for various reasons<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\nContracts, draft position and name recognition don\u2019t carry the get-out-of-jail-free card that they did under former head coach Brian Daboll, whose program was light on accountability, according to those who walked the halls over those four years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara (41) runs after a catch for a 31-yard touchdown against the New York Giants during the third quarter at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n
By contrast, Wilson\u2019s meeting was \u201cuncomfortable.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s supposed to be uncomfortable,\u201d Phillips said. \u201cYou are supposed to feel that pressure. We all felt it. Better fix it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Was Wilson as specific as to say, \u201cHey, Dru, you need to give a better effort here?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a nicer way to put it,\u201d Phillips laughed. \u201cHe definitely pointed it out, as you should in the moment. It\u2019s an embarrassing moment when you are not running to the ball in this game. Can\u2019t do that. He calls you out.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Former defensive backs coach Jerome Henderson called out Deonte Banks publicly for a lack of tackling effort in 2024 after repeated attempts to get through to him behind the scenes didn\u2019t land. Daboll fired Henderson after the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pinnock isn\u2019t worried about Wilson\u2019s approach flopping. Look no further than Wilson helping Banks turn around his career.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s two different approaches: Wash this and move on, and then this,\u201d Pinnock told The Post. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to attack somebody and not make it feel personal if you don\u2019t have a personal relationship with them. Dennard earns that because he does. We spoke about the Kamara play and I never felt targeted in any way. I felt like how I felt watching it myself: I have to get him down, and he believes in me to do it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
When the meeting broke up, Pinnock said there wasn\u2019t any griping.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Running back Alvin Kamara #41 of the New Orleans Saints breaks away from safety Jason Pinnock #25 of the New York Giants. Bill Kostroun for NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reaction after, when coach isn\u2019t there anymore and people are having their little side [talks], there wasn\u2019t much of that,\u201d Pinnock said. \u201cHonestly, I think he gained a lot of respect. You\u2019d think like, \u2018He just motherf\u2013ked us. F\u2013k that dude.\u2019 No, it was. \u2018I respect that. I can win and lose with him.\u2019 \u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
D.J. Reader is a well-traveled 11-year veteran who has been through many difficult team meetings. He called Wilson\u2019s meeting \u201ca good challenge.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first day you get a challenge, you probably take it a little personal \u2014 and, if you are true competitor, you look inward and see where you can get better,\u201d Reader said. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s rare for it to happen \u2014 we just don\u2019t talk about it as much in the media \u2014 but every coach is coaching effort. It\u2019s all about, \u2018Can we give more effort and more effort?\u2019 I think we can.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Reader said \u201ctraitor\u201d doesn\u2019t bother him. He had other coaches call lack of effort \u201ctreason.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s the message that you are trying to send and understand what you\u2019re doing to the guy next to you and not the words being used.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t just the Kamara play that was highlighted in the meeting. Every corner of the room was targeted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Back to the fundamentals of tackling.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cInstead of going near hip, near half and trying to run through a ball carrier, we stuttered our feet,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cWhen you stutter your feet, you give them a two-way go. So, we have to be like heat-seeking missiles.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dennard Wilson sounds like he is on the cusp of benching Benedict Arnold.\u00a0 No, the Giants didn\u2019t acquire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":891811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[373869,977,349,99],"class_list":["post-891810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-dennard-wilson","tag-new-york-giants","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891810","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=891810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}