Defense treated it like a real game
Although Friday was nothing more than a scrimmage, there’s a reason why the defense got out to an early lead over the offense: they treated it like a real game.
The Giants defense had a meeting on Thursday night and the entire unit went into regular season mode. They set a schedule as they would during a normal week, ate like a normal week, prepared like a normal week and even went through their pregame rituals like it was a normal week.
“I think we kind of set the tone [Thursday] night even to ‘let’s all prepare, come in today like it’s a game.’ We’re not getting those preseason game reps, so we tried to really take it seriously today and try to get out there, play with high energy, high focus and just play with each other. We wanted to fly around, run to the ball, and for the most part, I thought we did a good job today. That was kind of our mindset. It’s all trying to get those game-like reps going for us,” defensive back Julian Love said.
Mission accomplished.