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New York Giants headlines for Wednesday
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New cornerback Paulson Adebo has played both systems but is a “good man corner.” Daboll thinks “the world” of safety Jevón Holland since he was coming out of college. He’s an “instinctive” player and “crafty veteran.” He can play different spots in the back end and is a good leader.
New secondary coach/pass game coordinator Marquand Manuel has “done a nice job for us since he’s been here.” Cornerbacks coach Jeff Burris is a former first-round pick who can “help in certain areas with some of the players” like Deonte Banks.
Daboll develops tests for each quarterback featuring formations, motions, defensive fronts, run concepts and pass concepts. Those exams are sent to the quarterbacks and returned before the workouts so Daboll and the Giants can get a baseline for the prospects' football knowledge.
"I would say, you're doing work all the way up until the draft and you're trying to cross every T and dot every I," Daboll said. "There is so much information you've got to weed through. Some of the stuff that you listen to or hear and you've got to trust your meetings with the players, and you got to trust the time that you were on the board with them and how they were at the Combine, the East-West game, or the time you got to meet them, what the athletic trainers had to say or what did the graduate assistant have to say."
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