halfway through<\/a>\u201d the installation of the offense.<\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019re now through all of them,\u201d Nagy said. \u201cAnd so, what\u2019s happened now is they\u2019re able to kind of see the foundation of this offense and where that starts. But now we also start getting into being able to put some little different factors into it and change some things up because they know the foundation.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow we can start saying, okay, we see now what you do well. And so, now we want to be able to kind of put it all together and make it make sense that ultimately they can play fast.\u201d<\/p>\n
One thing that has not been evident in the passing game is quarterback Jaxson Dart trying to push the ball down the field. Perhaps part of that has been that Malik Nabers, the team\u2019s best wide receiver, is still ramping up following two surgeries to repair a torn ACL. Some of that may also simply be that the pieces of the passing attack have been a work in progress.<\/p>\n
Dart also struggled with the deep ball as a rookie, completing just 16 of 50 passes 20+ yards down the field. That was 20th among 21 qualifying quarterbacks with at least 42 attempts at that distance.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Dart connected with wide receiver Darnell Mooney on a deep ball that media in attendance found noteworthy enough to ask Nagy about.<\/p>\n
\u201cI like the fact that he gave him time to adjust,\u201d Nagy said. \u201cSo, when that ball was in the air, it was so high that when Moon (was running, he actually had to adjust and turn back over his right shoulder. So, he put enough air on it for him to adjust.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe talk a lot, man. When guys are covered, they\u2019re uncovered. That\u2019s a mentality. And he wasn\u2019t wide open, but he threw him open.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nagy liked the trust that Dart displayed by making that throw.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust being able to have that trust factor, which as we go through this offense right now, for Jaxson, that\u2019s the other part, too, I would tell you is his trust is growing week by week with what we\u2019re doing,\u201d Nagy said. \u201cAnd when you see that as a coach and you understand the trust that he has, he gives feedback to us, and then we\u2019re able to in turn work together to do what he does best. So, that\u2019s a great example of being able to take a shot and take advantage of it with a completion.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the injury suffered by wide receiver Calvin Austin \u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cI just know when you go through those moments right there, obviously you see what we all went through when we saw it. And you don\u2019t know what it is. But I\u2019ll just say this about Calvin Austin is, what an unbelievable kid, what a great person and a great talent. And so, I think naturally you always think the worst when something like that happens, but we don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t know. So, all I\u2019m going to do is go in there and tell him I love him, and I appreciate everything about him and I hope he\u2019s okay and he\u2019s back at practice tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Odell Beckham\u2019s standing in the wide receiver competition \u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cOdell got here towards the end of OTA\u2019s and, I mean, really didn\u2019t know anything. He\u2019s just trying to get out here and physically show that he can make plays. And we all know who Odell was and what we want him to be. We get back here in training camp and every day he\u2019s getting more and more reps and he\u2019s starting to understand within our system. In the pass game, for instance, if we have certain concepts, he now knows why those concepts are paired together to make sense for certain routes in a concept. So, now he can play a little faster and let his physical skills really jump out to all of us and make plays.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd so, I know he\u2019s super frustrated about that drop he had in the game the other day. We all know nine out of ten times he\u2019s going to catch that, but I like where he\u2019s at. The biggest thing with him, though, is just being able to really stay focused and locked in on the details of the specifics, whether it\u2019s a formation, a route depth, a conversion, a blocking assignment. To be a great wide receiver nowadays, you\u2019ve got to be able to adjust post-snap and you\u2019ve got to be able to know where to line up. And so that\u2019s a process. He\u2019s been very patient and I\u2019m proud of where he\u2019s at.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Tyrone Tracy\u2019s preseason struggles \u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cHis resume speaks for himself. It\u2019s tough when you have a block that you know you should go to and make the block, then the next week you have a fumble in the red zone. But one thing we\u2019re not going to do is, at the moment he knows it\u2019s not good. He understands that. That\u2019s common sense. But what are you going to do about it? So, you\u2019ve got to be able to bounce back. He got the ball the very next play. And so, all we\u2019ve told him, \u2018Listen, man, you\u2019ve got to just step up, keep playing ball, we know who you are.\u2019 Just show him our confidence we have in him and see what he can do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cExciting\u201d and \u201cfun\u201d are not words that have been associated with the New York Giants\u2019 offense in recent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[100764,3267,349,99],"class_list":["post-826601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-new-york-giants-transcripts","tag-new-york-giants-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826601","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=826601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}