HOUSTON, TX – FEBRUARY 03: Linebackers Coach Bryan Cox of the Atlanta Falcons talks throughout the Tremendous Bowl LI observe on February 3, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (Picture by Tim Warner/Getty Photographs) (Tim Warner, Getty Photographs)
Brian Daboll employed three-time Professional Bowl linebacker Bryan Cox on Wednesday to be the Giants’ new assistant defensive position coach. Cox, 54, hasn’t labored within the NFL since he coached the Atlanta Falcons’ defensive position from 2014-16. One supply mentioned Cox is a “wild man” whose fame precisely represents his teaching model, a minimum of going again to when he final coached within the league.
Cox received right into a sideline struggle with Buccaneers LB Adam Hayward in 2012 whereas on Tampa Bay’s workers. He caught flak for humiliating Falcons gamers Donte Rumph and Ra’Shede Hageman on HBO’s Exhausting Knocks in 2014. He shoved an Arizona Cardinals scout on the NFL Mix in 2016. And the Falcons fired him three days after their Tremendous Bowl collapse in 2016.
“I’ve been taking a look at a few of the errors I made and (eager about) what I might do otherwise,” Cox instructed the Atlanta Journal-Structure in 2020. “One of many largest issues that I believe I might give you, when individuals which are supposedly near you, however don’t really feel such as you’re approachable, that they will speak to you. You've to try that.”
Cox’s son, Bryan Cox Jr., 27, a defensive finish with the Payments, not too long ago re-signed with Buffalo on a reserve/future contract. Schoen has began his Giants tenure by raiding the Payments’ observe squad, so any participant up there may be price keeping track of.
The Giants signed Payments observe squad WR Austin Proehl to a reserve/future contract on Tuesday. So all 4 of Schoen’s signings thus far have been Payments: Proehl, QB Davis Webb, P Jamie Gillan and RB Antonio Williams. Proehl is the son of former NFL large receiver Ricky Proehl, who most not too long ago coached the Carolina Panthers’ large receivers from 2013-16.
The Giants additionally employed Kevin Wilkins as a defensive assistant. Wilkins follows Martindale from Baltimore. He’d been with the Ravens since 2015, final season in the identical place.