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Giants make several more coaching staff changes

The New York Giants continued shuffling their coaching staff around recently, changing the roles for several assistants.

The New York Giants have done some more shuffling to their assistant coaching ranks under head coach Joe Judge.

In addition, Mike Treier has gone from defensive quality control coach to the assistant defensive backs coach. Bielema was the Giants’ outside linebackers coach who left in December after accepting the head coaching job at the University of Illinois.

On offense, the Giants are led by coordinator Jason Garrett who heads a staff consisting of Burton Burns (running backs), Derek Dooley (tight ends), Freddie Kitchens (senior offensive assistant), Rob Sale (offensive line), Tyke Tolbert (wide receivers), Jerry Schuplinski (quarterbacks), Ben Wilkerson (assistant offensive line coach), Jody Wright and quality control coach Nick Williams.

On defense under coordinator Patrick Graham, there is Blevins, Treier, Kevin Sherrer (linebackers), Jerome Henderson (defensive backs), Sean Spencer (defensive line) and senior defensive assistant Jeremy Pruitt.

Special teams are led by coordinator Thomas McGaughey and assistant Tom Quinn. Amos Jones returns as the assistant coach for special projects and situations and Ryan Hollern is the chief of staff.

Pat Flaherty has also returned to the team and will work with the offense, defense and special teams.

4 Giants assistant coaches on staff for 2021 East-West Shrine Bowl

Four New York Giants assistant coaches will be on staff for the 2021 East-West Shrine Bowl Professional Development Opportunity.

Four New York Giants assistant coaches will participate in this year’s East-West Shrine Bowl Professional Development Opportunity.

At the conclusion of the regular season, NFL clubs “nominated active assistant coaches who were reviewed by a panel of NFL Football Operations staff, East-West Shrine Bowl leadership and members of the NFL’s General Managers Advisory Committee to serve as coaches for this year’s event.”

The Giants will be represented by assistant defensive back coach Anthony Blevins, offensive quality control coach Bobby Blick, defensive quality control coach Mike Treier and linebackers coach Jody Wright.

The game, which was originally scheduled to be played at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida on January 23, was cancelled due to COVID-19. Instead, “the student-athletes chosen as players will still participate in various virtual training/informational drills with current NFL coaches and members of the NFL Operations staff. Some 2021 all-stars will also participate in various virtual experiences with Shriners Hospitals for Children patients in recognition of the game’s nearly century-long commitment to supporting the health care system’s life-changing mission.”

Over the years, many future Giants have played in the event reserved for college seniors such as Hall of Famers Lawrence Taylor and Frank Gifford. Coaches affiliated with the Giants include Dan Reeves and Romeo Crennel.

The East-West Shrine Bowl has been played for 95 years and is the nation’s oldest all-star game. 98 players from the 2020 East-West Shrine Bowl signed with an NFL team last fall.

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Report: Jessie Armstead will coach Giants OLBs in Week 15

Jessie Armstead, a long-time New York Giants linebacker, will reportedly coach the team’s outside linebackers in Week 15.

The New York Giants were forced to make several coaching staff changes on the fly this week after offensive coordinator Jason Garrett tested positive for COVID-19 and outside linebackers coach/senior defensive assistant Bret Bielema took the head coaching job at Illinois.

Tight ends coach Freddie Kitchens will assume the play calling duties with Garrett out, while the Giants announced inside linebackers coach Kevin Sherrer and defensive assistant Jody Wright would split Bielema’s duties.

However, Jay Glazer reported on FOX NFL Sunday that Jessie Armstead, who currently serves as special assistant to the general manager, would descend from the front office in order to coach the outside linebackers in Week 15.

Armstead, an eighth-round pick of the Giants in the 1998 NFL Draft, spent nine of his 12 seasons in East Rutherford, earning five trips to the Pro Bowl and four All-Pro nods. He was inducted into the team’s Ring of Honor in 2010.

Glazer did not elaborate further on Armstead’s exact role or what it means for Sherrer or Wright, and also did not touch on whether or not Armstead would remain in that role over the final two weeks of the season.

Whatever the case may be, Giants fans are certain to love it. Not only was Armstead an intense and dominant linebacker during his playing days, he’s a long-time fan favorite.

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Giants vs. Browns: A revenge game for many

A Week 15 matchup between the New York Giants and Cleveland Browns will be a revenge game for many — probably more than you realize.

The New York Giants will be entertaining some old friends when the Cleveland Browns come to MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey this Sunday night.

Additionally, the Browns are going to see some familiar faces on the other side of the ball as well.

In fact, there are quite a few cross-connections here in Week 15.

Report: Giants to hire Freddie Kitchens, Jody Wright

The New York Giants are expected to hire former Cleveland Browns head coach Freddie Kitchens and his offensive assistant, Jody Wright.

It’s been a busy Tuesday evening for the New York Giants as Joe Judge continues to compile his coaching staff.

Earlier in the evening, it was reported that the Giants are expected to hire Bret Bielema and Jerome Henderson. They will now be joined by former Cleveland Browns head coach Freddie Kitchens and his offensive assistant, Jody Wright.

Wright was a graduate assistant/coordinator of football operations at Mississippi State from 2005-09 and a graduate assistant/offensive analyst for Alabama from 2010-12. He moved on to become a passing game coordinator/tight ends coach at Jacksonville State in 2013 and then a running backs coach at UAB in 2014.

The following year, Wright returned to Alabama where he took over as the director of player personnel until 2018 when he was hired as the offensive line and assistant head coach at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Kitchens had spent the previous two seasons in Cleveland, finding himself promoted from associate head coach and running backs coach to offensive coordinator to head coach. He was fired after a 6-10 season in 2019.

Prior to his time with the Browns, Kitchens spent 11 years with the Arizona Cardinals, coaching tight ends, quarterbacks and running backs over different spans. He also served on season as the Dallas Cowboys tight ends coach in 2006.

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