00:04Malik Nabors practice in pads for the first time this training camp but manage your expectations he was in a
00:11red jersey and we got our first look at newly signed running back Najee Harris what's going on everybody this
00:17is your New York Post sports practice report I've been in Germany too long I got a little say that
00:23in German for me
00:25all I know is it's been Brandon London I'm Brandon London this is Ryan Dunleavy yeah pint and pros means
00:32cheers cheers to the fact that we got to see Malik in pads today wearing the red jersey non-contact
00:40but we did get to see him move around a little bit in some competitive periods including a catch where
00:46he went up down the field went up for it caught it rolled around a little bit your thoughts on
00:50Malik and pads here's my thought on that is the two guys who were
00:53near him slowed up like like hey go ahead catch that that's not gonna happen in a real game that's
00:59not gonna happen in joint practices but there was clearly a anybody who touches Malik Nabors is gonna run 60
01:06laps around this field kind of kind of warning but yes it was good to see him go up jump
01:11look natural I wasn't here yesterday but I heard him jumping he looked kind of awkward or whatever jumping look
01:18natural today to me so I thought yeah just the idea that his body was able to handle
01:23going a second straight day I think is important when you're looking to check boxes Harbaugh said afterwards Malik Nabors
01:30is gonna play in a game he's got to take the red jersey off and get bumped around a little
01:34bit so we're gonna see that at some point this training camp I'm looking for it's obviously not gonna be
01:39in Miami not gonna be before game two maybe it's before game three maybe it's that awkward week before before
01:46the first before the week one game but we're going to see Malik Nabors in a real physical John Harbaugh
01:52practice at some point
01:53this camp what I was encouraged to see when he went up for that football and I think it was
01:57like 40 yards down the field he went up between those two guys those two guys like Ryan said knew
02:03not to touch him but it's not the going up for a guy that's coming back from a bad knee
02:07injury it's the coming down did I want to see him stick the landing yeah but the way he jumped
02:13up hit the ground rolled a little bit and then went into the end zone you can see that it's
02:18getting there and I think he has a good soreness
02:20to him that looks like okay we'll ramp it up each day and your body that knee is going to
02:25be sore but as long as it's not sore like you've taken a step back you can push it a
02:30little bit more day by day so again like you said you need to see him in a contact period
02:35and it makes me go back to 2016 when Victor Cruz was coming back off that knee injury there was
02:41a play where he caught like a little shallow cross he got hit he popped up after after the practice
02:47you know I know him since
02:48college I went I say you needed that didn't you and he was like you see that his eyes lit
02:52up and was like you see that he just needed to know that he could be hit and he's okay
02:56taking contact so I think we needed to see it too because there was early in practice like I don't
03:02know his cleats Malik's cleats were wrong or something he missed an individual drill because he was changing his cleats
03:07and then there he went up for a one for a one-on-one drill he got to the line
03:12and the whistle blew and he didn't get his rap so I was like are they managing him like what
03:17is he just
03:18like you know not feeling it today so to see him get that seven on seven I think it was
03:23deep ball or 11 on 11 whatever it was I think that was important so oh that's just regular practice
03:29stuff in terms of the cleats he's wearing these bright red cleats that match the red jersey it could have
03:34been a fashion malfunction you know how these kids are these days but it wasn't a Kadarius Tony situation it
03:42wasn't a Kadarius Tony situation so all is well Giants Nation Najee Harris
03:48you get signed one year deal I believe four do you have the numbers okay we don't know but you
03:55did a great job with the reporting yesterday because I thought that they just worked them out to kick the
04:00tires to see what he would look like just in case but you said that you didn't think they were
04:06high enough on this running back I thought they liked the running back room but didn't love it okay that's
04:12what you say to some chick that you're just dating but you don't want to put a ring on it
04:18they signed him do you think he's going to get a legitimate shot to be a one to two back
04:24on this team yeah I think he'll be on the 53 man roster I think he's going to ease into
04:29it he only did individuals today
04:32Harbaugh said he's not in football shape yet Najee almost felt slapped in the face when we told him Harbaugh
04:38said that he's like I'm in pretty good shape
