose to stay. He has been with the Giants since 2020, when he was a part of Joe Judge’s first staff, working for then-defensive coordinator Patrick Graham. Daboll made it clear he wanted Henderson to stay. MORE.... This is an unusual situation. Martindale, the head man on defense the past two years, is gone, but almost his entire staff remains. In addition to Henderson returning as the defensive backs coach, Andre Patterson is back as the defensive line coach, Bryan Cox is back as the assistant defensive line coach, John Egorugwu is back as the inside linebackers coach and Mike Treier is back as the assistant defensive backs coach. MORE.... Dean Wilkins — a close Martindale confidant — was let go by Daboll, and the replacement as the outside linebackers coach, Charlie Bullen, is the lone new position coach on defense. Bowen presumably could have made more changes, but he opted to retain virtually the entire defensive staff. “I guess this is a first for me, where most of the staff stays and a new coordinator comes in,’’ Henderson said. MORE... What this means is the teachers must first be taught before they can relay the subject matter to the students. Martindale’s staff helped implement and run his system. That system is now gone. Bowen’s defense is quite different from the one the Giants used the past two seasons. “For me, every time [Bowen] talks, I am intently listening and just trying to understand exactly what he wants and how he wants it,’’ Henderson said. “So I can see it from his eyes, so I can get my guys to play the way that he sees it, not the way that I see it. And so, I’m just trying to learn and keep my mind open and to absorb as much as I can. And he’s been phenomenal, he’s very detailed in what he wants and specific in what he wants, which helps me.’’ What Bowen is importing from Tennessee are not just tweaks and alterations. There is a drastic change coming to the Giants’ defense. Martindale lists Rex Ryan as a football mentor — the two worked together at the University of Cincinnati in the mid-1990s — and Martindale brought to the Giants the exotic blitz packages Ryan once specialized in. Bowen’s track record with the Titans reflects a completely different approach. There will be far more emphasis on creating pressure with the four-man defensive line and asking the cornerbacks to play zone coverage. “We will still pressure, we will still get after people, but … our menu won’t change as much week to week,’’ Henderson said. “It’s just how we use the menu week to week is maybe what will be different. But it won’t necessarily change. It’s kind of like going to a restaurant where you know every time I go in there this is gonna be on the menu, it’s just how do we change that menu to fit the team we’re playing that week and how do we present the menu that week to the team will be our philosophy.’’ |
Apparently a great coach and a great person.
Apparently a great coach and a great person.
It also helps his future as a DC. Every new system he learns allows him to understand and apply those lessons down the road where when he goes for an interview he can layout his defense and how it will respond to in game situations.
Smart man. No team wants a guy whose nose is out of joint because he did not get a promotion. He is possibly working up the ladder one step at a time.
In the currently NFL the big seats are going to younger coaches. I think it’s going to be very hard for ANY coach in his 50s to get a first time coordinator job right now.
Wink is now as extinct as Buddy.
Out with the old.
“The way I looked at it, I told my players this: It’s just like I’m a backup corner and the guy in front of me gets a free-agent deal and I think I’m the next guy and all of a sudden the team says, ‘No, we’re going to bring in another guy to start,’” Henderson said. “Well, I still got to be a good teammate, and I asked them to do that. To me, I have to do that. I have to be a good teammate and have to be the right guy and have to put the Giants first because I ask my players to do it every day.’’
Didn't Schoen stack this roster up with mostly man cover corners?
Apparently a great coach and a great person.
I agree. Also from the article:
Didn't Schoen stack this roster up with mostly man cover corners?
He's run mostly zone. We've widely discussed this on BBI.
Funny thing is the Wink dissension could have been a media snippet on an overblown rift creating the actual rift which then mushroomed. But regardless, in terms of cohesiveness and fundamental D structure, I think we're in a much better place. Hope to see it by October if not day one.