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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Giants dot com. Joined by Paul De Tino,

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Speaker 1: I am John Schmelt. The Giants have announced an interview

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Speaker 1: for their head coaching position, Christo Shard, who should be

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Speaker 1: pretty familiar to Giant fans. He's been the passing game

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Speaker 1: coordinator and the secondary coach for the Dallas Cowboys the

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Speaker 1: last couple of years. Took over play calling on the

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Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball for Rod Marritelli the last

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Speaker 1: couple of years as well, and he's one of the

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Speaker 1: interviews Paul for the Giants head coaching position on the

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Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball. A younger guy, just forty

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Speaker 1: years old, former defensive back playing in the NFL in

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Speaker 1: the early two thousands, and he's someone that has a

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Speaker 1: lot of experience playing against his Giants team in the division. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's no doubt about that. John. He really made his

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Speaker 1: name though, and his mark in the NFL with Seattle,

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Speaker 1: a team that he played for. You mentioned he was

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Speaker 1: a corner when he came out of school. Played for

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Speaker 1: three years with the Seattle Seahawks, which later on he

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Speaker 1: wound up being in their secondary as their secondary coach.

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Speaker 1: He was the coordinator back there with the corners and

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Speaker 1: the legion of boom. He's the guy who orchestrated that

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Speaker 1: entire concept big hitters in the secondary. Yeah, he was

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Speaker 1: their defensive backs coach. He came there with Pete Carroll,

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Speaker 1: believe it or not, despite the fact he was a

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Speaker 1: former player for Seattle. He joined Pete Carroll's a graduate

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Speaker 1: assistant in usc and then came with him the Seattle.

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Speaker 1: He was a secondary coach for a while, then when

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Speaker 1: they lost their defensive coordinator, uh, he went and got

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Speaker 1: a head coaching job. He became their DC from two

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Speaker 1: thousand fifteen to two thousand and seventeen. So, Paul, you

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Speaker 1: hit it. He's a secondary oriented guy, and we'll get

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Speaker 1: to the other parts of his defense to the second.

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Speaker 1: But he likes big cornerbacks, long, lengthy guys, and he

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Speaker 1: is a heavy cover three zone defense defensive backfield coach.

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Speaker 1: This year for the Dallas Cowboys, they played forty seven

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Speaker 1: per cent of their coverages were cover three. That's a

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Speaker 1: very high percentage. So he plays that Seahawks style system

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Speaker 1: when he arranges his coverage in the defensive backfield. Of course,

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Speaker 1: the question would be when he gets here, if he

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Speaker 1: in fact turns out to be the guy who wins

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Speaker 1: the job, how will he mesh with whoever the coordinator

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Speaker 1: will be and what kind of adjustments would he have

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Speaker 1: to make with that coordinator Because a lot of times

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Speaker 1: what happens is when you see a guy who's your

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Speaker 1: position coach or a coordinator, a lot of what they're

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Speaker 1: doing is influenced by their head guy. It may not

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Speaker 1: be exactly what he wants to do, all right, And

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Speaker 1: I mentioned the fact that he's technically not the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator the last couple of years. Rob Marionelli is,

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Speaker 1: and he's obviously a classic four. Well, here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: This year, the Cowboys blitz percentage went way down. It did.

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Speaker 1: They were only twenty eight and blitz percentage this year,

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Speaker 1: and he was their play caller on defense. Marionelli passed

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Speaker 1: that over to him on game days, so he was

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Speaker 1: not a heavy blitz guy this year. Now, a lot

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Speaker 1: of that has to do with the fact that the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys invested heavily in defensive lineman that should be able

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Speaker 1: to win one on one to get after the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Robert Quinn, De Marcus Lawrence, Michael benn in the trade

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Speaker 1: and MALIEK. Collins. So he probably didn't feel like he

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Speaker 1: had the blitz. They did blitz more than they did

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Speaker 1: this season. So you wonder if he's married to a

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Speaker 1: four three three four, because again, he's more of a

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Speaker 1: secondary guy. Something I think would depend on who the

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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator would be and who would run the defense

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Speaker 1: for him. But this year he did not blitz a lot.

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Speaker 1: Big Time's own guy like long, lengthy cornerbacks and the

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Speaker 1: other thing I'll throw out there too. From a statistic

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Speaker 1: point of view, Paul, they did not get unlike those

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Speaker 1: Seattle defenses he had. The Cowboys did not get a

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Speaker 1: lot of takeaways the last couple of season. That's something

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Speaker 1: the defense did struggle with this year in terms of

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Speaker 1: takeaways just seventeen. Only seven interceptions this year and ten

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Speaker 1: fumble recoveries. The point to be made, like you said before,

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Speaker 1: how they reduced their blitz packages this year. Maronelli was

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Speaker 1: always known for his extensive blitz packages, and now that

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Speaker 1: they have cut back, you wonder where was the influence

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Speaker 1: there is that something that we're shard particularly wanted to

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Speaker 1: get away from and then was allowed to do so

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Speaker 1: this year. You are definitely right though about the takeaways

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Speaker 1: going down you wonder if that also has something to

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Speaker 1: do with the fact that they didn't send more pressure. Well,

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Speaker 1: and you watch the way they play the Cowboys, the

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Speaker 1: way their defensive backs generally play, the way they work

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Speaker 1: their scheme, they're not keeping their eye on the quarterback

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Speaker 1: is much. They generally have their back turn to the quarterback,

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Speaker 1: and they're doing more of that face guarding technique, which,

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Speaker 1: by the way, if you don't make contact with the

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Speaker 1: opposing wide receiver, it's legal, it's not defensive past interference.

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Speaker 1: But if you watch Byron Jones and not Jadobie Woozi

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Speaker 1: and those guys, they generally tend to blank at the

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Speaker 1: wide receiver, try to get their head around very late

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Speaker 1: in the process and knock the ball away. That's why

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Speaker 1: they don't get a lot of those interceptions. We should

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Speaker 1: also mention, by the way, he also spent a couple

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Speaker 1: of years playing with the San Francisco forty Niners, so

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Speaker 1: did have five years of playing experience in the NFL

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Speaker 1: before we entered the coaching ranks, and he was on

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Speaker 1: the coaching circuit last year. He was rumored to be

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Speaker 1: interviewed for jobs last year with various teams throughout the league,

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Speaker 1: so he's somebody that has been highly sought after overall.

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Speaker 1: By the way, the Cowboys were top ten defense this year.

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Speaker 1: They're around eight or nine, and most statistical categories same

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Speaker 1: deal last year, so that's kind of where they landed.

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Speaker 1: If you look at some of the advanced numbers they

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Speaker 1: have those d v o A stats, they were a

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Speaker 1: little bit lower, closer between fifteen and twenty the last

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Speaker 1: couple of years. So that's your thumbnail on Christo Shard,

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Speaker 1: one of the player, one of the coaches right that

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Speaker 1: will interview for the Giants head coach position this off

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Speaker 1: season for Paul Detino. I'm John Schmunk. Thanks for being

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Speaker 1: with us. Stay tuned the Giants dot com as the

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Speaker 1: Giants coaching search continues.