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Hudson got under defenders’ skin by repeatedly hitting them in the head while blocking. And he antagonized teammates by getting in their faces and talking trash after nearly every 1-on-1 rep in practice. A 1-on-1 period early in camp came to a premature end after Hudson smacked Thibodeaux in the back of the head and then jawed with the defender.
“Some of the things that he does will get a flag thrown,” one Giants defender told The Athletic early in camp. “And that’s a momentum changer. That’s getting you ejected out of the game. Be about the team, not about you. What’s going to end up happening is we’re going to have first-and-(expletive)-35 because everybody keeps punching each other in the face.”
Go for it. Do not sit back. Apply pressure rather than wilt under it.
That is the approach the Giants and their defensive coordinator, Shane Bowen, needed to unleash down the stretch of a heart-stopping and, eventually, heart-breaking game that ended the way so many of these Sundays go for a team that for far too long collects wins as often as the mortgage needs to be paid: Pretty much once a month.
2. Brian Daboll. Every year Daboll sits on the hot seat, a sign of how poor the Giants franchise is and how hard it is for New York to win games. The Giants played hard in an overtime loss to the Cowboys on Sunday, but are sitting at 0-2 for the second straight season. The Giants are in a midst of a rebuild, and Daboll may be able to survive it because general manager Joe Schoen is still around. Hard to defend a coach that is 9-27 over the last three seasons, even if the Giants will eventually turn to Dart at some point.
3. Jaxson Dart, New York Giants. The unvarnished upside of young, highly drafted rookies means someone like Dart deserves to be on a list like this. He might possess a lower floor...
