Attitude. Edge. DAWG mentality.
Malik Nabers brought a large part of this to the New York Giants after being the overall choice n ° 6 in the NFL draft a season.
They seem to have doubled on the idea of being a more difficult, more daring and more physical football team. The Draft class of the NFL 2025 illustrated it.
Defender Edge Abdul Carter, the best rusher of class pass, was the choice at n ° 3.
“We were talking about going down (at the press conference) just in terms of adding Dawgs and a certain type of mentality, and I would say two consecutive years with the competitiveness of Malik and the tenacity with which he plays, then you add another guy like this in the first round like Abdul Carter and the engine with whom he plays and durability and violence, which can really help”, GM Joe Schoenne.
“And the question of identity was mentioned. This can help develop an identity. “
One of the admirable features that Nabers brings to the table is a desire to play by the injury and excel in doing so.
Carter suffered a shoulder injury that eliminated him from a university football eliminatory match against Boise State, but played less than two weeks later against Notre Dame despite the risk of injury and injuring her stock in the draft.
“I knew that if my teammates (were) in the same position in which I was, they went there and put everything online for me. I knew I wanted to do everything in my power to make sure I put my team back in the best position to win, knowing what was online. If I had to make the choice, I would do it again, I would be right there with my brothers. ”
The quarters are generally not considered as physical tone settings. Look at the protruding facts of Jaxson Dart performing the ball. He wants to run through people:
Jaxson Dart jumping over a lsu defender …
Jaxson Dart lowering his shoulder for a touchdown …
Jaxson Dart had 1,915 yards on the ground during three seasons in Ole Miss … He won 264 yards over 55 QB points designed in 2024. pic.twitter.com/3yvciltkzj
– Nick Falato (@nickfalato) April 25, 2025
“We are likely to have to teach him to slip,” said Managing Director Joe Schoen.
Dart showed a little of his mentality on Thursday evening when asked if his personality corresponded to the big city.
“Without a doubt,” he cried out practically on the phone. “I just feel like I have an advantage for me. I have the impression that everyone in the city does it too. So let’s go. “
The Giants added more physicity with the selection of the third round of the Darius Alexander defensive platform.
“It was important. Not only stopped the race but obtaining the passer,” said Schoen. “We talked about a little identity last night with Carter. Again, I like what we did in defense.”
In the fourth round, the giants added a ram of human beats to running back in Cam Skattebo 5 feet 9 inches and 219 pounds. Lance Zierlein de NFL.com calls him a “creator of carnage”. I can’t help but think of Brandon Jacobs, although Skattebo is lighter by 45 pounds.
Skattebo said on Saturday that his match was to run and cross people since he started playing at the age of 6.
“You can go back, watch a movie of the day. It has always been a very physical game for me,” said Skattebo. “Since the age of six, I have been doing the same. Throughout my life, I stayed with the path on which I started, and it works. I will continue to do it because that’s what makes me success.
“Physicality is definitely contagious. If someone gets run, that makes the race of other guys and that did them.
The offensive line player Marcus Mbow was the choice of fifth round, another selection that added depth and physicity in the trenches. In his Profile Mbow Prospect, Chris Pflum wrote that Mbow has “an excellent competitive tenacity” and “a fairly unpleasant sequence”.
This fits perfectly with the choices that preceded it.
Daboll admitted that tenacity was a characteristic that the giants sought throughout the offseason.
“I think you are always adding this element to your team in the two areas. Mentally, the challenges that accompany professional football and the game in New York, very frankly, and tenacity on the field. I think we did it in free will and we did it in the project,” he said. “This is something that we covet. I thought we had done a good job of acquiring players who demonstrate these two things. ”
I don’t know how good these giants will be, but I don’t think anyone calls the “Gentle Giants” version.
Accessories in Joe Schoen
I praised the managing director Joe Schoen for a first round of the draft “at home”. Now that the complete project is in books, let’s give GM more flowers.
The GM has struck each brand. He checked each box. He read the room throughout the seven rounds.
Schoen did the right thing in the first round, adding the best pass rusher and the defensive draft player. He obtained the potential franchise quarterrier that he and Brian Daboll have sought since their arrival in 2022 without giving up too much.
We called to add to the trenches on both sides and to the background carrier room. Check and check.
He added difficult physical players.
Schoen also read the Tour 4 room, transmitting offensive line editors to No. 105 and striking Cam Skattebo before the runners start to fly out of the board. Most of these offensive line players were still there at 154, and he caught a potential player with five positions, Dane Brugler of athletics, gave a note 3 of his guide.
“I think Joe did an excellent job with the scouts to bring guys who have a lot of tenacity,” said Daboll. “Even to get Mbow, credit Joe there. Again, we are sitting there talking about him or skattebo with this first choice, and he is like, we will go with Skattebo, then Mbow was there but a lot of choice later, then we had two guys that we were going to take – if Skattebo stayed, we were going to take Mbow.”
Big Blue View commentators loved Schoen’s project. Consult this comment after the choice of Mbow:
Now, of course, none of these players set foot on NFL training ground. There will probably be a few failures. On paper in our world of immediate gratuity, I think that Schoen comes out of this project that has done everything that someone could have asked for.
Put this project in addition to last year, and a free agency in 2025 which clearly improved the defense and the quarter position, and it is not surprising that Tony Delgenio abandoned this comment in the Big Blue View Slack room on Saturday afternoon:
“It’s about a perfect project for Schoen.”
Chris sounded with this:
“If Dart hits, this is an out of season season.”
They will not get an argument on my part.
Schoen was very offset for some of the main decisions made earlier in his mandate. We have to wait and see what’s going on on the ground, of course, but as we are sitting here at the moment, it is quite difficult to complain about what he has done in the past two seasons.
Schoen did not judge on Saturday evening.
“No matter what I think until we get out and do it. Do I like guys? Yeah, devil yeah. I like makeup. I think they are wired in the right way, good DNA. I think we have the right people in this building,” said Schoen.
“I like some of the pieces we have, but it’s up to them to go out and do it, and I trust them that we will do it.”
Just a few “things”
- While Tour 7 was going, Chris dropped a large line in the BBV Slack room:
“I am old enough to remember when Carson Beck, Quinn Ewers and Shedeur were the 3 top 3 QB projected from the class. Sheder went the 5th, Ewers in the 7th, and Beck returned to school. ”
It reminded me of something. I know that as soon as the dust emerges from this project, some of you will start to focus on the project next year and to get attached to certain players. You make a mistake and torture, if you become convinced for months and months in advance, even before the next university football season, that “playing x” is a must.
Don’t do that.
- The giants have a “say” with regard to the players they write. The players in which they have for “30 visits”, or private training, and those of which they obtain good impressions of the senior Bowl or East-West Shrine Bowl continue to end up hearing their names called in the draft by the Giants.
Carter experienced a “30 -year visit” with Daboll. Dart had private training. Alexander, Skattebo, Mbow, the winger tight Thomas Fidone and Corrnerback Korie Black all had “30 visits”. Fidone said he had also had a private training session with the tight giant coach Tim Kelly.
“This senior bowl is important to us,” said Daboll. “Some coaches drop, I go down each year with Joe. It is something that advances the process.
“We met quarters there. We met a variety of people, and you can advance the guys forward the combination and see them do different things … It’s a very useful part of the process.”
So, the next time the recovery of rollers pays attention to All-Star games, especially if the giants have coaches involved and to the list of visits. This is where the recovery choices are likely.