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Ken McKusick

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
247 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
John Harbaugh Officially Giants Coach | 117

It's very well done.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
John Harbaugh Officially Giants Coach | 117

They spent a lot of time this last season cleaning up false starts, which seems like a small thing.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
John Harbaugh Officially Giants Coach | 117

To reduce your false starts from 24 to 19 doesn't seem like that big a deal.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
John Harbaugh Officially Giants Coach | 117

But it meant that they could run different cadences and...

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
John Harbaugh Officially Giants Coach | 117

Keep the pass rushers, the edge rushers out of the sprinters blocks, so to speak, coming downhill.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
John Harbaugh Officially Giants Coach | 117

And they did a very good job with that.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
John Harbaugh Officially Giants Coach | 117

I thought maybe a 10% increase in false starts with running more complex cadences would be something that would be still a win.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
John Harbaugh Officially Giants Coach | 117

And they ended up with five fewer.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
John Harbaugh Officially Giants Coach | 117

So I think that really worked out.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
John Harbaugh Officially Giants Coach | 117

Um, you know, there's a number of small things that add up to a lot that John Harbaugh will, will give the giants and improve culture there tremendously, but mostly, um, he's a tree builder and a, uh, you know, that, that's what he'll give your organization knows a ton of coaches.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
John Harbaugh Officially Giants Coach | 117

A lot of people want to come work for him.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
John Harbaugh Officially Giants Coach | 117

We've got in inroads at big college programs, most notably Michigan.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
John Harbaugh Officially Giants Coach | 117

And, uh, and he can get you people from there and, uh, and bring them to the pro level and,

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
John Harbaugh Officially Giants Coach | 117

He's done a very good job of that.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
John Harbaugh Officially Giants Coach | 117

He's used Michigan as basically a, a minor league intern system for both Mike McDonald, who at Seattle, and then for Jesse Minter, who went to the chargers.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
John Harbaugh Officially Giants Coach | 117

So a lot of things from an injury perspective went down.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
John Harbaugh Officially Giants Coach | 117

Justin Namby, Matt Abike got hurt and Broderick Washington got hurt.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
John Harbaugh Officially Giants Coach | 117

And this has been a team that had tremendous success with a lack of injuries the last few years, particularly on the defensive line.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
John Harbaugh Officially Giants Coach | 117

In fact, a couple of years ago, they had the five defensive linemen played every single snap the entire year.

Giants Nation Show (Giants Podcast)
John Harbaugh Officially Giants Coach | 117

They didn't have one injury and, you know.