recently told Domonique Foxworth<\/a> about Jaxson Dart.<\/p>\nHe can live in a power-running game, obviously, and a power-running game protects the quarterback because you can hand the ball off and make people defend that and keep them honest. Then, it opens up your play-action passing game. \u2026 That stuff, we\u2019re gonna be in those worlds.<\/p>\n
The two men speak the same language.<\/p>\n
Roman loves downhill, man-gap based power run schemes, so much so that I\u2019ve seen his offenses have been called \u201ccaveman football\u201d. I wouldn\u2019t go that far, as he helped to usher in the \u201cDual Threat\u201d revolution with Lamar Jackson and incorporated far more motion with the Chargers. He can be legitimately innovative when it comes to creating numbers advantages with pulling linemen and putting defenses in bad positions to defend the run.<\/p>\n
But it also isn\u2019t completely inaccurate.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll see plenty of Andrew Thomas, John Michael Schmitz, and Sisi Mauigoa using their athleticism to pull and hit defenders. Likewise, Patrick Ricard will have a definite role and should be a regular feature in the rushing attack. Likewise, we\u2019ll probably see plenty of pre-snap motion between the 20\u2019s to manipulate defenders or create play-action opportunities.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll also likely see the return of the quarterback run game.<\/p>\n
Nobody will go so far as to say that Dart is Lamar Jackson\u2019s equal as a runner. However, Dart is an undeniably skilled runner with good vision and short-area quickness. It\u2019s true that he needs to practice better judgement about sliding or getting out of bounds when the game isn\u2019t on the line, but that doesn\u2019t make his legs any less of a weapon.<\/p>\n
Roman took full advantage of Lamar\u2019s rare traits as a runner, and we\u2019ll likely see him do the same with Dart \u2014 albeit in a different way given their different athletic traits.<\/p>\n
Brian Callahan (Passing Game Cordinator \/ Quarterbacks Coach)<\/p>\n
Callahan is a descendent of the McVay coaching tree, via Bengals head coach Zac Taylor.<\/p>\n
And in many ways, he\u2019s the antithesis of Roman. Where Roman bases his run schemes on downhill man-gap blocking, the Shanahan-McVay tree is built on wide-zone (outside zone) runs to stress the defense horizontally. Likewise, where Roman favors heavy personnel and lower passing rates, Callahan\u2019s lineage has historically preferred spread seats, 11-personnel, and more passing.<\/p>\n
That isn\u2019t to say that he\u2019s \u201cpass happy\u201d, and in fact much of what that offensive school does is to enable the run through manipulating defensive personnel. However, Callahan does believe in throwing at a much higher rate than Roman.<\/p>\n
Rather than using the passing game as an extension of the run game, Callahan\u2019s New West Coast philosophy seeks to use timing and route running in route concepts to attack multiple levels of the defense at once. They try to structure their route concepts to put defenders in conflict and force defenders to make impossible decisions. Be that by forcing zone defenders to decide between covering two receivers or creating traffic to disrupt man coverage.<\/p>\n
The New West Coast philosophy has also proven adaptable in structure, weaponizing spacing and alignment to put defenders in bad positions. We\u2019ve seen the Rams go from extremely wide 11-personnel spread formations to condensed formations with 13-personnel \u2014 but with similar intentions from both extremes.<\/p>\n
In that vein, Harbaugh also told Foxworth that the Giants intend to be very multiple in their offensive structure and won\u2019t simply live in a static \u201cPro Style\u201d formation.<\/p>\n
\u201dBut now we can also get in the gun or we can get in the pistol, and we can run RPOs, we can run quarterback-driven runs with Jaxson Dart, a lot of the stuff that we hand in Baltimore with Lamar, as well.<\/p>\n
\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, that all kind of goes together on first and second down to create problems for the defense, and I just feel like it all starts with the quarterback. Jaxson is a guy that does give you a chance to live in all those different worlds. So, if he can do it, then we\u2019re gonna do it, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re planning on doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Matt Nagy (Offensive Coordinator)<\/p>\n
As mentioned above, I suspect that part of the vision for the offense is for Nagy to balance and blend the areas of the game at which Roman and Callahan each excel. In other words, Nagy is the head chef who assembles the meal from components prepared by his assistant chefs.<\/p>\n
In addition to the overarching game planning aspect of the offensive coordinator, part of Nagy\u2019s role may be to meld Callahan\u2019s passing concepts with Roman\u2019s run concepts within his (Nagy\u2019s) larger offensive scheme. Part of what we\u2019ll be looking for over training camp and preseason is how Nagy\u2019s offensive philosophy has shifted since he last ran his offense, as opposed to trying to parse his contributions from Andy Reid\u2019s offense in Kansas City.<\/p>\n
Nagy\u2019s offense in Chicago heavily incorporated RPO (run-pass option) plays, as well as Air Raid passing concepts, in addition to the classic West Coast principles he learned from Andy Reid.<\/p>\n
The question is whether Roman will be designing the run game while Callahan designs the passing game, or if they\u2019ll be tasked with simply implementing Nagy\u2019s scheming. If the former, how Nagy marries his philosophy with Callahan\u2019s McVay-adjacent passing concepts and Roman\u2019s downhill man-gap play designs will be fascinating to see.<\/p>\n
The former does play into Nagy\u2019s reputation as a \u201cCulture Builder<\/a>\u201d, a trait he seems to share with John Harbaugh. Part of Nagy\u2019s interpersonal philosophy is \u201cBe You\u201d, which suggests that he wants Roman and Callahan to add their own unique flavors to the offense\u2019s gumbo, as opposed to simply following his recipe.<\/p>\n\u201cI just always try to go back to that because I don\u2019t want to be that guy that did try to change because things weren\u2019t going the right way,\u201d Nagy said. \u201cWhen I say that, that\u2019s the \u2018me\u2019 part, the person. The coach, there are some things that you can do different. That\u2019s different. You\u2019re always adapting and trying to see what solutions you could come up with.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the person part, that\u2019s the part to me is the biggest thing in this \u2018Be you\u2019 and don\u2019t ever change, is that there is a lot of egos and it\u2019s very easy to get a big ego and very easy to change in this profession \u2014 and that\u2019ll never happen with me. Never as long as I\u2019m here in this league, that will never happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a chance that this experiment could fail. We don\u2019t see coaching staffs assembled in this way often, and \u201ctoo many cooks in the kitchen\u201d is a real danger. It\u2019s possible that when the Browns hired Todd Monken out from under John Harbaugh, he decided to try and build his own \u201cFrankenstein\u2019s Monken\u201d out of Nagy, Roman, and Callahan.<\/p>\n
Or maybe this coaching Voltron will work out and Nagy\u2019s collaborative culture will successfully balance Callahan\u2019s modern New West Coast passing attack with Roman\u2019s Caveman Football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Giants offensive coaching staff, and offense as a whole, is going to be one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[81822,349,99],"class_list":["post-766019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-new-york-giants-analysis","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}