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Giants attempted to lure Davis Webb back after Daniel Jones injury

After Daniel Jones suffered a season-ending torn ACL, the New York Giants briefly tried to bring QB Davis Webb back into the fold.

New York Giants quarterback Daniel Jones has reportedly begun running on an anti-gravity treadmill as part of the process of rehabbing his surgically repaired right knee.

Jones tore his ACL in Week 8 against the Las Vegas Raiders and was lost for the remainder of the 2023 season. It capped off a rough first season under his new four-year, $160 million contract.

“My rehab is going well,” the 26-year-old Jones told the New York Daily News on Super Bowl Radio row in Las Vegas this week.

“I’m making progress. I’m three months into it, and I’ve started running on the anti-gravity treadmill. It’s going well.”

Jones’ injury put the Giants in a bind at quarterback, especially after backup Tyrod Taylor was also injured, giving way to rookie Tommy DeVito.

Jones told the Daily News that the Giants contacted Davis Webb, a former backup who began his coaching career as an assistant with the Denver Broncos last year.

Denver Broncos coach Sean Payton told Jones on Friday, though, that the Giants actually tried to recruit Broncos quarterback Davis Webb back to play for them when Jones got hurt.

“When you got hurt this year, Davis got a call about, ‘Can you come back to play?'” Payton told Jones and Eli Manning on the Up & Adams show. “And I’m like, ‘Davis, you took this job, you’re coaching.’ And then there’s some rule in our league that if you sign a coaching contract for that year, you cannot play. Anyway, I thought I was gonna lose our quarterback coach to the Giants.”

Just as well. Webb would not have moved the needle for this Giant team, which has been littered with injuries and dysfunction the past season and a half.

Jones should have a clear path as the Giants’ starter next season as the team is not likely to bring in much competition. But that confidence will not last past 2024 should Jones fail to live up to his contract again.

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Giants’ Angela Baker added to West Team’s staff for Shrine Bowl

New York Giants offensive assistant Angela Baker will join Mike Kafka on the West Team and coach tight ends during the Shrine Bowl.

Former New York Giants quarterback Davis Webb will serve as the West Team’s offensive coordinator in the upcoming East-West Shrine Bowl which will be played on Thursday, February 1 at the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas.

Webb joins current Giants’ offensive coordinator Mike Kafka — who is the head coach — on the West Team staff and Giants offensive assistant Angela Baker, who will coach the tight ends.

Webb just finished his first season as the quarterbacks coach of the Denver Broncos after concluding a six-year NFL playing career. He was originally drafted by the Giants in the third round (87th overall) of the 2017 NFL draft and spent time with the Giants, New York Jets, and Buffalo Bills, mainly as a practice squadder and backup.

Baker, meanwhile, was hired as the Giants’ offensive quality control coach in 2022 before being promoted to offensive assistant in 2023.

Prior to her time in East Rutherford, Baker served as the kickers and punters/special teams/defensive quality control coach for the University of Redlands Bulldogs, a Division III school out of Southern California.

Baker also has on-field experience, having played for the Pittsburgh Passion in the Women’s Football Alliance (full-contact). During that time, she was named a seven-time All-American and the 2016 National Conference Offensive Player of the League.

While with the Cleveland Browns as part of the Bill Walsh Diversity Coach Fellowship program, Baker worked with the team’s quarterbacks. She helped analyze film, study the playbooks, and identify quarterback weaknesses.

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Broncos QBs coach Davis Webb will lead West offense at East-West Shrine Bowl

Broncos QBs coach Davis Webb will serve as the West team’s offensive coordinator at the East-West Shrine Bowl next month.

Denver Broncos quarterbacks coach Davis Webb will get a close look at quarterbacks featured in this year’s East-West Shrine Bowl.

Webb has been named the offensive coordinator for the West team. Quarterbacks set to participate in the East-West Shrine Bowl include Devin Leary (Kentucky), John Rhys Plumlee (UCF), Jack Plummer (Louisville), Austin Reed (Western Kentucky), Kedon Slovis (BYU) and Jordan Travis (Florida State). Those QBs have not yet been assigned to specific teams.

Webb, 28, was a backup quarterback in the NFL from 2017-2022. He retired as a player last spring to become Denver’s QBs coach under new head coach Sean Payton.

Although he only has one year of experience under his belt, Webb has already been dubbed a coach to watch for promotion in the coming years. Webb impressed Payton in 2023 and he also drew praise from Broncos offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi.

