Giants head coach Brian Daboll added two extra assistant coaches, Bryan Cox and Kevin Wilkins, on Wednesday.
Cox, a former Tremendous Bowl winner and three-time Professional Bowler as a participant, and a coach with 5 different NFL groups, will probably be an assistant line of defense coach. He’ll work with line coach Andre Patterson on defensive coordinator Don “Wink” Martindale’s workers.
Wilkins, who labored with the Ravens final season as a defensive assistant, will work in the identical position for the Giants.
Cox, who will flip 54 on Thursday, final labored within the NFL because the Falcons’ line of defense coach from 2014-16. In his remaining season with the workforce, the Falcons went to the Tremendous Bowl. He began his teaching profession because the Jets’ line of defense coach from 2006-08 underneath Eric Mangini. Mangini later took Cox with him in 2009 to Cleveland, the place he coached the line of defense.
Cox was the Dolphins’ move rush coach in 2011 earlier than becoming a member of the Buccaneers for 2 seasons as their line of defense coach.
A fifth-round draft choose by the Dolphins out of Western Illinois in 1991, Cox performed linebacker and was chosen to the Professional Bowl in 1992, ’94 and ‘95. He additionally performed for the Bears (1996-97), Jets (1998-2000), Patriots (2001) and Saints (2002). He was on the Patriots workforce that defeated the Rams in Tremendous Bowl XXXVI.
Wilkins received into the league in 2015 when he joined the Ravens as a video intern for 2 years. He was the Ravens’ video operations coordinator from 2017-20 after which went into doing particular initiatives for the Ravens’ defensive teaching workers in 2019 earlier than he was made a defensive assistant for the 2021 season.
Mike Kafka, Daboll’s newly employed offensive coordinator, who spent the previous two seasons because the quarterbacks coach and passing sport coordinator for the Chiefs, spoke to Bob Papa on a workforce podcast about his position to “match these items’’ on the Giants’ offense collectively.
“Now we have an thought and a imaginative and prescient for what we expect this offense goes to seem like,’’ Kafka mentioned. “We received to seek out out who these items are. Proper now, we’re going via that course of, going via free company, evaluating the fellows at present on the workforce. I’m excited in regards to the gamers we've got within the constructing. I’m excited in regards to the prospects which might be on the market.’’
When Kafka was with the Chiefs, their passing offense ranked among the many high 4 in every of the previous two seasons.
Giants quarterback Daniel Jones, talking not too long ago on the “Breaking Large Blue” podcast, expressed optimism in regards to the new teaching workers.
“I feel should you take a look at what they had been doing in Kansas Metropolis and the success they had been having, I feel [Kafka] was a major a part of that,’’ Jones mentioned. “That’s thrilling for me.’’
Left deal with Andrew Thomas had surgical procedure on his left ankle in late January, in line with a report within the Athletic. Thomas had surgical procedure on the identical ankle his rookie season. In keeping with the report, Thomas is predicted to be able to take part within the offseason program.
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