This was the postulate introduced to the listener on the other close of the mobile phone line: Of all the assorted and gifted move rushers the Giants drafted, cultivated and unleashed on the opposing quarterback in the era of the two most modern Super Bowls, the latest entry, Kayvon Thibodeaux, most resembles Osi Umenyiora.
Hmmm.
“He wouldn’t be something like JPP, he does not remind me of Kiwi, does not remind me of Tuck, does not remind me of Strahan, really,’’ Umenyiora advised The Publish from his home in London. “Yeah, you are proper, he’s a lot more like myself.’’
In a single swift synopsis, Umenyiora harkened back again to a time that practically feels prehistoric, in contrast with the malaise that has taken keep of the franchise for the past five decades. He performed during an age when pass-rush monsters roamed the Meadowlands turf. Michael Strahan. Umenyiora. Justin Tuck. Mathias Kiwanuka. Jason Pierre-Paul. Various variations, diverse strengths, a shared bond of winning online games and wreaking havoc.
Will Thibodeau abide by this lineage and usher in the next wave of edge rushers? Will he and Azeez Ojulari, coming off a promising 8-sack rookie time, enjoy off each other and meet at the quarterback the way Strahan, Umenyiora, Tuck, Kiwanuka and Pierre-Paul convened in these types of devastatingly effective style?
“I like him as a participant for guaranteed,’’ Umenyiora mentioned. “Very dynamic football participant. He’s potent against the run, which for a college pass rusher of his caliber, you really don't actually see that. Solid, speedy 1st stage, superior bend around the edge, excellent go-hurry moves, very good pace, superior motor.
“The way he performs, the way he rushes the passer I imagine you would say he has a quite comparable match and a incredibly equivalent ability set to what I did, for confident. I like him as a player, I do.’’
There is substantially to like. Much more to like with Thibodeaux, the No. 5 pick in the NFL draft, than there was when Umenyiora was chosen by the Giants in 2003 in the 2nd spherical, at No. 56 total.
“We desired this male so poor that we kind of singled him out,’’ Ernie Accorsi, the basic supervisor at the time, claimed.
“This man can operate, this guy can fly off the edge and he’s not a little person, this children bought some size,’’ stated Jerry Reese, who ran the draft for the Giants until eventually he changed Accorsi in 2007.
The speed, quickness and initially action off the line is what captivated the Giants to Umenyiora. Thibodeaux is slice from the same mildew. Coming into the NFL, he is a far more refined model, nevertheless, obtaining performed at a bigger amount in college or university (Oregon) than Umenyiora (Troy Condition).
Born in London and lifted for seven decades in Nigeria, Umenyiora came to the Giants with a much lessen profile than Thibodeaux, the South Central Los Angeles product, a mega large faculty and college star residing in the highlight for many a long time. His personality is outsized. Umenyiora, who had 85 vocation NFL sacks — 75 in 9 seasons with the Giants — is presently a BBC Activity media pundit. He figured out to grow comfortable in the New York market place. Thibodeaux appears to be all set-designed for it.
Is he, as the Giants wondered in the early phases of the pre-draft course of action, almost much too completely ready for all the off-the-field hubbub? Is Thibodeaux so intrigued in turning into a Strahanesque celeb that he fails to prioritize the soccer greatness that Strahan obtained to start his Q Score?
The Giants finally concluded Thibodeaux ought to be in a position to prosper amid the glare.
“I imagine that works and in terms of what is gonna operate in New York, if he’s the player they drafted him to be he’s gonna be a celebrity, proper?’’ Umenyiora claimed. “I believe he will, simply because he has anything. He’s got the look, he’s obtained the speak, he’s acquired the game — faculty game, in any case — to back again it up.
“If he is a great player in the NFL then New York is for the using for him, mainly because they genuinely haven’t had any person like that for a lengthy time. His temperament is very good but he’s got to be ready to enjoy and you acquired to be able to conduct at the optimum degree if that is your full matter. Ideally he’ll be in a position to do that. I believe he’s got a fantastic opportunity of getting equipped to do that.’’
Strahan has a mentorship link with Thibodeaux and Strahan’s tips — keep the principal thing the principal issue — has currently been parroted by Thibodeaux. This can be simpler reported than accomplished for a 21-yr-aged with stars in his eyes.
Thibodeaux admits he understands very little of the Giants’ move-rush legacy he is tasked with rebirthing.
“I would say which is genuinely the only factor I’m ignorant to, when it comes to my football historical past,’’ Thibodeaux stated. “So I will be selecting it up. I have to do some study before I get in entrance of all these cameras.’’
Shortly sufficient, Thibodeaux will be entrance and middle, on the discipline and in just vary of all these cameras. He will study what it indicates to get major or drop with regularity in New York.
Umenyiora understands all about this. He was not even a full-time starter for the group that gained Tremendous Bowl XLVI right after the 2011 year and nonetheless he received paid out by Nike, Verizon and 5-Hour Power to surface in a few independent commercials.
“Nothing like it,’’ Umenyiora reported. “That’s ridiculous, but that is since of the market place I was in. You received to be capable to acquire edge of that.’’
The suggestions Umenyiora offers Thibodeaux now is various from counsel he would have furnished for the duration of his taking part in times.
Back then, Umenyiora was cautious of the media.
“My warning for him then would have been ‘You want to chill, you have to have to be tranquil, really do not say anything, these men and women are coming for you,’ ’’ he mentioned.
And now?
“Just go on to do you,’’ Umenyiora said. “Just go out there and play ball, if you accomplish the way he’s meant to conduct they are gonna treat you good and they’re gonna appreciate you. If you really don't carry out, they are gonna get on you and they’re going to instruct you a lesson, because it’s the most important media current market in the world and it is nearly like all the things is on steroids there, since of that current market. Which is the good and the bad, just be conscious of that.’’
It is all coming for Kayvon Thibodeaux, subsequent in line for the Giants.
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