Webb now gets another opportunity to gain valuable coaching experience while also scouting QBs for Denver ahead of April’s draft. The 2024 East-West Shrine Bowl will be played in Frisco, Texas on Thursday, Feb. 1.

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Broncos HC Sean Payton impressed with QBs coach Davis Webb

“I’m really impressed with his teaching ability and his style. He’s organized, and I think it’s invaluable for the quarterback.”

Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton brought in two rookie coaches this offseason who both played in the NFL just last year.

After hanging up their cleats, Davis Webb joined as quarterbacks coach and Chris Banjo joined as an assistant special teams coach.

Payton was asked about Webb after a training camp practice earlier this month.

“He’s been a great asset,” Payton said on Aug. 17. “He’s smart and it’s unusual to get a player — we have two, he and Chris. [They] were literally playing a year ago and are now coaching. He’s prepared. I’m really impressed with his teaching ability and his style. He’s organized, and I think it’s invaluable for the quarterback. You have someone who actually understands it. We have a number of guys who are in the quarterback meetings, but on a daily basis, he’s been really good.

“I told this story after he finished his interview. You get into this routine after an interview. You go, ‘Alright, let’s get him to the airport and the next one.’ I’m sitting and talking to George [Paton] and I’m thinking to myself, ‘Why are we letting him leave? I know better.’ We called him up. I called the driver up and brought him back and hired him. I’m glad we did that.”

Webb, 28, was a backup with the New York Giants in 2017, then with the New York Jets in 2018 and with the Buffalo Bills from 2019-2021. Buffalo wanted Webb to retire and become their QBs coach after the 2021 season, but Webb decided to spend another season as a player.

After serving as a backup with the Giants again in 2022, Webb decided to retire and he interviewed for Denver’s QB coach opening. Payton let Webb leave the building but quickly brought him back to hire him. The former QB will make his coaching debut when the Broncos host the Las Vegas Raiders in Week 1.

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Broncos OC Joe Lombardi sees a bright future for QBs coach Davis Webb

“I certainly see a bright future for him in the coaching profession,” Broncos OC Joe Lombardi said of rookie QBs coach Davis Webb.

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It seems that Davis Webb was born to coach football.

When he was still playing in the NFL as a backup with the Buffalo Bills, the Bills asked Webb to retire so he could become their quarterbacks coach last year.

Webb declined Buffalo’s offer because he wanted to continue playing for at least one more season. Webb ultimately decided to retire after the 2022 season and Denver Broncos coach Sean Payton quickly hired him as QBs coach.

Although he is the head coach, Payton will call offensive plays for the Broncos and offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi, a former QBs coach, will work under Payton. Webb will work under Lombardi.

Lombardi has been coaching in the NFL since 2006 and he foresees a bright future for Webb.

“[He is a] really hard worker and he takes it seriously,” Lombardi said on June 14. “He’s young and he’s just starting out as a coach. With his background, the coaches he’s been with, and the experience of being a quarterback where you’re really responsible for knowing what everyone’s doing, I think he has a really good base.

“He’s good at building relationships with the guys that he coaches, so I certainly see a bright future for him in the coaching profession.”

Webb, 28, will be younger than Denver quarterback Russell Wilson, but that won’t be a strange concept to the 34-year-old veteran. Wilson’s personal QBs coach, Jake Heaps, is three years younger than him. It’s not very common in the NFL, but it has happened before to have a coach younger than players.

After serving as a backup quarterback in the NFL from 2017-2022, Webb will make his coaching debut with the Broncos this fall. He’ll hope to follow in the footsteps of Payton and Lombardi, who both coached quarterbacks in the NFL before moving up the coaching ranks.

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Broncos QBs coach Davis Webb is ‘wise beyond his years’

“He’s really bright, and he’s played. He’s really been a coach on the field since he’s been in the league,” Sean Payton said of Davis Webb.

Davis Webb is set to serve as quarterbacks coach for the Denver Broncos this season, right after retiring from playing in the NFL.

Webb is only 28 years old, so he will be younger than Russell Wilson (34), but head coach Sean Payton believes Webb has the smarts required to coach at this level.

“People kept bringing his name up to us,” Payton said of the team’s search for a QBs coach this offseason. “We brought him in and he walks in the room and he lights up the room. When you start talking football with him, he’s poised beyond his years, he’s wise beyond his years. Just great football knowledge. I sat in there with Davis and the offensive staff, and he blew them away.

