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kkr Posted January 10, 2015 Author Share Posted January 10, 2015 Steve Spagnuolo, Pepper Johnson to interview with Giants Posted by Michael David Smith on January 10, 2015, 12:34 PM EST AP A couple of familiar faces are among the candidates to be the next defensive coordinator for the Giants. Steve Spagnuolo, who was the Giants’ defensive coordinator in 2007 and 2008, and Pepper Johnson, who was a Giants linebacker from 1986 to 1992, are both candidates for the job, according to the New York Post. Spagnuolo has spent the last two years as a secondary coach and senior defensive assistant in Baltimore. In addition to working under Tom Coughlin as the Giants’ defensive coordinator, Spagnuolo has spent a year as defensive coordinator of the Saints and three years as head coach of the Rams. Johnson was a member of two Super Bowl-winning Giants teams under Bill Parcells (Coughlin was wide receivers coach on one of those teams), and spent 14 seasons as an assistant to Bill Belichick in New England. Last year he decided to broaden his horizons and leave the Patriots to become defensive line coach in Buffalo. Coughlin fired defensive coordinator Perry Fewell after a disappointing 2014 season. The next defensive coordinator hires will probably be the last, so this is a hiring Coughlin needs to get right. Good news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted January 10, 2015 Author Share Posted January 10, 2015 Few more stats from this past season: The Giants were 1-8 when they rushed for less than 100 yards. QB Eli Manning completed a career-high 379 passes in 2014 and is one of five quarterbacks with at least 300 completions in each of the last six seasons. The others are Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Joe Flacco, and Philip Rivers. Manning completed a career-high and franchise-record 63.1 percent of his passes this season (379 of 601). Manning has completed 3,308 passes in his career, moving him into 13th place in NFL history. PK Josh Brown now owns the Giants records for both single season and career field goal percentage. In 2014, Brown hit 24-of-26 attempts (one of the misses was a block). In his two seasons with the Giants, Brown has succeeded on 47-of-52 field goal attempts, a 90.4 percentage. In the Giants’ last four games, WR Odell Beckham totaled 130, 143, 148 and 185 yards to become the first player in franchise history with four consecutive 100-yard games. The Giants had at least one sack in all 16 games for the first time since 2007. Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted January 12, 2015 Author Share Posted January 12, 2015 Paul Schwartz @NYPost_Schwartz With Ravens eliminated, Giants will ask permission to interview Steve Spagnuolo for defensive coordinator job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted January 13, 2015 Author Share Posted January 13, 2015 (edited) Former NY Giants give Steve Spagnuolo endorsement on potential return to Big Blue Antonio Pierce calls it 'a no-brainer' for Tom Coughlin to bring Spagnuolo back to his old job as Perry Fewell’s replacement — and why many of his former teammates agree. NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Friday, January 9, 2015, 10:52 PM Sipkin, Corey/New York Daily News Steve Spagnuolo, the Giants defensive coordinator during Super Bowl XLII, is one candidate to replace Perry Fewell. The Giants had spent the 2007 season turning their defense into a work of art, building it from scratch and riding it to Super Bowl XLII. It worked at times to perfection. So of course, early in that game against the New England Patriots, Steve Spagnuolo changed it all up. All it took was one drive in one quarter for “Spags” — then the defensive coordinator — to see what he designed wasn’t going to work. So after a season of calling for blitzes from the strong side with Aaron Ross and Antonio Pierce, he flipped it and called them from the weak side with linebacker Kawika Mitchell and a safety. The Patriots, almost immediately, found themselves overwhelmed. “That takes a lot of balls for a coordinator to do — especially in the Super Bowl,” Pierce recalled to the Daily News. “And especially when we hadn’t practiced it at all.” That, though, was part of the genius of perhaps the best and certainly the most popular defensive coordinator the Giants have had since the Bill Belichick era. And it’s why Pierce calls it “a no-brainer” for Tom Coughlin to bring Spagnuolo back to his old job as Perry Fewell’s replacement — and why many of his former teammates agree. “I never have really met anyone quite like him in regards to what he was able to do and the things he would do on the fly,” defensive end Osi Umenyiora told The News. “It was crazy. You’d come in with a game plan and something wouldn’t be going right or something we were doing was getting shredded, and he’d literally — right there on the sideline — come up with something different.” “He’s perfect for a lot of reasons,” Pierce added. “When I think about what the Giants need, they need a pulse. You need someone that when they talk, guys respond.” Far too often the Giants didn’t seem to respond in their five years under Fewell. And even though players seemed to genuinely like him and were fine with his scheme, they often hinted a frustration that he was unwilling to adjust. More often than not — especially this season — Fewell would call defenses, coverages or blitzes that simply didn’t work, but he would stubbornly stick with them even as opposing teams were mounting comebacks. Spagnuolo, now the defensive backs coach with the Baltimore Ravens and a candidate for the Giants job, could change all that with his creative, aggressive approach to teaching defense. And it’s not just about his in-game adjustments. It’s about how he knew how to get the best out of his players, and when things were going wrong, he knew just what to do to turn everything around. “You’d see him on the sidelines just sitting there, thinking,” Umenyiora said. “Then he’d just come up with something and he’d bring us all together, pull out that board, draw something up and say ‘Here’s what we’re going to do.’ He is brilliant.” “It was also about what he did throughout those years with matchups,” Pierce said. “As great a year as (Justin) Tuck had (in 2007), a lot of it was created by matchups. He knew how to put our best players on their worst, instead of just saying ‘right’ (side) or ‘left’. Antonelli, Ron New York Daily News Antonio Pierce (r.) says Spagnuolo would be a perfect fit for the Giants for plenty of reasons. “And Spags brought energy. Today’s a different game. Guys are not motivated for the same reason. You’ve got to have a coach that will get guys going. And when you’re getting your (butt) kicked, sometimes you need to do something different.” Those were the things Spagnuolo was known for in New York, although he never was able to continue that success elsewhere. He was a failure as head coach of the St. Louis Rams from 2009-11. And his one year as the New Orleans Saints defensive coordinator (2012) was a disaster, in which his defense set an NFL record by giving up 440.1 yards per game. Then, when he was fired after that season, several anonymous players ripped him and his scheme on his way out the door. Of course, that was also the BountyGate year during which Saints head coach Sean Payton was suspended for the season, along with defensive end Will Smith (four games) and linebacker Jonathan Vilma (full season). “You can’t go by that,” Pierce said. “He got dealt a bad hand in New Orleans. “He had a lot of things going on. And when they looked like a mess the first few weeks, they never had a guy (in the lineup) to get it going.” With the Giants, Pierce said, “The young pass rushers are there, the pieces are there” for them to bounce back from being the NFL’s 29th-ranked defense. What they need, Pierce said, is “a jolt.” They need a coach who can make the players truly believe in what he’s teaching. “I remember things weren’t going well (in 2007),” Umenyiora recalled. “He said ‘This is what I do. This is what I’ve done. This system works. We just have to stay together.’ He didn’t yell, he didn’t scream, even when (the media) was calling us the worst defense in the NFL, he just kept saying ‘It’ll work.’ ” It certainly did. And his former players believe it can work again. Bring back Spags! He hasnt fared too well since leaving the Giants, but as AP says he had a bad situation in NO and no one has done anything as HC in St Louis. Those two years in 07, 08 were superb with some questionable talent across the defense. Yes he had Strahan, Tuck and Osi, but he also turned the likes of Kawika Mitchell, Danny Clark, Michael Johnson, Kevin Dockery and James Butler into useful serviceable players. He also completely turned around Corey Webster's career, who had been nothing short of a bust up until late in the 2007 season. Id be happy getting him as we would at least go down swinging and with someone who isnt stubborn enough to change it up in the middle of a game and say this isnt working so lets try something else, i.e. the complete opposite of the stubborn Fewell we just fired. Osi's comments in the article are great to hear and its exactly what we need to see again from our DC. Other options include Pepper Johnson who was interviewed yesterday, Dennis Allen who we are interested in interviewing and then there is a plethora of other defensive coordinator candidates such as Le Beau, Schwartz, Fox and potentially Fangio. Think there will be a number of interviews yet. Edited January 13, 2015 by kkr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Spags or Johnson would be ideal. Johnson has been around the league a long time and has 5 rings with Giants/Pats. Spags, I'm hoping, wasn't just a one off season with him. I'm worried that if he doesn't have a dominate pass rush how he will do. Be happy to have it back though to give him another run as our pass rush does have potential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted January 14, 2015 Author Share Posted January 14, 2015 Big Blue Interactive @BigBlueInteract · 2h 2 hours ago We're also hearing that the "interview" with Steve Spagnuolo began with three minutes of hugs. Big Blue Interactive @BigBlueInteract · 2h 2 hours ago We're hearing that the Giants have come to an agreement with Steve Spagnuolo as the team's next defensive coordinator. LOL! Site is down currently after being hacked yesterday mind you, but twitter account seems to be intact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdomlahor Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 All the beat writers reporting that the Spagnuolo deal is done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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kkr Posted January 18, 2015 Author Share Posted January 18, 2015 Be good if we could find a role for pepper too. He is understandably unhappy about missing out on another DC position and could be without a role at buffalo now that Ryan has brought in his own guys. Dont know if he could work with Spags and his scheme etc, but our DLine and LBers havent been great for a while so Pepper could be a great addition to the coaching staff. Great to see Spags come back, but he wont have an easy job. Not unless we get JPP and Suh! How Quinn keeps avoiding the chop i will never know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted January 22, 2015 Author Share Posted January 22, 2015 Beckham selected 4th overall in the pro bowl draft by team Irvin. Probably trying to glean info about the Giants offense off him! Somehow Dalton and Stafford got in as alternates ahead of Eli... :S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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kkr Posted January 30, 2015 Author Share Posted January 30, 2015 Guiness World record for most 1 handed catches in a minute Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted February 2, 2015 Author Share Posted February 2, 2015 QB's who have driven their team down for a TD in the Super Bowl when anything less meant defeat......Eli Manning stands alone. QB's who have led two game winning TD drives in the final 4 minutes of a Super Bowl......Eli Manning stands alone. QB's who have driven their team down to win in OT of the championship game and then engineered a comeback win in the following Super Bowl with less than 2 minutes to play......Eli Manning stands alone. TWICE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted February 2, 2015 Author Share Posted February 2, 2015 Ann Mara has sadly passed away. Will always remember her calling out Terry Bradshaw in the post game after the NFC Championship in SF for never picking the GMen! RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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