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Giants fans want to see how Russell Wilson changes the Giants’
The New York Giants offseason program is about to take the next step forward with the mandatory minicamp. And as the summer heats up, both literally and figuratively, several storylines will start to come into focus.
For this week’s survey we wanted to know which of the summer’s biggest storylines the Big Blue View community is most interested in seeing play out.
The results were pretty close, however there was a clear winner: How will the Giants’ offense change with Russell Wilson at quarterback.
It makes a lot of sense that the potential changes to the offense came out on top.
The change at quarterback to Russell Wilson represents a philosophical shift for the entire offense. The Giants have fielded a conservative, short-ranged offense over the last several years. There were flashes of explosiveness in games such as their 2023 win over the Arizona Cardinals and 2024 win over the Indianapolis Colts, but the offense was mostly predicated quick passes.
We’ve already gotten a glimpse of how the offense is shifting in OTAs with Jalin Hyatt seeming to take a step forward.
As noted in his “Make or Break” piece, Hyatt was an afterthought (at best) in the Giants’ offense last year. He ran 202 routes but was only targeted 19 times all year, and it was clear on tape that the vast majority of his routes were simply clear-outs to use his speed to create room for underneath passes. He may have been on the field and running routes, but likely wasn’t in the progression read.
That, however, seems to be changing with Wilson under center and Darius Slayton said earlier this week that Wilson wants to be aggressive throwing the ball.
“He wants to push the ball down the field and attack,” Slayton said. “So, if we’re in the huddle and we have a play and there’s certain plays where the ball is designed to go certain places and so in his head he might be in the huddle, be like, ‘hey, you got the post here but you’re not dead.’ Because a lot of times you might run a post corner, whatever, different concepts and the guy underneath always gets the ball, always gets the ball. So, you’re the guy running deep, you’re just running for the love. But he’ll be like, hey alert here, the safety drives, I’ll give it to you. And he’s done that multiple times over camp. So that’s kind of what I mean by okay, it gives you some like alright, you’re going to run anyways but it gives you a little extra juice of, I can really get the ball right here.”
Paulson Adebo also confirmed that how Wilson throws the deep pass, his “moon ball”, makes life easier for receivers and harder on defensive backs.
“He throws that thing high,” Adebo said. “So you really got to be able to get your head around and track it for a...