“He’s 28 years old, but he’s really bright, and he’s played. He’s really been a coach on the field since he’s been in the league. When you talk to the Giants and the Buffalo Bills and the value he brought to some of those quarterbacks there, whether it was Eli [Manning] or Josh [Allen]. Really excited about the hire.”

Webb was a backup quarterback with the New York Giants (2017, 2022), New York Jets (2018) and Buffalo Bills (2019-2021). Going straight from playing to coaching isn’t common, but it has been done before.

“I’ve been through this one other time when I was with the Miami Dolphins,” Payton said. “We had signed Jason Garrett late in the season. We had a bunch of quarterbacks get hurt and Coach [Nick] Saban came in and we recommended Jason to Coach Saban. He interviewed him, blew him away and we hired him. I don’t know how many times this has been done.

“You have to be pretty unique. You have to have a great football mind. I know he knows quarterbacks; he knows that position. He’s poised beyond his years. He’s been a coach, kind of like Jason throughout his career. Jason played a little more, but I see a parallel there. It can happen. He really impressed a veteran offensive staff when he sat in that room, and I was in the room.”

Webb will make his coaching debut when the Broncos begin their offseason program later this spring.

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Broncos’ coaching staff is a good mix of youth and experience

From Mike Westhoff (75) to Davis Webb (28), the Broncos have a wide range of youth and experience on their 2023 coaching staff.

From veterans like assistant head coach Mike Westhoff (75) to young, first-time coaches like quarterbacks coach Davis Webb (28), the Denver Broncos have a wide-ranging mix of experience and ages on their 2023 coaching staff.

Broncos head coach Sean Payton likes it that way, as does team owner/CEO Greg Penner.

“Greg texted me this the other day — Mr. Penner — he said, ‘I really like the makeup of how this staff is coming together,’ relative to experience and relative to a number of things,” Payton said at the NFL combine on Feb. 28.

Payton is following the lead of Hall of Fame coach Bill Parcells, one of his mentors.

“Parcells wanted to be around younger coaches,” Payton said. “He talked about it all the time. So I like being around younger coaches now. I still consider myself a younger coach, but then I sit in the room and listen to these young coaches that I enjoy. You get energized. Then there’s some experience [on the staff]. There’s just a little bit of everything and there wasn’t any [special requirements]. I think it was just finding the best people.”

The team’s list of more experienced coaches includes Payton (59), inside linebackers coach Greg Manusky (56), passing game coordinator John Morton (53) and offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi (51).

On the opposite end of the coaching staff, the team has young, up-and-coming coaches including special teams assistant Chris Banjo (33), defensive backs coach Christian Parker (31) and tight ends coach Declan Doyle (28).

Together, this coaching staff will aim to get the Broncos back on track, seeking the team’s first playoff berth since the 2015 season.

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Sean Payton has two just-retired players joining his coaching staff

Sean Payton’s coaching staff with the Broncos includes Davis Webb and Chris Banjo, who were just playing in the NFL last season.

Denver Broncos new head coach Sean Payton has mostly completed building his new coaching staff, and there are two unique hires to note.

Davis Webb (as quarterbacks coach) and Chris Banjo (as a special teams assistant) are joining the team immediately after hanging up their cleats. Webb and Banjo both played in the NFL just last season.

“We have two hires that are a little unique,” Payton said at the NFL combine last week. “It’s unusual for a player to come from a playing role, literally last season — call it an active roster status — and into a coaching position. We have that with Davis Webb and we have it with Chris Banjo as well.”

This isn’t the first time Payton has given former players their first opportunities as coaches in the NFL. He did the same with Zach Strief and Michael Wilhoite, who will also join Payton in Denver this spring.

Unlike Webb and Banjo, though, Strief and Wilhoite were out of the NFL for (at least) two years before Payton hired them with the New Orleans Saints. Webb and Banjo will be going straight from the locker room to the film room.

“We really had a really good experience with Chris when he came from Green Bay to New Orleans,” Payton said of Banjo. “I knew that he was still playing at Arizona, but he was at that stage in his career where he was looking forward maybe to getting into coaching.

“I had called him one night and low and behold, it was something he wanted to do and do pretty quickly. Normally, I would say that it takes two years. There is a transition that it takes for players, where they go their way and then they want to get back in.” 

