New Giants head coach John Harbaugh was eager to sign tight end Isaiah Likely after coaching him the last four years on the Ravens. Not so much because of what Likely has done, but because of what Harbaugh believes Likely will do.<\/p>\n
Harbaugh acknowledged that Likely\u2019s stats in Baltimore \u2014 he never had 500 receiving yards in a season \u2014 weren\u2019t overwhelming. But he said on the Giants, Likely will have a bigger role and better production.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m certain he\u2019s going to be able to put up the numbers, the stats,\u201d Harbaugh said. \u201cThat wasn\u2019t the thing in Baltimore because of the supporting cast.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harbaugh said he\u2019s very aware of everything Likely is capable of.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve seen him every day in practice,\u201d Harbaugh said. \u201cI\u2019ve seen him make plays. I know how he plays the game. So, you try to kind of create a vision for a player. What do you think they\u2019re capable of doing? And one thing that we always have tried to do is see what players can do. Not so much concerned about what they don\u2019t do, what they haven\u2019t done, what they can\u2019t do. What can they do? And when you see a player do it every day, you got a pretty good idea what he\u2019s capable of.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harbaugh said Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart will benefit from Likely making plays in the offense.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a playmaking football player,\u201d Harbaugh said of Likely. \u201cHe\u2019s going to make plays for us. I think Jaxson\u2019s going to really like him running the routes and being in his line of vision. He\u2019s got a big catch radius. He can he can make plays, after he makes the catch he can get up field. He can make people miss. He can run people over. He\u2019s a very good perimeter blocker. You\u2019ll see that. That\u2019ll be good for our run game. So, all those things he brings to the table.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harbaugh thinks Likely will bring even more to the table in New York than he did in Baltimore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Giants head coach John Harbaugh was eager to sign tight end Isaiah Likely after coaching him the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-184337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}