John Harbaugh went all-out to build the most accomplished offensive coaching staff possible for the 2026 New York Giants.<\/p>\n
Offensive coordinator Matt Nagy is a former NFL head coach and multiple-time offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n
Quarterbacks coach\/passing game coordinator Brian Callahan is also a former NFL head coach and offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n
Senior offensive assistant Greg Roman is a four-time NFL offensive coordinator, including for Harbaugh with the Baltimore Ravens.<\/p>\n
Tight ends coach Tim Kelly is a three-time NFL offensive coordinator, if you include his interim gig in that role for part of the 2025 season with the Giants.<\/p>\n
Offensive line coach Mike Bloomgren and running backs coach Willie Taggart are former college head coaches.<\/p>\n
You could forgive Nagy if he wondered how he was supposed to make all the pieces work. Would these talented coaches stay in their lanes? Would they chafe at responsibilities below what they had risen to in their careers?<\/p>\n
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So, during a Zoom call on Tuesday, I asked Nagy how he looks at the situation.<\/p>\n
Rather than bristle at the idea some may have that there could be too many cooks in the Giants\u2019 offensive kitchen, Nagy said he is embracing the help as the Giants build their offensive scheme.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really been invigorating for me,\u201d he said. \u201cTo your question, you have all these guys that have all this experience and backgrounds of coordinators, head coaches. There\u2019s a lot. I mean, there\u2019s a lot of guys.<\/p>\n
\u201cGoing into this, you can look at it different ways. I think if you look at it one way, you could say, well, my title is offensive coordinator, and it\u2019s my job to do everything. That\u2019s not true. You know, we have so many \u2013 Coach Harbs did such a great job at bringing in guys with a ton of experience, and I\u2019d be foolish to not use that. They\u2019ve been amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u2018A beautiful staff\u2019<\/p>\n
The Giants are building an offense that will continue to evolve as they get players on the field, see what they can and cannot do, and what works or does not work with the personnel they have.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been so much fun putting this offense together, our offense here,\u201d Nagy said. \u201cI know a lot of different coaches with a lot of different backgrounds from different teams, a lot of different coaches with OC experience, head coaching experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nagy said it doesn\u2019t matter where an idea comes from.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, it\u2019s so important for all of us \u2013 and we talked about it \u2013 put the egos aside. Let\u2019s make this ours. Let\u2019s not worry about whose idea it is. Let\u2019s make it our idea, and let\u2019s run with it,\u201d he said. \u201cLet\u2019s make it make sense to the guys, and let\u2019s go out there and figure out as we go through OTAs and into training camp what we\u2019re going to look like.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI can\u2019t thank those guys enough, and it starts at the top with Coach Harbaugh. I\u2019ve just been really, really fortunate and lucky, because it\u2019s a beautiful staff.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2018We\u2019re going to team up together.\u2019<\/p>\n
Nagy ran through the list of accomplished coaches, giving particular credit to Callahan, who was fired last season as head coach of the Tennessee Titans.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou look at a guy like \u2013 you look at (passing game coordinator\/quarterbacks coach) Brian Callahan. Here\u2019s a former head coach that\u2019s now a quarterback coach and passing game coordinator. I did that in 2022 after I got fired in Chicago. I went back to Kansas City in the same role,\u201d Nagy said.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIn that interview process with Calli, I wanted him to understand and know, it\u2019s not easy doing what you\u2019re doing. I have a ton of respect for what you are doing, and I\u2019m going to be there. We\u2019re going to team up together to tackle this thing together and make it ours.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nagy didn\u2019t stop there.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou get a guy like Greg Roman, who has been an offensive coordinator in our division in Kansas City last year, and here he is coming in and been doing this a long time,\u201d Nagy said. \u201cThat\u2019s awesome, the value that he brings.<\/p>\n
\u201cA guy like Mike Bloomgren has been a head coach at Rice. Willie Taggart has been a head coach at four or five different colleges. The experience goes on and on and on. You\u2019ve got Tim Kelly, who was an offensive coordinator.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u2018It\u2019s going to be physical.\u2019<\/p>\n
So, what kind of offense will all of those assembled minds put together for the Giants? Nagy didn\u2019t share much, but he did share something that sounded like old-school Giants football.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to be physical, I can tell you that,\u201d Nagy said. \u201cNow, there are different ways when we say physical. I think if you look at any team that Coach Harbaugh has always had on both sides, all three phases, the word \u201cphysical\u201d is the first thing you think of. So, it\u2019s going to start there. That\u2019s not a hidden fact.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut from there now we\u2019ve got to work around our players\u2019 strengths, and we\u2019ve got to say, okay, in the run game, in pass pro, in the pass game, these buckets that we form of all three phases, where do we want to start? Well, we got to start with these guys understanding how we do things, and then once we get to OTAs and into training camp, it will kind of start to get personalized.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Nagy made it sound like a voluminous playbook is not a necessary outcome.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat it is exactly, we have an idea big picture, but what it becomes through these players\u2019 strengths, we\u2019ll have a direction. That\u2019s the exciting part,\u201d Nagy said. \u201cI\u2019ll give you an example. There are some plays that we\u2019ve done, and we might teach on the front end, but we might see that it just, for whatever reason, doesn\u2019t fit our players right now, and there are other plays that are better, so we\u2019re going to do those and work around our guys.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to have some fun, but we\u2019re going to be really good at what we do, because we\u2019re going to be detailed and have that less-is-more concept.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Harbaugh went all-out to build the most accomplished offensive coaching staff possible for the 2026 New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2671,76102,8287,52222,27059,27369,34377,13014,53182,76103,9,2683,11,10,46304,49763,771,3918,49761],"class_list":{"0":"post-189778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-baltimore-ravens","9":"tag-brian-callahan","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-greg-roman","12":"tag-head-coach","13":"tag-head-coaches","14":"tag-john-harbaugh","15":"tag-kansas-city","16":"tag-matt-nagy","17":"tag-mike-bloomgren","18":"tag-new-york","19":"tag-new-york-giants","20":"tag-new-york-headlines","21":"tag-new-york-news","22":"tag-nfl-head-coach","23":"tag-offensive-coordinator","24":"tag-tennessee-titans","25":"tag-the-giants","26":"tag-willie-taggart"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189778","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=189778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}