Henderson and Treier each labored for the Giants for the previous 5 seasons.
Henderson interviewed for the defensive coordinator emptiness crammed by Shane Bowen one yr in the past and acquired a promotion to defensive passing sport coordinator when he stayed for 2024. Treier grew from the staff’s 2020 defensive high quality management coach to their 2021-22 assistant DBs coach to their safeties coach in 2023-24. NFL Community first reported their firings.
The secondary’s efficiency in 2023 and 2024 fluctuated with adjustments in coordinator and personnel.
The 2023 Giants protection tied for an NFL-high 31 takeaways (18 interceptions) below coordinator Wink Martindale with Xavier McKinney at free security and rookie nook Deonte Banks growing encouragingly.
Brian Daboll’s dysfunction led to Martindale’s resignation. Joe Schoen let McKinney check in Inexperienced Bay in free company. Daboll settled on Bowen after a number of different candidates didn’t take the job. And the 2024 Giants protection completed backside 5 within the NFL takeaways (15) and thirty first out of 32 defenses in interceptions (5).
When Banks regressed, Henderson was fast to carry his younger nook accountable publicly however Daboll was not.
One other quieter change to the secondary was the defensive employees addition of former Northwestern affiliate head coach Matt MacPherson.
MacPherson, a former DePauw school teammate of Schoen’s, had been fired by Northwestern final January after allegedly witnessing gamers participating in numerous types of hazing, together with bare pull-ups and dry-humping of gamers throughout a ritual referred to as “running.”
MacPherson labored with the Giants all season, however his addition and presence since coaching camp was by no means formally introduced by the Giants group. It’s unclear why that’s.
The firings of Henderson and Treier come 9 days after co-owner John Mara complained that “I didn’t think our defense played very well this year at all” and added: “I’m tired of watching teams go up and down the field on us.”
A number of NFL sources believed throughout the common season that Bowen would attempt to reunite along with his former Titans colleague Mike Vrabel wherever he landed subsequent. And now Vrabel has the New England Patriots head teaching job and a defensive coordinator emptiness to fill.
Whether or not Bowen is staying or not, although, blaming the secondary’s coaches for the protection’s shortcomings provides as much as how Daboll and the Giants had been assigning blame throughout the season.
Defensive position coach Andre Patterson really had the audacity throughout an early December interview accountable the secondary for the staff’s horrific run protection whereas skirting blame for the road.
“Oh, I think we’ve done a good job against the run,” Patterson stated. “It’s like I tell people all the time: you grow up in little league and in high school, ‘oh, the run game is the front seven. It’s the D-line and the linebackers.’ The NFL game isn’t that way.”
“They’re making those guys on the perimeter tackle,” the D-line coach continued. “They’re gonna make your corner tackle. They’re gonna make your safeties tackle. They’re gonna find a way to make those guys have to come up and make tackles. So our problem is not that we’re getting blown off the ball. That’s not our issue. We’ve just got to be better at when we get our hands on the guy, getting him on the ground.”
Clearly, that was not only a message being offered by the D-Line coach. It was coming from above him.
Initially Printed: January 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM EST
