Thursday, May 30
OTA #5 Access
Approx. 9:45 a.m. – Offensive Assistants Available
Approx. 10:00 a.m. -- Head Coach Brian Daboll Available
10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. -- Practice
Approx. 12:30 p.m. -- Players Available
Approx. 1:15 p.m. – Assistant General Manager Brandon Brown Available
* I watched the defensive backs work in individual drills over the last couple of days, and it's pretty obvious the new defensive scheme will continue to focus on trying to take the ball away. Last season, the Giants were tied with the Ravens with the most takeaways in the regular season with 31. Of those, 18 were interceptions, which was tied for the third-most in the NFL.
If the Giants do, in fact, employ a more zone heavy scheme under new defensive coordinator Shane Bowne, there could be even more opportunities for interceptions. There's an emphasis in practice on identifying the ball in the air and making plays on it. The drills concentrated on going after the football on vertical routes and routes where the cornerback has to break and come back toward the line of scrimmage to play the football.
* The defensive backfield had a strong day in practice. Dane Belton began the first part of team work by breaking on a short pass to Wan'Dale Robinson and nearly coming up with an interception. Deonte Banks played good coverage all afternoon. He ran step for step with Jalin Hyatt on a deep pass and undercut a throw to Darius Slayton. Fourth-year cornerback Stanley Thomas-Oliver prevented a completion to Miles Boykin, who otherwise has had a very productive set of OTAs.
* Darnay Holmes made the play of the day, knocking a ball loose and recovering it before bringing it back the other way. I'm not sure he would have turned it into a touchdown off the takeaway, but it would have put the team in great field position. In the final team period, Holmes also showed good coverage down the field on a deep route. Holmes has been in the middle of the action on a lot of plays throughout the spring.
* The offense made some plays throughout practice. At the end of the first team period, Drew Lock showed his pocket presence, stepping up and hitting Wan'Dale Robinson on a deep throw across the field for a 20-yard gain to the right side. Lock has shown the willingness and the ability to throw the ball off his back foot. He has more than enough arm strength to get zip on the ball in those situations. Lock also showed off his legs later in practice, running for a long again after being unable to find someone open down the field.
* Hyatt made a good hands catch on a high-velocity pass over his head coming back towards the quarterback.
* Later in practice, Lock found undrafted rookie free agent Ayir Asante on a touchdown over the top in the middle of the field. It was a perfect throw after Asante found a lot of separation behind the defense.
* Azeez Ojulari got into the backfield on one pass play, which could have been a sack if it were full-speed contact. Boogie Basham knocked a ball down at the line of scrimmage. Linebacker Darius Muasau showed off his coverage ability.
Practice Report (5/30): Notes from OTA No. 5 - ( New Window )
… raises the “comeptitive”room … lol
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If you want to read about any sports team. Don't pay for paywalls. When these beat writers see they can get you to pay. Then they don't report the news until you pay for it. You can stop it by refusing to pay. Then you will see improvement in these OTA reports
Just wondering, do you work for free?
Funny question to ask on Eric's forum.
Do you get a membership subscription to BBI? Or have you had to pay to read any of the threads or updates that gets posted by Eric.
You're comparing a private website with virtually no overhead, including employees who get salary and benefits, to major media outlets? Does Eric have reporters and photographers and editors working for him covering the OTAs? Ask him if this site would be free if he had 7 or 8 employees making $75K to $100k in salary and benefits.
No, this site links to the free info from other news sources. And posts info from team press releases and its website. This is a great site for discussing the Giants. But it rarely reports news, it repeats it. Which is the root of the comment on the reporters tweeting so little.
To say this site copy and pastes information from websites is a gross mischaracterization of what the site provides. Gary does the website design. Eric has 2 moderators. Eric does his game previews and reviews. Sy and other posters provide content not found anywhere else.
There is always cost and time associated with the upkeep of this site and Eric could very well charge for access to cover costs and make a profit off of what the site provides. He doesn't, so for you to question whether he works for free is a ridiculous question.
Businesses can operate how they choose and we can choose whether we want to pay for that service or not.
It is silly that reporters may hold back simple information like 1st and 2nd team personnel to get fans to pay to read their content. We as consumers decide what the market is. Feel free to pay for that information if you like, but I'm guessing you won't, because you are on a free site bitching about the owner and questioning whether he works for free or not.