04:39yeah yeah said there's a difference between football shape but it won't take him long to get back into shape
04:44and when he does I think yeah he'll mix in right with the ones like wouldn't we've seen Harbaugh like
04:49everybody remembers Derrick Henry Ray Rice but we've seen him have backfields where it's like Gus Edwards
04:54as the leading rusher for like 700 yards and then there's another guy maybe Justin Forsett or somebody with like
05:01500 yards Jalen Parmalee yeah yeah yeah 500 yards here 500 yards there 500 yards there wouldn't surprise me if
05:08that's his plan like I know everybody has their Cam Scadaboo jersey and everybody wants him to run for 2
05:13,000 yards but like wouldn't surprise me if they have a 1A a 1B and a you know two basically
05:19or a 1A 1B and a 1C
05:23like Scadaboo's not going anywhere Tracy's not going anywhere the guy who probably hurts is Devin Singletary that's probably the
05:28guy whose touches get hurt the most by Najee Harris but yeah Najee Harris isn't here to be running back
05:344 this is not that kind of situation he's here to be a factor and get touches
05:39and he's not here to play special teams either so if you're going to dress those three backs all three
05:44are going to get carries do you feel as though it was because Tyrone Tracy may get the short end
05:50of that stick
05:51because he missed the block that got Jackson Dart hit if you're going to play for John Harbaugh you have
05:56to be able to pass block I don't think one play is going to banish Tyrone Tracy I think if
06:03like I said yesterday if you paid attention to the offseason the Giants were interested in Kenneth Walker the Giants
06:09were interested in Jeremiah Love the Giants were interested in a couple other free agent running backs it told you
06:16that they were looking to upgrade the talent of the room and John Harbaugh is the kind of guy he
06:21he don't care if your feelings are hurt like if Cam and Tyrone are in their feelings like oh what
06:26the hell we didn't even get our chance to prove we deserve to be the starters like he doesn't care
06:29best man win go go make the room as good as you can if there was a Giants are really
06:34good at edge right Brandon if there was a Najee Harris equivalent edge like a guy who had you know
06:39four ten sack seasons and was coming off an Achilles and would take a bargain contract Giants would probably sign
06:45him too and say go out there and try to be cave on yep because you want depth on this
06:49team and that's something
06:50that has kind of hurt this team throughout the course of the years once one of those stars or good
06:55players went down you're right they were down to the Brandon Londons which not necessarily a bad thing you know
07:01but it was you know it hasn't been enough per se final thoughts on today because really quick Arvel Reese
07:08made another wow play and it's not even wow anymore it's just like there he goes again what I love
07:15about him is we all talked about like oh what is the pass rush going to look like
07:19and what is the uh what can they do for him and the sack he had on Andrew Thomas in
07:24West Virginia but like the play you're talking about today was in pass coverage yeah absolutely the end zone corner
07:29against Isaiah Likely he's really good in pass coverage and he bats balls a lot and that's going to give
07:36the secondary time to chance to get jump on interceptions that are floating in the air like Bobby Okereke had
07:43one good season in pass coverage
07:46Alec Ogletree had like a five interception season but it was because he was targeted like 80 times uh teams
07:52are obviously throwing him I can't remember the last time the Giants had a difference making inside linebacker in pass
07:59coverage at least not for more than one flash in the pan season so like yes he could do a
08:05lot of special things against the run and a lot of special things as a pass rusher but he could
08:09really be the answer that helps what I think is a questionable secondary still
08:14and it helps having Tremaine Edmonds right next to him I say it like those two their length and athleticism
08:19is going to cause a quarterback to throw the ball high across the middle you're going to have to be
08:24able to be accurate with that throw and if they can get a hand in there bat a ball up
08:29or you can force some sort of overthrow that should help Javon Holland and Tyrone Nubin who should be over
08:35the top
08:35so Arvell Reese Tremaine Edmonds definitely upgrades in that interior of that linebacking core now they get the day off
08:43tomorrow they travel down to the 305 Miami for a joint practice with the Dolphins on Thursday before the preseason
08:51game on Saturday here's John Harbaugh on his conversation with Dolphins head coach Jeff Hatley on their expectations for the
09:02joint practice and of course Saturday's preseason game
09:06we'll have rules of engagement we'll call it talk to coach Halfley he talks to his team we talk to
