New York Giants
The New York Giants have struggled to defend the run for years now. Before Shane Bowen was fired as defensive coordinator late in the season, the 2025 Giants were the worst run-defending team in the NFL.
The need for solid run defense is a core belief for new head coach John Harbaugh.
“It’s a must thing. I can tell you that,” Harbaugh said at the NFL Combine. “There’s a lot to it. There’s three levels and layers to your defense. And all three layers and levels have got to be committed to and incorporated in stopping the run, no doubt....
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New York Giants head coach John Harbaugh gave Big Blue View his time to contribute to a piece looking into what players and coaches who work with him think of the experience. If you haven’t read it yet, please do.
Now, a look at Monday’s Giants headlines.
Giants’ duo of Andrew Thomas, Jermaine Eluemunor not among top five.
Conor Orr and James Palmer explain why the New York Giants could...
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The New York Giants finally feel good about their offensive line heading into the 2026 season.
The biggest long-term question on the line is the left guard position currently manned by Jon Runyan Jr., who will be a free agent after the 2026 season. If we assume that none of the Giants’ current reserve interior linemen are able to beat Runyan out and make him a cap casualty — or establish themselves as an obvious heir — the left guard position is an obvious need for 2027.
As things stand now, the offensive interior doesn’t appear to be a position...
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Talk to any New York Giants fan these days and you sense the excitement. The hope. The optimism. There has been some of that during a difficult 13-year stretch, but not like what you feel now.
NFL analysts who dare to predict that the downtrodden Giants might go from worst to first in the NFC East, or at least be good enough to compete for a playoff berth, are not scoffed at the way they would have been in recent years. Their opinions are given validity.
The reason for the change?
John Harbaugh.
Simple as that.
Harbaugh brings credibility to...
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Somehow we’re almost half way through the month of July, which means that the New York Giants 2026 training camp is in sight. And with the start of training camp we get a return of real football news and start to see the 2026 Giants take shape.
New head coach John Harbaugh laid down the team goal of winning the NFC East in his introductory press conference. Winning the division is, of course, every team’s goal. But for the Giants, that’s seemed like a distant hope. After all, the Giants have won just seven games in the last two years...
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The ideal scenario at cornerback for the New York Giants would seem to have Colton Hood, a rookie second-round pick, earning a starting job opposite Paulson Adebo.
Greg Newsome II and Deonte Banks took nearly all of the first-team reps at that cornerback spot in the spring. Each performed admirably, but comes with obvious blemishes.
Newsome, 26, was a 2021 first-round draft pick by the Cleveland Browns. The first three seasons of his career were solid, but the last two have been concerning.
Newsome played poorly in 2024. In his first three seasons, his highest passer rating against was 87.0...
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Douglas Furth asks: Ed, You did an article this week about realistic expectations and it seemed reasonable on its face. But it seems to me (without having done a scientific study on the subject) that teams don’t improve incrementally over several years. Rather what seems to happen more often is that bad teams reach a tipping point and get a lot better. So I have two questions, what do you think about the tipping point theory and does the addition of a top tier coach and a couple of impact players push this Giants team towards a tipping point?
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A recent ranking from ESPN has raised an issue that splits New York Giants fans — should Big Blue traded away two of the league’s top seven defensive tackles?
The former Giants stars in question— Leonard Williams and Dexter Lawrence — were named No. 1 and 7, respectively, on a list compiled using input from NFL executive, coaches, and scouts. BBV’s Ed Valentine makes the case that yes, in fact the Giants made the right decision in both cases:
[Williams] was a 29-year-old player who had always been good but rarely great. He also looked like a player who...
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New York Giants fans are rightly concerned about whether or not the team has enough quality on the interior of the defensive line. That’s why newly-released rankings from ESPN of the top 10 defensive tackles in the NFL have to be painful.
Two former Giants stars, Leonard Williams and Dexter Lawrence are on that list. Williams, in fact, was named No. 1 on a list compiled using input from NFL executive, coaches, and scouts. Lawrence, coming off a down season, still checked in at No. 7.
ESPN said this about Williams:
… he’s an absolute nightmare to block. Several...
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Seeing TV highlights of World Cup soccer (excuse me, football) matches at a nearly unrecognizable MetLife Stadium (excuse me, New York New Jersey Stadium) the past month, and watching the US Men’s National Team games played on the west coast, got me to thinking about parallels between that team and the New York Giants. For a moment I thought it was too far-fetched to write about (and that may well be the case, you can be the judge). What tipped the scales for me, though, was this tweet on X during the USMNT’s awful loss to Belgium that ended their...
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When Arvell Reese dropped into the Giants lap, John Harbaugh immediately declared that he would be used as an inside linebacker.
BBV’s Chris Pflum pre-draft evaluation centered on edge defender and not a linebacker. Pflum went back into Reese’s tape to evaluate him purely as a linebacker. He concluded:
The Giants will have to be careful to avoid putting too much on Reese too soon and force him to wear too many hats. However, he showed an aptitude for processing a significant amount of information in [Ohio State University’s] defense, so he might be able to handle more than...
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Hello readers! Enjoying the World Cup? So am I. But like many of you, I’m counting down the days until another type of football takes center stage.
Today’s column begins my 2026 Fantasy Football redraft rankings and tiers. RB, WR, and TE will follow, and I’ll update them in August, when season-long redraft season kicks in. Hopefully, these initial looks at each major position will help as you start to consider player values and draft strategies.
You can link to all my preseason fantasy content here, including all the rankings and tiers (once they’re posted), and much more.
Before we...
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