New York Giants head coach Ben McAdoo, who is on the hottest seat in all of the National Football League, said the team held a “brutally honest” meeting this week.
Sigh.
“Message to them in the meeting was we had some open conversations, some hard talks, some plain talks, some simple talk, played some film and were brutally honest with each other,” McAdoo said, via ESPN. “We'll see how the players respond. They had a nice day of practice [Wednesday]. We also talked about the great opportunity in front of us.”
Funny enough, some players were fine with the meeting, but felt it too little too late.
“Yeah, definitely,” cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie said about the meeting possibly occurring too late.
“I think it would've put guys at a different attention on alert back then, because nobody wants to be called out,” he later added. “I don't care what you say. Nobody wants to have that play up there where you have to come back in the locker room and everybody is looking at you like you're that guy.
“I think it could've helped if it were done earlier or not, but at least it got done.”
As for the narrative Ben McAdoo himself as been pushing that players on the Giants weren't providing enough effort?
“At some points [efforts were questioned],” linebacker Devon Kennard said. “Just guys could have given more effort.”
“The only thing I can say is disappointing is the lack of want-to after all we've been through,” Rodgers-Cromartie said. “I'll take a lost play flying around. But how we're losing …”
There we have it folks. The team meeting was held too late, but players are kind of happy it happened, and the effort level was addressed.
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