09:11our team we have the same rules of engagement and it'll be the same that we use in our practice
09:15it'll be it'll be it'll be probably more to the quarterback we'll emphasize protecting each other's quarterbacks even more because
09:24as soon as somebody gets close and the other team's going to talk about getting close and we can't have
09:27that nobody can get close to the quarterback that's going to be a major point of emphasis and we're going
09:32to stay off the ground and we're going to we're not going we're going to be looking for no blindside
09:35shots of any
09:35kind you're not looking for that it's a front up tackle that's kind of you know front up type of
09:41thud wrap you can do but it won't be side shots and things like that that's that's the goal so
09:47we want to we want to protect them as much as we protect our own players and we want them
09:51to protect our players as much as they would protect their own players what do you look to accomplish in
09:55this like joint practices I'm talking about like what what are you looking to get from it I'm looking to
10:00get a good practice against a different team you know you get an opportunity to go against different players different
10:04schemes
10:05and evaluate your guys along those lines it's it's it's good it's just nice to see a different format you
10:11know different plays different players and it you know it's it's fun it's more interesting it's not another practice day
10:19for the guys are going against a new team your expectations what are you looking to see here's what I
10:25need to see okay I like it I like it I need to see the Giants offense look good I
10:29think we all expect that the Dolphins are a bottom three caliber team in the NFL
10:35NFL this year we've seen the Giants offense struggle for most of the summer we've optimistically given credit to Denard
10:43Wilson's defense for being aggressive and having look they have really good players on defense the Giants need to go
10:49out there and win the practice so to speak so have dark come out of there feeling like he hit
10:54some touchdowns and like he got the bet he knew what the Dolphins were doing and happy he's a good
10:58defensive coach yes he is so he the Giants offense needs to come out of there feeling like they got
11:04the better of it they had
11:05they they were the better team when their offense was against the Dolphins defense they need to be because the
11:11Dolphins are going to be bad I need to see the run defense Shelby Harris will be in there DJ
11:15Reader will be in there I need to see what I've been seeing this run defense do and the level
11:20of violence they've played up to against this Giants offensive line and run game not to say it's been bad
11:26but like Harbaugh said today it's like you want to see this team against different fronts against different bodies you
11:32want to hit somebody and go full speed
11:34I hope that chain practices because he's one of the NFL's best running backs okay I want to see I
11:39hope he practices against Reader and I would love to see the coverage that Arvel Reese can have against a
11:45running back of that caliber in terms of that speed also I want to see the secondary we talk about
11:51the the Dolphins being maybe a bottom third team and not knowing what they have at receiver I don't think
11:56Malik Willis has much there I would like to see this secondary shut down and dominate then
12:03I thought Paulson Adebo had a good day and we've been on Paulson Adebo a lot he was with the
12:08seconds again today we've been on him a lot as a guy who's underperforming this training game I thought he
12:13had a pretty active day with the twos it wouldn't surprise me to see him with the once again soon
12:17lastly finish us off so we can get up out of here are you going down to Miami I'm not
12:21sure okay Paul Schwartz okay okay Paul's going down there all right I just got back from Germany I've logged
12:26enough miles I need to Paul sends me to West Virginia and he takes Miami that move that move
12:31he's been here since 94 I started in 18 right final thought to wrap us up for today's practice report
12:37I'm looking forward to it I'll be paying attention to the joint practice they need we're in the dog days
12:43right like that they're tired of seeing each other I'm surprised there hasn't been a fight yet they're in the
12:47dog days I need to see them bang heads against some different team different schemes get better evaluations I'll be
12:54paying attention I think the juice will be up and look at the Jets bucks practice give me a fight
12:59give me what are the odds are give me a fight on Thursday I'll take I'll take good odds on
13:04a Giants Dolphins fight anything can happen during these joint practices practice 16 in the books so into the joint
13:11and then Saturday we get some live action in the preseason game Brendan London Ryan Dunleavy thanks for watching today's
13:17post practice report
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