There were head-coaching vacancies coursing throughout the NFL, and Daboll’s top lieutenants were moving into the bloodstream.ĭaboll anticipated Martindale, who recently turned 60, would attract interest, but there was no way anyone could envision Kafka, 35, becoming such a popular figure on the interview circuit. What coalesced so seamlessly in 2022 was in danger of getting torn asunder. Wink Martindale speaking to the media at the Giants practice facility in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Daboll never before had worked with Kafka, and yet had no reservation plucking him off the Andy Reid tree and - get this - allowing him to call the plays Daboll himself designed, an assignment Kafka never before carried out, anywhere. ![]() Building together is the way to go, but it does not always work out that way.ĭaboll never before had worked with Martindale, and yet he entrusted the entire defense to him, acknowledging the veteran coordinator’s grizzled nature and big and bold personality not only would be tolerated, but also would be encouraged. That is what they have the opportunity to do. “It’s fun to build something from the ground up and see it all the way through, and that’s what we have the opportunity to do,’’ Martindale said. Brian Daboll (l.) and Mike Kafka during rookie camp. Of all the losses and gains and changes made to Daboll’s team and the Giants’ infrastructure, the returns of Martindale and Kafka can be viewed as the most critical to the promise of future success. One would be a deep cut, two would be damaging, possibly beyond repair.Ī few months later, Daboll and his coordinators on defense, Wink Martindale, and on offense, Mike Kafka, are working together, again, putting the Giants through Phase 3 of the offseason program, gearing up for the mandatory minicamp next week. That is what Brian Daboll, after completing his first year as a head coach at any level, realized had to be done to enhance the roster.īut first - before any of his own players could be re-signed, before any attractive free agents could be procured, way before the draft plan was set in motion - Daboll was immediately confronted with a real threat: possible defections from the highest level of his coaching staff. That is what the Giants embraced as the tasks at hand. The Giants were not overly impressed with themselves, which is why they realized, as soon as their productive and in some ways breakthrough 2022 season was over and done with, that they needed to add, add, add. Why Saquon Barkley should do all he can to work out deal with GiantsĮric Gray out to prove he can be part of Giants' backfield Joe Schoen, Brian Daboll's genuine cohesion led to Giants' draft haul Sandy Spring Civic Association District 7 Candidate Forum March 21st.Kayvon Thibodeaux looking to increase sack numbers in Year 2 with Giantsīrian Daboll's lack of Super Bowl talk doesn't indicate lack of belief in Giants ![]() Paul Schwartz Addressing the Guru Gobind Singh Foundation GREATER OLNEY CIVIC ASSOCIATION DISTRICT 7 CANDIDATE FORUM April 7th WITH PAUL SCHWARTZ (58 min. Olney Chamber of Commerce Forum May 24, 2022 Greater Olney Civic Association District 7 Forum June 9, 2022 He served in the Department of Homeland Security when that department was created in 2003 and completed his federal career at FEMA post Katrina.Īfter his retirement from federal service, he became a member of a subcommittee for the National Commission on Children and Disasters, worked as an advocate for gun safety in the aftermath of the Newtown tragedy and worked to have passed Maryland’s Firearms Safety Act of 2013, worked on President Obama’s 2012 campaign and Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh’s successful 2014 campaign, has worked in support of Congressman John Sarbanes’ efforts to reform campaign financing, is serving as the State Legislative Committee chairperson for the NARFE Maryland Federation, and is currently a member of Montgomery County’s Committee on Public Election Funds…AND he is very proud to have been a weekly columnist for the Montgomery County Sentinel. Customs at the World Trade Center in New York and, later, Headquarters in Washington. He was an official with the federal government for 37 years working for U.S. Paul Schwartz has been married for more than 40 years to his lovely wife Ruthy, has two children and six grandchildren, and currently resides in an historic little town in Montgomery County, Maryland which just happened to have served as the capital of the United States for one day on Augduring the War of 1812.
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