About Carl Banks
Carl Banks, a two-time Super Bowl champion and New York Giants Ring of Honor inductee, has made several media appearances in recent weeks to discuss his career, his role as president of the G-III Sports Division, and the current state of the Giants. On the 1925 New York Giants Podcast, Banks promoted his Starter brand, describing how he was one of the first players signed by the company and how founder David Beckerman's vision made "fandom become fashionable." He also commented on Giants general manager Joe Schoen, saying he believes the organization felt Schoen had "acquired the right amount of talent to move the team in the right direction" and noted that Schoen inherited a "really bad salary cap situation." Banks expressed his opinion that the Giants should have franchise-tagged quarterback Daniel Jones and given running back Saquon Barkley a contract extension, stating, "You put your money where you know the safe contract is."
On the Bleav in Bengals podcast, Banks discussed the trade of defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence from the Giants to the Cincinnati Bengals. Banks stated that "Dexter didn't want to be a Giant anymore" and described Lawrence's best play as "demoralizing" to offensive players, comparing his strength to Larry Allen and his interior pass rush to Reggie White. Banks said he hopes the "joy has returned" for Lawrence in Cincinnati. He also commented on the Giants' current roster, expressing optimism about players like Cam Scataboo and Malik Nabers, and said the team is "on their way back."
Source: AI-verified profile updated from Carl Banks's recent appearances.
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Host0:00
Time for this week's edition of Strategy, brought to you by Microsoft Surface, the official tablet of the New York Giants and the NFL. And Carl, we're going to take a look at the Philadelphia Eagles now. As of this taping, we're not really sure who's playing for the Philadelphia Eagles, but it's more about their concepts and what they want to do and why their running game is so successful.
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Carl Banks0:22
Well, they're great blockers, but they also understand the scheme. Here I'm going to circle Azis Ozulari here because he's the guy who has to set the edge. So when you run this play, you'll see—boom, I'll stop it here. Looks like the edge is set, right? The edge is not set until this back has to come back in here. So when you see him here, he's in great position; he can get off the block. Once it's here, you've got to be up the field so that the runner has to redirect and go inside. He just beat you to the edge, so the edge was not officially set. So not getting blocked is one thing; the assignment is to set the edge. You got to make sure nothing gets around the edge. Now, here's another really good concept that the Philadelphia Eagles run, and what they'll do, they want to influence both middle linebackers with the action of the fullback. As I run this, you'll see what the influence of the fullback is. He goes there. Now everybody's here because the fullback started here, and the back is still looking as if he's coming through that hole. But what ends up happening? It's a counter. Now the fullback becomes a lead blocker, and everybody on this side of the line of scrimmage, they're all blocking down, which means that something's coming back over here, and the fullback's coming to kick out the linebacker on the edge. They all get washed in, and there's a big hole to run through.
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Host2:05
All right, let's take a look at some more of what Philadelphia wants to do offensively.
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Carl Banks2:10
Yeah, offensively Bob, it's get the ball to their best wide receivers. In this case, it's Brown here at the top, and it's just a quick slant route. But you cannot allow him to catch and run the football. Now the Giants did a decent job here, but the safety takes a bad angle. Right safety goes this way when he should be going that way, and that's why the ball is caught, but he does make the tackle.
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Host2:41
All right, let's take a look at defensively. Vic Fangio, the new defensive coordinator—he's got a lot of talent. But there was a lot of talent there last year. He's now coordinated that talent well.
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Carl Banks2:51
The talent is coordinated better, Bob. But I'll tell you, the talent is the key here because it's just individuals. They don't do a lot in terms of stunts or blitzes—they will do it sometimes—but it's go beat your man, and they've been very good at it. I'm going to show you right here: at the left tackle for the Giants, he gets help from the tight end and still gets beat. So you're going to see here, little chip block here, and this guy is going to just overpower the tackle. There's a chip—there's nothing special about that other than he just gets outworked. Here we are again, let's just take a look at the run game. Right, so you've got a guy who's over your left defensive tackle, who can come in and make a tackle. You got two guys blocking him; one guy has to get him stopped. Here he just slants right down. It's just great individual play by a defensive end where you've got to get them blocked. You've got a double here, Bob. You're going to get this lineman blocked. This is a guy you just got to get him cut off to the football because this block is made as well. So you have a chance for this run play if you just get your guy blocked. And here it is right where the ball was going to go. If you get him blocked, there's daylight to run to. That's a look at Strategy with Carl Banks, brought to you by Microsoft Surface.
