Giants coach blasts Deonte Banks’ ‘failed’ effort towards CeeDee Lamb

Deonte Banks didn’t like what he noticed from himself on tape any greater than the well-respected coach who criticized his effort. 

Longtime Giants defensive backs coach Jerome Henderson — a former NFL cornerback who interviewed in January to be Brian Daboll’s defensive coordinator — revealed Friday that he let Banks know his hustle to sort out CeeDee Lamb after the Cowboys star caught a move on him final recreation was lower than acceptable. Lamb turned it right into a 55-yard landing. 

“Didn’t prefer it,” Henderson mentioned. “Appreciated nothing about it.” 

Lamb caught the ball on the sideline on the 37-yard line, in the reduction of towards the center of the sphere after rookie security Tyler Nubin took a foul angle after which coasted the final 20 yards as he observed Banks slowed down in pursuit. 

Lamb turned his head again towards Banks as he completed the landing after which flipped the ball in Banks’ course, which resulted in an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. 

“It’s a foul end by me,” Banks mentioned a number of hours later, after Henderson’s bi-weekly interview. “I didn’t actually really feel it within the recreation. I might’ve undoubtedly completed extra. I possibly might’ve even tackled him.” 

Movie doesn’t lie, the NFL cliché says. And Lamb and Banks have been “speaking just a little bit” of trash forwards and backwards. 

“Within the recreation, I assumed it was an angle factor. I didn’t suppose it was effort till I noticed the movie,” Banks mentioned. “It seemed like, ‘Ah, I might’ve executed extra.’ You are feeling me?” 

The catch gained 33 yards over anticipated, based on NextGenStats. 

“When your man catches a ball, you must break your legs — not actually, however figuratively — to get him on the bottom,” Henderson mentioned. “I assumed there was room to do extra. We anticipate it from him and he expects it from himself, however in that second he failed.” 

Studying from errors on the job is to be anticipated to a point from the NFL’s youngest secondary. Effort is one other matter. 

Henderson mentioned he’s “sure” that his message was delivered to Banks behind closed doorways and “we’ll see” if it was “obtained” in addition to he thinks it was. 

“I’ve all the time been coachable,” Banks mentioned. “I’ve been yelled at [by] a coach since a younger age. He doesn’t actually do an excessive amount of yelling. I realized it as a child.” 

There hasn’t been any indication throughout apply this week that Banks may lose any enjoying time over his lack of effort. He wasn’t subbed out of that recreation. 

“I anticipate extra from myself,” Banks mentioned. “It’s what it’s.” 

Banks’ first season because the undisputed No. 1 cornerback — shadowing common 1,000-yard receivers Justin Jefferson, Terry McLaurin, Amari Cooper and Lamb — is off to a rocky begin.

He has allowed 17 catches on 27 targets for 247 yards and 4 touchdowns, with quarterbacks compiling a 132.3 quarterback score in his course, per NextGenStats. 

“I really feel like I’ve left a number of performs on the market,” Banks informed The Put up earlier this week. “I could be higher, and I’m going to be higher.” 

The Giants used a first-round choose on Banks in 2023 as a result of he was the perfect match for then-coordinator Wink Martindale’s press-coverage man-to-man scheme.

Shane Bowen, Martindale’s successor, is using extra zone. 

“Any time your man catches the ball, get him on the bottom,” Henderson mentioned. “Allow us to play another snap. Give us an opportunity to have a goal-line stand. You owe that to the crew. You owe that to the group. And it’s my job to get him to do it.” 

Bowen mentioned this week that he’s teaching Banks to “perceive leverage” and “take away the straightforward throws, make them throw the arduous ones” within the pink zone. 

Banks faces one other tall process this week within the large, quick, bodily DK Metcalf, who has gained 133 of his 366 yards after the catch. 

“Simply making an attempt to get him to know that while you’re on a No. 1 man, even when he’s coated, to a quarterback’s thoughts, he’s not coated,” Henderson mentioned. “So you must anticipate: Regardless of how good the protection is, the ball is coming proper now. Each play.”