NY Giants coaches taking savvy approach to building new schemes

The new NY Giants coaching regime will be taking a much different approach when it comes to building their schemes and playbooks.

A common fatal flaw that both former NY Giants coaches, Ben McAdoo and Pat Shurmur, shared was that they thought they were the smartest guys in the room and weren’t looking for any input from anyone else on how to run their schemes and playbooks.

I mean, Pat Shurmur wouldn’t even let his own offensive coordinator run their own plays.

That won’t be how things will be for the NY Giants in the Joe Judge era, as he and offensive coordinator, Jason Garrett, want input from important players on how they want to run their schemes while meshing that with building the schemes around the players’ strongest skillsets.

Sounds simple enough, right?

You would think so unless you witnessed the abysmal coaching that went down around here from 2017-2019.

According to an article from ESPN.com, quarterback Daniel Jones will have input on how the offense will be installed; Saquon Barkley will likely have some say, too.

It could also inspire other players that want that same type of input, in turn, causing them to do all the right things to inspire confidence in their coaches on and off the field.

This decision could have been made after Daniel Jones inspired confidence in his coaches by doing a fantastic job of being a leader this offseason, or not, but either way, it’s the right move.

Culture has been the buzzword around these parts for quite some time – most of it fluff – but this is actually a positive step towards building a winning culture that players want to be involved with.

How will it affect the NY Giants offense?

Remember going crazy not seeing Daniel Jones rolling out enough, Saquon Barkley using his outside running game or being used more creatively in the passing game? Hopefully, we won’t have to deal with those things anymore – and far more issues that were hurting the schemes that were built around the coaches and not the players.

Even if this is just some form of token, it builds trust between the coaches and players and makes the player feel like their opinion is worth something — that means a lot.

Ben McAdoo’s major failure was being a totalitarian and not being able to handle the locker room. If Joe Judge continues to make decisions like this and coach like he says he will, those issues should never arise with the NY Giants in 2020 and beyond.

Jason Garrett has always been known to be a player’s coach and it looks like he’s bringing that over with him to the NY Giants. The same way you remember Tony Romo stuck to Garrett’s side talking things through during games, you should be able to expect to see with him and Daniel Jones.

Finally, a coaching staff that will listen to its players and build their schemes around their strengths.