Brian Daboll isn’t a miracle worker but he should be able to help fix these issues with the New York Giants’ offense.
The New York Giants have a new leader at the helm of the ship. That man is Brian Daboll.
Daboll will be immediately tasked with fixing the New York Giants’ offense. The team has gone through an unimaginable stretch of struggles on offense, capped off by having zero 30 points in a game from their offense in the last two seasons in a row.
The Giants have some pieces on offense but nothing has come together to form a cohesive unit. They will likely look to reload all over the offensive line and the tight end positions along with new faces at receiver and running back as well.
The New York Giants will need Daboll to help improve several key facets of the team’s offense in order to effectively compete in the modern pass-happy NFL that is clearly dominated by the offensive side of the football.
Here are 3 key areas Brian Daboll should help improve within the New York Giants’ offense.
Area #1: Pre-snap motion and Deception
This will be a key item to watch in Daboll’s offense with the New York Giants in 2022.
The Giants failed to use enough motion in their passing or run game concepts in Jason Garrett’s offensive scheme. Much of the same followed with Freddie Kitchens once he took over the team’s offense. When the Giants did use motion, it was often useless and ineffective.
With Daboll, look for a lot more structured motion design with intent and creativity flowing through the offense. This all occurs before the ball is even snapped which gives the offense a variety of advantages. Primarily, using motion often makes the defense reveal itself or announce its intentions in their coverage scheme in an easier fashion for the QB and the offense overall to decipher.
Daboll used a heavy blend of motion and deception in the Bills’ offense. Oftentimes, he’d send one or multiple people in motion and line up in different formations before calling an audible into a new look. The point of doing these things is to distract and confuse the defense to keep them unsure of what’s coming and give the element of surprise to the offense.
Area #2: Route combinations and passing game adjustments
Daboll has a great feel for how to break down and rip apart opposing defenses. The New York Giants were badly outcoached by their offensive coaching staff the last two seasons under Garrett and Judge.
They seemingly had no plan, no identity, and no success on a consistent basis. It ultimately led to both men losing their jobs in bad fashion with Garrett’s firing coming in-season after an MNF loss and Judge being fired after an embarrassing sequence of ‘waving the white flag’ football with QB sneaks on the team’s own goal-line.
Daboll should infuse a bevy of new passing concepts and route combinations to adjust to the NY Giants’ personnel and make them a more functional, in-rhythm unit. Daboll has a knack for maximizing the talent of his playmakers on offense and finding mismatches or opportunities to win key matchups for his guys.
Daboll should fix the Giants’ quick passing game while simultaneously taking more shots downfield and acting in a more aggressive manner on offense. Also, look for much more usage of play-action passes. This should help optimize Daniel Jones’ talents and overall skillset. With better play up front, Jones could unlock the potential many have been patiently waiting to consistently see from the team’s upcoming 4th-year QB.
Area #3: Offensive Coaching Staff and Personnel Groupings
This is another huge part of the NY Giants’ offense that must improve in 2022.
Daboll is already looking to lure Ken Dorsey away from the tundra of Buffalo to join him in the swamps of East Rutherford. Whether he comes or not, Daboll is going to need a lot more than just Dorsey to help coach up and develop this offense.
Daboll must get his offensive coordinator position right along with the other key jobs with his Offensive Line and QB coaches. These two position coaches will be the two most important on the entire coaching staff. Elsewhere, Daboll will need more teachers to get the most out of his receivers, tight ends, and running backs groups.
The NY Giants will need all the help they can get offensively.
A big issue the past two seasons was the Giants having a far-too predictable gameplan and using the same personnel groups while almost exclusively running plays out of the same formations. This has to be something that is changed in 2022 and it could be a Brian Daboll specialty.
Daboll loved to mix it up with his Buffalo offenses. He uses a variety of personnel groupings along with lining up his playmakers at unique positions in the backfield, deployed as wingbacks, attached/detached from the line of scrimmage, and a variety of bunch concepts with two and three-man receiver groupings out wide. He loved putting his guys in untraditional spots to make the defense uncomfortable and unsure of what was coming their way.
If Daboll can get this strategy to flow with the Giants, it’d be a huge benefit for their overall chances of finding paths to win games. Buffalo has lit up NFL defenses the past two years. It’d be exciting if Brian Daboll can carry that trait over to the NY Giants as well. It’s a lot to ask and will take some time, but Daboll seems like the right man tasked for the job to correct this offense.