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Giants' Pierre-Paul turning into a true student of the game

June 12th, 2012 8:32 AM
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  • Can Jason Pierre-Paul get even better? //Credit: Jason Watson-USPresswire

    • As the New York Giants begin the long road of defending their Super Bowl title, one player that Tom Coughlin has certainly seen blossom over the last two seasons is defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul.

    When he entered the league in 2010, no one questioned Pierre-Paul’s raw, and certainly unpolished skills. The questions lay around his ability to grasp the defensive playbook, and to put in the needed work to refine his technique in order to become a force off the edge. Well, it’s safe to say that the Giants may have walked away with the steal of the first round. In just his second season with Big Blue in 2011, JPP had 16.5 sacks, 65 tackles, and 7 pass deflections (plus one blocked field goal to preserve their Week 14 win over Dallas). Simply put, he’s turning into one of the most unstoppable edge rushers in the NFL.


    Opposing QBs might be seeing even more Pierre-Paul this year. Chris Faytok/The Star-Ledger via US PRESSWIRE

    As Jason Cole of YahooSports writes, it’s not just his freakish athletic ability that has Pierre-Paul poised to take another giant leap in his third year, but rather his ability to become a true student of the game.

    “You get a lot of guys, especially young guys, who are afraid to ask,” Giants linebacker/defensive end Mathias Kiwanuka said. “They sit in the back and you look at them and say, ‘Do you understand?’ They look up and say, ‘Yeah, I got it’ and you know they don’t, but they’re too embarrassed to ask…With Jason, he doesn’t care. He’s smart enough to know what he doesn’t know and he’ll keep asking and asking and asking. If he has to ask something five times, he will until he gets the answer that he understands. He’s not just a great athlete trying to get by on talent. He wants to learn.”

    Under Jerry Reese, like his predecessor and mentor Ernie Accorsi, the New York Giants have established a system where they can gamble on unproven players with monster upside because of the infrastructure (namely Tom Coughlin and players like Justin Tuck and Eli Manning) that can absorb and nurture that player. Typically, a player’s third year is when they make a considerable statistical jump, but for JPP, that’s just scary.

    The parades, the parties, the ring, the ceremony at the White House. It was all more than Antrel Rolle could’ve ever imagined. He said he’s been “loving every second” of being a defending Super Bowl champion.

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