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00:00If the Giants want to go down to Washington, D.C. and beat the Commanders week one, they're going to have to stop Jaden Daniels.

00:08This dude was absolutely phenomenal his rookie year, and he led Washington to a number four ranked offense in the entire NFL.

00:16Neutralizing both his legs and his arms is not going to be easy by no means.

00:22He hurt the Giants defense in both matchups last year using both, but it can be done.

00:28The Giants put that on tape as well.

00:30So here are two plays to show how Shane Bowen's defense needs to get after Jaden Daniels and know your enemy film breakdown.

00:38All right, let's get this thing going.

00:40All right, first play.

00:42It's all about containing Jaden Daniels' legs.

00:45It's third and 13 here, y'all.

00:47This guy can run, he can throw the football, and he loves his mama.

00:51The boy is absolutely dangerous.

00:53You see the run here.

00:54Third and 14, he scrambles for the first down.

00:58Let's go back.

00:59Let's go back to the beginning of this play, and we're going to pause it here so I can set this thing up.

01:03All right, what we are seeing here right now is an empty formation.

01:07You see the tight, you see the running back here, and then you see the tight end here.

01:11They're all in one-by-one splits.

01:13They're going to help their tackles, left and right tackles, by chipping.

01:17Chipping means that they're going to get a little oomph up on that pass rusher to the outside.

01:22So right here, it's about Brian Burns.

01:24You get a little something on there before you get out into your route concept or whatever route that you're running.

01:31The Giants right here are rushing four, and they're playing coverage behind it,

01:36but you have to account for Jaden Daniels' legs.

01:40Let's start the play.

01:42So you see Brian Burns right here.

01:45Let's keep an eye on him as his play gets going.

01:47He gets chipped here, right?

01:48And then he gets wide, and Paul's there.

01:51That opens up the lane.

01:53Now, on top of that, Elijah Chapman right here, this defensive tackle, gets pinned to the inside,

02:00and that creates a huge rushing lane for a guy that runs 4-3-6.

02:07Jaden Daniels takes off right here.

02:10Whatever is not there.

02:11So the Giants rush four, which means they're dropping seven in coverage,

02:15which means that you're going to have bodies on bodies in terms of covering up the route concepts.

02:22You have to keep this guy bottle up and get off of the field here.

02:26That was a third-down situation where the Giants could have got off the field,

02:30got the football back to their offense.

02:32But, hey, Jaden Daniels is just as dangerous with his feet than he is with his arms.

02:38The Giants, it's all about gap integrity and being in your rush lanes

02:43and staying disciplined at that same time to be able to get him down

02:48and get off the field so your offense can get the football.

02:51We're going to move on to the next play.

02:53All right, another third-down.

02:56You have to get off the field on third-downs when we're talking about the commanders.

03:00Jaden Daniels does a great job of being able to lengthen a drive and put points on the board,

03:07but you're talking about one of the best offenses in the NFL when it comes to third-down efficiency.

03:13So this play here, you've earned the right to rush.

03:16We talk about Giants defense putting offenses in positions to where they have to throw the football

03:22to where we can really evaluate the pass rushers and the defensive line that they have on this team.

03:28They're a strength.

03:29If you earn the right to rush, that means you've also earned yourselves chip blocks.

03:34And, again, it's something that the commander's offense does a lot.

03:38Same formation as the play I said before.

03:43You got – but this time they swap out the tight end being one-by-one with the receiver,

03:50and they still have Austin Eckler here, the running back, and a one-by-one to help with those chip blocks.

03:56It buys just a little bit more time for that quarterback to feel comfortable

04:00to throw in the football down the field.

04:03All right.

04:03But this time with the chip block, you're not going to see Jaden Daniels take off.

04:08You're going to see one of these chip blockers, this Austin Eckler here,

04:11this running back here chip, and getting to the route concept.

04:16The Giants defensive line, you have to expect the chip, especially Abdul Carter.

04:21You saw it in the Jets game week two in the preseason.

04:24But you have to expect that and still keep your gap integrity.

04:27Let's go ahead and start the play here.

04:30We're going to focus on Austin Eckler.

