After more than a decade of trying to stop Jason Garrett’s offense, the New York Giants will now implement it as their own. Kind of.
The Giants have been somewhat coy about what they plan to do offensively in 2020, but during a Zoom call with reporters on Tuesday, head coach Joe Judge pulled back the curtain a bit and acknowledged Garrett’s offensive system will look very similar to the one he ran in Dallas.
“I think schematically, the easiest way to describe it to the outside world right now is it’s going to be similarly based off what Jason’s done in Dallas over the last 10 or so years. There are going to be some similarities carried over from that, but it has to cater to our players we have on our roster currently,” Judge said.
“We’re going to be a team that focuses a lot on game plans and whatever we have to do game by game. That might be running the ball every play or throwing the ball every play based on the opponent. But we’re going to make sure we’re not too rigid in what we’re doing that we can’t adapt by game plan.”
Judge cautioned that it’s not a straight West Coast offense and will have several different wrinkles built around the talent currently on the roster, including an Alabama-heavy influence.
“It’s not the true west coast system. Really one thing that Jason does that’s really outstanding is it’s really his system that’s been formed over years collectively from where he’s played and coached. Those are part of the conversations we had when we talked about joining the staff. We’ve talked along the way that it’s really a collection of what Jason has put together throughout his own career,” Judge said.
“I can’t tell you concrete wise what that’s going to be. But there are a lot of cousin concepts you would say in every offense. When me and Jason talk about the offense, there is a lot of familiarity in the terminology and the verbiage that he uses that I’ve heard when I worked at Alabama under (Nick) Saban. A lot of that comes from crossover of offensive coordinators that they work alongside in Miami together.
“Within this league, you really kind of study the head coaches and coordinators. You talk a lot about coaching trees, but it really comes into the influences that you’ve worked under or played under. Normally, once you work under somebody, you develop your own style, but you borrow a lot from that person that you just left, whether that’s as simple as verbiage, terminology, philosophies on route-running, pass protections, all those things there.”
The change will present a unique challenge for Daniel Jones, who will now have to learn his second offensive system in as many years, while playing in his third system since his senior year in college.
The good news? There will be some — but not many — concepts Jones is already familiar with.
“There are going to be similarities to this in some regards to Daniel,” Judge said. “but I would not say it’s a carryover in any way, shape or form from his rookie year.”
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