Banjo, who served as a rotational safety and special teams ace for the Cardinals last year, wanted back in immediately, and Payton will give him that opportunity.

Webb served as a backup with the New York Giants last season, starting one game. The Broncos weren’t the first team to offer him the chance to coach in the NFL — the Buffalo Bills wanted him to retire last year so he could serve as their QBs coach, but Webb decided to continue playing.

Webb is now ready to make the jump to coaching, and Payton has made it possible.

“[H]e came highly recommended from a bunch of different coaches,” Payton said of Webb. “Brian Daboll, Eli Manning, I spoke to a number of people. I kept hearing the same things about him, so we brought him in. I didn’t have to do that with Chris, but I didn’t know Davis from — I remember him as a player, but I didn’t know him at all. He did a really good job.

“Those are two unusual hires because they were just on rosters last year, but their experience and where they are at — he’s a coach’s kid, Davis is. He had a file on his computer of every gameplan that he’s ever had since he was in high school, then college, then Texas Tech. Then, [Patrick] Mahomes comes in and then he transfers. It was really impressive just going through the process. Then, the fit for us, too — especially in that room — I think will be good.”

Webb will serve as the team’s QBs coach, working alongside Russell Wilson, under offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi — a former QBs coach — and Payton, who started his NFL coaching career as a QBs coach in 1997.

Webb and Banjo will look to follow in the footsteps of Strief and Wilhoite, who successfully transitioned from playing to coaching under Payton.

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Former Bills QB Davis Webb takes coaching job but not in Buffalo

Former #Bills QB Davis Webb takes coaching job but not in Buffalo:

The Buffalo Bills announced a slew of changes, including additions, to their coaching staff earlier this week. Not among them? Davis Webb.

That’s because the former Bills quarterback has landed a job elsewhere in the NFL.

The Denver Broncos hired Webb to be their quarterbacks coach, according to Broncos Wire.

Webb was a third-round pick of the New York Giants in 2017 and ended his playing career there in 2022. From 2019 to 2021, he was in Buffalo and played on an offense led by then-coordinator Brian Daboll.

When Daboll moved on to become the New York Giants head coach, Webb was one of the former Bills players that followed.

At the end of the 2022 NFL season, reports indicated that Buffalo had interest in transferring Webb into a coaching role. However, he opted to keep playing and ended up appearing in his first regular season game with the Giants in 2022.

With that under his belt, Davis decided he wanted to become a coach and is doing so in Denver.

Perhaps the Bills might have reached out to Webb… but they could not offer what the Broncos did: QB coach.

Buffalo has Joe Brady, a younger coach with offensive coordinator experience, as their quarterbacks coach already. There’s a chance the Bills extended an assistant QB coach opportunity to Davis, but you can’t blame him for opting to join the Broncs in a lead role.

Denver recently changed their head coach after trading for Sean Payton via a deal with the New Orleans Saints. Webb joins Payton’s initial Broncos coaching staff.

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Giants are suddenly a QB coach factory

The New York Giants are suddenly churning out quarterbacks coaches at a rapid pace, including Davis Webb and Alex Tanney.

It wasn’t too long ago the New York Giants were not considered a training ground for coaches. That’s all changed in recent months.

Last week, it was announced that Giants backup quarterback Davis Webb, 28, was hired to be the quarterbacks coach of the Denver Broncos under new head coach Sean Payton.

This week, another former New York Giants backup quarterback — Alex Tanney — was hired by the Philadelphia Eagles to be their quarterbacks coach.

Tanney, 35, was elevated from quality control coach. He also served as their assistant quarterbacks coach last season. During his nine-year NFL playing career, Tanney spent time with eight teams, ending his career in 2020 after a three-year stint with Big Blue.

On Tuesday during his presser at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, Giants general manager commented on Webb’s hiring.

“Coach Davis,” laughed Schoen. “It’s funny because in 2019 we signed him to our practice squad in Buffalo. And he was unique in that he would be upstairs, hanging with our personnel department. He was already a coach at the time, practically. He would take the practice squad guys down there, show them the film, he played safety in Buffalo to give looks for Josh as the scout team guy. He was already coaching.

“Super smart. I think that’s why he was able to go out and execute the way he did in that Eagles game. I love Davis, great guy, couldn’t be happier for him. He’s going to be a hell of a coach. And even a better person. We’ve known he’s going to be a coach for a while now.”

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