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No. 10 overall pick Francis ‘Sisi’ Mauigoa will be the starting right guard for the New York Giants. A 23-year-old rookie starting at that spot is a big change for a Giants’ team that had Greg Van Roten, whose pro career began in 2012, at right guard for the past two seasons.
That, though, is not the only big change for the Giants on the offensive line.
Mike Bloomgren is the team’s new offensive line coach, replacing the popular Carmen Bricillo, who did well in that role over the past two seasons. The Giants’ offensive line was 15th in the NFL last season using the Pro Football and Sports Network Impact Score as a measuring stick, its best standing since beign 16th in 2019.
“I have a lot of respect for Carm,” Bloomgren said recently. “I think he did a great job with the room. So it’s great that they have such a good baseline of knowledge and an understanding of this great game.”
This will mark only Bloomgren’s second season as an NFL offensive line coach after he held that job with the Cleveland Browns a year ago. Bloomgren, though, is an accomplished, veteran coach.
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How has Bloomgren approached trying to help a mostly veteran offensive line group?
“I think we’re always trying to build their toolbox,” Bloomgren said. “We spent the first part of our time here in February and March in addition to preparing for the draft and free agency, we were really trying to evaluate these guys and what they did exceptionally well and what we thought maybe a tool here or a tool there could help them with.
“When you put in any new system, which we did, and we’re slightly different in some ways and very different in others. But the techniques change. The names change. And so a lot of it has been really trying to build the foundational knowledge so this room can go out and play football fast.”
No Giants’ offensive lineman feels Bricillo’s absence more than Eluemunor. This marks the first time since 2018 that Eluemunor is not on a team where Bricillo is an assistant.
“It’s definitely been different,” Eluemunor said. “I think Bloom and Carm are two great O-line coaches. Obviously, Carm helped me to get where I am right now. Bloom’s thing is you’ve been here and you’ve gotten here but how can you take that next step. It’s been really cool just...