04:32You see Eckler there?

04:34Can we run that back?

04:35Run that back, run that back, run that back, run that back, run that back.

04:39Here we go.

04:40All right.

04:41I'll start.

04:42If we can wipe here.

04:43All right.

04:43We're going to start by looking at Austin Eckler right here, running back.

04:47A lot of you guys have had this guy on your fantasy teams, leagues, whatever, for a long time.

04:52He is a beast in this NFL.

04:54So you see him with the chip here.

04:55He chips, makes Aziz Ojolari, goes wide.

04:59But instead of going to the flat or going to sitting over top of the football, he gets himself involved with the concept.

05:07Pause it here.

05:09This is a mesh concept.

05:10It's a rub concept.

05:12It's some sort of shallow cross drag route concept to where it's man to man across the board.

05:19You see every Giants defender playing man to man.

05:21This player right here usually picks whoever, whatever man to man defender is playing or running with Eckler.

05:30But there's no one here.

05:31The chip block throws the safety off and the safety is late.

05:35Run it back just a little bit because I want to look at the pocket and see what Jaden Daniels does.

05:40We talk about how he can be effective and hurt you with his feet.

05:44But he can hurt you with his feet as well to help his arm buying time.

05:50You see him kind of back up a little bit here.

05:53It's a regular two, three, five-step drop.

05:56It's shotgun, so it's a little bit different when it comes to the drop.

05:59But he buys time for Eckler to get open.

06:02If you follow his eyes throughout this play, he goes through about one to three reads.

06:08Let's check, let's check Jane Daniels out.

06:11And this is a rookie quarterback at this point.

06:14Looks to the left, looks off, looks right, looks for a deeper guy.

06:18Backs up just a little bit and holds himself in the pocket.

06:22We don't give this man enough flowers as a pocket passer as well.

06:26Buys enough time to see Austin Eckler become open.

06:29He makes a guy miss, makes two guys miss, gets upfield.

06:32This was a back-breaking play for the Giants defense who needed to get off the field at that time.

06:39But again, it's all about, when we talk about earning the right to rush

06:43and putting yourselves into a third and long situation, a third and throw.

06:49We like to call it a third and throw situation,

06:51which the Giants defense in this pass rush can really thrive.

06:55It's all about stopping Jane Daniels' legs

06:57and putting yourself in position to be able to hurt him

07:01when he tries to put the football in the air.

07:04Shane Bowen last year in two weeks, week two and week nine,

07:08Shane Bowen's the Giants defensive coordinator,

07:10did a lot of great things of being able to blitz Jaden Daniels,

07:14get him uncomfortable.

07:15But at the times where they kind of rushed three to four

07:18and dropped in the coverage,

07:20Jaden Daniels was able to hurt the Giants defense

07:22both with his feet or, you know, his feet, his legs,

07:26and then with his arms as well.

07:29You've heard the reports or you've seen reports about

07:32is Shane Bowen going to use Abdul Carter as some sort of spy

07:35because he's so athletic and he can keep up with the Jaden Daniels.

07:39But if you take a spy, if you put a player in a spy position,

07:43you take them out of coverage.

07:44It's going to be a chess match.

07:46But at the end of the day, you've put some stuff on the table

07:49on how to contain Jaden Daniels.

07:51If they can do it, they win this football game, week one.

07:54All right, you just saw two plays on what not to do.

07:58But what I think Shane Bowen is going to do,

08:01he's going to apply pressure up the middle,

08:03and then he's going to have his guys contain Jaden Daniels on the edges.

08:08Again, it's a lot easier said than done.

08:11But this year's Giants defense,

08:13especially that D-line and those pass rushers,

08:15had the athleticism and the ability to do that.

08:19Now, I'm anxious to see how much Shane Bowen blitzes

08:22compared to rushing, let's say, three or four,

08:25and then playing coverage on the back end.

08:28I do expect him to use someone to spy Jaden Daniels.

08:32But on the flip side of that, that takes someone out of coverage.

08:36It's going to be a chess match for sure.

08:38But the D-line has a chance to make a statement game one

08:41by locking up one of the game's up-and-coming quarterbacks.

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