EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. Part of a head coachs many roles is to build relationships with his players.Some coaches are succe sful at that, while others not so much so. Understandably, its a tricky proposition as people are different, and what Shaquille O’Neal Jersey works with one individual might not work with another.Giants head coach Brian Daboll knows this very well. In his effort to build a relationship with receiver Kadarius Toney, who is coming off a nightmarish rookie season and an off-season in which he had to rehab from knee surgery and be the subject of trade rumors, Daboll looked for a common ground with the receiver.That ground is music, the universal language. Daboll, who is a big rap and country music fan, made sure to include some of Toneys musicthe receiver goes by the stage name Yung Joka–into the daily practice playlist. Hes a good person. He cares about his teammates. And we have good communication, him and I, Daboll said of Toney. He likes football. He likes music. I think hes a very loyal, a loyal guy. And you got to build trust with KT, and he had to build trust with me. Really no different than a lot of guys.Toney might have easily irked Daboll back in the spring when he skipped out on the start of the voluntary off-season conditioning program. But Daboll insisted that he wasnt bothered by the second-year receivers decision, adding that the two of them had productive conversations.Trust is probably one of the most important things in any relationship you can build. Ive told you from Day 1 Ive been very happy with KT, his approach, how he is as a person, first and foremost, because thats what matters to me. Weve seen him in college. We evaluated him. He has a tremendous skill set. Hes smart. We move him around quite a bit. Hes a good young player that were going to help develop anyway we can both on and off the field.Toney, whom Daboll said sends him some of his songs, admitted he was pleasantly surprised when one of the tunes made it into the playlist. I think thats pretty great; Im not going to lie, he said. It had me juiced up. I appreciate them for doing it because it shows the willingne s to build a relationship with me. (But) I need to focus right now. Im focused on ball right now.So far, so good, as Toney and teammate WanDale Robinson are already showing just how important he’ll be to this offense. Both have made plays catching the ball in the intermediate (10-15 yard) range and have been turning those plays into big gainers. That should go a long way toward getting a stagnant Giants offense back on track.Injury ReportNo change to the PUP list (receiver Sterling Shepard, center Nick Gates and tackle Matt Peart) or NFI (outside linebacker Azeez Ojulari). Ojulari, who is week to week, was spotted doing some work on a nearby field with a trainer watching.Starting center Jon Feliciano was held out of practice due to the aftereffects of Thursdays brutally hot and humid day. Jamil Douglas and Max Garcia took reps at center in Felicianos absence. Unfortunately, for the Giants, snapping the ball was an adventure, as at least three of the snaps were poor (including one during a walk-through scenario).Not only was the snapping not as crisp, Jamaal Wilkes Jersey but there were probably a few too many jailbreaks by the defense in getting into the backfield at the snap. To be fair, though, its hard to tell for sure if the jailbreaks were legit or a result of the team still being in the acclimation period where contact is still not allowed. Still, it did seem like different members of the defense were living in the Giants offensive backfield a little too often on the day.Inside linebacker Blake Martinez, who had a slight increase in his workload Thursday, had his reps reduced on Friday, though its unclear if that was because the Giants went to a lot of their dime package or if it had to do with his ongoing rehab from a torn ACL. Dabolls Training Camp Practice PlanScroll to ContinueThe Giants opened training camp focused on the red zone. On Day 2, they focused on third and short, and then on Day 3, it was third-and-long. That sequence so far caused one to wonder if the Giants chose to open camp with that sequence since the red zone and third-down conversions were so bad for the Giants last year. Here is his response. Its areas you need to work on. Red zone is a really important area in terms of scoring the football and then stopping and creating field goals–an area we definitely need to work on. It also helps players coming back from being down 30, 40 days of working in the offseason. And youre not running 20 go routes or covering posts or deep cro sers and things like that. And then usually on like a third James Worthy Jersey and two-to-five day, its a lot shorter routes, too. Youre running routes at the sticks, or youre running shallow cro sers, things like that. So, some of the running in the ramp-up period helps those guys. Today itll be a little bit longer. Again, trying to put players in stre sful situations in practice is important. Thats why you practice. You learn from it, and you move on. You see if you can fix the things you need to fix. So thats kind of what were doing. Id say the next day is kind of the fringe area in that area and then we got a day off. Then well start with pads. That will be a first and second down day where we can kind of get after it in the running game and really start playing real football if you will. Practice ObservationsAs previously noted, there were a few adventures with snapping the ball while Jon Feliciano sidelined. While I counted just three really bad snaps (including one in which there wasnt even a defender lined up acro s from the offense), thats still three too many in my estimation, as all it takes is one aborted snap to give the defense a turnover. Im also not sure if it was because Feliciano was mi sing or if its because with camps still being in acclimation mode and thus not allowing contact, the offensive linemen cant get as physical as they need to be against the pa s rush.Whatever the reason, I thought there was Lonzo Ball Jersey far too much pre sure on the quarterbacks in this practice. I counted at least four instances where there should have been sacks and a handful of others where the quarterback was moved off his mark. Im developing an appreciation for Matt Breida and how he runs. Breida does a nice job of deciding where hes going with the ball and hitting the holes without hesitation. Again, theres no contact just yet, but you can also see signs of him looking to lower his shoulder and just plow straight ahead. I couldnt tell you exactly how many sacks there might have been throughout the day, but there was consistent pre sure. Quarterbacks, wearing red non-contact jerseys, were constantly being moved off their spot or flushed out of the pocke
